Biomedical Engineering Faculty

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; Instrumentation

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 Engineering
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 microscopy

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.

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 healing

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: Biomechanics
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).