FACULTY
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[edit] Faculty Assignments
There are currently more than 60 faculty members in the Radiological Sciences Graduate Program. The Program assigns faculty into two categories: student advisors and faculty-at-large. Student advisors are defined as faculty teaching at least one course per year who are authorized to advise graduate students and chair thesis committees. Faculty-at-Large are defined as faculty who have at least two contact lecture hours per year and participate on thesis committees. The student advisor requirement of teaching one course a year must be fulfilled by serving as at least co-director of one course per year. Student advisors are assigned to faculty-at-large to assure the lecture hour requirement is fulfilled. The faculty assignments are reviewed each August by the Committee on Graduate Studies (COGS).
[edit] Advisors*
Faculty members who are assigned as advisors each semester to advise students who have been accepted into the program are designated with a "*". Students are notified of their advisor and are asked to schedule to meet with them. Advisors report on their students each year at the February COGS meeting. If a student's progress is not acceptable, the advisor documents this and talks with the student. The student is given a year to improve and will then be re-evaluated.
[edit] Core Faculty
*Ande Bao, Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology. Ph.D. University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio 2003.
Research interests: radiopharmaceutical sciences (targeted drug delivery), tumor molecular imaging, tumor radionuclide brachytherapy, small animal imaging physics.
*Michael A. Charlton, Assistant Vice President for Risk Management and Safety, Ph.D. Texas A&M University (College Station) 2001. Dr. Charlton is board certified in health physics (CHP), industrial hygiene (CIH), occupational safety (CSP), fire safety (CFI), and hazardous waste management (CHMM). His research is in environmental health and safety.
Kedar Chintipalli. Professor of Radiology. M.D. Guntur Medical College (India) 1974. Clinical Interests: Abdominal Imaging, Clinical Doppler Spleen Imaging, and CT Ultrasound. Research interests: Transplant Evaluations and Optimizing Imaging Protocol
*Geoffrey D. Clarke, Professor & Director, Graduate Program in Radiological Science. Ph.D. University of Texas Health Science Center at Dallas, 1984. Research interests: cardiovascular imaging physics, clinical imaging equipment quality control, radiation safety in diagnostic radiology and in-vivo magnetic resonance spectroscopy and novel MRI methods.
Michael Duff Davis, Associate Professor of Pharmacology, Ph.D. University of Zurich 1985. Research interests: developing a primate aging model by studying brain maturation, the neuropharmacology of ADHD, depression and schizophrenia, the mechanism of action and influence of physical exercise in reducing stroke-induced damage and characterizing psychotropic drugs actions in initiating coordinated neuronal networking.
*Timothy Q. Duong, Stanley M. Glickman Professor of Ophthalmology. Ph.D. Washington University 1998. Research interests: development of in-vivo MRI and optical imaging technologies for studying the brain and the retina, application of imaging technologies to study normal anatomy, physiology and function in animal models and humans, and application of imaging technologies to study stroke, retinal degeneration and retinopathy in animal models and humans.
Carlos Esquivel Jr., Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology. Ph.D. University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio 2005. Research interests: brachytherapy and various aspects in radiation dosimetry and Monte Carlo modeling.
*Peter T. Fox, Professor and Director of the Research Imaging Institute. M.D. Georgetown University 1979. Research interests: human functional brain mapping using PET and MRI, event-related potentials, trans-cranial magnetic stimulation. Ongoing projects in cognitive neurobiology, clinical neurobiology, and imaging methodology.
*Randolph D. Glickman, Professor of Ophthalmology, Ph.D. University of Toronto, 1978. Research interests: laser bioeffects and medical applications; photosensitized free-radical reactions in the eye; light damage and repair mechanisms in the eye; retinal information processing, photodynamic therapy, optical tissue diagnostic spectroscopy, ocular pharmacology.
* Beth A. Goins, Professor of Radiology. Ph.D. University of Tennessee (Knoxville), 1988. Research interests: molecular imaging, small animal imaging, radiopharmaceutical development, liposomes, nanotechnology and drug delivery.
* Alonso N. Gutiérrez, Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology. Ph.D. University of Wisconsin (Madison) 2007. Research interests: radiological modeling of radiotherapy response, intra- and extra-cranial stereotactic radiotherapy, and image guided intensity modulated radiotherapy.
