Congratulations to following George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences faculty members on their promotions, with or without tenure, and the 2026 Class of Emeriti Faculty.
SMHS Regular Faculty Promoted and/or Tenured — Effective July 1, 2026
At the rank of professor:
Nicholas Ah Mew, MD, professor of pediatrics
Andrea Anderson, MD, professor of family and community medicine and of medicine
Syed Anwar, PhD, tenured professor of radiology and of pediatrics
Deena Berkowitz, MD, MPH, professor of pediatrics and of emergency medicine
Kristen Breslin, MD, professor of pediatrics and of emergency medicine
Shawneequa Callier, JD, professor of clinical research and leadership
Andrew Campbell, MD, professor of pediatrics
Melissa Carroll, PhD, professor of anatomy and cell biology
Marc DiSabella, DO, professor of neurology and rehabilitation medicine and of pediatrics
Andrew Garrett, MD, MPH, professor of clinical research and leadership, of emergency medicine, and of global health
Neera Gupta, MD, tenured professor of pediatrics
Camilo Gutierrez, MD, professor of pediatrics and of emergency medicine
Rana Hamdy, MD, MPH, professor of pediatrics
Mikhail Kogan, MD, professor of medicine
Ioannis Koutroulis, MD, PhD, MBA, professor of pediatrics and of emergency medicine
Juliet Lee, MD, professor of surgery
Gaetano Lotrecchiano, PhD, professor of clinical research and leadership and of pediatrics
Eleanor Mackey, PhD, professor of psychiatry and behavioral health and of pediatrics
Pamela Mudd, MD, professor of surgery and of pediatrics
Sarah Mulkey, MD, PhD, professor of neurology and rehabilitation medicine and of pediatrics
Nikki Posnack, PhD ’09, professor of pediatrics and of pharmacology and physiology
Dimitri Sigounas, MD, professor of neurological surgery
Hasan Syed, MD, professor of neurological surgery and of pediatrics
Brad Taicher, DO, MBA, professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine and of pediatrics
Anupama Tate, DMD, professor of pediatrics
Janelle Vaughns, MD, BA ’90, professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine and of pediatrics
SMHS Regular Faculty Promoted and/or Tenured – Effective July 1, 2026
At the rank of associate professor with or without tenure:
Tayyba Anwar, MD, associate professor of neurology and rehabilitation medicine and of pediatrics
Chelsey Baldwin, MD, associate professor of medicine
Hayk Barseghyan, PhD, associate professor of pediatrics
Tapan Bhavsar, MBBS, PhD, associate professor of pathology
Chaitanya Challa, MD, associate professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine and of pediatrics
Jerry Chao, MD, associate professor of surgery
Inhee Chung, PhD, tenured associate professor of anatomy and cell biology
Sarah Cigna, MD ’14, associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology
Nathan Cohen, MD, associate professor of neurology and rehabilitation medicine and of pediatrics
Colleen Cotton, MD, associate professor of dermatology and of pediatrics
Terry Dean, MD, PhD, tenured associate professor of pediatrics
Elizabeth Dearing Roy, MD, associate professor of emergency medicine
Christina Feng, MD, associate professor of surgery and of pediatrics
Xiomara Fernandez, MD, associate professor of pathology
Sabrina Figueiredo, PhD, associate professor of clinical research and leadership
Ashima Gulati, MD, tenured associate professor of pediatrics
Ian Hovis, MD, associate professor of pediatrics
Farida Izzi, MBBS, associate professor of medicine
José Jara Aguirre, MD, associate professor of pathology and of pediatrics
Aadil Kakajiwala, MBBS, associate professor of pediatrics
Jennifer Kerns, MD ’99, MSHS ’14, associate professor of medicine
Sairah Khan, MD, associate professor of pediatrics
Shikha Khosla, MBBS, MHA, associate professor of medicine
Alexandra Kornbluh, MD, associate professor of neurology and rehabilitation medicine and of pediatrics
