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Member/Title	Email	Keywords
Kimberly Agnello Associate Professor of Surgery, Veterinary Medicine	kagnello@vet.upenn.edu	Orthopedic veterinary medicine/surgery arthroscopy/minimally invasive orthopedic surgery, meniscus, ACL reconstruction, OA
Rebecca Ahrens-Nicklas Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, CHOP **New Member**	ahrensnicklasr@chop.edu	Inborn errors of metabolism, rare diseases, genetics
Sunday O. Akintoye Associate Professor of Oral Medicine	akintoye@dental.upenn.edu	Oro facial bone marrow stromal stem cells, osseous defects in the maxillofacial region, dental metabolic bone diseases
Abass Alavi Professor of Radiology	Abass.Alavi@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Positron emission tomography, single photon emission tomography, MRI, functional brain imaging; cerebral blood flow; metabolism
Mark G. Allen Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of Electrical and Systems Engineering	mallen@seas.upenn.edu	Micro- and nanofabrication; microelectromechanical systems; micromachined biointerfaces
Zoltan Arany Samuel Bellet Professor of Cardiology Professor of Medicine **New Member**	zarany@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Metabolism
Yair Argon Professor, Pathology & Lab Medicine	yargon@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Molecular chaperones, stress proteins, insulin like growth factors, muscle differentiation, muscular injury
Nataliya Balashova Research Assistant Professor, Penn Dental Pathology	natbal@upenn.edu	bacterial pathogenesis, HACEK bacteria, septic arthritis, Kingella kingae
Marisa Bartolomei Perelman Professor of Cell & Developmental Biology	bartolom@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Genomic imprinting, epigenetics, endocrine disrupting chemicals, assisted reproductive technologies
Joseph A. Baur Associate Professor of Physiology	baur@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Aging, mitochondria, resveratrol, sirtuins, metabolism, longevity, mTor, rapamycin
Josh R. Baxter Assistant Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery	josh.baxter@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Clinical research, Achilles tendon, muscle mechanics, function
Warren B. Bilker Professor of Biostatistics in Biostatistics and Epidemiology New Member	warren@upenn.edu	Infectious Diseases, Pharmacoepi, Schizophrenia, Brain Imaging
Manju Benakanakere Research Assistant Professor of Periodontics	bmanju@upenn.edu	Peridodontitis, bone loss, osteoclasts, epigenetics, apoptosis, miRNAs
Jenny Teresa Bencardino Chief, Musculoskeletal Radiology	jenny.bencardino@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Musculoskeletal radiology, musculoskeletal MRI, cartilage, muscle, bone, peripheral nerves
Shelley L. Berger Daniel S. Och University Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology	bergers@upenn.edu	Chromatin, epigenetics
Elizabeth Bhoj Assistant Professor of Pediatrics/Genetics CHOP New Member	bhoje@chop.edu	Genetics, Neurodegeneration, Craniofacial
Lorraine Boakye Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery New Member	Lorraine.Boakye@Pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Achilles, Tendinopathy, Rehabilitation, Ankle, Foot
Joel D. Boerckel Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Bioengineering	boerckel@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Mechanobiology, development, tissue engineering
Roberto Bonasio Assistant Professor of Cell & Developmental Biology	rbon@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Epigenetics, chromatin, noncoding RNAs, stem cells, cell identity, neurons, brains, behavior
Franklin Caldera Assistant Professor, Clinical Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation	Franklin.Caldera@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Platelett Rich Plasma,pain, MSK ultrasound, interventional pain, anatomy
Michael Paul Cancro Professor, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine	cancro@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	B lymphocyte development, selection and homeostasis; immunobiology of aging
James L. Carey Director, Penn Center for Cartilage Repair & Osteochondritis Dissecans Treatment	James.Carey@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Osteochondritis dissecans, cartilage repair, sports medicine
