2024 Professorial Promotions Ceremony recognizes faculty members

By Michelle Read

Writer, Faculty of Medicine

Awards and recognition
Group photo of the faculty members
The Faculty of Medicine formally recognized its 2023–2024 professorial promotions during a ceremony on Thursday, February 29.

The Professorial Promotions Ceremony honours faculty members who have been promoted in their academic ranks as a result of demonstrating excellence in their respective fields and contributing to life at the Faculty, and officially acknowledges them with the presentation of a certificate.

Congratulations to all!

Those formally recognized include the following:

Associate Professor

Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine

David Rosen

Reva Ramlogan

Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology

Kin Chan

Patrick Giguère

Jyh-Yeuan Lee

Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine

Yannick Benoit

Kyoung Han Kim

Department of Emergency Medicine

Avik Nath

Charles Su

Krishan Yadav

Paul Pageau

School of Epidemiology and Public Health

Alison Krentel

Alice Zwerling

Department of Family Medicine

Barbara Farrell

Benoit Robert

Jean Roy

Melanie Willows

Parisa Rezaiefar

Roland Halil

Department of Medicine

Juthaporn Cowan

Allison Jill Fulcher

Lara Khoury

Arleigh McCurdy

Edward Spilg

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Amy Nakajima

Dante Pascali

Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery

Stephanie Johnson-Obaseki

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Jason Wasserman

Department of Pediatrics

Joanna Lazier

Kristin Kernohan

Sarah Lawrence

Stephanie Redpath

Waleed Alqurashi

Department of Psychiatry

Addo Boafo

Department of Radiology, Radiation Oncology and Medical Physics

Cynthia Walsh

Vimoj Nair

Department of Surgery

Erin Cordeiro

J Pollock

Jeffrey Warren

Kevin Smit

Talal Al-Atassi

Timothy Brandys

Dr. Patrick Giguère
Dr. Patrick Giguère was promoted to the rank of associate professor.

Full Professor

Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine

John Copeland

Department of Family Medicine

Claire Kendall

Department of Medicine 

Luc Beauchesne

Craig Campbell

Manish Sood

Pablo Nery

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Marcio Gomes

Ronald Booth

Department of Radiology, Radiation Oncology and Medical Physics

Nicola Schieda

Rajiv Samant=

Department of Surgery

Eve Tsai

Husein Moloo

Dr. Claire Kendall
Dr. Claire Kendall was promoted to the rank of full professor.

Tenure

Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology

Emilio Alarcón

Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine

Arezu Jahani-Asl

Dr. Emilio Alarcón
Dr. Emilio Alarcón was granted tenure.

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