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Christopher Allan, Associate Professor, Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine
MD, Northwestern University, 1992
Wound repair and regeneration; tissue engineering

David Baker, Professor, Biochemistry
PhD, Biochemistry, University of California - Berkeley, 1989
Protein folding

Francois Baneyx, Professor, Chemical Engineering
PhD, Chemical Engineering, University of Texas - Austin 1991
Biotechnology; protein technology; biochemical engineering

Gerard Bashein, Professor, Anesthesiology
MD, University of New Mexico, 1974
PhD, Engineering, Carnegie-Mellon University, 1979
Automation techniques in anesthesia; transesophageal ultrasonic cardiac assessment for operating-room monitoring

James V Burke, Professor, Mathematics
PhD, Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1983
Optimization; nonsmooth analysis

James H Caldwell, Professor, Medicine/Cardiology and Adjunct Professor, Radiology
MD, University of Missouri, 1970
Positron emission tomography; myocardial ischemia; myocardial metabolism; cardiac sympathetic nervous system

Peter Cavanagh, Professor, Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine
Endowed Chair in Women's Sports Medicine and Lifetime Fitness
DSc, Faculty of Medicine, University of London, 2004
PhD, Royal Free Medical School, University of London, 1972
Osteoporosis, lower extremity biomechanics, bone health, diabetes

Randal P. Ching, Research Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
PhD, Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington, 1992
Musculoskeletal biomechanics for injury research and improved clinical outcomes

Howard Chizeck, Professor, Electrical Engineering
ScD, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT, 1982
Control engineering theory and the application of control engineering to biomedical problems and biologically inspired engineered systems;  closed loop drug delivery; neural prostheses, functional electrical stimulation; robotic surgery; multi-scale modelling.

Kevin E. Conley, Professor, Radiology
PhD, Zoology, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1983
In vivo muscle metabolism and energetics; magnetic resonance spectroscopy; muscle structure and function; muscle physiology; exercise physiology

Stephen R Dager, Professor, Radiology; Director, Neuroimaging Research Grant; Adjunct Professor, Psychiatry
MD, Psychiatry, University of Nebraska, 1978
Metabolism of the central nervous system; imaging

Thomas Daniel, Professor, Biology
PhD, Biology, Duke University, 1982
MacArthur Fellow, 1996
Implantable microelectronics, dynamics of muscle contraction

Dayong Gao, Professor, Mechanical Engineering
PhD, Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, Concordia University, 1992
Cryopreservation and fundamental cryobiology; bio-heat-mass transfer and thermal stress; artificial kidney; nano-technology/nano-fluid/membrane science; development of optimal technology and equipment; tissue engineering; cardiovascular and blood research

Philip P. Green, Professor, Genome Sciences
PhD, Mathematics, University of California - Berkeley, 1976
Mathematical, statistical, and computer methods for analyzing the genomes of humans and other organisms

Ted S. Gross, Professor, Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine
PhD, Mechanical Engineering, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1993
Mechanotransduction signalling pathways; novel loading strategies to build bone mass; cell and tissue response to hypoxia; tissue engineering

Blake Hannaford, Professor, Electrical Engineering
PhD, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California - Berkeley, 1985
Neural control of movement; robotics; human-machine interaction; telerobotics

Stephen Hauschka, Professor, Biochemistry; Adjunct Professor, Zoology
PhD, Biology, Johns Hopkins University
Skeletal and cardiac muscle biology

David Haynor, Professor, Radiology
PhD, Mathematics, University of California - Berkeley, 1971
MD, Harvard Medical School, 1979
Medical image processing for morphometrics; anatomic imaging

Michael Hlastala, Professor, Physiology and Biophysics/Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
PhD, Physiology, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1969
Respiratory physiology; inert gas analysis of respiratory function

Joo Ha Hwang, Md, PhD, Assistant Professor, Gastroenterology
MD, University of Chicago, 2005
Treatment of pancreatic cancer with high-intensity focused ultrasound

Shaoyi Jiang, Professor, Chemical Engineering
PhD, Cornell University, 1993
Interfacial phenomena and nanotechnology

Michael G. Katze, Professor, Microbiology; Associate Director, Regional Primate Research Center
PhD, Microbiology and Immunology, Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital, 1980
Translational control; pathogenesis and cellular signaling; microarray analysis of regulatory pathways; primate genomics research; cellular pathways; hepatitis C virus replication

