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The IEM consists of a network of faculty, students, staff, and partners both within and outside of the University of California, brought together by the common focus of Engineering in Medicine.  Currently the Institute has more than 100 participating faculty members and 20 industry members.

Directors

NAME POSITION DEPARTMENT/WEBSITE EMAIL PHONE/FAX
Shu Chien University Professor of Bioengineering and Medicine
Director of Institute of Engineering in Medicine
Bioengineering and Medicine shuchien@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)534-5195
Fax: (858)534-5722
David Cheresh Professor of Pathology
Associate Director of Institute of Engineering in Medicine
Pathology
Institute of Engineering in Medicine, UCSD Moores Cancer Center
dcheresh@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)822-2232
Fax: (858)822-3104
Shankar Subramaniam Professor and Chair, Bioengineering
Associate Director of Institute of Engineering in Medicine
Bioengineering shankar@sdsc.edu Tel: (858)822-0986
Fax: (858)822-3752

Faculty and Advisors

NAME POSITION DEPARTMENT/WEBSITE EMAIL PHONE/FAX
Jasmin Aguado-Sierra Post-Doctoral Researcher Bioengineering jaguadosierra@bioeng.ucsd.edu

Tel: (858)534-2547
Fax: (858)822-1253

Sameh Ali Assistant Professor Medicine ssali@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)534-7956
Fax: (858)822-2908
Matthew Allison Assistant Professor Medicine mallison@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)200-3814
Fax: (858)200-3815
Adah Almutairi Assistant Professor Pharmaceutical Sciences aalmutairi@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)246 0871
Fax: (858)200-3815
Michael Andre Professor Radiology mandre@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)552-8585
x 4-7651
David Amiel Professor Orthopaedic Surgery damiel@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)534-2676
Dale Baker Post-Graduate Researcher Bioengineering dbaker@ucsd.edu  
Kim Barrett Professor, Dean Medicine, Graduate Studies kbarrett@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)434-2795
Fax: (858)534-3338
Bruce Barshop Professor

Pediatrics

bbarshop@ucsd.edu Tel: (619)543-5279
Fax: (619)543-3565
Dirk-Uwe Bartsch Associate Adjunct Professor Opthalmology dbartsch@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)534-4392
Fax: (858)534-6826
Yuri Bazilevs Assistant Professor Structural Engineering bazily@ices.utexas.edu  
David Benson Professor Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering dbenson@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)534-5928
Michael Berns Adjunct Professor Bioengineering mwberns@uci.edu Tel: (858)822-2954
Fax: (858)822-1160
Bill Bradley Professor and Chair Radiology wgbradley@ucsd.edu Tel: (619)543-2890
David Brenner VC of Health Sciences, Dean School of Medicine dbrenner@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)534-1501
Jonathan Bui Assistant Professor Neurosciences jdbui@ucsd.edui Tel: (858)534-3270
Nigel Calcutt Professor Pathology ncalcutt@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)534-5331
Fax: (858)534-1886
Edmund Capparelli Clinical Professor Pediatrics ecapparelli@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)246-0009
Fax: (858)246-0025
Jennifer Cha Assistant Professor Nanoengineering jncha@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)822-4793
Fax: (858)534-9553
Peter Chen Project Scientist/Lecturer Bioengineering pcchen@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)822-2554
Fax: (858)534-5722
Karen Christman Assistant Professor Bioengineering christman@bioeng.ucsd.edu Tel: (858)822-7863
Antonio De Maio Professor and Vice Chairman of Research Surgery ademaio@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)822-6502
Fax: (858)-822-2981
Anna Devor Adjunct Assistant Professor Neurosciences and Radiology adevor@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)534-0381
Wolfgang Dillmann Professor, Chief Medicine, Endocrinology and Metabolism wdillmann@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)534-9934
Fax: (858)534-9932
Pieter Dorrestein Assistant Professor Pharmacy and Pharmacology, Chemistry pdorrestein@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)534-6607
Fax: (858)822-0041
James Dunford Professor Clinical Medicine and Surgery JDunford@sandiego.gov Tel: (619)533-4359
Fax: (619)533-4499
Robert Engler Professor Emeritus Medicine
Rengler@cardiumthx.com Tel: (858)436-1008
Adam Engler Assistant Professor Bioengineering aengler@bioeng.ucsd.edu Tel: (858)246-0678
Fax: (858)534-5722
Sadik Esener Professor Nanoengineering sadik@ecepops.ucsd.edu Tel: (858)534-9997
Fax: (858)534-2732
Sylvia Evans Professor Medicine and Skaggs School of Pharmacy syevans@ucsd.edus Tel: (858)822-2452
Shaya Fainman Cymer Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering fainman@ece.ucsd.edu Tel: (858)534-8909
Fax: (858)534-1225
Marilyn Farquhar Professor and Chair Cellular and Molecular Medicine mfarquhar@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)534-7711
Fax: (858)534-8549
Gary S. Firestein Professor of Medicine, Chief, Division of Rheumatology Allergy & Immunology
Dean, Translational Medicine
Clinical and Translational Research Insitute gfirestein@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)822-0480
Fax: (858)534-2606
Steve Flaim Business and Technology Advisor The William J. von Liebig Center for Entrepreneurism and Technology Advancement sflaim@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)822-1788
Lawrence Frank Professor in Residence, Co-Director Radiology, National Skeletal Muscle Research Center lrfrank@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)534-6332
Fax:  
William Freeman Professor, Director Opthalmology, Jacobs Retina Center wrfreeman@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)534-3513
Fax: (858)534-7985
Theodore Friedmann Professor Pediatrics tfriedmann@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)534-4268
Arnost Fronek Professor Emeritus Surgery
afronek@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)534-4270
Fred Gage Professor Neurosciences gage@salk.edu Tel: (858)453-4100
Gordon Gill Professor Cellular and Molecular Medicine ggill@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)534-4310
Mark Ginsberg Professor, Director Physician Scientist Training Pathway Medicine mhginsberg@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)822-6432
Fax: (858)822-6458 

