Finding a Mentor
You must find a mentor before submitting your research proposal. Your mentor must be an NU faculty member.
How to Find a Mentor
- Search our faculty mentor directory below by name, department, or keyword/area of interest.
- Talk to your AOSC group leader about your interests and ask for recommendations
- Talk to your fellow students! To see what students have published and with whom, check out our searchable database of student publications and a list of students who have most recently worked with mentors you may have identified.
- Talk to Liza Rivnay (Associate director of Student Research) who can connect you to students and faculty.
- Contact a department liaison: These are faculty members who have expressed interest in connecting you to faculty in their department based on your research interests. This is a regularly updating list and our plan is to have every department (clinical and research) represented.
- Allergy (Peds or Adult): Anna Fishbein, MD
- Cardiology: Kannan Mutharasan, MD
- Dermatology: Stephanie Rangel, PhD
- Family Medicine: Katy Wright, PhD, MPH
- Institute for Innovations in Developmental Sciences (DevSci): Jessica Horowitz, PhD
- Global Health: Chad Achenbach, MD, MPH
- Hematology-Oncology: Jonathan Moreira, MD
- Infectious Disease: Chad Achenbach, MD, MPH
- Neurology: Eyal Kimchi, MD, PhD
- Obstetrics & Gynecology: Julia Geynesman-Tan, MD
- Ophthalmology: Manjot Gill, MD
- Otolaryngology: Claus-Peter Richter, MD, PhD
- Pathology: Dan Brat, MD, PhD
- Psychiatry: Mike Marcangelo, MD
- Public Health and Equity / IPHAM: Mita Goel, MD, MPH
- Radiology, Cardiovascular and Thoracic Imaging: Bradley Allen, MD
- Transplant Surgery: Julianna Doll
Mentor Outreach: How to Do It
We have prepared a brief guide for mentor outreach.
Mentor Directory
Search for faculty accepting student mentees by name, specialty, or keyword/topic.
Mohamed Abazeed
Specialty/Area of Research: Radiation Oncology
Chad Achenbach
Specialty/Area of Research: Infectious Diseases
Keywords: AIDS; HIV Infection; Immunology; Infectious Diseases; Infectious Diseases-viral; Tumor Virus Infections; Viral Oncology; Virology
Mark Adler
Specialty/Area of Research: Pediatrics (Emergency Medicine) and Medical Education
Keywords: Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Pediatrics, Post-Graduate Medical Education, Simulation
Aisha Ahmed
Specialty/Area of Research: Allergy/Immunology - Primary Immunodeficiency
Keywords: Immunodeficiency, inborn errors of immunity
Aileen Chia-Lin Shen
Specialty/Area of Research: Center for Health Services & Outcomes Research
Keywords: The Center for Health Services & Outcomes Research (HSOR) at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine’s Institute for Public Health and Medicine generates new knowledge to improve healthcare practice, population health and health equity by discovering which healthcare interventions work best for which people. Our research interests span a broad spectrum, from diagnostic approaches, to preventive services, to treatments such as medications and devices and to different forms of healthcare delivery, organization or financing.
Murad Alam
Specialty/Area of Research: Dermatology
Keywords: Laser Skin Rejuvenation; Cryosurgery; Chemical Peel; Cosmetic Fillers; Atypical Moles; High Risk Skin Cancer; Ethnic Skin; Dermabrasion; Laser Hair Removal; Botox Injections; Collagen Injections
Shahad Al Bayati
Specialty/Area of Research: Radiology, body/ breast/neuro imaging, quality improvement
Keywords: Radiology, Breast imaging, Body imaging, Neuro radiology
Alexandra Aaronson
Specialty/Area of Research: Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Keywords: Dr. Aaronson’s career goal is to improve treatments for individuals with complex neuropsychiatric conditions. She is the recipient of a CDA-1 award with the objective of establishing a relationship between and identifying neural correlates of impulsivity and suicidality among Veterans with mild TBI to use as a target for neuromodulatory treatment. She is the team neuropsychiatrist on the Hines VA polytrauma multidisciplinary team, serving Veterans with TBI and co-occuring mental illness. Clinically, she administers electroconvulsive and transcranial magnetic stimulation therapies. She teaches residents at Northwestern and Loyola Universities.
Bradley Allen
Specialty/Area of Research: Radiology
Estella Alonso
Specialty/Area of Research: Gastroenterology/Hepatology/Nutrition-Pediatrics
Keywords: Health Services Research; Inflammatory Bowel Disease; Liver disease, pathobiology; Outcome measures; Patient reported outcomes; Pediatric Gastroenterology; Transplantation
Elizabeth Alpern
Specialty/Area of Research: Emergency Medicine-Pediatrics
Keywords: Emergency Medicine; Epidemiology; Infectious Diseases; Pediatrics; Quality Improvement
Nabil Alshurafa
Specialty/Area of Research: Mobile Health
Keywords: Machine learning, Artificial intelligence, Wearables, Physiological monitoring, Engagement with smart tools, Prediction and modeling, Stress, Problematic eating behavior
Amber Leaver
Specialty/Area of Research: Neuroscience, Radiology
Keywords: Neuroscience, MRI, depression, tinnitus, brain stimulation, machine learning
Erik Andersen
Specialty/Area of Research: Molecular Biosciences (not FSM; active as Adjunct Lecturer in School of Professional Studies)
Keywords: Genetic Variation; Resistance; Neuroscience
Adin-Cristian Andrei
Specialty/Area of Research: Surgery
Keywords: Cardiac Surgery Outcomes; Anesthesiology; Atrial Fibrillation Surgery; Outcome Measures
Sameer Ansari
Specialty/Area of Research: Interventional Neuroradiology / Endovascular Neurosurgery - Imaging based risk stratification and treatment planning of neurovascular pathologies
Keywords: Cerebrovascular Neurovascular Interventional Neuroradiology Endovascular; Neurosurgery; Intracranial/Spinal Aneurysms/Vascular Malformation; Acute Ischemic Stroke; Thrombectomy; Carotid or Intracranial Atherosclerotic Disease
Anugayathri Jawahar
Specialty/Area of Research: Radiology
Keywords: Radiology, body imaging
Hossein Ardehali
Specialty/Area of Research: Cardiovascular, metabolism and immunology
Keywords: Cardiology; Cardiovascular Diseases; Heart Disease; Intracellular Transport; Metabolism; Molecular ; cardiovascular, metabolism, immunology, iron
Rishi Arora
Specialty/Area of Research: Cardiology
Keywords: Pacemakers, Electrophysiology; Catheter Ablation; Atrial Fibrillation
Mehreen Arshad
Specialty/Area of Research: Basic Science
Gopi Astik
Specialty/Area of Research: Internal Medicine, Hospital Medicine
Keywords: Diagnostic error, clinical reasoning, quality improvement
Hrayr Attarian
Specialty/Area of Research: Neurology; Sleep Medicine (current research is in global health and education)
Keywords: Sleep; Sleep Disorders; Women's Health; Treatment of Parasomnias
Gregory Auffenberg
Specialty/Area of Research: Urology
Ryan Avery
Specialty/Area of Research: Radiology; Cardiovascular Imaging & Nuclear Medicine
Jessie Aw-Zoteic
Specialty/Area of Research: Radiology; Pediatric Neuroradiology
Sherif Badawy
Specialty/Area of Research: Pediatrics; Hematology/Oncology and Stem Cell Transplant
Keywords: mobile health "mHealth" apps, text-messaging, medication adherence, quality of life
Stacy Bailey
Specialty/Area of Research: Health services, Health literacy, health equity
Heather Ballard
Specialty/Area of Research: Pediatric Anesthesiology
Keywords: Medical education, simulation-based mastery learning, fetal anesthesia, hepatobiliary anesthesia
Katherine Barsness
Specialty/Area of Research: Surgery-Pediatrics; Medical Education
Keywords: Minimally Invasive Surgery; Medical Education; Neoplasms; Oncology; Simulation; Surgery; Surgical Education; Trauma
Jeffrey Barsuk
Specialty/Area of Research: Hospital Medicine; Medical Education
Keywords: Cardiomyopathy; Medical Education; Patient Safety; Quality Improvement; Simulation
Daniel Batlle
Specialty/Area of Research: Nephrology
Keywords: Acid-base and electrolytes, Hypertension; diabetic nephropathy, Nephrology
Danny Bega
Specialty/Area of Research: Neurology - Movement Disorders - i.e. Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease
Keywords: Parkinson's disease, movement disorders, huntington's disease, wilson's disease, complementary and integrative medicine
David Bentrem
Specialty/Area of Research: Surgery-Oncology; Medical Social Sciences
Keywords: Cancer Biology; Cancer: Digestive System (esophagus, stomach, colon, and rectum); Cancer: Liver; Cancer: Pancreas; Minimally Invasive Surgery
Irwin Benuck
Specialty/Area of Research: Pediatrics
Rachel Bercovitz
Specialty/Area of Research: Pediatric hematology
Keywords: von Willebrand Disease, Heavy menstrual bleeding, Bleeding disorders in kids, Benign hematology, Diagnostic evaluations
Susan Berger
Specialty/Area of Research: Primary Care Pediatrics; Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics
Keywords: Parent-child relationships; pediatric primary care anticipatory guidance; child development and behavior; infant sleep and crying; social emotional development; translational & interdisciplinary research
Senta Berggruen
Specialty/Area of Research: Radiology; body imaging
Lisa Beutler
Specialty/Area of Research: Gut-brain communication and appetite in mice
Keywords: neural circuits, feeding, energy homeostasis, gut-brain communication, basic science. Given that my lab does almost exclusively in vivo mouse neuroscience research, for short research experiences like AOSC a prospective student would need to have some bench research/mouse handling experience to make it productive.
Mark Bevan
Specialty/Area of Research: Physiology
Keywords: Nervous System Diseases; Neuroscience; Pharmacology; Physiology
Ankit Bharat
Specialty/Area of Research: Thoracic Surgery; Pulmonology
Keywords: Cancer: Lung/Chest; Immunology; Pacemakers; Transplantation
Monica Bianco
Specialty/Area of Research: Pediatric Endocrinology
Keywords: Youth onset type 2 diabetes ; Developmental origins of youth onset type 2 diabetes; Type 1 diabetes; Obesity; Nutrition. I am doing mostly clinical retrospective and prospective studies focused on Type 2 Diabetes. I am also involved in transitional research studying the developmental origins of type 2 diabetes. Soon will be staring some clinical trials looking at different treatments of diabetes.
Lucy Bilaver
Specialty/Area of Research: Food Allergy and Asthma
Keywords: Allergies, Asthma, Clinical Research, Food Allergy, Health Policy, Health Services Research, Pediatrics Public Health. Dr. Bilaver has successfully coordinated a number of CFAAR's research projects including being the co-investigator on the Medicaid project, the Peanut Allergy Guidelines Assessment Clinician, Pediatrician, and Parent surveys project, and Understanding Preferred Precautionary Allergen Labeling (PAL) Language Among Food Allergy Stakeholders project. She also assists with analysis of the Natural History study�s severity and family history data. Dr. Bilaver earned a PhD from the University of Chicago�s School of Social Service Administration and completed her post-doctoral training in health services research through an Integrated Fellowship at Feinberg. As an assistant professor of pediatrics at Northwestern Medicine, her child health services research program spans several areas of children with special health care needs including autism, asthma, obesity, and food allergy.
Karl Bilimoria
Specialty/Area of Research: Surgery (Oncology); Medical Social Sciences
Keywords: Cancer: Breast; Cancer: Skin; Clinical Research; Melanoma
Robyn Bockrath
Specialty/Area of Research: Pediatrics; Medical Education
Rodrigo Braga
Specialty/Area of Research: Cognitive neuroscience
Keywords: Neurology, epilepsy, aphasia, brain imaging, functional MRI, intracranial electroencephalography, brain stimulation.
