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Appointments & Promotions Committees

All appointments and promotions must be approved by one of two Appointments and Promotions Committees, which are composed of the dean or deputy dean of the Yale School of Medicine and senior faculty who represent a wide range of ladder faculty in relationship to department, academic, track, and areas of expertise.

Learn more about Appointments & Promotions Committee Management at OAPD.

Committees

Organizations on this page

  • Senior Appointments & Promotions Committee

    • Samuel Ball, PhD

      Committee Co-Chair

      Harold W. Jockers Professor of Psychiatry; Deputy Dean for Academic Affairs; Deputy Dean for Academic Affairs, OAPD

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    • Gary Friedlaender, MD, BS

      Term January 2024-December 2026

      Wayne O. Southwick Professor of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation and Professor of Pathology; Chair Emeritus, Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation

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    • Veda Giri, MD

      Term January 2025-December 2027

      Professor of Internal Medicine (Medical Oncology); Division Chief, Clinical Cancer Genetics; Director, Cancer Genetics and Prevention Program; Director, Early Onset Cancer Program

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    • Mehra Golshan, MD, MBA

      Term January 2024-December 2026

      Professor of Surgery (Oncology, Breast); Executive Vice Chair, Surgery; Deputy Chief Medical Officer for Surgical Services, Smilow Cancer Hospital; Director of Medical Education, Surgery

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    • Naftali Kaminski, MD

      Term January 2025-December 2027

      Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Professor of Medicine (Pulmonary); Section Chief, Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine

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    • Ehud Mendel, MD, MBA

      Term January 2024-December 2026

      Nixdorff-German Professor of Neurosurgery; Executive Vice Chair, Neurosurgery; Division Chief, Spine, Neurosurgery; Disease Center Director, Spine Oncology Program, Yale Cancer Center

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    • Kirsten Wilkins, MD

      Term January 2025-December 2027

      Professor of Psychiatry; Director of Medical Student Education, Psychiatry; Interim Deputy Chair for Education, Psychiatry; Associate Chief of Mental Health, Mental Health, VA Connecticut Healthcare System

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    • Donna Windish, MD, MPH

      Term January 2025-December 2027

      Professor of Medicine (General Medicine); Associate Chair for Educational Scholarship, Internal Medicine; Director, Education Scholar Fellowship, Center for Medical Education; Program Director, Yale General Internal Medicine Medical Education Fellowship, Internal Medicine; Director, Resident Research, Yale Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency Program, Internal Medicine; Education Scholar Fellowship Director, Center for Medical Education Faculty Associates

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    • Hua Xu, PhD

      Term January 2025-December 2027

      Robert T. McCluskey Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science; Vice Chair for Research and Development, Department of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science; Assistant Dean for Biomedical Informatics, Yale School of Medicine

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  • Term Appointments & Promotions Committee

    • Samuel Ball, PhD

      Committee Co-Chair

      Harold W. Jockers Professor of Psychiatry; Deputy Dean for Academic Affairs; Deputy Dean for Academic Affairs, OAPD

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    • Jonathan N Grauer, MD

      Committee Co-Chair

      Professor of Orthopaedics & Rehabilitation; Associate Dean, Faculty Affairs; Director of Orthopaedic Spine Service, Orthopaedics & Rehabilitation; Associate Vice-Chair Research, Orthopaedics & Rehabilitation

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    • Jonathan Dranoff, MD

      Term January 2025-December 2027

      Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases); Director, Steatotic Liver Disease Program , Digestive Diseases, VA Connecticut Healthcare System

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    • Benjamin L. Judson, MD, MBA

      Term January 2023-December 2025

      Charles W. Ohse Professor of Surgery (Otolaryngology), Vice Chair, Faculty Affairs; Chief, Division of Otolaryngology, Yale Medicine; Vice Chair of Faculty Affairs, Surgery

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    • Joy S. Kaufman, PhD

      Term January 2023-December 2025

      Professor of Psychiatry; Deputy Chair for Career Development, Psychiatry; Director, The Consultation Center at Yale, Psychiatry; Director, YaleEval, Psychiatry

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    • Farzana Pashankar, MD, MRCP, MBBS

