T32 Research Mentor List

Mansoureh Eghbali, PhD(Link is external) (Link opens in new window)

Professor 

Anesthesiology 

Program Director, Mentor 

Ischemic heart disease and pulmonary hypertension 

Tomas Ganz, MD, PhD(Link is external) (Link opens in new window)

Professor 

Medicine (Pulmonary)  

Mentor 

Systemic iron homeostasis, hepcidin, anemia, host defense and inflammation 

Jean Francois Pittet, MD, DEAA(Link is external) (Link opens in new window)

Professor 

Anesthesiology UAB (UCLA joint appointment) 

Mentor 

Traumatic brain injury, acute kidney injury, bacterial pneumonia,  

Isidro B. Salusky, MD(Link is external) (Link opens in new window)

Professor 

Nephrology 

Mentor 

Chronic kidney disease, pathophysiology of bone diseases 

Jerzy Kupiec-Weglinski, MD, PhD(Link is external) (Link opens in new window)

Professor 

Surgery 

Mentor 

Liver ischemia/reperfusion Injury 

Kalyanam Shivkumar, MD, PhD(Link is external) (Link opens in new window)

Professor 

Medicine (Cardiology) 

Advisor, Mentor 

Cardiac electrophysiology /Arrhythmia 

Elizabeta Nemeth, PhD(Link is external) (Link opens in new window) 

Professor 

Medicine (Pulmonary) 

Mentor 

Iron physiology and pathology in pregnancy 

Up-and-Coming Faculty 

Soban Umar, MD, PhD(Link is external) (Link opens in new window) 

Associate Professor 

Anesthesiology 

Advisor, Junior Mentor 

Pulmonary hypertension, right heart failure, perioperative cardiopulmonary protection 

Louis Saddic, MD, PhD(Link is external) (Link opens in new window) 

Assistant Professor 

Anesthesiology 

Junior Mentor 

Vascular biology, aneurysm, sex differences 

Thomas Vondriska, PhD(Link is external) (Link opens in new window)  

Professor 

Anesthesiology 

Advisor, Mentor 

Epigenetics, chromatin biology, cardiac signaling 

Kristina Bostrom, MD, PhD(Link is external) (Link opens in new window)

Professor 

Medicine (Cardiology) 

Mentor 

Vascular disease 

Hua Linda Cai, MD, PhD(Link is external) (Link opens in new window)

Professor 

Anesthesiology 

Mentor 

Cardiovascular pathophysiology 

Arjun Deb(Link is external) (Link opens in new window), MD(Link is external)

Professor 

Medicine (Cardiology) 

Mentor 

Fibrosis, tissue repair 

Michela Ottolia, PhD(Link is external) (Link opens in new window)

Professor 

Anesthesiology 

Mentor 

ion channels and transporters biophysics 

Riccardo Olcese, PhD(Link opens in new window) 

Professor 

Anesthesiology 

Advisor, Mentor 

Ion channels, biophysics, and cardiac arrhythmias 

Austin Nakano, MD, PhD(Link is external) (Link opens in new window) 

Professor 

Molecular, Cell, & Developmental Biology 

Mentor 

Cardiogenesis 

Up-and-Coming Faculty 

Matthew Fischer, MD(Link is external) (Link opens in new window) 

Assistant Professor 

Anesthesiology 

Junior Mentor 

Perioperative precision medicine 

Rajesh Kumar, PhD(Link is external) (Link opens in new window) 

Professor 

Anesthesiology 

Mentor 

Autonomic, cognition, mood, MRI, Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy 

Ziva Cooper, PhD(Link is external) (Link opens in new window)

Associate Professor 

Psychiatry (Anesthesiology joint appointment) 

Mentor 

Cannabinoids, opioids, clinical studies 

Baljit Khakh, PhD(Link is external) (Link opens in new window) 

Professor 

Physiology 

Mentor 

Ion channels, glia and synapses 

Linda Liau, MD, PhD(Link is external) (Link opens in new window) 

Professor 

Neurosurgery 

Advisor, Mentor 

Experimental therapeutics for brain tumors 

Siamak Rahman, MD(Link is external) (Link opens in new window)

Professor 

Anesthesiology 

Mentor 

Acute pain, enhanced recovery after anesthesia 

Catherine Sarkisian, MD, MSPH(Link is external) (Link opens in new window)

Professor 

Medicine (Geriatrics) 

Mentor 

Geriatrics, reducing low value care, improving quality of life of seniors  

Christopher Evans, PhD(Link is external) (Link opens in new window) 

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(Link is external) (Link opens in new window)

Assistant Professor 

Anesthesiology 

Junior Mentor 

Perioperative cognitive dysfunction, neuroscience  

Maxime Cannesson, MD, PhD(Link is external) (Link opens in new window)

Professor 

Anesthesiology 

Program co-Director, Mentor 

Cardiovascular physiology, perioperative medicine, machine learning applied to healthcare data, closed loop engineering 

Pierre Baldi, PhD(Link is external) (Link opens in new window)

Professor 

Computer Science 

Mentor 

Artificial intelligence, statistical machine learning 

Eran Halperin, PhD(Link is external) (Link opens in new window)  

Professor 

Computer Science (Anesthesiology joint appointment) 

Mentor 

computational methods for analysis of genetic, genomic, epigenetic and health care data 

Xia Yang, PhD(Link is external) (Link opens in new window)

Professor 

Integrative Biology and Physiology 

Mentor 

Multiomics systems biology, complex disease networks 

Tzung Hsiai, MD, PhD(Link is external) (Link opens in new window)

Professor 

Bioengineering 

Mentor 

Mechano-signal transduction, cardiovascular injury 

Eleazar Eskin, PhD(Link is external) (Link opens in new window) 

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(Link is external) (Link opens in new window)

Assistant Professor 

Anesthesiology 

Junior Mentor 

Machine learning, pediatric anesthesia 

Brent Ershoff, MD, MS(Link is external) (Link opens in new window)

Assistant Professor 

Anesthesiology 

Junior Mentor 

Machine learning, liver transplantation