Primary Faculty
C. Robert Bagnell, Jr., PhD
Light and electron microscopy; computer-based methods.
Office: 919-966-2413
E-mail: bagnell@med.unc.edu
Dwight A. Bellinger, DVM, PhD
Atherosclerosis, thrombosis, and von Willebrand's disease.
Office: 919-966-2901
E-mail: dwight_bellinger@med.unc.edu
Jessica Booker, PhD
Molecular Genetic Pathology and Clinical Molecular Genetics Laboratory.
Office: 919-966-7894
E-mail: jbooker@unch.unc.edu
Thomas W. Bouldin, MD
Cellular response to toxic injury in the central and peripheral nervous systems; neuropathology; ocular pathology; and pathology of peripheral neuropathies.
Office: 919-843-1074
E-mail: tbouldin@med.unc.edu
Claudia Brady, BS, MHS
Pathologists' Assistant; surgical pathology training for residents and students.
Office: 919-843-1476
E-mail: cbrady@unch.unc.edu
Arlene S. Bridges, PhD
Molecular pharmaceutics and mass spectrometry.
Office: 919-370-6818
E-mail: argoyle@email.unc.edu
Debra Budwit, MD
Surgical pathology and gynecologic pathology.
Office: 919-843-1077
E-mail: debra_budwit@med.unc.edu
Frank C. Church, PhD
Molecular and cellular mechanisms of thrombosis, hemostasis, vascular biology, and tumor cell invasion; structure-activity relationships of serine proteases and serine protease inhibitors.
Office: 919-966-3314
E-mail: fchurch@email.unc.edu
William B. Coleman, PhD
Biology of liver stem-like cells; mechanisms of hepatocarcinogenesis; genetic mechanisms of tumor suppression; epigenetic mechanisms of gene regulation in human breast cancer; genetic determinants of breast cancer susceptibility; and the molecular genetics of lung cancer.
Office: 919-966-2699
E-mail: william_coleman@med.unc.edu
Marila Cordeiro-Stone, PhD
DNA replication, DNA repair, and cell cycle checkpoints in human cells; mechanisms of carcinogenesis by solar radiation; pathogenesis of melanoma.
Office: 919-966-1396
E-mail: marila_cordeiro-stone@med.unc.edu
Georgette A. Dent, MD
Hematopathology and medical education.
Office: 919-962-8334
FAX: 919-966-0730
E-mail: georgette_dent@med.unc.edu
Megan J. DiFurio, MD
Cytopathology and surgical pathology.
Office: 919-843-1093
E-mail: MDiFurio@unch.unc.edu
David A. Eberhard, MD, PhD
Molecular pathology and genomics of solid tumors; oncology companion diagnostics; preclinical and clinical development of novel assays and therapeutics for personalized medicine in oncology; digital pathology and image analysis of solid tumors.
Office: 919-966-5269
E-mail: deberhar@med.unc.edu
Rosann A. Farber, PhD
Human molecular genetics; somatic-cell genetics; instability of simple sequence repeats (microsatellites) in mammalian cells; and DNA-bases diagnosis of genetic disorders (fragile X mental retardation, hereditary colorectal cancer).
Office: 919-966-6920
E-mail: rfarber@med.unc.edu
Yuri Fedoriw, MD
Diagnostic hematopathology with particular interest in new flow cytometric and molecular techniques and their application to the classification and diagnosis of hematolymphoid disorders.
Office: 919-966-0461
Email: gfedoriw@unch.unc.edu
Craig A. Fletcher, DVM, PhD
Vascular biology.
Office: 919-843-9605
E-mail: craig_fletcher@med.unc.edu
William K. Funkhouser, MD, PhD
Surgical pathology, immunology, transplantation pathology, and molecular pathology.
Office: 919-863-1069
E-mail: wfunkhou@unch.unc.edu
Adil Hussein Gasim, MD
Nephropathology.
E-mail: husseing@email.unc.edu
Peter H. Gilligan, PhD
Diagnostic bacteriology; pulmonary disease in cystic fibrosis; and toxin-mediated diarrheal disease.
Office: 919-966-6313
E-mail: PGilliga@unch.unc.edu
Virginia L. Godfrey, DVM, PhD
Veterinary pathology; animal models of disease; T cell development and biology; and autoimmune disease.
Office: 919-966-2903
E-mail: vgodfrey@med.unc.edu
M. David Goodman, MD
Autopsy pathology.
