Annual School of Medicine Faculty Promotions Ceremony
February 20, 2026
Award Winners
Nancy Ryan Lowitt, MD, EdM, Faculty Development Fund Award Winner
Dr. Liliana Simon, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Luminary Award Winners
Dr. Brian Browne, Professor and Former Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine, and Physician-in-Chief for Statewide Emergency Medicine Services.
Dr. Bob Buchanan, Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center (MPRC), and Director of the Maryland Early Intervention Program.
Promoted Faculty
Honorees
Anesthesiology
Peter Rock, MD, MBA
Lin Zou, MD, PhD
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Syed Saif Hasan, PhD
Andrew Neuwald, PhD
Krishanu Ray, PhD
Dermatology
Marcia S. Driscoll, MD, PharmD
Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine
David Dreizin, MD
Emergency Medicine
Jason D. Adler, MD
Laura J. Bontempo, MD, MEd
Rose M. Chasm, MD
Elizabeth K. Powell, MD
Alexis Salerno Rubeling, MD
Quincy K. Tran, MD, PhD
Kami M.H. Windsor, MD
Epidemiology & Public Health
Sally N. Adebamowo, MBBS, MSc, ScD
Jennifer S. Albrecht, PhD
Jonathan Baghdadi, MD, PhD
Chixiang Chen, PhD
Lyndsay M. O'Hara, PhD
Lynn M. Schriml, PhD
Joanne Dorgan, PhD, MPH
Family & Community Medicine
Richard Colgan, MD
Gregory H. Taylor, MD
Medicine
Alash'le Abimiku, PhD
Robert Tao-Ping Chow, MD, MBA
Alan Cross, MD
Kevin Cullen, MD
Phillip C. Dittmar, MD
James B. Doub, MD
Alonso Heredia, PhD
Neha Jakhete, MD
Kent E. Kester, MD
Myron M. Levine, MD, DTPH
Zurabi Lominadze, MD
Ellen T. Marciniak, MD
Poonam Mathus, DO, MPH
Shivakumar Narayanan, MBBS, MD
Justin R. Ortiz, MD, MS
Robert R. Redfield, MD
Norman F. Retener, MD
David J. Riedel, MD
Sasan Sakiani, MD
Katherine A. Scilla, MD
Lydia S.Y. Tang, MBBCh
Hilary B. Whitlatch, MD
Jean A. Yared, MD
Zhekang Ying, PhD
Microbiology and Immunology
Vincent Bruno, PhD
Xuefang Cao, PhD
Lynda Coughlan, PhD
Tonya J. Webb, PhD
Neurobiology
Reha S. Erzurumlu, PhD
Marco Venniro, PhD
Neurology
Idris M. Amin, MD
Daniel Harrison, MD
Neurosurgery
Alexander Ksendzovsky, MD, PhD
Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences
Graham W. Aberdeen, PhD
Orthopaedics
Natalie R. Danna, MD
Motomi E. Iwamoto, DDS, PhD
Masahiro Iwamoto, PhD
Eugene Y. Koh, MD, PhD
Satoru Otsuru, MD, PhD
Otorhinolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery
Natalie S. Justicz, MD
Pathology
Madhurima Koka, MD, PhD
Teklu B. Legesse, MD
Pediatrics
Atiye Nur Aktay, MD
Deborah G. Badawi, MD
Miriam G. Blitzer, PhD
Shannan M. Dixon, PhD, MS
Yudy A. Fonseca, MD
Regina A. Macatangay, MD
Teresa A. York, MD
Pharmacology and Physiology
Thomas A. Longden, PhD
Alexandros Poulopoulos, PhD
Min Yu, PhD
Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science
Elizabeth A. Dennis, PhD, RD
Jason R. Falvey, PT, DPT, PhD
Psychiatry
Hinda F. Dubin, MD
Anique K. Forrester, MD
Ann L. Hackman, MD
Sharon Hoover, PhD
Christopher M. Marano, MD
Ana Pocivavsek, PhD
Gloria M. Reeves, MD
Charles T. Robinson, MD
Cindy M. Schaeffer, PhD
Christopher Welsh, MD
Emerson M. Wickwire, PhD
Radiation Oncology
Nrusingh C. Biswal, PhD
Matthew J. Ferris, MD
Dario Rodrigues, PhD
Huijun Xu, PhD
Surgery
Sarasijhaa K. Desikan, MD
Brian R. Englum, MD
Mira Ghneim, MD
Yinin Hu, MD
Khanjan Nagarsheth, MD
Jonathan P. Pearl, MD
Shahab Toursavadkohi, MD