Cardiothoracic Surgery
Meet the Team

Meet our Experts

Bioinformaticians

Andrew Potter, MS

Bioinformatician, Division of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery

Principal Investigators / Surgeons

Awais Ashfaq, MD, FACC, FACS

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Surgery
Research Interests
Ex-vivo perfusion; partial heart transplant

David Lehenbauer, MD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

David L.S. Morales, MD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Clinical and translational research related to mechanical circulatory support and tissue engineering

Marco Ricci, MD, MBA

Professor, UC Department of Surgery
Research Interests
Clinical research; pediatric cardiac surgery  

Research Assistants

William Abplanalp, MS

Senior Research Assistant, Division of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery

Bushray Almiqlash, MBBCh, MS

Research Assistant, Division of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery

Grant Chappell, BS

Research Assistant, Division of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery

Research Fellows

Hosam Ahmed, MD, PhD, MSc

Research Fellow, Division of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery

Muhammad Faateh, MBBS

Research Fellow, Division of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery

Amir Mehdizadeh-Shrifi, MD

Research Fellow, Division of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery

Darren Turner, MD

Research Fellow, Division of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery

Researchers

Mousa Kharnaf, MBBS

Instructor, Division of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery

Carolina G. Moore, PhD

Research Associate, Division of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery

James A. Reagor, MPS, CCP, FPP

Associate Professor, UC Department of Surgery