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The Joint Graduate Studies Committee is the governing body of the Joint Program in Biomedical Engineering. It comprises faculty from UT Southwestern Medical Center, UT at Arlington, and local industry leaders.

Here is an alphabetical listing of our faculty, the BME teaching track they support, and their research interest. Click on the name to view individual faculty pages.


Greg Allen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
BME Teaching Track: Imaging
Research Interests: Autism; cerebellar function; Functional brain imaging

Thiru M. Annaswamy, M.D., M.A.
Assistant Professor
BME Teaching Track: Orthopedics
Research Interests: Physical medicine and rehabilitation, motor control, neuroscience

Peter Antich, Ph.D.
Professor
BME Teaching Track: Medical Imaging
Research Interests: Gamma; Ultrasound

Khosrow Behbehani, Ph.D.
Professor
BME Teaching Track: Bioinstrumentation & Human Performance
Research Interests: Control theory; Instrumentationtop

Lee A. Bulla, PhD.
Professor
BME Teaching Track: Molecular Engineering
Research Interests: Microbiology 

Jeffrey A. Cadeddu, M.D.
Professor
BME Teaching Track: Bioinstrumentation & Human Performance
Research Interests: Urology: laparoscopy, telesurgical mentoring

Sergey Cheshkov, PhD.
Assistant Professor
BME Teaching Track: Imaging
Research Interests: Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Chemical Shift Imaging; Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI); Multimodal imaging (fMRI, EEG, DTI); Gulf War Syndrome

Charles Chuong, Ph.D.
Professor
BME Teaching Track: Biomechanics
Research Interests: Cardiovascular and pulmonary biomechanics; extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy; finite element applications in biomechanics.

Michael D. Devous Sr., Ph.D.
Professor
BME Teaching Track: Medical Imaging
Research Interests: Psychiatric and neurologic disorders; PET; SPECT

Robert C. Eberhart, Ph.D.
Professor
BME Teaching Track: Molecular Engineeringtop
Research Interests: Biomaterials; Circulatory assist devices

Ronald L. Elsenbaumer, Ph.D.
Professor
BME Teaching Track: Biomaterials & Tissue Engineering
Research Interests: Biomaterials

Thomas Ferree, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
BME Teaching Track: Imaging
Research Interests: Physiological signal processing; Integrated EEG and functional MRI; Modeling neural oscillations; Cognitive neuroscience

Maureen A. Finnegan, M.D.
Associate Professor
BME Teaching Track: Orthopedics
Research Interests: Orthopedics

Harold (Skip) Garner, Jr., Ph.D.
Professor
BME Teaching Track: Molecular Engineering and Computational Biology
Research Interests: Human Genome Project; Computational biology instrumentation

Kaundinya Gopinath, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
BME Teaching Track: Imaging
Research Interests: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Multimodal Neuroimaging; Neurovascular Coupling; FMRI Noise Structure; FMRI Hemodynamics of Normal and Diseased Tissue

Frederick Grinnell, Ph.D.
Professor
BME Teaching Track: Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering
Research Interests: Cell migration and extracellular matrix organization; Tissue engineering and biomaterials; Wound repair; Philosophy and practice of science; Human research ethics, Genetics and bioethics

Herbert Hagler, Ph.D.
Professor
BME Teaching Track: Bioinstrumentation & Human Performance
Research Interests: Analytical electron microscopytop

Michael Jessen, M.D.
Professor
BME Teaching Track: Biomaterials & Tissue Engineering
Research Interests: Circulatory assist devices; Cardiac metabolism

Robert L. Johnson, M.D.
Professor
BME Teaching Track: Bioinstrumentation & Human Performance
Research Interests: Pulmonary physiology

Vikram Kodibagkar, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
BME Teaching Track: Imaging
Research Interests: Developing Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) tools for imaging novel agents to probe the tumor microenvironment, eg. 19F and ¹H based LacZ gene-reporter molecules, ¹H pO2 reporter molecules, macromolecular PARACEST contrast agents and nanoprobes; using MRI and MRS to investigate early changes following the onset of disease.

