KU chancellor announces promotion and tenure for 163 faculty and researchers

LAWRENCE — Chancellor Douglas A. Girod has approved the promotion and award of tenure, where indicated, for 64 individuals at the University of Kansas Lawrence and Edwards campuses and 99 individuals at the KU Medical Center campuses.

Girod issued a joint statement on the accomplishment of these faculty members with Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Barbara Bichelmeyer, who chairs the University Committee on Promotion and Tenure on the Lawrence campus, and Dr. Robert Simari, executive vice chancellor at KU Medical Center.

“Congratulations to an exceptional group of faculty and researchers who have reached an incredibly important milestone in their careers. These dedicated scholars and educators address the challenges of our changing world and drive KU forward as a leading research institution. We hope the entire Jayhawk community will join us in celebrating these individuals whose dedication to the success of students and this university contributes to our mission of educating leaders, building healthy communities and making discoveries that change the world.

“We greatly appreciate the work of the University Committees on Promotion and Tenure on both campuses whose members gave their time and effort to evaluating the many eligible candidates. Please join us in recognizing and celebrating these educators who devote their talents and energy to uphold KU’s ideals through research, teaching and service.”

Promotion and tenure are effective at the start of the fall semester.

At the Lawrence and Edwards campuses

To associate professor with tenure

• Alexandru Bardas, electrical engineering & computer science
• Betsy Barnhart, design
• Matthew Beck, business
• Ian Crossfield, physics & astronomy
• Patrick Downes, business
• Anthony Fehr, molecular biosciences
• Zak Foste, education
• Hye-Sung Han, public affairs & administration
• Susan Harvey, health, sport & exercise sciences
• Tajoon Kim, electrical engineering & computer science
• Elise Kirk, design
• Gibum Kwon, mechanical engineering
• Bryan Mann, educational leadership & policy studies
• Atanas Mihov, business
• Hannah Park, design
• Cameron Piercy, communication studies
• Muhammad Raza, child language program
• Panying Rong, speech-language-hearing: sciences & disorders
• Yannan Shen, mathematics
• Nilou Vakil, architecture
• Alcides Velasquez, communication studies
• Yuanqi Wang, mathematics
• Eric Weisbrod, business
• Amanda Winn, business
• Rami Zeedan, Jewish studies
• Cuncong Zhong, electrical engineering & computer science
• John Zhu, economics

To full professor

• Reza Barati, chemical & petroleum engineering
• Hui Cai, architecture
• Marco Caricato, chemistry
• Greg Cheatham, special education
• Heng Du, pharmacology & toxicology
• Kelli Feldman, curriculum & teaching
• David Hansen, education
• Nicole Hodges Persley, African & African-American studies
• Caroline Jewers, French, Francophone & Italian studies
• Megan Kaminski, English
• Minyoung Kim, business
• Ani Kokobobo, Slavic, German & Eurasian studies
• Yexin Jessica Li, business
• Fengjun Li, electrical engineering & computer science
• Haiying Long, educational psychology
• Alison Olcott, geology
• Michael Orosco, educational psychology
• Brad Osborn, music
• Renee Perelmutter, Jewish studies
• Matt Reynolds, educational psychology
• Sarah Robins, philosophy
• Jarron Saint Onge, sociology
• Paul Scott, French, Francophone & Italian studies
• Jeremy Shellhorn, design
• Daniel Tapia Takaki, physics & astronomy
• Jomella Watson-Thompson, applied behavioral science
• Liqin Zhao, pharmacy & toxicology

To associate librarian with tenure

• Jill Becker, libraries
• Michael Peper, libraries

To associate research professor (nontenure track)

• Lan Guo, Higuchi Biosciences Center
• Jeong Hoon Choi, Life Span Institute
• Petras Kundrotas, computational biology
• Angela Murray, Achievement & Assessment Institute
• Xiaoqing “Sarah” Wu, Higuchi Biosciences Center

To associate specialist (nontenure track)

• Meggie Mapes, communication studies

To clinical associate professor (nontenure track)

• Ana Paula Mumy, speech-language-hearing: sciences & disorders
• Tiffany Shin, pharmacy practice

At KU Medical Center

To assistant professor (clinical track, nontenure track)

• Julie Mujica, hearing & speech, Kansas City
• Melanie Somogie, hearing & speech, Kansas City

To associate professor (educator track, nontenure track)

• Maria Alonso Luaces, family medicine & community health, Kansas City
• Sushant Govindan, internal medicine, Kansas City

