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May 2025 Appointments & Promotions

Please congratulate these faculty members on their appointments and promotions approved in May 2025.

Approved by school-specific APT committees, the Executive Committee, the Provost’s Office, and the President’s Office. Effective date for promotions: Sept. 1, 2025. * denotes pending tenure approval by the Board of Regents.  

Professors

Melissa DeFilippis, MD 
Promoted to Professor (Non-Tenure Track)
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
John Sealy School of Medicine

Associate Professors

Touka Banaee, MD
Movement to Tenure Track
Department of Opthalmology and Visual Sciences
John Sealy School of Medicine