Residency Research
Research Mentors
Internal Medicine Resident Research Mentors
(Alphabetical by Section)
Cardiology
Mentor | Area of Interest |
Applegate | Evaluation of Clinical Outcomes in Patients with Acute & Chronic Coronary Syndromes Undergoing Catheterization and PCI Procedure |
Cheng | Molecular Laboratory Investigations of Heart Failure; Beta3-Adrenergic Receptors |
Herrington | Cardiac Population Risk; Screening Methodologies |
Hundley | Cardiac Imaging, Cardiac MRI, Cancer therapy and cardiac injury, Imaging mechanisms of heart failure |
Kitzman | Cardiac Imaging; Cardiac Ultrasound |
Watts | Clinical Practice/Literature Reviews |
Endocrinology & Metabolism (return to menu)
Mentor | Area of Interest |
Calles | Obesity; Metabolic Syndrome; Diabetes |
Crouse | Carotid Atherosclerosis and Risk for CAD |
Epidemiology (return to menu)
Mentor | Area of Interest |
Bertoni | CVD/Diabetes population based research |
Bell | Minority health and health disparities, Diabetes and cardiovascular disease, Nutrition and health behaviors |
Goff | Cardiac Vascular Disease and Diabetes epidemiology and prevention |
Liu | Genetic and epigenetics, Inflammation, Ectopic Adiposity, Diabetes, and Cardiovascular Disease. |
Soliman | Electrocardiography |
Gastroenterology & Hepatology (return to menu)
Mentor | Area of Interest |
Baille | Outcomes Research in Biliary and Pancreatic Disorders |
Bloomfeld | Pharmacotherapy of Inflammatory Bowel Disease; Colorectal Cancer Screening |
Conway | Endoscopic Ultrasound; Outcomes Research in Therapeutic Endoscopy |
Dawson | Bile Salt Metabolism; Organic Solute Transporters and Colitis |
Evans | Outcomes Research in Biliary and Pancreatic Disorders; Therapeutic Endoscopy Techniques |
Gilliam | Outcomes Research in Endoscopy Techniques |
Koch | Nausea and Vomiting; Gastric Myoelectric Activity; Diabetic Gastroparesis |
Long | Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease; Barrett's Esophagus; Gastroparesis |
Mishra | Outcomes Research in Endoscopic Ultrasound; GI Oncology |
Thorne | Functional and Motility Disorders; Irritable Bowel Syndrome |
Weinberg | Lipoprotein and Fat Metabolism; Intestinal Lipid Absorption; Diet-Gene Interactions |
General Internal Medicine (return to menu)
Mentor | Area of Interest |
Miller | Cancer Prevention and Screening; Computer-Assisted Instruction; Pharmaceutical Marketing; and Health Literacy, educational research |
Wofford | Outpatient Quality Improvement/Care Delivery |
Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine (return to menu)
Mentor | Area of Interest |
Atkinson | Care of the Vulnerable Elderly |
Ding | Pericardial fat and the development of CV Disease |
Delbono | Molecular and Cellular Basis of Sarcopenia |
Houston | Nutritional Aspects of Aging with emphasis on Vitamin D |
Kritchevsky | Pulmonary function and inflammation in the Elderly |
Lyles | Measured effects of diet and exercise interventions |
Nicklas | Measured effects of diet and exercise interventions |
Nicolle | Neurobiology of memory decline in aging |
Sink | Correlates of memory disorders in adults |
Williamson | Analysis of population data sets for factors related to health and aging |
Hematology and Oncology (return to menu)
Mentor | Area of Interest |
Akman | Biology of exocyclic alkylamino purine DNA adducts |
Knovich | Inflammatory markers in TTP |
Kucera | Laboratory testing of novel chemotherapeutics |
Levitan | Prevalence of cytogenetic abnormalities in all patients by ethnicity |
McQuellon | Depression screening in cancer patients following surgery/therapy |
Owen | In vitro detection of pathologic antibodies in heparin-induced thrombocytopenia |
Petty | Lung carcinogenesis; Receptor-selective retinoids |