Shampa Chatterjee Research Associate Professor, Physiology New Member	shampac@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Inflammation, injury, inflammation signaling, bone inflammation
Chider Chen Assistant Professor of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery/Pharmacology	chenc10@upenn.edu	Mesenchymal Stem Cell, Osteoporosis, Osteo-immunology, Tissue Regeneration, Cancer Stromal effect
Youhai Harry Chen Professor, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine	yhc@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Gene therapy, genomics, autoimmune diseases, TLR, innate immunity, immunologic tolerance, apoptosis, and therapeutics
Zhiliang Cheng Research Assistant Professor	zcheng@seas.upenn.edu	Nanotechnology, molecular imaging, drug delivery
Yongwon Choi Leonard Jarett Professor, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine	ychoi3@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Dendritic cell regulation of t-cells, osteoclast activation
Margaret M. Chou Associate Professor, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine	mmc@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	G proteins, transformation, vesicular trafficking, ubiquitination
Charles C. Clark Emeritus Associate Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery	ccclark@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Articular cartilage and bone healing, effects of electrical stimulation on the regulation of gene expression, production of matrix molecules and metalloproteinases
David P. Cormode Assistant Professor, Radiology	David.Cormode@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Cardiovascular disease, arthritis, nanoparticles, contrast agents, medical imaging, computed tomography
D. Kacy Cullen Research Assistant Professor, Neurosurgery	dkacy@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Tissue engineering, neurotrauma, neuroengineering, traumatic brain injury, peripheral nerve injury
Ronald DeMatteo Professor and Chair Department of Surgery New Member	Ronald.Dematteo@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Tumor immunology, mouse models
George Dodge Research Associate Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery	gdodge@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Cartilage and chondrocyte biology, osteoarthritis, cartilage cell biology, cartilage tissue engineering
Derek J. Donegan Assistant Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery	Derek.Donegan@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Biomechanics, fracture fixation constructs, functional outcomes
Nat Dyment Assistant Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery	dyment@upenn.edu	Tendon and ligament injury, repair and regeneration. Stem/progenitor cell lineage,
Jonathan A. Epstein Executive Vice Dean and Chief Scientific Officer New Member	epsteinj@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Fibrosis, heart failure, CAR T therapy, & epigenetics
Daniel Farber Assistant Professor of Clinical Orthopaedic Surgery	Daniel.Farber@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Achilles tendon, diabetic foot, footwear, orthopaedic foot and ankle, weight bearing computed tomography
John Farrar Associate Professor, Epidemiology	jfarrar@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Measurement of pain, associated symptoms, quality of life; novel methodology in clinical trial design, conduct, data analysis, data interpretation; studies of the treatment of chronic nociceptive (e.g., osteoarthritis), neuropathic (e.g., diabetic neuropathy) cancer related pain; functional neuroimaging studies of the neurological manifestations of pain related disease
John Fischer Assistant Professor, Surgery	John.Fischer2@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Hernia, mesh, prophylactic surgery, risk modelling, biomedical mesh assessment
Aime Franco Assistant Professor, Pediatrics New Member	francoa1@chop.edu	Cancer, cancer survivorship, long-term side effects of cancer care
Oren Friedman Director, Facial Plastic Surgery Associate Professor of Clinical Otorhinolaryngology	Oren.Friedman@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Facial plastic surgery, rhinoplasty, skin cancer reconstruction, facial trauma
Theodore J. Ganley Associate Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery CHOP	ganley@email.chop.edu	ACL surgery in young athletes, osteochondritis dissecans, cartilage preservation surgery, meniscus surgery, shoulder surgery, pediatric fractures
