Research Faculty & Mentors

Allergy/Immunology/ Rheumatology

• Jane Burns, MD (Biomarkers in Kawasaki's Disease)
• Seema Aceves, MD, PhD (Tissue remodeling in Eosinophilic Esophagitis)
  
• Hal Hoffman, MD (Periodic Fever Syndrome)
• Anthony Horner, MD (Environmental Influences in Pediatric Asthma)
• Alessandra Franco, MD, PhD (B-Cell-T-Cell Crosstalk)

Cardiology

• John Moore, MD, MPH ( STARFlex Septal Occlusion System in ASD, Catheterization Outcomes, Congenital Cardiovascular Interventional Study Consortium)
• Christopher Davis, MD, PhD (Exercise Physiology, Sudden Death Syndrome in Athletes)
• Paul Grossfeld, MD (Jacobsen Syndrome, Marfan Syndrome)
• Sanjeet Hegde, MD, PhD (Cardiac MRI guided intervention)
  
• Vishal Nigam, MD (Signaling Pathways in Hypoplastic Left-Heart Syndrome)
• Kanishka Ratnayake, MD (Cardiac MRI)
  

Child Development and Community Health

• Sheila Gahagan, MD, MPH (Biopsychosocial Determinants of Obesity/Cardiovascular Risk)
• Shelia Broyles, PhD, MPH (San Diego EXPORT, Adaptation of Nutrition/Education)
• Sandra Daley, MD (San Diego EXPORT, Health Disparities)
• Patricia East, PhD (Effects of Adolescent Child-Bearing, Teen Violence)
• Howard Taras, MD (School Health)
• Martin T. Stein, MD (ADHD, Early Recognition of Developmental and Behavioral Conditions)
• Maria Zuniga, PhD (Health Care Access and Utilization for Border Health, Latinos Living with HIV)

Critical Care

• Brad Peterson, MD (Traumatic Brain Injury)
• Susan Duthie, MD (Evaluation of Code Blue Data in External Trauma)
• Brock Fischer, MD (Research Director for Critical Care)
• Sandeep Khanna, MD (Pressure Monitoring in Critically Ill Patients)

Dermatology

• Lawrence Eichenfield, MD (Atopic Dermatitis and Risk Factors)
• Magdalene Dohil, MD (Therapeutic Treatments in Eczema)
• Sheila Fallon-Friedlander, MD (Vascular Lesions, Hemangiomas)
• Wynnis Tom, MD (T-Cell Signaling Psoriasis)

Emergency Medicine

• Paul Ishimine, MD (Pediatrics Fevers)
• John Kanegaye, MD ( Kawasaki's Disease)
  

Endocrinology/Diabetes

• Michael Gottschalk, MD, PhD (Immune Modulation of Type 1 Diabetes, IGF-1 Therapy in Deficient Children, Beta-Cell Function in Type 1 Diabetes)
• Alberto Hayek, MD (Pancreatic Modeling from Human Stem Cells)
• Ulupi Jhala, PhD (Signaling Cascades and Regulation of Beta Cells)
• Jane Kim, MD (Fox01 in Insulin Resistance)
• Karen Klein, MD (Racial Diversity and Obesity Impact in Pubertal Onset)
• Maike Sander, MD (Pancreatic Progenitor Beta-Cell and Development)
• Jianhua Shao, MD, PhD (Transcriptional Regulation of Adiponectic Gene Expression)

Gastroenterology

• Ranjan Dohil, MD, (Cystinosis, Pathogenesis and Treatment; Budesonide Treatment of EE)
  
• Kerri Boutelle, PhD (Behavioral issues in Obesity, Interventions for Overweigh Adolescents)
• Jeannie Huang, MD, MPH (Weight Management in ALL Survivors, Text use in Adolescent Health Management, Health Literacy in IBD)
• Sherry Huang, MD (Genetics of Pediatric Polyposis Cancer Syndromes)
• Mamata Sivagnanam, MD ( Congenital tufting enteropathy)
• Jeff Schwimmer, MD (NAFLD, NASH, Risk and Treatment Options in Obesity)

General Academic Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine

• Brett Pickering, MD (Special Needs Primary Care)
• Joyce Adams, MD (Teen Sexual Abuse and Eating Disorders, Normative Anogenital Anatomy)
• Eyla Boies, MD (Breastfeeding the Pre-term Infant)
• Nancy Graff, MD ( Residency Training in Primary Care)
• Karen Loper, MD (Adolescent Health and Violence Prevention)
• Lyndia Willies-Jacobo, MD (Cultural Competence and Sensitivity in Pediatrics)

