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
Research Interests
Early life risk factors, exposures, and environment interactions; early childhood asthma; recurrent wheezing; clinical electronic medical data
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
Associate 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
Research Interests
Alveolar macrophage function; molecular techniques using gene knockout, transgenic and conditional gene expression mouse models and non-human...
Primary Investigators
Research Interests
Airway disease; computational fluid dynamics (CFD); airflow; respiration; obstructive sleep apnea (OSA); tracheomalacia
Zackary I. Cleveland, PhD
Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Hyperpolarized gases; pulmonary imaging; translational studies; preclinical MRI
Research Interests
Pulmonary hypertension; bronchopulmonary dysplasia; pediatric cardiology
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
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
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
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
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
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