The West Virginia University School of Medicine recently announced the faculty promotions for 2026. A total of 91 faculty members from 31 departments across the School of Medicine’s three campuses were awarded associate professor or professor status. See the full list of awarded faculty below:
Anesthesiology
- Erik Olness, MD – Associate Professor
- Michael Russell, MD – Associate Professor
- Christopher Deskins, MD – Associate Professor
- Richard Vaglienti, MD, MBA – Professor
- Jonathan Bond, DO – Associate Professor
- Mir Ali Abbas Khan, MD – Associate Professor
- Arpan Kohli, MD – Professor
- Rebekah Guillow, MD – Associate Professor
Behavioral Medicine and Psychiatry
- Nathan Ernst, PsyD – Associate Professor
- Deep Yadava, MD – Associate Professor
- Paramjit Chumber, MD – Associate Professor
- Jeremy Hustead, MD – Associate Professor
- Alexandria Perle, PsyD – Associate Professor
Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine
- Bradley Webb, PhD – Associate Professor
Cardiology
- Daniel Brito Guzman, MD – Associate Professor
- Vikrant Jagadeesan, MD – Associate Professor
Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery
- Jason Lamb, MD – Associate Professor
- Adam Hansen, MD – Associate Professor
Charleston Behavioral Medicine
- Adina Bowe, MD – Associate Professor
Charleston Internal Medicine
- Muhammad Bashir, MD – Associate Professor
- Amna Anees, MD – Associate Professor
- Khawaja Omar, MD – Associate Professor
Charleston Internal Medicine Critical Care
- Rayan Ihle, MD – Professor
Charleston Pediatrics
- Sana Farooki, MD – Associate Professor
- Kanya Ahuja, MD – Associate Professor
- Neil Copeland, MD – Associate Professor
Dermatology
- Erica Ghareeb, MD – Professor
Eastern Division
- Jason Turner, MD – Associate Professor
Eastern Division Family Medicine
- William Lewis, MD – Professor
- Madison Humerick, MD – Associate Professor
- Angela Cherry, MD, MBA – Associate Professor
Emergency Medicine
- James Scheidler, MD – Associate Professor
- Anthony Steratore, MD – Associate Professor
Family and Community Medicine
- Robert Allison, DO – Associate Professor
- Joseph Capito, MD – Associate Professor
- Michael Maroon, DO – Associate Professor
Human Performance
- Ashley Simmons, MBA – Associate Professor
- Valeriya Gritsenko, PhD – Professor
- Sergiy Yakovenko, PhD – Professor
- Anna Coy, PhD – Associate Professor
- Jacob Greenfield, OTD – Associate Professor
Human Performance Disability Studies
- Amy Burt, EdD – Professor
Medical Education
- Anna Lama, EdD – Associate Professor
Medical Oncology
- Bhavana “Tina” Bhatnagar, DO – Professor
- Konstantinos Sdrimas, MD, MBA – Associate Professor
- Mohammed Almubarak, MD – Professor
- Sonikpreet Aulakh, MBBS, MD – Associate Professor
- Nour Daboul, MD – Associate Professor
Medicine
- Smita Kumar, MD – Associate Professor
- Eric Huang, MD – Associate Professor
- Lindsay Kasson, DO – Associate Professor
- Matthew “Skip” Krafft Jr., MD – Associate Professor
- Leonard Maier, MD – Associate Professor
- Daphne-Dominique Villanueva, MD – Associate Professor
- Bharath Bhushan, MD – Associate Professor
- Jessica Johnson, MD – Associate Professor
- Katherine Seachrist, MD – Associate Professor
- Shailendra Singh, MD – Professor
- David Shi, MD – Associate Professor
Microbiology Immunology and Cell Biology
- Gangqing “Michael” Hu, PhD – Associate Professor
- F. Heath Damron, PhD – Professor
- Mariette Barbier, PhD – Professor
Neurology
- Appaji Rayi, MD – Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor
- Elizabeth McQuade, MD – Associate Professor
- Matthew Smith, MD, MS – Professor
Neuroradiology
- Dhairya Lakhani, MD – Associate Professor
- Parissa Feizi, MD – Associate Professor
Obstetrics and Gynecology
- Kayla Pomp-Steurer, CNM, APRN – Assistant Professor
- Omar Duenas, MD – Professor
Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
- Ghassan Ghorayeb, MD, MBA – Professor
- Kevin Halenda, MD – Associate Professor
Orthopaedics
- Colleen Watkins, MD – Professor
- Benjamin Frye, MD – Professor
Otolaryngology
- Steven Coutras, MD – Professor
- Hussein Jaffal, MD – Associate Professor
- Chadi Makary, MD, MS – Professor
Pathology Anatomy and Laboratory Medicine
- Cara Randall, MD – Associate Professor
- Jianbo Yang, PhD – Associate Professor
- Subit Barua, PhD – Associate Professor
Pediatrics
- Rafka Chaiban, MD – Associate Professor
- Autumn Kiefer, MD – Professor
- Kacie Kidd, MD – Associate Professor
- Kamakshya Patra, MD – Professor
- David Thomas, MD, PhD – Associate Professor
- Nancy Brunner, MD – Associate Professor
- Veronica Godsey, MD – Associate Professor
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
- Corinne Layne-Stuart, DO – Associate Professor
Surgery
- Kimberly Bailey, MD – Associate Professor
- Kerri Woodberry, MD, MBA – Professor
- Alice Race, MD – Associate Professor
Urology
- Ahmed Ali, MD – Associate Professor
To learn more about the faculty at the WVU School of Medicine, visit medicine.hsc.wvu.edu/faculty-staff.