Zainab Hassan Albar, PhD
Program: Clinical Translational Science
Advisor: Abdus Sattar, PhD
Dissertation: A Comprehensive Study of Investigating the Impact of Parental and Child Behavior Problems on Offspring's Brain Limbic System Structures
Hussam Mohammed Alqahtani, PhD
Program: Clinical Translational Science
Advisors: Siran Koroukian, PhD and James Spilsbury, PhD
Dissertation: Investigating the Association Between Complex Multimorbidity and Periodontal Disease: An Analysis of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
Currently: Assistant Professor of Periodontics and Clinical Data Science Researcher, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences
Caroline Elizabeth El Sanadi, PhD
Program: Clinical Translational Science
Vanessa Phillis Ho, MD, PhD, MPH, FACS
Program: Clinical Translational Science
Advisor: Siran Koroukian, PhD
Dissertatiion: Worse than Death? The Older Patient and Long-Term Outcomes after Emergency General Surgery
Currently: Associate Professor, Departments of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, Case Western Reserve University (CWRU)
Faculty, Center for Health Equity, Engagement, Education, and Research within the Population Health and Equity Research Institute (PHERI), The MetroHealth System
Medical Director of the Trauma Recovery Center, Institute for H.O.P.E, The MetroHealth System
Director of Trauma Research, Department of Surgery, Division of Trauma, Critical Care, Emergency General Surgery, and Burns
Olivia Marie Hogue, PhD
Program: Clinical Translational Science
Dissertation: Statistical Practice in Preclinical Neurosciences: Implications for Successful Translation of Research Evidence from Animals to Humans
Currently: Assistant Staff, Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Cleveland Clinic
Benjamin Patrick Kramer, PhD
Program: Clinical and Translational Science
Advisor: Johnie Rose, MD, PhD
Uriel Kim, PhD, MBA
Program: Clinical Translational Science
Kim's dissertation looked at the impact of the Affordable Care Act on cancer outcomes in individuals from low-income communities.
Currently: Completing the MD portion of the combined degree Medical Scientist Training Program here at CWRU.
Carli Jessica Lehr, MD, PhD
Program: Clinical Translational Science
Dissertation: Updating Risk Predictions for Lung Transplant Candidates Bridged with Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Using Novel National Data
Currently: Staff pulmonologist at the Respiratory Institute and assistant professor of Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, specializing in transplant medicine.
Morgan K. McGrath, PhD
Program: Clinical Translational Sciences
Advisor: Jill Barnholtz Sloan, PhD
Currently: Completing the MD portion of the combined degree Medical Scientist Training Program here at CWRU.
Stephanie Merlino Barr, PhD, MS, RD, LD
Program: Clinical Translational Science
Advisor: Sharon Groh-Wargo, PhD
Dissertation: Examining the Relationship of Malnutrition in Preterm Infants to Critical Clinical Outcomes
Laurie Ann Moennich, PhD, MPH, CPH
Advisor: Susannah Rose, PhD
Dissertation: Acceptance and Use of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: A System Dynamics Approach
Ryan Nazemian, MD, PhD
Program: Clinical Translational Science, CRSP Program
Advisor: Johnie Rose, MD, PhD
Dissertation: Monitoring Nitric Oxide Bioactivitiy, Tissue Oxygenation and Blood Flow in Neurologically-Diseased (DNC) Organ Donors
Currently: Anesthesiologist, Lahey Hospital & Medical Center
Sarah Diane Ronis, MD, PhD
Program: Clinical Translational Science
Advisor: Kurt Stange, MD
Dissertation: Engagement for Impact in Social Risk Screening and Intervention
Currently: Director of the University Hospitals Rainbow Center for Child Health & Policy and Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Wayne Mark Tsuang, MD, PhD, MHS
Program: Clinical Translational Science
Advisor: Johnie Rose, MD, PhD
Dissertation: Towards Translational Geospatial Medicine in Lung Transplantation
Currently: Staff physician in the Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and Associate Professor at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine
Joe Georges Zein, PhD
PhD conferred 05/17/2020
