Participating Faculty
Mahmoud Abou Alaiwa, MD
Title/Position
Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine - Pulmonary, Critical Care and Occupational Medicine
Research Interest: Bronchoscopy, human Cystic Fibrosis, mucociliary transport, and quantitative lung imaging
James Ankrum, PhD
Title/Position
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interest: Cell based therapies, microenvironmental control of cell phenotype, pancreatic beta cell therapy
T. Renée Anthony, PhD
Title/Position
Professor of Occupational and Environmental Health
Research Interest: Occupational hygiene, exposure assessment and computational fluid dynamics modeling
Reinhardt Beichel, PhD
Title/Position
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interest: Medical computer vision and graphics, lung image analysis, PET image analysis
John Buatti, MD
Title/Position
Professor and Chair of Radiation Oncology
Research Interest: Applying advanced imaging modalities into radiation treatment techniques
Gary Christensen, PhD
Title/Position
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interest: Medical imaging, image & signal processing
Alejandro Comellas Freymond, MD
Title/Position
Clinical Professor of Internal Medicine - Pulmonary, Critical Care and Occupational Medicine
Research Interest: Lung injury and ambient air pollution resulting in COPD, asthma
John Engelhardt, PhD
Title/Position
Professor and Chair of Anatomy and Cell Biology
Research Interest: Molecular basis of cystic fibrosis disease pathologies
Sean B. Fain, PhD
Title/Position
Professor and Vice Chair for Research, Department of Radiology
Research Interest: Magnetic resonance imaging methods for lung disease, Quantitative and functional imaging measures and applications in asthma, Cystic fibrosis and interstitial lung disease
Jennifer Fiegel, PhD
Title/Position
Associate Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
Research Interest: Drug delivery, polymeric biomaterials, nano and microtechnology, airborne infectious diseases
R. William Field, PhD
Title/Position
Professor of Occupational and Environmental Health
Research Interest: Pulmonary diseases, radon measurement and health effects, occupational and environmental epidemiology
Alicia Gerke, MD, MBA
Title/Position
Associate Professor of Internal Medicine - Pulmonary, Critical Care and Occupational Medicine
Research Interest: Critical care medicine, pulmonary diseases
Eric A. Hoffman, PhD
Title/Position
Professor of Radiology - Division of Physiologic Imaging
Research Interest: Advanced imaging methodologies to study basic respiratory physiology centered largely on mechanisms of ventilation and perfusion heterogeneity and regional lung mechanics
Mathews Jacob, PhD
Title/Position
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interest: Imaging processing, computer aided therapy planning
Hans Johnson, PhD
Title/Position
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interest: Large scale, heterogeneous, multi-site data collections using modern High Performance Computing (HPC) resources
David Kaczka, MD, PhD
Title/Position
Associate Professor of Anesthesia
Research Interest: Respiratory physiology, respiratory mechanics, patient monitoring
Ching-Long Lin, PhD
Title/Position
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Research Interest: Multiscale simulation of gas flow and particle transport in the human lungs, turbulent flow in complex geometry, fluid-structure interaction, and parallel computing
Sajan Goud Lingala, PhD
Title/Position
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Novel Magnetic Resonance Imaging acquisition and reconstruction methods for rapid imaging, Real-time MRI of upper-airway dynamics, eg. during speech, swallowing
Charles Lynch, PhD
Title/Position
Professor of Epidemiology
Research Interest: Environmental epidemiology, cancer surveillance, cancer etiology, and cancer prevention and control
Vincent Magnotta, PhD
Title/Position
Professor of Radiology - Division of Neuroradiology
Research Interest: Development of novel imaging approaches and analysis strategies to better understand the psychiatric and neurological brain disorders
Paul McCray, MD
Title/Position
Professor of Pediatrics - Pulmonary Medicine
Research Interest: Development of novel imaging approaches and analysis strategies to better understand the psychiatric and neurological brain disorders
Patrick O’Shaughnessy, PhD
Title/Position
Professor of Occupational and Environmental Health
Research Interest: Enhancement of computational fluid dynamic (CFD) models of the deposition of aerosols in the human lung
M.L. Suresh Raghavan, PhD
Title/Position
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interest: Cardiovascular biomechanics, finite element method, geometric modeling, 3D reconstruction, mechanical testing of biologic tissues
Joseph Reinhardt, PhD
Title/Position
Roy J. Carver Chair in Biomedical Engineering
Research Interest: Image processing, medical imaging, signal processing, cardiopulmonary imaging
Punam Saha, PhD
Title/Position
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interest: Tensor scale-based image analysis, digital topology and geometry, object class uncertainty theory in images segmentation and classification
Edward Sander, PhD
Title/Position
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interest: Tissue engineering, multi-scale mechanics to engineer in vitro models of tissues, and biomechanics of the lung
Jessica Sieren, PhD
Title/Position
Assistant Professor of Radiology - Division of Physiologic Imaging
Research Interest: Multimodal investigation of lung nodules, incorporating computed tomography, nuclear imaging, and histopathology
Milan Sonka, PhD
Title/Position
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interest: Medical image processing and analysis
Douglas Spitz, PhD
Title/Position
Professor of Radiation Oncology
Director, Free Radical and Radiation Biology Program
Research Interest: Free Radical Biology and Medicine
David Stoltz, MD, PhD
Title/Position
Professor of Internal Medicine - Pulmonary, Critical Care and Occupational Medicine
Research Interest: pulmonary diseases and lung infections, advanced airway imaging modalities and analysis
John Sunderland, PhD, MBA
Title/Position
Associate Professor of Radiology - Division of Nuclear Medicine
Research Interest: Quantitative PET, cyclotron-based radionuclide production, and small animal imaging
H.S. Udaykumar, PhD
Title/Position
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Research Interest: Computational fluid dynamics, biofluid mechanics, materials processing
George Weiner, MD
Title/Position
Professor of Internal Medicine - Hematology, Oncology and Blood and Marrow Transplantation
Research Interest: Study of mechanisms of action of anti-cancer monoclonal antibodies, and development of novel approaches to immunotherapy of lymphoma
Michael Welsh, MD
Title/Position
Professor of Internal Medicine - Pulmonary, Critical Care and Occupational Medicine
Research Interest: Biology of cystic fibrosis (CF) pathogenesis
Xiaodong Wu, PhD
Title/Position
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interest: Computer-aided medical surgery and diagnosis, biomedical image analysis
Joseph Zabner, MD
Title/Position
Professor of Internal Medicine - Pulmonary, Critical Care and Occupational Medicine
Research Interest: Gene transfer to human airway epithelia in particular to develop gene therapy for cystic fibrosis, fluid composition of the airway surface liquid and how it affects innate immunity