TEACHING & MENTORSHIPS
TEACHING SPECIALIZATION:
Cardiovascular Module (MD), Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, Rosenstiel Medical Science Building-Fifth Floor Auditorium, Miami, Florida, February 18, 2015
Cardiovascular Module (MD), Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, Rosenstiel Medical Science Building-Fourth Floor Auditorium, Miami, Florida, March 12, 2014
Cardiovascular Module (MD), Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, Rosenstiel Medical Science Building-Fifth Floor Auditorium, Miami, Florida, April 11, 2013
Cardiovascular Module (MD/MPH), Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, Rosenstiel Medical Science Building-Fourth Floor Auditorium, Miami, Florida, March 14, 2013
Cardiovascular Module (Traditional), “Atherosclerosis Inflammation, Genetics and Stem Cell, 2011,” Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, Rosenstiel Medical Science Building-Fifth Floor Auditorium, Miami, Florida, April 12, 2012
Cardiovascular Module (MD/MPH), “Genetics of Cardiac Disease”, Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, Rosenstiel Medical Science Building-Fourth Floor Auditorium, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, March 1, 2012
Cardiovascular Module 2009, Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, May 29, 2009
Cardiovascular Module, University of Miami/Florida Atlantic University Campus, Boca Raton, Florida, May 28, 2009
Interdisciplinary Biomedical Studies Lecture (IBS 603), “Molecular Medicine and Cardiovascular Disease”, Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, May 7, 2009
Cardiovascular Module 2008, Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, May 30, 2008
Cardiovascular Module, “Genetics of Cardiac Disease”, University of Miami/Florida Atlantic University Campus, Boca Raton, Florida, May 29, 2008
Interdisciplinary Biomedical Studies Lecture (IBS 603), “Molecular Medicine and Cardiovascular Disease”, Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, April 30, 2008
Cardiovascular Module (8 week course), Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, June 2007.
UNIVERSITY COMMITTEE AND ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES:
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Director of Cardiology Search, laureate Kenneth Baughman, Baltimore, Maryland
Chair, (appointed by the University President) Senior Vice President and Dean Search, College of Medicine and Public Health Search Committee. Dr. Fred Sanfilippo, laureate (former Chair, Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University)
Chair, Selective Investment Committee, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
Member, University Human Subjects Review Steering Committee, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
Chair, (appointed by the University President) Task Force for Restructuration of The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, Ohio
Chair, Search Committee, Director of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Dr. Robert Michler laureate (formerly cardiac surgeon at Columbia University), Ohio State University Heart Center, Columbus, Ohio
Chair, Heart Center Task Force, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
Duke Center for Genome Ethics, Law and Policy Steering Committee, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Duke Center for Genome Ethics, Law and Policy Director, Search Committee, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Duke Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy Steering Committee Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Duke Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy Director, Search Committee, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Duke Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Director, Search Committee, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Chair, Chief of Gastroenterology Search Committee
Member, Medical Center Leadership Council
Molecular Medicine Coordinators Committee, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
Member, Search Committee for Director of Division of Laboratory Animal Research (DLAR), Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
Member, Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center Steering Committee, Durham, North Carolina
Member, Duke University Health System Board of Directors Durham, North Carolina
Member, Duke University Health System Executive Management Committee Durham, North Carolina
Member, Duke Executive Committee of the School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
Member, Duke Medical Center Executive Committee, Durham, North Carolina
Member, Private Diagnostic Clinic Affairs Committee, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
Member, Private Diagnostic Clinic Administrative Board, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
Member, Joint Liability Steering Committee
Member, Scientific Advisory Group for The National Children’s Study, Department of Pediatrics, Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida
Honorary Member, Jay Weiss Center for Social Medicine and Health Equity, Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida
Member, Vascular Biology Institute, University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
Member, John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics, Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
MENTORING:
- Mark I. Furman, former fellow, Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, currently Lecturer, Harvard Medical School, private practice South Shore Hospital/Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Weymouth, Massachusetts
- Alan W. Heldman, recipient of A.H.A Fellowship Award 1993 and former fellow, Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, currently Clinical Chief, Division of Cardiology, Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida
- Lawrence E. Crawford, former fellow, Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, currently Assistant Professor, Division of Cardiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
- Sanford Gips, former fellow, Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, currently in private practice, Haddon Heights, New Jersey
- Wendy Post, former fellow, Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, currently Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
- Jeffrey Rade, former fellow, Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, currently Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
- Kaikobad Irani, former fellow, Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, currently Associate Professor, Division of Cardiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Richard Sohn, former medical student and residentJohns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, currently in private practice, Portland, Oregon
- David Kandzari, former Sarnoff Fellow, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, currently Assistant Consulting Professor, Division of Cardiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina and Director, Interventional Cardiology Research, Scripps Clinic, La Jolla, California
- Ethan Weiss, former MS-IV, Recipient of the Paul Erlich Prize, and resident, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, currently Assistant Professor, Division of Cardiology, University of California, San Francisco
- Glen Cooke, former fellow, Division of Cardiology, The Ohio State University, currently Assistant Professor, Division of Cardiology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
- Nicanor Moldovan, former research scientist, Heart and Lung Institute, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, currently Assistant Professor, Heart and Lung Institute, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
- Leni Moldovan, Research Scientist, Heart and Lung Institute, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