Robert E Brannigan
Specialty/Area of Research: Urology
Keywords: Gametogenesis; Infertility - Male; Men's Health; Men's Reproductive Health; Reproduction; Sexual dysfunction; Surgery; Urology
Daniel Brat
Specialty/Area of Research: Neuropathology/Brain Tumor Research
Keywords: Diffuse glioma, Glioblastoma, Genetics, Tumor micro-environment, Glioma stem cells, Therapeutic response. We study all aspects of glioma biology and clinical behavior, using molecular, cell biological and neuropathological tools on animal models and patient samples.
Greg Brisson
Specialty/Area of Research: General Internal Medicine/Geriatrics
Keywords: Ethics; Professionalism; Medical Education
C Hendricks Brown
Specialty/Area of Research: Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences; Medical Social Sciences
Keywords: Biostatistics; Drug Abuse; HIV Infection; Mental Health; Preventive Medicine; Psychiatry; Public Health
Lucas Bruton
Specialty/Area of Research: Medical Education, Primary Care Pediatrics, Children with Medical Complexity
Keywords: Medical Education, Pediatrics, Primary Care, Children with Medical Complexity, Children with Disability
Daniel Busch
Specialty/Area of Research: Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Zeeshan Butt
Specialty/Area of Research: Medical Social Sciences; Organ Transplantation Surgery; Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Keywords: Behavioral Medicine; Health Services Research; Oncology; Outcome measures; Surgery; Transplantation
Juan Carlos Caicedo-Ramirez
Specialty/Area of Research: Surgery-Hispanic Transplant Program
Keywords: Surgery; Transplantation
Cara Angelotta
Specialty/Area of Research: Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Keywords: Dr. Angelotta treats individuals in both inpatient and outpatient settings. She does forensic psychiatric consultations for attorneys and the courts regarding malpractice, psychiatric disability, parenting capacity, emotional harm, competence to stand trial, mental state at the time of the offense (insanity and diminished capacity), sentencing evaluations, violence risk assessment, and other psychiatric-legal issues.
Rebecca Carl
Specialty/Area of Research: Sports Medicine-Pediatrics
Keywords: Injury Prevention; Sports Injuries; Sports Medicine
James Carr
Specialty/Area of Research: Medicine; Radiology
Keywords: Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), magnetic resonance angiography (MRA), Coronary CT angiography, Cardiac CT, CT angiography, Vascular and interventional radiology
Gemma Carvill
Specialty/Area of Research: Neurogenetics
Keywords: Genetics, genomics, neurogenetics, epilepsy, rare disease, epigenetics
Ellen Casey
Specialty/Area of Research: Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Keywords: Sports Medicine; Rehabilitation
Susan Cohn
Specialty/Area of Research: Infectious Diseases/HIV Health Services Research
Keywords: Clinical research, Health Services Research, HIV and Women, Wellness
Chad Teven
Specialty/Area of Research: Plastic Surgery
Keywords: Dr. Chad M. Teven is a board-certified plastic surgeon and Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine whose chief clinical expertise includes microsurgical reconstruction and repair of complex defects. Dr. Teven completed residency training in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the University of Chicago and a Reconstructive Microsurgery Fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Dr. Teven performs reconstructive surgery for defects across the body due to cancer, trauma, burn, and congenital etiologies. He offers both implant-based and autologous breast reconstruction (e.g., DIEP) and also performs physiologic and excisional procedures for the surgical treatment of lymphedema (e.g., lymphovenous anastomosis and vascularized lymph node transplant). Dr. Teven additionally performs aesthetic surgery of the face and body. Dr. Teven serves as faculty within the Northwestern Medicine Clinical Ethics Program, having previously completed the Clinical Medical Ethics Fellowship from the Maclean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago. Prior to his recruitment to Northwestern Medicine, Dr. Teven was Assistant Professor and Vice-Chairman for Research, and Section Head for Microsurgery and Complex Reconstruction, within the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Mayo Clinic in Arizona.
Young Kwang Chae
Specialty/Area of Research: Hematology/Oncology
Keywords: Oncology; Personalized Cancer Therapy, Precision Medicine, Early Phase Clinical Trials, First-in-Human Study, Novel Combination Cancer Therapy, Targeted therapy, Immunotherapy, Biomarker Study, Novel Drug Development, Novel Drug Delivery System, Adaptive Clinical Trials Design, Cell Signaling Pathway, Immune Checkpoint Pathway
Rowland Chang
Specialty/Area of Research: Rheumatology/Preventive Medicine/Physical Activity Research
Keywords: knee pain, physical activity, behavioral intervention, functional limitation, prevention. Student would participate in the Physical Activity in Rheumatology Research (PARR) group, an interdisciplinary group consisting of physicians and PhD nurses, physical therapists, behavioral scientists, health services researchers, and statisticians.
Akhil Chawla
Specialty/Area of Research: Surgery (Surgical Oncology)
Cherie Priya Dhar
Specialty/Area of Research: Transgender care, plastic surgery, Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine
Keywords: Menstrual disorders, sexual and reproductive health, care for LGBTQ identified youth
Jaehyuk Choi
Specialty/Area of Research: Oncology Dermatology
Keywords: Cancer: Skin; Cutaneous T-Cell Lymphoma; Dermatology; Genetics; Immunogenetics; Immunology; Melanoma; Precision medicine, cancer
Jennifer Choi
Specialty/Area of Research: Dermatology
Keywords: Cancer Survivorship; Chemotherapy; Melanoma; Skin Cancer
Anna Chorniy
Specialty/Area of Research: Health Economics/Health Policy
Keywords: Health Economics; Health Policy; Medicare; Medicaid; Children
Jeanette Chung
Specialty/Area of Research: Surgical Oncology
Liza Cohen
Specialty/Area of Research: Ophthalmology
Keywords: Orbital and Ophthalmic Plastic Surgery; Medical Education
Daniel Corcos
Specialty/Area of Research: Physical Therapy & Movement Sciences
Keywords: Physical Therapy; Electromyography; Movement; Parkinson Disease
Marilyn Cornelis
Specialty/Area of Research: Preventive Medicine-Nutrition
Keywords: Gene x Environment Interactions; Genetics; Nutrition, Dietetics; Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases
R. James Cotton
Specialty/Area of Research: artificial intelligence, wearable sensors, computer vision, human pose estimation
Gregory Curfman
Specialty/Area of Research: Medicine (Cardiology)
Nader Dahdaleh
Specialty/Area of Research: Neurological Surgery
Keywords: Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery; Spinal Biomechanics; Spinal Column Injury; Spinal Column Tumors; Spinal Cord Tumors; Spine Deformity; Spine Trauma; Spondylolisthesis
Matt DeBerge
Specialty/Area of Research: Immunology
Keywords: Cardiovascular disease, myocardial infarction, neuroinflammation, vascular dementia, myeloid cells
Raye-Ann deRegnier
Specialty/Area of Research: Pediatrics (Neonatology)
Derek A. Wainwright
Specialty/Area of Research: Neurological Surgery, Neuroscience, Medicine-Hematology/Oncology, and Microbiology-Immunology
Keywords: Our laboratory engages in basic, translational, and clinical research that aims to improve the survival of adults that are diagnosed with brain cancer. We actively think up and investigate new ideas that we then test in our brain tumor models for the translation of those new approaches into novel clinical trials. We also perform immunocorrelative analyses of human brain cancer patients that are enrolled in the clinical trials that were thought up and validated by our group. Our ultimate goal is to find a cure for adults with primary brain cancer.
Swati Deshmukh
Specialty/Area of Research: Musculoskeletal radiology
Keywords: Muscles, Peripheral Nerves, Joints, Sports Imaging, Sarcopenia, Ultrasound, MRI, Orthopedic Imaging, Rheumatologic Imaging, Image guided procedures, Women in Medicine, Diversity and Inclusion, Wellness, Physician Burnout, Medical Improv
Yasin Dhaher
Specialty/Area of Research: Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation; Biomedical Engineering
Keywords: Biomechanics; Gait; Knee; Stroke; Electromyography
Srikanth Divi
Specialty/Area of Research: Orthopedic Surgery/Spine Surgery
Maria Dizon
Specialty/Area of Research: Neuroscience, Developmental Brain Injury (Pediatrics - Neonatology)
Keywords: Myelination, Cerebral Palsy, White Matter Injury, White Matter Regeneration, Motor Deficits, Neonatology, Pediatric Neurology, microRNAs, Next Generation Sequencing, Single Cell Sequencing
Mehmet Dokucu
Specialty/Area of Research: Psychiatry & Behavioral Science
Keywords: Depression; Neuroscience; Oncology; Pain; Preventive Medicine; Psychiatry; Sleep Disorders; Wellness, Fitness
Angelique Duenas
Specialty/Area of Research: Medical Education
Keywords: Medical education, anatomy education, qualitative research
Elizabeth Eklund
Specialty/Area of Research: Hematology/Oncology
Keywords: Leukemia, Lymphoma, Myeloma
Dina Elaraj
Specialty/Area of Research: adrenal hormone hypertension
Keywords: I am an endocrine surgeon with special interest in adrenal hormone hypertension, particularly due to aldosterone excess. 30% of U.S. adults have hypertension, and a hypothesized 5-10% of patients with hypertension have undiagnosed aldosterone excess. My research interests involve improving the identification and care of these patients as well as analyzing outcomes.
Mohammed Elbaz
Specialty/Area of Research: Computational Cardiovascular Imaging / MRI / Medical Image Processing
Keywords: Computational Cardiovascular Imaging / MRI / Medical Image Processing / Cardiac Blood Flow Dynamics / Heart Mechanics / Mapping Heart Disease Signatures. It is preferred that students have some engineering or computational background.
Erin Paquette
Specialty/Area of Research: Pediatrics (Clinical Care)
Keywords: My long-term goal is to engage in interdisciplinary research, advocacy and policy development using evidence-based, stakeholder-informed, and ethically-minded practices to improve the health of children through the identification and reduction of health disparities in the clinical and research settings and the promotion of practices to address the social and structural determinants of health that can create barriers to achieving equitable and optimal health.
Mark Eskandari
Specialty/Area of Research: Vascular Surgery; Medical Education; Pathology
Keywords: Abdominal and thoracic aneurysm repair, Carotid angioplasty and stenting, Endovascular surgery; Aortic Aneurysm; Atherosclerosis; Carotid Disease; Carotid Stenosis; Vascular Biology; Vascular and interventional radiology
Dan Evans
Specialty/Area of Research: General Internal Medicine/Geriatrics; Medical Education
Keywords: Health Disparities; Health Services Research; Healthcare Quality; Internal Medicine, General Medicine; Medical Education; Undergraduate Medical Education
Amani Fawzi
Specialty/Area of Research: Ophthalmology
Keywords: ALS; Aging; Alzheimer's Disease; Angiogenesis; Bioengineering; Diabetes; Eyes; Minimally Invasive Surgery
Courtney Finlayson
Specialty/Area of Research: Endocrinology-Pediatrics
Keywords: Diabetes; Sex Development; Puberty; Endocrine and Metabolism
Anna Fishbein
Specialty/Area of Research: Allergy/Immunology-Pediatrics
Keywords: Allergies; Eczema; Pediatrics
Todd Florin
Specialty/Area of Research: Pediatrics/Pediatric Emergency Medicine/Pneumonia
Keywords: pneumonia, bronchiolitis, epidemiology, biomarkers, clinical research, pediatric emergency medicine
Heike Folsch
Specialty/Area of Research: Membrane Trafficking in Cell Polarity
Keywords: Epithelial cells, cell polarity, polarized sorting
Patricia Franklin
Specialty/Area of Research: Outcomes /ImplementationResearch
Keywords: Patient-reported outcomes; quality and outcomes; implementation; learning health systems; osteoarthritis; total joint relpacement
Benjamin Freed
Specialty/Area of Research: Radiology; Cardiology
Keywords: Echocardiography; Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; Heart Failure; Hypertension; Stroke Volume
Helena Gabriel
Specialty/Area of Research: Radiology; body imaging
Judy Gadde
Specialty/Area of Research: Radiology; Pediatric Neuroradiology
Robert Galiano
Specialty/Area of Research: Plastic Surgery; Dermatology
Keywords: Cancer: Reconstructive Surgery Following Cancer; Cosmetic Procedures and Surgery; Plastic Surgery and Reconstructive Surgery; Regenerative Medicine; Scarring; Stem Cells; Tissue Engineering; Wound Care
Daniel Ganger
Specialty/Area of Research: Hepatology
Keywords: 1- Study of PCOS , obesity and fatty liver. 2-Long term Liver Outcomes of Heart Transplant in patients with Congenital Heart Diseases
Jaime Garc a-A overos
Specialty/Area of Research: Anesthesiology; Neurology
Keywords: Inner ear development and regeneration; hearing and deafness; Hyperacusis; Neonatal Intestine.
