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Celebrating Faculty Achievement at CU Anschutz

Annual luncheon recognizes faculty earning tenure and promotions in 2026

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by Kiley Carroll | September 23, 2026
Faculty at the Promotion and Tenure Luncheon

On Sept. 17, CU Anschutz faculty gathered to celebrate their academic achievements at the annual Tenure and Promotion Luncheon. Hosted by Chancellor Don Elliman and Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic and Student Affairs, Provost & Chief Academic Officer Laura Borgelt, PharmD, MBA, the event recognized faculty members who earned tenure, received promotions or both.

The annual luncheon celebrates the dedication and accomplishments of CU Anschutz faculty and the expertise, leadership and commitment they bring to the campus community.

"You have demonstrated your deep commitment to teaching, research, leadership, service and clinical care," said Chancellor Elliman. "It is your expertise and contributions that elevate CU Anschutz among the top tier of academic medical campuses and that shape the arc of our future success."

This year, 34 faculty members received tenure and 262 faculty members were promoted, marking significant professional achievements across CU Anschutz.

Borgelt addressed the crowd: “Promotion and tenure are important milestones, but they are not endpoints. They are affirmations of the impact you have already made and of the promise of what is still ahead. I hope you will continue to ask difficult questions, seek progress through incorporating a variety of perspectives, and imagine possibilities that do not yet exist.”

Congratulations to all of this year’s honorees on this well-earned achievement.

Tenured Faculty

Colorado School of Public Health

Elizabeth Brickley, Professor, Department of Epidemiology
Jerreed Ivanich, Associate Professor, Community and Behavioral Health

CU Anschutz College of Nursing

Christine Rael, Associate Professor
Sean Reed, Associate Professor
Denise Smith, Associate Professor

CU Anschutz School of Dental Medicine

Bruce Dye, Professor and Chair, Community Dentistry and Population Health

CU Anschutz School of Medicine

Wendy Armstrong, Professor, Medicine
Marian Betz, Professor, Emergency Medicine
Andrea Bischoff, Professor, Surgery
Kristen Boyle, Professor, Pediatrics
Matthew Decamp, Professor, Medicine
Samuel Dominguez, Professor, Pediatrics
Peter Fecci, Professor, Neurosurgery
Christine Fisher, Professor, Radiation Oncology
Adam Green, Professor, Pediatrics
Jane Higgins, Professor, Medicine
Sujatha Jagannathan, Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics
Jeffrey Moore, Professor, Cell & Developmental Biology
Christian Mosimann, Professor, Pediatrics
Noel Mueller, Professor, Pediatrics
Sean O'Leary, Professor, Pediatrics
Deborah Parra-Medina, Professor, Family Medicine
Sapna Patel, Professor, Medicine
Srinivas Ramachandran, Associate Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics
Julie Siegenthaler, Professor, Pediatrics
Andrea Steck, Professor, Pediatrics
Barbara Stranger, Professor, Biomedical Informatics
Beth Tamburini, Professor, Medicine
Arianne Theiss, Professor, Medicine
John Thompson, Professor, Neurosurgery
Kia Washington, Professor, Surgery
Clyde Wright, Professor, Pediatrics
Edith Zemanick, Professor, Pediatrics

CU Anschutz Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Jackie Bainbridge, Professor, Clinical Pharmacy

Promoted Faculty

Charlotte Farewell, Research Associate Professor, Community & Behavioral Health
Jason Glanz, Clinical Professor, Epidemiology
Elizabeth Juarez-Colunga, Professor, Biostatistics & Informatics
Jini Puma, Professor, Clinical Teaching Track, Community & Behavioral Health
Sarah Schmiege, Research Professor, Biostatistics & Informatics
Liliana Tenney, Associate Professor, Clinical Teaching Track, Environmental & Occupational Health, Center for Health, Work & Environment
Jeanette Waxmonsky, Associate Professor, Clinical Teaching Track, Community & Behavioral Health

Christy Estoll, Assistant Professor
Theresa Nino, Senior Instructor
Leah Rashidyan, Senior Instructor
Jennifer Rosen, Senior Instructor

Emanouela Carlson, Professor, Diagnostic Sciences and Surgical Dentistry
Katherine Chin, Professor, Pediatric Dentistry
Armantine Lehn, Associate Professor, Diagnostic Sciences and Surgical Dentistry

