Research Training in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine (T32 GM075770) Training Faculty

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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
Mahajan, Aman, MD, PhD, MBA	Peter & Eva Safar Professor and Chair	Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine	Mentor	Cardiothoracic anesthesiology, cardiac electrophysiology, echocardiography, spinal neural modulation of cardiac electrophysiology, assessment of cardiac function in heart failure
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

Name/Degree(s)

Rank Primary (& Secondary)

Appointment(s)

Role in Program

Research Interests

Professor

Medicine-GI (Neurobiology)

Mentor

Cellular and molecular mechanisms of growth factor action on sensor neurons; mechanisms of pain

Assistant Professor

Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine

Mentor

Translational neuroscience of endogenous analgesia utilizing systems neuroscience and clinical research tools

Professor and Chair

Critical Care Medicine (Medicine, Health Policy & Management)

Mentor

ICU outcomes, clinical trials

Professor and Chair

Surgery

Mentor

Aspects of inflammation and organ injury in settings relevant to trauma and shock

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

Professor

Emergency Medicine (Pharmacology & Chemical Biology, Clinical and Translational Science)

Mentor

Emergency medicine, resuscitation, neurological emergencies, prehospital clinical trials

Professor

Critical Care Medicine (Pediatrics)

Mentor

Neuronal death; apoptosis, autophagy

Professor

Surgery

Mentor

Clinical trials and longitudinal studies in bariatric surgery; Translational research investigating adipose tissue changes and intestinal adaptation after gastric bypass surgery

Professor

Bioengineering

Mentor

Neural electrode-tissue interface, neural tissue engineering, implantable biosensors and drug delivery systems for neurological applications

Professor

Medicine (Neurobiology)

Mentor

Growth factor regulation in sensory neurons

Professor

Pharmacology & Chemical Biology (Neuroscience)

Mentor

Cellular Ca2+ homeostasis as it relates to the pharmacogenetic syndrome; Malignant hyperthermia (MH)

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

Professor

Neurobiology

Executive Committee, Mentor

Peripheral mechanisms of pain

Professor

Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine (Pharmacology & Chemical Biology)

Mentor

Mechanisms of alcohol and anesthetic action

Associate Professor

Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine

Mentor

Mechanisms and treatment of cardiac arrhythmia

Associate Professor

Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine

Mentor

Developing brain imaging techniques as biomarkers for pain and perioperative neurocognitive disorder

Professor

Neuroscience

Mentor

Biophysics, pharmacology, and regulation of glutamate receptors

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

Associate Professor

Critical Care Medicine (Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine)