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2023 - 2024 Faculty Promotions

OUWB is pleased to announce the promotion of eighteen members of our faculty. These promotions mark an especially proud moment for the OUWB community as we’ve had the pleasure of watching these talented individuals develop from promising junior faculty into scholars and teachers of national impact and recognition. Congratulations to the following faculty members:

Brian K. Felice, M.D., Emergency Medicine - Associate Professor
Erwin Patalinghug, M.D., Family Medicine - Associate Professor
Kathleen M. Rollinger, D.O., Family Medicine - Associate Professor
Ida J. Rubino, M.D., Family Medicine - Associate Professor
Srikala Yedavally-Yellayi, D.O., Family Medicine - Associate Professor
Enrique Calvo-Ayala, M.D., Internal Medicine - Associate Professor
Bhavin D. Dalal, M.D., Internal Medicine - Professor
Nader Mina, M.D., Internal Medicine - Associate Professor
Ali Alhousseini, M.D., Ph.D., Obstetrics & Gynecology - Associate Professor
Daniel K. Park, M.D., Orthopaedic Surgery - Professor
Said Hafez-Khayyata, M.D., Pathology - Associate Professor
Jaime L. Taylor, D.O., Pediatrics - Associate Professor
Christine C. Chamberlain, M.D., Physical Medicine - Associate Professor
Gino R. Sessa, M.D., Physical Medicine - Associate Professor
Sayf Al-katib, M.D., Radiology - Associate Professor
Kongkrit Chaiyasate, M.D., Surgery - Professor
Nathan Novotny, M.D., Surgery - Associate Professor
Bernadette Zwaans, Ph.D., Urology - Associate Professor        

2022 - 2023 Faculty Promotions

OUWB is pleased to announce the promotion of 16 members of our faculty and the granting of tenure to two members of our faculty. These promotions and granting of tenure mark an especially proud moment for the OUWB community as we’ve had the pleasure of watching these talented individuals develop from promising junior faculty into scholars and teachers of national impact and recognition. Congratulations to the following faculty members: : 

OUWB is pleased to announce the promotion of sixteen members of our faculty and the granting of tenure to one member of our faculty. These promotions and granting of tenure mark an especially proud moment for the OUWB community as we’ve had the pleasure of watching these talented individuals develop from promising junior faculty into scholars and teachers of national impact and recognition. Congratulations to the following faculty members:

Claudio Cortes, Ph.D., Foundational Medical Studies — Associate Professor (Tenure)
Varna Taranikanti, M.D., Ph.D., Foundational Medical Studies — Associate Professor (Tenure)
Jason Wasserman, Ph.D., Foundational Medical Studies — Professor (Tenure)
Lisa Cohen, M.D., Internal Medicine — Associate Professor
Michael J. Gallagher, M.D., Internal Medicine — Professor
Ivan D. Hanson, M.D., Internal Medicine — Associate Professor
Arati K. Kelekar, M.D., Internal Medicine — Associate Professor
Vishal Patel, M.D., Internal Medicine — Associate Professor
Chirag K. Gupta, M.D., Ophthalmology — Associate Professor
Drew D. Moore, M.D., Orthopaedic Surgery — Associate Professor
Vaishali M. Pansare, M.D., Pathology — Professor
L. Kate Gowans, M.D., Pediatrics — Associate Professor
Andrea C. Hernandez-Troya, M.D., Pediatrics — Associate Professor
Joshua T. Dilworth, M.D., Ph.D., Radiation Oncology — Associate Professor
Xuanfeng Ding, Ph.D., Radiation Oncology — Associate Professor
Daniel J. Krauss, M.D., Radiation Oncology — Professor
Adam D. Rubin, M.D., Surgery — Professor