Craig Garfield
Specialty/Area of Research: Pediatrics and Medical Social Sciences
Keywords: Maternal-Child Health; Pediatrics; Global Health; Men's Health; Fatherhood; Health Services Research
Robert Garofalo
Specialty/Area of Research: Pediatrics-Adolescent Medicine; Preventive Medicine
Keywords: AIDS; Adolescent health; HIV Infection; Pediatrics; Public Health; Translational Research
Alfred George
Specialty/Area of Research: pharmacology, neuroscience, genetics, cardiac arrhythmia biology, epilepsy, neurodevelopmental disorders
Keywords: pharmacology, neuroscience, genetics, cardiac arrhythmia biology, epilepsy, neurodevelopmental disorder
Tracy Gertler
Specialty/Area of Research: pediatric neurology at Lurie and pharmacology at NU
Keywords: neurogenetics, genetic epilepsy, channelopathies, stem cell-derived neurons, transgenic mouse models of epilepsy
Zhi-Dong Ge
Specialty/Area of Research: Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction
Keywords: Heart failure; myocardial ischemia/reperfusion injury; diabetic cardiomyopathy; echocardiography; epigenetics.
Laila Gharzai
Specialty/Area of Research: Radiation Oncology
Keywords: -Reducing toxicities for treatment
Laila Gharzai
Specialty/Area of Research: Head/neck and lung cancer
Manjot Gill
Specialty/Area of Research: Ophthalmology; Medical Education
Keywords: Retinal Detachment; Intravitreal Injections; Retinal Occlusions; Retinal Disease; Diabetes; Laser Surgery
Stewart Goldman
Specialty/Area of Research: Oncology-Pediatrics
Keywords: Cancer: Brain and Nervous System; Neuro-Oncology; Neurofibromatosis; Translational Research
Jeffery Goldstein
Specialty/Area of Research: Pathology / Perinatal and autopsy
Keywords: Maternal-Child Health; Diseases of pregnancy; Development; Genome-wide association studies; Placenta; Virtual cohorts
Paulina Gonzalez Latapi
Specialty/Area of Research: Movement Disorders - Parkinson Disease Epigenetics and Epidemiology
Keywords: Parkinson Disease, Epigenetics, Environmental toxins
Adam Gordon
Specialty/Area of Research: Human Genomics
Keywords: Personal genomics, clinical variant interpretation, population genomics, medical genetics, anti-racism
Arun Gosain
Specialty/Area of Research: Surgery-Pediatrics
Yogesh Goyal
Specialty/Area of Research: Single-Cell Biology, Synthetic Biology, Cancer Biology, Stem Cells, Systems Biology, Mathematical modeling
Keywords: Single-Cell Biology, Synthetic Biology, Cancer Biology, Stem cell fates, Systems Biology, Mathematical modeling, Lineage tracing. I love mentoring students for research, and would love to host a medical student research.
Richard Green
Specialty/Area of Research: Gastroenterology/Hepatology
Keywords: Cancer: Liver; HIV Infection; Liver disease, pathobiology; Metabolism; Molecular Genetics
Lindsay Griffin
Specialty/Area of Research: Radiology; Pediatric Cardiovascular Imaging & Body Imaging
Ruchi Gupta
Specialty/Area of Research: Food Allergy and Asthma
Keywords: Allergies, Asthma, Clinical Research, Food Allergy, Health Policy, Health Services Research, Pediatrics, Public Health. Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine; Clinical Attending, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago; Founding Director, Center for Food Allergy & Asthma Research Ruchi Gupta, MD, MPH, has 17 years of experience as a board-certified pediatrician and health researcher and serves as the founding director of the Center for Food Allergy & Asthma Research (CFAAR) at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago. She completed her undergraduate and medical education at the University of Louisville and completed her medical residency at Children�s Hospital & Regional Medical Center, University of Washington in Seattle. She completed her pediatric health services research fellowship at Boston Children�s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and went on to receive her Master of Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Gupta is world-renowned for her groundbreaking research in food allergy and asthma epidemiology, most notably for her research on the prevalence of pediatric and adult food allergy in the United States. She has also significantly contributed to academic research in the areas of food allergy prevention, socioeconomic disparities in care, and the daily management of these conditions. To reduce the burden of these conditions and improve health equity, she and her team develop, evaluate and disseminate interventions for families and conduct work to inform local, national, and international health policy.? Dr. Gupta is the author of the Food Allergy Experience and Food Without Fear, has written and co-authored over 150 peer-reviewed research manuscripts, and has had her work featured on major TV networks and in print media. She speaks to a global audience to share her research with experts and families, and as a physician, food allergy researcher, and food allergy mom, her driving passion is to improve the lives of children and their families through discovery, clinical care, outreach, and education.
Amy Halverson
Specialty/Area of Research: Gastrointestinal & Endocrine Surgery; Medical Education
Keywords: Anal incontinence, Benign anorectal disorders, Colon and rectal cancer, Colon and rectal surgery, Hereditary colon cancer syndromes, Ileal pouch surgery, Inflammatory bowel disease, Laparoscopy
Brandon Hamm
Specialty/Area of Research: Psychiatry, ethics, patient-clinician relationship, psychopharmacology
Keywords: Consultation liaison psychiatry, agitation management, virtue ethis, decision-making capacity, facilitation of hospital care, demoralization, frostbite, psychopharmacology, ketamine, smoking cessation, pharmacobezoar, catatonia, cardiac psychiatry, psychodermatology
Aaron Hamvas
Specialty/Area of Research: Pediatrics-Neonatology
Keywords: Genomics; Neonatology; Respiratory Diseases
Ann Harris
Specialty/Area of Research: Molecular Genetics-Pediatrics
Keywords: Cancer Biology; Cell Biology; Chromatin; Epigenetics; Gene Regulation; Gene Therapy; Genetics; Genomics
Josh Hauser
Specialty/Area of Research: Hospital Medicine; Medical Education
Keywords: Hospice; Palliative Medicine; Physician-Patient Relations
Claudia Hawkins
Specialty/Area of Research: Infectious disease/HIV and viral hepatitis, Global Health
Keywords: HIV diagnostics, epidemiology, ageing Viral hepatitis B and C, epidemiology, novel biomarkers, therapeutics and curative agents
Tomoko Hayashida
Specialty/Area of Research: Pediatrics Kidney Disease
Keywords: Fibrosis, Kidney, TGF Beta, Cell Bio, Molecular Bio, Signal Transduction, Translational Research
Geoffrey Hayes
Specialty/Area of Research: Genetic Epidemiology & Statistical Genetics
Keywords: genetics/genomics of complex diseases/traits; genetic epidemiology; statistical genetics; genomewide association studies; linkage; whole genome sequencing; candidate gene studies; genetic architecture of complex diseases/traits; population genetics; evolutionary genetics; signatures of selection.
Anne Henkel
Specialty/Area of Research: Gastroenterology/Hepatology
Keywords: Liver; Cholesterol; Bile Acids and Salts; ATP-Binding Cassette Transporters; Diet
Amy Herrold
Specialty/Area of Research: psychiatry, neurology and rehabilitation medicine (co-mentor with Aaronson)
Keywords: traumatic brain injury (TBI), depression, substance use disorders, neurocognitive disorders, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), neurorehabilitation
Ikuo Hirano
Specialty/Area of Research: Gastroenterology/Hepatology
Keywords: Eosinophilic Esophagitis, Eosinophilic Gastroenteritis, Esophageal Motility Disorders, Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease, Swallowing Disorders
Lisa Hirschhorn
Specialty/Area of Research: Medical Social Sciences; Psychiatry
Keywords: Implementation research, global health, quality, HIV
Brian Hitsman
Specialty/Area of Research: Preventive Medicine, Medical Social Sciences, Psychiatry
Keywords: Addiction, cancer and cardiovascular disease prevention, behavioral medicine
Andrew Hoel
Specialty/Area of Research: Vascular Surgery
Keywords: Aortic Aneurysm; Arterial aneurysms; Carotid Disease; Visceral aneurysms
Karen Ho
Specialty/Area of Research: Vascular Surgery
Keywords: Vascular Surgical Procedures; Patient Readmission; Limb Ischemia
Kristi Holmes
Specialty/Area of Research: Preventitive Medicine & Medical Education
Keywords: data; informatics; standards; software; education; analytics
Jeanne Horowitz
Specialty/Area of Research: Radiology; body imaging
Goli Houshmand
Specialty/Area of Research: Radiology; breast imaging
Erin Hsu
Specialty/Area of Research: Orthopaedic Surgery
Keywords: bone biology, bone toxicology, and bone regenerative medicine
Wellington Hsu
Specialty/Area of Research: Orthopaedic Surgery; Neurological Surgery
Keywords: Degenerative Spine Condition; Neoplastic/Infectious Spine Problems; Cervical Spine Disorders; Disc Arthroplasty; Laminectomy; Spinal Fusion; Spinal Deformity; Cervical Disc Disease
Catherine Hunter
Specialty/Area of Research: Surgery-Pediatrics
Keywords: Bacterial Pathogenesis; Biologic Therapies; Inflammatory Bowel Disease; Minimally Invasive Surgery; Surgery
Yue-Yung Hu
Specialty/Area of Research: Pediatric Surgery
M. Luisa Iruela-Arispe
Specialty/Area of Research: Vascular Biology
Keywords: microcirculation, Molecular Biology, developmental biology, cell biology
Michael Ison
Specialty/Area of Research: Infectious Diseases; Organ Transplant Surgery
Keywords: Infectious Diseases; Infectious Diseases-viral; Transplantation
Alan Jaffe
Specialty/Area of Research: Psychiatry & Behavioral Science
Priya Jain
Specialty/Area of Research: Pediatrics - Emergency Medicine; Medical Education
Joseph Janicki
Specialty/Area of Research: Orthopaedic Surgery
Keywords: Bones, Cartilage, Joints, Muscles; Injury Prevention; Orthopedics; Osteoporosis; Outcome measures
Patrick Janulis
Specialty/Area of Research: Medical Social Sciences
Keywords: HIV; sexually transmitted diseases; substance use; infectious disease modeling
Jennifer Jao
Specialty/Area of Research: Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases
Keywords: HIV, Infectious Pregnancy Complications, Tenofovir
Prakash Jayabalan
Specialty/Area of Research: Osteoarthritis, Sports Medicine, Rehabilitation (PM&R)
Keywords: Osteoarthritis, Sports Medicine, musculoskeletal,
Arun Jayaraman
Specialty/Area of Research: PM&R; Medical Social Sciences; Physical Therapy
Keywords: Amputation; Clinical Research; Outcome measures; Prosthetics/Orthotics; Quality of Life; Rehabilitation/Therapy; Spinal Cord Injury; Translational Research
Jennifer L. Miller
Specialty/Area of Research: Pediatric Endocrinology
Keywords: pediatric endocrinology pediatric bone health; pediatric diabetes; quality of life in pediatric bone health ; quality of life in pediatric diabetes; quality of life in pediatric endocrinology. I am a clinician and clinical researcher. I work in a multidisciplinary pediatric bone health program, as well as a multidisciplinary pediatric diabetes program. We always have research questions for which we are looking for answers and we are always looking for help and to teach others to love learning via clinical research!