David L. Glaser Associate Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery	David.Glaser@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Shoulder surgery, rotator cuff tendon healing, gene therapy technologies of tendon healing and bone formation
Jerry D. Glickson Professor & Director, Molecular Imaging	glickson@upenn.edu	Molecular imaging, magnetic resonance, cancer detection
Yale E. Goldman Professor, Physiology	goldmany@upenn.edu	Actin, molecular motor, motility, myosin, structural dynamics, fluorescence, muscle, ribosome, protein synthesis, G-Protein, ATPase, laser photolysis, caged ATP, optical trap
Yanqing Anna Gong Research Assistant Professor, Dept of Medicine	gongy@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Protease, inflammation, mesenchymal stem cell, tissue repair including bone
Riccardo Gottardi Assistant Professor, Surgery CHOP	gottardir@email.chop.edu	Cartilage, tissue engineering, bioreactor, controlled delivery, regenerative rehabilitation, pediatric
Struan Grant Associate Professor, Pediatrics	grants@chop.edu	Genetics, bone, pediatrics, prevention of obesity and osteoporosis
Dana T. Graves Professor, Periodontics	dtgraves@dental.upenn.edu	Inflammation and diabetes as they relate to periodontal disease and the loss and repair of connective tissue and bone
Elizabeth Grice Associate Professor, Department of Dermatology	egrice@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Skin microbiome, wound healing, chronic wounds, open fractures, host-microbe interactions, innate immunity
Maureen Griffin Assistant Professor of Small Animal Surgical Oncology New Member	magri@upenn.edu	Surgical oncology, imaging and staging, interventional techniques, veterinary
Sarah Gullbrand Research Assistant Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery New Member	sgullb@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Spine, biomechanics, tissue engineering, imaging
George Hajishengallis Thomas W. Evans Centennial Professor, Microbiology	geoh@upenn.edu	Osteoclasts, bone loss, periodontitis, inflammation, Del-1, MFG-E8
Michael Hast Assistant Research Professor Biedermann Lab, Orthopaedic Surgery	hast@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Biomechanics, implants, computational modeling, fracture, trauma
Jorge Henao-Mejia Assistant Professor, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine New Member	jhena@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Inflammation
Su Chin Heo Research Assistant Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery New Member	heosc@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Musculoskeletal tissue/cell mechanobiology, Super-resolution imaging, Chromatin structure,
Lawrence B. Holzman Professor and Division Chief Medicine/Renal	lholzman@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Cell biology, cell signaling, kidney disease
Alex Hughes Assistant Professor, SEAS Bioengineering New Member	ajhughes@seas.upenn.edu	Tissue development, cell collective behavior, mechanobiology
Dan Dongeun Huh Wilf Family Term Chair & Assistant Professor, Bioengineering	huhd@seas.upenn.edu	Micro- and nanoengineering, organs-on-chips, biomimetics, cell biology
Eric L. Hume Associate Professor, Clinical Orthopaedic Surgery	Eric.Hume@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Hip arthroplasty, knee arthroplasty, ceramic hip bearings, knee navigation, osteoarthritis, bone mechanics
Misun Hwang Assistant Professor of Radiology New Member	Hwangm@email.chop.edu	Ultrasound, brain imaging, neurologic disorders
Olena Jacenko Associate Professor, Animal Biology	jacenko@vet.upenn.edu	Molecular mechanisms of skeletal development, hematopoietic disorders
Ian N. Jacobs Assisstant Professor, Otorhinolaryngology Children's Hospital of Philadelphia	jacobsi@email.chop.edu	Tissue-engineered cartilage, grafts in laryngotracheal reconstruction
Hyeran Helen Jeon Assistant Professor of Orthodontics	hjeon@upenn.edu	Bone remodeling, wound healing, mechanotransduction
Stephanie Jo Assistant Professor of Radiology	stephanie.jo@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Osteoarthritis, cartilage
Kyu Sang Joeng Assistant Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery	joeng@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Bone, Cartilage, Tendon, Osteogenesis Imperfecta, Osteoarthritis, Tendinopathy
Mark L. Kahn Professor, Medicine	markkahn@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	cardiovascular development, heart development, vascular signaling
