FACULTY PROMOTIONS EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2003

Veena Arun, Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, to Assistant Professor
Elizabeth Baumann, Pediatrics, to Assistant Professor
Andrea Bial, Medicine, to Assistant Professor
Ezra Cohen, Medicine, to Assistant Professor
Russell Cohen, Medicine, to Associate Professor
Philip Connell, Radiation & Cellular Oncology, to Assistant Professor
Patrick Cunningham, Medicine, to Assistant Professor
Christopher Daugherty, Medicine, to Associate Professor
Eileen Dolan, Medicine, to Professor
John Downie, Pediatrics, to Assistant Professor
David Frim, Surgery, to Associate Professor
Jackie Gollan, Psychiatry, to Assistant Professor
Jean Greenberg, Molecular Genetics & Cell Biology, to Associate Professor
Barbara Hendrickson, Pediatrics, to Associate Professor
Elbert Huang, Medicine, to Assistant Professor
Hye-Ran Jeon, Pathology, to Assistant Professor
Helen Kim, Obstetrics & Gynecology, to Assistant Professor
George Langan, Surgery, to Assistant Professor
Diane Lauderdale, Health Studies, to Associate Professor
Donald Liu, Surgery, to Associate Professor
Manyuan Long, Ecology & Evolution, to Associate Professor
Anthony Lujan, Radiation & Cellular Oncology, to Assistant Professor
Averil Ma, Medicine, to Associate Professor
?R. Loch Macdonald, Surgery, to Professor
John McConville, Medicine, to Assistant Professor
Elizabeth McNally, Medicine, to Professor
Edward Naureckas, Medicine, to Associate Professor
Fred Ovsiew, Psychiatry, to Professor
Marcus Peter, Ben May Institute for Cancer Research, to Professor
Catherine Pfister, Ecology & Evolution, to Associate Professor
Louis Philipson, Medicine, to Professor
Marealita Pierce, Pediatrics, to Assistant Professor
Victoria Prince, Organismal Biology & Anatomy, to Associate Professor
Kourosh Rezania, Neurology, to Assistant Professor
Sonali Smith, Medicine, to Assistant Professor
Tobin Sosnick, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, to Associate Professor
Mary Elizabeth Strek, Medicine, to Associate Professor

NEW FACULTY APPOINTMENTS EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2003

Elmer Abbo, Assistant Professor, Medicine
Ernerio Alboliras, Associate Professor, Pediatrics
Caleb Alexander, Instructor, Medicine
Rajinder Arora, Assistant Professor, Pediatrics
Davie Beiser, Instructor, Medicine
Colleen Buggs, Instructor, Pediatrics
Hua Cai, Assistant Professor, Medicine
Farr Curlin, Instructor, Medicine
Daniel Curry, Assistant Professor, Surgery
William Dale, Assistant Professor, Medicine
Apurva Desai, Assistant Professor, Medicine
Aseem Desai, Assistant Professor, Medicine
Xinqi Dong, Instructor, Medicine
Savitri Fedson, Assistant Professor, Medicine
Abraham Gaupp, Assistant Professor, Anesthesia & Critical Care
Daniel Gillen, Assistant Professor, Health Studies
Loretto Glynn, Assistant Professor, Surgery
Lucy Godley, Assistant Professor, Medicine
Rohit Gupta, Instructor, Medicine
Rex Haydon, Assistant Professor, Surgery
Geoffrey Korn, Instructor, Medicine
Thomas Kramer, Associate Professor, Psychiatry
Madeleine Kraus, Assistant Professor, Pathology
Julia Labovsky, Assistant Professor, Anesthesia & Critical Care
Maciej Lesniak, Assistant Professor, Surgery
Lucille Lester, Professor, Pediatrics
Patrick Ma, Instructor, Medicine
Carl Maki, Assistant Professor, Radiation & Cellular Oncology
David Manning, Assistant Professor, Surgery
Neil Mehta, Instructor, Radiation & Cellular Oncology
Ramamoorthy Nagasubramanian, Instructor, Pediatrics
Mark Nunnally, Assistant Professor, Anesthesia & Critical Care
Nahah Park, Instructor, Pediatrics
Sanjay Rao, Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology
Kourous Rezaei, Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences
Elizabeth Rich, Assistant Professor, Medicine
Ravi Salgia, Associate Professor, Medicine
Thomas Shoaf, Assistant Professor, Psychiatry
Rachana Singh, Instructor, Radiation & Cellular Oncology
Daniel Spergel, Instructor, Pediatrics
Mark Stein, Professor, Psychiatry
Peter Sturm, Associate Professor, Surgery
Xiao Jian Sun, Assistant Professor, Medicine
Dimitra Tsatsoulis, Instructor, Medicine
Benjamin Van Voorhees, Assistant Professor, Medicine
Martin Weigert, Professor, Pathology
Andrew Wolfe, Assistant Professor, Pediatrics

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