Office: 919-843-3569
E-mail: dgoodman@med.unc.edu
Kevin Greene, MD
Liver and gastrointestinal pathology.
Office: 919-843-6303
E-mail: KGreene@unch.unc.edu
Pamela A. Groben, MD
Dermatopathology and gynecologic pathology.
Office: 919-843-1077
E-mail: pagroben@unch.unc.edu
Margaret L. Gulley, MD
Molecular diagnostics, hematopathology and oncology, and Epstein-Barr virus-related diseases.
Office: 919-843-4595
E-mail: margaret_gulley@med.unc.edu
Susan Hadler, MD
Medical education.
Office: 919-843-4662
E-mail: hadlers@dentistry.unc.edu
Catherine A. Hammett-Stabler, PhD
Clinical toxicology and therapeutic drug monitoring; development of criteria for optimal and appropriate testing; development and evaluation of new methods; influence of genetics on drug metabolism (pharmacogenetics).
Office: 919-966-3724
E-mail: CStabler@unch.unc.edu
Tracy M. Heenan, DVM
Laboratory animal medicine; providing veterinary consultation to principal investigators in development of grant application utilizing vertebrate animals.
Office: 919-966-5569
Fax: 919-966-8429
E-mail: tral@med.unc.edu
Steve Holmes, BS, MHS
Pathologists' Assistant; surgical pathology training for residents and students.
Office: 919-843-1476
E-mail: SHolmes@unch.unc.edu
Jonathon W. Homeister, MD, PhD
Molecular mechanisms of leukocyte trafficking and homing in inflammatory and/or immune reactions; glycobiology of the Selectin adhesion molecules and their ligands, and how these molecules contribute to the pathophysiology of the atherosclerotic and thrombotic disease processes.
Office: 919-966-9748
Fax: 919-966-6718
E-mail: jonathon_homeister@med.unc.edu
Peiqi Hu, MD
Antibody-mediated kidney disease.
Office: 919-966-2421
E-mail: pqhu@med.unc.edu
J. Charles Jennette, MD
Elucidating immunopathogenic mechanisms in human and experimental glomerular diseases and vasculitides; developing innovative approaches for using renal biopsy specimens and serology to diagnose and understand kidney disease.
Office: 919-966-4676
E-mail: charles_jennette@med.unc.edu
H. Michael Jones, MD
Medical education at medical student and resident level; medical history, particularly 19th and early 20th century; and digitization of literature of Osleriana, with incorporation into a searchable database for the American Osler Society.
Office: 919-843-3569
E-mail: mike_jones@med.unc.edu
Kathleen A. Kaiser-Rogers, PhD
Clinical cytogenetics.
Office: 919-966-1595
E-mail: kkr@med.unc.edu
Masao Kakoki, MD, PhD
Prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases and the identification of genes that confer susceptibility or resistance to the diseases with the use of genetically engineered mice.
Office: 919-966-6915
E-mail: mkakoki@med.unc.edu
David G. Kaufman, MD, PhD
Cellular and molecular mechanisms of cancer development, including (1) regulation and organization of DNA replication in the early part of the S phase; and (2) epithelial cell-stromal cell interaction in normal human endometrial tissue and alterations during cancer development.
Office: 919-966-1396
E-mail: david_kaufman@med.unc.edu
William K. Kaufmann, PhD
Human DNA metabolism and carcinogenesis; solar radiation melanomagenesis.
Office: 919-966-8209 ; Laboratory: 919-966-8552
E-mail: bill_kaufmann@med.unc.edu
April E. Kemper, MS, MHS
Pathologists' Assistant; surgical pathology training for residents and students.
Office: 919-843-1476
E-mail: AKemper@unch.unc.edu
Hyung-Suk Kim, PhD
Gene targeting and animal models for human diseases; hypertension and hereditary cerebral hemorrhage with amyloidosis and molecular evolution.
Office: 919-966-3539
E-mail: hyungsuk_kim@med.unc.edu
Ruth A. Lininger, MD, MPH
Gynecologic and breast pathology; molecular carcinogenesis, molecular pathology, and molecular epidemiology research, especially of breast, ovarian, endometrial, and cervical cancer; the application of high-throughput microarray gene sequencing/ genotyping technologies to research and diagnosis.
Office: 919-843-1078
E-mail: ruth_lininger@med.unc.edu
Rommel P. Lu, MD
Clinical transfusion practices; coagulopathy in trauma and burn injury; cancer-associated thrombosis.