To associate professor on clinical scholar track

• Marcus Alt, psychiatry & behavioral sciences, Kansas City
• Joshua Bunch, orthopedic surgery & sports medicine, Kansas City
• Meredith Collins, plastic, burn & wound surgery, Kansas City
• Branden Comfort, internal medicine, Kansas City
• Elizabeth Cotter, anesthesiology, pain & perioperative medicine, Kansas City
• Jean-Philippe Darche, family medicine & community health, Kansas City
• Brent Duran, internal medicine, Wichita
• Bryan Imhoff, emergency medicine, Kansas City
• Kelsie Kelly, family medicine & community health, Kansas City
• Brent Kidd, anesthesiology, pain & perioperative medicine, Kansas City
• Jeffrey Klein, internal medicine, Kansas City
• Casey Kowalik, urology, Kansas City
• Megan Krause, internal medicine, Kansas City
• Heather Kruse, psychiatry & behavioral sciences, Kansas City
• Kelsey Larson, surgery, Kansas City
• Ernest “John” Madarang, radiology, Kansas City
• Adam McClure, pediatrics, Wichita
• Elizabeth Muenks, psychiatry & behavioral sciences, Kansas City
• Donald Neff, urology, Kansas City
• William Parker, urology, Kansas City
• Aaron Rohr, radiology, Kansas City
• Michael Rouse, internal medicine, Kansas City
• Jessica Schuttler, pediatrics, Kansas City
• Roopa Sethi, psychiatry & behavioral sciences, Kansas City
• Sabreena Slavin, neurology, Kansas City
• McCasey Smith, rehabilitation medicine, Kansas City
• Vanessa Williams, radiology, Kansas City
• Jennifer Woodward, family medicine & community health, Kansas City
• Elizabeth Wulff-Burchfield, internal medicine, Kansas City
• Denise Zwahlen, family medicine & community health, Kansas City

To associate professor (affiliate track, research path)

• Ariel Bazzini, cell biology & physiology, Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City

To associate professor (clinical track, nontenure track)

• Jennifer Capra, internal medicine, Kansas City
• Megan Dingwall, internal medicine, Wichita
• William Freund, surgery, Kansas City
• Lauren Foster, occupational therapy education, Kansas City
• Letycia Nunez-Argote, clinical laboratory sciences, Kansas City

To associate professor with tenure

• Leonidas Bantis, biostatistics & data science, Kansas City
• Mindy Bridges, hearing & speech, Kansas City
• Jinxiang Hu, biostatistics & data science, Kansas City
• Heather Nelson-Brantley, nursing, Kansas City
• Anup Ramachandran, pharmacology, toxicology & therapeutics, Kansas City
• Michelle Redmond, population health, Wichita
• Ning Wang, cell biology & physiology, Kansas City

Award of tenure at current rank of associate professor

• Hao Gao, radiation oncology, Kansas City
• Jason Glenn, history & philosophy of medicine, Kansas City

To clinical associate professor (clinical track, nontenure track)

• Mahdi Alsaleem, pediatrics, Wichita
• Elizabeth Beltran Carranza, pediatrics, Wichita
• Alisa Bridge, pediatrics, Wichita
• Nicholas Brown, surgery, Wichita
• Sonia Castillo-Vega, internal medicine, Kansas City
• Mary Champion, ophthalmology, Kansas City
• Janna Chibry, obstetrics & gynecology, Wichita
• Clifford Depew, obstetrics & gynecology, Wichita
• Patrick Gonzales, pathology & laboratory medicine, Kansas City
• Kerri Hild, obstetrics & gynecology, Wichita
• Shuo Li, radiology, Wichita
• Aba Lippuner, radiation oncology, Kansas City
• Anjulie Quick, ophthalmology, Kansas City
• Ashley Robbins, obstetrics & gynecology, Wichita
• Ajay Tejwani, radiation oncology, Kansas City
• Laura Whisler, obstetrics & gynecology, Wichita

To clinical professor (clinical track, nontenure track)

• Mariana Garcia-Touza, internal medicine, Kansas City
• Michael Lydic, obstetrics & gynecology, Kansas City
• Bassam Mattar, internal medicine, Wichita
• Madhuri Reddy, obstetrics & gynecology, Kansas City
• David Smith, family medicine & community health, Kansas City

To professor (clinical, nontenure track)

• Jeffrey Randall, orthopedic surgery & sports medicine, Kansas City

To professor on clinical scholar track (nontenure track)

• Michael Abraham, neurology, Kansas City
• Ajay Bansal, internal medicine, Kansas City
• Zachary Collins, radiology, Kansas City
• David Duchene, urology, Kansas City
• Aditi Gupta, internal medicine, Kansas City
• Kari Harris, pediatrics, Wichita
• Clinton Humphrey, otolaryngology, head & neck surgery, Kansas City
• Stephanie Kuhlmann, pediatrics, Wichita
• Becky Lowry, internal medicine, Kansas City
• Albert Poje, psychiatry & behavioral sciences, Kansas City
• Lewis Satterwhite, internal medicine, Kansas City
• Utku Uysal, neurology, Kansas City
• Jamie Wagner, surgery, Kansas City
• Carrie Wieneke, obstetrics & gynecology, Kansas City
• Abdulraheem Yacoub, internal medicine, Kansas City

To professor, previously tenured

• Babalola Faseru, population health, Kansas City
• Holly Hull, dietetics & nutrition, Kansas City
• Robin Maser, clinical laboratory sciences, Kansas City
• Jarron Saint Onge, population health, Kansas City
• Katie Siengsukon, physical therapy, rehabilitation science & athletic training, Kansas City

Award of tenure at current rank of professor

• Lisa Sanderson Cox, population health, Kansas City

To professor (affiliate track, research path)

• Julia Zeitlinger, pathology & laboratory medicine, Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City

To research associate professor (research track)

• Christina Hester, family medicine & community health, Kansas City
• Rao Papineni, surgery, Kansas City
• Harsh Pathak, pathology & laboratory medicine, Kansas City
• Kevin Sykes, otolaryngology, head & neck surgery, Kansas City
• Amanda Szabo-Reed, internal medicine, Kansas City

To research professor (research track)

• Gina Berg, family & community medicine, Wichita.