KU announces promotion and tenure for 149 faculty and researchers

LAWRENCE — Chancellor Douglas A. Girod has approved the promotion and award of tenure, where indicated, for 64 individuals at the University of Kansas Lawrence and Edwards campuses and 85 individuals at the KU Medical Center campuses.

Promotions for tenure-track faculty and scholarly positions include review by the University Committee on Promotion and Tenure and final approval by the chancellor.

In addition, nine people have earned specialty and career teaching faculty promotions in the past year as of April 30. Promotions for career teaching and specialty faculty are determined and awarded through school or departmental reviews. 

Girod, Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Barbara Bichelmeyer – who chairs the University Committee on Promotion and Tenure on the Lawrence campus – and Interim Executive Vice Chancellor at KU Medical Center Matthias Salathe issued a joint statement on the accomplishment of these faculty members.

“Congratulations to these dedicated faculty and researchers on a significant milestone in their careers. Their contributions in classrooms, labs and cross-disciplinary learning spaces help elevate student success and KU’s position as a leading research institution. Together, we build upon a culture of continuous improvement and work toward our mission of educating leaders, building healthy communities and making discoveries that change the world.

“Thank you to the promotion and tenure committees on both campuses for their invaluable service of assessing the many eligible candidates. Please join us in congratulating these scholars and educators for their efforts and achievement.”

Promotion and tenure are effective by or at the start of the fall semester.

At the Lawrence and Edwards campuses

To associate professor with tenure

• Meredith Bagwell-Gray, social welfare
• Nicholas Britt, pharmacy practice
• Yi-Yang Chen, music
• Patricia Dahm, business
• Drew Davidson, electrical engineering & computer science
• Meghan Davidson, speech-language-hearing sciences and disorders
• Mark Farrell, medicinal chemistry
• Tera Fazzino, psychology
• Arpita Ghosh, educational psychology
• John Gluckman, linguistics
• Amy Hansen, civil, environmental & architectural engineering
• Admin Husic, civil, environmental & architectural engineering
• Justin Hutchison, civil, environmental & architectural engineering
• Sarah Jen, social welfare
• Allison Kirkpatrick, physics & astronomy
• Shaobo Li, business
• Nathan Lundstrom, business
• Christopher Niileksela, educational psychology
• Hartwin Peelaers, physics & astronomy
• Markus Potter, theatre & dance
• Shyam Sathyamoorthi, medicinal chemistry
• Boris Vayner, music
• James Yékú, African & African-American studies
• Kathleen Tuck, special education

To full professor

• Brian Ackley, molecular biosciences
• Alan Allgeier, chemical & petroleum engineering
• Mary Banwart, communication studies
• Jane Barnette, theatre & dance
• Shawn Bitters, visual art
• Justin Blumenstiel, ecology & evolutionary biology
• Joseph Brewer II, environmental studies
• Jonathan Brumberg, psychology
• Hyesun Cho, curriculum & teaching
• Bartholomew Dean, anthropology
• Eduardo García-Novelli, music
• Mugur Geana, journalism & mass communications
• Brian Gordon, health, sport & exercise sciences
• Kelly Graf, anthropology
• Deanna Hanson-Abromeit, music
• Robert Hurst, film & media studies
• Jennifer Kurth, special education
• Kevin Leonard, chemical & petroleum engineering
• Rémy Lequesne, civil, environmental & architectural engineering
• Jian Li, civil, environmental & architectural engineering
• Patricia Manning, Spanish & Portuguese
• Stella Markou, music
• Jason Matejkowski, social welfare
• Brittany Melton, pharmacy practice
• Martin Nedbal, music
• Amy Rossomondo, Spanish & Portuguese
• Robert Schwaller, history
• Erik Scott, history
• Joanna Slusky, molecular biosciences
• Dai Tran, civil, environmental & architectural engineering

To associate librarian with tenure

• Carmen Orth-Alfie, KU Libraries
• Erin Wolfe, KU Libraries

To librarian

• Jamene Brooks-Kieffer, KU Libraries

To associate professor with tenure/associate scientist 

• Maggie Wagner, ecology & evolutionary biology

To associate research professor (nontenure track)

• Evan Dean, Life Span Institute
• Ted Harris, Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research
• Tyler Hicks, Life Span Institute

To senior specialist/senior collections manager (nontenure track)

• Caleb Morse, Biodiversity Institute

To clinical associate professor (nontenure track)

• Bradley Newell, pharmacy practice

To research professor (nontenure track)

• Kathy Thiemann-Bourque, Life Span Institute

Specialty career and teaching faculty

 To associate teaching professor

• Sarah Browne, mathematics
• Lisa Sharpe Elles, chemistry
• Brian Lagotte, Center for Global & International Studies
• Trevor Rivers, undergraduate biology
• Sarah LeGresley Rush, physics & astronomy

 To director/associate teaching professor

• Detelina Stoyanova, business

To full professor of the practice

• Angela Hendershot, journalism & mass communications
• Lisa McLendon, journalism & mass communications