Jenny Jia
Specialty/Area of Research: Medicine (General Internal Medicine) and Preventive Medicine (Epidemiology)
Keywords: My research focus is on prevention of chronic diseases in low-income families through lifestyle interventions. This has led me to study how different types of interventions, such as community-based programs and public policy, affect the diet and food choices of target populations. My recent work has focused on food-insecure households, including their health disparities and using community-based solutions to help support healthy diets.
Peng Ji
Specialty/Area of Research: Hematologic cancers, stem cells, drug development
John Martin Coleman III
Specialty/Area of Research: Pulmonary and Critical Care and Neurology
Keywords: Home Mechanical Ventilation/Noninvasive Ventilation in Neuromuscular Disease,Chronic Respiratory Failure,Sleep Disorder Breathing, Peri-operative OSA management
Johnny Berona
Specialty/Area of Research: Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Keywords: Dr. Johnny Berona completed their AB in Comparative Human Development and Psychology at University of Chicago and MS and PhD in Clinical Psychology at University of Michigan. They conducted postdoctoral research in developmental psychopathology at University of Chicago and in sexual and gender minority health at Northwestern University. In 2021, they joined the faculty at the Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing. Their research focuses on the substance abuse, suicide, and self-injury among sexual and gender minority youth. Active research in these areas examine biomarkers of minority stress, developmental trajectories, and novel approaches to mental health assessment and intervention.
Amy Johnson
Specialty/Area of Research: Public health, implementation science, HIV/STIs, adolescent health
Keywords: I have several active studies that students could work on and learn research skills, including engaging with participants. Further, I have datasets available for students to lead analysis. Data includes both quantitative and qualitative. Past AOSC students have submitted first authored papers, happy to mentor and support students as they explore their research interests.
Elizabeth Johnson
Specialty/Area of Research: lifespan human cognitive neuroscience
Keywords: memory, cognitive control, brain networks, electrophysiology, development. Our lab merges basic neuroscience research on the mechanisms of complex cognitive functions with clinical practice. We use a combination of invasive and noninvasive electrophysiology to understand such mechanisms, including but not limited to memory, across the lifespan.
Joyce Tawfik Johnson
Specialty/Area of Research: Cardiology-Pediatrics
Keywords: Fetal and Pediatric Echocardiology; Outcomes
Julie Johnson
Specialty/Area of Research: Surgical Oncology
Jami Josefson
Specialty/Area of Research: Developmental origins of child metabolic diseases
Keywords: maternal child health; pregnancy outcomes; gestational diabetes; human milk; newborn growth measures; child risk of metabolic disease; child obesity; body fat in children; epigenetics; prediabetes in children. My research program is part of a Northwestern Team Science network. The student will be immersed into an active research endeavor with multiple layers of support from MDs, PhDs, statisticians, and fellows.
Borko Jovanovic
Specialty/Area of Research: Preventive Medicine-Biostatistics
Keywords: Biostatistics; Cancer: Colon and Rectal; Cancer: Prostate; Clinical Trial Methodology; Drugs (clinical pharmacology); Preventive Medicine; Public Health; Translational Research
Joyce Wu
Specialty/Area of Research: Neurology
Keywords: neurology, epilepsy
Anish Kadakia
Specialty/Area of Research: Orthopedic Surgery
Keywords: Foot and Ankle Trauma; Reconstruction; Arthritis; Revision Surgery; Tendon Transfers for Foot Drop
Rachel Kadar
Specialty/Area of Research: Critical care/POCUS
Keywords: I�m an emergency medicine trained physician who completed my critical care fellowship in the anesthesia department at Northwestern. I now do mostly critical care and teach POCUS (point of care ultrasound). I also focus on airway management.
Thorsten Kahnt
Specialty/Area of Research: Neurology; Psychiatry
Keywords: Alzheimer's Disease; Behavioral Biology; Frontotemporal Dementia; Neurology; Neuropsychology; Parkinson's disease
Aparna Kalyan
Specialty/Area of Research: Hem/Onc
Preeti Kansal
Specialty/Area of Research: Cardiology
Keywords: Cardiovascular Diseases; Cardiovascular Imaging; Valve Repair/Replacement; Women's Health
Mariam Kappil
Specialty/Area of Research: Radiology; pediatric body imaging
Karan Dixit
Specialty/Area of Research: Neurology (Neuro-oncology) and Neurology (Hospital Neurology)
Keywords: My clinical interests include primary brain and spinal cord tumors and neurologic complications from cancer and its associated treatment. I have a specific interest in low grade glioma, central nervous system lymphoma, and understanding the relationship between neurocognitive decline and longitudinal changes in structural and functional neural connectivity.
Ben Katz
Specialty/Area of Research: post-viral fatigue
Keywords: chronic fatigue syndrome; long covid; infectious mononucleosis
Armen S Kelikian
Specialty/Area of Research: Orthopedic Surgery
Kimberly Kenton
Specialty/Area of Research: Obstetrics/Gynecology-Female Pelvic Medicine & Reconstructive Surgery
Keywords: Childbirth injuries; Fecal incontinence; Fistula; Laparoscopic gynecologic surgery; Mesh complications; Pelvic floor disorders and surgery; Pelvic organ prolapse; Urinary incontinence
Kiarri Kershaw
Specialty/Area of Research: Preventive Medicine-Epidemiology
Keywords: Cardiovascular Diseases; Epidemiology; Health Disparities
John Kessler
Specialty/Area of Research: Neurology
Keywords: Alzheimer's Disease; Cancer: Brain and Nervous System; Developmental Neurobiology; Neurology; Neuroscience; Spinal Cord Injury; Stem Cells
Seema Khan
Specialty/Area of Research: Breast Surgery
Keywords: Breast Cancer; Breast Disease; Epidemiology; Genetic Testing/Counseling; Preventive Medicine; Quality of Life; Surgery; Women's Health
Abel Kho
Specialty/Area of Research: General Internal Medicine/Geriatrics; Preventive Medicine; Health & Biomedical Informatics
Keywords: Genomics; Infectious Diseases; Medical Informatics
Stephanie Kielb
Specialty/Area of Research: Urology; Medical Education; Obstetrics and Gynecology
Keywords: Female Urology; Pelvic Floor Dysfunction; Vaginal Prolapse; Incontinence; Neurourology; Urodynamics
Eyal Kimchi
Specialty/Area of Research: Neurology
Keywords: Delirium; Encephalopathy; EEG; Wearable Neurotechnology; Attention; Awareness; Altered Mental Status; Animal models; Neuromodulators; Neural circuits
Daniel Kim
Specialty/Area of Research: Cardiac MRI
John Kim
Specialty/Area of Research: Plastic Surgery; Dermatology
Keywords: Breast Cancer; Cosmetic Procedures and Surgery
Minjee Kim
Specialty/Area of Research: Neurocritical care/sleep, circadian rhythms, and cognition
Keywords: Stroke and neurocritical care, sleep, circadian rhythms, actigraphy, light, cognition. My research focuses on 1) investigating the role of sleep and circadian disruption, including that of mistimed light, on cardiovascular and cognitive outcomes, 2) design of health system interventions to promote early detection and management of sleep disruption to promote healthy aging. I would love to mentor motivated students who are interested in these topics.
Kristen Knutson
Specialty/Area of Research: Sleep
Keywords: sleep, circadian rhythms, chronic disease, CVD, diabetes, health disparities
Gayle Kricke
Specialty/Area of Research: Healthcare Quality; System Inequities, organizational behavior
Keywords: equity, health care policy, and organizational behavior
Hualin Zhang
Specialty/Area of Research: Preventive Medicine (Health and Biomedical Informatics) and Medical Education
Timothy Kruser
Specialty/Area of Research: Radiation Oncology
Lisa Kuhns
Specialty/Area of Research: Pediatrics-Adolescent Medicine
Keywords: HIV Infection; Health Disparities; Public Health; Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Laura Kulik
Specialty/Area of Research: GI/Hepatology
Swati Kulkarni
Specialty/Area of Research: Department of Surgery, Division of Breast Surgery
Keywords: Breast Cancer, Breast Disease, Translational Research, Clinical Trial Methodology, Clinical Research
Tsutomu Kume
Specialty/Area of Research: Cardiology; Pharmacology
Keywords: Cardiovascular Diseases; Cardiovascular System; Developmental biology; Developmental genetics; Stem Cells; Vascular Biology
Priya Kumthekar
Specialty/Area of Research: Neuro Oncology
Keywords: brain tumors primary and secondary; brain mets; clinical trials; cancer
Roopal Kundu
Specialty/Area of Research: Dermatology; Medical Education
Keywords: Cancer: Skin; Clinical Research; Dermatology; Health Disparities; Medical Education; Quality of Life; Skin; Women's Health
Shilajit Kundu
Specialty/Area of Research: Urology
Keywords: Cancer Genetics; Cancer: Bladder; Cancer: Kidney and Urinary Tract; Cancer: Prostate; Robotic Nephrectomy; Robotic Prostatectomy
Jennifer Kusma
Specialty/Area of Research: primary care pediatrics, health policy
Keywords: I am a primary care pediatrician and health services research interested in access to care. I am specifically interested in health policy, including health insurance, and access to routine primary care including immunizations.
Cynthia LaBella
Specialty/Area of Research: Sports Medicine-Pediatrics
Keywords: research includes but is not limited to concussion, sports specialization, sports injury prevention, methods of dissemination of education and prevention resources to underserved communities
Daniela Ladner
Specialty/Area of Research: Surgery & Medical Social Sciences; Outcomes science
Keywords: I do epidemiology, outcomes and risk predication research in patients with cirrhosis. To this end I have multiple trans-disciplinary grants with PhD experts (engineers, Biostats, economics). I also study process improvement in cirrhosis and kidney and liver transplantation in collaboration with social scientists, implementation scientists. A significant portion of my research examines social determinants of health with experts in this field. I am the program director of an NIH funded T35 predoc 8-week summer program (AOSC+) focused on promoting future clinician scientists (especially underrepresented minorities). We also have a less intense structured summer program for AOSC students in transplant (CTC Summer Student Immersion Program).
Sandi Lam
Specialty/Area of Research: Neurological Surgery
Elizabeth Lange
Specialty/Area of Research: Anesthesiology
Keywords: epidural fever, maternal mortality, hemorrhage
Craig Langman
Specialty/Area of Research: Kidney Diseases-Pediatrics
Keywords: Cardiovascular Diseases; Cytokines; Genetics; Inflammation; Kidney; Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases; Osteoporosis; Physiology
Monica Laronda
Specialty/Area of Research: Pediatrics (Endocrinology)
Keywords: Basic science side of fertility prevention research
Danielle Larson
Specialty/Area of Research: Neurology- Movement Disorders / Parkinson's, Huntington's, Tic Disorders
Keywords: Parkinson's disease research includes community outreach and understanding of underrepresented group knowledge of PD and research participation. Tic research includes understanding Functional tic-like behaviors and relationship to gender identity and psychiatric co-morbidities.
