Research Fellowship Faculty

Education Section

Faculty Administration

Core Faculty

Lawrence Lewis, MD – Research Fellowship Program Director, Professor of Emergency Medicine.  Research interests - traumatic brain injury detection and prediction and therapeutics for asthma and angioedema. 

Christopher Carpenter, MD, MSc – Assistant Professor in Emergency Medicine.  Research interests – cognitive impairment in geriatric patients in the emergency department.

Stacey House, MD, PhD – Instructor in Emergency Medicine.  Research interests – mechanisms of ischemia-reperfusion injury and cardioprotection with a focus on development of growth factors as therapeutic agents in acute myocardial infarction.

Michael Mullins, MD – Emergency Medicine Director of Research, Assistant Professor in Emergency Medicine.  Research interests – toxicology.

Daniel Theodoro, MD, MSc – Assitant Professor in Emergency Medicine.  Research interests – ultrasound, central venous catheter complications, procedural education through simulation.

Fellowship Faculty Mentors

Laura Bierut, MD - Professor in Psychiatry.  Research interests – familial clustering of psychiatric illness, genetic and environmental factors in the development of psychiatric disease, addiction.

David Brody, MD, PhD – Assistant Professor in Neurology.  Research interests – mechanisms of neuronal injury in traumatic brain injury.

Ross Brownson, PhD – Professor at GWB School of Social Work.  Research interests – obesity prevention, evidence based public health.

Mario Castro MD, MPH – Director of Asthma and Airway Translational Research Unit, Professor in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics.  Research interests – pathogenesis of asthma and health care delivery for patients with asthma.

Elizabeth Dodson, MPH, PhD – Assistant Research Professor at GWB School of Social Work.  Research interests – primary prevention of chronic disease.

William Dribben, MD – Assistant Professor in Emergency Medicine.  Research interests – neurotoxicology and neuropharmacology.

Bradley Evanoff, MD, MPH – Director of Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences, Chief of the Division of General Medical Sciences, Head of Section of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.  Research interests - epidemiology and prevention of work-related musculoskeletal disorders, work-related health problems in heal-care workers, and evaluation of occupational medical education.

Amy Eyler, PhD – Associate Research Professor at GWB School of Social Work.  Research interests – research networks, barriers to physical activity in women

Victoria Fraser, MD – Director of Clinical Research Training Center, Professor and Interim Chair of Internal Medicine.  Research interests - healthcare epidemiology and infection control.

Bradley Freeman, MD – Professor in Surgery.  Research interests – trauma and surgical critical care, tracheostomy in patients with acute respiratory failure.

Jane Garbutt, MBChB, FRCP – Director of the Washington University Pediatric and Adolescent Ambulatory Research Consortium, Associate Professor in Internal Medicine.  Research interests – networks for conducting research in community practice.

Guy Genin, MD, PhD – Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering.  Research interests – biomechanics of injury.

Richard Griffey, MD, MPH – Assistant Professor in Emergency Medicine.  Research interests – patient safety and quality, evidence based imaging, health literacy.

Richard Hotchkiss, MD – Professor in Anesthesiology.  Research interests – mechanisms of cell death in sepsis and therapeutics with anti-apoptotic cytokines and modulation of immune response in sepsis.

David Jaffe, MD – Professor in Pediatrics.  Research interests - Febrile child, occult bacteremia, head and neck injuries, pain and anxiety management in children with emergencies.

Marin Kollef, MD – Professor in Internal Medicine.  Research interests – therapeutics for critically ill patients.

Jin-Moo Lee, MD, PhD – Associate Professor in Neurology.  Research interests – mechanisms of injury in cerebral ischemia, proteolysis of amyloid in Alzheimer’s disease.

Rosanne Naunheim, MD – Associate Professor in Emergency Medicine.  Research interests – traumatic brain injury.

David Ornitz, MD, PhD – Professor in Developmental Biology.  Research interests – fibroblast growth factors and fibroblast growth factor receptors in development , physiology, and response to injury.

Peter Panagos, MD – Associate Professor in Emergency Medicine.  Research interests - identification, management and treatment of acute stroke patients in the emergency. department.

Jose Pineda Soto, MD, MSc – Assistant Professor in Pediatrics and Neurology.  Research interests – mechanisms and treatment for brain injury in children.

Mario Shootman, PhD – Chief of the Division of Health Behavior Research, Associate Professor in Internal Medicine.  Research interests – health care disparities, comparative effectiveness research.

David Warren, MD, MPH – MSCI Program Director, Associate Professor in Infectious Disease.  Research interests – epidemiology and prevention of nosocomial infections.

Pamela Woodard, PhD – Professor in Radiology and Biomedical Engineering.  Research interests – diagnostic imaging for cardiovascular disease.