We Celebrate Faculty Member Promotions

Congratulations to the following 32 Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University (CCLCM) faculty members who were recently promoted from either assistant or associate professor, effective Jan. 1, 2026:

Shahnawaz Amdani, MD
Associate Professor, Pediatrics

Kewal Asosingh, PhD
Professor, Molecular Medicine

Paolo Caimi, MD|
Professor, Medicine

Olga Cherepanova, PhD
Associate Professor, Molecular Medicine

Hod Dana, PhD
Associate Professor, Molecular Medicine

Darlene Floden, PhD
Associate Professor, Neurology

Fatema Ghasia, MD
Professor, Ophthalmology

Raza Hoda, MD
Associate Professor, Pathology

Amy Joehlin-Price, MD
Associate Professor, Pathology

Asha Kallianpur, MD
Professor, Molecular Medicine

Sandeep Khanna, MD
Associate Professor, Anesthesiology

Phuc Le, PhD
Associate Professor, Medicine

Christina Lindenmeyer, MD
Associate Professor, Medicine

Ignacio Fernández Mata, PhD
Associate Professor, Molecular Medicine

Adam McShane, PhD
Associate Professor, Pathology

Benjamin T. Miller, MD
Associate Professor, Surgery

Wadad Mneimneh, MD
Associate Professor, Pathology

Alireza Mohammadi, MD
Professor, Neurological Surgery

Rohit Moudgil, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Medicine

Craig Nielsen, MD
Professor, Medicine

Joshua Polster, MD
Professor, Radiology

Pablo Recinos, MD
Professor, Neurological Surgery

Julie Rennison, PhD
Assistant Professor, Molecular Medicine

Fariba Rezaee, MD
Professor, Pediatrics

Daniel Rotroff, PhD
Associate Professor, Medicine

Iris Smith, PhD
Assistant Professor, Molecular Medicine

Heidi Szugye, DO
Associate Professor, Pediatrics

Li Wang, PhD
Professor, Molecular Medicine

Tom Kai Ming Wang, MD
Associate Professor, Medicine

Zhong (Irene) Wang, PhD
Professor, Neurology

Jennifer Yu, MD, PhD
Professor, Radiation Oncology

Gloria Zhang, MD
Associate Professor, Pathology

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

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

We applaud these 32 faculty members who invested the time and effort 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 CCLCM Faculty Affairs Promotions to learn more. All applications are submitted online via our portal. There is no deadline for submitting a promotion application.