Emily Lattie
Specialty/Area of Research: Digital mental health, human centered design, implementation science
shannon lauberth
Specialty/Area of Research: Cancer epigenetics, drug discovery, translational research
Timothy Lautz
Specialty/Area of Research: Surgery - Pediatric Surgery
Jeremy Lavine
Specialty/Area of Research: Ophthalmology
Keywords: age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, macrophage, inflammation
Brian Layden
Specialty/Area of Research: Endocrinology
Keywords: Pituitary Hypothalamic Disease; Thyroid Disease; Adrenal Disorders; Diabetes; Metabolism; Parathyroid Disorders; Pituitary Disease
Yvonne Lee
Specialty/Area of Research: Rheumatology
Keywords: Rheumatoid arthritis, pain, sleep problems
Josh Levitsky
Specialty/Area of Research: Gastroenterology/Hepatology; Organ Transplant Surgery; Medical Education
Keywords: Infectious Diseases; Liver Transplantation; Immunosuppression; Cirrhosis; Bacterial Infections; Intestinal Permeability
Robert Liem
Specialty/Area of Research: Hematology/Oncology; Stem Cell Transplantation
Keywords: Exercise Physiology; Health Disparities; Hematology; Medical Education; Sickle Cell Disease
Liming Li
Specialty/Area of Research: Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
Keywords: Aging; Biochemistry: Proteins; Genetics: Microbial; Infectious Diseases; Microbiology; Molecular Genetics; Nervous System Diseases; Proteins, Macromolecules
Loretta Li
Specialty/Area of Research: Pediatric Oncology / leukemia
Keywords: B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia, Ph-like ALL, targeted therapies, patient-derived xenograft (PDX) models
Jeffrey Linder
Specialty/Area of Research: General Internal Medicine/Geriatrics
Keywords: Primary care; health services research; electronic health records; clinical decision support; antibiotic prescribing; respiratory infections; behavioral economics; social psychology
Lee Lindquist
Specialty/Area of Research: Geriatrics, Seniorr, Older adults, Caregivers
Jennie Lin
Specialty/Area of Research: Functional Genomics of Cardio Metabolic and Renal Disease
Keywords: Genomics, Molecular Genetics, Nephrology, Cardiovascular Disease
Peter Lio
Specialty/Area of Research: Dermatology-Pediatrics
Keywords: Autoimmunity; Dermatology; Pediatrics; Skin
Lisa Wolfe
Keywords: Studying devices for ventilatory support used in home based settings. This is most relevant to those with neuromuscular disorders and sleep related breathing disorders.
Benjamin Liu
Specialty/Area of Research: Radiology
Keywords: MRI; Spine Pain Management; Brain Tumors; Minimally Invasive Techniques; Spine Imaging
Huiping Liu
Specialty/Area of Research: Machine learning, artificial intelligence, breast cancer stem cells in metastasis, circulating tumor cell clusters and liquid biopsy,
Keywords: We have closely collaborated with physician scientists in elucidating the molecular mechanisms underlying circulating tumor cell (CTC) clusters that are associated with outcomes for breast cancer. Artificial intelligence-facilitated analysis of CTCs and integration with clinical data will enable next breakthrough discoveries and clinical applications. Our laboratory is located on the fifth floor of Lurie Biomedical Research Building. Please visit our website www.huipingliu.com for more details. We value your passion, mission, and creation.
Ramon Lorenzo
Specialty/Area of Research: Medicine (Infectious Diseases)
Keywords: HIV-1 Infection, Genomics, Viral Pathogenesis, Virology, Bioinformatics, Biostatistics, Big Data, Molecular Biology, Molecular Genetics
William Lowe
Specialty/Area of Research: Diabetes/maternal metabolism during pregnancy
Keywords: Diabetes; Pregnancy; Genetics; Metabolomics; Childhood glucose metabolism; Integrated omics
Steven Lubbe
Specialty/Area of Research: Neurology and Genetic Medicine
Keywords: Genetics, Parkinson's Disease, Movement Disorders, Melanoma, Neurology, Neuroscience, Cancer Genetics
Kerri Machut
Specialty/Area of Research: Neonatology; pediatrics
Keywords: neonatal, shared-decision making, family centered care, transitions of care, gender equity in the workforce
Michelle Macy
Specialty/Area of Research: Pediatric Emergency Medicine / Health Services Research and Population Health
Keywords: pediatrics, unintentional injury prevention (water safety, occupant protection), accountable care, emergency care, digital health, mixed methods
Stephen Magill
Specialty/Area of Research: Neurological Surgery / Brain tumors
Keywords: Meningioma, Schwannoma, Pituitary, Brain Tumor, Skull base surgery, Endoscopic, Minimally Invasive Brain Surgery, Multi-disciplinary, Radiosurgery,
Mahima Keswani
Specialty/Area of Research: Pediatrics (Nephrology)
Keywords: Dr. Keswani's academic interests are centered on the care of children on chronic dialysis. She is the site Primary Investigator for the Standardized Care to Improve Outcomes in Pediatric End Stage Renal Disease (SCOPE) collaborative.
Simin Mahinrad
Specialty/Area of Research: brain aging, epidemiology, neuroscience
Max Maizels
Specialty/Area of Research: Urology-Fetal
Keywords: Embryology; Pediatrics; Plastic Surgery and Reconstructive Surgery; Pregnancy, Childbirth (including high risk); Urology; Women's Health
S. Chris Malaisrie
Specialty/Area of Research: Cardiac Surgery
Keywords: Aortic Aneurysm; Cardiovascular Diseases; Surgery; Valvular Disease
Marcelo Malakooti
Specialty/Area of Research: Pediatric Critical Care Medicine: Innovation; process and quality improvement: education
Keywords: innovation; cross-pollination; efficiency; human-centered design; technology; communication; education; process; entrepreneurship; pediatrics; critical care
David Manning
Specialty/Area of Research: Orthopedic Surgery
Keywords: Minimally Invasive Surgery; Hip Replacement; Knee Replacement; Joint Replacement Surgery
Michael Marcangelo
Specialty/Area of Research: Psychiatry
Michael Markl
Specialty/Area of Research: Radiology; Engineering
Keywords: Cardiovascular Diseases; Cardiovascular Imaging; Radiology
Guido Marra
Specialty/Area of Research: Orthopedic Surgery
Keywords: Shoulder Arthroscopy; Arthroplasty; Elbow Arthoplasty
Gary Martin
Specialty/Area of Research: Medicine (General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics)
Keywords: Cardiovascular Diseases, Education, Peripheral Vascular Disease, Quality Improvement
Maryann Mason
Specialty/Area of Research: Pediatrics; Preventive Medicine (Emergency Medicine)
Keywords: Community Medicine; Injury Prevention; Obesity; Pediatrics; Public Health; Public Policy; Violence prevention
James Mathew
Specialty/Area of Research: Surgery-Organ Transplantation & Microbiology Immunology
Keywords: Clinical Transplantation; Autoimmunity; Tolerance; Biomarkers of tolerance; immunology
Yongchao Ma
Specialty/Area of Research: Pediatrics-Developmental Biology; Neurology; Physiology
Keywords: Aging; Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis; Developmental Neurobiology; Neurogenetics; Parkinson's disease; Spinal Muscular Atrophy
Mary McDermott
Specialty/Area of Research: General Internal Medicine/Geriatrics; Preventive Medicine
Keywords: Comprehensive Care; Peripheral Vascular Disease; Preventive medicine
Sally McFall
Specialty/Area of Research: Center for Innovation in Global Health Technologies (Not FSM; research faculty in McCormick)
Keywords: Biomedical Engineering; Infectious Disease
William McGaghie
Specialty/Area of Research: medical education
Keywords: mastery learning, science of expertise, deliberate practice
Michael McGee
Specialty/Area of Research: Gastrointestinal Surgery
June McKoy
Specialty/Area of Research: General Internal Medicine/Geriatrics; Preventive Medicine; Medical Education
Keywords: Aging; Geriatrics; Osteoporosis; Patient Safety; Pharmacology; Preventive Medicine; Public Policy; Underserved Medicine
Elizabeth McNally
Specialty/Area of Research: Cardiology/Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
Keywords: Genetics of cardiomyopathy and arrhythmias
Megan McHugh
Specialty/Area of Research: Emergency Medicine
Keywords: Dr. McHugh is a health services researcher with an interest in federal policy making, employer-led health reform efforts, community health in manufacturing communities, and quality improvement. She has conducted numerous multi-method, multi-site program and policy evaluations.
Herbert Meltzer
Specialty/Area of Research: Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences; Pharmacology; Physiology
Keywords: Clinical Research; Depression; Mental Health; Neuropsychology; Pharmacology; Physiology; Psychiatry; Schizophrenia
Marc Mendillo
Specialty/Area of Research: Cancer Biology
Keywords: Genomics, Chemical Biology, Systems Genetics, Cellular Stress Response, Anti-Cancer Drug Resistance, Transcription Regulation
Ryan Merkow
Specialty/Area of Research: Surgical Oncology
Kelly Michelson
Specialty/Area of Research: Pediatrics-Critical Care
Keywords: Grief; Bereavement; Pediatrics; Ethics; Artificial Intelligence; Qualitative Research; Navigators in Healthcare; Pediatric;Critical Care Medicine; Bioethics I am Professor of Pediatrics, Julia and David Uihlein Professor of Bioethics and Medical Humanities, Director of the Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities and Chief Ethics Officer for the Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. I am also an attending physician at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago in the division of pediatric critical care medicine. My research interests include communication, decision making, palliative care, and ethics. Currently, my research focuses on communication and decision making among patients, family caregivers, and professional caregivers in the pediatric intensive care unit using family care conferences. I also studies disparities in access to bereavement support for people after the death of a child and opportunities to improve enrollment in clinical research through recruitment in community-based clinics using novel technology. My work uses qualitative and quantitative methods as well as patient/stakeholder engagement and community-based participatory research methods. I serve on mentorship teams of K awardees and early career investigators. My research has been funded by the NIH, PCORI, National Palliative Research Center, American Cancer Society, and the Greenwall Foundation. I am dedicating helping others achieve their full potential and follow their passion.
Yara Mikhaeil-Demo
Specialty/Area of Research: Neurology (Epilepsy/Clinical Neurophysiology)
Michael Millenson
Specialty/Area of Research: Quality, safety, patient-centered care
Keywords: the media and health care (NOT medicine, because that means clinical trials and the rest)
Rukhsana Mirza
Specialty/Area of Research: Opthalmology; Medical Education
Sunita Misra
Specialty/Area of Research: Epilepsy, Child Neurology
Keywords: Genetic Epilepsy, Channelopathy, Infantile Spasms, Epileptic Encephalopathy
Brian Mitchell
Specialty/Area of Research: Cell & Developmental Biology
Keywords: Cilia Polarity; Cancer Biology; Cell Biology; Cell Imaging; Developmental biology; Respiratory Diseases
Divakar Mithal
Specialty/Area of Research: Pediatrics (Neurology and Epilepsy)
Saeed Mohammad
Specialty/Area of Research: Gastroenterology/Hepatology/Nutrition-Pediatrics
Keywords: Health Services Research; Health economics; Medical Decision Making; Outcome measures; Pediatric Gastroenterology; Quality of Life; Transplantation
Luisa Morales-Nebreda
Specialty/Area of Research: Immune mechanisms of lung injury and repair
Keywords: Lung injury and repair. T cells. Pneumonia. ARDS. COVID-19
Patricia Moreno
Specialty/Area of Research: Cancer Control and Survivorship (Medical Social Sciences)
Keywords: cancer survivorship, quality of life, health disparities, patient-reported outcomes, behavioral medicine
Darby Morhardt
Specialty/Area of Research: Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease Center
Keywords: Caregivers; Dementia; Alzheimer Disease
Judy Moskowitz
Specialty/Area of Research: Medical Social Sciences
Keywords: HIV; Psychology; Depression; Stress
Sarah Moum
Specialty/Area of Research: Radiology; Pediatric Neuroradiology
Dan Mroczek
Specialty/Area of Research: Medical Social Sciences
Keywords: Aging; Outcome measures; Psychology; Psychometrics
Shubhra Mukherjee
Specialty/Area of Research: Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Keywords: Disability; Paraplegia; Botox Injections; Pediatric Spasticity; Adolescents; Cerebral Palsy; Neurological Rehabilitation; Neuromuscular Disability
William Muller
Specialty/Area of Research: Pathology
Keywords: Cell Adhesion Mechanisms; Cell Imaging; Immune System; Inflammation; Leukocyte-endothelial cell interactions; Multiple Sclerosis; Pathology; Vascular Biology
Ferdinando Mussa-Ivaldi
Specialty/Area of Research: Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation; Engineering
Keywords: Bioengineering; Robotics; Computational Neuroscience; Movement Control; Neurobiology; Neuroscience; Rehabilitation/Therapy; Spinal Cord Injury; Stroke
Akhil Narang
Specialty/Area of Research: Cardiac Imaging
Keywords: Cardiac imaging, echocardiography, cardiac MRI/CT. Valvular heart disease. Artificial intelligence.
