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Kelz Lab

Our Team

Current Lab Members

  • Toshihiro Imamura, MD

    Toshihiro Imamura, MD

    Instructor, Division of Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine

    Toshihiro Imamura, MD

    Toshihiro Imamura, MD

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    Instructor, Division of Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine

    Toshi was a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Allan Pack’s lab and co-mentored by Dr. Kelz. He is currently an Instructor in the Division of Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine at Penn and collaborates with the Kelz lab.
  • Andi Wasilczuk, PhD

    Andi Wasilczuk, PhD

    Postdoctoral Fellow on the NIH T32 training grant

    Andi Wasilczuk, PhD

    Andi Wasilczuk, PhD

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    Postdoctoral Fellow on the NIH T32 training grant

    Andi was a former Biomedical Engineering graduate student at Penn and did his PhD thesis research in the Kelz lab.

  • Hirotaka Kinoshita, MD

    Visiting Scholar

  • Xiaoyan Zhang, MD

    Research Specialist

Previous Lab Members

  • Adeeti Aggarwal, PhD

    Adeeti Aggarwal, PhD

    Former MD/PhD Student, Neuroscience Graduate Group

    Adeeti Aggarwal, PhD

    Adeeti Aggarwal, PhD

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    Former MD/PhD Student, Neuroscience Graduate Group

    In September 2021, Adeeti successfully defended her thesis entitled,  Visual evoked feedforward-feedback traveling waves organize neural activity across the cortex in mice. Adeeti will resume the clinical rotations as part of the MD, PhD program.
  • C. William Carspecken, MD, MS, MBA

    C. William Carspecken, MD, MS, MBA

    Instructor and T32 postdoctoral fellow in Anesthesiology and Critical Care

  • Michael Chalifoux, MD

    Michael Chalifoux, MD

    Research Specialist
    Michael's publications

    Michael Chalifoux, MD

    Michael Chalifoux, MD

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    Research Specialist
    Michael's publications

    Michael spent a year with us after medical school prior to his anesthesiology residency at the University of Wisconsin. 
  • Jingqiu Chen

    Jingqiu Chen

    Research Specialist

    Jingqiu Chen

    Jingqiu Chen

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    Research Specialist

    Jingqiu was Max's first, and very productive, research specialist. 
  • Yihan Chen

    Yihan Chen

    Penn undergraduate student

    Yihan Chen

    Yihan Chen

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    Penn undergraduate student

    Yihan worked in the Kelz lab while an undergraduate at Penn.
  • Joseph Cichon, MD, PhD

    Joseph Cichon, MD, PhD

    Assistant Professor, UPenn Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care and former Penn anesthesia resident Dripps Fellow

    Joseph Cichon, MD, PhD

    Joseph Cichon, MD, PhD

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    Assistant Professor, UPenn Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care and former Penn anesthesia resident Dripps Fellow

    Joe carried on his research in the Kelz lab as a Dripps Fellow during his anesthesia residency at Penn. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at Penn, is NIH funded, and continues to collaborate with the Kelz lab.
  • Eliot Friedman, MD

    Eliot Friedman, MD

    Instructor, Dept of Medicine, UPENN

    Eliot Friedman, MD

    Eliot Friedman, MD

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    Instructor, Dept of Medicine, UPENN

    Eliot was working with the Klez lab while an instructor in the Department of Medicine. He is currently an intensivist at Lankenau Medical Center. 
  • Bo Han, MD

    Bo Han, MD

    Research Specialist

    Bo Han, MD

    Bo Han, MD

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    Research Specialist

    Bo was an integral part of the Kelz lab for many years.
  • Francis Hu

    Francis Hu

    Penn undergraduate student

    Francis Hu

    Francis Hu

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    Penn undergraduate student

    Francis worked in the Kelz lab while an undergraduate student at Penn. 

