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Name/Degree(s) | Rank Primary (& Secondary) | Appointment(s) | Role in Program | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Albers, Kathryn M, PhD | Professor | Medicine-GI (Neurobiology) | Mentor | Cellular and molecular mechanisms of growth factor action on sensor neurons; mechanisms of pain |
Alter, Ben, MD, PhD | Assistant Professor | Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine | Mentor | Translational neuroscience of endogenous analgesia utilizing systems neuroscience and clinical research tools |
Angus, Derek, MD, MPH | Professor and Chair | Critical Care Medicine (Medicine, Health Policy & Management) | Mentor | ICU outcomes, clinical trials |
Billiar, Timothy, MD | Professor and Chair | Surgery | Mentor | Aspects of inflammation and organ injury in settings relevant to trauma and shock |
Birder, Lori A., PhD | Professor | Medicine (Pharmacology & Chemical Biology) | Mentor | Complexities of urinary bladder epithelial (urothelial) cell function and urothelial cell-neuronal interactions; cell signaling and sensory mechanism; pain in urothelium cancer |
Callaway, Clifton W., MD, PhD | Professor | Emergency Medicine (Pharmacology & Chemical Biology, Clinical and Translational Science) | Mentor | Emergency medicine, resuscitation, neurological emergencies, prehospital clinical trials |
Clark, Robert S.B., MD | Professor | Critical Care Medicine (Pediatrics) | Mentor | Neuronal death; apoptosis, autophagy |
Courcoulas, Anita P., MD, MPH | Professor | Surgery | Mentor | Clinical trials and longitudinal studies in bariatric surgery; Translational research investigating adipose tissue changes and intestinal adaptation after gastric bypass surgery |
Cui, Xinyan Tracy, PhD | Professor | Bioengineering | Mentor | Neural electrode-tissue interface, neural tissue engineering, implantable biosensors and drug delivery systems for neurological applications |
Davis, Brian M., PhD | Professor | Medicine (Neurobiology) | Mentor | Growth factor regulation in sensory neurons |
DeFranco, Donald B., PhD | Professor | Pharmacology & Chemical Biology (Neuroscience) | Mentor | Cellular Ca2+ homeostasis as it relates to the pharmacogenetic syndrome; Malignant hyperthermia (MH) |
Fiez, Julie, PhD | Professor | Psychology/Neuroscience | Mentor | Neural basis of language processing, how cognition may be optimized by reinforcement learning signals mediated by the basal ganglia and error-correction signals mediated by the cerebellum |
Gold, Michael S., PhD | Professor | Neurobiology | Executive Committee, Mentor | Peripheral mechanisms of pain |
Homanics, Gregg, PhD | Professor | Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine (Pharmacology & Chemical Biology) | Mentor | Mechanisms of alcohol and anesthetic action |
Howard-Quijano, Kimberly, MD, MS | Associate Professor | Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine | Mentor | Mechanisms and treatment of cardiac arrhythmia |
Ibinson, James, MD, PhD | Associate Professor | Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine | Mentor | Developing brain imaging techniques as biomarkers for pain and perioperative neurocognitive disorder |
Johnson, Jon W., PhD | Professor | Neuroscience | Mentor | Biophysics, pharmacology, and regulation of glutamate receptors |
Kaplan, Daniel H., MD, PhD | Professor | Dermatology (Immunology) | Mentor | How immune cells and non-immune cells interact in the development of both innate and adaptive immune responses that provide host protection and also drive autoimmunity |
Kaynar, A Murat, MD, MPH | Associate Professor | Critical Care Medicine (Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine) | Mentor | Resolution of inflammation; Zinc and other trace metals in inflammation; Matrix metalloproteinases; Acute respiratory distress syndrome and sepsis; Big data in perioperative medicine |
Kellum, John, MD | Professor | Critical Care Medicine (Medicine, Bioengineering and Clinical & Translational Science) | Mentor | Mechanisms of organ failure in sepsis and strategies to reduce organ injury; Acute renal failure/acute kidney injury; hemofiltration in the treatment of multiple organ dysfunction and systemic inflammatory response; shock and resuscitation; biomarkers; bioengineering |
