Research Faculty

Below is the college's research faculty by their area of research. Please visit the Research Faculty Directory for an alphabetical listing.

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Cancer

• Aguayo, Samuel – Lung Diseases, Lung Cancer Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Pulmonary Medicine.
• Ammanamanchi, Sudhakar – RON Kinase, Cancer.
• Goldman, Stewart – Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Brain Tumors.
• Hastings, Karen – Skin cancer, Immunology, Dermatology, Autoimmunity.
• Herbst-Kralovetz, Melissa – Women's Health, Vaginal Microbiome, Innate Mucosal Immunity.
• Kannadath, Bijun Sai – Patient Outcomes, Gastroenterology, Hepatology.
• Kim, Suwon – Tumor Suppressor Genes, Neuroblastoma, Lung Cancer.
• Marlowe, Tim – Therapeutic Discovery, Molecular Analysis.
• Milas, Mira – Thyroid Cancer, Endocrine Surgery (Adrenal, Thyroid, Parathyroid), Endocrine Diseases.
• Otto, Mario – Oncology, Hematology, Immunotherapy
• Sharma, Shalini – Pre-MRNA Splicing, Acute Myeloid Leukemia.
• Zhao, Xianfeng – Lymphoma, B-Cell, Hematologic Malignancies, Biomarkers Discovery.

Cardiovascular

• Agarwal, Sumit – Medical Technology, Heart Failure.
• Dai, Zhiyu – Vascular Biology, Pulmonary Hypertension.
• Doroudgar, Shirin – Cardiovascular Biology, Proteostasis, Endoplasmic Reticulum.
• Gladysheva, Inna – Cardiomyopathy, Heart Failure.
• Glembotski, Chris – Heart Disease.
• Gonzales, Rayna – Cardiovascular Disease, Stroke.
• Gopalan, Radha – Transplant Cardiology, Heart Failure, Cardiovascular Diseases.
• Hale, Taben – Cardiovascular Pharmacology, Hypertension, Sexual Dysfunction.
• Jakobi, Tobias – Bioinformatics, Circular RNAs, Computational Cardiology.
• Lee, Won Hee – Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), Environmental Toxicology, Cardiovascular Disease Modeling.
• Migrino, Raymond – Cardiovascular Diseases, Alzheimer's Disease.
• Morris, Michael – Radiology.
• Reaven, Peter – Vascular Diseases, Insulin Resistance, Dyslipidemia, Diabetes, Cardiovascular Diseases.
• Reed, Guy – Thromboembolism, Stroke, Heart Failure.
• Saleem, Sofiyan – Thromboembolism, Stroke, Myocardial Infarction, Cerebral Ischemic Injury.
• Sista, Ramachandra – Pulmonary Vascular Disease, Lung Transplantation, Heart-Lung Transplantation, Critical Care Medicine.
• Su, Wilber – Heart Rhythm Disorders, Electrophysiology, Cardiovascular Diseases.
• Sullivan, Ryan – Translational Research, Thrombosis, Heart Failure, Cardiomyopathy.
• Tung, Roderick - Cardiac Electrophysiology.
• Wang, Dong – Cardiovascular System.
• Weiss, Jonathan – Electrophysiology, Cardiovascular Diseases.
• Woosley, Raymond – C-Path, Data Analytics, Biomedical Informatics.

Infectious Diseases

• Celaya, Melisa – Epidemiology.
• Fallon, Michael – Hepatology.
• Gustin, Kurt – Virology.
• Hayden, John – Lung Disease, Immunology, Genetics, Cell Biology.
• Kala, Mrinalini – Flow Cytometry, Biobank, Immunology, Host-Pathogen Interaction, Autoimmunity, Cancer.
• Knox, Kenneth – Microbiology, Immunology, Host-Pathogen Interface, Immunologic Lung Disease.
• Lieberman, Steven – Endocrinology.
• Rangan, Pooja – Epidemiology, Biostatistics.
• Standley, Paul – Medical Education, Connective Tissue Biology, Musculoskeletal, Biomechanics.
• Wong, Mark – Liver Cirrhosis, Hepatocellular Cancer, Hepatitis C, Hepatitis B, Autoimmune Liver Diseases.

