WIMS Committees

• WIMS Steering Committee Members

  • Zarine Shah, MBBS, FAME Interim Director of WIMS, Associate Director of WIMS, Associate Professor of Radiology
  • Jaclyn Caccese, PhD, Assistant Professor of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences
  • Megan Ballinger PhD, Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine
  • Brandon Biesiadecki, PhD, Associate Professor of Physiology and Cell Biology
  • Luanne Hall-Stoodley, PhD, Research Associate Professor of Microbial Infection & Immunity
  • Maya Iyer, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
  • Susan Massick, MD, Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine
  • Bethany Panchal, MD, Associate Professor of Family Medicine
  • Arwa Shana'ah, MD, Associate Professor of Pathology
  • Mitva Patel MD, Assistant Professor of Radiology
  • Shu-Hua Wang, MD, MPH, Professor of Internal Medicine
  • Aubrey Moe, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
  • Irina Castellanos, PhD, Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology 

• WIMS Subcommittees and Members

  Advocacy

  • Chair: Susan Massick MD
  • Advisory Board Members: Deb Larsen PhD, Claire F Verschraegen MD, Zihai Li MD PhD, Gloria Fleming MD
  • Members: Anita Afzali MD, Courtney Collins MD, Jennifer McCallister MD, Jill Rafael-Fortney PhD, Leslie Kim MD, Lanla Conteh MD MPH, Nicole Meschbach MD, Whitney Luke MD, Simiao Li-Sauerwine MD, Nidhi Krishna MD, Subhdeep Virk MBBS, Madalina Butnariu MD

  Awards

  • Co-Chairs: Arwa Shana’ah MD and Maya Iyer MD
  • Advisory Board Members: Wendy Frankel MD, Sheryl Pfeil MD
  • Members: Maya Iyer MD, Carolyn Presley MD, Jessica Krok PhD MA, Xiaoli Zhang PhD MS, Shelly Jain MD, Sarah Tapyrik MD, Catherine Chung MD, Nicholas Breitborde PhD, Ce Shang

  Data

  • Co-chairs: Luanne Hall-Stoodley PhD and Shu-Hua Wang MD MPH
  • Advisory Board Members: Susan Koletar MD, Tatiana Oberyszyn PhD, Mark Landon MD
  • Members: Brandon Biesiadecki PhD, Bethany Panchal MD, Sarah Heissler PhD, Ana Sarkar PhD, Sonal Pannu MBBS, Anne Sullivan MD, Julia Agne MD, Jayalakshmi Balakrishna MD, Jose Bazan MD, Joici Job MD, Erin Stevens DO, Scott Lenobel MD

  Events

  • Co-chairs: Aubrey Moe PhD and Irina Castellanos PhD
  • Advisory Board Members: Raphael Pollock MD PhD
  • Members: Sarita Maturu DO, Martha Yearsley MD, Kymberly Gowdy MS PhD, Alison MacKinlay MD, Patricia Malerich MD, Douglas Chonko DO, Courtney Kau MD, Sharanya Nama MD, Lynne Abruzzo MD PhD, Erica Bell PhD

  Media

  • Co-chairs: Megan Ballinger PhD and Jaclyn Caccese PhD
  • Advisory Board Members: Allan Tsung MD, Darwin Conwell MD
  • Members: James MacDonald MD MPH, Sophia Tolliver MD, Nina Rai DO, Margaret Gatti-Mays MD, Christina Liscynesky MD, Pei-Hui Lin PhD, Renuka Sheno MD, Megan Conroy MD, Mitva Patel MD

• Advisory Board

  • Lauren Bakaletz, PhD, College of Medicine Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics
  • Linda Cripe, MD, Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
  • Gloria Fleming, MD, Professor of Ophthalmology
  • Wendy Frankel, MD, Professor and Chair of Pathology
  • Susan Koletar, MD, Professor, Chief; Division of Infectious Diseases
  • Deborah Larsen, PhD, Professor, Director, School of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences
  • Tatiana Oberyszyn, PhD, Professor of Pathology
  • Sheryl Pfeil, MD, Professor of Clinical Internal Medicine
  • Cheryl Lee, MD, Professor and Chair of the Department of Urology
  • Ronald Harter, MD, Professor and Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology
  • Timothy Pawlik, MD, MPH, PhD, Professor and Chair of the Department of Surgery
  • Raphael Pollock MD PhD, Professor and Director of the OSU Comprehensive Cancer Center
  • Darwin Conwell MD, Professor and Director, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition
  • Claire Verschraegen MD, Professor and Director of the Division of Medical Oncology
  • Allan Tsung MD, Professor and Director of the Division of Surgical Oncology
  • Mark Landon MD, professor and Chair of Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • Zihai Li MD PhD, Professor of Medical Oncology
  • Clara Lee, MD, MPP, Associate Professor of Plastic Surgery
  • Philip Binkley, MD, FACC, MPH, Professor of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
  • Mary Fristad, PhD, Director, Research & Psychological Services, Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • Eugene Oltz, PhD, Chair, School Biomedical Sciences Microbial Infection and Immunity
  • Phil Binkley, MD, Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs
  • Clara Lee, MD, Associate Professor of Plastic Surgery