Frederick S. Kaplan Isaac and Rose Nassau Professor, Orthopaedic Molecular Medicine	Frederick.Kaplan@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Fibrodysplasia ossificans prognosis (FOP), heterotopic ossification, metabolic bone disease, osteomalacia, osteoporosis, Paget's disease
Bekir Karabucak Interim Chair and Associate Professor of Endodontics Director, Postdoctoral Endodontics Program	bekirk@upenn.edu	nterim Chair and Associate Professor of Endodontics Director, Postdoctoral Endodontics Program - See more at: http://www.dental.upenn.edu/departments_faculty/faculty_directory/bekir_karabucak/#sthash.h0HjKPNF.dpuf
John Kelly Associate Professor Orthopedic Surgery	John.Kelly@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Shoulder research regarding diabetes, instability, throwing injured and fatty atrophy of the rotator cuff
Viviane Khoury Assistant Professor, Radiology	viviane.khoury@uphs.upenn.edu	musculoskeletal, imaging, ultrasound, tendons
Tejvir S. Khurana Professor of Physiology	tsk@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Duchenne's muscular dystrophy (DMD), utrophin promoter in muscle, extraocular muscle, synapses; neuromuscular junctions; imaging; growth; strength; myostatin; utrophin; hypoxia
Bruce Kneeland Professor, Radiology, Section Chief, Musculoskeletal Imaging Division	John.Kneeland@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Radiology, magnetic resonance imaging, articular cartilage
Kang I Ko Assistant Professor, Periodontics New Member	gank@upenn.edu	Oral biology, regeneration
Sharon L. Kolasinski Professor, Clinical Medicine	Sharon.Kolasinski@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Osteoarthritis, education
Eiki Koyama Research Associate Professor, Orthopedic Research	KoyamaE@email.chop.edu	Appendicular, axial and craniofacial development, Hereditary Multiple Exostosis (HME), synovial joint development
Andrew Kuntz Assistant Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery	Andrew.Kuntz@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Shoulder and elbow surgery, rotator cuff injury and repain, should joint biomechanics
Melike Lakadamyali Assistant Professor, Physiology New Member	melikel@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Super-resolution imaging, chromatin structure, cytoskeleton, motor proteins
Michael C. Langham Research Assistant Professor, Radiology	langhamc@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Pulse sequence designing, MR susceptometry, velocimetry, regional pulse-wave velocity quantification, vessel-wall imaging, non-contrast enhanced MR angiograph
Mitchell Lazar Sylvan H. Eisman Professor, Medicine	LAZAR@PENNMEDICINE.UPENN.EDU	Diabetes, endocrinology, epigenomics, nuclear receptors, circadian rhythms
Anh D. Le Chair and Norman Vine Endowed Professor of Oral Rehabilitation	anhle@dental.upenn.edu	Orofacial mesenchymal stem cells; epithelial stem cells; cancer stem cells; benign tumor stem cells; immunomodulation; neural regeneration; wound healing; craniofacial regeneration; oral cancer
Daeyeon Lee Associate Professor, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering	daeyeon@seas.upenn.edu	Microfluidics, microencapsulation, controlled released, composites, soft materials, colloids, biomaterials
Hannah Lee Assistant Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery New Member	hannah.lee1@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Peripheral nerve regeneration
Véronique Lefebvre Professor, Department of Surgery/ Division of Orthopaedic Surgery	lefebvrev1@email.chop.edu	Chondrogenesis, bone formation, development, skeletal dysplasia, degenerative joint diseases, transcriptional regulation, SOX transcription factors, cell lineage determination, cell differentiation
Thomas H. Leung Assistant Professor of Dermatology	thl@upenn.edu
L. Scott Levin Chair, Orthopaedic Surgery Paul D. Magnuson Professor, Bone & Joint Surgery Professor, Plastic Surgery in Surgery	Scott.Levin@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Hand surgery, microsurgical extremity reconstruction, composite tissue allotransplantation
Michael A. Levine Chief, Division of Endocrinology Medical Director, Center for Bone Health Diabetes, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia	levinem@email.chop.edu	Parathyroid; PTH; developmental biology; osteoporosis; osteoclast; osteoimmunology; G proteins
Robert J. Levy Professor, Pediatrics & Pharmacology William J. Rashkind Endowed Chair, Pediatric Cardiology	levyr@email.chop.edu	Biomaterials, biomechanics, local drug delivery, heart valve disease, stents, and arterial injury
Chenshuang Li Assistant Professor, Orthodontics New Member	lichens@upenn.edu	Craniofacial growth and development, signaling pathways regulating endochondral bone formation, cartilage tissue engineering, and arthritis
Eric Liao Surgery Vice Chair, Academic Affairs Department of Surgery CHOP New Member	liaoce@chop.edu	Craniofacial development and genetics, orofacial clefts, zebrafish, human iPSC, neural crest, periderm
Kathy Fange Liu Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics New Member	liufg@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	RNA binding proteins, RNA modifying enzymes, phase separation, neurodegenerative disease, neuromuscular disease, sex bias in gene regulation
X. Sherry Liu Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery	xiaoweil@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Imaging and Image; Analysis of Biological Tissues; Bone Mechanics; Metabolic Bone Diseases
Vincent Lo Re III Associate Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology New Member	vincentl@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Viral hepatitis; HIV; inflammation; musculoskeletal abnormalities
Kathleen M. Loomes Associate Professor, Pediatrics Children's Hospital of Philadelphia	loomes@email.chop.edu	Genetics of liver and bile duct development, Jag1
Fanxin Long Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery	longf1@email.chop.edu	Bone, cartilage, metabolism
Neil R. Malhotra Assistant Professor, Neurological Surgery	Neil.Malhotra@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Spine surgery, disc degeneration, scaffolding for cell and growth factor delivery, injectable implants for degeneration, metastatic spine bone disease, biomechanics, intervertebral disc, aging, injury
Anna Massie Assistant Professor of Small Animal Orthopedic Surgery	amassie@vet.upenn.edu	Bone quality, regenerative medicine, veterinary
Robert L. Mauck Mary Black Ralston Professor for Education and Research in Orthopaedic Surgery	lemauck@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Cartilage, meniscus, tissue engineering, biomaterials, mechanobiology, cartilage development, mesenchymal stem cells
Michael May Associate Professor Biomedical Sciences New Member	maym@vet.upenn.edu	NF-κB signaling, Inflammation, Immunity, Vascular Biology, Lymphatics
Samir Mehta Assistant Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery	Samir.Mehta@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Orthopaedic trauma, periarticular fractures, fracture healing, bone, pelvic fractures, acetabular fractures, nonunions, malunions
Peter A. Merkel Professor, Medicine & Epidemiology	pmerkel@upenn.edu	Rheumatology, complex systemic rheumatic and inflammatory diseases, scleroderma, vasculitis, arthritis
Michael John Mitchell Assistant Professor of Innovation	mjmitch@seas.upenn.edu	Biomaterials, drug delivery, gene therapy, immunoengineering
Edmund K. Moon Assistant Professor of Medicine New Member	edmund.moon@uphs.upenn.edu	Tumor microenvironment, T cells, immunotherapy
Foteini Mourkioti Associate Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery	fmour@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Muscle disorders, stem cells, muscle regeneration, telomeres, cardiomyopathy, mitochondria, oxidative stress, muscle atrophy, muscle wasting
Mary Mullins Professor, Cell & Developmental Biology	mullins@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Bone morphogenetic protein signaling, zebrafish, fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva, BMP antagonists, BMP regulation
Hyun-Duck Nah-Cederquist Research Associate Professor, Surgery	nah@email.chop.edu	Bone engineering, tissue engineering, craniofacial biology, neovascularization, microsphere encapsulation
Peter B. Noel Assistant Professor of Radiology Director of CT Research	Peter.Noel@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Computed tomography, quantitative imaging
Jie C Nguyen Director, Pediatric Musculoskeletal Radiology	nguyenj6@email.chop.edu	Quantitative Cartilage Imaging (T2 map), metabolic/obesity effects on the musculoskeletal system, MR bone imaging, OCD
Kyla Ortved Assistant Professor, Large Animal Surgery, New Bolton	kortved@vet.upenn.edu	Gene therapy and cell therapy techniques, including the use of stem cells, to modulate the articular environment and bolster the weak intrinsic healing response of cartilage.
