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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. For additional details, please see our current Surgical Research Catalog.
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Faculty A-C
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- Pediatric heart failure
- Mechanical circulatory support
- Myocardial recovery in children
- Severe sepsis
- Multisystem organ dysfunction
- Outcomes
- Mechanical tension
- Murine models
- Skin and lung fibrosis
- Endothelial and endothelial progenitor cells
- Neuroendocrine tumors
- Artificial liver
- Diabetic foot ulcers
- Diabetic limb salvage
- Infrainguinal bypass
- Breast cancer
- Outcomes in pediatric surgical disease
- Necrotizing enterocolitis
- Biliary atresia
- Cleft lip and palate
- Craniosynostosis
- Craniofacial deformities
- Tumor immunology
- Non-small cell lung cancer
- Malignant pleural mesothelioma
- Surgical Oncology
- Breast Surgery
- General Surgery
- Perioperative care and improvement
- Clinical nutrition
- Transplant donor management
- Gastric ischemic conditioning prior to esophagectomy
- Quality improvement
- Psychoneuroimmunology
- Preoperative optimization of cancer patients
Changyi 'Johnny' Chen, M.D., Ph.D.
- Endothelial dysfunction and vascular disease
- PLGA-PEI based nanotechnology
- Pancreatic cancer
- Benign biliary disease
- Soft tissue lesions
- 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
- Connective tissue disorders – Marfan Syndrome
- Thoracic aortic aneurysms and dissections
- Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC)
- Genomic differences between Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C
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Faculty D-K
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- Patient through-put in the emergency room setting
- Tumorigenesis and metastasis
- Stem cells and development
- Cell signaling and protein modifications
- Pancreatic cancer
- Gene sequencing
- Clinical trials/outcomes/quality
- Ventricular assist devices
- Mechanical circulatory support
- Artificial heart
- Surgical Technique of Transplantation
- Additive Bioengineering in Transplantation
- Hepatobiliary Surgery
- Adult Cardiac Surgery
- Heart Failure
- Heart Transplantation
- Aortic Surgery
- Vascular surgery and endovascular interventions
- New paradigms in hemorrhage control
- Blood vessel prosthesis implantation
- Surgical Sepsis
- Critical Care Nutrition
- Hemostatic Dressings
- Spinal Cord Trauma and Timing of Tracheostomy
- Advance Directives in the ICU
- Post Rib Fracture Disability
- Liver transplantation
- Hepatobiliary surgery
- Cirrhosis
- Portal hypertension
- Portosystemic shunts
- Sugiura procedure
- Intraoperative RFA
- Thoracic Surgery
- Outcome Assessment (Health Care)
- Translational Medical Research
- 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
- Hepatitis
- Liver transplantation
- Liver cancer
- Fatty Liver Disease
- Gastroenterology
- Anti-HLA antibodies
- Hematopoietic stem sell transplantation
- microRNA in the immune system
- Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy
- Wound Healing
- Regenerative Medicine
Saira A. Khaderi, M.D., M.P.H.
- Hepatitis
- Hepatocellular carcinoma
- Portopulmonary HTN
- Project ECHO
- Liver transplant outcomes
- Pulmonary hypertension
- Proteasomes
- Nitric oxide
- Endovascular treatment abdominal aortic aneurysms
- Systems re-design and health care delivery optimization
- Carotid endarterectomy and stenting
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Faculty L-O
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- Advanced Laparoscopy
- Anti-reflux surgery
- ECMO
- Congenital diaphragmatic hernia
- Gastroschisis
- Aortic aneurysm
- Thoracic aortic surgery
- Aortic dissection
- Diabetic foot
- Wound care
- Foot/ankle surgery
- Peripheral Vascular Disease
- Limb salvage and reconstructive surgery
- Off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery
- Coronary artery disease
- Heart failure
- DNA Repair
- Mechanisms for cancer formation
- Personalized cancer treatment
Yulong Liang, Ph.D.
