Faculty Directory

Assistant Professor, Nursing
Cardiovascular disease, health decision making, family caregiving, heart failure, health interventions, mobility, palliative care, person-centered care, underresourced populations, values clarification

Professor, Chemistry and Scientific Programs; Director, UT-ORII
Metabolomics, lipidomics, chemical biology, bioanalytical chemistry, biological signaling, physiology, microbiomes, diabetes, inflammation

Assistant Professor, Nuclear Engineering
Nuclear medicine, molecular imaging, isotope production, radiochemistry, radiopharmaceutical development, cancer, targeted tracers, drug development, radiolanthanides, transition metals, small animal imaging, inorganic chemistry, biochemistry, ligand design, radiolabeling, diagnostic imaging, targeted therapy

Clinical Veterinarian, Office of Laboratory Animal Care
Animal research, animal models of human disease, animal research compliance

Professor and Department Head, Kinesiology, Recreation, and Sport Studies
Kinesiology, physical education, exercise, elderly, mobile health, exergaming, mindful movement, physical activity, recreation, sport studies, cancer survivors, fitness, e-health, cancer prevention, apps, wearables, community-based physical activity interventions, behavioral change theory, disease prevention

Assistant Professor, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering
Stroke, thrombosis, congenital heart disease, blood pumps, cardiovascular biomechanics, computational modeling, experimental modeling, patient-specific modeling, machine learning

Heath Endowed Faculty Fellow in Business & Engineering and Associate Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering
Markov decision processes, dynamic programming, predictive analytics, reinforcement learning, time series analysis, anomaly detection, genomics, critical care, chronic care, emergency medicine

Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering
Mobile health, agent-based modeling and simulation, health systems engineering, mobile apps, machine learning, optimization via simulation, cyber physical systems, digital twin, Internet of Things

Associate Professor, Biochemistry & Cellular and Molecular Biology
Chromosome structure, gene regulation, Progeria (premature aging disease), cell fate determination, nucleus structure, single cell genomics, epigenetics, DNA damage, cancer progression, migration, metastasis

Assistant Professor, Nursing
Interactions of microbiome and human health, neurodegenerative diseases, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, metabolomics, lipidomics, biomarker identification, personalized medicine, chronic conditions

Assistant Professor, Nursing
Family relationships and health, health outcomes for underserved communities, family-based interventions, cancer, diabetes, pain, diabetic foot ulcers, hypertension

Assistant Professor, Nursing
Family communication, parent-child communication, parent-child relationship, childhood cancer survivors, children and adolescents with cancer, palliative care, shared decision-making, coping, resilience, symptom distress
