Center for Pulmonary Imaging Research
Meet the Team

Meet the Team

Our center brings physicists, chemists and engineers together with biologists and clinicians to perform functional and structural imaging in the adult and developing lung. Learn more about who we are.

Clinical Researchers

Ashley Borden

Clinical Research Coordinator III, Department of Pulmonary Medicine within the Center for Pulmonary Imaging Research

Carrie Stevens

Senior Clinical Research Coordinator, Department of Pulmonary Medicine within the Center for Pulmonary Imaging Research

Kelly Thornton

Manager, Clinical Research, Department of Pulmonary Medicine within the Center for Pulmonary Imaging Research

Faculty

Robert J. Fleck, MD

Associate Professor, UC Department of Radiology
Research Interests
Early life risk factors, exposures, and environment interactions; early childhood asthma; recurrent wheezing; clinical electronic medical data

Md Monir Hossain, MSc, PhD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Spatial-temporal disease cluster modeling; hidden Markov mixture models; inter- and intra-rater reliability; survival function for informative...

Paul S. Kingma, MD, PhD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Innate immune systems; surfactant protein D; Neonatal lung growth; genetic basis of congenital malformations
Research Interests
Lung development and regeneration; fibroblast function in development, regeneration and fibrosis

Christopher Towe, MD

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Bruce C. Trapnell, MS, MD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Alveolar macrophage function; molecular techniques using gene knockout, transgenic and conditional gene expression mouse models and non-human...

Primary Investigators

Zackary I. Cleveland, PhD

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Hyperpolarized gases; pulmonary imaging; translational studies; preclinical MRI

Paul Critser, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Pulmonary hypertension; bronchopulmonary dysplasia; pediatric cardiology

Nara S. Higano, PhD

Instructor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Pediatric and neonatal pulmonary medicine; cardiorespiratory MRI

Erik B. Hysinger, MD, MS

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Aerodigestives disorders; tracheomalacia

Laura L. Walkup, PhD

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Pulmonary MRI; hyperpolarized gas; translational studies; rare-lung diseases

Matthew Willmering, PhD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Magnetic resonance imaging; hyperpolarized gas; cardiopulmonary; image reconstruction and analysis

Jason C. Woods, PhD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Hyperpolarized gas; pulmonary MRI; translational studies; image-guided pulmonary interventions

Project Managers

Zack Downing

Senior Project Management Specialist, Department of Pulmonary Medicine within the Center for Pulmonary Imaging Research

Research Fellows and Associates

Abdullah Bdaiwi, PhD

Research Fellow, Department of Pulmonary Medicine within the Center for Pulmonary Imaging Research

William Garrison, PhD

Research Fellow, Department of Pulmonary Medicine within the Center for Pulmonary Imaging Research

Chamindu Gunatilaka, PhD

Research Fellow, Department of Pulmonary Medicine within the Center for Pulmonary Imaging Research

Riaz Hussain, PhD

Research Fellow, Department of Pulmonary Medicine within the Center for Pulmonary Imaging Research

Benjamin Chad Lyman, DO

Pulmonary Fellow, Division of Pulmonary Medicine

Alex Matheson, PhD

Research Fellow, Department of Pulmonary Medicine within the Center for Pulmonary Imaging Research

Carter McMaster

Research Assistant III, Department of Pulmonary Medicine within the Center for Pulmonary Imaging Research

Samal Munidasa, PhD

Research Fellow, Department of Pulmonary Medicine within the Center for Pulmonary Imaging Research

Juan Parra-Robles, PhD

Research Associate, Department of Pulmonary Medicine within the Center for Pulmonary Imaging Research

Shipra Rai, MD, MPH

Pulmonary Fellow, Division of Pulmonary Medicine

David Roach, PhD

Research Associate, Department of Pulmonary Medicine within the Center for Pulmonary Imaging Research

Megan Schmitt

Research Nurse II, Department of Pulmonary Medicine within the Center for Pulmonary Imaging Research

Qiwei Xiao, PhD

Research Fellow, Department of Pulmonary Medicine within the Center for Pulmonary Imaging Research

Students

Mariah Costa

Graduate Student, Department of Pulmonary Medicine within the Center for Pulmonary Imaging Research

Xavier Hoyos

PhD Student, Department of Pulmonary Medicine within the Center for Pulmonary Imaging Research

Bilal Ismail

PhD Student, Department of Pulmonary Medicine within the Center for Pulmonary Imaging Research

Stephanie Soderlund

MSTP Student, Department of Pulmonary Medicine within the Center for Pulmonary Imaging Research