Congratulations to the GW SMHS Faculty Members on Their Promotions

Faculty Promotions - Effective July 1, 2015

Promotion to Professor

Jeffrey Bethony                       

From Associate Professor to Professor of Microbiology, Immunology, & Tropical Medicine

Keith  Boniface 

From Associate Professor to Professor of Emergency Medicine

Lakhmir Chawla               

From Associate Professor to Professor of Anesthesiology & Critical Care Medicine and of Medicine

Jehan El-Bayoumi           

From Associate Professor to Professor of Medicine

Carlos Palant     

From Associate Professor to Professor of Medicine

Natella Rakhmanina

From Associate Professor to Professor of Pediatrics with Tenure

Gary Rogers      

From Associate Professor to Professor of Surgery and of Pediatrics

Ted Rothstein   

From Associate Professor to Professor of Neurology

Stephen Teach                                 

From Professor to Professor of Pediatrics with Tenure

Warren Yu          

From Associate Professor to Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and of Neurological Surgery

Promotion to Associate Professor

Amir Afkhami   

From Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of Psychiatry and of Global Health

Mohammed Ali                                

From Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of Medicine

Jillian Catalanotti                                             

From Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of Medicine

Deepika Darbari                                               

From Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Nina Deutsch                                    

From Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of Anesthesiology & Critical Care Medicine and of Pediatrics

Nobuyuki Ishibashi         

From Assistant Research Professor to Associate Research Professor of Pediatrics

Vivek Jain           

From Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of Medicine

Raya Kheirbek  

From Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of Medicine

Linda Kusner     

From Assistant Research Professor to Associate Research Professor of Pharmacology & Physiology and of Integrative Systems Biology and of Neurology

Suresh Magge  

From Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of Surgery and of Pediatrics

An Massaro       

From Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Holly Meany    

From Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Andrew Meltzer              

From Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine

Ashkan Monfared          

From Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of Surgery

Javad Nazarian                 

From Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of Pediatrics and of Integrative Systems Biology with Tenure      

Vincent Obias  

From Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of Surgery

Matthew Oetgen            

From Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and of Pediatrics

Faisal Qureshi   

From Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of Surgery and of Pediatrics

Kanishka Ratnayaka       

From Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Donald Shields 

From Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of Neurological Surgery

Marc Siegel        

From Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of Medicine

Karen Smith      

From Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Reza Taheri        

From Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of Radiology

Danielle Vaziri   

From Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of Anesthesiology & Critical Care Medicine and of Medicine

Karin Walsh      

From Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and of Pediatrics

Wenge Zhu

From Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of Biochemistry with Tenure

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