Stephen R. Hooper, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Pediatric Neuropsychologist with interests in both psychosocial and neurocognitive measurement. Current foci include children with chronic kidney disease, extremely low birth weight, rare disor … Read more |
| Mentors: | Medical Students, Graduate Students |
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AFFILIATIONS: Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities (CIDD), Psychiatry |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Autism, Cardiovascular disease, Chronic Kidney Disease, Diabetes, Education Research, Mental illness, Pediatrics, Quality of Life |
Andrea Horimoto, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: My research focuses on population genetics, genetic epidemiology, and statistical genetics, with a particular focus on Alzheimer’s disease and cardiometabolic conditions, including stroke and c … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Genetics |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Bioinformatics, Cardiovascular disease, Chronic Kidney Disease, Computational Biology, Diabetes, Genetics, Obesity, Population-based, Women's Health |
Janice Hwang, MD, MHS |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Dr. Hwang’s academic interests are at the intersection of metabolism and neuroscience. Her research focuses on using advanced brain imaging modalities such as functional MRI and magnetic resonance spe … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: (DOM) Endocrinology & Metabolism, Cell Biology & Physiology, Department of Medicine (DOM), Lineberger Cancer Center |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Aging/Geriatrics, Diabetes, Imaging, Metabolism, Neurobiology, Sleep |
Folami Ideraabdullah, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: The Ideraabdullah lab uses a combination of molecular biology and omics approaches to study how gene-environment interactions in the fetal/developmental environment modulate the epigenome to program t … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Genetics, Nutrition, Toxicology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Developmental Biology, Diabetes, Epigenetics and Chromatin Biology, Genetics, Genomics, Global Health, Metabolism, Molecular Biology, Toxicology |
Vanessa Jewell, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Dr. Jewell currently leads a large interprofessional type 1 diabetes research and wellness lab that focuses on community-engaged research. She engages in research aimed to improve diabetes-related hea … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: (AHS) Occupational Science and Therapy, Allied Health Science (AHS) |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Diabetes, Occupational Science/Therapy, Quality of Life |
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AFFILIATIONS: Biomedical Engineering, Kidney Center |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Biomedical Engineering, Diabetes, Health Equity, Imaging, Microscopy, Translational Medicine, Women's Health |
Anna Kahkoska, MD, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Anna Kahkoska is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Nutrition and a scholar in the North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute Gene Orringer Junior Faculty Career D … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: (DOM) Endocrinology & Metabolism, Center for Aging & Health, Department of Medicine (DOM), Nutrition |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Aging/Geriatrics, Diabetes, Health Equity, Health Services, Implementation Science, Population-based, Translational Medicine |
David S. Lalush, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Dr. Lalush has a primary focus on human-subject imaging research using PET, MRI, and X-ray CT. Currently, his active areas include PET-MRI neuroimaging, quantitative orthopaedic MRI imaging, and PET-M … Read more |
Gang Li, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: My research focuses on the development and dissemination of novel machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques for medical image analysis, with 300+ peer-reviewed papers published in … Read more |
| Mentors: | Undergraduate Students, Medical Students, Graduate Students |
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AFFILIATIONS: Radiology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Biomedical Engineering, Clinical Informatics, Diabetes, Health Informatics, Imaging, Pediatrics |
Brooke Matson, MD, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine with a clinical focus in general diabetes and endocrinology and research interests in translational human physiology, specifically in t … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: (DOM) Endocrinology & Metabolism, Department of Medicine (DOM) |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Diabetes, Gastrointestinal Biology, Metabolism, Neurobiology, Obesity |
Katharine L. McGinigle, MD MPH |
| Clinical / Research Focus: https://www.med.unc.edu/surgery/vasc/research/mcginigle-lab/ |
| Mentors: | Medical Students, Graduate Students |
Eric Muir, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: My research is focused on developing MRI methods with applications to investigate physiology in neurovascular diseases of the retina and brain. These developments include imaging methods to mea … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Biomedical Research Imaging Center (BRIC), Ophthalmology, Radiology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Biomedical Engineering, Diabetes, Imaging, Neurobiology, Other |









