Primary Faculty | Biomedical Engineering | Case Western Reserve University

Meet primary faculty from Case School of Engineering and the School of Medicine who support the Department of Biomedical Engineering.

Abhinav Acharya, PhD

Assistant Professor

Biomedical Engineering

Case School of Engineering

Member

Cancer Imaging Program

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center

Email: axa1826@case.edu
Abidemi Bolu Ajiboye, PhD

Assistant Professor

Department of Biomedical Engineering

Case School of Engineering, School of Medicine

Email: abidemi.ajiboye@case.edu

Phone: 216.368.6814
Jay Alberts, Ph.D.

Staff, Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute

Email: albertj@ccf.org
Suneel S. Apte, MBBS, DPhil

Staff, Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute
James P. Basilion, PhD

Professor

Department of Biomedical Engineering

Department of Radiology

Case School of Engineering, School of Medicine

Co-Leader

Cancer Imaging Program

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center

Email: james.basilion@case.edu

Phone: 216.983.3264
Rui Cao, PhD

Assistant Professor

Department of Biomedical Engineering

Case School of Engineering, School of Medicine

Email: ruicao@case.edu
Jeffrey Capadona, PhD

Vice Provost for Innovation

Donell Institute Professor

Department of Biomedical Engineering

Case School of Engineering, School of Medicine

Principal Investigator

Department of Biomedical Engineering

Capadona Lab

Senior Research Career Scientist

Louis Stokes Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center

Email: jeffrey.capadona@case.edu

Phone: 216.368.5486
Hamid Charkhkar, PhD

Assistant Professor

Department of Biomedical Engineering

Case School of Engineering

School of Medicine

Email: hamid.charkhkar@case.edu

Phone: 216.791.3800 ext. 62924
Patrick Crago, PhD

Professor Emeritus

Department of Biomedical Engineering

Case School of Engineering, School of Medicine

Email: patrick.crago@case.edu

Phone: 216.368.3977
Margot Damaser, PhD

Staff, Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute

Email: damasem@ccf.org
Kathleen Derwin, PhD

Department Vice Chair, Associate Staff, Biomedical Engineering

Email: derwink@ccf.org
Colin Drummond, PhD, MBA

Professor

Department of Biomedical Engineering

Case School of Engineering, School of Medicine

Assistant Chair

Department of Biomedical Engineering

Case School of Engineering, School of Medicine

Email: colin.drummond@case.edu

Phone: 216.368.6970
Dominique M. Durand, PhD

Elmer Lincoln Lindseth Professor in Biomedical Engineering

Department of Biomedical Engineering

Case School of Engineering, School of Medicine

Professor

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Case School of Engineering

Professor

Department of Neurosciences

School of Medicine

Professor

Department of Physiology and Biophysics

School of Medicine

Director

Neural Engineering Center

Department of Biomedical Engineering

Case School of Engineering

School of Medicine

Distinguished University Professor

Email: dominique.durand@case.edu

Phone: 216.368.3974
Steven Eppell, PhD

Associate Professor

Department of Biomedical Engineering

Director

Nanoscale Orthopedic Biomaterials Laboratory - NOBL

Email: steven.eppell@case.edu

Phone: 216.368.4067
Ahmet Erdemir, PhD

Associate Staff Director at Computational Biomodeling (CoBi) Core, Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute

