Committees
Faculty Affairs Committees and Members
Update on the P&T Committee Configuration, Effective Beginning 2023-24 Cycle
The number of faculty applying for promotions has steadily increased over the past half dozen years, and our committee now consistently reviews over one hundred applications for advancement without any change in the size of the workforce doing these important reviews. To reduce the demands on the individual committee members and allow the focused discussion and review of similar applications, the SOM Promotion and Tenure reviews will now be done by two committees: one for faculty seeking advancement on the Clinical Faculty and Instructional Faculty tracks, and the other for faculty seeking promotion on the Academic Investigator, Clinician Educator, Clinician Investigator, Research Faculty-Support, and Research Faculty-Independent tracks.
2024-2025 Committee A
Bettina Winckler, PhD, Chair
Department of Cell Biology
Nadine Aguilera, MD, Vice Chair
Department of Pathology
Nicole Deal, MD
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
Matthew Gurka, PhD
Department of Public Health Sciences
Jianjie Ma, PhD
Department of Surgery
Pamela Mason, MD
Department of Medicine, Cardiology
Weibin Shi, PhD
Department of Radiology and Medical Imaging
Guofen Yan, PhD
Department of Public Health Sciences
2024-2025 Committee B
J Kim Penberthy, PhD, Chair
Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences
Krishni Wijesooriya, PhD, Vice Chair
Department of Radiation Oncology
Christine Burt Solorzano, MD
Department of Pediatrics
Ashley Shilling, MD
Department of Anesthesiology
Yun Michael Shim, MD
Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonology & Critical Care Medicine
Amita Sudhir, MD
Department of Emergency Medicine
David Weiss, MD
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
Mark Worthington, MD
Department of Medicine, Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Current and former P&T Committee members are available to answer any questions you may have about the P&T process.
The New Hires Subcommittee is responsible for the review of all faculty hires with tenure and/or at the rank of Professor, as well as the portfolios of faculty requesting an expedited review for promotion or tenure.
Jeff Smith, PhD, Chair
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
Julia Iezzoni, MD
Department of Pathology
Anneke Schroen, MD
Department of Surgery
Endowed Professorship Committees
The Endowed Professorship Committees are responsible for reviewing the election of all faculty being nominated to endowed professorships for the first time, as well as the renewal of all term-limited chair appointments.
Douglas W. DeSimone, PhD, Chair
Department of Cell Biology
Ruth Gaare Bernheim, JD, MPH
Department of Public Health Sciences
Maria-Beatriz Lopes, MD, PhD, Chair
Department of Pathology
Quanjun Cui, MD
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
David Repaske, MD, PhD
Department of Pediatrics