Porosnicu | EGFR inhibitors; Viral oncolytic therapies |
Infectious Diseases (return to menu)
Mentor | Area of Interest |
High | Improving vaccine responsiveness; Chart reviews of infections in immunocompromised hosts; Bench research on the role of IL-23 and IL-17 |
Luther | Antimicrobial resistance, Antimicrobial stewardship, medical decision making, medical education |
Nunez | HIV, Hepatitis C, HBV reactivation in patients taking immunosuppressors, Uncommon side effects of anti-HCV treatment |
Ohl | Surveillance testing of resistant organisms; Local microbiologic susceptibilities and local patient outcomes |
Peacock | Case reports of interesting clinical cases, Case series with literature reviews for selected clinical problems (ie, CMV colitis in non-HIV, non-transplant pts; septic bursitis), Prospective observational studies of patients with X infection, Infections of prosthetic devices (Joints, heart valves, cardiac devices) |
Sherertz | Compliance markers; Quality of Care measures in ID, clinical infection control |
Molecular Medicine (return to menu)
Mentor | Area of Interest |
Loeser | Cellular signaling in Chondrocytes; Therapeutic lifestyle changes for osteoarthritis |
McCall | Gene silencing in inflammatory shock |
Seeds | Molecular mechanisms in airway inflammation |
Nephrology (return to menu)
Mentor | Area of Interest |
Adams | Transplant Nephrology |
Bleyer | Renal Osteodystrophy and Calcium-Phosphate Metabolism; Genetic Polymorphisms of Renal Diseases |
Buckalew | Case Series and Studies of Clinical Syndromes in Nephrology |
Burkart | Peritoneal dialysis; Quality Improvement and Outcomes Tracking in ESRD |
Daeihagh | Clinical Trials in HTN, DM; Sleep Disorders in dialysis patients |
DuBose | Acid-base metabolism; Acidosis and sequelae in the elderly |
Freedman | ESRD and Diabetes; Genetic factors in chronic medical diseases |
Hartmann | Kidney transplantation: monitoring, immunosuppression, risk reduction |
Moossavi | Dialysis access/fistulas and grafts; Outcomes and prevention of LVH, renal artery stenosis |
Rocco | Management of Chronic Kidney Disease; Investigating optimal dialysis methods and schedule; In-home hemodialysis |
Saran | Clinical correlates of radiologic measures of renal mass |
Satko | Family history and ESRD |
Vaccharajani | CKD and cardiac devices; Dialysis access in the advanced elderly |
Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine (return to menu)
Mentor | Area of Interest |
Bleecker | Pharmaceutical clinical trials; Genomics of Asthma |
Bowden | Genomics/Molecular biology of glucose metabolism and diabetes |
Chatterjee | Medical devices in critical care; Simulation and web-base curricula in medical education |
Hawkins | Genetics of Asthma, Pharmacogenetics, Epigenetics |
Hite | Surfactant injury in inflammatory lung disease; Clinical research: critical care, mechanical ventilation, sedation, VAP prevention, ethics |
Meyers | Genetics of asthma and bronchial hyperresponsiveness |
Morris | Sepsis clinical outcomes; ICU database-driven quality improvement queries |
Ohar | COPD epidemiology studies and mesothelioma genetic studies |
Pascual | Genomics of Asthma, T-lymphocyte biology, Pulmonary hypertension |
Seeds | Phospholipase A2 in airways and its role in infection/inflammation |
Rheumatology (return to menu)
Mentor | Area of Interest |
Khan | Molecular biology of human T lymphocytes (HSP 60, Toll-like receptors) |
Laxminaravana | Transcription, Mutation, and Regulation of T-lymphocyte gene expression |
Mishra | Lupus clinical trials and molecular regulation mechanisms (CD154) |
O'Rourke | Prospective reviews in Rheumatology; Clinical educational curricula; Geriatric rheumatologic assessment |
Valen | Clinical reviews; Rheumatology educational curricula |