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Faculty professorial promotions, tenure awards list released

The following faculty, divided by each Case Western Reserve University school or department, have been appointed to associate professor or professor, or have been awarded tenure, for the 2018-2019 school year. The list reflects the position in which each faculty member currently serves.

College of Arts and Sciences

  • Xuan Gao, professor of physics
  • Cristian G. Gomez Olivares, associate professor with tenure of modern languages and literatures
  • Thomas Gray, professor of chemistry
  • Laura E. Hengehold, professor of philosophy
  • Lisa H. Koops, professor of music
  • Elizabeth S. Meckes, professor of mathematics, applied mathematics and statistics
  • Mark W. Meckes, professor of mathematics, applied mathematics and statistics
  • Maggie L. Popkin, associate professor with tenure of art history and art
  • Beverly Z. Saylor, professor of earth, environmental and planetary science
  • Robin Elizabeth Snyder, professor of biology
  • Peter J. Thomas, professor of mathematics, applied mathematics and statistics
  • Vera Tobin, associate professor with tenure of cognitive science

Case School of Engineering

  • Rohan Akolkar, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering
  • Yue Li, professor of civil engineering
  • Joao Maia, professor of macromolecular science and engineering
  • Anirban Sen Gupta, professor of biomedical engineering
  • Matthew A. Willard, associate professor with tenure of materials science and engineering

School of Dental Medicine

  • Faisal A. Quereshy, professor of oral and maxillofacial surgery
  • Sorin R. Teich, professor of comprehensive care
  • Kristin A. Williams, associate professor of community dentistry

School of Law

  • Jack Turner, associate professor

Weatherhead School Of Management

  • Alireza Kabirian, associate professor of operations
  • Ellen Van Oosten, associate professor of organizational behavior

Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing

  • Rebecca J. Darrah, associate professor
  • Matthew Plow, associate professor

Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences

  • Megan R. Holmes, associate professor with tenure
  • Zoe Breen Wood, associate professor

Department of Physical Education and Athletics

  • Tiffany L. Crooks, associate professor
  • Jennifer E. Reimer, associate professor