Ahmad Adi, Associate Professor, Psychiatry
Sarah Alber, Associate Professor, Anesthesiology
Lauren Anderson, Associate Professor, Pediatrics
Philip Andreoli, Associate Professor of Clinical Practice, Medicine
Lisa Babayan, Associate Professor of Clinical Practice, OB-GYN
Nazanin Bahraini, Research Professor, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Michelle Barlow, Associate Professor of Clinical Practice, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Joshua Barocas, Professor, Medicine
Meredith Beaton, Associate Professor, Medicine
Elizabeth Bennett, Associate Professor of Clinical Practice, Pediatrics
Lisa Betthauser, Associate Professor, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Alan Bielsky, Professor of Clinical Practice, Anesthesiology
Catherine Bilyeu, Associate Professor, Psychiatry
Benjamin Bitler, Professor, OB-GYN
Audrey Blakeley-Smith, Professor, Psychiatry
Elizabeth Blanchette, Associate Professor, Pediatrics
Ernesto Blanco, Associate Professor of Clinical Practice, Radiology
Aaron Boyles, Associate Professor of Clinical Practice, Orthopedics
Jason Brainard, Professor, Anesthesiology
Sarah Brewer, Associate Professor, Family Medicine
Rory Bricker, Associate Professor, Medicine
Megan Brockel, Professor of Clinical Practice, Anesthesiology
Joseph Brown, Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine
Lindsay Brubaker, Associate Professor, OB-GYN
Andrew Bubak, Associate Professor, Neurology
Emily Bucholz, Associate Professor, Pediatrics
Jessica Bull, Associate Professor of Clinical Practice, Family Medicine
Joseph Burke, Associate Professor, Medicine
Antoinette Burns, Professor of Clinical Practice, Pediatrics
Carlin Callaway, Associate Professor of Clinical Practice, Medicine
Catherine Callister, Associate Professor, Medicine
Jennifer Caragol, Associate Professor, Family Medicine
Aaron Carlson, Associate Professor, Neurology
Elizabeth Chamberlain, Associate Professor, Psychiatry
Stephanie Chassen, Associate Professor, Pediatrics
Richard Clark, Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine
Sarah Clark, Associate Professor, Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
Tracey Clark, Associate Professor of Clinical Practice, Pediatrics
Benjamin Cloyd, Associate Professor, Anesthesiology
Erin Cobry, Associate Professor, Pediatrics
Sandra Cockerham, Professor, Pediatrics
Joanne Cole, Associate Professor, Biomedical Informatics
Bill Colantoni, Associate Professor of Clinical Practice, Radiology
Ronald Colson, Associate Professor of Clinical Practice, Medicine
Amy Connery, Professor, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
James Costello, Professor, Pharmacology
Curtis Coughlin, Professor, Pediatrics
Christina Coughlan, Associate Professor, Neurology
Kasey Couts, Associate Professor, Medicine
Patrick Cripe, Associate Professor of Clinical Practice, Pediatrics
Fabrice Dabertrand, Professor, Anesthesiology
Jaime Daly, Associate Professor, Anesthesiology
Jeffrey Darst, Professor, Pediatrics
Jesse Davidson, Professor, Pediatrics
Kurtis Davies, Associate Professor, Pathology
Khooshbu Dayton, Associate Professor of Clinical Practice, Medicine
Sayan De, Associate Professor, Orthopedics
Luis De La Torre, Professor, Surgery
Lisa Decamp, Professor, Pediatrics
Daniel Denman, Associate Professor, Physiology & Biophysics
Sarkis Derderian, Associate Professor, Surgery
Aken Desai, Associate Professor, Medicine
Liliane Diab, Associate Professor of Clinical Practice, Pediatrics
Christopher Dobbelstein, Associate Professor of Clinical Practice, Psychiatry
Evgenia Dobrinskikh, Associate Professor, Pediatrics
Amanda Doria, Associate Professor, Psychiatry
Kelsey Dougherty, Associate Professor, Pediatrics
Amelia Ehmer, Associate Professor, Psychiatry
Lee Engelbreth, Associate Professor of Clinical Practice, Pediatrics
Kelly Faulk, Associate Professor, Pediatrics
Lauren Fishbein, Professor, Medicine
Curtis Ford, Associate Professor, Pediatrics
Craig Forester, Associate Professor, Pediatrics
Gregory Forlenza, Professor, Pediatrics
Laura Foster, Associate Professor, Neurology
Joseph Frank, Professor, Medicine
Kristin Furfari, Professor, Medicine
Anastacia Garcia, Associate Professor, Pediatrics
Andrew Getahun, Associate Professor, Immunology & Microbiology
Brooke Geyer, Associate Professor of Clinical Practice, Pediatrics