Diana Glaser


 

Director, Orthopedic Biomechanics Research Center
Rady Childrens Hospital
Medicine diana@pinfo.org (858) 966 1700 x 4857 (office)
Chris Glass Professor Cellular and Molecular Medicine cglass@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)534-6011
David Gough Professor Bioengineering dgough@bioeng.ucsd.edu Tel: (858)822-3446
Fax: (858)534-5722
Barry Greenberg Professor Medicine bgreenberg@ucsd.edu Tel: (619)543-7751
Fax: (619)543-7870
Gabriel Haddad Professor and Chair Pediatrics ghaddad@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)822-4740
David J. Hall Assistant Adjunct Professor Radiology and Bioengineering djhall@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)822-0893
Alan Hargens Professor Orthopaedic Surgery ahargens@ucsd.edu Tel: (619)543-6805 
Fax: (619)543-2540
Jeff Hasty Associate Professor Bioengineering hasty@bioeng.ucsd.edu Tel: (858)822-3442
Fax: (309)273-0130
Alan Hofmann Professor Emeritus Medicine
HofmannAF@cs.com Tel: (858)822-3811
Fax: (858)534-3338
Stephen Howell Professor, Associate Director for Clinical Research Medicine, Moores Cancer Center showell@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)822-1112
Fax: (858)822-1111
Trey Ideker Associate Professor Bioengineering trey@bioeng.ucsd.edu Tel: (858)822-4558
Fax: (858)822-4246
Marcos Intagiletta Professor Bioengineering mintaglietta@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)534-4275
Terry Jernigan Professor of Cognitive Science, Psychiatry, and Radiology Director, Center for Human Development
Psychiatry
tjernigan@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)534-4105
Fax: (858)534-4114
Sungho Jin Distinguished Professor of Materials Science and Iwama Endowed Chair    Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering jin@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)534-4903
Fax: (858)534-5698
Steve Jiang Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology Moores Cancer Center sbjiang@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)822-5129
Fax: (858)822-6078
Paul Johnson Adjunct Professor Bioengineering pjohnson@bioeng.ucsd.edu Tel: (858)534-5686
Fax: (858)534-5722
Tzyy-Ping Jung Professor Computer Science jung@sccn.ucsd.edu Tel: (858)458-1927 x12
Kenneth Kaushansky Helen M. Ranney Distinguished Professor and Chair Medicine kkaushansky@ucsd.edu Tel: (619)543-2259
Ajai Khanna Associate Clinical Professor General Surgery/Abdominal Transplantation akhanna@ucsd.edu Tel: (619)543-3493
Richard Klemke Professor Pathology rklemke@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)822-5610
Fax: (858)822-4566
David Krummen Assistant Clinical Professor Medicine
dkrummen@ucsd.edu Tel: (619)543-8205
Joel Lavine Vice Chair Pediatrics
jolavine@ucsd.edu Tel: (619)543-7544
Fax: (619)543-7537
Hyam Leffert Professor Pharmacology and Center for Molecular Genetics hleffert@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)534-2354
Fax: (858)534-6833
Wilbur Lew Professor of Medicine & Chief of VA Cardiology Section Medicine wlew@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)642-3545
Fax: (858)552-7490
Klaus Ley Head Division of Inflammation Biology klaus@liai.org Tel: (858)752-6661
Fax: (858)752-6986
Julie Li Associate Project Scientist Bioengineering
jli@bioeng.ucsd.edu Tel: (858)822-1313
Fax: (858)822-1160
Rick Lieber Professor and Vice Chair Orthopaedic Surgery rlieber@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)552-8585 ext 7016
Jonathan Lin Assistant Professor Pathology, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
jlin@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)534-2743
Thomas Liu Associate Professor  Radiology and Bioengineering ttliu@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)822-0542
John Liu Adjunct Professor Opthalmology joliu@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)534-7056
Fax: (858)534-7014
Alison Marsden Assistant Professor Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering amarsden@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)822-3744
Andrew McCulloch Professor Bioengineering amcculloch@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)534-2547
Fax: (858)534-5722
Jayant Menon Physician and Surgeon Division of Neurosurgery jpmenon@ucsd.edu
Yury Miller Associate Professor Medicine yumiller@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)822-5771
Fax: (858)534-2005
Robert Myers Professor Anesthesiology rmyers@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)534-6608
Fax: (858)534-1445
Sanjiv Narayan Associate Professor Medicine snarayan@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)552-8585 ext 3539
Thomas Nelson Professor Radiology tnelson@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)534-1433
Sanjay Nigam Professor Pediatrics, Medicine, and Cellular and Molecular Medicine
snigam@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)822-3482
Fax: (858)822-3483
Victor Nizet Professor Pediatrics and Pharmacy vnizet@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)534-7408
Fax: (858)534-5611
Daniel O'Connor Professor Medicine doconnor@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)534-0661
Fax: (858)534-0626
Rosibel Ochoa  Commercialization Director The von Liebig Center gochoa@ucsd.edu

