T32 Research Mentor List

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

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

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

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