People

Student

Talia Adi
G3
Sami Ahmad
MS2
Aniruddh Ajith
G1
Megan Arnold
MS2
Elissa Bardhi
MS2
Raouf Belkhir
G1
Lily Bessette
MS2
Isabel Bleimeister
G2
Donald Bourne
G3
Wesley Brown, PhD
MS4
Hannah Bumgarner
G1
Ansen Burr, PhD
MS4
Alison Butler, PhD
MS4
Hannah Butterfield
G3
Neil Carleton
G4
Brittany Chamberlain
G3
Alexander Chang
G1
Mona Chatrizeh
G3
Nathalie Chen
G2
Jason Chou
MS1
Maria Chroneos
G2
Jonathan Cohen, PhD
G5
Devon Colby
MS1
Grace Conway
G4
Carlos Cosme Jr.
MS2
Christopher Cover
G4
Raphael Crum, PhD
MS4
Samuel Dienel, PhD
MS4
Kevin Dowling
G3
Morgan Egnot
G4
Erica Fan
MS2
Rameen Forghani
MS1
Noah Freedman
G1
Tracey Freeman
G1
George Gabriel, PhD
MS4
Jenna Gale, PhD
MS3
David Gao
MS1
Geyon Garcia
G3
Joshua Garfein
G1
David Geng
MS2
Shohini Ghosh-Choudhary
G4
Jacob Gillis
G2
Gabrielle Gilmer
G3
Michael Granovetter, PhD
MS4
Jasmine Hect
G3
Victoria Heinrich, PhD
MS3
Ruby Holland, PhD
MS3
Jason Hong
MS1
Bryan Hurtle
G5
Deepa Issar
G4
Anisha Jain
MS1
Maria Andrea Jurado
G1
Jeffrey (Yong Joon) Kim
G4
Anna Kirillova
G2
Brian Kleiboeker
MS1
Alessandra Larimer-Picciani
G2
Alexandar Layden, PhD
MS4
Danica Lee
MS2
Brandon Lehrich
G2
Michael Leone
G2
Anna Li
G2
Jack Little
G2
Jie Bin Liu
G3
Andrew Liu
G4
Joseph Maggiore
G3
Varun Mandi
G2
Philip Mannes, PhD
MS3
Eric Mason
MS1
Ugonna Mbaekwe
G1
Jessica Medrano
G3
Marisa Millenson
G3
Xuanyu (Leon) Min
MS2
Amir Mina
G4
Robert Morrison
G4
Ananya Mukundan, PhD
MS3
Livianna Myklebust
G1
Shruti Nanivadekar
G4
Hector Nieves-Rosado, PhD
MS3
Helena Oft
G1
Lola Ortiz-Whittingham
MS1
Nadine Oury
MS1
Maryanna Owoc, PhD
MS4
Olivia Parks
G4
BaDoi Phan, PhD
MS3
Tara Pirnia
G5
Rumana Rashid
G2
Isabella Salas-Allende
MS2
Josef Scheidt
G1
Alexander Schuyler, PhD
MS3
Amy Sentis, PhD
MS3
Ankit Sharma
G2
Forrest Shooster
G1
Claire Simmons
MS2
Colton Smith
MS2
Jorna Sojati
G4
Kamron Soldozy
MS2
Justin Sui
G4
Sean Sweat
G2
Roger Tieu, PhD
MS4
Christine Tin
G3
Karensa Tjoa
MS1
Rabira Tusi
G1
Shruthi Venkatesh
G2
Paolo Vignali, PhD
MS4
Maxwell Wang, PhD
MS3
Hillary Wehry, PhD
MS3
Eric Weiss
G4
Kailyn Witonsky
G3
Anne Wondisford
G4
Kenta Yamamoto
G1
Megan Yates, PhD
MS4
Rebecca Zack
MS1

Leadership Team

Mehret Birru-Talabi, MD, PhD
Co - Director, MSTP
Blair Douglass, JD
Program Coordinator, PSTP
412-983-8788
JoAnne Flynn, PhD
Co - Director, MSTP
Kathy Hansell-Prigg, MBA
Executive Director, MSTP & PSTP
@KathyPrigg
Corrine Kliment
Co - Director, MSTP
Justin Markuss
Program Manager, MSTP
412-648-2104
Russell Schwartz
Director - Carnegie Mellon University
Richard Steinman
Director - University of Pittsburgh