Tel:(858)822-6775
Fax:(858)822-5959

Jeff Omens Adjunct Professor Medicine and Bioengineering jomens@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)534-8102
Fax: (858)534-0522
Bernhard Palsson Professor Bioengineering bpalsson@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)534-5668
Frank Papatheofanis Associate Professor Radiology fpapath@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)552-8585 ext 7511
Giovanni Paternostro Adjunct Assistant Professor Burnham Institute for Medical Research giovanni@burnham.org Tel: (858)646 3100 
Kevin Patrick Professor Family and Preventive Medicine kpatrick@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)457-7296
Fax: (858)622-1463
David Perkins Professor of Medicine and Surgery
Director of Research for Transplantation
Medicine davperkins@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)534-9664
Steven Plaxe Professor Reproductive Medicine
splaxe@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)822-6199
Fax: (858)822-6319
Frank Powell Professor Medicine and Director of White Mountain Research fpowell@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)534-4191
Jeff Price  Associate Professor Burnham jprice@burnham.org Tel: (858)646.3162 
Kim Prisk Adjunct Professor Medicine and Radiology kprisk@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)455-4756
Robert Ross Professor Medicine rross@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)642-1138
Fax: (858)642-1199
Erkki Ruoslahti Adjunct Professor Bioengineering ruoslahti@burnham.org  
Allen Ryan Professor Surgery
afryan@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)534-4659
Fax: (858)534-5319
Robert Sah Professor Bioengineering rsah@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)534-0821
Fax: (858)534-5722
David Schlaepfer Professor Moores Cancer Center, Reproductive Medicine dschlaepfer@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)822-3444
Geert Schmid-Schonbien Professor Bioengineering gwss@bioeng.ucsd.edu Tel: (858)534-3852
Fax: (858)534-5722
Jan Schnitzer Professor and Scientific Director Cellular and Molecular Biology, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center jschnitzer@skcc.org Tel: (858)450 5990 x320
Fax: (858)450 3251
Frieder Seible Professor and Dean Jacobs School of Engineering fseible@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)534-6237
Fax: (858)822-3904
Terrence Sejnowski Francis Crick Chair Salk Institute terry@salk.edu Tel: (858)453-4100
Gabriel Silva Assistant Professor Bioengineering and Ophthalmology, and Neurosciences Program gsilva@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)822-4591
Fax: (858)534-7985
Gregg Silverman Professor Medicine
gsilverman@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)534-5439
Fax: (858)822-5230
William Song Assistant Clinical Professor Moores Cancer Center wysong@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)246-0886
Nicholas Spitzer Professor Division of Biological Sciences, nspitzer@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)534-3896
Fax: (858)534-7309
Susan Taylor Professor Chemistry and Biochemistry staylor@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)534-5677
Scott Thomson Professor Medicine sthomson@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)552-7528
Fax: (858)642-1438
JoAnn Trejo Associate Professor Pharmacology jotrejo@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)246-0150
Roger Tsien Professor of Pharmacology and Chemistry ;& Biochemistry Pharmacology rtsien@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)534-4891
Fax: (858)534-5270
