The University of Toledo Board of Trustees approved 56 faculty members for promotion and tenure at its April meeting.
There were 22 faculty members who received tenure or tenure with promotion and another 34 were promoted to professor or associate professor.
“The University of Toledo and the Office of the Provost prioritizes the success of our faculty and our students,” said Dr. Scott Molitor, interim provost and executive vice president for academic affairs. “We are immensely proud to recognize this year’s cohort of faculty members who have advanced through the tenure and promotion process, and to celebrate their accomplishments in teaching, research and service.”
The faculty members who received tenure are:
College of Medicine and Life Sciences
• Dr. Eric Carlson, Clinical Educator Track, Surgery
• Dr. Lori DeShetler, Medical Education
• Dr. Adel Maklad, Medical Education
• Dr. Bindu Menon, Medical Education
• Dr. Tomoaki Ogino, Medical Microbiology and Immunology
Faculty members who received tenure and promotion to associate professor are:
College of Arts and Letters
• Dr. Ayendy Bonifacio Peralta, English Language and Literature
• Dr. Rachel Dudley, Women’s and Gender Studies
• Dr. Xianlin Jin, Communication and Media
• Dr. Rebecca Monteleone, Disability Studies
• Dr. Michael Stauch Jr., History
John B. and Lillian E. Neff College of Business and Innovation
• Dr. Hao-Wei Chen, Info Systems and Supply Chain Management
• Dr. Tyler Hancock, Marketing
• Dr. Elizabeth Napier, Marketing
College of Engineering
• Dr. Dae-Wook Kang, Civil and Environmental Engineering
College of Health and Human Services
• Dr. Susan Long, Human Services
• Dr. Leslie Neyland-Brown, Human Services
College of Medicine and Life Sciences
• Dr. Shi-He Liu, Cell and Cancer Biology
College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
• Dr. Funda Gultepe, Mathematics and Statistics
• Dr. Trisha Spanbauer, Environmental Sciences
College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
• Dr. Erin Prestwich, Medicinal and Biological Chemistry
Faculty members who received tenure and promotion to professor are:
College of Health and Human Services
• Dr. Beth Hatkevich, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences
• Dr. Alexia Metz, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences.
The faculty members who achieved promotion to associate professor are:
• College of Law: Associate Professor Eugenio Mollo Jr.; Associate Professor Kelly Tomlinson.
• College of Medicine and Life Sciences: Dr. Zahra Aftab, Family Medicine; Dr. Hend Elsaghir, Medicine; Dr. Mona Hassan, Medicine; Dr. Brooke Koltz, Pathology; Dr. Sarmed Mansur, Medicine; Dr. M. Hammad Rashid, Community Based Track, Medicine; Dr. Paul Schultz, Family Medicine; Dr. Shawna Shafer, Community Based Track, Pediatrics; Dr. Nicholas Sperling, Radiation Oncology; Dr. Sharon Thomas, Community Based Track, Pediatrics; and Dr. Heather Wahl, Community Based Track, Obstetrics and Gynecology.
The faculty members who achieved promotion to professor are:
• College of Arts and Letters: Dr. Anthony Edgington, English Language and Literature; and Dr. Olman Piedra, Music.
• John B. and Lillian E. Neff College of Business and Innovation: Dr. Marcelo Alvarado Vargas, Management.
• College of Engineering: Dr. Lesley Berhan, Mechanical Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering; Dr. Carmen Cioc, Engineering Technology; Dr. Jared Oluoch, Engineering Technology; and Dr. Hossein Sojoudi, Mechanical Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering.
• College of Health and Human Services: Dr. Caroline Menezes, Exercise & Rehabilitation Sciences; Dr. Jennifer Reynolds, Human Services; and Dr. Heather Sloane Cleary, Human Services.
• College of Medicine and Life Sciences: Dr. Arun Anantharam, Neurosciences and Psychiatry; Dr. Humphrey Atiemo, ProMedica Practitioner Track, Urology; Dr. Viviana Ferreira, Medical Education; Dr. Anu Garg, Medicine; Dr. Ellen Hagopian, Medical Education; Dr. Andrea Kalinoski, Surgery; Dr. David Kennedy, Medicine; Dr. Jeremy Laukka, Medical Education; Dr. David Pearson, Radiation Oncology; and Dr. Eileen Quinn, Pediatrics.
• College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences: Dr. Gabriella Baki, Pharmacy Practice.
