Penny Jones
- Administrator
“At Ohio State, we operate under the principle that synergistic teams of scientists, engineers and clinicians are the best vehicle to accelerate breakthrough discovery and ultimately improve patient care.”
– Thomas Hund, PhD
– Thomas Hund, PhD
Our Leadership
Thomas Hund, PhD
Director, Dorothy M. Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Credentials
PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University
Our Associate Directors
Our Administration
Izabelle Colvin
- Associate Project Manager & Assistant to the Director
Jenifer Bennett
- Business Operations Senior Analyst
Dan Maloney
- Financial Analyst
Josh Jackson
- Associate Project Manager - Facilities Operations
DeeAnn Willis-Berry
- Fiscal Officer
Latisha Roland
- Office Service Coordinator
Dana Mack
- Senior Director of Development
Alan Bakaletz
- COMRTS DHLRI IT Service Liaison
Matthew Joseph
- Senior Research Associate
Trent Sandstrom
- Research Senior Technician, Flow Core Manager
Ella Olberding
- Student Administrative Assistant
Our Investigators
DHLRI PIs and their respective websites are listed below by department.
Rizwan Ahmad, PhD
Assistant Professor
Daniel Gallego Perez, PhD
Associate Professor
Visit Dr. Gallego Perez's Website
Samir Ghadiali, PhD
Professor
Natalia Higuita-Castro, PhD
Assistant Professor
Visit Dr. Higuita-Castro's Website
Rengasayee Veeraraghavan, PhD
Assistant Professor
Visit Dr. Veeraraghavan's Website
Seth Weinberg, PhD
Associate Professor
Mona El Refaey, PhD
Assistant Professor
Bryan Whitson, MD, PhD
Professor
Loren Wold, PhD
Professor
Lufang Zhou, PhD
Professor
Hua Zhu, PhD
Professor
Richard Gumina, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Yuchi Han, MD
Professor
Thomas Hund, PhD
Professor
Sara Koenig, PhD
Assistant Professor
Orlando Simonetti, PhD
Professor
Sakima Smith, MD
Associate Professor
Rebecca Vanderpool, PhD
Assistant Professor
Visit Dr. Vanderpool's Website
Karolina Zareba, MD
Associate Professor - Clinical
Willa Hsueh, MD
Professor
Doug Lewandowski, PhD
Professor
Mahmood Khan, PhD
Associate Professor
Onur Kanisicak, PhD
Associate Professor
Xun Ai, MD
Professor
Kedryn Baskin, PhD
Assistant Professor
Brandon Biesiadecki, PhD
Professor
Visit Dr. Biesiadecki's Website
Krishna Chinthalapudi, PhD
Assistant Professor
Visit Dr. Chinthalapudi's Website
Jon Davis, PhD
Professor
Isabelle Deschenes, PhD
Professor
Vadim Fedorov, PhD
Professor
Jidong Fu, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Sandor Gyorke, PhD
Professor
Sara Heissler, PhD
Assistant Professor
Paul Janssen, PhD
Professor
Christoph Lepper, PhD
Assistant Professor
Peter Mohler, PhD
Professor
Kiran Nakka, PhD
Assistant Professor
Website to Come
Drew Nassal, PhD
Assistant Professor
Website to Come
Yuta Nihongaki, PhD
Assistant Professor
Jill Rafael-Fortney, PhD
Professor
Visit Dr. Rafael-Fortney's Website
Harpreet Singh, PhD
Associate Professor
Matthew Stratton, PhD
Assistant Professor
Nuo Sun, PhD
Assistant Professor
Dmitry Terentyev, PhD
Associate Professor
Noah Weisleder, PhD
Professor
Jing Zhao, MD, PhD
Professor