Office: 919-966-9064
E-mail: rlu@med.unc.edu
Christopher Mack, PhD
Molecular mechanisms of cardiovascular disease; transcription and cell signaling pathways that regulate smooth muscle cell differentiation.
Office: 919-843-5512
E-mail: cmack@med.unc.edu
Nobuyo N. Maeda, PhD
DNA-level studies of the generation of variations of genes, particularly in multi-gene families; gene targeting and molecular pathology of atherosclerosis; and molecular evolution.
Office: 919-966-6914
E-mail: nobuyo@med.unc.edu
Stephanie P. Mathews, MD
Hematopathology.
Office: 919-966-4081
E-mail: SMathews@unch.unc.edu
Susan J. Maygarden, MD
Role of growth regulatory factors in prostatic carcinoma; clinicopathologic applications of fine needle aspiration cytology; and surgical pathology.
Office: 919-843-1071
E-mail: smaygard@unch.unc.edu
Gayle C. McGhee
Medical education.
Office: 919-966-4492
E-mail: gayle_mcghee@med.unc.edu
C. Ryan Miller, MD, PhD
Neuropathology: characterization of the molecular genetic mechanisms responsible for the heterogeneity of patient responses to cancer chemotherapy.
Office: 919-966-4333
Email: rmiller@med.unc.edu
Melissa B. Miller, PhD
Use of molecular methodologies to understand the basis of clinical treatment failures and inaccurate laborator diagnoses with regard to infectious diseases; DNA microarrays in the study of cystic fibrosis microbiology.
Office: 919-966-3723
Email: MBMiller@unch.unc.edu
Vincent J. Moylan, Jr., MS, PA (ASCP)
Pathologists' Assistant.
Office: 919-966-4467
E-mail: vmoylan@unch.unc.edu
Clay Nichols, MD
Forensic pathology.
Office: 919-966-2253
E-mail: clay.nichols@dhhs.nc.gov
Volker Nickeleit, MD
Renal pathology and transplant pathology.
Office: 919-966-2421
E-mail: volker_nickeleit@med.unc.edu
Judith N. Nielsen, DVM
Laboratory animal medicine, with emphasis on animal health maintenance and infectious disease prevention, diagnosis and eradication as well as veterinary pathology and animal models of disease.
Office: 919-843-6536
E-mail: judith_nielsen@med.unc.edu
Siobhan M. O'Connor, MD
Breast pathology.
Office: 919-843-1068
E-mail: SOconnor@unch.unc.edu
Yara A. Park, MD
Transfusion medicine.
Office: 919-966-4011
E-mail: yapark@unch.unc.edu
Jonathan D. Privette, MD
Forensic pathology.
Office: 919-966-2253
E-mail: jonathan.privette@dhhs.nc.gov
Deborah L. Radisch, MD
Forensic pathology.
Office: 919-966-2253
E-mail: deborah.radisch@dhhs.nc.gov
Howard M. Reisner, PhD
Use of immunological and molecular probes to study function of normal and abnormal coagulation factors; factors regulating human immune response to coagulation factors; immunochemical studies of opportunistic infectious agents; and genetic factors and cardiovascular risk.
Office: 919-966-4265
E-mail: reisner@med.unc.edu
Ashley G. Rivenbark, PhD
Cancer biology, cancer epigenetics, breast cancer, epigenetic therapy, and epigenetic reprogramming.
Office: 919-966-2699
E-mail: ashley_rivenbark@med.unc.edu
Arlin Rogers, DVM, PhD
Comparative pathology.
Office: 919-843-8088
E-mail: abr@med.unc.edu
Lori R. Scanga, MD, PhD
Cytopathology, gynecologic pathology, and molecular pathology.
Office: 919-843-2618
E-mail: LScanga@unch.unc.edu
John L. Schmitz, PhD
Molecular diagnosis of sexually transmitted diseases; applications of flow cytometry in the clinical laboratory; laboratory immunology; and histocompatibility.
Office: 919-966-8453
E-mail: JSchmitz@unch.unc.edu
Sam Simmons, MD, MBA
Forensic pathology.
Office: 919-966-2253
E-mail: ssimmons@dhhs.nc.gov
Dennis Simpson, PhD
Cell biology, molecular biology and virology.
Office: 919-966-8552
E-mail: dennis_simpson@med.unc.edu
Harsharan Singh, MD
Nephropathology and electron microscopy.
