Anesthesiology

T32 Research Mentor List

Perioperative Organ Protection

Faculty Rank Primary Affiliation Role in Program Research Areas
Mansoureh Eghbali, PhD Professor Anesthesiology Program Director, Mentor Ischemic heart disease and pulmonary hypertension
Tomas Ganz, MD, PhD Professor Medicine (Pulmonary) Mentor Systemic iron homeostasis, hepcidin, anemia, host defense and inflammation
Jean Francois Pittet, MD, DEAA Professor Anesthesiology UAB (UCLA joint appointment) Mentor Traumatic brain injury, acute kidney injury, bacterial pneumonia,
Isidro B. Salusky, MD Professor Nephrology Mentor Chronic kidney disease, pathophysiology of bone diseases
Jerzy Kupiec-Weglinski, MD, PhD Professor Surgery Mentor Liver ischemia/reperfusion Injury
Kalyanam Shivkumar, MD, PhD Professor Medicine (Cardiology) Advisor, Mentor Cardiac electrophysiology /Arrhythmia
Elizabeta Nemeth, PhD Professor Medicine (Pulmonary) Mentor Iron physiology and pathology in pregnancy
Up-and-Coming Faculty
Soban Umar, MD, PhD Associate Professor Anesthesiology Advisor, Junior Mentor Pulmonary hypertension, right heart failure, perioperative cardiopulmonary protection
Louis Saddic, MD, PhD Assistant Professor Anesthesiology Junior Mentor Vascular biology, aneurysm, sex differences

Cardiovascular Pathophysiology

Faculty Rank Primary Affiliation Role in Program Research Areas
Thomas Vondriska, PhD Professor Anesthesiology Advisor, Mentor Epigenetics, chromatin biology, cardiac signaling
Kristina Bostrom, MD, PhD Professor Medicine (Cardiology) Mentor Vascular disease
Hua Linda Cai, MD, PhD Professor Anesthesiology Mentor Cardiovascular pathophysiology
Arjun Deb, MD Professor Medicine (Cardiology) Mentor Fibrosis, tissue repair
Michela Ottolia, PhD Professor Anesthesiology Mentor ion channels and transporters biophysics
Riccardo Olcese, PhD Professor Anesthesiology Advisor, Mentor Ion channels, biophysics, and cardiac arrhythmias
Austin Nakano, MD, PhD Professor Molecular, Cell, & Developmental Biology Mentor Cardiogenesis
Up-and-Coming Faculty
Matthew Fischer, MD Assistant Professor Anesthesiology Junior Mentor Perioperative precision medicine

Neurosciences, Pain and Brain Health

Faculty Rank Primary Affiliation Role in Program Research Areas
Rajesh Kumar, PhD Professor Anesthesiology Mentor Autonomic, cognition, mood, MRI, Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
Ziva Cooper, PhD Associate Professor Psychiatry (Anesthesiology joint appointment) Mentor Cannabinoids, opioids, clinical studies
Baljit Khakh, PhD Professor Physiology Mentor Ion channels, glia and synapses
Linda Liau, MD, PhD Professor Neurosurgery Advisor, Mentor Experimental therapeutics for brain tumors
Siamak Rahman, MD Professor Anesthesiology Mentor Acute pain, enhanced recovery after anesthesia
Catherine Sarkisian, MD, MSPH Professor Medicine (Geriatrics) Mentor Geriatrics, reducing low value care, improving quality,of,life of seniors
Christopher Evans, PhD Professor Psychiatry Mentor Opioid receptors and drugs of abuse, chronic pain
Up and Coming Faculty
Andrew Hudson, MD, PhD Associate Professor Anesthesiology Junior Mentor Mechanisms of anesthesia, neural dynamics during anesthesia, neurophysiology
Matthew S. Vandiver, MD, PhD Assistant Professor Anesthesiology Junior Mentor Perioperative cognitive dysfunction, neuroscience

Biocomputing/Bioengineering and Health Informatics

Faculty Rank Primary Affiliation Role in Program Research Areas
Maxime Cannesson, MD, PhD Professor Anesthesiology Program co-Director, Mentor Cardiovascular physiology, perioperative medicine, machine learning applied to healthcare data, closed loop engineering
Pierre Baldi, PhD Professor Computer Science Mentor Artificial intelligence, statistical machine learning
Eran Halperin, PhD Professor Computer Science (Anesthesiology joint appointment) Mentor computational methods for analysis of genetic, genomic, epigenetic and health care data
Xia Yang, PhD Professor Integrative Biology and Physiology Mentor Multiomics systems biology, complex disease networks
Tzung Hsiai, MD, PhD Professor Bioengineering Mentor Mechano-signal transduction, cardiovascular injury
Eleazar Eskin, PhD Professor Computer Science Mentor Development of statistical/computational methods for the analysis of genetic, genomic, epigenetic and health care data
Up-and-Coming Faculty
Theodora Wingert, MD Assistant Professor Anesthesiology Junior Mentor Machine learning, pediatric anesthesia
Brent Ershoff, MD, MS Assistant Professor Anesthesiology Junior Mentor Machine learning, liver transplantation