Neuroscience

• Akhter, Murtaza – Traumatic Brain Injury, Emergency Medicine.
• Chung, Steve – Therapeutic Intervention, Epilepsy.
• Ferguson, Deveroux – Major Depression, Epigenetic Mechanisms, Stress.
• Fisher, Rebecca E. – Anatomy, Morphology, Developmental Disabilities, Aging Diseases.
• Franz, Douglas – Therapeutic Intervention, Strokes, Neuronal Protection.
• Gallitano, Amelia – Schizophrenia, Stress, Neurogenomics.
• Hammer, Ron – Stress, Schizophrenia, Substance Use Disorder.
• Kruer, Michael – Pediatric Movement Disorders, Cerebral Palsy, Neurogenetics.
• Law, L. Matthew – Traumatic Brain Injury.
• Lawton, Michael T. – Neurosurgery.
• Lee-Iannotti, Joyce – REM Sleep Behavior Disorder, Narcolepsy.
• Lifshitz, Jonathan – Traumatic Brain Injury.
• Manriquez-Sanchez, Maria – Substance Use Disorder in Pregnant Women.
• Nakaji, Peter – Neurosurgical Inventions, Cerebrovascular Surgery, Brain Tumors, Brain Disorders, Aneurysm.
• Nathan, Rohit – Transplant Hepatology, Liver Disease, Gastroenterology.
• Payne, Jeremy – Stroke, Neurology.
• Qiu, Shenfeng – Developmental Neurobiology, Autism, Epilepsy.
• Shefner, Jeremy M. – Neurology, Biomarkers discovery, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.
• Sattler, Rita – ALS, Frontotemporal Dementia, Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells.
• Stokes, Ashley – Neurological Disorders, Magnetic Resonance Imaging , Imaging Biomarkers, Alzheimer's Disease.
• Sunenshine, Peter – Neuroradiology, Neurology.
• Tariot, Pierre – Alzheimer's Disease.
• Taylor, Z. Nathan - Gene Expression, PTSD
• Thomas, Theresa Currier – Translational Neurotrauma Research Program, Traumatic Brain Injury.
• Vladimirov, Vladimir - Neuropsychiatric Disorders, Addiction Medicine
• Wang, Norman – Immunotherapy, Epilepsy.
• Wu, Jie – Nicotine Receptors, Epilepsy, Neurodegenerative Diseases, Substance Use Disorder.

Other

• Agarwal, Nimit – Geriatrics, Palliative Care, Electronic Medical Record.
• Ardiles, Thomas – Pulmonary Rehabilitation, Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive, Asthma.
• Beyda, David H. – Bioethics, Global Health.
• Brooks, Daniel – Toxicology, Pharmacology, Molecular Biology, Addiction Medicine.
• Conway, Mandi – Macular Degeneration, Diabetic Retinopathy.
• Curry, Steven – Toxicology, Pharmacology, Hematologic Toxins, Health Outcomes, Emergency Medicine.
• Dudley Jr, Steven – Addiction Medicine, Toxicology.
• Fanous, Ayman – Precision Medicine, Neuropsychiatric Disorders, Health Disparities, Genomics, Genetics, Clinical Psychology.
• Fawcett, Janet – Pharmacology, Biochemistry, Insulin, Research Methodology.
• Gallo, Tyler – Pharmacology.
• Garcia-Filion, Pamela – Epidemiology, Pediatrics, Data Analytics Data Science.
• Garfield, Robert – Labor and Delivery.
• Glowacka, Halszka – Anatomy.
• Goettl, Christopher – Interventional Radiology.
• Goodwin, Scott - Radiology
• Gu, Jian – Microfluidics, Nanofabrication.
• Harman, Sherman Mitchell – Endocrinology and Metabolism, Aging, Gerontology.
• Hartmark-Hill, Jennifer – Preventive Medicine, Bioethics.
• Heise, Will C. – Critical Care Toxicology, Precision Medicine.
• Hustedt, Joshua – Hand Surgery, Orthopedics.
• Iyengar, M. Sriram – Data Science, Community Health.
• Lacombe, Jerome – Radiobiology, Platform Development, Biomarker Discovery.
• Lederman, Evan – Shoulder Surgery, Orthopaedic Sports Medicine.
• Mahnert, Nichole – Stress and Pregnancy, Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery, Chronic Pelvic Pain.
• Martinez, Guadalupe F. – Program Evaluation, Mentoring.
• McKee, Michael – Orthopaedic Surgery.
• Moffitt, Maricela – Medical Education.
• Mourad, Jamal – Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery.
• Pan, Jen-Jung – Transplant Hepatology, Gastroenterology.
• Quan, Dan – Toxicology, Emergency Medicine.
• Raschke, Robert – Venous Thrombosis, Heparin, Electronic Medical Records, Critical Care, Biostatistics.
• Rehman, Shakaib – Electronic Health Records, Clinical Informatics, Internal Medicine, Clinical Hypertension.
• Shirazi, Farshad – Emergency Medicine, Toxicology, Pharmacology.
• Sokan, Amanda – Public Health, Gerontology, Aging.
• Soper, Nathaniel – Laproscopic Surgery.
• Spaite, Daniel – Emergency Medicine.
• Stowell, Jeffrey – Hematology, Emergency Medicine.
• Titelbaum, Anne R. – Biological Anthropology, Anatomy, Paleopathology.
• Urbine, Terry – Telemedicine, Diagnostic Testing, Health Outcomes.
• Veres, Sharry – Family Medicine
• Wassef, Wahid – Pancreatic Diseases, Gastroenterology.
• Zack, Shawn P. – Paleontology, Anatomy.
• Zenhausern, Frederic – Nanobiomedicine, Radiodosimetry.
• Zhang, Weiyang – Cerebrovascular Disease, Molecular Biology, Immunology, Cell Biology.