Alumni

Edgar Aranda-Michel, MD, PhD
Michael Chiang, MD, PhD
Resident, Harvard Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Elliot Collins, MD, PhD
Resident, University of Washington Affiliated Hospitals (Research Track), Psychiatry
Miranda Culley, MD, PhD
Resident, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Patricia dela Cruz (Castillo), MD, PhD
Resident, University of Washington Affiliated Hospitals (Research Track), Pediatrics
Atinuke Dosunmu-Ogunbi, MD, PhD
Gaelen Dwyer, MD, PhD
Lloyd Harvey, MD, PhD
Adriana Johnson, MD, PhD
Colleen Judge-Golden, MD, PhD
Resident, Duke University Medical Center, Obstetrics and Gynecology
Heejae Kang, MD, PhD
Resident, UPMC Medical Education, Pittsburgh, PA
Jared Kopelman, MD, PhD
Resident, UC San Diego Medical Center (Research), San Diego, CA
Andrew Lamade, MD, PhD
Resident, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
Maria Ly, MD, PhD
Resident, Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, MO
Laura Molina, MD, PhD
Eileen Nguyen, MD,PhD
Tolani Olonisakin, MD, PhD
Resident, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
Aaron Sun, MD, PhD
Resident, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
Rahilla Tarfa, MD, PhD
Resident, University of Washington Affiliated Hospitals (Research), Seattle, WA
Joshua Tashman, MD, PhD
Joshua Wesalo, MD, PhD
Ryan Williamson, MD, PhD
Resident, UPMC Medical Education, Pittsburgh, PA
Gary Yu, MD, PhD
Resident, Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, MO