      Term September 2023-Septmenber 2026

      Professor of Pediatrics (Hematology/Oncology); Fellowship Director, Pediatric Hematology & Oncology Program; Director, Solid Tumor Program, Pediatric Hematology & Oncology Program; Children's Oncology Group Site PI, Pediatric Hematology & Oncology Program

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    • Bohdan Pomahac, MD

      Term January 2025-December 2027

      Frank F. Kanthak Professor of Surgery (Plastics); Chief, Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery; Professor, Surgery

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    • Leslie M. Rickey, MD, MPH

      Term January 2025-December 2027

      Professor; Vice Chair, Faculty Affairs, Urology; Fellowship Director, Urogynecology and Pelvic Reconstructive Surgery, Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences

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    • Alexa Siddon, MD

      Term January 2025-December 2027

      Professor of Laboratory Medicine; Hematopathology Fellowship Director, Laboratory Medicine; Director, Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory, Laboratory Medicine; Director, Flow Cytometry, Laboratory Medicine; Associate Director, Hematology Laboratory, Laboratory Medicine

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  • Term Appointments & Promotions Committee (Academic Clinician track)

    • Samuel Ball, PhD

      Committee Co-Chair

      Harold W. Jockers Professor of Psychiatry; Deputy Dean for Academic Affairs; Deputy Dean for Academic Affairs, OAPD

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    • Jonathan N Grauer, MD

      Committee Co-Chair

      Professor of Orthopaedics & Rehabilitation; Associate Dean, Faculty Affairs; Director of Orthopaedic Spine Service, Orthopaedics & Rehabilitation; Associate Vice-Chair Research, Orthopaedics & Rehabilitation

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    • Ada Fenick, MD

      Term January 2025-December 2027

      Professor of Pediatrics (General Pediatrics); Editor, Yale Primary Care Pediatrics Curriculum; Associate Director for Pediatrics, Medical School Clerkship in Biopsychosocial Approach to Health; Medical Student Coach, Medical Education; Medical Director, School Based Health Centers, Pediatrics; Medical Director, Medical-Legal Partnership Project

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    • Maryellen Flaherty-Hewitt, MD

      Term January 2024-December 2026

      Professor of Pediatrics (General Medicine); Medical Director of Pediatric Primary Care; Vice Chair for Faculty Affairs and Professional Development, Pediatrics

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    • Benjamin Mba, MBBS

      Term January 2025-December 2027

      Professor of Medicine (General Medicine); Vice Chair, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Department of Internal Medicine; Graduate Medical Education Director for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion & Associate Designated Institutional Official, Yale New Haven Hospital & Yale School of Medicine

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    • Michael Medvecky, MD

      Term January 2025-December 2027

      Professor of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation; Head Team Physician & Head Orthopaedic Surgeon WNBA CT Sun Women's basketball team, Yale Orthopaedics, Mohegan Sun

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    • Stephen Thung

      Term January 2025-December 2027

      Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences; Vice Chair, Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences

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  • TACBS Appointments & Promotions Committee

    • Nancy J. Brown, MD

      Tenure Appointments Committee Co-Chair

      Jean and David W. Wallace Dean of the Yale School of Medicine and C.N.H. Long Professor of Internal Medicine

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    • Karen Anderson, PhD

      Term Fall 2025-Spring 2027

      Professor of Pharmacology and of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry; Co-Leader, Developmental Therapeutics, Yale Cancer Center; Co-Director Therapeutics/Chemotherapy Program

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    • Ronald Breaker, PhD, BS

      Biological Sciences Area Chair

      Sterling Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology; Chair, Dept Basic Science: Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry

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    • Charles Greer, PhD

      Term Fall 2024-Spring 2026

      Professor of Neurosurgery and of Neuroscience; Co Vice Chair of Research, Neurosurgery; Director, Interdepartmental Neuroscience Graduate Program

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    • Ifat Levy, PhD

      Term Fall 2025-Spring 2027

      Elizabeth Mears and House Jameson Professor of Comparative Medicine and Vice Chair for Diversity, Inclusion and Equity; Co-director, Science Fellows Program

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