Neena R Cherayil
Specialty/Area of Research: Neurology
Keywords: neuro-ophthalmology, medical education, diagnostic reasoning
Lance Nelson
Specialty/Area of Research: Adolescent Medicine, Eating Disorders, Sex differences in eating disorder care/management, food insecurity and health equity
Keywords: Adolescent Health; Male Health; Eating Disorders. I am one of the new faculty members in adolescent medicine and the medical director for the eating disorder program. I have a passion for medical education and have an interest in clinical research. My past projects have been looking into how clinicians assess males and females with an eating disorder. As a new faculty member, I am looking into starting a project looking at the implementation of an androgen insufficiency questionnaire in males with an eating disorder and correlating scores with testosterone levels, which has been done in adult males with prostate cancer but has never been used in the adolescent population. I am also interested in mentoring students on their own research projects. During fellowship, I completed a Master's in Community Health and Prevention Research at Stanford, so happy to mentor a student on community based projects or anything with health equity and access.
Leah Neubaur
Specialty/Area of Research: Public Health Education, Academic Public Health, Global Health Education, Training, Curriculum Development, Program Evaluation
Keywords: Academic Public Health, Global Health Education and Promotion, Training, Curriculum Development, Program Evaluation, CPBR
Michael Newcomb
Specialty/Area of Research: Medical Social Science/Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing
Keywords: HIV; Drug Abuse; Preventive Medicine; Health Disparities; Adolescent Health; Mental Health
Sai Nimmagadda
Specialty/Area of Research: Food Allergy and Asthma
Keywords: Allergies, Asthma, Clinical Research, Food Allergy, Health Policy, Health Services, Research, Pediatrics, Public Health. Sai Nimmagadda, MD serves as an Allergy Research Specialist on the CFAAR team. He is a board certified allergist who�s had nearly 30 years of clinical experience. For the past twenty years, Dr. Nimmagadda has been a Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Northwestern University Medical School. He practices Allergy/Immunology with Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children�s Hospital of Chicago and serves as a member of the executive committee of the Illinois Society for Allergy, Asthma and Immunology as well as a committee member in the section on food allergy for the American Academy and American College of Asthma, Allergy and Immunology. During his career, Dr. Nimmagadda has seen over fifteen thousand food allergy patients and has designed and implemented several food allergy studies.
Yazan Numan
Specialty/Area of Research: Hematology/Oncology
Todd Ochs
Specialty/Area of Research: Pediatrics-Community-Based Primary Care
Keywords: Adoption and Foster Care, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
David Odell
Specialty/Area of Research: Thoracic Surgery
Keywords: Cancer: Digestive System (esophagus, stomach, colon, and rectum); Cancer: Lung/Chest; Hernias, hiatal hernia; Lung nodules; Medical Education; Minimally Invasive Surgery; Robotic Surgery; Transplantation
Kevin O'Leary
Specialty/Area of Research: Hospital Medicine
Keywords: Healthcare Quality; Hospital Medicine; Patient Safety
Reed Omary
Specialty/Area of Research: Radiology
Keywords: Cancer: Liver; Cancer: Pancreas; Interventional Oncology; Nanotechnology; Quantitative MRI; Radiology; Vascular and Interventional Radiology
Puneet Opal
Specialty/Area of Research: Neurology/Cell and Molecular Biology
Keywords: Ataxias, spinocerebellar ataxia, movement disorders, neurodegenerative diseases, stroke, cerebrovascular disorders.
Lauren Pachman
Specialty/Area of Research: Rheumatology-Pediatrics
Keywords: Autoimmunity; Epidemiology; Immune Regulation; Immunogenetics; Inflammation; Vascular Biology
Susan Palasis
Specialty/Area of Research: Pediatric Neuroradiology
Amy S Paller
Specialty/Area of Research: Dermatology
Keywords: Biochemistry: Lipids; Cancer: Skin; Cutaneous Biology; Dermatology; Extracellular Matrix; Genetics; Signal Transduction; Skin
Erin Paquette
Specialty/Area of Research: Pediatrics-Critical Care
Keywords: Bioethics; Critical Care; Critical Care Outcomes; Global Health; Health Disparities; Health Policy; Medico-legal; Pediatrics
Jones Parker
Specialty/Area of Research: Neuroscience
Keywords: Dopamine; Antipsychotics; Parkinson's; Schizophrenia; Motor learning; Neuropharmacology; Basal Ganglia;
Todd Parrish
Specialty/Area of Research: Neuroimaging, Radiology, Biomedical Engineering
Keywords: MRI, brain mapping, advanced neuroimaging data acquisition, neuroimaging data analysis, infrared intraoperative mapping, MRI sequence development, deep learning with neuroimaging data
Ashlesha Patel
Specialty/Area of Research: Obstetrics and Gynecology
Hiten Patel
Specialty/Area of Research: Urology / Urologic Oncology
Keywords: Prostate Cancer, Kidney Cancer, Biopsy, Surgery
Sameer Patel
Specialty/Area of Research: Infectious Diseases-Pediatrics
Keywords: Infectious Diseases; Stewardship; Antibiotics; Pediatrics
Sheetal Patel
Specialty/Area of Research: Congenital heart defects, echocardiography, Turner Syndrome
Keywords: Pediatric cardiology, single ventricle cardiac defect, Fontan palliation
Shivani Govind Patel
Specialty/Area of Research: Pediatric Cardiology
John D. Peipert
Specialty/Area of Research: Medical Social Sciences
Keywords: Transplantation; Quality of Life
Minoli Perera
Specialty/Area of Research: Pharmacology
Keywords: Genomic Medicine/Personalized Medicine, Pharmacology, Adverse Drug Reactions, Autoimmune Diseases, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Pharmacogenomics
Minoli Perera
Specialty/Area of Research: Pharmacogenomics
Keywords: African American precision medicine, Pharmacogenomics
Bethany Perez-White
Specialty/Area of Research: Dermatology; cell and skin biology
Keywords: cell biology; skin biology; 3D skin organoids; inflammatory skin diseases; skin cancers; epidermal differentiation; atopic dermatitis; psoriasis; rare skin diseases; drug development; pharmacology
Colleen Peyton
Specialty/Area of Research: Pediatrics (Infant neurology and motor development)
Keywords: Infant brain development, infant motor development
Maryam Pezhouh
Specialty/Area of Research: Pathology
Keywords: Pathology; Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Liver Disease, Gastroenteritis
Duc Pham
Specialty/Area of Research: Cardiac Surgery
Keywords: Heart-Assist Devices; Heart Failure; Hemodynamics; Thrombosis; Prosthesis Design; Ventricles
Gregory Phillips II
Specialty/Area of Research: Infectious Diseases Epidemiology
Keywords: LGBT Health, SGM Health, HIV, Social Networks, Epidemiology, Program Evaluation, COVID-19, Community-Engaged, Systems Thinking, Measurement
Siobhan Phillips
Specialty/Area of Research: Preventive Medicine-Behavioral Medicine
Keywords: Aging; Behavioral Medicine; Cancer Survivorship; Clinical Trial Methodology; Physical activity; Preventive Medicine; Psychology; Public Health
Sarah Pila-Leiderman
Specialty/Area of Research: children and media
Keywords: systematic/scoping reviews, public health, surveys, young children, media, technology
Zachary Pittsenbarger
Specialty/Area of Research: Emergency Medicine-Pediatrics
Keywords: Allergies; Asthma; Emergency Medicine; Health Disparities; Health Services Research; Mental Health; Pediatrics; Quality Improvement
Leonidas Platanias
Specialty/Area of Research: Hematology/Oncology; Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics
Keywords: Chronic Leukemias; Multiple Myeloma; Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma
Joseph Posluszny
Specialty/Area of Research: Surgery (Trauma and Critical Care)
Keywords: emergency surgery, critical care, frailty
Matthew Potts
Specialty/Area of Research: Neurological Surgery
Keywords: Brain Aneurysm; Brain arteriovenous malformation; Carotid Stenosis; Cerebrovascular surgery; Endovascular Surgical Neuroradiology; Interventional Neurosurgery; Minimally invasive cerebrovascular surgery; Stroke
Vitaliy Poylin
Specialty/Area of Research: Colon and Rectal Surgery
Keywords: Inflammatory Bowel Disease, outcomes after colorectal surgery
Adrienne Prestridge Savant
Specialty/Area of Research: Pulmonology-Pediatrics
Keywords: Asthma; Cystic Fibrosis; Graduate Medical Education; Healthcare Quality; Lungs, Breathing Problems; Outcome measures; Pediatrics; Respiratory Diseases
Jyothy Puthumana
Specialty/Area of Research: Cardiology
Keywords: Stain Imaging; Coronary Heart Disease; Stress Echo; Valvular Heart Disease; Coronary Bypass Surgery
Carla Quijano
Specialty/Area of Research: Radiology; Pediatric Body Imaging & Nuclear Medicine
Jelena Radulovic
Specialty/Area of Research: Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences; Pharmacology; Physiology
Keywords: Behavioral Biology; Molecular Biology; Molecular Pharmacology; Neurobiology; Neuroscience; Physiology; Psychiatry; Signal Transduction
Preethi Raghupatruni
Specialty/Area of Research: Pediatrics (Advanced General Pediatrics and Primary Care)
Ann Ragin
Specialty/Area of Research: Radiology; Brain Imaging (ongoing studies in Aging, in HIV and in COVID)
Keywords: Brain Imaging, Aging, HIV, COVID, Brain Networks, Neurovascular, blood brain barrier
Bahram Rahmani
Specialty/Area of Research: Ophthalmology-Pediatrics
Keywords: Oculoplastic Disease; Ocular Involvement in cGVHD; Adult Strabismus
Sriram Ramgopal
Specialty/Area of Research: Pediatrics, emergency medicine, health services research
Keywords: Pneumonia, artificial intelligence, machine learning, lower respiratory tract infections, chronic medical conditions, hypothermia, emergency medical services. I do a large number of data science and machine learning subjects related to pediatric acute care.