Youssef Kousa, DO, PhD, tenured associate professor of neurology and rehabilitation medicine and of pediatrics
Panagiotis Kratimenos, MD, PhD, tenured associate professor of pediatrics
Simone Lawson, MD, associate professor of pediatrics and of emergency medicine
Jiyoung Lee, MD, tenured associate professor of biochemistry and molecular medicine
Kenneth McKinley, MD, associate professor of pediatrics and of emergency medicine
Damali Nakitende, MD, associate professor of emergency medicine
Rebecca Persky, MD, associate professor of pediatrics
Hope Rhodes, MD, associate professor of pediatrics
Laura Roland, MD, associate professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine
Shazia Samanani, MD, associate professor of medicine
Shabnam Samankan, MD, associate professor of pathology
Sarah Schaffer DeRoo, MD, MA ’09, associate professor of pediatrics
Pablo Serrano Rodriguez, MD, associate professor of surgery
Komal Sharma-Patel, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral health and of pediatrics
Haroon Shaukat, MD, associate professor of pediatrics and of emergency medicine
Olivia Soutullo, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral health and of pediatrics
Jesse Theisen-Toupal, MD, associate professor of medicine
Sinan Turnacioglu, MD, associate professor of neurology and rehabilitation medicine and of pediatrics
Briony Varda, MD, MPH, associate professor of urology and of pediatrics
Christina Wiedl, DO, associate professor of pediatrics
Laura Willing, MD, associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral health and of pediatrics
Amy Wolfe, MD, associate professor of pediatrics
Yao Wu, PhD, tenured associate professor of radiology and of pediatrics
SMHS Specialized Faculty Promoted — Effective July 1, 2026
At the rank of professor:
Eiman Abdulrahman, MD, MPH, clinical professor of pediatrics
Cara Biddle, MD, MPH, clinical professor of pediatrics
Laura Green, MD, clinical professor of ophthalmology
Laura Kenealy, MD, clinical professor of psychiatry and behavioral health and of pediatrics
Andrea Leonard-Segal, MD, clinical professor of medicine
Paul Manicone, MD, clinical professor of pediatrics
Jai Nahar, MD, MBA, clinical professor of pediatrics
Kevin O’Connor, DO, adjunct professor of medicine
Folasade Ogunlesi, MD, clinical professor of pediatrics
Iman Sami-Zakhari, MBBSc, clinical professor of pediatrics
Domiciano Santos, MD, clinical professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine and of pediatrics
E. Reed Smith, MD, clinical professor of emergency medicine and of clinical research & leadership
Ryan Strauss, MSHS ’06, MPH ’05, clinical professor of emergency medicine and of physician assistant studies
At the rank of associate professor:
Jameel Abualenain, MBBS, MPH ’00, adjunct associate professor of emergency medicine
Sama Alreddawi, MD, clinical associate professor of medicine
Arslan Arshad, MBBS, clinical associate professor of pediatrics
Jennifer Chapman, MD, clinical associate professor of pediatrics and of emergency medicine
Kimberly Chernoby, MD, JD, clinical associate professor of emergency medicine
Sherry Dadgar, PhD ’13, MPh ’13, clinical associate professor of medicine
Lewis Diamond, MBBCh, clinical associate professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine and of pediatrics
Jacqueline Eghrari-Sabet, MD, clinical associate professor of medicine
Farshid Fargahi, MD, clinical associate professor of medicine
Marcie Feinman, MD ’07, Med, BS ’03, clinical associate professor of surgery
Laura Fox, MD ’94, clinical associate professor of emergency medicine
Stefanie Gilbert, MD, adjunct associate professor of emergency medicine
Rhonda Goldberg, MA ’77, adjunct associate professor of medicine
Breanne Jacobs, MBBCh, MA ’04, clinical associate professor of emergency medicine
Robert Jarrin, JD, adjunct associate professor of emergency medicine
