Tenure & Promotion Awardees 2023-2024
2023-2024
Tenure and/or Promotion Recipients
From John C. DeToledo, M.D.
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
Dean, School of Medicine
Executive Vice President for Clinical Affairs
I am pleased to announce that at their February 29 - March 1, 2024 meeting, the Texas Tech University Board of Regents voted in favor of granting tenure and/or promotion to the following faculty of Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine:

Steven Brooks, MD
Associate Professor
Department of Surgery

Michael Phy, DO
Professor
Department of Internal Medicine

Igor Ponomarev, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Pharmacology & Neuroscience

Fiona Prabhu, MD
Professor
Department of Family & Community Medicine

Bettina Schmitz, MD, PhD
Professor
Anesthesiology

Sharilyn Almodovar, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Immunology & Molecular Microbiology

John Culberson, MD
Professor
Department of Family & Community Medicine

Yasin Ibrahim, MD
Associate Professor
Department of Psychiatry

Catherine Reppa, MD
Associate Professor
Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences

Sarah Wakefield, MD
Professor
Department of Psychiatry

Rachel Anderson, MD
Associate Professor
Department of Pediatrics

Deepak Bharadia, MD, MPH
Associate Professor
Department of Surgery

Adrian Billings, MD, PhD
Professor
Department of Family & Community Medicine

Stacy Clinton, MD
Associate Professor
Department of Pediatrics

Yusuf Dundar, MD
Associate Professor
Department of Otolaryngology

Jannatul Ferdous, MD
Associate Professor
Department of Neurology

Semyon Fishkin, MD
Associate Professor
Department of Anesthesiology

Anna Francisco, MD
Associate Professor
Department of Family & Community Medicine

Sarah Kiani, MD
Associate Professor
Department of Internal Medicine

Pulak Manna, PhD
Research Associate Professor
Department of Internal Medicine

Raphael Mattamal, MD
Associate Professor
Department of Pediatrics

Latisha McLaurin, MD
Associate Professor
Department of Pediatrics

Laszlo Nagy, MD
Professor
Department of Pediatrics

Izi Obokhare, MD
Professor
Department of Surgery

Ariel Santos, MD, MPH
Professor
Department of Surgery

Debbie Smith, MD
Associate Professor
Family & Community Medicine

Basem Soliman, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Surgery

Bei Zhang, MD
Associate Professor
Department of Neurology
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