2024 School of Medicine Faculty Promotions and Tenure

The University of Missouri School of Medicine is proud to announce faculty promotions as the Fall 2024 semester begins. Congratulations to the following individuals and we thank them for their commitment and service to the School of Medicine.

Promoted to associate professor and awarded tenure

• Erika Boerman, PhD, Medical Pharmacology and Physiology
• Guanghong Jia, PhD, Medicine
• Trupti Joshi, PhD, Biomedical Informatics, Biostatistics and Medical Epidemiology
• Jussuf Kaifi, MD, Surgery
• Emily Leary, PhD, Orthopaedic Surgery

Promoted to professor

• Kevin Everett, PhD, Family and Community Medicine
• Teresa Lever, PhD, Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery

NTT candidates promoted to associate professor

• Anjali Anders, MD, Child Health
• Niraj Arora, MD, Neurology
• Andres Bran Acevedo, MD, Medicine
• Bradford Cardonell, MD, Anesthesiology
• Steven Carr, MD, Neurosurgery
• Dima Dandachi, MD, Medicine
• Taia Delano, OD, Ophthalmology
• Mark Drymalski, MD, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
• Claire Finkel, MD, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
• Tabitha Galloway, MD, Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery
• Hemant Godara, MD, Medicine
• Mojgan Golzy, PhD, Biomedical Informatics, Biostatistics and Medical Epidemiology
• Taishi Hirai, MD, Medicine
• Vovanti Jones, MD, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
• Susan Lava-Parmele, MD, Anesthesiology
• Nicholas Lefevre, MD, Family and Community Medicine
• Alicia Ludden-Schlatter, MD, Family and Community Medicine
• Michael McCullough, MD, Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women’s Health
• Don Moore, MD, Orthopaedic Surgery
• Rebekah Nevel, MD, Child Health
• Srinivas Panchangam, MD, Child Health
• Deepthi Rao, MD, Pathology and Anatomical Sciences
• Kyle Schweser, MD, Orthopaedic Surgery
• Veronica Sievert, MD, Family and Community Medicine
• Julie Stilley, PhD, Emergency Medicine
• Brian Toedebusch, MD, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
• Andrew Wheeler, MD, Surgery
• Alexander Zweig, MD, Family and Community Medicine

NTT candidates promoted to professor

• Amanda Allmon, MD, Family and Community Medicine
• Jeffrey Coughenour, MD, Surgery
• Bernard Eskridge, MD, Child Health
• Eliav Gov-Ari, MD, Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery
• James Koller, MD, Medicine
• Senthil Kumar, MD, Medicine
• Karilyn Martin, MD, Dermatology
• Joel Shenker, PhD, Neurology