L. Jean Hardies, Assistant Professor of Radiology, Assistant Director of Research Imaging Institute. Ph.D. University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio 1986. Research interests: in vivo magnetic resonance spectroscopy.
*Mustapha Hatab, Associate Professor and Director of the Clinical Medical Physics Section, Department of Radiology. Ph.D. University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas 1995. Research interests: physics of multislice CT and interventional radiology, methods for measuring cerebral blood flow and fetal MRI.
*Paul A. Jerabek, Associate Professor of Radiology. Ph.D. University of California at Irvine 1982. Research interests: synthesis and development of positron-emitting radio-pharmaceuticals for application to positron emission tomography (PET) studies.
*Peter Kochunov, Assistant Professor of Radiology. Ph.D. University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, 2000. Research interests: development of novel translational MR imaging and image processing protocols.
*Angela R. Laird, Assistant Professor of Radiology. Ph.D. University of Wisconsin (Madison) 2002. Research interests: systems modeling of functional neuroimaging data through the development of meta-analysis tools, functional ontologies, and connectivity methods.
*Jack L. Lancaster, Professor of Radiology. Ph.D. University of Texas Health Science Center at Dallas, 1978. Research interests: mapping and modeling of human brain anatomy and function, development of image analysis and synthesis methods, MRI and PET, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), 3-D visualization for medical imaging.
*William D. McDavid, Adjunct Professor of Comprehensive Dentistry. Ph.D. University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio 1976. Research interests: intraoral radiography, panoramic radiography and cone beam CT.
*Shalini Narayana, Assistant Professor of Radiology. Ph.D. University of Iowa 1996. M.D. University of Bangalore 1989. Research interests: speech and motor systems applying neuroimaging methods such as TMS, PET, and MRI. Current projects study motor learning, TMS induced enhancement of performance, pathophysiology and treatment outcome in stuttering and mechanism of action of speech therapy in Parkinson’s disease.
*Mohan Natarajan, Associate Professor of Otolaryngology. Ph.D. University of Madras 1986. Research interests: molecular mechanism(s) of radioprotection/sensitization of normal vs. cancer cells after clinical doses of ionizing radiation, molecular mechanisms of high-LET heavy-ion radiation, health hazard at molecular level after radiofrequency radiation exposure and the mechanisms of the radiation Bystander Effect.
*Niko Papanikolaou, Professor of Radiation Oncology. PhD University of Wisconsin (Madison) 1994. Research interests: novel dose calculation algorithms for radiation therapy treatment planning, inhomogeneity corrections in treatment planning, novel techniques for intensity modulated radiation therapy.
*William T. Phillips, Professor of Radiology. M.D. University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston 1980. Research interests: blood substitutes, bone marrow drug delivery, gastric emptying, general nuclear medicine, inflammation drug delivery, intratumoral and intraperitoneal radiotherapy, liposomes and nanoparticles, lymph node drug delivery, PET Cancer Imaging, small animal imaging.
Andres Rahal, Assistant Professor of Radiology. M.D. Instituto de Ciencias de la Salud, CES Medellín , Colombia 1995. Ph.D. University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio 2007. Research interests: MRI hyperglycemic index on Achilles tendon, radiofrequency ablation of hepatic tumors, MRI of tendons and ultra-short TE/ orientational MRI.
*Donald A. Robin, Professor of Neurology. Ph.D. Case Western Reserve University 1984. Research interests: sensory motor mechanisms in disorders of motor control (e.g., Parkinson’s Disease) and the development of behavioral treatments for speech and limb disorders.
Eugene A. Sprague, Professor of Medicine-Cardiology. Ph.D. UT Health Science Center at San Antonio 1979. Research interests: the role of hemodynamics in atherogenesis and vascular healing responses, development and evaluation of novel biomaterial surfaces to enhance endothelialization and limit restenosis of vascular prosthetic devices and cellular recognition and signal transduction mechanisms mediating the biological responses of endothelial cells to physical forces.
*Sotirios Stathakis, Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology. Ph.D. University of Patras (Greece) 2003. Research interests: Monte Carlo simulations of HDR and LDR brachytherapy treatments, inhomogeneity correction algorithms, Monte Caro simulation, intensity modulated radiation therapy.
Rajeev Suri, Associate Professor of Radiology and Director of Radiology Residency Program. M.D. Panjab University(India) 1991. Research interests: arterial interventions with distal protection and image-guided interventional oncologic management.
