Areas of Research

Cardiac

John Elefteriades, MD, Professor
Genetics of thoracic aortic aneurysms; novel heart transplantation technique.

Graeme Hammond, MD, Emeritus
Genetic Methods to Effect Xenograft Transplantation; MHC Suppression as a model for transplant tolerance.

George Tellides, MD, Associate Professor/C-S Track
Dr. Tellides has achieved recognition for furthering the understanding of basic mechanisms of arteriosclerosis. He was awarded the Hellman Family Fellowship Award by Yale for his research.

Endocrine/General Surgery

Tobias Carling, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Surgery
Director, Yale Endocrine Neoplasia Laboratory
Doris Duke-Damon Runyon Press Release

Sanziana Roman, MD, Assistant Professor/C-E Track
The effects of surgery on psychiatric and cognitive disorders in hyperparathyroidism; quality of life in oncology patients after surgery; thyroid cancer information on the internet.

Julie Ann Sosa, MA, MD, Assistant Professor
Outcomes research in endocrine and transplant surgery

Robert Udelsman, MD, MBA, Professor
Endocrine surgery; surgery of the thyroid, parathyroid, adrenal glands, and endocrine pancreas; outpatient minimally invasive parathyroidectomy and laparascopic adrenalectomy; surgery for thyroid nodules and cancer, parathyroid disease, adrenal diseases and endocrine cancer.

Gastrointestinal/General Surgery

Walter Longo, MD, Professor
Colon and rectal cancer surgery; inflammatory bowel disease (IBD); benign and malignant anorectal diseases; pelvic floor disorders, Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis.

Robert Bell, MD, Assistant Professor
New applications in laparoscopic surgery; Laparoscopic bariatric surgery.
Metabolic changes following bariatric surgery.

Andrew Duffy, MD, Assistant Professor
Surgical skills training; virtual reality surgical simulation; clinical outcomes for bariatrics; hernia; colon surgery.

John Geibel, MD, DSc, Professor
Gastrointestinal physiology, specifically ion transport in the stomach and colon, using a series of intracellular fluorescent indicators.
Gastric Acid Secretion, Colonic Fluid Transport, Renal Physiology, Intracellular Ion Activity Measurements, Calcium Sensing Receptor.

Anatomy

Lawrence Rizzolo, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Director of Medical Studies
The retinal pigment epithelium (RPE); research focuses on the development and regulation of RPE tight junctions.

William Stewart, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Section Chief Anatomy & Experimental Surgery
Examining the basis for the neurologic deficits resulting from perinatal hypoxia.

Neuropathology

Laura Manuelidis, MD, Professor
Focuses on clinical and experimental models of dementia. The goal is to elucidate the mechanisms of infection in Transmissible Encephalopathies (TSEs), and to delineate how the host responds to infection.

Oncology/General Surgery

Ronald Salem, MD, Professor/C-E Track
Pancreas tumors including Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasms (IPMN); esophagus cancer; metastatic tumors to the liver.

Charles Cha, MD, Assistant Professor

Donald Lannin, MD, Professor
Role of PCR in sentinel lymph node biopsy
Surgery exclusively for benign and malignant diseases of the breast, including breast cancer; procedures: high-risk screening; breast biopsy; sentinel lymph node biopsy; ductal lavage; ductoscopy.

Otolarynogolgy

Joseph Santos-Sacchi, Ph.D, Professor
Auditory Physiology.

Clarence Sasaki, MD, Professor
Laryngeal physiology; head and neck cancer.

Pediatrics

Christopher Breuer, MD, Assistant Professor
Minimally invasive and laparoscopic surgery for neonates, newborns, infants and children; neonatal surgery, including prenatal consultation, fetal intervention and postnatal surgical care; extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO); esophageal atresia; necrotizing enterocolitis; intestinal atresia.

Plastics and Reconstructive Surgery

Michael Centrella, PhD, Professor
Molecular aspects of bone growth factor and receptor expression and activity.

Thomas McCarthy, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Hormonal and molecular control of IGF-I expression and TGF-b function in osteoblasts. Osteoblast gene expression, including steroid hormone interactions with signaling pathways that control gene expression.

Deepak Narayan, MD, Associate Professor
Breast reconstruction; melanoma; head and neck reconstruction; pediatric plastic surgery; oncologic reconstruction (head, neck and breast); skin cancer; melanoma; vascular malformations; facial nerve palsy paralysis repair; salivary-gland tumors.

John Persing, MD, Professor
Outcomes research in Plastic Surgery; results of surgery for craniofacial syndromes in children
Craniofacial disorders; cosmetic surgery; craniofacial trauma; cranial base tumor surgery; vascular anomalies; skin cancer; melanoma.

Thoracic

Frank Detterbeck, MD, Professor
Cancer biology; cancer imaging techniques; prognostic markers of cancer; multimodality (multiple therapies for) treatment of cancer; evidence-based medicine.

Transplantation

Sanjay Kulkarni, MD, Assistant Professor
Weight reduction in obese renal-disease patients.

Trauma

Kimberly Davis, MD, Associate Professor
Inflammation and infection; trauma, surgical critical care; emergency and elective general surgery; re-operative surgery; sepsis and resuscitation.

Lewis Kaplan, MD, Associate Professor
Acid-base physiology; shock; acute lung injury; re-operative abdominal surgery; surgical infections.

John Schulz, MD, PhD,  Associate Professor