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Research Investigators
Vladimir P. Badovinac, Ph.D., Assistant Professor; Interests: Antigen-specific CD8 T cell homeostasis.
Gary L. Baumbach, MD, Professor; Director of Neuropathology and the Neuropathology Fellowship Program. Interests: Vascular biology and pathophysiology in hypertension, aging, diabetes and brain tumors.
Jo Benda, MD, Professor, Surgical Pathology. Interests: Gynecologic pathology, tumor and non-tumor diagnostic/clinical problems, gynecologic disease, and estrogen receptor.
Jackie R. Bickenbach, PhD, Associate Professor, Assistant Director of the Biosciences Graduate Program. Interests: Identifying the molecular mechanisms underlying stem cell maintenance and developing potential clinical applications for stem cells.
Aaron Bossler, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor and Interim Director of Molecular Pathology. Interests: Development and validation of rapid and cost effective molecular assays, bacterial antibiotic resistance surveillance and detection of difficult-to-grow organisms.
Leslie A. Bruch, MD, Associate Professor, Neuropathology. Interests: Diagnostic neuropathology, particularly the application of immunohistochemistry and molecular techniques in the diagnosis, classification and epidemiology of brain tumors.
Michael B. Cohen, MD, Professor and Head; Richard G. Lynch Chair in Experimental Pathology. Interests: Prostate cancer biology, receptor-ligand-mediated apoptosis.
Robert T. Cook, MD, PhD, Professor. Interests: T cell immunology, regulation of CD40 ligand and cytokine balance, and T cell second signal requirements in chronic alcohol abuse.
Laila Dahmoush, MD, Associate Professor, Cytopathology/Surgical Pathology. Interests: fine needle aspiration biopsies (FNA), diagnostic cytopathology, gynecologic, breast and urologic pathology.
Morris O. Dailey, MD, PhD, Associate Professor. Interests: Cell surface adhesion molecules, T cell activation, and receptor-mediated control of lymphocyte migration.
Barry R. De Young, MD, Professor; Co-Laboratory Director of Anatomic Pathology; Director of Surgical Pathology and Director Surgical Pathology Fellowship Program. Interests: Orthopedic pathology, immunohistochemistry, head and neck pathology, breast pathology.
Fred R. Dee, MD, Professor and Vice Chair for Educational Affairs; Director of House Staff Training. Interests: Virtual microscopy, web-based education, classifying lymphomas for epidemiology.
Daniel J. Diekema, MD, Associate Professor, Medicine and Pathology. Interests: several aspects of hospital epidemiology and clinical mycology, including the epidemiology of invasive fungal infections in hospitalized patients and the use of molecular typing in infection control and antimicrobial resistance control.
Gary V. Doern, PhD, Professor, Clinical Microbiology. Interests: Epidemiology, molecular mechanisms and laboratory detection of antibiotic resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae, and Moraxella catarrhalis.
Ronald Feld, PhD, Associate Professor; Section Director of Clinical Chemistry, Interests: Web-based education, use of web-based information in medical practice, evaluation of new laboratory technology.
James A. Goeken, MD, Professor Emeritus. Interests: Immunopathology/immunopathogenesis of vasculitis, inflammatory bowel and liver diseases, celiac disease and serologic evaluation.
Hasem Habelhah, PhD, Assistant Professor, Interests: TRAF2 phosphorylation and ubiquitination, oncoprotein- and stress-induced NF–kB activation and cancer cell resistance to TNFa- and stress-induced apoptosis.
Thomas Haugen, MD, PhD, Associate Professor; Director of Pathology, VAMC, Iowa City. Interests: Human papillomavirus associated cancer, molecular biology of papillomavirus carcinogenesis.
Michael Henry, PhD, Associate Professor, Physiology and Biophysics. Interests: Prostate cancer biology, organ site-specific metastasis, bioluminescence imaging.
Jonathan W. Heusel, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Molecular Pathology. Interests: Natural Killer (NK) cell responses in viral infection and malignancy; NK cell alloreactivity in the setting of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation; clinical molecular test development.
Fiorenza Ianzini, PhD, Assistant Professor and Director of the Large Scale Digital Cell Analysis System (LSDCAS). Interests: Cell cycle deregulation and molecular mechanisms of cancer promotion. Application of the Large Scale Digital Cell Analysis System (LSDCAS) to the study of various cellular and molecular phenomena.
Michael S. Icardi, MD, Assistant Professor, Immunopathology. Interests: Transplant Pathology, Hepatitis C, Allograft microchimerism.
Toshiki Itoh, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor. Interests: Human cancer and disease caused by abnormalities of tumor suppressor genes involved in DNA repair, damage signaling, or apoptosis.
Siegfried Janz, M.D., Professor; Interests: Cancer genetics, B cell and plasma cell neoplasms in humans and mice.
Chris Jensen, MD, Associate Professor; Director, Division of Cytopathology and Cytopathology Fellowship Program. Interests: fine needle aspiration (FNA), cytopathology, surgical pathology, gastrointestinal and liver pathology, telepathology.
George F. Johnson, PhD, Professor; Director of Chemistry Special Assay Laboratory and Course Director, Intoduction to Human Pathology 69:133. Interests: Chemometrics, free thyroxine assays, informatics and media in education.
John Kemp, MD, Professor; Director of Clinical Laboratories. Interests: Basic immunology and diagnostic immunopathology. Prior work has involved autoimmunity, immunoregulation, immunodeficiency, immunotherapy, and the study of the structure of the transferrin receptor gene.
