The research interests of our faculty members span the gamut of surgical subspecialties and research disciplines, including basic and translational research; clinical research, including investigator-initiated and industry-sponsored clinical trials; health services research, including quality and safety studies; and innovation and bioengineering. Listed below are the major areas of interest of our faculty members.
- Translational Nanomedicine
- Nanofabricated Drug Delivery Systems
- Ocular Drug Delivery
- Ocular Nanomedicine
- Pediatric heart failure
- Mechanical circulatory support
- Myocardial recovery in children
- Trauma surgery
- Critical care
- Pancreaticoduodenectomy in trauma patients
- Severe sepsis
- Multisystem organ dysfunction
- Outcomes
- Mechanical tension
- Murine models
- Skin and lung fibrosis
- Endothelial and endothelial progenitor cells
- Neuroendocrine tumors
- Artificial liver
- Burnout
- Heart Rate Variability (HRV)
- Surgical education
- Diabetic foot ulcers
- Diabetic limb salvage
- Infrainguinal bypass
- GI Malignancies
- Combinatorial Therapeutic Strategies
- Endothelial Cell Biology
- Lung cancer
- Esophageal cancer
- Patient-reported outcomes
- Breast cancer
- Minimally invasive surgery
- Bariatric surgery
- Thoracic surgery
- Pancreatic cancer
- Colorectal cancer
- Immunotherapy
- Chemotherapy resistance
- Clinical outcomes in breast cancer
- Oncoplastic surgery
- Pre-menopausal breast cancer
- Geriatric breast cancer
- Quality improvement
- Psychoneuroimmunology
- Preoperative optimization of cancer patients
- Medical device development
Changyi 'Johnny' Chen, M.D., Ph.D.
- Endothelial dysfunction and vascular disease
- PLGA-PEI based nanotechnology
- Pancreatic cancer
- HLA Typing
- Anti-HLA antibodies
- Chimerism
- Metastasis
- Cell signaling
- Pancreatic cancer
- Diabetic foot
- Lower extremity revascularization
- Chronic critical limb ischemia
- Ventricular assist devices
- Surgical instruments and devices
- Thoracic oncology
- Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic (VATS) lobectomy
- Aortic Valve Disease
- Heritable Aortic Disease (eg, Marfan Syndrome)
- Aortic Aneurysm
- Aortic Dissection
- Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC)
- Genomic differences between Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C
- Diabetic Limb Preservation
- Diabetic Foot Bone and Soft Infections
- Peripheral Serum Biomarkers for Monitoring and Diagnosing Infection
- Global surgery
- Trauma video review
- Teamwork
- Resuscitation
- Facial trauma
- Craniosynostosis
- Cranioplasty
Livia Schiavinato Eberlin, Ph.D.
- Cancer diagnosis
- Mass spectrometry
- Medical devices
- Lung Ischemia-reperfusion injury
- Ex-vivo lung perfusion
- Lung transplant immunology
- Pancreatic cancer
- Gene sequencing
- Clinical trials/outcomes/quality
- Trauma video review
- Trauma outcomes
- Surgical resident education
Vidyaratna Atalanta Fleetwood, M.D.
- Organ donor safety
- Paired organ donation
- Kidney transplantation
- Ventricular assist devices
- Mechanical circulatory support
- Artificial heart
N. Thao N. Galvan, M.D., M.P.H.
- Surgical Technique of Transplantation
- Additive Bioengineering in Transplantation
- Hepatobiliary Surgery
- Heart Failure
- Ventricular Remodeling
- Clinical Outcomes
- Vascular surgery and endovascular interventions
- New paradigms in hemorrhage control
- Blood vessel prosthesis implantation
- Adult and pediatric liver transplantation
- Biliary resection/reconstruction
- Bile duct tumor
- Bile duct injury
- Hepatobiliary surgery
- Clinical outcomes
- Vascular surgery
- Thoracic Surgery
- Health Services Research
- Clinical Trials
- Limb salvage
- Tibial intervention
- Cerebrovascular disease
- Cerebral and myocardial protection during cardiac surgery
- Early extubation following congenital heart surgery
- Congenital heart surgery
- Adult and adolescent obesity
- Reconstructive surgery
- Mandibular fractures
- Distraction osteogenesis
- Cancer biology
- Cancer immunotherapy
- Clinical outcomes
- Children with developmental differences
- Pediatric plastic surgery
- Health-science research
- Outcomes research
- Colorectal cancer research
- Anti-HLA antibodies
- Hematopoietic stem sell transplantation
- microRNA in the immune system
- Laser tissue interaction
- Biomedical engineering
- Biophotonics and imaging
- Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy
- Wound Healing
- Regenerative Medicine
- Fetal surgery
- Congenital lung malformation
- Congenital diaphragmatic hernia
- Pulmonary hypertension
- Proteasomes
- Nitric oxide
- ECMO
- Congenital diaphragmatic hernia
- Gastroschisis
- Systems Onco-Immunology
- Single-Cell Multi-omics
- Single- Cell Mass Cytometry
- Immunopeptidomics
- Malignant pleural mesothelioma
- Lung cancer
- Thoracic Malignancies
- Immune dysfunction in trauma
- Acute lung injury
- Sepsis
- Neutrophil NETosis
- Robotic cardiac surgery
- Complex mitral valve repair surgery
- Heart transplantation
- Ventricular assist devices
- Heart and Lung Transplant
- Mechanical assist devices
- Ex-vivo lung perfusion (EVLP)
- Coronary artery revascularization
- Arrhythmia surgery
- Thoracic Endovascular Aortic Repair (TEVAR)
- Percutaneous valve replacement (TAVR)
- Aortic dissection repair
- Aortic aneurysm repair
- Hernia Care and Prevention
- Preoperative Optimization
- Surgical Infections
- Gender Equity
- Nanoparticle drug delivery
- Cardiovascular disease
- Pancreatic Cancer
- Oxidative stress, Free radicals and Antioxidants
- Benign foregut diseases
- Endocrine Surgery
- Heart and Lung Transplant
- Impella Circulatory Support
- ECMO
- Metabolic surgery
- Clinical outcomes
- Radiofrequency energy
- Cryotherapy
- Endovascular treatment for aortic aneurysm repair
- Repair and the salvage of failing endografts
- Minimally-invasive pectus excavatum repair
- Advanced minimally-invasive and robotic general pediatric surgery
- Choledochal cyst laparoscopic excision
Jose “Beto” Mendez, M.D., M.P.H.
