Faculty Directory Alphabetical

	A. Paige Adams, D.V.M., Ph.D. Immunopathology and infectious disease pathogenesis of alphaviruses in rodent, equine, and non-human primate animal models.
	Ahmed El-Sayed Ahmed, Ph.D. In the past three decades my colleagues and I focused our research efforts on the impact of chemicals in the environment on human health and its mechanisms.
	Francisco J. Alarcon-Chaidez, Ph.D. The pharmacology of blood feeding arthropod saliva, the immunology of the blood feeding arthropod-host interface, and factors in the saliva of hematophagous arthropods that facilitate transmission of infectious diseases.
	Jack B. Alperin, M.D., F.A.C.P. The clinical investigation of problems related to benign diseases of the blood (e.g. hemostasis & thrombosis, hemoglobinopathies, anemia, thrombocytopenia).
	Shakeel Ansari, Ph.D. Xenobiotic metabolism, conjugation, and toxicity; biomonitoring.
	Judith F. Aronson, M.D. Pathogenesis of arenavirus disease.
	Alan Barrett, Ph.D. Molecular basis of attenuation, virulence, and immunogenicity of flaviviruses
	Paul J. Boor, M.D. I am interested in how the larger blood vessels of the body are injured by toxic chemicals in our environment.
	Nahal Boroumand, M.D. Dr. Boroumand’s primary area of interest is general surgical pathology with a special interest in pulmonary and mediastinal pathology.
	Donald H. Bouyer, Ph.D. Pathogenesis and host response mechanisms of rickettsial diseases
	Gavin Christopher Bowick, Ph.D. Our work is currently focused on two groups of viruses: the hemorrhagic fever-causing arenaviruses Lassa virus and Junin virus, and encephalitic arboviruses such as West Nile virus.
	Barbara Jean Bryant, MD, FCAP, FASCP Areas of research include assuring optimal iron balance in volunteer blood donors, hemoglobinopathies, sickle trait donor units, and granulocytapheresis concentrates.
	Gerald A. Campbell, M.D., Ph.D. Pathologic mechanisms of blood-brain barrier injury in systemic and central nervous system diseases.
	Robert Allen Cox, Ph.D. Airway structure and function, airway inflammation and disease
	Jianli Dong, M.D., Ph.D. (1) BRAF/MEK/ERK and p16/CDK/RB pathways in cancer biology. (2) Molecular diagnostics and translation research. Research and development of molecular biomarkers in clinical application.
	Mahmoud A. Eltorky, M.D., Ph.D. Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in men and women accounting for 157,200 deaths in 2003 and corresponding to 28% of all cancer deaths. Specifically lung cancer causes 88,400 (31%) deaths in men and 68,800 (25%) deaths in women.
	Perenlei Enkhbaatar, M.D., Ph.D. Pathophysiology of cardiopulmonary morbidity due to multiple traumas such as sepsis, smoke inhalation and cutaneous burn.
	D. Mark Estes, Ph.D. Immunoregulation of effector cell functin/development in infection and cancer.
	Jose G Estrada-Franco, Ph.D.
	Eduardo Eyzaguirre, M.D. Viral Determinants of Hantavirus Pulmonary Disease in the Hamster.
	Rong Fang, M.D., Ph.D. Dr. Fang’s research interests focus on understanding of the immune regulatory mechanisms involved in the inability of the host defense system to control systemic infection with intracellular bacteria, such as rickettsiae.
	Vicki S. Freeman, Ph.D., MT(ASCP)SC My goal is to provide leadership in clinical laboratory science education across the nation. I believe that it is important to provide quality laboratory practitioners for clinical laboratories.
	Charles F. Fulhorst, D.V.M., Dr.P.H. Epidemiology and ecology of rodent-borne hantaviruses and arenaviruses.
	Nisha Jain Garg, Ph.D. Molecular mechanisms essential for maintaining the host-parasite interactions of the development of Trypanosoma cruzi.
	Benjamin B. Gelman, M.D., Ph.D. Mechanisms of HIV- and AIDS-associated neurocognitive, neuropathic, and myelopathic changes.
	Joy A. Grise, M.Sc. Causes of stillbirth
	Hal K. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D. Acute inflammatory reaction to tissue injury; wound healing and smoke inhalation injury.
	Norbert K. Herzog, Ph.D. Viral/host interactions, cellular signal transduction in viral pathogenesis, antiviral development.
	Stephen Higgs, B.Sc., Ph.D., F.R.E.S. Interactions between mosquito vectors, the viruses they transmit, and the vertebrate host.
	Kate McElroy Horne, Ph.D. I am interested in flavivirus evolution and the molecular and biological aspects of mosquito-virus interactions.
	Tetsuro Ikegami, Ph.D. Our lab uses a well-established reverse genetics system of RVFV MP-12, and currently studies on the immunological significance of MP-12 NSs as a vaccine, as well as the detailed mechanisms of RVFV NSs multifunctions.
