College of Medicine faculty receive promotions, tenure for 2023-2024 academic year
Effective July 1, the following faculty have been promoted and/or awarded tenure at Penn State College of Medicine. Congratulations! The College of Medicine and the University are proud of your accomplishments.
Promotion to Professor
- Esther Bowie, MD, Ophthalmology
- Laura Carrel, PhD, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- Elana Farace, PhD, Public Health Sciences and Neurosurgery
- Julio Fernandez-Mendoza, PhD, Psychiatry and Behavioral Health (and awarded tenure)
- Daniel George, PhD, MSc, Humanities and Public Health Sciences
- Susan Glod, MD, MEd, Medicine
- Monika Joshi, MD, Medicine
- Guodong Liu, PhD, Public Health Sciences, Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, Pediatrics and Neurology
- Max Lowden, MD, MEd, Neurology
- George Lucian Moldovan, PhD, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- John Oh, MD, Surgery
- Seth Pantanelli, MD, Ophthalmology
- Niraja Rajan, MB, BS, Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
- Elias Rizk, MD, Neurosurgery
- Joslyn Sciacca Kirby, MD, MS, MEd, Dermatology
- Deepa Sekhar, MD, Pediatrics
- Scott Simon, MD, Neurosurgery
- Behzad Soleimani, MD, Surgery
- Heather Stuckey-Peyrot, DEd, MEd, Medicine, Public Health Sciences, and Humanities
- Krishnamoorthy Thamburaj, MD, DMB, DM, Radiology
- Andry Van de Louw, MD, PhD, Medicine
- To-Nhu Vu, MD, Anesthesiology
- Shengyu Yang, PhD, Cellular and Molecular Physiology
- Nelson Yee, MD, PhD, Medicine
Promotion to Associate Professor
- Justen Aprile, MD, Pediatrics and Humanities
- William Calo Perez, PhD, JD, MPH, Public Health Sciences, Health Policy and Administration, Family and Community Medicine (and awarded tenure)
- Angela Choe, MD, Radiology
- David Chu, MD, Medicine
- Anthony Dambro, MD, Family and Community Medicine
- Reyad Elbarbary, PhD, MS, PharmD, Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation & Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (and awarded tenure)
- Sol De Jesus, MD, Neurology
- Nicholas Duca, MD, Medicine
- Diana Jho, MD, Neurosurgery
- Rong Jin, MD, Neurosurgery
- Rayford June, MD, Medicine
- Fadia Kamal, PhD, Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation and Pharmacology (and awarded tenure)
- Kathryn Kasmire, MD, Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics
- Divpreet Kaur, MD, Neurology
- Gurwant Kaur, MD, Medicine
- Jaime Long, MD, Obstetrics and Gynecology
- Susan MacDonald, MD, Urology
- Mark Mason, MD, Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation
- Jonathan Nunez, MD, Medicine
- Nicole Osevala, MD, Medicine
- Neha Patel, DO, Pediatrics
- Brandon Peterson, MD, Medicine
- Joseph Petfield, MD, Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation
- John Radtka, MD, Surgery and Neurosurgery
- Bunty Shah, MD, Anesthesiology
- Rebecca Sivarajah, MD, Radiology
- Natthapol Songdej, MD, MPH, Medicine and Pediatrics
- Leonard Tuanquin, MD, Radiation Oncology
- Gary Updegrove, MD, Orthopaedics and Rehabiliation
- Christopher Weller, MD, Ophthalmology
- Elizabeth Werley, MD, Emergency Medicine
Promotion to Assistant Professor
- Einat Slonimsky, MD, Radiology
- Diwakar Bastihalli Tukaramrao, PhD, Pediatrics
- Daniel Wingert, MD, Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
Promotion to Senior Instructor
- Julie Lentes, MPA, Public Health Sciences
Awarded Tenure
- Prashant Nighot, PhD, MVSc, Medicine and Cellular and Molecular Physiology
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