Yutong Zhao, MD, PhD
Professor
Mark Ziolo, PhD
Professor
Megan Ballinger, PhD
Associate Professor
Joseph Bednash, MD
Assistant Professor
John Christman, MD
Professor
Sangwoon Chung, PhD
Research Assistant Professor
Elliott Crouser, MD
Professor
Joshua Englert, MD
Associate Professor
Laszlo Farkas, MD
Associate Professor
Lynn Fussner, MD
Associate Professor - Clinical
Kymberly Gowdy, PhD
Associate Professor
Jeffrey Horowitz, MD
Professor
James Londino, PhD
Assistant Professor
Matthew Long, PhD
Assistant Professor
Ulysses Magalang, MD
Professor
Rama Mallampalli, MD
Professor
Visit Dr. Mallampalli's Website
Yohannes Mebratu, DVM, PhD
Assistant Professor
Ana Mora, MD
Professor
Mauricio Rojas, MD
Professor
Anasuya Sarkar, PhD
Assistant Professor
Rizwan Ahmad, PhD
Xun Ai, MD
Megan Ballinger, PhD
Kedryn Baskin, PhD
Joseph Bednash, MD
Brandon Biesiadecki, PhD
Krishna Chinthalapudi, PhD
John Christman, MD
Sangwoon Chung, PhD
Elliot Crouser, MD
Jonathan Davis, PhD
Isabelle Deschenes, PhD
Mona El Refaey, PhD
Joshua Englert, MD
Laszlo Farkas, MD
Vadim Fedorov, PhD
Nicholas Ferrell, PhD
Jidong Fu, MD, PhD
Nicholas Funderburg, PhD
Lynn Fussner, MD
Daniel Gallego-Perez, PhD
Latha Ganesan, PhD
Samir Ghadiali, PhD
Matthew Gorr, PhD
Kymberly Gowdy, PhD
Richard Gumina, MD, PhD
Sandor Gyorke, PhD
Yuchi Han, MD
Sarah Heissler, PhD
Ray Hershberger, MD
Natalia Higuita-Castro, PhD
Jeffrey Horowitz, MD
Willa Hsueh, MD
Thomas Hund, PhD
Paul Janssen, PhD
Onur Kanisicak, PhD
Mahmood Khan, MPharm, PhD
Sara Koenig, PhD
Arunark Kolipaka, PhD
George Kyriazis, PhD
Christoph Lepper, PhD
Doug Lewandowski, PhD
Pei-Hui Lin, PhD
James Londino, PhD
Matthew Long, PhD
Ulysses Magalang, MD
Rama Mallampalli, MD
Yohannes Mebratu, PhD
Peter Mohler, PhD
Ana Mora, MD
Kiran Nakka, PhD
Drew Nassal, PhD
Yuta Nihongaki, PhD
Przemyslaw Radwanski, PharmD, PhD
Jill Rafael-Fortney, PhD
Mauricio Rojas, MD
Brad Rovin, MD
Anasuya Sarkar, PhD
Orlando Simonetti, PhD
Harpreet Singh, PhD
Sakima Smith, MD
Kristin Stanford, PhD
Matthew Stratton, PhD
Nuo Sun, PhD
Dmitry Terentyev, PhD
Bryan Tillman, MD, PhD
Michael Tranter, PhD
Rebecca Vanderpool, PhD
Rengasayee Veeraraghavan, PhD
Seth Weinberg, PhD
Noah Weisleder, PhD
Bryan Whitson, MD, PhD
Loren Wold, PhD
Vicki Wysocki, PhD
Karolina Zareba, MD
Jing Zhao, MD, PhD
Yutong Zhao, MD, PhD
Lufang Zhou, PhD
Hua Zhu, PhD
Mark Ziolo, PhD
Our Affiliated Members
DHLRI Members are listed below by college.
Arts & Sciences
College of Arts & Sciences
Avner Friedman, PhD
Peter Hammel, PhD
Dentistry
College of Dentistry
John Sheridan, PhD
Engineering
College of Engineering
Daniel Conway, PhD
Keith Gooch, PhD
Mark Ruegsegger, PhD
Yi Zhao, PhD
Jeffrey Chalmers, PhD
Andrew Palmer, PhD
Robert Lee, PhD
Lee Potter, PhD
CFAES
College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences
Ahmed Yousef, PhD
CEHE
College of Education & Human Ecology
Martha Belury, PhD
Ouliana Ziouzenkova, MD
Medicine
College of Medicine
Mark Gerhardt, MD, PhD
Arthur Burghes, PhD
Tsonwin Hai, PhD
Kirk Mykytyn, PhDCancer Biology and Genetics
Michael Ostrowski, PhD
Wolfgang Sadee, Dr.rer.nat.
