16 Lerner College Faculty Members Promoted

Congratulations to the following Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve Universityfaculty members who were recently promoted from either assistant or associate professor, effective July 1, 2025:

Petar Bajic, MD
Associate Professor, Urology

Lucas Beffa, MD
Associate Professor, Surgery

Steven Bernard, MD
Professor, Plastic Surgery

Paul Bryson, MD
Professor, Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery

Robyn Busch, PhD
Professor, Neurology

Francis Caputo, MD
Professor, Surgery

Feixiong Cheng, PhD
Associate Professor, Molecular Medicine

Kenneth Cummings III, MD
Professor, Anesthesiology

Adeline Hajjar, DVM, PhD
Professor, Molecular Medicine

Jack Khouri, MD
Associate Professor, Medicine

Jacob Kurowski, MD
Associate Professor, Pediatrics

Vinni Makin, MD
Associate Professor, Medicine

Anita Misra-Hebert, MD
Professor, Medicine

Elizabeth Pfoh, PhD
Associate Professor, Medicine

Mary Rensel, MD
Associate Professor, Neurology

David Rosen, MD
Associate Professor, Surgery

Seeking a promotion represents an important step in a faculty member’s career. A promotion demonstrates not only a faculty member’s dedication to teaching, research and professional service but also a commitment to their career and engagement in the profession.

Faculty who are either assistant or associate professors and want to advance must go through a 9 to 18 month-plus promotion cycle. Promotions are approved twice per year, and there are no deadlines to apply.

We applaud these 16 faculty members who took the time to attain their promotion and thank them for the service they provide in developing future physician investigators at CCLCM.

Faculty who wish to be promoted should visit the CCLCM Faculty Affairs Promotions page to learn more. All applications are submitted online via our portal. There is no deadline for submitting a promotion application.