Email: erdemira@ccf.org
David Escobar, PhD

Assistant Staff, Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute

Email: escobad2@ccf.org
Steve Fening, PhD

Associate Vice President for Research

Managing Director

Department of Biomedical Engineering

Case-Coulter Translational Research Partnership

Professor

Department of Biomedical Engineering

Case School of Engineering, School of Medicine

Email: steve.fening@case.edu

Phone: 216.368.2639
Aaron Fleischman, PhD

Staff Scientist, Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute

Email: fleisca@ccf.org
Kiyotaka Fukamachi, MD, PhD

Staff, Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute

Email: kiyotaka.fukamachi@case.edu
Chaitali Ghosh, PhD

Staff Scientist, Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute

Email: ghoshc@ccf.org
Emily Graczyk, PhD

Assistant Professor

Department of Biomedical Engineering

Case School of Engineering, School of Medicine

Email: emily.graczyk@case.edu
Linda Graham, MD

Staff, Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute

Email: linda.graham1@case.edu
Miklos Gratzl, PhD

Associate Professor

Department of Biomedical Engineering

Case School of Engineering, School of Medicine

Email: miklos.gratzl@case.edu

Phone: 216.368.6589
William Grissom, PhD

Professor

Department of Biomedical Engineering

Case School of Engineering, School of Medicine

Member

Cancer Imaging Program

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center

Email: wag57@case.edu
Kenneth J. Gustafson, PhD

Associate Professor

Department of Biomedical Engineering

Case School of Engineering, School of Medicine

Email: kenneth.gustafson@case.edu

Phone: 216.368.8626
Ana G. Hernandez Reynoso, PhD

Assistant Professor

Department of Biomedical Engineering

Case School of Engineering

Email: ana.hernandezreynoso@case.edu
Peter S. Hovmand, PhD, MSW

Interim Director

Center for Community Health Integration

Pamela B. Davis MD PhD Professor of Medicine

Center for Community Health Integration

School of Medicine

Professor of General Medical Sciences

School of Medicine

Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Case School of Engineering

Secondary Faculty

Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences

Secondary Faculty

Population and Quantitative Health Sciences

School of Medicine

Member

Population and Cancer Prevention Program

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center

Secondary Faculty

Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences

Email: peter.hovmand@case.edu

Phone: 216.368.5437
Michael Jenkins, PhD

Associate Professor

Biomedical Engineering

Case School of Engineering, School of Medicine

Member

Cancer Imaging Program

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center

Email: michael.jenkins@case.edu
Efstathios (Stathis) Karathanasis, PhD

Associate Chair

Department of Biomedical Engineering

School of Medicine

Professor

Department of Biomedical Engineering

Case School of Engineering, School of Medicine

Member

Cancer Imaging Program

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center

Email: efstathios.karathanasis@case.edu

Phone: 216.368.4617
Robert Kirsch, PhD

Chair

Department of Biomedical Engineering

Case School of Engineering, School of Medicine

Executive Director

Cleveland Functional Electrical Stimulation Center

Allen H. and Constance T. Ford Professor

Professor

Department of Biomedical Engineering

Case School of Engineering, School of Medicine

Email: robert.kirsch@case.edu

Phone: 216.368.4063
Vijay Krishna, PhD

Assistant Staff, Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute

Email: krishnv2@ccf.org
Vinod Labhasetwar

Professor, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine

Email: labhasv@ccf.org
Shuo Li, PhD

Professor

Biomedical Engineering

Case School of Engineering, School of Medicine

Professor

Computer Data Science

Case School of Engineering

Member

Cancer Imaging Program

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center

Email: shuo.li11@case.edu
Xiaojuan Li, PhD

Staff, Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute

Email: lix6@ccf.org
Zheng-Rong Lu, PhD

Professor

Department of Biomedical Engineering

Case School of Engineering, School of Medicine

M. Frank Rudy and Margaret Domiter Rudy Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Member

Cancer Imaging Program

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center

Email: zheng-rong.lu@case.edu

Phone: 216.368.0187
Dan Ma, PhD

Associate Professor

Department of Biomedical Engineering

Case School of Engineering, School of Medicine

Member

Cancer Imaging Program

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center

Member

Cancer Imaging Program

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center

Email: dan.ma@case.edu

Phone: 216.844.5935
Debra McGivney, PhD

Assistant Professor

Department of Biomedical Engineering

Case School of Engineering, School of Medicine

Email: debra.mcgivney@case.edu

Phone: 216.368.6248
Paul D. Marasco, PhD

Associate Staff, Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute

Email: marascp2@ccf.org
Edward Maytin, MD, PhD

Staff, Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute

Email: edward.maytin@case.edu
Ronald J. Midura, PhD

Staff, Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute

Email: midurar@ccf.org
Michael Moffitt, PhD

Associate Professor

Department of Biomedical Engineering

