Research Mentors
The following senior faculty are willing to mentor junior faculty in translational/clinical research:
Carlos (Charlie) Artime, MD: Dr. Artime’s research focuses on neuroanesthesia-related outcomes and difficult airway management.
Davide Cattano, MD, PhD: Dr. Cattano’s research focuses on optimizing the use of preoperative testing and resources and perioperative coagulation testing.
Marie-Françoise J. Doursout, PhD: Dr. Doursout’s research focuses on determining role of dietary intervention and mechanistic insight into neurodegenerative diseases in animal models.
Holger K. Eltzschig, MD, PhD: Dr. Eltzschig’s research focuses on studying endogenous adaptive pathways that are under the control of hypoxia-inducible factors and application of these molecular concepts to a wide range of disease models, including acute lung injury, myocardial or hepatic ischemia, acute kidney injury and intestinal inflammation.
Nischal K. Gautam, MBBS: Dr. Gautam’s research focuses on outcomes in pediatric cardiac surgical patients.
Yafen Liang, MD: Dr. Liang’s research focuses on perioperative organ injury in the cardiac patient population, as well as in the general patient population.
Yandong Jiang, MD, PhD: Dr. Jiang’s research focuses on difficult airway management, perioperative lung physiology, and pulmonary outcomes.
Changqing (Cynthia) Ju, PhD: Dr. Ju’s research focuses on understanding the inflammatory responses in acute and chronic liver diseases, including acetaminophen-induced liver injury, hepatic ischemia/reperfusion injury and alcoholic liver disease.
Maria Matuszczak, MD: Dr. Matuszczak’s research focuses on airway management and pain medicine for the pediatric population.
Kyle Poulsen, PhD: Dr. Poulsen’s research focuses on liver disease triggered by drug and alcohol abuse.
Maya S. Suresh, MBBS: Dr. Suresh’s research focuses on perioperative maternal health.
George W. Williams, MD, FASA, FCCM, FCCP: Dr. Williams’ research focuses on outcomes associated with critical illness.
Shao Feng Zhou, MD: Dr. Zhou’s research focuses on blood conservation and organ injury after major aortic surgery.