Efraim Kessous, MD, MPH, clinical associate professor of medicine
Amina Khan, MD, MPH, clinical associate professor of pediatrics
Eugene Lee, MD, clinical associate professor of emergency medicine
David Lutton, MD ’03, clinical associate professor of orthopaedic surgery and of neurological surgery
Gulnara Mamyrova, MD, PhD, research associate professor of medicine
Mandisa Mciver, MD, clinical associate professor of pediatrics and of emergency medicine
Yunchuan Mo, MD, clinical associate professor of pathology and of pediatrics
Bita Motesharrei, MD, clinical associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology
Asadolah Movahedan, MD, clinical associate professor of ophthalmology
Diana Moya Orjuela, MD, clinical associate professor of pediatrics
Jonathan Newmark, MD, adjunct associate professor of neurology and rehabilitation medicine
Hien Nguyen, MD, adjunct associate professor of emergency medicine
Nasima Nusrat, MD, clinical associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral health and of pediatrics
Nilesh Patel, MBBS, clinical associate professor of medicine
Nikhil Patel, MD, clinical associate professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine and of pediatrics
Christy Remein, PhD, clinical associate professor of medicine
Alexandra Rucker, MD ’01, BA ’97, clinical associate professor of pediatrics and of emergency medicine
Kristen Sgambat, PhD, clinical associate professor of pediatrics
Murteza Shahkolahi, MD, adjunct associate professor of emergency medicine
Alexander Sidlak, MD, clinical associate professor of emergency medicine
Taisei Suzuki, DO, clinical associate professor of medicine
Maia Tavadze, MD, clinical associate professor of medicine
Jonathan Teets, MD, clinical associate professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine and of pediatrics
Tsang-Wei Tu, PhD, adjunct associate professor of pediatrics
SMHS Emeritus Faculty — Effective July 1, 2026, except where indicated
Elliot Aleskow, MD, Clinical Associate Professor Emeritus of Medicine
Debra Benator, MD, Professor Emerita of Medicine
Joseph Bocchino, EdD, MBA, Associate Professor Emeritus of Clinical Research and Leadership
Wiley Chambers, MD ’83, Clinical Professor Emeritus of Ophthalmology
Irene Chatoor-Koch, MD, Professor Emerita of Psychiatry & Behavioral Health and of Pediatrics
Cathleen Clancy, MD, Associate Professor Emerita of Emergency Medicine
Fran Cogen, MD, Professor Emerita of Pediatrics
Rodolfo Curiel, MD, Associate Professor Emeritus of Medicine
Michael Czarnecki, DO, Associate Professor Emeritus of Medicine
Lawrence Deyton, MD ’85, MSPH, Professor Emeritus of Medicine
Robin Doroshow, MD, Clinical Professor Emerita of Pediatrics
Craig Futterman, MD, BS ’78, Associate Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics
Yolanda Haywood, MD, RESD ’87, BS ’81, CERT ’04, Professor Emerita of Emergency Medicine (effective June 1, 2026)
Robert Jayes, MD, Professor Emeritus of Medicine
Stephan Ladisch, MD, Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics
David Leitenberg, MD, PhD, Associate Professor Emeritus of Microbiology, Immunology & Tropical Medicine, Pediatrics and of Pathology (effective June 1, 2026)
Toby Litovitz, MD, Clinical Professor Emerita of Emergency Medicine
Donna Marschall, PhD, Clinical Associate Professor Emerita of Psychiatry & Behavioral Health and of Pediatrics
Katalin Roth, MD, JD, Professor Emerita of Medicine
Richard Simons, MD, Professor Emeritus of Medicine (effective June 1, 2026)
Howard Straker, EdD ’18, MPH, PA-C, Associate Professor Emeritus of Physician Assistant Studies and of Prevention & Community Health
Jack Summer, MD, Clinical Professor Emeritus of Medicine
Mark Weissman, MD, Associate Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics
David Wessel, MD, Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics
