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John Spinosa
Email:
john@spinosa.com
Undergraduate Institution: Claremont McKenna College BA, Chemistry, 1980
Graduate Department: Biology (Experimental Pathology, now called Molecular Pathology)
Thesis Title: Human neutrophil interactions with model immune complexes : modulation by human C5a anaphylatoxin
Thesis Advisor at UCSD: Dr. Dennis E. Chenoweth
Graduation Year: 1987
Postgraduate Education: Pathology, UCSD Medical Center
Current Position: Chief of Staff and Staff Pathologist at Scripps Memorial Hospital and Chairman of the Pathology Department, La Jolla, California
Publications
Raymond Gariano
Email:
Ray.Gariano@hhs.co.santa-clara.ca.us
Undergraduate Institution: UCLA, BS, Chemistry, 1981
Graduate Department: Neurosciences
Thesis Title: Dopamine autoreceptors : distribution, role in neuronal activity and relation to antipsychotic drugs
Thesis Advisor at UCSD: Dr. Philip M. Groves
Graduation Year: 1988
Postgraduate Education: Ophthalmology, UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco
Current Position: Chief, Retina-Vitreous Surgery, Dept. Surgery, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center; Clinical Associate Professor, Dept. Ophthalmology, Stanford University School of Medicine
Publications
Joseph L. Higgins
Email:
nousl345@telocity.com
Website: Profile
Undergraduate Institution: UC San Diego, BA, Bioengineering, 1979
Graduate Department: Bioengineering
Thesis Title: Photoplethysmography: theoretical and experimental considerations in the diagnosis of venous disease
Thesis Advisor at UCSD: Dr. Arnost Fronek
Graduation Year: 1988
Postgraduate Education: Radiology, Stanford University Hospital
Current Position: Diagnostic Radiologist, Modesto Radiological Medical Group, Inc.
Publications
John D. Pfeifer
Email:
pfeifer@path.wustl.edu
Website:
Profile
Undergraduate Institution: UC San Diego, BA, Physiology, 1981
Graduate Department: Biology
Thesis Title: Production of Soluble Factors Influencing T Cell Reactivity by a Cloned Line of Thymic Epithelium
Thesis Advisor at UCSD: Dr. Richard W. Dutton
Graduation Year: 1988
Postgraduate Education: Pathology (Anatomical / Surgical), Barnes Hospital, St. Louis, Post Graduate Medical Scientist Training Program
Current Position: Professor, Pathology and Immunology, Washington University, St. Louis
Publications (
see website
)
Jeffrey E. Rubnitz
Email:
jeffrey.rubnitz@stjude.org
Website:
Profile
Undergraduate Institution: University of Wisconsin, BS, Mol. Biology, 1979
Graduate Department: Biology
Thesis Title: Homologous Recombination in Mammalian Cells
Thesis Advisor at UCSD: Dr. Suresh Subramani
Graduation Year: 1988
Postgraduate Education: Pediatrics, Stanford University Hospital
Current Position: Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty, Director, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Fellowship Training Program
Publications (
see website
)
Gerald F. Cox
Email:
gerald.cox@genzyme.com
Undergraduate Institution: Harvard, BA, Biology, 1980
Graduate Department: Biology
Thesis Title: Identification and Characterization of Enactin: A New 245 kd Protein Associated with Adherens Junction and the N Lines of Striated Muscle
Thesis Advisor at UCSD: Dr. S.J. Singer
Graduation Year: 1989
Postgraduate Education: Pediatrics and Medical Genetics at Boston Children's Hospital
Current Position: Medical Director, Genzyme Corporation, Instructor Harvard Medical School
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Carl E. Fricks
Email: unknown
Undergraduate Institution: Brandeis Univeristy, BA, Chemistry, Physics, 1978
Graduate Department: Biology
Thesis Title: Studies of the conformational changes of poliovirus during virus neutralisation, cell entry and infection
Thesis Advisor at UCSD: Dr. James Hogle
Graduation Year: 1989
Postgraduate Education: Internal Medicine, USC Medical Center, Los Angeles
Current Position: Pulmonary Critical Care Medicine, Scripps Hospital, La Jolla
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Beatrice Golomb
Email:
bgolomb@ucsd.edu
Website:
Profile
Undergraduate Institution: USC, BS, Physics, 1979
Graduate Department: Biology
Thesis Title: Visual motion perception : some special properties
Thesis Advisor at UCSD: Dr. Donald MacLeod
Graduation Year: 1989
Postgraduate Education: Postdoc at the Salk institute, Computational Neurobiology; Internal Medicine, VA Hospital, San Diego, California
Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, UC San Diego
Publications (
see website
)
Richard D. Rasmussen
Email: unknown
Undergraduate Institution: University of California, Davis, BS, Biochemistry, 1977
Graduate Department: Biology
Thesis Title: Characterization of Late Transcripts and Viral DNA from a Region of HCMV which Contains Cell-Related Sequences
Thesis Advisor at UCSD: Dr. Deborah Spector
Graduation Year: 1989
Postgraduate Education: Dermatology, Barnes Hopsital, St. Louis
Current Position: Dermatologist, Grants Pass, Oregon
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