Faculty

Jennifer Adibi
Assistant Professor
Susanne Ahmari
Assistant Professor
Howard Aizenstein
Professor
Zandrea Ambrose
Associate Professor
Stephen Badylak
Professor
Christopher Bakkenist
Professor
Aaron Batista
Professor
Michael Becich
Professor
Marlene Behrmann
Professor
Kambez Benam
Robert Binder
Professor
Lisa Borghesi
Associate Professor
Sonya Borrero
Professor
Miguel Brieno-Enriquez
Assistant Professor
Jeffrey Brodsky
Professor
Ronald Buckanovich
Professor
Timothy Burns
Professor
Carlos Camacho
Associate Professor
Anne-Ruxandra Carvunis
Associate Professor
Janet Catov
Jane Cauley
Stephen Chan
Professor
Yuan Chang
Professor
Gretchen Chapman
Professor
Claire Cheetham, PhD
Assistant Professor, Neurobiology
Charleen Chu
Professor
Lan Coffman
Assistant Peofessor
Marlene Cohen
Assistant Professor
Keith Cook
Professor
Marc Coutanche, PhD
Associate Professor, Psychology & Learning Research & Development Center
David Creswell
Associate Professor
Tracy Cui
Professor
Leonardo DAiuto
Research Assistant Professor
Donald DeFranco
Professor
Alex Deiters
Professor
Greg Delgoffe
Professor
Neal DeLuca
Associate Professor
Terry Dermody
Professor
Berthony Deslouches
Assistant Professor
Julie Donohue
Professor
Andrew Duncan
Associate Professor
Mo Ebrahimkhani, M.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Pathology
James Faeder
Associate Porfessor
Adam Feinberg
Professor
Fabio Ferrarelli
Associate Professor
Robert Ferris
Professor
Julie Fiez
Professor
Toren Finkel
Professor
JoAnne Flynn, PhD
Co - Director, MSTP
Erick Forno
Assistant Professor
Shou-Jiang Gao
Professor
Arjuman Ghazi
Associate Professor
Avniel Ghuman
Associate Professor
Aryn Gittis
Associate Professor
Michael Gold, PhD
Professor of Neurobiology
Anthony Grace
Professor
Angela Gronenborn
Professor
Jeff Gross
Professor
Timothy Hand
Assistant Professor
Graham Hatfull
Professor
N. Luisa Hiller
Professor
Andrew Hinck
Professor
Lori Holt
Professor
Neil Hukriede
Professor
Michele Insanally, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Otolaryngology
Kabirul Islam
Assistant Professor
Max Joffe
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Julia Kainertorfer
Associate Professor
Karl Kandler
Professor
Lawrence Kane
Professor
Daniel Kaplan
Professor
Hong Kim
Professor
412-624-9673
Thomas Kleyman
Professor
Corrine Kliment
Co - Director, MSTP
Melanie Königshoff, MD, PhD, ATSF, FERS
Professor of Medicine and the Associate Chief of Research within the Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine Division
Bernhard Kuhn
Professor
Fadi Lakkis
Professor
Adrian Lee
Professor
David Lewis
Professor
Philana Lin
Associate Professor
Steven Little
Professor
Cecilia Lo
Professor
Beatriz Luna
Professor
Aman Mahajan
Professor
J Patrick Mayo
Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology
Colleen McClung
Professor
Diana Metes
Professor
Iva Miljkovic, MD, PhD, FAHA
Associate Professor, Epidemiology
Pam Moalli
Patrick Moore
Professor
Michael Morowitz
Associate Professor
Alison Morris
Professor
Sandra Murray, PhD
Professor
Bonnie Nazbanou
Matthew Neal
Associate Professor
Kari Nejak-Bowen
Professor
Anne Newman
Professor
Steffi Oesterreich
Professor
Kyle Orwig
Professor
Roddy O’Sullivan
Associate Professor
Quasar Padiath
Associate Professor
Patrick Pagano
Professor
Ashok Panigrahy
Professor
Marta Pecina
Assistant Professor
Andreas Pfenning
Assistant Professor
Mary Phillips
Professor
Stacey Rizzo
Associate Professor of Neurobiology
412-648-9636
Mark Roberts
Professor
Beth Roman, PhD
Associate Professor, Human Genetics
Caterina Rosano
Professor
Sarah Ross
Associate Professor
Maria Rubio
Associate Professor
Lindsay Sabik
Associate Professor
Silvia Saccardo
Assistant Professor
Ulka Sachdev-Ost
Associate Professor
Srivatsun Sadagopan
Assistant Professor
Yoel Sadovsky
Professor
Russell Schwartz
Director - Carnegie Mellon University
Rebecca Seal
Associate Professor
Mark Shlomchik
Professor
Matthew Smith
Associate Professor
Thomas Smithgall
Professor
Gwendolyn Sowa
Professor
Anthony St. Leger
Assistant Professor
Richard Steinman
Director - University of Pittsburgh
Adam Straub
Associate Professor
Arohan R. Subramanya, MD, FASN
Associate Professor of Medicine and of Cell Biology
Robert Sweet
Professor
Galen Switzer
Professor
Siva Tavakoli
Assistant Professor
Jesus Tejero-Bravo
Associate Professor
Amantha Thathiah
Assistant Professor
Angus Thomson
Professor
Gelsey Torres-Oviedo
Associate Professor
Dennis Trumble
Associate Professor
Michael Tsang
Professor
Robert Turner
Professor
Heth Turnquist
Associate Professor
Bennett Van Houten
Professor
Jonathan Vande Geest
Professor and Director of PhD Admissions
412-624-6496
Alberto Vazquez
Professor
Tim Verstynen
Associate Professor
Dario Vignali
Flordeliza Villanueva
Professor
Shyam Visweswaran
Associate Professor
Gerard Vockley
Professor
William Wagner
Professor
Jing Hong Wang, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine
412-864-7728
Zhou Wang, PhD
Professor and Director of Urological Research
Leila Wehbe
Stacy Wendell, PhD
Assistant Professor
Sally Wenzel
Professor
John Williams
Professor
George Wittenberg, MD, PhD
Professor, Neurology, PM&R, Bioengineering
Zongqi Xia, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Jianhua Xing
Associate Professor
Cecelia Yates
Associate Professor
Vijay Yechoor, MD
Professor of Medicine
Eric Yttri
Assistant Professor
Hassane Zarour
Professor
Huaiying Zhang
Assistant Professor
Yongxin (Leon) Zhao
Assistant Professor
Bokai Zhu
Assistant Professor