Wayne State University School of Medicine is proud to acknowledge the following faculty members who have been recommended for promotion and/or granting of tenure by the president and provost of the University. These recommendations will be presented to the Wayne State University Board of Governors for approval this summer. Each member was chosen for outstanding academic achievements and continued commitment to the SOM.

Tenure Granted

Deborah Ellis - Pediatrics

Csaba Juhasz - Pediatrics

Melody Neely - Immunology & Microbiology

T.R. Reddy - Immunology & Microbiology

Promotion to Associate Professor

Nahed Abdel-Haq - Pediatrics

Nelia Afonso - Internal Medicine (General Medicine)

Nedim Cakan - Pediatrics

Deborah Ellis - Pediatrics

Sonia Hassan - Obstetrics & Gynecology (Perinatology Research Branch)

Csaba Juhasz - Pediatrics

Melody Neely - Immunology & Microbiology

Rajaprabhakaran Rajarethinam - Psychiatry & Behavioral Neurosciences

T.R. Reddy - Immunology & Microbiology

Gabriel Sosne - Ophthalmology

Joel Steinberg - Internal Medicine (Geriatrics)

Youming Xie - Cancer Institute

Promotion to Professor

Cynthia Aaron - Emergency Medicine

George Alangaden - Internal Medicine (Infectious Disease)

Murali Guthikonda - Neurosurgery

Sabrina Heidemann - Pediatrics

Mark Juzych - Ophthalmology

Jason Mateika - Physiology

Bharati Mitra - Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Robert Morris - Obstetrics & Gynecology

Otto Muzik - Radiology

George Yoo - Otolaryngology