Fourteen faculty members recognized with promotions, awards of tenure

Fourteen UTHealth Houston School of Dentistry faculty members have been recognized with promotions and/or awards of tenure, effective Sept. 1.

Recipients are as follows:

• Asneiry A. Aponte, DDS, MS (promotion of professor)
  Department of Restorative Dentistry and Periodontics
• Gisela V. Bona, DDS, MS (promotion of professor)
  Department of Pediatric Dentistry
• Donald P. Butler, DDS (recognition of professor emeritus)
  Katz Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
• Kathy A. Gibson, DDS (promotion of professor)
  Department of General Practice and Dental Public Health
• Issa Hanna, DDS (promotion to professor)
  Katz Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
• Khairunisa Hashmani, RDH, EdD (promotion to associate professor)
  Department of Periodontics and Dental Hygiene
• Yonca Korkmaz Ceyhan, DDS, PhD (promotion of professor)
  Department of Restorative Dentistry and Prosthodontics
• Chun-Teh Lee, DDS, DMSc, MS (promotion to professor, award of tenure)
  Department of Periodontics and Dental Hygiene
• Jose M. Marchena, DMD, MD (promotion to professor)
  Katz Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
• Alan L. Myers, PharmD, PhD, RPh (promotion to professor)
  Department of Diagnostic and Biomedical Sciences
• Noriaki Ono, DDS, PhD (promotion to professor)
  Department of Diagnostic and Biomedical Sciences
• Daher A. Queiroz, DDS, MS, PhD (promotion to associate professor)
  Department of Restorative Dentistry and Prosthodontics
• Ben F. Warner, DDS, MD, MS (award of tenure)
  Department of General Practice and Dental Public Health
• Simon W. Young, DDS, MD, PhD (promotion to professor)
  Katz Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

Dean John A. Valenza, DDS, announced the promotions on July 29 during his faculty update at the annual summer retreat.