George V. Kondraske, Ph.D.
Professor
BME Teaching Track: Bioinstrumentation & Human Performance
Research Interests: Human performance theory and instrumentation

Padmakar Kulkarni, Ph.D.
Professor
BME Teaching Track: Medical Imaging
Research Interests: Nuclear chemistry

Matthew Lewis, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
BME Teaching Track: Imaging
Research Interests: Acoustic inverse scattering for breast sonography; task-based inverse methods; ultrasonic assessment the bone elasticity tensor; microSPECT and bioluminescent tomography; biomedical compressive sensing and sparsity

Hanli Liu, Ph.D.
Professor
BME Teaching Track: Medical Imaging
Research Interests: Bioinstrumentation, Biomedical optics for tissue characteristics, tumor diagnosis, medical imaging by using Near Infrared light.top

Hanzhang Lu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
BME Teaching Track: Imaging
Research Interests: Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI); Perfusion MRI; Cerebrovascular physiology; Diffusion MRI; MR physics and pulse sequence design

Michael T. Manry, Ph.D.
Professor
BME Teaching Track: Medical Imaging
Research Interests: Signal/image processing; estimation theory; neural networks

Vladislav S. Markin, D.Sc., Ph.D.
Professor
BME Teaching Track: Biomechanics
Research Interests: Biophysics (membranes)

Ralph P. Mason, Ph.D, C.Chem.
Professor
BME Teaching Track: Medical Imaging
Research Interests: 19F NMR, PET-MR, SPECT, MRI, pO2; pH, Bone Trabecular Architecture; Prostate and Breast Tumors; Myocardial Ischemia 

Roderick McColl, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
BME Teaching Track: Medical Imaging
Research Interests: fMRI; DICOM

Jere Mitchell, M.D.
Professor of Internal Medicine & Physiology
BME Teaching Track: Bioinstrumentation & Human Performance
Research Interests: Cardiovascular physiology

Karen Pawlowski, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
BME Teaching Track: Tissue Engineering
Research Interests: Cellular mechanisms involved in sensory neural hearing loss; Investigations of biomedical engineering technologies applied to the temporal bone and auditory system; Role of biofilms in chronic recurrent infections of the temporal bone

Ronald Peshock, M.D.
Professor
BME Teaching Track: Medical Imaging
Research Interests: MRI

Lynn Peterson, Ph.D.
Assoc. Dean of Eng. for Academic Affairs
BME Teaching Track: Bioinstrumentation & Human Performance
Research Interests: Knowledge representation, artificial intelligence applications, medical computer science

W. Matthew Petroll, Ph.D.
Professor
BME Teaching Track: Medical Imaging
Research Interests: Wound healingtop

Mario Romero-Ortega, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
BME Teaching Track: Tissue Engineering
Research Interests: Spinal Cord Injury; Peripheral Nerve Regeneration; Regenerative Carbon Nanotubes Neurointerfaces

A. Dean Sherry, Ph.D.
Professor
BME Teaching Track: Medical Imaging
Research Interests: Biomedical magnetic resonance techniques, applications of 13C NMR to study intermediary metabolism, lanthanide based MRI contrast agents, 23Na paramagnetic shift agents, and lanthanide-macrocyclic complexes

Liping Tang, Ph.D.
Professor
BME Teaching Track: Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering
Research Interests: Tissue Engineering

Gaylord Throckmorton, Ph.D.
Professor
BME Teaching Track: Biomechanicstop
Research Interests: Craniofacial biomechanics

Richard B. Timmons, Ph.D.
Professor
BME Teaching Track: Biomaterials & Tissue Engineering
Research Interests: Biomaterials

John J. Triano, D.C., Ph.D.
Director, Chiropractic Division
BME Teaching Track: Orthopedics
Research Interests: Motions on the Posterior Ligament of the Lumbar Spine, Neck Artery Compromise

David B. Wallace, Ph.D.
Vice President, Technology Development, MicroFab Technologies, Inc.
BME Teaching Track: Bioinstrumentation & Human Performance
Research Interests: Microfabrication for medical treatment.

Jihong Wang, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
BME Teaching Track: Medical Imaging
Research Interests: Human perception and viewing environment optimization in radiology, Picture Achieving and Communication System (PACS) and function magnetic resonant imaging research

Masashi Yanagisawa, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor
BME Teaching Track: Molecular & Computational Engineering
Research Interests: Molecular genetics of sleep/wake regulation; Orphan GPCRs and their neuropeptide ligands

Jian Yang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
BME Teaching Track: Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering
Research Interests: Tissue engineering, drug delivery and cellular/tissue bioimaging; Biodegradable elastic polymers; Biodegradable photoluminescent polymers (BPLPs).

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