2025 School of Medicine faculty promotions and tenure

The University of Missouri Offices of the President and Provost recently hosted a celebratory reception for faculty members who received promotions and/or tenure in the 2024-25 academic year.

Congratulations to the following individuals from the Mizzou School of Medicine and we thank them for their commitment and service to the medical school.

Associate professor, awarded tenure

• Jorge Gomez-Gutierrez, PhD, Pediatrics

Promoted to associate professor and awarded tenure

• Mirna Becevic, PhD, MHA, FAMIA, Dermatology

Promoted to professor (tenured)

• Timothy Domeier, PhD, Medical Pharmacology and Physiology
• Laura C. Schulz, PhD, Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women’s Health

NTT candidates promoted to associate professor

• Mary Bernardin, MD, Emergency Medicine
• Chantelle Bozynski, DVM, MSC, DACVP, Orthopaedic Surgery
• Carmen Cirstea, MD, PhD, FAHA, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
• Benjamin Crenshaw, MD, Family and Community Medicine
• Steven DeFroda, MD, Orthopaedic Surgery
• Elizabeth Early, MD, Otolaryngology
• Krystal Foster, MD, Family and Community Medicine
• Eric Johannesen, DO, Pathology and Anatomical Sciences
• Kuanysh Kabytaev, PhD, Pathology and Anatomical Sciences
• Shady Adib Keleh, MD, Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
• Whitney LeFevre, MD, Family and Community Medicine
• Aaron Miller, MD, Medicine
• Kihoon Nam, PhD, Otolaryngology
• Taylor Nelson, DO, Medicine
• Van Nguyen, MD, Pathology and Anatomical Sciences
• Catherine Parker, MD, Emergency Medicine
• Casey Sevy, DO, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
• Shyam Shankar, MD, Medicine
• Josh Smothers, MD, Family and Community Medicine
• Patrick Tassone, MD, Otolaryngology
• Wesley Thompson, PsyD, Psychiatry
• Abbie Wright, MD, Emergency Medicine

NTT candidates promoted to professor

• Michael Gardner, MD, Medicine
• Jonathan Heidt, MD, Emergency Medicine
• Daniel Hoernschemeyer, MD, Orthopaedic Surgery
• George Koburov, MD, Emergency Medicine
• Naveen Pokala, MD, Surgery
• Christian Rojas-Moreno, MD, Medicine
• Manjamalai Sivaraman, MD, Neurology
• Robert Wissman, MD, Radiology