	Alexander J. Indrikovs, M.D. our study titled "Decision assist and closed loop resuscitation of hemorrhage in humans" is testing emerging new monitoring technologies for combat casualty care in volunteers undergoing a 10 mL/kg controlled hemorrhage.
	Bhupendra Singh Kaphalia, Ph.D. Lipid conjugation of xenobiotic alcohols and mechanisms of their toxicity.
	M. Firoze Khan, Ph.D. Oxidative stress and autoimmune diseases.
	Mike Loeffelholz, Ph.D., ABMM Diagnostic virology and microbiology.
	Jere W. McBride, Ph.D. Obligate intracellular bacteria pathobiology, host response, diagnostics, and vaccine development.
	Nobby C. Mambo, M.D. Medical student and post-graduate medical education.
	Basim Soliman Mohammed, MD; FCAP; FASCP My interest is mainly in renal pathology including allograft rejection, the implications of Banff working classification of renal allograft rejection, Renal viral infection in native and allograft kidneys (Polyomavirus, Hantavirus) and glomerulonephritis especially IgA nephropathy.
	Vladimir L. Motin, Ph.D. Currently, my major research interest is the pathogenesis of Yersinia pestis, the etiological agent of plague.
	Frederick A. Murphy, Ph.D. The virology, pathology and epidemiology of highly pathogenic viruses/viral diseases
	Ranjana S. Nawgiri, M.D. Fine needle aspiration cytology.
	Anthony O. Okorodudu, Ph.D., MBA, SC (ASCP), NRCC (TOXI), DABCC, FACB Intracellular cations with respect to cell membrane changes in aging.
	Juan P. Olano, M.D. Pathogenesis of rickettsial and ehrlichial infections.
	Slobodan Paessler, D.V.M., Ph.D. My research has focused on viral pathogenesis and vaccine/diagnostics/antivirals development.
	Jyotsna Pandya, Ph.D. My research interests are mainly focused towards the understanding of alphavirus pathogenesis and to make important contribution in the development of therapeutics and vaccines.
	C.J. Peters, M.D. Main interests are the pathogenesis and epidemiology of viral diseases and the genetics of host resistance.
	John R. Petersen, Ph.D. My research focuses on development of new clinical methodologies and the analytical validation of these methods.
	Vsevolod Leonidovich Popov, Ph.D., D.Sc. Ultrastructure of intracellular bacteria and their interactions with host cells.
	Suimmin Qiu, M.D., Ph.D. My research interests are focused on cancer molecular biology and cancer pathogenesis.
	Bill A. Rampy, D.O., Ph.D. My career goals in Pathology Education are driven by keen interests in the domains of digital imaging, pathology informatics and online learning.
	Vicki Jeanne Schnadig, M.D. I am a service and teaching-oriented pathologist with nearly 20 years experience in diagnostic gynecologic and nongynecologic cytology.
	Lynn Soong, M.D., Ph.D. Protective immunity and pathogenesis of intracellular pathogens; Dendritic cell-pathogen interactions; T cell priming; Cytokines/Chemokines; Vaccine development
	L. Clarke Stout, M.D. Studies of diabetic renal glomerular disease in humans.
	Robert B. Tesh, M.D. Anthropod-borne and rodent-associated viral diseases; leishmaniosis; vector biology.
	Saravanan Thangamani, Ph.D. Understanding the dynamics of vector-pathogen-host interaction is fundamental toward development of new strategies to control vector borne pathogens.
	Sunil Thomas, Ph.D. Development of an Ehrlichia vaccine. Mode of transport of Ehrlichia between cells. Mechanism of immune evasion by the highly pathogenic Ixodus ovatus ehrlichia
	Alfredo G. Torres, Ph.D. Shiga toxin-producing strains of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) are a class of pathogenic E. coli responsible for numerous food- and water-borne outbreaks causing a range of illness in humans, from non-bloody diarrhea to hemorrhagic colitis or hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS).
	Smita Vaidya, Ph.D. Recognition of HLA epitopes by HLA antibodies.
	Gustavo Valbuena, M.D., Ph.D. Investigation of endothelium-target pathogens, particularly rickettsiae, and the immune mechanisms of endothelial cells lining the vascular system.
	David H. Walker, M.D. Pathobiology of obligate intracellular pathogens.
	Gangduo Wang, M.D., Ph.D. Experimental models and mechanisms of chemical-induced autoimmunity.
	Tian Wang, Ph.D. My research focuses on understanding of immune response to West Nile virus infection in protection and pathogenesis.
	Scott C. Weaver, Ph.D. Pathogenesis, epidemiology, and evolution of arboviruses; arbovirus-vector interactions.
	Stephen Wikel, Ph.D. Emerging and re-emerging diseases transmitted by blood feeding arthropods are significant global public health problems. A major focus of my research is characterization of the complex cellular and molecular immunology of the tick-hostpathogen interface.
	Natalie Williams-Bouyer, Ph.D. Antimicrobial resistance trends.
	Xue-jie Yu, M.D., Ph.D. Pathogenesis of obligately intercellular bacteria and the mechanism of persistent ehrlichial infection.

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