Ming Tsuang University Professor Psychiatry mtsuang@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)822-2464
Fax: (858)822-2469
Shyni Varghese Assistant Professor Bioengineering svarghes@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)822-7920
Fax: (858)534-5722
Ajit Varki Professor Cellular and Molecular Medicine a1varki@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)534-2214
Fax: (858)534-1346
Judith Varner Professor in Residence Moores UCSD Cancer Center
jvarner@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)822-0086
Fax: (858)822-1325
Kenneth S. Vecchio Professor and Chair Department of NanoEngineering kvecchio@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)822-7922
Fax: (858)534-9553
David Vera Professor Radiology dvera@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)822-2574
Fax: (858)822-0950
Erik Viirre Associate Adjunct Professor Surgery eviirre@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)657-8590
Francisco Villareal Professor Medicine, UCSD Cardiology fvillarr@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)534-3630
Fax: (858)534-0522
Joseph Wang Professor Nanoengineering josephwang@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)246-0128
Sam Ward Assistant Professor Radiology and Orthopaedic Surgery srward@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)534-4918
Fax: (858)552-4381
John Watson Professor and Vice Chair Bioengineering
jtwatson@soe.ucsd.edu Tel: (858)822-2788
Fax: (858)822-5959
Leor Weinberger Assistant Professor Chemistry and Biochemistry lsweinberger@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)534-8671
Fax: (858)534-4864
John West Distinguished Professor Medicine and Physiology jwest@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)534-4192
Virgil Woods Professor Medicine vwoods@ucsd.edu Tel: 858-534-2180
Ronghui (Lily) Xu  Associate Professor Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine and Department of Mathematics
rxu@math.ucsd.edu Tel: (858)822-6663
Paul Yu Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering yu@ece.ucsd.edu Tel: 858-534-6180
Fax: 858-534-0556
Jason Yuan Professor Medicine xiyuan@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)822-6534
Fax: (858)822-6531
Dong-Er Zhang Professor Pathology and Biological Sciences d7zhang@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)822-5372
Fax: (858)822-5433
Kun Zhang Assistant Professor Bioengineering kzhang@bioeng.ucsd.edu Tel: 858-822-7876
Liangfang Zhang Assistant Professor Nanoengineering zhang@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)246-0999
Binhai Zheng Assistant Professor Neurosciences binhai@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)534-5807
Fax: (858)822-1021
Dan Zhou Assistant Adjunct Professor Pediatrics d2zhou@ucsd.edu Tel: (858)822-6889
Fax: (858)534-6971
Michael Ziegler Professor Medicine mziegler@ucsd.edu Tel: (619)543-2885
Fax: (619)543-7717

Sponsors

Chancellor UCSD
UCSD Senior Vice Chancellor Academic Affairs
UCSD Office of Research Affairs
Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences & Dean, UCSD School of Medicine
Jacobs School of Engineering
Pfizer, Inc.
Invitrogen Corporation
Rastetter Foundation

Staff

NAME TITLE LOCATION/DEPT./COMPANY PHONE/FAX
Rowella Garcia Fiscal Specialist SERF 228, Mail Code 0435 Tel: (858)822-4520
Jennifer Griffin Business Officer SERF 227, Mail Code 0435 Tel: (858)822-4278
Fax:(858)822-1160
Stacey Liekweg   Executive Director, Regenerative Medicine Programs CMM 2041, Mail Code 0695 Tel: (858)246-0844
Fax: (858)822-3249

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