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
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COVID-19 diagnostic testing
Noninvasive intracranial pressure monitoring
Social robotics
Zachary Weitzner, MD
@ZachWeitzner_MD
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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
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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