- Rene Alvarez, former fellow, Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, currently Associate Professor, Division of Cardiology, University of Pittsburgh and Cardiovascular Institute at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Chunming Dong, former research scientist, Heart and Lung Institute, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, currently Associate Professor, Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida
- Hamdy Hassanain, former research scientist, Heart and Lung Institute, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, currently Assistant Professor, Heart and Lung Institute and Department of Anesthesiology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
- Christine Roos, Fellow, Heart and Lung Institute, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
- Anita Kuo Ying, former Sarnoff Fellow/CR Med/Ped program, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, currently fellow, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
- Tao Wang, former fellow, Heart and Lung Institute, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, currently Assistant Professor, Pediatrics and Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
- Dean Boudoulas, former medical student, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, currently Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
- Herve Kovacic, former fellow, Heart and Lung Institute, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, currently Assistant Professor, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France
- Neuza Lopes, former visiting scholar, Heart and Lung Institute, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, currently Division of Cardiology, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Frederick Rauscher, former medical student and Sarnoff Fellow, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, currently ophthalmology resident, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida
- David Gregg, former research post-doc fellow, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, currently Assistant Professor, Division of Cardiology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina
- Degen Zhuo, former research associate, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, currently Research Associate, University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
- Shoukang Zhu, Research Associate, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, currently Research Assistant Professor, Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida
- Grace Liang, former research associate, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
- Sanjay Vasudevan, former research fellow, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, currently cardiovascular fellow, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- BalakrishnanSelvakumar, former graduate student, Division of Cell Biology, Duke University Medical Center former Research Associate, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, currently Research Associate in the Department of Neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins University
- Qi Ma, former graduate student, Division of Cell Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, currently post-doctoral associate, Vascular Biology Institute, Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida
- Woohyun Yoon, former graduate student, Division of Cell Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, currently Postdoctoral Associate Staff, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
- Huili Wang, former graduate student, Department of Pathology, Duke University Medical Center, currentlyPostdoctoral Trainee, Pathology & Lab Medicine, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, North Carolina
- Korkut Vata, former graduate student, Department of Pathology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, currently a freelance negotiator working with Apricum, a green (clean) energy consulting company, based in Germany
- David Seo, former fellow, Division of Cardiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, currently Associate Professor, Division of Cardiology, Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida
- Anil Panigrahi, former research associate, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, currently MD/PhD student, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Ravi Karra, former medical student, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, currently, Research Scientist, Division of Cardiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
- Sreekanth Vermulapalli, former medical student, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, currently resident, University of California, San Francisco, California
- Arashk Motiei, former medical student, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, currently Assistant Professor of Medicine, Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
- Brian Yue, former resident, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, currently Diagnostic Radiology Fellow, Musculoskeletal Imaging, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
- Ryan Schulteis, former medical student, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, currently student, Medical College of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
- Olujimi Ajijola, former medical student, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina,
- currently Fellow in Cardiology, STAR Program (Specialized Training and Research), David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
- Sarah Evans, former medical student, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, currently fellow, Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
- Anuj Malhotra, medical student, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
- Enrikas Vainorius, Research Associate, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, currently Clinical Program Manager, ILS, National Institute of Environmental Health Service, National Institutes of Health
- Jason Koontz, fellow, Division of Cardiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
- Gregory Lam, fellow, Division of Cardiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, currently physician, MidOhio Cardiology and Vascular Consultants, Columbus, Ohio
- Ayesha Sarpong, medical student, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, currently radiology fellow, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
- Albert Sun, former internal medicine resident, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, currently fellow, Division of Cardiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
- Thomas Povsic, former fellow, Division of Cardiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, currently Assistant Professor of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
- Mythreye Karthikeyan, Research Associate, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, currently Assistant Professor, Duke University Medical Center, North Carolina
- Lisa Satterwhite, Senior Research Scientist, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
- Xiaohua Song, Research Associate, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, currently Assistant Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute, Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida
- Xialin Liu, former research associate, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, currently Assistant Professor, Zhongshan University, Guangzhou, China
- Lina Shehadeh, Assistant Professor of Neurology and Medicine; Member, Vascular Biology Institute and Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, currently Research Assistant Professor, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL.
- Lucas E. Cavallin, Ph.D., current medical student, University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL
THESIS AND DISSERTATION ADVISING:
Dawn Pedrotty, Defense: July 16, 2007, Duke University
Qi Ma, Defense: May 1, 2006, Duke University
Korkut Vata, Defense: March 21, 2006, Duke University
Bin Yan, Defense: November 22, 2005, Duke University
Yiting Cao, Defense: April 28, 2005, Duke University