  • Michael Kitchens, MD

    4th year PENN medical student, completed scholarly pursuit

  • Kaitlyn Maier

    Kaitlyn Maier

    Pharmacology graduate student
    Kaitlyn publications

    Kaitlyn Maier

    Kaitlyn Maier

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    Pharmacology graduate student
    Kaitlyn publications

    Kaitlyn completed a master's degree and is currently pursuing a career as a science consultant.
  • Aaron Krom, BM, BCh, PhD

    Aaron Krom, BM, BCh, PhD

    Postdoctoral Fellow on the NIH T32 Training Grant

    Aaron Krom, BM, BCh, PhD

    Aaron Krom, BM, BCh, PhD

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    Postdoctoral Fellow on the NIH T32 Training Grant

    Aaron completed an anesthesia residency at Hadassah Hospital, Jerusalem, an ICU fellowship at Penn and was a postdoctoral research fellow on the department's NIH T32 training grant. 
  • Hilary McCarren

    Hilary McCarren

    Pharmacology graduate student
    Publications

    Hilary McCarren

    Hilary McCarren

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    Pharmacology graduate student
    Publications

    Hilary did her PhD thesis in the lab and accepted a postdoctoral fellowship with the DOD in Annapolis, MD.
  • Andrew McKinstry-Wu, MD

    Andrew McKinstry-Wu, MD

    Dripps Resident Scholar and T32 postdoctoral fellow
    Andrew's publications

    Andrew McKinstry-Wu, MD

    Andrew McKinstry-Wu, MD

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    Dripps Resident Scholar and T32 postdoctoral fellow
    Andrew's publications

    Andrew was a Dripps Resident Scholar at PENN Anesthesiology and Critical Care and a T32 postdoctoral fellow in the Kelz Lab, where he helped pioneer OptoAnesthesia. He is currently an assistant professor in the department, a K08 and MIRA grant recipient, and a member of the Penn Neuroscience of Unconsciousness and Reanimation Research Association (Neurra).
  • Jason Moore, PhD

    Jason Moore, PhD

    Neuroscience Graduate Student
    Jason's publications

    Jason Moore, PhD

    Jason Moore, PhD

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    Neuroscience Graduate Student
    Jason's publications

    Jason did his PhD thesis work in our lab, and is currently the founder and president of Gaiden Labs, a company that custom designs software to help with scientific problems.
  • Sarah Reitz, PhD

    Sarah Reitz, PhD

    Neuroscience graduate student and postdoctoral fellow
    Sarah's publications

    Sarah Reitz, PhD

    Sarah Reitz, PhD

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    Neuroscience graduate student and postdoctoral fellow
    Sarah's publications

    As a neuroscience graduate student, Sarah completed her PhD thesis work in our lab. She did a brief postdoctoral fellowship before beginning her career in science writing. 
  • Cole Rinehart, MD

    Cole Rinehart, MD

    Penn Anesthesia resident

    Cole Rinehart, MD

    Cole Rinehart, MD

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    Penn Anesthesia resident

    Cole was in the Kelz lab during his anesthesia residency at Penn.

  • Marlon Schwarz, MD

    Resident in Anesthesiology and Critical Care

  • Brenna Shortal

    Brenna Shortal

    Research Specialist

    Brenna Shortal

    Brenna Shortal

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    Research Specialist

    Brenna was a research specialist working with Maz Kelz, as well as with Alex Proekt and Andrew McKinstry-Wu. She is currently in a PhD program in Penn's Neuroscience Graduate Group.
  • Martha Stone

    Martha Stone

    Penn VMD, PhD graduate student

  • Daiki Takekawa, PhD

    Daiki Takekawa, PhD

    Postdoctoral Fellow

  • Albert Tsai, MD

    Albert Tsai, MD

    Penn medical student and resident in Anesthesiology and Critical Care

    Albert Tsai, MD

    Albert Tsai, MD

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    Penn medical student and resident in Anesthesiology and Critical Care

    Albert worked in the Kelz lab while both a medical student and a resident at Penn. He is currently a Clinical Instructor in the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine at Stanford University.

  • Derrick Yee

    Penn undergraduate student