Stanley Lemeshow, PhD
Ayo Adesanya, MD, PhD
Randell Wexler, MD
Mireia Guerau, PharmD, PhD
William Abraham, MD
Daniel Addison, MD
M. Rizwan Afzal, MD
Umair Ahmad, MD
Mahmoud Ahmed Eid, MD
Talal Attar, MD
Ralph Augostini, MD
Cindy Baker, MD
Ragavendar Baliga, MD
MIchelle Ballinger, MD
Slaman Bhatti, MD
Philip Binkley, MD
Indra Bole, MD
Konstantinos Boudoulas, MD
Vincent Brinkman, MD
Pricilla Correa-Jaque, MD
Curt Daniels, MD
Emile Daoud, MD
Steven Dean, MD
Michael Donnally, mD
Beth Foreman, MD
Veronica Franco, MD
Katarzyna Gil, MD
Arnold Good, MD
Katie Gordon, MD
Garrie Haas, MD
Thura Harfi, MD
Ayesha Hasan, MD
Lauren Hassen, MD, MPH
Craig Hemann, MD
Mahmoud Houmsse, MD
William Houser, MD
John Hummel, MD
Nkechi Ijioma, MD
Rami Kahwash, MD
Steven Kalbfleisch, MD
Arsad Karcic, MD
Denis Komarov, MD
Tapan Kundu, MD
John Larry, MD
Lauren Lastinger, MD
Scott Lilly, MD
Jim Liu, MD
Doug Magorien, MD
Raymond Magorien, MD
Unni Marar, MD
William Marshall, MD
Ernest Mazzaferri, MD
Laxmi Mehta, MD
Wesley Milks, MD
Paul Moodispaw, MD
Phoo Pwint Nandar, MD
Toshimasa Okabe, MD
David Orsinelli, MD
Valibhav Patel, MD
Adam Potter, MD, PhD
Ben Romer, MD
James Ryan, MD
Thomas Ryan, MD
Salvatore Savona, MD
Stephen Schaal, MD
Gbemiga Sofowora, MD
Qinghua Sun, MD, PhD
Blair Suter, MD
Matthew Tong, MD
Ajay Vallakatti, MD
Scott Visovatti, MD
Raul Weiss, MD
Jay Zweier, MD
Andrew Carley, PhD
Latha Ganesan, PhD
Michael Grever, MD
Jason Cowan, PhD
Elizabeth Jordan, MS, LGC
Daniel Kinnamon, PhD
Laiken Peterson, MS, LGC
Daniel Wozniak, PhD
Dan Birmingham, PhD
Todd Pesavento, MD
Emily Amin, MD
Nitin Bhatt, MD
Kelsey Black, MD
Nathan Brummel, MD
Nitin Bhatt, MD
Lawrence Chan, DO
Megan Conroy, MD
Avraham Cooper, MD
Philip Diaz, MD
Ryan Donald, MD
Gregory Eisinger, MD
Vincent Esguerra, MD
Matthew Exline, MD
Christian Ghattas, MBBCh
Lauren Goodman, MD
Derrick Herman, MD
Kevin Ho, MD
Steven Holfinger, MD
Jennica Johns, MD
Manjula Karpurapu, PhD
Meena Khan, MD
Sindhu Mukku, MD
Ali Naeem, MD
Richard Nho, PhD
David Nunley, MD
Stella Ogake, MBBCh
John Odackal, MD
Jasleen Pannu, MBBs
Sonal Pannu, MD
Narasimham Parinandi, PhD
Johnathan Parsons, MD
Nicholas Pastis, MD
Alberto Revelo, MD
Justin Rosenheck, DO
Troy Schaffernocker, MD
Bronwyn Small, MD
Carleen Spitzer, MD
Jerome Stasek, MD
Kyle Stinehart, MD
Sarah Tapyrik, MD
Joanna Tsai, MD
Jing Wang, MD
Michael Wert, MD
Mark Wewers, MD
Amal Amer, MD, PhD
Adriana Forero, PhD
Emily Hemann, PhD
Philip Popovich, PhD
Kristy Townsend, PhD
William Grobman, MD, MBA
Beth Lee, PhD
Michael Knopp, MD, PhD
Ginny Bumgardner, MD, PhD
Julia Coleman, MD
Carrie Sims, MD, PhD
Virginia Nivar
Nursing
College of Nursing
Anne DeVries-Nelson, PhD
Matthew Gorr, PhD
Pharmacy
College of Pharmacy
Terry Elton, PhD
Dale Hoyt, PhD
Public Health
College of Public Health
Amy Ferketich, PhD
Don Hays Jr., MD, MS, MEd
Veterinary Medicine
College of Veterinary Medicine
Estelle Cormet-Boyaka, PhD
Valerie Bergdall, DVM
Alicia Bertone, DVM, PhD
John Bonagura, DVM, MS
Tony Buffington, DVM, MS
