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Dr. Clifton Meador, executive director of the Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance, described the innovative initiative to the President's Cancer Panel. The panel included, from left, Maureen Wilson, Ph.D., Dr. Harold P. Freeman, and Dr. Paul Calabresi. (photo by Dana Johnson)
The Board of Trust has approved the following faculty actions:
Appointments (School of Medicine)
Heidi E. Hamm, Ph.D., professor of Pharmacology and chair of the department
Dr. Jeremy J. Kaye, professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences
Dr. Arnold W. Strauss, James C. Overall Professor of Pediatrics and chair of the department
Promotions (School of Medicine)
Dr. John T. Algren, professor of Anesthesiology
Dr. William Bernet, professor of Psychiatry
Dr. Nancy J. Brown, associate professor of Medicine
Dr. Jill F. Chambers, associate clinical professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Kong Chen, Ph.D., research assistant professor of Medicine
Charles Coffey, II, Ph.D., professor of Radiation Oncology
Dr. Alice Coogan, associate professor of Pathology
Dr. Sean P. Donahue, associate professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
Dr. Tarek G. Elalayi, assistant professor of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation
Dr. Catherine Fuchs, associate professor of Psychiatry
Dr. David Gailani, associate professor of Pathology
Dr. Stacy Goodman, associate professor of Medicine
Eric J. Hustedt, Ph.D., research assistant professor of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics
Dr. Jennifer L. Isenhour, assistant professor of Emergency Medicine
Kareem Jabbour, research associate professor of Surgery
Darryl Kaurin, Ph.D., assistant professor of Radiation Oncology
Diane S. Keeney, Ph.D., research associate professor of Biochemistry
Dr. Kevin J. Kelly, associate professor of Plastic Surgery
Dr. Richard B. Kim, associate professor of Medicine
Dr. Deborah J. Kondis, assistant clinical professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Victoria L. Morgan, Ph.D., assistant professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences
Dr. Barbara A. Murphy, associate professor of Medicine
Richard M. O’Brien, Ph.D., associate professor of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics
Eugene M. Oltz, Ph.D., associate professor of Microbiology and Immunology
Dr. Steven T. Riley, assistant professor of Emergency Medicine
Dr. Richard C. Shelton, professor of Psychiatry
Dr. Walter Smalley, associate professor of Medicine
Michael Yakes, Ph.D., associate professor of Medicine
Zhizhuang J. Zhao, Ph.D., associate professor of Medicine