Office: 919-966-2421
E-mail: hsingh@med.unc.edu
Scott V. Smith, MD
Surgical pathology and pediatric pathology.
Office: 919-843-1075
E-mail: Scott_V_Smith@med.unc.edu
Oliver Smithies, DPhil
Correction of genes with mutant pathologies (gene therapy); construction of animal models of human genetic diseases to facilitate better studies of the resultant pathology and develop new modes of treatment.
Office: 919-966-6913
E-mail: oliver_smithies@med.unc.edu
Joan M. Taylor, PhD
Dissecting the cellular signaling pathways that regulate normal and aberrant growth in the cardiovascular system. Characterizing the role of adhesion signaling and tyrosine kinases in cardiomyocyte hypertrophy and smooth muscle cell growth and migration.
Office: 919-843-5511
E-mail: joan_m_taylor@med.unc.edu
Leigh Thorne, MD
Molecular pathology, muscle pathology, autopsy pathology, and tissue banking.
Office: 919-966-8003
E-mail: lthorne@med.unc.edu
Richard R. Tidwell, PhD
Discovery and development of new therapies to treat neglected diseases.
Office: 919-966-4294
E-mail: tidwell@med.unc.edu
Michael D. Topal, PhD
Molecular basis for chemically-induced mutations; protein-DNA interactions.
Office: 919-966-8208
E-mail: michael_topal@med.unc.edu
Dimitri G. Trembath, MD, PhD
Neuropathology and surgical pathology.
Office: 919-843-8389
E-mail: DTrembat@unch.unc.edu
Cyrus Vaziri, PhD
Regulation of DNA replication, S-phase checkpoints, and post-reglication DNA repair on mammalian cells.
Office: 919-843-9639
E-mail: cyrus_vaziri@med.unc.edu
Tracie Wagner, PA (ASCP)
Tissue procurement; surgical pathology.
Office: 919-966-3302
E-mail: tracie_wagner@med.unc.edu
Karen E. Weck, MD
Molecular genetic pathology.
Office: 919-966-4408
E-mail: KWeck@unch.unc.edu
Bernard E. Weissman, PhD
Tumor suppressor genes, gene mapping, cellular differentiation and transformation.
Office: 919-966-7533
E-mail: weissman@med.unc.edu
Herbert C. Whinna, MD, PhD
Hemostasis and thrombosis; biochemistry and vascular biology of blood coagulation; protein structure–function; clinical informatics and laboratory administration.
Office: 919-966-2318
E-mail: whinna@med.unc.edu
Julia Whitaker, MS, DVM
Laboratory animal medicine.
Office: 919-843-2498
Fax: 919-843-9340
E-mail: julia_whitaker@med.unc.edu
Monte S. Willis, MD, PhD
Molecular mechanisms of cardiac disease and ubiquitin-proteasome biology.
Office: 919-843-2757
Fax: 919-843-1938
E-mail: monte_willis@med.unc.edu
Ruth E. Winecker, PhD
Forensic toxicology.
Office: 919-966-2253
E-mail: ruth.winecker@dhhs.nc.gov
Alisa Wolberg, PhD
Thrombosis and hemostasis.
Office: 919-966-8430
E-mail: alisa_wolberg@med.unc.edu
John T. Woosley, MD, PhD
Dermatopathology; cutaneous tumors; gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary pathology; tumor grading; quantitative microscopy; and stain technology.
Office: 919-843-1083
E-mail: JWoosley@unch.unc.edu
Hong Xiao, MD
Defining the immunopathological mechanisms involved in autoimmune glomerulonephritis and vasculitis.
Office: 919-966-8370
E-mail: hongx@med.unc.edu
Xianwen Yi, MD, PhD
Alpha lipoic acid and diabetes mellitus.
Office: 919-966-6916
E-mail: xianwen_yi@med.unc.edu
Maimoona A. Zariwala, PhD
Genetic analysis of patients with primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD).
Office: 919-966-7050
E-mail:zariwala@unc.edu
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Jointly Appointed Faculty
Nizar Chahin, MD
Office: 919-966-8166
E-mail: chahinn@neurology.unc.edu
Claire M. Doerschuk, MD
Office: 919-966-2531
E-mail: cmd@med.unc.edu
Ronald J. Falk, MD
Office: 919-966-2561
E-mail: ronald_falk@med.unc.edu
Susan A. Fiscus, PhD
Retrovirology.