To teaching professor

• Ray Pence, American studies

At KU Medical Center

To associate professor on clinical scholar track

• Nausheen Ahmed, internal medicine, Kansas City
• Allison Aripoli, radiology, Kansas City
• Rachel DiTeresi, obstetrics & gynecology, Kansas City
• Mitchell Douglass, psychiatry & behavioral sciences, Kansas City
• Tyler Droege, psychiatry & behavioral sciences, Kansas City
• Lynn Fisher, family & community medicine, Wichita
• Kristine Grdinovac, internal medicine, Kansas City
• Joel Grigsby, anesthesiology, pain & perioperative medicine, Kansas City
• Chase Hall, internal medicine, Kansas City
• Ameer Hamza, pathology and laboratory medicine, Kansas City
• Dana Hawkinson, internal medicine, Kansas City
• Matthew Jones, internal medicine, Kansas City
• Christopher Lam, anesthesiology, pain & perioperative medicine, Kansas City
• Colleen Loo-Gross, family & community medicine, Wichita
• Laith Maali, neurology, Kansas City
• Melanie Meister, obstetrics & gynecology, Kansas City
• Anders Meyer, pathology & laboratory medicine, Kansas City
• Abdulrahman Morad, cardiovascular medicine, Kansas City
• Muhammad Umair Mushtaq, internal medicine, Kansas City
• Lucas Pitts, internal medicine, Kansas City
• Erin Plaza, anesthesiology, pain & perioperative medicine, Kansas City
• Tessa Rohrberg, family & community medicine, Wichita
• Paul Rotert, family medicine & community health, Kansas City
• Nima Sarani, emergency medicine, Kansas City
• Kelsey Sewell, psychiatry & behavioral sciences, Kansas City
• Denton Shanks, family medicine & community health, Kansas City
• Dennis (Matt) Shoemaker, internal medicine, Kansas City
• Kyle Sweeney, orthopedic surgery & sports medicine, Kansas City
• Ahmad Tuffaha, internal medicine, Kansas City
• Yuexian Xu, anesthesiology, pain & perioperative medicine, Kansas City
• Wei Zhang, pathology and laboratory medicine, Kansas City

To associate professor (clinical track, nontenure track)

• Richard Arnspiger II, surgery, Kansas City
• Scott Turner, surgery, Kansas City

To associate professor with tenure

• Jill Morris, neurology, Kansas City      
• Michael VanSaun, cancer biology, Kansas City
• Ann Wozniak, internal medicine, Kansas City

Award of tenure at current rank of associate professor

• Hongmin Ni, pharmacology, toxicology & therapeutics, Kansas City
• Lauren Ptomey, internal medicine, Kansas City
• Isaac Sundar, internal medicine, Kansas City

To clinical assistant professor (clinical track)

• Kathy Guilkey, School of Nursing, Kansas City
• Nathan Mattson, School of Nursing, Kansas City

To clinical associate professor (clinical track, nontenure track)

• Patrick Allen, family & community medicine, Wichita
• Venkatadri Beeki, internal medicine, Kansas City
• Kourtney Bettinger, pediatrics, Kansas City
• Melisa Boersma, radiation oncology, Kansas City
• Molly Cason, anesthesiology, pain & perioperative medicine, Kansas City
• Haley Goucher, anesthesiology, pain & perioperative medicine, Kansas City
• Sarah Kelting, pathology & laboratory medicine, Kansas City
• Jared Kvapil, cardiovascular medicine, Kansas City
• Kathleen MacNaughton Hance, anesthesiology, pain & perioperative medicine, Kansas City
• Simon Patton, obstetrics & gynecology, Wichita
• Satish Ponnuru, plastic, burn & wound surgery, Kansas City
• Vinay Raja, internal medicine, Kansas City
• Kelly Rhodes-Stark, radiation oncology, Kansas City
• Ericka Sanner-Stiehr, School of Nursing, Kansas City
• Tiffany Shin, family & community medicine, Wichita
• Britton Zuccarelli, pediatrics, Salina

To clinical professor (clinical track, nontenure track)

• Bernard Hearon, orthopedic surgery, Wichita
• Eva LaVerne Manos, School of Nursing, Kansas City
• Loretta (Lore) Nelson, pediatrics, Kansas City             

To education professor on educator track

• Cayla Teal, population health, Kansas City

To professor (clinical, nontenure track)

• Atta Nawabi, surgery, Kansas City

To professor on clinical scholar track (nontenure track)

• Dennis Allin, emergency medicine, Kansas City
• Raed Al-Rajabi, internal medicine, Kansas City
• Ryan Ash, radiology, Kansas City
• Joshua Broghammer, urology, Kansas City
• Roukoz Chamoun, neurosurgery, Kansas City
• John Leever, radiology, Kansas City
• Heather Male, internal medicine, Kansas City
• Angela Mayorga, psychiatry & behavioral sciences, Kansas City
• Gregory Muehlebach, cardiovascular & thoracic surgery, Kansas City
• Marc Parrish, obstetrics & gynecology, Kansas City
• Alan Reeves, radiology, Kansas City
• Matthew Sharpe, internal medicine, Kansas City
• Jennifer Villwock, otolaryngology-head and neck surgery, Kansas City

To professor on educator track

• Sarah Keim, surgery, Kansas City

To professor, previously tenured

• Vargheese Chennathukuzhi, cell biology and physiology, Kansas City
• Laura Martin, population health, Kansas City
• Michele Pritchard, pharmacology, toxicology & therapeutics, Kansas City
• Reena Rao, internal medicine, Kansas City
• Jeroen Roelofs, biochemistry & molecular biology, Kansas City
• Irfan Saadi, cell biology & physiology, Kansas City
• Subhrajit Saha, radiation oncology, Kansas City

Award of tenure at current rank of professor

• Harold Li, radiation oncology, Kansas City

To research professor (research track)

• Shang-You Yang, orthopedic surgery, Wichita.