Rosalind Ramsey-Goldman
Specialty/Area of Research: Clinical Research in Lupus (Rheumatology)
Keywords: systemic lupus erythematosus, epidemiology (outcomes, risk factors, health disparities, disease activity measures), clinical trials (fatigue behavior change intervention, patient reported outcomes, physical activity), clinical trial (mesenchymal stem cell transplant), clinical trial (vaccine hesitancy using social justice lens versus biomedical model), big data (algorithms to identify lupus, pregnancy outcomes, and lupus nephritis, translational research (neuropsychiatric lupus). Dr. Rosalind Ramsey-Goldman is the director of the Patient-Oriented Clinical Research Program in Lupus with continuous funding from NIH, foundations, philanthropy, and industry since 1991 when she joined the faculty at NUFSM. Her research program examines risk factors to minimize complications in lupus where she developed disease classification criteria, flare assessments, nephritis guidelines, disease impact (damage and frailty), and assessed patient-reported outcomes. These clinical investigations incorporated multiethnic cohorts examining clinical, laboratory, and health related outcomes. She is the Principal Investigator (PI) of an NIH funded clinical trial testing an intervention to mitigate fatigue, a pervasive problem affecting 90% of patients with lupus. As the PI for the LUPUS CONVERSATIONS program funded by the Office of Minority Health, she has translated her longstanding interest in documenting health disparities in lupus by working with communities to improve lupus awareness and increase participation in clinical trials. Through her cultivated community-academic partnerships her team will address vaccine hesitancy in underserved communities. She has mentored junior investigators and research staff who are pursuing careers in health education and health equity. Dr. Ramsey-Goldman has published over 380 original and invited articles, and she has held multiple leadership roles for the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) serving as chair of multiple committees and on the Board of Directors. She received the 2016 Lawren H. Daltroy award for health communication, the 2017 Evelyn V. Hess award from the Lupus Foundation of America, the 2018 Paula Stern Award for Outstanding Women in Science and Medicine presented by the Women Faculty Organization at NUFSM, and in 2019 she was designated a Master of the ACR.
Mehul Raval
Specialty/Area of Research: Pediatric Surgery
Keywords: health services research, outcomes, quality improvement
Jonathan Rich
Specialty/Area of Research: Cardiology
Keywords: Cardiovascular Diseases; Heart Failure; Heart Transplantation; Mechanical Circulatory Assistance; Pulmonary Hypertension
Mary Rinella
Specialty/Area of Research: Gastroenterology/Hepatology
Keywords: Hepatitis; Liver Biopsy; Variceal Banding; Colonoscopy; Esophagogastroduodenoscopy; Fatty Liver Disease
Christine Rini
Specialty/Area of Research: Medical Social Sciences (Behavioral Medicine/Health Psychology)
Keywords: Cancer survivorship, pain and symptom management, psychological adaptation, social support and family/relationship processes, health decision making, behavioral interventions
Rizwan S Akhtar
Specialty/Area of Research: Neurology (movement disorders)
Keywords: Clinical Focus Dr. Akhtar sees patients with movement disorders, which include Parkinson's disease, atypical parkinsonisms, essential tremor, dystonia, ataxia, chorea, tics, and myoclonus. Current projects in the lab include development of an ELISA that specifically detects alpha-synuclein fibrils, and characterization of patient-derived auto-antibodies to alpha-synuclein as regulators of alpha-synuclein pathogenesis.
Daniel Robinson
Specialty/Area of Research: Pediatrics-Neonatology
Keywords: Biochemistry: Lipids; Breastfeeding Medicine; Pediatric Nutrition
Joshua Robinson
Specialty/Area of Research: Cardiology-Pediatrics; Radiology
Keywords: Cardiovascular Imaging; Congenital Heart Disease; Pediatric Cardiology; Radiology, Xray, CAT Scan, Medical Imaging
Sarah Rodriguez
Specialty/Area of Research: history of medicine; history of reproductive health
Keywords: history of medicine; history of reproductive health
Jenna Rossoff
Specialty/Area of Research: Hematology/Oncology/Stem Cell Transplant
Keywords: Fever and neutropenia and infections in oncology patients
Erin Rowell
Specialty/Area of Research: Pediatrics-Surgery
Keywords: Clinical and ethical side of fertility preservation surgical procedures
Ishan Roy
Specialty/Area of Research: Systemic physiology in cancer, physical medicine and rehabilitation
Keywords: Cancer, physical medicine and rehabilitation, muscle physiology. My lab would be of most interest to those students interested in the physical and cognitive physiologic effects of chronic disease. We use both human subjects and pre-clinical animal models to investigate the physiologic mechanisms of functional decline due to cancer and other medically complex disease states.
Dave Rusinak
Specialty/Area of Research: Neuroradiology
Maura Ryan
Specialty/Area of Research: Radiology; Pediatric Neuroradiology
Leslie Rydberg
Specialty/Area of Research: Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Medical Education
Keywords: Neurologic Complications of AIDS
Sean Sachdev
Specialty/Area of Research: Radiation Oncology
Keywords: Acoustic Neuroma; Cancer: Bladder; Cancer: Brain and Nervous System; Cancer: Prostate; Neuro-Oncology; Radiation Oncology; Spinal Column Tumors; Spinal Oncology
Jonathan Samet
Specialty/Area of Research: pediatric musculoskeletal radiology
Keywords: Pediatric musculoskeletal radiology: MRI bone marrow assessment, bone tumors, sports, MSK ultrasound, nerve imaging, MRI neurography, Ultrasound of nerves.
Satish N Nadig
Specialty/Area of Research: Surgery (Organ Transplantation), Microbiology-Immunology and Pediatrics
Keywords: Immune regulation, Immune system, immunology, surgery, transplantation
Susanne Schnell
Specialty/Area of Research: Neurovascular MR imaging, MRI
Keywords: 4D flow MRI, cerebral vascular disease, MRI sequences, Image post-processing
Thomas Schnitzer
Specialty/Area of Research: Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation; Rheumatology
Keywords: Bones, Cartilage, Joints, Muscles; Clinical Trial Methodology; Osteoarthritis; Osteoporosis; Pain
James Schroeder
Specialty/Area of Research: Otolaryngology / ENT / Pediatrics
Keywords: Pediatric dysphagia, Aspiration, Feeding difficulty, laryngomalacia, Larynx
Norman Segal
Specialty/Area of Research: Pediatrics-Community-Based Primary Care
Kavitha Selvaraj
Specialty/Area of Research: Pediatric Obesity
Keywords: Pediatric obesity. I am actively seeking an AOSC student to help with the POWER study (Pediatric Obesity Weight Evaluation Registry). This is a national registry accumulating clinical data from individual comprehensive pediatric weight management programs around the United States for youth with obesity. We have received funding to participate from 2022-2026. There are many opportunities for a student to participate in designing a project, assisting with prospective data collection, and co-authoring a manuscript using data from this large national database (https://www.powerregistry.org/publications).
Anthony Serritella
Specialty/Area of Research: Medicine (Hospital Medicine)
Ami Shah
Specialty/Area of Research: Oncology
Malika Shah
Specialty/Area of Research: Pediatrics-Neonatology
Keywords: Newborns, newborn screening, both well nursery and NICU care, breastfeeding, affects of COVID-19 on general newborn care
Seema Shah
Specialty/Area of Research: Bioethics
Keywords: Research ethics, health law and policy
Naseem Shakir
Specialty/Area of Research: Radiology; Pediatric Body Imaging
Karen Sheehan
Specialty/Area of Research: Emergency Medicine-Pediatrics; Preventative Medicine; Medical Education
Keywords: Youth Development; Injury Prevention; Pediatric Emergency Medicine; Pediatrics; Public Health
Niraj Shenoy
Specialty/Area of Research: Oncology
Keywords: cancer research; cancer biology; metabolism; epigenetics; immune evasion; kidney cancer
Gordon Shepherd
Specialty/Area of Research: Neuroscience - cortical circuits
Keywords: neocortex, circuits, motor system, somatosensory system, corticospinal, mouse, optogenetics, molecular barcoding, electrophysiology, imaging, manual dexterity. Students from all kinds of backgrounds and interests are welcome. Skills in computer programming or other areas relevant to our experiments would be helpful but are not required.
Teepu Siddique
Specialty/Area of Research: Neurology; Cell and Molecular Biology
Keywords: Cell Biology; Dementia; Drug Discovery; EMG; Genetics; Neurogenetics; Neurology; Neuroscience
Jonathan Silverberg
Specialty/Area of Research: Dermatology; Medical Social Sciences; Preventive Medicine
Keywords: Allergies; Biostatistics; Dermatology; Epidemiology; Quality of Life
Benjamin Singer
Specialty/Area of Research: lung immunology and epigenetics
Keywords: regulatory T cells, T cell receptor, epigenetics, pneumonia, aging
Anne Marie Singh
Specialty/Area of Research: Allergy/Immunology-Pediatrics
Keywords: Allergies; Asthma; Eczema; Food Allergy
Anna Smith
Specialty/Area of Research: Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Anne Stey
Specialty/Area of Research: Injury Health services research
Keywords: Trauma, critical care, surgery, disparities, cost, machine learning
Tina Stosor
Specialty/Area of Research: Infectious Diseases; Organ Transplant Surgery
Keywords: HIV Infection; Hepatitis C; Heart Transplantation; Infectious Diseases; Mechanical Circulatory Assistance; Transplantation; Viral Hepatitis
Jonah Stulberg
Specialty/Area of Research: Gastrointestinal & Endocrine Surgery
Keywords: Surgical Training; Laparoscopy; Rectal Neoplasms; Colectomy; Process Control
S. David Stulberg
Specialty/Area of Research: Orthopedic Surgery
Cord Sturgeon
Specialty/Area of Research: Gastrointestinal & Endocrine Surgery
Keywords: Adrenal Tumors; Cancer: Thyroid; Endocrine Surgery; Goiter; Graves Disease; Hyperparathyroidism; Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia; Thyroid Nodules
Ronen Sumagin
Specialty/Area of Research: Immunology, Cell biology
Keywords: Innate immunity, Leukocyte trafficking, Gut inflammation, Wound healing, Colon Cancer. Studies in the Sumagin laboratory use biochemical and molecular techniques, advanced intravital imaging approaches and in vitro/in vivo injury models to investigate mechanisms by which innate immune cells, namely neutrophil and macrophages contribute to resolution of inflammation, epithelial injury and carcinogenesis in the gastrointestinal tract. Immune cells are critical for host defense, however, dysregulated immune cell infiltration and activity in inflamed mucosa leads to significant alterations in tissue homeostasis, underlying many pathological disorders, including but not limited to Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). Thus, my lab is particularly interested in studying leukocyte trafficking across the endothelial and epithelial barriers under conditions of inflammation and how this impacts cellular function. Among others we investigate how neutrophils and macrophages impact organization of the cell cytoskeleton and the extracellular matrix, cell-to-cell adhesions, endothelial/epithelial barrier function, cellular regeneration and an induction of genomic instability due to accumulation of DNA damage. Our recent and ongoing studies recognize both detrimental and beneficial contributions of innate immune cells to mucosal injury resolution and carcinogenesis, and so our goal is to better define mechanisms underlying these opposing functions and identify new ways to improve resolution of mucosal inflammation and prevent carcinogenesis and colon cancer progression.
