Faculty

Over 100 faculty members with educational backgrounds and research experience from all around the world contribute to the cardiovascular research community at the University of Virginia. The RMB CVRC Faculty is comprised of members from all seven basic science departments and 14 clinical departments. See the summaries of current laboratory investigations underway by clicking on the area of interest below, then clicking on the name of the investigator.

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Resident FacultyAlphabetical Faculty Listing

Gary K. Owens, PhD
Director of the CVRC
Professor, Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics

Brian Annex, MD
Professor and Division Chief, Department of Medicine, Cardiovascular Medicine
Jessica Connelly, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Cardiovascular Medicine
David Glover, PhD, ME
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Cardiovascular Medicine
Brant Isakson, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics
Kimberly Kelly, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Alexander Klibanov, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Cardiovascular Medicine
Coleen McNamara , MD
Professor, Department of Medicine, Cardiovascular Medicine
Angela Taylor, MS, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Cardiovascular Medicine
Zhen Yan, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Cardiovascular Medicine


Member Faculty by Department
James Aylor

Anesthesiology
Victor Baum, MD
Marcel Durieux, MD, PhD
Carl Lynch, MD, PhD
Manoj Patel, MD

Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
Adrian Gear, PhD

Biomedical Engineering
Brett Blackman, PhD
Fred Epstein, PhD
Brent French, PhD
William Guilford, PhD
Brian Helmke, PhD
Jeffrey Holmes, MD, PhD
John Hossack, PhD
Kevin Janes, PhD
Michael Lawrence, PhD
Craig Meyer, PhD
Jason Papin, PhD
Shayn Peirce-Cottler, PhD
Richard Price, PhD
Jeff Saucerman, PhD
William Walker, PhD
Zequan Yang, MD, PhD

Cell Biology
Douglas DeSimone, PhD
Gordon Laurie, PhD
Bernard Thisse, PhD
Christine Thisse, PhD

Endocrinology and Metabolism
Eugene Barrett, MD, PhD
Robert Carey, MD
Helmy Siragy, MD

Hematology and Oncology
Mary Laughlin, MD

Infectious Diseases
William Scheld, MD

Internal Medicine
Robert Strieter, MD

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Houston Wood, PhD

Medicine, Cardiovascular Medicine
Carlos Ayers, MD
George Beller, MD
John Dimarco, MD
Dearing Johns, MD
Ellen Keeley, MD
Christopher Kramer, MD
Zhenqi Liu, MD
Randall Moorman, MD
Christopher Rembold, MD
Michele Sale, MD
Amy Tucker, MD
Brian Wamhoff, PhD
Bradford Worrall, MD

Microbiology
Victor Engelhard, PhD
Kodi Ravichandran, PhD

Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics
Brian Duling, PhD
Howard Kutchai, PhD
Avril Somlyo, PhD
Lukas Tamm, PhD
Mark Yeager, MD, PhD

Nephrology
Robert Chevalier, MD
Thu Le, MD
Mark Okusa, MD

Neuroscience
Kevin Lee, PhD
Jeremy Tuttle, PhD

Neurosurgery
Neal Kassell, MD

Office of the VP for Research
Patricia Foley, DVM
Thomas Skalak, PhD

Ophthalmology
Paul Yates, MD, PhD

Orthopedics
Gary Balian, PhD

Pathology
Thomas Braciale, MD, PhD
Robin Felder, PhD
Kenneth Tung, MD

Pediatrics
Benjamin Gaston, MD
Ariel Gomez, MD
Stephen Lewis, PhD
Paul Matherne, MD
Lisa Palmer, PhD

Pharmacology
Paula Barrett, PhD
James Garrison, PhD
Patrice Guyenet, PhD
Thurl Harris, PhD
Kyle Hoehn
Norbert Leitinger, PhD
Kevin Lynch, PhD
Edward Perez-Reyes, PhD
Ira Schulman, PhD

Plastic and Maxillofacial Surgery
Adam Katz, MD

Public Health Sciences Admin
Jae Lee, PhD
Steve Rich, PhD

Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
C. Edward Rose, MD

Radiology
Stuart Berr, PhD
James Brookeman, PhD
Bijoy Kundu, PhD
Weibin Shi, PhD

Surgery
Gorav Ailawadi, MD
John Kern, MD
Irving Kron, MD
Christine Lau, MD
Victor E. Laubach, PhD
Eugene McGahren, MD
Gib Upchurch, MD
Jeff Young, MD


Adjunct Faculty
Robert Figler

Lynn Hedrick, PhD

Klaus Ley, MD

Joel Linden, PhD