14 faculty receive tenure, promotions, emeritae appointments

Karen F. Novak, DDS, MS, PhD, poses with her certificate recognizing her appointment as faculty emerita. Photo by Kyle Rogers.

Fourteen UTHealth Houston School of Dentistry faculty members have been recognized with awards of tenure, promotions, and appointments of faculty emerita, effective Sept. 1. Three faculty members were awarded tenure, four were promoted to professor, five were promoted to associate professor, and two were named faculty emerita.

The recipients are:

Award of tenure

• Ji Wook Jeong, DMD, MSD
  Department of Endodontics
• Seiko S. Min, DDS, PhD, MS
  Department of Periodontics and Dental Hygiene
• Ana C. Candia Solari Neumann, DDS, MPH, PhD
  Department of General Practice and Dental Public Health

Promotions to professor

• Roger Arce, DDS, MS, PhD
  Department of Periodontics and Dental Hygiene
• Oluwabunmi “Bunmi” Tokede, BDS, MPH, DMSc
  Department of Diagnostic and Biomedical Sciences
• Sridhar V.K. Eswaran, BDS, MS, MSD
  Department of Periodontics and Dental Hygiene
• Maria D. Gonzalez, DDS, MS
  Department of Restorative Dentistry and Prosthodontics

Promotions to associate professor

• Elham Abbassi, DDS
  Department of General Practice and Dental Public Health
• Alfredo R. Arribas, DDS, MS
  Katz Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
• Marie Latortue, DDS, MS
  Department of General Practice and Dental Public Health
• Raha K. Naderi, RDH, MEd
  Department of Periodontics and Dental Hygiene
• Zhen Shen, PhD, DMD, MSD
  Department of Endodontics

Faculty emerita

• Karen F. Novak, DDS, MS, PhD
  Department of Periodontics and Dental Hygiene
• Rena N. D’Souza, DDS, MS, PhD
  Department of Diagnostic and Biomedical Sciences

Dean John A. Valenza, DDS, announced the tenure awards, promotions, and emerita appointments during the annual summer faculty retreat on July 24.