Sarah Gitomer, Associate Professor, Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
Ana Gleisner, Professor, Surgery
Elizabeth Goldberg, Professor, Emergency Medicine
Fabio Grassia, Associate Professor of Clinical Practice, Neurosurgery
Caroline Hall, Associate Professor, Pediatrics
Lynn Hassman, Associate Professor, Ophthalmology
Kellie Hawkins, Associate Professor, Medicine
Emily Hemendinger, Associate Professor, Psychiatry
Andres Henao Martinez, Professor, Medicine
Allison Hicks, Associate Professor, Pediatrics
Joseph Hippensteel, Associate Professor, Medicine
Genevieve Hofmann, Associate Professor of Clinical Practice, OB-GYN
Jason Hoppe, Professor, Emergency Medicine
Peter Hountras, Associate Professor, Medicine
Flavia Hoyte, Professor, Medicine
Jennifer Hranilovich, Associate Professor, Pediatrics
Junxiao Hu, Associate Professor, Pediatrics
Ethan Hughes, Professor, Cell & Developmental Biology
Lauren Hughes, Professor, Family Medicine
Tristan Huie, Professor, Medicine
Kenneth Hunt, Professor, Orthopedics
Jennifer Hyer, Professor of Clinical Practice, OB-GYN
Norah Janosy, Professor of Clinical Practice, Anesthesiology
Pavel Jedlicka, Professor, Pathology
Whitney Jenson, Associate Professor, Surgery
Bernadette Johnson, Professor of Clinical Practice, Pediatrics
Randi Johnson, Associate Professor, Biomedical Informatics
William Jones, Professor, Neurology
Bonnie Jortberg, Professor, Family Medicine
Alma Juels, Professor of Clinical Practice, Anesthesiology
Avash Kalra, Associate Professor, Medicine
Manali Kamdar, Professor, Medicine
Xuan Kang, Associate Professor of Clinical Practice, Neurology
Shannon Kasperbauer, Professor, Medicine
Lesley Kaye, Associate Professor, Neurology
David Khechoyan, Professor, Surgery
Jessica Kenny, Associate Professor, Psychiatry
Alexandra Kilgore, Associate Professor, Pediatrics
Alexandra Kilinsky, Associate Professor, Pediatrics
Adam Kinney, Associate Professor, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Daniel Kramer, Associate Professor, Neurosurgery
Erik Kramer, Associate Professor, Family Medicine
Ann Kulungowski, Professor, Surgery
Claudia Kunrath, Professor of Clinical Practice, Pediatrics
Oren Kupfer, Professor of Clinical Practice, Pediatrics
Christopher Lace, Professor of Clinical Practice, Anesthesiology
Ann Lantagne, Associate Professor, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Nichole Larrea, Associate Professor, OB-GYN
Ryan Leahy, Professor of Clinical Practice, Pediatrics
Chelsea Leonard, Associate Research Professor, Medicine
Suhsun Liu, Associate Research Professor, Ophthalmology
Amy Lopez, Associate Professor, Psychiatry
Nikhil Madhuripan, Associate Professor, Radiology
Bruce Mandt, Associate Professor, Pharmacology
Tessa Mandler, Professor of Clinical Practice, Anesthesiology
Jacob Mark, Associate Professor, Pediatrics
Benjamin Marshall, Associate Professor, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Arianna Martin, Associate Professor, Pediatrics
Blake Martin, Associate Professor, Pediatrics
George Marzloff, Associate Professor, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Linda Matthews, Associate Professor of Clinical Practice, OB-GYN
Sarah Mayson, Professor, Medicine
Amy McKee, Associate Professor, Medicine
Lauren Mehner, Associate Professor, Ophthalmology
Mark Melton, Associate Professor of Clinical Practice, Neurosurgery
Alexander Merkle, Associate Professor, Radiology
Michael Mesches, Associate Research Professor, Pediatrics
Andrea Miele, Associate Professor, Pediatrics
Sarah Milgrom, Professor, Radiation Oncology
Joie Molden, Associate Professor of Clinical Practice, Neurosurgery
Jaime Moore, Associate Professor, Pediatrics
Jeanette Mulcahy Levy, Professor, Pediatrics
Neelanjan Mukherjee, Associate Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics
Aditi Murthy, Associate Professor, Dermatology
Sarah Nagle-Yang, Professor, Psychiatry
Taizo Nakano, Professor, Pediatrics
Sameer Nath, Professor, Radiation Oncology
Ann Navarro-Leahy, Associate Professor of Clinical Practice, Medicine
Nalu Navarro Alvarez, Associate Professor, Surgery
Hannah Neubauer, Associate Professor, Pediatrics
Allison Nitsch, Associate Professor, Medicine
Andrew Novick, Associate Professor, Psychiatry
Scott Oliver, Professor, Ophthalmology
Michael Overbeck, Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine
