Wayne State University's annual Employee Recognition Program and Reception, held April 25 in the Community Arts Auditorium of the McGregor Memorial Conference Center, honored 163 members of the School of Medicine family for their years of service, beginning with 10 years of service, and up to 45 years of service. Those who are retiring this year were also recognized.

2017 honorees, listed by years of service:

10 years

Sanjeev Aggarwal
Teneisha Austin
Asfar Azmi
Jessica Back
Jennifer Beebe
Barbara Bosch
Gerald Burns
William Carrington
Wei Chen
Salome Cockern
Kristin Copenhaver
Charnell Cromer
Marie Diebold
Jessica Durkin
Zhiyao Fu
Pooja Gupta
Matthew Hedge
Mohammed Jahania
Hong Jiang
Mustapha Kandouz
Nirupama Kannikeswaran
Robert Kohrman
Anthony Lagina
David Ledgerwood
Todd Lucas
Ljiljana Mladenovic-Lucas
Lawrence Morawa
Patrick Mueller
Girija Natarajan
Stephanie Pandolfi
Kelli Peterman
Holly Pitman
Carla Santiago Martinez
Edward Sendler
Usha Sethuraman
Lisa Staif
Asheesh Tewari
Neelima Thati
Nivedita Tiwari
Lisa Todd
Nadia Tremonti
Stephanie Tucker
Zhihong Wang
Jeffrey Withey
Yi Xu
Zhe Yang
Li Zhou

15 years

Matthew Adams
Elizabeth Berger
Jay Berman
Ricardo Bonfil
Cynthia Burnett
Eugene Cepeda
Anita Chalasani
Po-Jen Chiang
Won Cho
Jeff Clark
Cordell Crutchfield
Alan Dombkowski
Lisa Ellis
Monique Green Jones
Matthew Griffin
Ewart Mark Haacke
Melanie Hanna-Johnson
Wendy Hollon
Hon-Qiang Heng
Oneita Hunt
Michael Joiner
Todd Leff
Nancy Lefkowitz
Ho-Sheng Lin
Leslie Lundahl
Jason Mateika
Hong Meng
Desiree Merriweather
Sharon Michelhaugh
Angulique Outlaw
Zhuo-Hua Pan
Izabela Podgorski
Valerie Ratliff
Marc Rosenthal
Thomas Sanderson
Susan Santer
Wilbur Smith
Gabriel Sosne
Janice Timchuck
Daniel Turner
Natasha Weathers
Huamei Zhang
Senlin Zhou
Yanni Zhuang

20 years

Masumeh Abdolalipour
Elaine Andrade
Cristina Artalejo
Susan Berman
Lisa Blackwell
Sonya Blair
Stephanie Bower
Sreenivasa Chinni
Jonathan Cohn
Karen Collins
Valerie Felder
Thomas Forbes
Kimberly Hart
Mae Henderson
Rachel Huber
Ladislau Kovari
LaTonya Lewis
Li Li
Guo Liu
Anne Mortensen
Charles Schiffer
Assia Shisheva
Sandeep Sood
Deborah Strahan
Jonathon Sullivan
Tamara Taylor
Mary Uryga
Rudolph Valentini
Michael White
LaCema Womack
Jinsheng Zhang

25 years

Ibrahim Abdulhamid
Yinlong Cai
Haiping Chen
Steven Hinderer
Sharon Marshall
Anwar Mohamed
Leah Robinson
Kendra Schwartz
James Selwa
Pamela Szura
Antoinette Wozniak

30 years

Richard Balon
Brenda Batts
Leon Carlock
Joseph Fiore
Richard Humes
Mark Ireland
Ruth Lampkins
Selina Latimore-Hall
Robert Lisak
Ramzi Mohammad
Kamiar Moin
Vickie Muhammad
Yaddanapudi Ravindranath
Robert Ross
Dedra Seay-Scatliffe
Mary Simmons
Debra Skafar
Renee Sun
Kathryn White

35 years

Sheryl MacGillis
Nada McIntyre

40 years

Murray Ehrinpreis
Harry Goshgarian
Jeffrey Ram
Sharada Sarnaik

45 years

Barbara Anderson
Carter Bishop
Anna Ledgerwood
Enrique Ostrea
Milagros Reyes