Recently Promoted & Tenured Faculty
Congratulations to all of the newly promoted and tenured faculty on their hard work and excellence, which has been recognized by the SOM Promotion and Tenure Committee and the Board of Visitors. In the 2025-2026, there were 36 promotions to Associate Professor, 41 promotions to Professor, and 18 faculty were awarded tenure.
Faculty Affairs manages all promotion and tenure actions at the School level for both regular cycle actions and expedited reviews. The promotion and tenure process spans 18 months and concludes with the Board of Visitors approval of recommended faculty. In-cycle P&T approvals are effective July 1.
For more information:
- Robert Nakamoto, PhD, SOM Coordinator of Academic Achievement, rkn3c@virginia.edu
- Emily Schneider, MILR, SHRM-CP, SOM Associate Director of Faculty Affairs, yft2hj@uvahealth.org
- Ashley Dowhan, Assistant Director of Faculty Affairs, vwp6ww@uvahealth.org
Anesthesiology
- Priyanka Singla
- Bhavana Yalamuru
Biomedical Engineering
- Sepideh Dolatshahi
Cell Biology
- Saurabh Kulkarni
- Chan Choo Yap
Emergency Medicine
- George Glass
- Matthew Kongkatong
Department of Medicine
- Emily Ayers
- Ian Crane
- Margaret Crook
- Silas Culver
- Erica Giraldi
- John Kim
- Randy Ramcharitar
- Daniel Reed
- Patricia Rodriguez Lozano
- Sarthak Virmani
Molecular Physiology & Biological Physics
- Bing Han
- Ajit Tiwari
Neuroscience
- Jaeda Coutinho-Budd
Neurology
- Ifrah Zawar
Neuroscience
- Ian Kimbrough
Otolaryngology
- Jonathan Garneau
- Patrick McGarey
Pathology
- Jenna Khan
Pediatrics
- Ayah Elmaghrabi
- Christina Peroutka
Pharmacology
- Yingtang Shi
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
- Sara Raiser
Psychiatry & Neurobehavioral Sciences
- Elena Herndon
- Jordan Rosen
Public Health Sciences
- Jean Eby
Radiology
- Maxine Kresse
- Jiefu Zheng
- Marcus Hook
Surgery
- Carlos Tache Leon
Anesthesiology
- Lauren Dunn
- Katherin Forkin
- Nadia Lunardi
Department of Medicine
- Tushar Chopra
- Andrew Mihalek
- Julia Scialla
- Stefano Toldo
Microbiology
- Sarah Ewald
Molecular Physiology & Biological Physics
- Gloria Sheynkman
Obstetrics & Gynecology
- Kari Ring
Otolaryngology
- Jose Mattos
Pediatrics
- Jennifer Burnsed
- Brynne Sullivan
Pharmacology
- Michelle Bland
- Shengyi Sun
Plastic Surgery
- Brent DeGeorge
Psychiatry & Neurobehavioral Sciences
- Philip Chow
Radiation Oncology
- Einsley-Marie Janowski
Cell Biology
- Ann Sutherland
Family Medicine
- Katharine DeGeorge
- John Gazewood
Genome Sciences
- Ani Manichaikul
- Nathan Sheffield
- Chongzhi Zang
Department of Medicine
- Dana Albon
- Laurie Archbald-Pannone
- Eric Davis
- Uta Erdbruegger
- Jeanetta Frye
- Ryan Gentzler
- Gregory Hong
- Michael Keng
- Angie Nishio Lucar
- Swati Rao
- Tania Thomas
- Max Weder
Medical Education
- James Martindale
- Mary Kate Worden
Molecular Physiology & Biological Physics
- Kandice Levental
Neurosurgery
- Chun-Po Yen
Neuroscience
- Jung-Bum Shin
Orthopaedic Surgery
- Minton Cooper
- Brian Werner
Otolaryngology
- David Shonka
Pathology
- Lindsay Bazydlo
- Elizabeth Courville
- Melinda Poulter
Pediatrics
- Peter Dean
- Colleen Druzgal
- Jeremy Middleton
Psychiatry & Neurobehavioral Sciences
- Scott Bender
- Jaclyn Shepard
Public Health Sciences
- Paige Hornsby
Radiology
- Jiang He
- Bijoy Kundu
- Drew Lambert
Surgery
- Ryan Smith
- Leora Yarboro
- Victor Zaydfudim