*Gregory P. Swanson, Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology. M.D. University of Texas Medical School at Houston 1985. Research interests: treatment planning methods for radiation therapy and prostate cancer treatment with radiation oncology.
*Wayne A. Wiatrowski, Associate Professor of Radiology. Ph.D. UT Health Science Center at San Antonio 1979. Research interests: dose reduction in diagnostic radiology, medical health physics, radiation regulatory issues, small electron field dosimetry and total body irradiation techniques.
Nicole Y.Y. Wicha, Assistant Professor of Biology. Ph.D. Univ. of California at San Diego 2002. Research interests: uncovering the neural correlates for cognition. Her current research focuses on language comprehension in monolingual and bilingual populations.
*Zhi-Min Yuan, Professor of Dental Diagnostic Science. M.D., Jiangxi Medical College (China) 1982. Ph.D. University of Maryland 1993. Research interests: signaling mechanisms that regulate cellular response to stress, examining how stress is converted into intracellular signals that control cell behavior, and investigating how cell behavior and stress response can be modulated by the tissue microenvironment.
[edit] Adjunct & Cross-Appointed Faculty
| Name | Title | Degree | Institution | Degree Granted |
| Salahuddin Ahmad | Adjunct Professor | Ph.D. | University of Victoria | 1981 |
| Reto Asmis | Professor | Ph.D. | University of Fribourg, Switzerland | 1989 |
| Melissa Blough | Adjunct Assistant Professor | Ph.D. | University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio | 1999 |
| Charles Bowden | Professor | M.D. | Baylor College of Medicine | 1964 |
| James Bower | Professor | Ph.D. | University of Wisconsin | 1981 |
| Robert E. Devine | Adjunct Assistant Professor | Ph.D. | University of California, Davis | 1968 |
| Gerald Dodd III | Adjunct Professor | M.D. | University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston | 1983 |
| Ching-Mei Janet Feng | Adjunct Assistant Professor | Ph.D. | University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio | 2003 |
| David Lloyd Goff | Adjunct Assistant Professor | Ph.D. | University of California at Los Angeles | 1995 |
| David Lee Goff | Adjunct Associate Professor | Ph.D. | University of Texas (Austin) | 1969 |
| Allen G. Holder IV | Adjunct Associate Professor | Ph.D. | University of Colorado at Denver | 1988 |
| Steve B. Jiang | Adjunct Assistant Professor | Ph.D. | Medical College of Ohio (Toledo) | 1998 |
| Carl Keener | Adjunct Assistant Professor | Ph.D. | University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio | 1996 |
| Jonathan Kiel | Adjunct Assistant Professor | Ph.D. | Texas Tech | 1981 |
| Nina Lee | Adjunct Assistant Professor | Ph.D. | University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio | 1998 |
| Edwin Leidholdt | Adjunct Associate Professor | Ph.D. | University of Virginia | 1983 |
| Sumathy Mohan | Assistant Professor | Ph.D. | University of Madras, India | 1988 |
| Elena Nes | Adjunct Assistant Professor | Ph.D. | University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio | 2008 |
| Bahadir Ozus | Adjunct Assistant Professor | Ph.D. | University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio | 2004 |
| William Payne | Adjunct Assistant Professor | Ph.D. | University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio | 1977 |
| Qi Peng | Adjunct Assistant Professor | Ph.D. | University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas | 2005 |
| James Prete | Adjunct Assistant Professor | Ph.D. | University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio | 1998 |
| William Salter | Adjunct Associate Professor | Ph.D. | University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio | 1996 |
| Dhiraj Sardar | Adjunct Professor | Ph.D. | Oklahoma State University | 1980 |
| Sandra Schneider | Adjunct Assistant Professor | Ph.D. | University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston | 1990 |
| Jonathan Tucker | Adjunct Assistant Professor | Ph.D. | University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio | 2000 |
| Vijayalaxmi | Adjunct Associate Professor | Ph.D. | Sri Venkateswara University (India) | 1966 |
| *Robert Waggener | Adjunct Professor | Ph.D. | University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Houston | 1968 |
| Minghong Wang | Adjunct Assistant Professor | Ph.D. | New Mexico State University | 1991 |
| Joseph C. Wenke | Adjunct Professor | Ph.D. | Texas A&M University | 2003 |
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