School of Medicine

  • John Brian Ammori, associate professor of surgery
  • Aparna Bole, associate professor of pediatrics
  • Jeremy S. Bordeaux, professor of dermatology
  • William Scott Bush, associate professor of population and quantitative health sciences
  • Aleece Caron, associate professor of medicine
  • Daniel I. Craven, associate professor of pediatrics
  • Salil V. Deo, associate professor of surgery
  • Irene Cihon Dietz, associate professor of pediatrics
  • David Effron, associate professor of emergency medicine
  • Rodney J. Ellis, professor of radiation oncology
  • Ashley L. Faulx, professor of medicine
  • Christopher George Furey, professor of orthopaedics
  • Robert James Gillespie, associate professor of orthopaedics
  • Jonatha Mary Gott, professor, RNA Center
  • Katarina Brenkusova Greer, associate professor of medicine
  • Rose Anne Gubitosi-Klug, professor of pediatrics
  • Kishore Guda, associate professor, Cancer Center
  • Vikas Gulani, professor of radiology
  • Jeffrey Max Hardacre, professor of surgery
  • Susan Hatters-Friedman, professor of psychiatry
  • Karin Anna Herrmann, associate professor, Cancer Center
  • Craig A. Hodges associate professor with tenure, pediatrics
  • Alan Hoffer, associate professor of neurological surgery
  • Steven Michael Houser, professor of otolaryngology – head and neck surgery
  • Insoo Hyun, professor of bioethics
  • Robert Adams Jones, professor of emergency medicine
  • Robin L. P. Jump, associate professor of medicine
  • Günnur Karakurt, associate professor of psychiatry
  • Timothy P. Kasprzak, associate professor of radiology
  • Leena Khaitan, professor of surgery
  • Shanna Kay Kralovic, associate professor of pediatrics
  • Deepak Kumar, professor of pediatrics
  • Sara Hirschfeld Lee, associate professor of pediatrics
  • Guiming Liu, associate professor of surgery
  • Kurt Q. Lu, associate professor with tenure of dermatology
  • Sarah A. MacLeish, associate professor of pediatrics
  • Ganapati H. Mahabaleshwar, associate professor with tenure of medicine
  • Brian Michael McDermott Jr., award of tenure as associate professor, otolaryngology – head and neck surgery
  • Jonathan P. Miller, professor of neurological surgery
  • Ross Elliott Myers, associate professor of pediatrics
  • Mary L. Nock, professor of pediatrics
  • Faruk Halim Örge, professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences
  • Paul Shin-Hyun Park, award of tenure as associate professor, ophthalmology and visual sciences
  • Federico Perez, associate professor of medicine
  • Adam T. Perzynski, associate professor with tenure of medicine
  • Connie Marie Piccone, associate professor of pediatrics
  • Rajesh Ramachandran, associate professor of physiology and biophysics
  • Joseph Stephen Piktel, associate professor of emergency medicine
  • Donna M. Plecha, to professor radiology
  • Kimberly Erin Resnick, associate professor of reproductive biology
  • James D. Reynolds, professor of anesthesiology and perioperative medicine
  • Suzanne M. Rivera, associate professor of bioethics
  • Angela Byun Robinson, associate professor of pediatrics
  • Abdus Sattar, award of tenure as associate professor, population and quantitative health sciences
  • Thomas Joseph Sferra, professor of pediatrics
  • Asim M. Shahid, associate professor of pediatrics
  • Steven Lewis Shein, associate professor of pediatrics
  • Shashirekha Shetty, associate professor of pathology
  • Duncan Scott Stearns, associate professor of pediatrics
  • David W. Stepnick, professor of otolaryngology—head and neck surgery
  • Cheryl L. Thompson, associate professor of nutrition
  • Ali Totonchi, associate professor of surgery
  • Erika S. Trapl, associate professor of population and quantitative health sciences
  • Mary M. Vargo, professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation
  • Xinglong Wang, associate professor of pathology
  • Glenn D. Wera, associate professor of orthopaedics
  • Susanne Wish-Baratz, associate professor of anatomy
  • Sichun Yang, associate professor of nutrition

Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine

  • Anjali S. Advani, professor of medicine
  • Samantha Anne, associate professor of surgery
  • Kewal Asosingh, associate professor of molecular medicine
  • Sarah Jane Louise Banks, associate professor of medicine
  • Pelin Batur, associate professor of medicine
  • Steven L. Bernard, associate professor of surgery
  • Deborah J. Chute, associate professor of pathology
  • Hesham Abdelaziz Ahmed Elsharkawy, associate professor of anesthesiology
  • Frederick Sheahan Frost, professor of medicine
  • Brian R. Gastman, professor of surgery
  • Alan Marc Gillinov, professor of surgery
  • Blanca L. Gonzalez, associate professor of pediatrics
  • Ajay Gupta, professor of medicine
  • Neetu Gupta, associate professor of molecular medicine
  • Hakan Ilaslan, professor of radiology
  • Christine L. Koval, associate professor of medicine
  • Cecilia Lansang, professor of medicine
  • Justin D. Lathia, associate professor of molecular medicine
  • Feng Lin, professor of molecular medicine
  • Andre G. Machado, professor of neurological surgery
  • Justin Benjamin Miller, associate professor of medicine
  • Kathrin Nicolacakis, associate professor of medicine
  • Sathyamangla V. Naga Prasad, professor of molecular medicine
  • Peter Alan Rasmussen, professor of neurological surgery
  • Jordan Paul Reynolds, associate professor of pathology
  • Eric T. Ricchetti, associate professor of surgery
  • Maged Kadry Rizk, associate professor of medicine
  • Harneet Kaur Walia, associate professor of family medicine
  • Jennifer S. Yu, associate professor of molecular medicine