2017 UVA School of Medicine Promoted & Tenured Faculty Named, Honored

At a ceremony at the Colonnade Club last night, UVA School of Medicine Dean David Wilkes congratulated School of Medicine faculty who have been promoted or received tenure in 2017. Below is a complete list of those who were honored last night.

Congratulations to all of our promoted and tenured faculty!

Promotion to Associate Professor

Avinash Agarwal, MD, Associate Professor of Surgery
Laurie Archbald-Pannone, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Medicine
Amy Brown, MD, MHS, Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Laura Cook, MD, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology
Stephen Culp, MD, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor of Urology
Andrew Darby, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine
Stephen Early, MD, Associate Professor of Otolaryngology
Uta Erdbruegger, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine
Carol Gilchrist, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine
Adrian Halme, PhD, Associate Professor of Cell Biology
Traci Hedrick, MD, Associate Professor of Surgery
Scott Heysell, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Medicine
Melissa Kendall, PhD, Associate Professor of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology
Tamila Kindwall-Keller, DO, MS, Associate Professor of Medicine
Gilbert Kinsey, PharmD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine
Lynn Kohan, MD, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
Arun Krishnaraj, MD, Associate Professor of Radiology and Medical Imaging
Bijoy Kundu, PhD, Associate Professor of Radiology and Medical Imaging
Rohit Malhotra, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine
Nancy McLaren, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Van Hoang Nguyen, MD, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
Michael Scott, PhD, Associate Professor of Pharmacology
Karen Singh, MD, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
Geoffrey Smith, MD, Associate Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Philip Smith, MD, Associate Professor of Surgery
Guillermo Solorzano, MD, MSc, Associate Professor of Neurology
Michael Spaeder, MD, MS, Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Siobhan Statuta, MD, Associate Professor of Family Medicine
Robert Thiele, MD, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
Anne Tuskey, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine
Nicholas Tustison, DSc, Associate Professor of Radiology and Medical Imaging
Nolan Wages, PhD, Associate Professor of Public Health Sciences
Zequan Yang, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Surgery

The Award of Tenure

Kenneth Bilchick, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine
Marc Breton, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences
Stephen Brockmeier, MD, Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
Wei-Min Chen, PhD, Associate Professor of Public Health Sciences
Peter Hallowell, MD, Associate Professor of Surgery
Mark Jameson, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Otolaryngology
Hui Li, PhD, Associate Professor of Pathology
Wendy Lynch, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences
Valeria Mas, PhD, Associate Professor of Surgery
Pamela Mason, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine
Manoj Patel, PhD, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
Owen Pornillos, PhD, Associate Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics
Yun Michael Shim, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine
Timothy Showalter, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology
Hui Zong, PhD, Associate Professor of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology