Meet Our Team

Peyman Benharash, MD

Areti Tillou, MD
Director, UCLA CASIT Accredited Education Institute
Assistant Designated Institutional Official, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine
[email protected]
Medical Education
- Associate Program Directors in Surgery
- Assessment of Resident Operative Performance
- Familiarizing Surgeons with Malpractice Litigation
Geriatric Trauma

Maie St. John, MD, PhD
Research Interests
Dr. St. John's research encompasses several areas of translational investigation in head & neck cancer. Dr. St. John's laboratory is interested in understanding the mechanisms of tumor progression and metastasis in head and neck cancer. She and her colleagues are investigating COX-2-dependent gene and protein expression and determining how these modify tumor invasion, angiogenesis, immunity and apoptosis in head & neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC).

Leonard S. Marks, MD
Prostate-focused technologies
Image fusion/ultrasound
High-resolution ultrasound
Tumor ablation

Wayne Brisbane, MD
@Wayne_Brisbane
[email protected]
Prostate cancer imaging
Micro-ultrasound
MRI

Gabriel Oland, MD
@GabeOland
[email protected]
COVID-19 diagnostic testing
Noninvasive intracranial pressure monitoring
Social robotics

Zachary Weitzner, MD
@ZachWeitzner_MD
[email protected]
Enteric nervous signaling changes following bariatric surgery
Perioperative risk assessment in surgical patients with COVID-19
Correlation of radiographic and gross characteristics of appendicoliths
EMR-based assessment of extended postoperative length of stay

Ivy Huang, MD
@IvyHuangMD
[email protected]
Virtual mock oral examinations
Impact of virtual interviews on perception of residency applicants
Teaching residents quality improvement

Greg Carman, PhD
Understanding the response of ACTIVE/Smart materials for biomedical applications, e.g. covered stents, antennas for pacemakers
Multiferroic, magnetostrictive, piezoelectric, and shape memory alloys
Modeling structural response of multiphysics based systems

Robert Candler, PhD
Medical sensors for robotic surgery
Miniature MRI coils for In vivo imaging
Medical devices

Anand Santhanam, PhD
Dr. Santhanam's focus is on developing algorithms and techniques that cater to the requirements of medicine. In particular, he worked on the biomechanical modeling of lungs since 2002 for different applications ranging from computer animation, virtual reality, rehabilitation, tissue engineering to radiation oncology.

Rory Geoghegan, PhD
Dr. Geoghegan is a project scientist in the departments of Urology and Surgery. He has a bachelors degree in mechanical engineering (University College Dublin, 2010), a master’s degree in biomedical engineering (Imperial College London, 2011) and a doctorate in bioengineering (University of California, Los Angeles, 2019).

Songping Sun

Jake Pensa, MS
High resolution ultrasound imaging for prostate cancer
Focal therapy treatment planning for prostate cancer
Haptic feedback for robotic surgery

Adam A. Abiri, PhD
Haptic feedback system for minimally invasive surgery
Computer-assisted robotic surgery
Wireless implantable medical devices

Shyam Natarajan

Alan Priester, PhD
Minimally invasive prostate cancer therapy
Prostate radiologic and pathologic correlation
Prostate cancer imaging and diagnosis

Yazeed Alhiyari, PhD
Dynamic optical contrast imaging
Cancer margin detection
Translational medicine
Treatment de-escalation