Genetics/Metabolism

• Albert La Spada, MD, PhD ( Molecular Genetics of Neurodegenerative Diseases)
• Bruce Barshop MD, PhD (Newborn Screening for Metabolic Discorders)
• Lynne Bird, MD ( Rare Diseases and New Therapy)
• Christina Chambers, PhD, MPH (Autoimmune Diseases in Pregnancy, National Children's Study, Nutrition Risk Factors in FASD in Russia)
• Pam Itkin-Ansari, MD (Drug Development for Beta-Cell Regeneration)
• Marilyn Jones, MD (Birth Defects and Developmental Disorders)
• Kenneth Lyons Jones, MD (Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, Birth Defect Patterns, California Teratogenic Program, Maternal Dietary Fat in Gastroschisis)
• Alysson Muotri, PhD (Neuronohomeostasis Autistic Spectrum Disorders)
• Robert Naviaux, MD, PhD (Alpers Syndrome, Mitochondrial Disease in Autism
• Bill Nyhan, MD, PhD (Center for Lesch-Nyhan Disease)

Genome Information Sciences

• Kelly Frazer, PhD (Cancer Diagnostics)

Hematology/Oncology

• Donald Durden, MD, PhD (PTEN Targets in Cancer Syndromes)
• Bill Roberts, MD (Chemotherapy for Low-Grade Astrocytoma, Recurrent Neuroblastoma and Medullablastoma, Tumor Lysis Syndrome in ALL)
• Eric Anderson, MD (Stem Cell Transplantation, Neuro-oncology Research)
• Jenny Kim, MD (Sickle Cell Disease, Treatment for PNET and Medullablastoma)
  
• Amy Lovejoy, MD (Hemophilia and von Willebrand's Disease)
• Deborah Schiff, MD (Refractory ALL Therapy)
• Jennifer Willert, MD (Progression of Neuroblastoma)

Hospital Medicine

• Erin Stucky, MD (Pediatric Research in the Inpatient Setting)
• Cindy Kuelbs, MD (Child and Family Maltreatment)
• Daniel Hershey, MD (Sports Injury in Adolescence)
• Ami Doshi, MD (Palliative care)

Infectious Disease

• Steve Spector, MD (Host-viral Interactions)
• John Bradley, MD (Clinical trials of Antibacterials, Antifungals, and novel therapies in MRSA)
  
• Alice Pong, MD (Phase 4 clinical trials on Treatment of Tuberculosis)
• Mark Sawyer, MD (Immunization delivery, compliance and education)
  

Neonatology

• Lars Bode, PhD (Glycobiology, Neonatal Nutrition and NEC)
  
• Greg Heldt, MD (Surfactant replacement therapys; pathogenesis of GBS sepsis)
• Farhad Imam, MD, PhD (Molecular and genetic response to stress)
  
• Jae Kim, MD, PhD (Neonatal Bowel Injury: modalities for diagnosis and treatment)
  
• Lance Prince, MD, PhD (Neonatal lung disease)
  
• Evan Snyder, MD, PhD (Regenerative Stem Cell Initiative)
  

Nephrology

• Robert Mak, MD, PhD (Uremic cachexia and osteodystrophy; biomarkers for VUR)
• Sanjay Nigam, MD, PhD (Embryonic Kidney Development)
• Vivian Reznik, MD (Prenatal Ultrasound in the Diagnosis of Congenital Renal Disorders)
• Elizabeth Ingulli, MD (Transplant Immunology)
• Peter Jorgin, MD (Erythropoietin and Anemia)

Neurology

• Doris Trauner, MD (Neurodevelopmental Disorders)
• Jonathan Bui, MD, PhD (Neuroimaging and Vascular and Behavioral Neurology)
• Jennifer Friedman, MD (Movement Disorders)
• Joe Gleeson, MD, PhD (Neurogenetic Disorders)
• Carla Grossman, MD (Neuromuscular Disorders and Electromyography)
• Richard Haas, MD (Neurometabolic Disorders)
• David Lieberman, MD, PhD (Role of Synapse Formation and Function in Neurodevelopmental Disorders)
• Mark Nespeca, MD (Childhood Epilepsy)

Pharmacology and Drug Discoveries

• Rob Knight, PhD (Microbiome, Computational Biology)
• Victor Nizet, MD (Microbial Pathogenesis and the Innate Immune System)
• Brookie Best, PharmD (Antiretroviral Agents)
• Edmund Caparelli, PharmD (Pharmacokinetic and Pharmacodynamic Modeling)
• Adriana Tremoulet, MD, MAS; (Pharmacology of Antiinfective Agents)

Respiratory Medicine

• Gabriel Haddad, MD (Role of Ion Channels in Nerve Cells in Hypoxic Environment)
• Jim Hagood, MD (Signaling Pathways in Pulmonary Fibrosis)
• Robert Douglas, PhD (Role of Reactive Oxygen Species)
• Mark Pian, MD (Translational and Clinical Research in Cystic Fibrosis)
• Paul Quinton, PhD (Transport Defects in CF)
• Julie Ryu, MD (Hypercapnia and Lung Development and Function) ​