- Breast cancer
- Liver cancer
- DNA damage response
- Tumorigenesis
- Valve surgery
- Heart transplantation
- Ventricular assist devices
- Cancer
- Diabetes
- TGF-beta
- Heart and Lung Transplant
- Mechanical assist devices
- Ex-vivo lung perfusion (EVLP)
- Coronary artery revascularization
- Arrythmia surgery
- Thoracic Endovascular Aortic Repair (TEVAR)
- Percutaneous valve replacement (TAVR)
- Aortic dissection repair
- Aortic aneurysm repair
- Surgical critical care
- Surgical infections
- Enterocutaneous fistulas
- Pediatric surgical clinical outcomes
- Nanoparticle drug delivery
- Cardiovascular disease
- Pancreatic Cancer
- Oxidative stress, Free radicals and Antioxidants
- Benign foregut diseases
- Endocrine Surgery
- Health services
- Health policy
- Surgical quality improvement
- Cancer outcomes
- Metabolic surgery
- Clinical outcomes
- Radiofrequency energy
- Cryotherapy
- Cardiovascular disease
- Cardiac regeneration
- Cardiac cellular reprogramming
- Minimally-invasive pectus excavatum repair
- Advanced minimally-invasive and robotic general pediatric surgery
- Choledochal cyst laparoscopic excision
- Skeletal malformations of the chest
- Hepatobiliary disorders
- Noninvasive diagnosis
- Vein graft stenosis
- Intimal hyperplasia and limb-salvage
- Diabetes mellitus
- Clinical outcomes
- Quality of life
- Cleft lip and palate
- Critical limb ischemia
- Endovascular
- Implantable technology
- Pediatric trauma
- Pediatric oncology
- Congenital anorectal malformations and gastrointestinal anomalies
- Wearable technology
- Movement science
- Digital health
- Neuroblastoma in infants
- Tumor progression
- Cancer target discovery
- Liver transplantation
- Bile duct resections
- Intraoperative RFA
- Kidney transplantation
- Portosystemic shunts
- Hepatobiliary surgery
- Coronary revascularization
- Valvular heart disease
- Thoracic and thoracoabdominal aorta
- Acute Care Surgery
- General Surgery
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Faculty P-Z
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- Surgical outcomes
- Aortic surgery
- Valvular and thoracic aortic disease
- Liver transplantation
- Bile duct resections
- Intraoperative RFA
- Kidney transplantation
- Portosystemic shunts
- Hepatobiliary surgery
- Carpal Tunnel Release
- Hand surgery
- Brachial Plexus surgery
- Complex Reconstruction
- Aesthetic surgery
- Lower extremity surgery
- Breast Reconstruction
- Facial Plastic surgery
- Laser Resurfacing
- Facial Reconstruction
- BH3 profiling
- Metabolomics
- Thoracic oncology
- Gene therapy
- Cellular reprogramming
- Angiogenesis
- Pediatric surgery outcomes
- Patient-centered outcomes
- Healthcare delivery
- Vascular biology
- Vascular disease
- Diabetes
- Natural history of solid organ tumors
- Therapy of solid organ malignancy
- Cancer in minority populations
- Ascites
- Cirrhosis
- Hepatitis
- Hepatocellular carcinoma
- Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
- Portal hypertension
- Wilson's disease
- Trauma
- Immune function
- Infection
- Abdominal paracentesis
- Acute and chronic liver disease
- Cirrhosis
- Hepatitis
- Liver transplantation
- Hepatocellular carcinoma
- Mobile Technology
- Clinical outcomes
- Patient safety and quality in underserved populations
- Acute liver failure
- Artificial liver support
- Cirrhosis
- Hepatitis
- DCIS
- Triple Negative Breast Cancer
- Clinical translational trials
Barbara Wells Trautner, M.D., Ph.D.
- Urinary tract infections
- Healthcare-associated infections
- Antimicrobial stewardship
- Pancreatic cancer
- Gastrointestinal malignancies
- Whipple procedure
- Pediatric surgical oncology
- Neuroblastoma
- Pediatric liver cancer
- p53 regulation, and MYCN tumorigenesis
- Trauma surgery
- General surgery
- Acute care surgery
- Critical care
- Acute liver failure
- Alcoholic and non-alcoholic fatty liver diseases
- Alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency
- Hepatitis
- Cholangiocarcinoma
- Cirrhosis
- Hepatocellular carcinoma
- Wilson's disease
- Pediatric general surgery
- Pediatric thoracic surgery
- Pediatric trauma
- Pediatric injury prevention
- GI disorders
- Trauma
- Clinical Outcomes
- Education
- Disparities
- Surgical Global Health
- Craniofacial development
- Pre-surgical infant orthopedics
- Cleft lip and palate orthodontics
Qizhi 'Cathy' Yao, M.D., Ph.D.
- HIV vaccines
- Pancreatic cancer pathogenesis
- Nanoparticle targeted delivery
- Peripheral Arterial Disease
- Carotid artery Disease
- Venous thromboembolic disease
- Aortic Aneurysms
- Varicose veins