Paul Kinahan, Professor, Radiology
PhD, Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania, 1994
Clinical oncology imaging with 3DPET; 3D imaging reconstruction using planograms; PET/CT tomography

Michael Laflamme, Assistant Professor, Pathology
PhD, Emory Univeristy, Molecular Therapeutics & Toxicology, 1998
MD, Emory University, 1999
Cardiac application for human embryonic stem cells to achieve cardiac repair

David Linker, Associate Professor, Internal Medicine, Cardiology
MD, Stanford University, 1976
Ultrasound; vascular; cardiology; signal processing; ventricular function; diastole

David A. Mankoff, Professor, Radiology and Medicine
MD, University of Pennsylvania, 1988
PhD in Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania
Application of PET and molecular imaging to cancer, especially breast cancer; quantitative image analysis and tracer kinetic modeling for medical images; use of molecular imaging in cancer clinical trials

David J. Marcinek, Research Assistant Professor, Radiology
PhD, Physiology, Staford University, 2000
mitochondrial dysfunction in aging and disease, optical and magnetic resonance spectroscopy

Frederick A. Matsen III, Professor and Chairman, Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine
MD, Baylor University, 1968
Shoulder and elbow kinematics; pathobiology

Yoky Matsuoka, Associate Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998
MacArthur Fellow, 2007
Robotics; brain-machine interface

Satoshi Minoshima, Professor and Vice Chair, Radiology
MD, Chiba University, 1987
PhD, Radiological Science, Chiba University, 1994
High resolution PET imaging; imaging of neurogenesis; brain mapping

Pierre Mourad, Associate Professor, Neurological Surgery; Senior Scientist, Applied Physics Laboratory
PhD, Applied Mathematics, University of Washington
Diagnostic and therapeutic ultrasound

Deborah Nickerson, Professor, Genome Sciences
PhD, Immunology, University of Tennessee, 1978
Automating the identification and typing of human DNA variations

Hong Qian, Associate Professor, Applied Math
PhD, Biochemistry and Biophysics, Washington University, 1989
Computational systems biology; macromolecular biophysics; mathematical modeling

Rajesh Rao, Associate Professor, Computer Science & Engineering
PhD, University of Rochester, 1998
Computational neuroscience and brain-computer interfaces

Tom Reh, Professor, Biological Structure
PhD, Neuroscience, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1981
Developing stem cell technology for the treatment of blindness, retinal regeneration

Kenneth A. Schenkman, Associate Professor, Pediatrics
MD, Indiana University School of Medicine, 1986
PhD in Bioengineering, University of Washington, 1996
Optical spectroscopy; tissue oxygenation; mitochondrial function; myocardial energetics

Stephen M. Schwartz, Professor, Pathology
MD, Boston University, 1967
PhD, Experimental Pathology, University of Washington, 1973
Mechanisms controlling growth of cells in the vessel wall; abnormal growth control role atherosclerosis and hypertension; image analysis

Eric J. Seibel, Research Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
PhD, Bioengineering, University of Washington, 1996
3D interface technology; biomedical instrumentation; optical disease diagnosis and laser therapy; and vision assistive devices

Florence H. Sheehan, Professor, Cardiology; Director, Cardiovascular Research and Training Center
MD, University of Chicago, 1975
Cardiac imaging and image analysis for patient care; clinical investigation and clinical trials; three-dimensional echocardiography and MRI; the right ventricle in congenital heart disease and other conditions

Tueng Shen, Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology; Director, Refractive Surgery Center
MD, Harvard Medical School, 1997
PhD, Medical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Corneal tissue engineering, refractive surgery, medical and surgical management of corneal disorders

Nathan Sniadecki, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
PhD, University of Maryland at College Park, 2003
Cell mechanics, mechanotransduction, and bioMEMS

Alexander Veress, Research Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
PhD, Biomedical Engineering, Ohio State University, 2000
Soft tissue and cardiac mechanics

Hubert Vesselle, Associate Professor, Radiology
MD, Case Western Reserve University , 1991
PhD, Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University,
Positron emission tomography applied to oncology; cross-sectional imaging

Chun Yuan, Professor, Radiology
PhD, Medical Biophysics, University of Utah, 1988
Magnetic resonance imaging

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