Faith Summersett Williams
Specialty/Area of Research: Pediatric Psychology; Health Systems Research; Social Justice & Equity
Keywords: adolescent substance use; complex chronic medical conditions; implementation science; health systems research; health equity; public health; bioethics and humanities
Riccardo Superina
Specialty/Area of Research: Surgery-Pediatrics
Keywords: Liver Transplantation; Hepatoblastoma
Santhanam Suresh
Specialty/Area of Research: Anesthesiology-Pediatrics
Keywords: Anesthesiology; Pain; Pain Management; Palliative Care, Hospice; Pediatrics
Kevin Swong
Specialty/Area of Research: Neurosurgery
Bruce Tan
Specialty/Area of Research: Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery
Keywords: Allergies; Clinical Research; Minimally Invasive Surgery; Otolaryngology; Skull Base Surgery
Angelo Tanna
Specialty/Area of Research: Ophthalmology
Keywords: Electrophysiology; Epidemiology; Ophthalmology
Tara Lagu
Specialty/Area of Research: Medical Social Sciences; Access for people with disability; organization and delivery of care for patients with Heart Failure
Keywords: Director, Institute for Public Health and Medicine (IPHAM) - Center for Health Services & Outcomes Research. health services research, Health policy, equity, disparities, disability, heart failure. Happy to chat with students who just want to learn more about health services, epi, and other "dry lab" research!
Matthew Tate
Specialty/Area of Research: Neurological Surgery; Neurology
Keywords: Brain Trauma; Cancer: Brain and Nervous System; Epilepsy Surgery; Neurosurgery; Radiation Oncology
Jessica Templer
Specialty/Area of Research: Epilepsy / Tumor-related epilepsy / Awake mapping
Keywords: tumor-related epilepsy, epilepsy surgery, awake craniotomies, electrocorticography
Michael Terry
Specialty/Area of Research: Orthopedic Surgery; Medical Education
Keywords: Orthopedics; Sports Medicine
C Shad Thaxton
Specialty/Area of Research: nanotechnology, materials science, lipid metabolism
Keywords: nanotechnology, materials science, lipid metabolism, inflammation, ferroptosis, metabolism, cancer,
Ed Thorp
Specialty/Area of Research: Cardiovascular Immunology
Keywords: Cardiovascular Diseases; Cell Biology; Cholesterol; Inflammation; Molecular Biology
Hadi Toeg
Specialty/Area of Research: Cardiac Surgery
Keywords: Heart Failure, Heart Transplantation, Minimally Invasive Heart Procedures, Heart Disease
Paloma Toledo
Specialty/Area of Research: Anesthesiology
Keywords: Anesthesiology; Obstetrics; Health Disparities; Pain
Tadaki Tomita
Specialty/Area of Research: Vascular Surgery
Keywords: Infection; Transplants; Morbidity; Clinical Outcomes
Laura Torchen
Specialty/Area of Research: Pediatric Endocrinology/Reproductive Biology
Keywords: Polycystic ovary syndrome, hyperandrogenemia, early origins of health and disease, insulin resistance
Warren Tourtellotte
Specialty/Area of Research: Pathology; Neurology
Keywords: Developmental Neurobiology; EGFR; Gene Regulation; Genomics; Movement Control; Neurogenetics; Pathology; Transgenics
Toshi Uchida
Specialty/Area of Research: General Internal Medicine; Medical Education
Keywords: Medical Education
Ulas Bagci
Specialty/Area of Research: Radiology (Basic and Translational Radiology Research)
Keywords: Research interests are artificial intelligence, machine learning and their applications in biomedical and clinical imaging. Dr. Bagci has more than 250 peer-reviewed articles on these topics.
Margrit Urbanek
Specialty/Area of Research: Endocrinology
Keywords: Diabetes; Endocrine and Metabolism; Polycystic Ovary Syndrome; Endocrine Genetics; Genetics; Obesity
John Varga
Specialty/Area of Research: Rheumatology; Dermatology
Keywords: Autoimmune Diseases; Cutaneous Biology; Fibrosis; Genetics; Inflammation; Respiratory Diseases; Signal Transduction; Stem Cells
Yuri Velichko
Specialty/Area of Research: Radiology
Keywords: Oncologic imaging, imaging response assessment, imaging biomarkers, tumor growth dynamics, tumor classification, tumor-image texture analysis, radiomics, machine learning, computer simulation.
Priya Verghese
Specialty/Area of Research: Kidney Diseases-Pediatrics
David Victorson
Specialty/Area of Research: Medical Social Sciences
Keywords: Behavioral Medicine; Integrative Medicine; Medical Informatics; Oncology; Patient Reported Outcomes; Psychological Issues of Patients Dealing with Medical Illness; Psychometrics; Quality of Life
Nicholas J Volpe
Specialty/Area of Research: Ophthalmology
Keywords: Strabismus; Double Vision; Hemifacial Spasms; Medical Education; Neuro-Ophthalmology
Milkie Vu
Specialty/Area of Research: health equity; health disparities; community engagement; implementation science; cancer prevention; Asian Americans; immigrants; refugees
Keywords: health equity; health disparities; community engagement; implementation science; cancer prevention; Asian Americans; immigrants; refugees
Thanh-Huyen Vu
Specialty/Area of Research: Preventive Medicine-Epidemiology
Keywords: Aging; Cardiovascular Diseases; Epidemiology; Health Disparities; Inflammation; Preventive Medicine; Quality of Life; Women's Health
Robert Walton
Specialty/Area of Research: Plastic Surgery
Keywords: Plastic Surgery
Theresa Walunas
Specialty/Area of Research: Medical Informatics, Immunology, Implementation Science
Keywords: My goal is to improve health for people with autoimmune disease, using immunological, genomics, informatics and implementation science methods to study the development of autoimmunity. My research focuses on using electronic health records, intersected with genetic, social and environmental data to 1) develop translational models to elucidate the molecular and environmental mechanisms of human autoimmune disease and 2) develop EHR-based tools to improve care for people with autoimmunity. I'm a bench trained informaticist and I welcome working with students who are interested in spanning interdisciplinary boundaries.
James Wang
Specialty/Area of Research: Facial Plastic Surgery, Plastic Surgery, microbiology, basic sciences, essential oils, biofilms, otolaryngology
Chris Warren
Specialty/Area of Research: Food Allergy and Asthma
Keywords: Allergies, Asthma, Clinical Research, Food Allergy, Health Policy Health Services, Research, Pediatrics, Public. Chris has worked with CFAAR since 2011, when our merry band of allergy/asthma researchers was simply known as �Team Ruchi�. Over the past 10 years he has filled a variety of roles on the team including research project coordinator, biostatistician, consultant and music video producer. During this time he and Dr. Gupta's growing team have co-authored dozens of peer-reviewed manuscripts and presented their research at dozens of meetings around the world. As of May 2021 he is officially an Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine at Northwestern Medicine and serves as CFAAR�s Director of Population Health Research. His research focuses on better understanding and ameliorating the public health burden of food allergy and other atopic diseases, both in the US and abroad.
Daniel Watterson
Specialty/Area of Research: CNS Drug Development
Keywords: Use of pharmacoinformatics to enhance the design and use of CNS therapeutics; Design, synthesis and IND-enabling Development of Novel Small Molecule Drugs. We are a small, highly productive, well-funded basic research laboratory that actively pursues translation of our basic science discoveries to the clinical trial stage of drug development. Prior medical student projects have ranged from identification and structure elucidation of a key brain marker protein that is now a key clinical pathology biomarker (independent bench work) to informatics analysis of approved drugs and clinical trial.gov entries for chemical patterns now used in the design and synthesis of CNS drugs by industry and medicinal chemistry academic labs (informatics and data bases).
Gregory Webster
Specialty/Area of Research: Pediatrics (Cardiology)
Keywords: My research focuses on the genetics of heart rhythm and heart muscle diseases. You can learn more about my research team and our interests at the web page for our lab group: https://labs.feinberg.northwestern.edu/webster
Santina Wheat
Specialty/Area of Research: Family & Community Medicine; Medical Education
Keywords: Community Medicine, HIV Infection, Underserved Medicine, Women's Health/Women's Reproductive Health
Firas Wehbe
Specialty/Area of Research: Cardiovascular Medicine
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Cardiology, Cardiac Surgery. I'm the medical director of the Center for AI in the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute at NM. We are always looking for opportunities to advance cardiovascular health and care delivery through the application of AI, Machine Learning and related methodologies.
John Wilkins
Specialty/Area of Research: Cardiology; Preventive Medicine
Keywords: Blood Pressure; Cardiovascular Diseases; Cholesterol; Hypertension
Deborah Winter
Specialty/Area of Research: Computational Immunology
Keywords: Computational Biology; Functional Genomics; Macrophages Generally, interested students should have prior training in computational methods (not necessarily research experience but basic programming and statistics.
Katherine Wisner
Specialty/Area of Research: women's mental health
Keywords: pregnancy, postpartum, mental health, women's health, psychopharmacology, trauma
Katie Wolfe
Specialty/Area of Research: Pediatrics (Critical Care); Medical Education
Keywords: Pediatric Critical Care
Kristy Wolniak
Specialty/Area of Research: Flow cytometry of cutaneous T cell lymphoma
Keywords: cutaneous T cell lymphoma; hematopathology; flow cytometry; Mycosis fungoides. This project would be of particular interest to students planning to go into dermatology, pathology, or oncology
Gayle Woloschak
Specialty/Area of Research: Radiology; Radiation Oncology
Keywords: Biotechnology; Nanotechnology; Radiation Oncology; Radiology
Katherine Wright
Specialty/Area of Research: Family & Community Medicine
Keywords: Surveys, Biostatistics, Public Health, Program Evaluation, Health Services Research
Jennifer Wu
Specialty/Area of Research: Cancer Biology, Cancer Immunology
Keywords: Professor, Mentored many students and postdoc, Ph.D from UBC, Canada, Postdoc at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Mary Wyers
Specialty/Area of Research: Radiology; pediatric body imaging
Dan Xu
Specialty/Area of Research: Microbiology-Immunology
Poonam Yadav
Specialty/Area of Research: Radiation therapy (Low field MRI)
Keywords: 1) Low field MR Linac system 2) Dose to critical organs 3) Cumulative dose to organs from adaptive planning 4) Analyze organ motion in 2D plane 5) Improving image quality
Rendong Yang
Specialty/Area of Research: Bioinformatics, Cancer Genomics
Keywords: bioinformatics, genomics, prostate cancer, RNA biology, Multi-omics, machine learning, genomic algorithms
Tony Yang
Specialty/Area of Research: Surgery-Oncology
Keywords: Cancer: Liver; Cancer: Pancreas; Cancer: Thyroid; Endocrine Surgery; Healthcare Quality; Patient Safety; Thyroid Disease; Thyroid Nodules
Yun Yang
Specialty/Area of Research: Stroke rehabilitation/computational neuroscience/human movement control
Keywords: Multi-modal brain imaging (EEG, MRI, DTI), non-invasive brain stimulations (tDCS, TMS), unilateral brain injuries, bio-system identification
Lirong Yan
Specialty/Area of Research: MRI, Cerebrovascular imaging, cerebrovascular disorders
Keywords: MRI technical development, cerebrovascular imaging, neuroimaging, MR angiography, Perfusion imaging, Arterial spin labeling, cerebrovascular disorders, neurodegenerative diseases
Jindan Yu
Specialty/Area of Research: Hematology/Oncology
Keywords: Cancer Biology; Cancer: Prostate; Endocrinology; Genomics
Phyllis Zee
Specialty/Area of Research: Neurology; Sleep Medicine
Keywords: Aging; Circadian Rhythms; Insomnia; Nocturnal Seizures; Parsomnias; Restless Leg; Epidemiology; Metabolism; Sleep Disorders
Christina Zelano
Specialty/Area of Research: Epilepsy/Clinical Neurophysiology
Keywords: Human neuroscience, Breathing rhythms, Smell, Olfaction, fMRI, Epilepsy, ECoG, Neural proteins, exhaled breath
Hualin Zhang
Specialty/Area of Research: Radiation Oncology
Keywords: Breast Cancer; Cancer Biology; Cancer: Eye; Cancer: Female Reproductive System (ovary, cervix, uterus); Melanoma; Prostate Cancer; Radiation Oncology; Radiology, Xray, CAT Scan, Medical Imaging