Patricia A. Kirby, MD, Professor; Anatomical pathology faculty; Laboratory liaison officer. Interests: Brain tumors, neurodegenerative disorders, ocular and pediatric pathology.
J. Stacey Klutts, M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor; Interests: Mechanisms of fungal cell wall synthesis and drug target identification; Development and application of novel fungal diagnostics.
C. Michael Knudson, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Transfusion. Interests: , Bcl-2/Bax and regulation of apoptosis, oncogenesis, and proliferation. REDOX regulation of apoptosis.
Tomomi Kuwana, Ph.D. Assistant Professor. Interests: Bc1-2 family proteins and mitochondria in apoptosis.
Kevin L. Legge, PhD, Assistant Professor, Dendritic Cell Immunobiology. Interests: Dendritic cell (DC) migration/maturation, DC activation of T cells, DC-respiratory virus interaction.
Vincent Liu, MD, Assistant Professor of Dermatology and Pathology. Interests: Dermatopathology and general dermatology.
Charles Lynch, MD, PhD, Professor and Medical Director of Statewide Cancer Registry. Interests: Population-based disease surveillance, particularly cancer, cancer epidemiology, environmental epidemiology and anatomic pathology.
Richard G. Lynch, MD, Professor Emeritus. Interests: Roles of CD16 and CD32 in lymphocyte development; experimental myeloma.
Frank A. Mitros, MD, Professor, Surgical Pathology. Interests: Diagnostic surgical pathology, gastrointestinal motility disorders, neuroendocrine aspects of the stomach, Barrett's esophagus, celiac disease, hepatitis C, and hemachromatosis.
David K. Meyerholz, DVM, PhD, Assistant Professor, Interests: Animal models of human disease, Comparative pathology, Dermatopathology, Developmental/aged-dependent disease, Host-pathogen interaction, Innate immunity, Pulmonary pathology, Viral pathogenesis and VEGF regulation.
Steven A. Moore, MD, PhD, Professor, Interests: muscular dystrophy, dystroglycan function in nervous system, astrocyte biology, blood-brain barrier.
Peter Nagy, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor; Director, Molecular Oncology Testing and Molecular Genetic Pathology Fellowship Program. Interests: The role of chromatin in normal development, aging and cancer.
Ramesh Nair, MD, Assistant Professor, Renal Pathology. Interests: Pathology of medical renal diseases and renal transplant pathology.
Marcus Nashelsky, MD, Associate Professor; Co-Laboratory Director of Anatomic Pathology and Director of Autopsy Services. Interests: Utility of the autopsy procedure for clinical quality improvement; accuracy of death certification.
Michael A. Pfaller, MD, Professor Emeritus. Interests: Epidemiology of fungal infections, antimicrobial resistance, molecular epidemiology, clinical microbiology.
Charles E. Platz, MD, Professor Emeritus. Interests: Surgical pathology, breast pathology, Iowa State Health Registry, tumor bank.
Thomas J. Raife, MD, Associate Professor; Medical Director of DeGowin Blood Center and Transfusion Medicine Fellowship Program; Head of Hemapheresis Services. Interests: Pathogenesis of microvascular thrombosis in thrombotic microangiopathic disorders.
Sandra S. Richter, MD, Associate Professor; Director of Clinical Microbiology and Director of Clinical Microbiology Fellowship Program. Interests: Molecular epidemiology of antimicrobial-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae, vulvovaginal candidiasis, antimicrobial resistance.
Robert A. Robinson, MD, PhD, Professor, Surgical Pathology. Interests: Pathology of the head and neck.
Oskar Rokhlin, PhD, Adjunct Professor. Interests: Prostate tumor biology, programmed cell death.
Nancy S. Rosenthal, MD, Professor; Section Director of Hematopathology and Director of Hematopathology Fellowship Program. Interests: Bone marrow pathology, coagulation.
Annette J. Schlueter, MD, PhD, Associate Professor; Assistant Medical Director, DeGowin Blood Center and Head of Transplant Services. Interests: Dendritic cell development, the effect of ethanol consumption on dendritic cell function, the role of dendritic cells and aging on graft versus host disease, hematopoietic progenitor cell processing and immune reconstitution following transplant.
Mary S. Stone, MD, Professor of Dermatology and Pathology; Director of Dermatopathology. Interests: Dermatopathology and medical dermatology.
Ronald G. Strauss, MD, Professor of Pathology and Pediatrics. Interests: neonatal hematopoiesis and transfusions; donor and therapeutic hemapheresis; blood banking/transfusion practice issues.
Sergei I. Syrbu, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Hematopathology/ Immunopathology. Interests: Bone marrow pathology, lymphoproliferative disorders, serologic examination of autoimmune processes.
Robert Tucker, MD, PhD, Associate Professor. Interests: Thermal treatment of prostate cancer, electrosurgical laparoscopy.
Lubomir Turek, MD, Professor, Autopsy Pathology. Interests: Genetics of papillomavirus infection and cancer.
Steven D. Vincent, DDS, MS, Professor, Oral Pathology, Radiology and Medicine. Interests: Diagnosis and management of oral candidosis, oral cancer, papilloma and herpes simplex virus infection and radiation mucositis.
Thomas Waldschmidt, PhD, Professor; Director, Pathology Graduate Programs; Co-Director, Pathology Flow Cytometry Facility. Interests: B cell immunology, bone marrow transplantation.
Jamie Weydert, MD, Assistant Professor, Anatomic Pathology. Interests: Pulmonary and mediastinal pathology; quality assurance in pathology and laboratory medicine. |
