Research Faculty—Surgery
Program Director/Department Chair: Robert Cooney, MD
- Vivian Gahtan, MD
ProfessorResearch Interests: Smooth muscle cell migration, thrombospondin, extracellular matrix-smooth muscle cell interactions, vascular surgery procedure outcomes - Dilip Kittur, MD, ScD, FACS
ProfessorResearch Interests: Xenotransplantation, Endothelial cell dysfunction, Use of herbal products in transplant biology - Leslie Kohman, MD, FACS
Distinguished Service ProfessorResearch Interests: All aspects of thoracic oncology and lung cancer. Clinical trials in solid organ cancers.
- Kristopher Maier, PhD
Assistant ProfessorResearch Interests:Vascular disease, Vascular Complications in Diabetes, Endothelial and Smooth Muscle Intracellular Signaling
- Qinghe Meng, MD
Instructor - Gary Nieman, MS
Associate ProfessorResearch Interests: Cardiopulmonary Critical Care - Guirong Wang, PhD
Associate Professor