Meet the Team
Meet our Experts
Director
Carolina G. Moore, PhD, MBA
Associate Staff Scientist, Division of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery
Principal Investigators
Awais Ashfaq, MD, FACC, FACS
Assistant Professor, UC Department of Surgery
Research Interests
Ex-vivo perfusion; partial heart transplant
Tara Karamlou, MD, MSc
Pediatric Cardiac Surgeon, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Research Interests
Clinical outcomes; prospective clinical and observational trials; population health research; quality improvement in congenital heart surgery
David Lehenbauer, MD
Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Clinical and translational research related to mechanical circulatory support and tissue engineering; virtual surgical planning for complex...
James A. Reagor, MPS, CCP, FPP
Associate 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
Staff Bioinformaticians
Andrew Potter, MS
Bioinformatician, Division of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery
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