Office: 919-966-6872
E-mail: susan_fiscus@med.unc.edu
Thomas R. Griggs, MD
Atherosclerosis, thrombosis and hemostasis.
Office: 919-662-4490
E-mail: trg@med.unc.edu
Nigel Mackman, PhD
Thrombosis and hemostasis.
Office: 919-843-3961
E-mail: nigel_mackman@med.unc.edu
Valerie A. Murrah, DMD, MS
Oral pathology.
Office: 919-966-2746
E-mail: valerie_murrah@dentistry.unc.edu
Timothy C. Nichols, MD
Role of von Willebrand factor in thrombosis and atherosclerosis; molecular biology of porcine von Willebrand factor.
Office: 919-966-1061
E-mail: tnichols@med.unc.edu
Charles M. Perou, PhD
Breast cancer; genomics; microarrays; tumor classification; drug resistance.
Office: 919-843-5740
E-mail: cperou@med.unc.edu
Gloria A. Preston, PhD
Pathogenesis of renal diseases.
Office: 919-966-2560
E-mail: gloria_preston@med.unc.edu
Kathleen W. Rao, PhD
Cytological and molecular characterization of structural rearrangements of chromosomes in an attempt to understand etiology and phenotype correlations.
Office: 919-966-1595
E-mail: kwrao@med.unc.edu>
Harold R. Roberts, MD
Biochemistry and physiology of blood coagulation.
Office: 919-966-4305
E-mail: hrr@med.unc.edu
Darrel W. Stafford, PhD
Molecular biology; structure-function relationships of coagulation factors.
Office: 919-962-2267
E-mail: dws@email.unc.edu
James A. Swenberg, DVM, PhD
Mechanisms of mutagenesis and carcinogenesis with emphasis on the role of DNA adducts and cell proliferation.
Office: 919-966-6139
E-mail: jswenber@email.unc.edu
Young E. Whang, MD
Androgen receptor, HER-2 and Ack1 tryosine kinase, prostate cancer.
Office: 919-966-8645
E-mail: ywhang@med.unc.edu
Elizabeth M. Wilson, PhD
Steroid hormone regulation of gene expression; endocrinology; and environmental androgens and antiandrogens.
Office: 919-966-5168
E-mail: emw@med.unc.edu
Daniel Zedek, MD
Dermatopathology.
Office: 919-966-0786
E-mail: DZedek@unch.unc.edu
Adjunct Faculty
Araba N. Afenyi-Annan, MD, MPH
William A. Ahrens , MD (Carolinas Pathology Group)
Peter M. Banks, MD (Carolinas Medical Center)
Gary A. Boorman, DVM, PhD (NIEHS)
Mark E. Brecher, MD (LabCorp)
Robert Brown, MD (Emeritus)
Shu Huey Chaing, PhD (State Dept of Health and Human Services)
Cherie H. Dunphy, MD (LabCorp)
Jeffrey Everitt, DVM (GlaxoSmithKline)
Thomas H. Fischer, PhD
Dana M. Fowlkes, MD, PhD (Green/Spring Technology)
Oleg Gorkun, PhD
Delores J. Grant, PhD (North Carolina Central University)
Christopher W. Gregory, PhD (Voyager Pharmaceutical Company)
J. Ed Hall, PhD
Heike Hunt, MD (Baystate Medical Center)
John Hunt, MD (Baystate Medical Center)
Wendell D. Jones, PhD (Expression Analysis, Inc.)
Scott Kilpatrick, MD (Forsyth Medical Center)
Suzanne L. Kirby, MD, PhD
Joe Kornegay, DVM, PhD (Texas A & M University)
Chad A. Livasy, MD (Carolinas Medical Center)
Myla Lai-Goldman, MD (Personalized Science, LLC)
Roger L. Lundblad, PhD (Consultant)
Anil K. Mandal, MD (Mandal Diabetes Research Foundation)
Keith Nance, MD (Rex Hospital)
William R. Oliver, MD (East Carolina University)
Richard S. Paules, PhD (NIEHS)
Dennis Ross, MD, PhD
Tara C. Rubinas, MD (LabCorp)
Gary Smith, PhD (Roswell Park Cancer Institute)
Nobuyuki Takahashi, MD, PhD (Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan)
Paul A. Wade, PhD (NIEHS)
Charles Wallas, MD
Ruth F. Walters, MD (LabCorp)
Douglas C. Wolf, PhD, DVM (EPA)