Mina Pantcheva, Professor, Ophthalmology
Jason Persoff, Professor, Medicine
Christine Petranovich, Associate Professor, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Mark Popenhagen, Professor of Clinical Practice, Anesthesiology
Aaron Powell, Associate Professor, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Robert Pratt, Associate Professor of Clinical Practice, Neurology
Kyle Pronko, Associate Professor, Pediatrics
Janani Ravi, Associate Professor, Biomedical Informatics
Christine Reinhard, Associate Professor of Clinical Practice, Psychiatry
Regina Richards, Associate Professor, Family Medicine
Jessica Ross, Associate Professor, Psychiatry
Benjamin Ross, Associate Professor of Clinical Practice, Pediatrics
Brian Russo, Associate Professor, Immunology & Microbiology
Stephanie Ryder, Associate Professor, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Julia Sanders, Associate Professor, Orthopedics
Jason Sapp, Associate Professor of Clinical Practice, Psychiatry
Scott Saunders, Associate Professor, Medicine
Joseph Schacht, Professor, Psychiatry
Verenea Serrano, Associate Professor, Psychiatry
Animesh Sharma, Associate Professor of Clinical Practice, Pediatrics
Sandhya Sharma, Associate Professor, Medicine
Tushar Sharma, Associate Professor of Clinical Practice, Anesthesiology
Jacqueline Sivahop, Professor, Pediatrics
Katharine Smith, Associate Professor, Pediatrics
Mia Smith, Associate Professor, Pediatrics
Jeffrey Soohoo, Professor, Ophthalmology
Catherine Spaulding, Associate Professor, Medicine
Karen Stenehjem, Associate Professor, Medicine
Jason Stoneback, Professor, Orthopedics
Christina Studts, Professor, Pediatrics
Rachael Tan, Associate Professor, Family Medicine
Elizabeth Tang, Associate Professor, Radiology
Meredith Tennis, Professor, Medicine
Stephanie Tow, Associate Professor, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Meghan Treitz, Professor, Pediatrics
Taylor Triolo, Associate Professor, Pediatrics
Elizabeth Troy, Associate Professor, Pediatrics
Megan Turner, Associate Professor, Pediatrics
Jeffrey Tutman, Associate Professor, Radiology
Katherine Tzou, Professor of Clinical Practice, Radiation Oncology
Lisa Umphrey, Associate Professor, Pediatrics
Laura Vargas, Associate Professor, Psychiatry
Christina Vaughan, Professor, Neurology
Maria Vergara, Associate Professor, Ophthalmology
Scott Vogel, Associate Professor, Anesthesiology
Kathryn Walsh, Associate Professor, Pediatrics
George Wang, Professor, Pediatrics
Jacqueline Ward-Gaines, Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine
Joe Wathen, Professor, Pediatrics
Gregory Way, Associate Professor, Biomedical Informatics
Rachel Weiss, Associate Professor, Medicine
Karen Wendel, Associate Professor, Medicine
Katherine Wesley, Associate Professor, Pediatrics
Michelle West, Associate Professor, Psychiatry
Daniel White, Associate Professor, Family Medicine
Alexandria Wiersma, Associate Professor, Pediatrics
Danielle Wilhour, Associate Professor, Neurology
Nicholas Willard, Associate Professor, Pathology
Venice Williams, Associate Professor, Pediatrics
Amy Willis, Associate Professor of Clinical Practice, Pediatrics
Chelsea Wolf, Associate Professor, Psychiatry
Allison Wolfe, Associate Professor, Medicine
Brian Wolfe, Professor of Clinical Practice, Medicine
Dulcy Wolverton, Professor, Radiology
Joshua Yarrow, Associate Professor, Medicine
Michele Yang, Professor, Pediatrics
Elizabeth Yeung, Professor of Clinical Practice, Pediatrics
Heather Young, Professor, Medicine
Sarah Young, Professor of Clinical Practice, Medicine
Jason Yu, Associate Professor, Surgery
Jason Zamkoff, Professor of Clinical Practice, Pediatrics
Lian Zhang, Associate Professor, Pathology
George Zlotchenko, Associate Professor of Clinical Practice, Radiology

Sarah Billups, Professor, Clinical Teaching Track, Clinical Pharmacy
Kristofer Fritz, Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences
James Roede, Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences
Laura Saba, Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences

Dana Abbey, Teaching Professor, Education & Research Department
Hannah Pollard, Senior Instructor, Education & Research Department
Michelle Schonken, Assistant Teaching Professor, Collection Management Department

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