Case School of Engineering, School of Medicine

Email: michael.moffitt@case.edu
J. Thomas Mortimer

Professor Emeritus

Department of Biomedical Engineering

Case School of Engineering, School of Medicine

Email: j.mortimer@case.edu

Phone: 216.368.3973
George Muschler, MD

Staff, Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute

Email: george.muschler@case.edu
Christopher Nguyen

Director, Cardiovascular Innovation Research Center
Luke Osborn, PhD

Assistant Professor

Department of Biomedical Engineering

Case School of Engineering

Email: luke.osborn@case.edu
P. Hunter Peckham, PhD

Distinguished University Professor

Associate Director of Technology Transfer

Department of Biomedical Engineering

Cleveland FES Center

Professor Emeritus

Department of Biomedical Engineering

Case School of Engineering, School of Medicine

Email: p.peckham@case.edu

Phone: 216.778.3480
Ela Plow, PhD, PT

Associate Staff, Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute

Email: plowe2@ccf.org
Christopher Pulliam, PhD

Assistant Professor

Department of Biomedical Engineering

Case School of Engineering, School of Medicine

Email: christopher.pulliam@case.edu

Phone: 216.368.3138
Andrew Rollins, PhD

Professor

Department of Biomedical Engineering

Case School of Engineering, School of Medicine

Member

Cancer Imaging Program

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center

Email: andrew.rollins@case.edu

Phone: 216.368.1917
Carl Saab, PhD

Founder and Scientific Director, Cleveland Clinic Consortium for Pain

Email: saabc@ccf.org
Gerald Saidel, PhD

Professor Emeritus

Department of Biomedical Engineering

Case School of Engineering, School of Medicine

Director

Center for Modeling Integrated Metabolic Systems

Email: gerald.saidel@case.edu

Phone: 216.368.4066
Anirban Sen Gupta, PhD

Professor

Department of Biomedical Engineering

Case School of Engineering, School of Medicine

Member

Cancer Imaging Program

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center

Email: anirban.sengupta@case.edu

Phone: 216.368.4564
Sam Senyo, PhD

Assistant Professor

Department of Biomedical Engineering

Case School of Engineering, School of Medicine

Email: sam.senyo@case.edu
Andrew Shoffstall, PhD

Assistant Professor

Department of Biomedical Engineering

Case School of Engineering, School of Medicine

Email: andrew.shoffstall@case.edu

Phone: 216.368.1213
Ronald J. Triolo, PhD

Professor

Department of Biomedical Engineering

Case School of Engineering, School of Medicine

Executive Director

Advanced Platform Technology Center of the Department of Veterans Affairs

Email: ronald.triolo@case.edu

Phone: 216.791.3800
Dustin Tyler, PhD

Director

Human Fusions

Director

Functional Neural Interface Lab

Associate Director

Cleveland Advanced Platform for Technology

Kent H. Smith Professor II of Biomedical Engineering

Professor

Department of Biomedical Engineering

Case School of Engineering, School of Medicine

Email: dustin.tyler@case.edu

Phone: 216.368.0319
Geoffrey Vince, PhD

Department Chair The Virginia Lois Kennedy Endowed Chair in Biomedical Engineering and Applied Therapeutics
Satish E. Viswanath, PhD

Associate Professor

Department of Biomedical Engineering

Case School of Engineering, School of Medicine

Associate Professor

Department of Radiology

School of Medicine

Associate Professor

Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering

Case School of Engineering

Member

Cancer Imaging Program

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center

Co-Leader

CCCC Machine Learning Working Group

Co-Director

Center for AI Enabling Discovery in Disease Biology (AID2B)

School of Medicine

Email: satish.viswanath@case.edu

Phone: 216.368.3888
Horst A. von Recum, PhD

Professor

Department of Biomedical Engineering

Case School of Engineering, School of Medicine

Member

Cancer Imaging Program

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center

Email: horst.vonrecum@case.edu

Phone: 216.368.5513
Matthew Williams, PhD

Assistant Professor

Department of Biomedical Engineering

Case School of Engineering, School of Medicine

Email: matthew.williams@case.edu
David L. Wilson, PhD

Robert J. Herbold Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Department of Biomedical Engineering

Case School of Engineering, School of Medicine

Professor

Department of Radiology

School of Medicine

Member

Cancer Imaging Program

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center

Email: david.wilson@case.edu

Phone: 216.368.4099
Xin Yu, ScD

F. Alex Nason Professor II of Biomedical Engineering

Department of Biomedical Engineering

Case School of Engineering, School of Medicine

Professor

Department of Physiology and Biophysics

School of Medicine

Professor

Department of Radiology

School of Medicine

Email: xin.yu@case.edu

Phone: 216.368.3918
Maciej Zborowski, PhD

Associate Professor

Department of Molecular Medicine

School of Medicine

Associate Professor

Department of Biomedical Engineering

Case School of Engineering

Member

Developmental Therapeutics Program

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center

Email: zborowm@ccf.org

Phone: 216.445.9330
Mei Zhang, PhD

Assistant Professor

Department of Biomedical Engineering

Case School of Engineering

Member

Immune Oncology Program

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center

Email: mei.zhang2@case.edu

Phone: 216.844.3098