Kochanek, Patrick M., MD | Professor and Vice Chair | Critical Care Medicine (Pediatrics; Anesthesiology) | Mentor | Traumatic brain injury, Pediatric neurointensive care and cerebral resuscitation: CTRC Associate Director |
Koerber, H. Richard, PhD | Professor | Neurobiology | Mentor | Development, plasticity and pain processing in sensory neurons and in the spinal dorsal horn |
Koes, David, PhD | Associate Professor | Computational & Systems Biology | Mentor | Computational drug discovery, machine learning, structure-based drug design |
Lim, Grace, MD, MS | Associate Professor | Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine | Mentor | Obstetric anesthesia and perinatology; pain management in special populations; hemodynamic physiology interactions with perinatal outcomes |
Lo, Cecilia, PhD | F. Sargent Cheever Chair & Professor | Developmental Biology | Mentor | Elucidating the genetic causes and developmental mechanisms of human congenital heart disease |
Lu, Binfeng, PhD | Associate Professor | Immunology | Mentor | Discovery of novel molecular and cellular pathways regulating key steps of T cell-mediated immune responses in antitumor immunity and autoimmunity |
Merlin, Jessica, MD, PhD, MBA | Professor | Medicine | Mentor | Chronic pain and opioid misuse and opioid use disorder across populations and settings |
Neal, Matthew D., MD | Associate Professor | Surgery | Mentor | Mechanisms of hemostasis and thrombosis with an emphasis on the role of platelet innate immune function |
Pinsky, Michael, MD | Professor | Critical Care Medicine | Mentor | Unsolved problems in the treatment of various cardiopulmonary insufficiency states |
Ritter, Marsha, MD, PhD | Assistant Professor | Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine | Mentor | Cellular and molecular mechanisms of nonpeptidergic sensory neurons in neuroimmune communication |
Sadhasivam, Senthil, MD, MPH, MBA | Professor | Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine | Mentor | Improving perioperative outcomes, opioid pharmacogenetics and personalizing pain management, opioid-sparing analgesia, opioid use disorder in pregnancy |
Strick, Peter L., PhD | Professor | Neurobiology (Neurological Surgery; Psychiatry; Biological Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University) | Mentor | Control of voluntary movement by the cerebral cortex |
Tang, Pei, PhD | Professor | Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine (Pharmacology & Chemical Biology; Computational & Systems Biology) | Mentor | Action of low-affinity drugs (general anesthetics and alcohols) on neurotransmitter-gated receptor channels |
Taylor, Bradley, PhD | Professor | Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine | Mentor | Neurobiology and pharmacology of chronic pain and opioid dependence |
Vodovotz, Yoram, PhD | Professor | Surgery (Computational & Systems Biology; Bioengineering; Immunology) | Mentor | Computational and systems biology approaches aimed at deciphering the acute inflammatory response in critical illness |
Vogt, Keith, MD, PhD | Associate Professor | Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine | Mentor | Perioperative neuroscience; neural circuits underlying pain and memory; functional MRI |
Wasan, Ajay, MD, MSc | Professor | Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine (Psychiatry) | Mentor | Tracking pain treatment outcomes using electronic records, mechanism-based treatment studies of negative affect in pain, quantitative sensory testing, functional MRI, preventing prescription opioid misuse in patients with chronic pain |
Waters, Jonathan, MD | Professor | Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine (Biomedical Engineering) | Mentor | Blood cell tolerance to mechanical shear stress |
Williams, Brian A., MD | Professor | Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine | Mentor | Multimodal anesthesia, analgesia, and antiemesis |
Xu, Yan, PhD | Professor | Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine (Pharmacology & Chemical Biology; Physics & Astronomy; Structural Biology) | Program Director, Mentor | Molecular mechanisms underlying the actions of nonspecific drugs on ligand-gated neuronal receptors in their membrane environment |
Yoshimura, Naoki, MD, PhD | Professor | Urology (Pharmacology & Chemical Biology) | Mentor | Neural pathways that control the lower urinary tract after spinal cord injury |