Veronique Lacombe, DVM, PhD
Other
Other
Benjamin Blais, MD
Vidu Garg, MD
John Gunn, PhD
Mark Hall, MD
Deqiang Li, MD, PhD
Brenda Lilly, PhD
Kim McBride, MD
Leif Nelin, MD
All Members
All Members
William Abraham, MD
T.M. Adesanya, MD, PhD
Umair Ahmad, MD
Amal Amer, MD, PhD
Emily Amin, MD
Talal Attar, MD
Ralph Augostini, MD
Cindy Baker, MD
Ragavendra Baliga, MD
Michelle Ballinger, MD
Martha Belury, PhD
Nitin Bhatt, MD
Phillip Binkley, MD, MPH
Daniel Birmingham, PhD
Kelsey Black, MD
Benjamin Blais, MD
Indra Bole, MD
Konstantinos Boudoulas, MD
Vincent Brinkman, MD
Nathan Brummel, MD
Ginny Bumgardner, MD, PhD
Arthur Burghes, PhD
Andrew Carley, PhD
Cynthia Carnes, PharmD, PhD
Jeffrey Chalmers, PhD
Lawrence Chan, DO
Julia Coleman, MD
Megan Conroy, MD
Daniel Conway, PhD
Avraham Cooper, MD
Estelle Cormet-Boyaka, PhD
Jason Cowan, PhDCurt Daniels, MD
Emile Daoud, MD
Steven Dean, MD
Philip Dias, MD
Ryan Donald, MD
Michael Donnally, MD
Gregory Eisinger, MD
Terry Elton, PhD
Vincent Esguerra, MD
Matthew Exline, MD
Amy Ferketich, PhD
Beth Foreman, MD
Adriana Forero, PhD
Veronica Franco, MD
Vidu Garg, MD
Christian Ghattas, MBBCh
Katarzyna Gil, MD
Keith Gooch, PhD
Arnold Good, MD
Lauren Goodman, MD
Matthew Gorr, PhD
William Grobman, MD, MBA
Mireia Guerau, PharmD, PhD
John Gunn, PhD
Tamar Gur, MD, PhD
Garrie Haas, MD
Mark Hall, MD
Thura Harfi, MD
Ayesha Hasan, MD
Lauren Hassen, MD, MPH
Emily Hemann, PhD
Derrick, MD
Paco Herson, PhD
Kevin Ho, MD
Steven Holfinger, MD
Mahmoud Houmsse, MD
William Houser, MD
John Hummel, MD
Nkechi Ijioma, MD
Jennica Johns, MD
Elizabeth Jordan, MS, LGC
Joshua Joseph, MD
Rami Kahwash, MD
Steven Kalbfleisch, MD
Arsad Karcic, MD
Manjula Karpurapu, PhD
Meena Khan, MD
Daniel Kinnamon, PhD
Tapan Kundu, MD
John Larry, MD
Lauren Lastinger, MD
Beth Lee, PhD
Stanley Lemeshow, PHD
Scott Lilly, MD
Brenda Lilly, PhD
Deqiang Li, MD, PhD
Jim Liu, MD
Doug Magorien, MD
Raymond Magorien, MD
Unni Marar, MD
William Marshall, MD
Ernest Mazzaferri, MD
Isla McClelland, MD
Kamal Mehta, PhD
Laxmi Mehta, MD
Wesley Milks, MD
Paul Moodispaw, MD
Sindhu Mukku, MD
Kirk Mykytyn, PhD
Ali Naeem, MD
Leif Nelin, MD
Richard Nho, PhD
David Nunley, MD
John Odackal, MD
Stella Ogake, MBBCh
Toshimasa Okabe, MD
David Orsinelli, MD
Andrew Palmer, PhD
Jasleen Pannu, MBBS
Sonal Pannu, MD
Narasimham Parinandi, PhD
Johnathan Parsons, MD
Nicholas Pastis, MD
Vaiibhav Patel, MD
Todd Pesavento, MD
Phillip Popovich, PhD
Lee Potter, PhD
Adam Potter, MD
Alberto Revelop, MD
Ben Romer, MD
Justin Rosenheck, DO
Mark Ruegsegger, PhD
James Ryan, MD
Salvatore Savona, MD
Troy Schaffernocker, MD
John Sheridan, PhD
Carrie Sims, MD, PhD
Bronwyn Small, MD
Gbemiga Sofowora, MD
Carleen Spitzer, MD
Jerome Stasek, MD
Kyle Stinehart, MD
Blair Suter, MD
Sarah Tapyrik, MD
Matthew Tong, MD
Kristy Townsend, PhD
Joanna Tsai, MD
Ajay Vallakati, MD
Scott Visovatti, MD
Jing Wang, MD
Michael Wert, MD
Randell Wexler, MD
Daniel Wozniak, PhD
Ahmed Yousef, PhD
Mingtao Zhao, DVM, PhD
Ouliana Ziouzenkova, MD