Participating Faculty
![Mahmoud Abou Alaiwa](/sites/lungimaging.sites.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/2021-03/aboualaiowa.jpg?h=3327b546&itok=BtgRCUvi)
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
![Renee Anthony, PhD](/sites/lungimaging.sites.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/2021-03/anthony-renee-130x182.jpg?h=cd15ffb1&itok=KMoORMxq)
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](/sites/lungimaging.sites.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/2021-03/beichel_reinhard.jpg?h=e0800577&itok=-LhmWUXh)
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](/sites/lungimaging.sites.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/2021-03/buatti.jpg?h=677bb7cf&itok=EYDin6J8)
John Buatti, MD
Title/Position
Professor and Chair of Radiation Oncology
Research Interest: Applying advanced imaging modalities into radiation treatment techniques
![Gary Christensen, PhD](/sites/lungimaging.sites.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/2021-03/christensen.jpg?h=2ef52d81&itok=WZbpFWBx)
Gary Christensen, PhD
Title/Position
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interest: Medical imaging, image & signal processing
![Alejandro Comellas Freymond, MD](/sites/lungimaging.sites.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/2021-03/comellas.jpg?h=e30fae6f&itok=B1q10U4e)
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](/sites/lungimaging.sites.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/2021-03/engelhardt.jpg?h=9cbff3b9&itok=_Cwn1Mbn)
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](/sites/lungimaging.sites.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/2022-09/Sean%20B%20Fain%20photo%20profile.jpg?h=6c83441f&itok=uNtObfup)
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, University of Iowa](/sites/lungimaging.sites.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/2021-05/1fiegel.jpg?h=3ad91d82&itok=MBK1oMrS)
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, University of Iowa](/sites/lungimaging.sites.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/2021-05/1field_0.jpg?h=6d941a5e&itok=BZfW_N5g)
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, University of Iowa](/sites/lungimaging.sites.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/2021-05/1gerke.jpg?h=79ce0dd4&itok=Y3jGeIjU)
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 Hoffman, University of Iowa](/sites/lungimaging.sites.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/2021-05/1hoffman.jpg?h=3faf8ac7&itok=o-Mvu_45)
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
![Karin Hoth, University of Iowa](/sites/lungimaging.sites.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/2021-05/1hoth.jpg?h=bf372811&itok=dd8f3zY1)
![Mathews Jacob, University of Iowa](/sites/lungimaging.sites.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/2021-05/1jacob.jpg?h=902bf82d&itok=fEaaHs9K)
Mathews Jacob, PhD
Title/Position
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interest: Imaging processing, computer aided therapy planning
![Hans Johnson, University of Iowa](/sites/lungimaging.sites.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/2021-05/1johnson.jpg?h=902bf82d&itok=uleL1wf7)
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, University of Iowa](/sites/lungimaging.sites.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/2021-05/1kaczka.jpg?h=bf372811&itok=Pl7oqdGQ)
David Kaczka, MD, PhD
Title/Position
Associate Professor of Anesthesia
Research Interest: Respiratory physiology, respiratory mechanics, patient monitoring
![Ching-Long Lin, University of Iowa](/sites/lungimaging.sites.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__768_x_768/public/2021-05/1lin_0.jpg?h=be6556d4&itok=VnqjCuZd)
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, University of Iowa](/sites/lungimaging.sites.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/2021-05/1sajan-lingala-edit2.jpg?h=902bf82d&itok=QP3b_BFs)
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, University of Iowa](/sites/lungimaging.sites.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/2021-05/1lynch.jpg?h=6d941a5e&itok=ksyg8HJk)
Charles Lynch, PhD
Title/Position
Professor of Epidemiology
Research Interest: Environmental epidemiology, cancer surveillance, cancer etiology, and cancer prevention and control
![Vincent Magnotta, University of Iowa](/sites/lungimaging.sites.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/2021-05/1magnotta.jpg?h=bf372811&itok=8vejZ7Ve)
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, University of Iowa](/sites/lungimaging.sites.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/2021-05/1mccray.jpg?h=bf372811&itok=TRSEPb1n)
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, University of Iowa](/sites/lungimaging.sites.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__768_x_768/public/2021-05/1oshaughnessy.jpg?h=6d941a5e&itok=YcwczW-J)
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
![Suresh Raghavan, University of Iowa](/sites/lungimaging.sites.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/2021-05/1raghavan.jpg?h=902bf82d&itok=E75CXNId)
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, University of Iowa](/sites/lungimaging.sites.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/2021-05/1reinhardt.jpg?h=902bf82d&itok=eblM4ZEv)
Joseph Reinhardt, PhD
Title/Position
Roy J. Carver Chair in Biomedical Engineering
Research Interest: Image processing, medical imaging, signal processing, cardiopulmonary imaging
![Punam Saha, University of Iowa](/sites/lungimaging.sites.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/2021-05/1saha.jpg?h=902bf82d&itok=6uVPXck-)
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, University of Iowa](/sites/lungimaging.sites.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/2021-05/sander_edward.jpg?h=902bf82d&itok=DeyHgoN1)
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, University of Iowa](/sites/lungimaging.sites.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/2021-05/1sieren.jpg?h=bf372811&itok=KhOnNrCT)
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, University of Iowa](/sites/lungimaging.sites.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/2021-05/1sonka.jpg?h=999fed2f&itok=3gf_eISG)
Milan Sonka, PhD
Title/Position
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interest: Medical image processing and analysis
![Douglas Spitz, University of Iowa](/sites/lungimaging.sites.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/2021-05/1spitz.jpg?h=4f1b2b52&itok=8Ug9YV4T)
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, University of Iowa](/sites/lungimaging.sites.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/2021-05/1stoltz.jpg?h=bf372811&itok=nCqiZpj7)
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, University of Iowa](/sites/lungimaging.sites.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/2021-05/1sunderland.jpg?h=bf372811&itok=AS-4G3eq)
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, University of Iowa](/sites/lungimaging.sites.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/2021-05/1udaykumar.jpg?h=902bf82d&itok=1EAn9ysw)
H.S. Udaykumar, PhD
Title/Position
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Research Interest: Computational fluid dynamics, biofluid mechanics, materials processing
![George Weiner, University of Iowa](/sites/lungimaging.sites.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/2021-05/1weiner.jpg?h=bf372811&itok=snxSTKDZ)
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, University of Iowa](/sites/lungimaging.sites.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/2021-05/1welsh.jpg?h=bf372811&itok=BTmGvBRv)
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, University of Iowa](/sites/lungimaging.sites.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/2021-05/1wu.jpg?h=902bf82d&itok=P0H7JCoB)
Xiaodong Wu, PhD
Title/Position
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interest: Computer-aided medical surgery and diagnosis, biomedical image analysis
![Joseph Zabner, University of Iowa](/sites/lungimaging.sites.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/2021-05/1zabner.jpg?h=bf372811&itok=Opj66bMz)
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