Basic Science Chairs

Mark Aulisio, PhD 

Mark Aulisio, PhD 

Department of Bioethics

Email: mark.aulisio@case.edu

Phone: 216.368.0724

Hope Barkoukis

Hope Barkoukis, PhD 

Department of Nutrition

Email: Hope.Barkoukis@case.edu

Phone: 216.368.2441

Fax: 216.368.6644

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Sudha Chakrapani, PhD

Department of Pharmacology

Email: sudha.chakrapani@case.edu

Phone: 216.368.3875

Fax: 216.368.558

Darin A Croft, PhD

Darin A Croft, PhD

Department of Anatomy

Email: dac34@case.edu

Phone: 216.368.5268

Office: W-G46 (Main), HEC-226G (Secondary)

J. Alan Diehl, PhD 

J. Alan Diehl, PhD 

Department of Biochemistry

Email: jad283@case.edu

Phone: 216.368.0268

Fax: 216.368.8845

Jonathan Haines

Jonathan Haines, PhD 

Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences

Email: jonathan.haines@case.edu

Phone: 216.368.0411

Dr. Clifford Harding

Clifford Harding, MD, PhD 

Department of Pathology

Department of Anatomy

Department of Medicine

Email: cvh3@case.edu

Phone: 216.368.3611

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Peter Hovmand, PhD, MSW 

Director for the Community Health Integration (CHI)

Email: peter.hovmand@case.edu

Phone: 216.368.5437

Fax: 216.368.4348

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Jonathan Karn, PhD 

Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology

Email: jonathan.karn@case.edu

Phone: 216.368.3915

Fax: 216.368.3055

Robert Kirsch 

Robert Kirsch, PhD

Department of Biomedical Engineering

Email: robert.kirsch@case.edu

Phone: 216.368.4063

Xin Qi

Xin Qi, PhD

Department of Physiology and Biophysics

Email: xin.qi2@case.edu

Phone: 216.368.4459

Fax: 216.368.5586

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Gary Schwartz, MD 

Director of the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center

Email: gks37@case.edu

Phone: 216.368.1994

Jonathan Smith, PhD 

Jonathan Smith, PhD 

Department of Molecular Medicine

Email: smithj4@ccf.org

Phone: 216.444.2248

Fax: 216.444.9404

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John Wang, PhD 

Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences

Email: zxw22@case.edu

Phone: 216.368.0446

Fax: 216.368.3432

Rong Xu

Rong Xu, PhD

Director for the Center for AI in Drug Discovery

Email: rxx@case.edu

Phone: 216.368.0023

Fax: 216.368.0207

Ron Yu

Congrong "Ron" Yu, PhD

Department of Neurosciences

Email: congrong.yu@case.edu

Phone: 216.368.5159

* Last updated June 2025.