Education

Faculty Mentors

A. K. M. Shamsuddin, PhD

  • Technical and methodological assistant to the new lab members in Dr. Paul Quinton’s lab

Dan Zhou, PhD

  • Mentors two postdoctoral fellows
  • Advises three graduate students’ doctoral dissertations (thesis committee member)
  • Presenter at local Research in Progress and Journal Club meetings

Daniel Lesser, MD

  • Director, Pediatric Pulmonary Training Program
  • Supervises pediatric residents during inpatient and outpatient clinical activities
  • Participates in case conferences and the morning report with medical students and interns
  • Presenter at monthly Pediatric Pulmonary Case Conferences for residents and students

Gabriel G. Haddad, MD

  • Participates in Professor’s Rounds with pediatric residents and students
  • Mentors/advises four postdoctoral fellows
  • Advisor for two graduate students
  • Teaches weekly Research-in-Progress seminars in the laboratory
  • Organizes a bi-weekly seminar involving a group of investigators and their labs at UCSD (Extreme O2 group, EOG
  • Teaches bi-weekly Journal Club
  • Weekly hospital rounds and bi-weekly pulmonary rounds
  • Organizes the medical students/pharmacy students (year 1) course (with Albert La Spada) in medical genetics/genomics and teaches in it

Hang Yao, PhD

  • Mentors/advises five undergraduate students and a graduate student with research projects
  • Presenter at Seminar of Division of Physiology, School of Medicine
  • Presenter at Pediatric Faculty Research Seminar
  • Presenter at local Research in Progress and Journal Club meetings

Jin Xue, MD, PhD

  • Presenter in the lab, Pediatrics department, collaborative groups at UCSD, Journal Club meetings, as well as in national and international conferences
  • Mentor of one master student, one medical student and two undergraduate students
  • Scientific consultation/research advice to two visiting scholars

Julie Ryu, MD

  •  Participates in Clinical Leadership. Administrative/ Management, Program Development and Education
  • Supervises pediatric residents during inpatient and outpatient clinical activities
  • Faculty Advisor for 2 pediatric residents
  • Mentor, advisor, thesis committee member for graduate students
  • Presenter, bimonthly case conferences with medical students and interns
  • Presenter at monthly Pediatric Pulmonary Case Conferences for residents and students
  • Presenter at local Research in Progress and Journal Club meetings

Kathryn Akong, MD, PhD 

  • Supervises pediatric residents during inpatient and outpatient clinical activities
  • Participates in case conferences and the morning report with medical students and Presenter at monthly Pediatric Pulmonary Case Conferences for residents and students interns

Matejka Cernelc-Kohan, MD 

  •  Supervises pediatric residents during inpatient and outpatient clinical activities
  • Participates in case conferences and the morning report with medical students and interns
  • Presenter at monthly Pediatric Pulmonary Case Conferences for residents and students

Meerana Lim, MD

  • Supervises pediatric residents during inpatient and outpatient clinical activities
  • Participates in case conferences and the morning report with medical students and interns

M. M. Reddy, PhD

  • Teaches gastrointestinal physiology and biomedical engineering at UCSD
  • Assists in instructing scholars, students, and visitors in the lab of Dr. Quinton  

Ning Yang, MD, PhD

  • Mentored an undergraduate summer student
  • Assist in fellow’s research in Dr. Paul Quinton’s lab

Paul M. Quinton, PhD

  • Teaches human physiology of respiration and renal function to first-year medical students at UC Riverside
  • Instructs students and scholars in his laboratory at UCSD
  • Co-Directs Child Health Research Seminars (departmental faculty research forum)

Priti Azad, PhD

  • Mentored undergraduate internship student Daya Raman for two quarters (Winter and Spring 2011)
  • Mentored Fellow and undergraduate and graduate interns (2012-present)

POST-DOCTORAL TRAINEES TEACHING  AND TRAINING ACTIVITIES

Amanda Khoury, MD

Danielle Munce, MD

Richard Wong, DO