Committees
Faculty Affairs Committees and Members
P&T Committee Configuration
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.
2026-2027 Blue Committee
Nadine Aguilera, MD, Chair
Department of Pathology
Mark DeBoer, MD, Co-Chair
Department of Pediatrics
Herve Agaisse, PhD
Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Cancer Biology
Nassima Ait-Daoud Tioririne, MD
Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences
Stefan Bekiranov, PhD
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
Kenneth Bilchick, MD
Department of Medicine
Wendy Lynch, PhD
Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences
James Moak, MD
Department of Emergency Medicine
Michael Nelson, MD, PhD
Department of Medicine
Joseph Park, MD
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
2026-2027 Orange Committee
Krishni Wijesooriya, PhD, Chair
Department of Radiation Oncology
Mark Worthington, MD, Vice Chair
Department of Medicine, Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Adanna Akujuo, MD
Department of Surgery
Emaad Abdel-Rahman, MBBCH, PhD
Department of Medicine, Nephrology
R. Emily Gonzalez, PhD
Department of Pediatrics, Developmental and Behavioral
Arun Krishnaraj, MD
Department of Radiology
Daniel Murrie, PhD
Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences
Amita Sudhir, MD
Department of Emergency Medicine
Current P&T Committee members are available to answer any questions you may have about the P&T process.
The Expedited Promotion & Tenure Committee 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, off-cycle review for promotion or tenure.
William Brady, MD, Chair
Department of Emergency Medicine, Cardiovascular Medicine
W. Darrin Clouse, MD
Department of Surgery
Jianjie Ma, PhD
Department of Surgery
Michael Mazzeffi, MD
Department of Anesthesiology
Anneke Schroen, MD
Department of Surgery
Mark Quigg, MD
Department of Neurology
Guofen Yan, PhD
Department of Public Health Sciences
Endowed Professorship Committees
The Endowed Professorship Committees are responsible for reviewing the election of all faculty being nominated to endowed professorships.
Douglas W. DeSimone, PhD, Chair
Department of Cell Biology
Matt J. Gurka, PhD
Department of Public Health Sciences
Jonathan Lindner, MD
Department of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine)
Lukas Tamm, PhD
Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics, Cell Biology
Anny Xiaobo Zhou, PhD
Department of Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care
Zhiyi Zuo, MD, PhD
Department of Anesthesiology, Neuroscience and Neurosurgery
Quanjun Cui, MD, Chair
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
Sue A. Brown, MD
Department of Medicine, Endocrinology and Metabolism
Brian Halstater, MD
Department of Family Medicine
Brad Kesser, MD
Department of Otolaryngology, Pediatrics (Joint)
Mark Quigg, MD
Department of Neurology
Jonathan R. Swanson, MD
Department of Pediatrics, Neonatology
Brian S. Uthlaut, MD
Department of Medicine, General, Geriatric, and Palliative Care
Neeral Shah, MD, Chair
Department of Medicine, Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Norbert Leitinger, PhD
Department of Pharmacology
John Lukens, PhD
Department of Neuroscience
Siobhan Statuta, MD
Department of Family Medicine
Brad Worrall, MD
Department of Neurology