- Epidemiological study design
- Observational research
- Research methodology
- Data manipulation
Fernanda Cristina Paccola Mesquita, Ph.D.
- Cardiovascular Stem Cell Biology
- Tissue engineering
- Disease modeling
- High-Risk Imaging
- Dense Breasts
- Limiting Recurrence
- Skeletal malformations of the chest
- Hepatobiliary disorders
- Noninvasive diagnosis
- Vein graft stenosis
- Intimal hyperplasia and limb-salvage
- Diabetes mellitus
- Biophotonics
- Intravascular image-guided diagnostics
- Laser surgery research
- Cardiac regeneration
- Heart
- Cell cycle
- Direct reprogramming
- Clinical outcomes
- Quality of life
- Cleft lip and palate
- Aortic Aneurysm Repair
- Re-operative Cardiac Surgery
- Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery
- Mitral Valve Repair
- Adult Cardiac Surgery
- Neuroblastoma in infants
- Tumor progression
- Cancer target discovery
- Fenestrated-branched grafts
- Endovascular grafts
- Aortic grafts
- Liver transplantation
- Bile duct resections
- Intraoperative RFA
- Kidney transplantation
- Portosystemic shunts
- Minimally invasive cardiac surgery
- Cardiac regeneration
- Surgical simulation
- Robotic surgery/Minimal invasive surgery in acute care surgery
- SICU
- Medical education
- Liver transplantation
- Bile duct resections
- Intraoperative RFA
- Kidney transplantation
- Portosystemic shunts
- Hepatobiliary surgery
- BH3 profiling
- Metabolomics
- Thoracic oncology
- Colon and rectal cancer
- Inflammatory bowel disease
- Pelvic floor disorders
- Gene therapy
- Cellular reprogramming
- Angiogenesis
- Heart failure
- Ventricular remodeling
- Transplantation
- Ventricular assist devices
- Aortic pathology
- Electrophysiology
Mir Timo Zadegh Nazari Shafti, M.D.
- Coronary artery bypass grafting
- Vascular biology
- Vascular disease
- Diabetes
- Drug delivery
- Nanomedicine
- Biopolymer engineering
- Natural history of solid organ tumors
- Therapy of solid organ malignancy
- Cancer in minority populations
- Trauma
- Immune function
- Infection
- Lung Transplant
- Heart Transplant
- Adult Cardiac
- Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD)
- Mobile Technology
- Clinical outcomes
- Patient safety and quality in underserved populations
- Engineering design and fabrication for biomedical applications
- DCIS
- Triple Negative Breast Cancer
- Clinical translational trials
- Myocardial depression in septic shock
- Pancreatic cancer
- Gastrointestinal malignancies
- Whipple procedure
- Pediatric surgical oncology
- Neuroblastoma
- Pediatric liver cancer
- p53 regulation, and MYCN tumorigenesis
Deborah Cecilia Vela, M.D., MS
- Cardiovascular histopathology
- Vascular diseases
- Myocardial infarction
- Trauma surgery
- General surgery
- Acute care surgery
- Critical care
- Pediatric general surgery
- Pediatric thoracic surgery
- Left ventricular assist devices
- Mechanical circulatory support devices
- Organ preservation systems
- Global surgery
- Gun violence prevention
- Trauma systems
- Trauma quality improvement
- Craniofacial development
- Pre-surgical infant orthopedics
- Cleft lip and palate orthodontics
- Pediatric liver cancer
- Mitochondrial metabolism
- Treatment resistance
- Apoptosis
- Thyroid surgery
- Parathyroid surgery
- Adrenal surgery
Qizhi 'Cathy' Yao, M.D., Ph.D.
- HIV vaccines
- Pancreatic cancer pathogenesis
- Nanoparticle targeted delivery
- Value in surgical care
- Digital innovations
- Hyperparathyroidism
- Hemorrhage resuscitation
- Small bowel obstruction
- Artificial Intelligence solutions