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, Department of Cardiology
Jessica Connelly, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine
Brian Duling, PhD
Professor, Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics
Robert Figler, PhD
Project Leader, Department of Molecular Physiology
David Glover, PhD, ME
Associate Professor, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine
Brant Isakson, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics
Alexander Klibanov, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine
Norbert Leitinger, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology
Coleen McNamara , MD
Professor, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine
Christopher Rembold, MD
Professor, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine
Martin Schwartz, PhD
Professor, Department of Microbiology
Amy Tucker, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine
Brian Wamhoff, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine
Zhen Yan, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine


Member Faculty by Department

Allergy / Pulmonary / Cystic Fibrosis
Benjamin Gaston

Anesthesiology
Victor Baum
Marcel Durieux
Carl Lynch
Manoj Patel

Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
Adrian Gear

Biomedical Engineering
Milton Adams
Brett Blackman
Brent French
William Guilford
Brian Helmke
Jeffrey Holmes
John Hossack
Kimberly Kelly
Michael Lawrence
Craig Meyer
Jason Papin
Shayn Peirce-Cottler
Richard Price
Jeff Saucerman
Thomas Skalak
William Walker
Zequan Yang

Cardiovascular Medicine
Carlos Ayers
George Beller, MD
John Dimarco
Elaine Etter
Lawrence Gimple
Dearing Johns
Ellen Keeley
Christopher Kramer
Zhenqi Liu
Randall Moorman
Mirta Ruiz Herrera, MD
Michele Sale
Bradford Worrall

Cell Biology
Douglas DeSimone
Gordon Laurie
Bernard Thisse
Christine Thisse

Endocrinology and Metabolism
Eugene Barrett
Robert Carey
Richard Day
Helmy Siragy

Infectious Diseases
William Scheld

Internal Medicine
Robert Strieter

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Paul Allaire
Houston Wood

Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics
Howard Kutchai
Zhifeng Shao
Avril Somlyo
Gabor Szabo
Lukas Tamm
Mark Yeager

Nephrology
Alaa Awad
Robert Chevalier
Ariel Gomez
Thu Le, MD
Amy Mangrum
Mark Okusa

Neuroscience
Kevin Lee
Jeremy Tuttle

Neurosurgery
Neal Kassell

Office of the VP for Research
Patricia Foley, DVM

Ophthalmology
Paul Yates, MD, PhD

Orthopedics
Gary Balian

Pathology
Thomas Braciale
Robin Felder
Kenneth Tung

Pediatrics
Stephen Lewis, PhD
Paul Matherne
Lisa Palmer

Pharmacology
Paula Barrett
James Garrison
Patrice Guyenet
Kevin Lynch
Edward Perez-Reyes

Plastic and Maxillofacial Surgery
Adam Katz

Public Health Sciences Admin
Jae Lee, PhD
Steve Rich

Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
C. Edward Rose

Radiology
Stuart Berr
James Brookeman
Fred Epstein
Bijoy Kundu
Weibin Shi

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

Urology
Dan Theodorescu, MD


Adjunct Faculty
Lynn Hedrick, PhD

Klaus Ley, MD

Joel Linden, PhD