Michael Ostap Professor, Physiology	ostap@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Myosin, actin, contractility, motility, biochemistry, biophysics, single-molecule
Maurizio Pacifici Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery	pacificim@email.chop.edu	Skeletal development and growth; synovial joint formation and morphogenesis; acquired and congenital skeletal pathologies including heterotopic ossification (HO), Hereditary Multiple Exostoses (HME) and Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip (DDH)
Michael Pack Professor, Medicine & Cell & Developmental Biology	mpack@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Zebrafish, developmental biology, intestine, liver, pancreas, genetics
Liming Pei Associate Professor Center for Mitochondrial and Epigenomic Medicine, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine New Member	lpei@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Heart biology and disease, metabolism and metabolic disease, cardiac endocrinology, single-cell genomics
William Peranteau Professor of Surgery, CHOP New Member	peranteauw@email.chop.edu	Pediatric Surgery, Fetal Surgery, Gene Editing, Cell Therapy
Jennifer E. Phillips-Cremins Assistant Professor, Bioengineering & Genetics New Member	jcremins@seas.upenn.edu	3D Epigenetics
James Pikul Assistant Professor, MEAM in SEAS New Member	pikul@seas.upenn.edu	Soft robotics and energy
Dipti Pitta Assistant Professor, Ruminant Nutrition	dpitta@vet.upenn.edu	Ruminant microbiology, cultivation of rumen microbes, metagenomics, next generation throughput sequencing, sequential and gene-centric approaches of metagenomics
Nicolas Plachta Professor, Cell & Developmental Biology New Member	Nicolas.Plachta@Pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Cytoskeleton, early mammalian development, preimplantation embryo, implantation
Benjamin Prosser Assistant Professor, Physiology	bpros@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Cardiac electrophysiology, excitation-contraction coupling, calcium signaling, mechanotransduction, redox signaling
Ellen Pure Grace Lansing Lamber Professor, Biomedical Science	epure@vet.upenn.edu	Inflammation, fibrosis, extracellular matrix, mouse genetics
Ling Qin Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery	qinling@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Bone metabolism, cancer bone metastasis, stem cell, signal transduction, transcriptional regulation, growth factors
Arjun Raj Assistant Professor, Bioengineering	arjunraj@seas.upenn.edu	RNA systems biology, non-coding RNA, development, cancer
Chamith Rajapakse Assistant Professor, Radiology and Orthopaedic Surgery	chamith@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Musculoskeletal Imaging, Bone Biomechanics, 3D Printing, Hip Fracture
Jordan Raney Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics New Member	raney@seas.upenn.edu	Heterogeneous materials, bioinspired materials, 3d printing, nonlinear mechanics
Ravinder Reddy Professor, Radiology	krr@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Multinuclear MRI & spectroscopic techniques, arthritis, stroke, cartilage & proteoglycan detection
Alexander M.Reiter Associate Professor, Dentistry & Oral Surgery	reiter@vet.upenn.edu	Dentistry, surgery, oral, maxillofacial, masticatory, teeth, jaws, tempormandibular joint
Andrew Richardson Research Assistant Professor, Neurosurgery New Member	Andrew.Richardson@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Brain-machine interfaces, neural prosthetics, neural interfaces, neuroscience, neuroengineering
Dean W. Richardson Charles W. Raker Professor, Surgery, Chief of Large Animal Surgery	dwr@vet.upenn.edu	Fracture repair, osteoarthritis cartilage repair, gene therapy (arthritis and laminitis)
Stefano B. Rivella Professor of Hematology New Member	rivellas@email.chop.edu	Gene transfer cure of ß-thalassemia & sickle cell anemia. Erythropoiesis & iron metabolism in beta-thalassemia, hemochromatosis polycythemia vera.
Jeffrey David Roizen Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, Division of Endocrine and Diabetes	roizenj@chop.edu	Vitamin D metabolism, vitamin D action, pseudohypoparathyroidism, obesity, calcium metabolism
Carla Scanzello Assistant Professor, Medicine, Rheumatology	cscanz@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Osteoarthritis, post-traumatic arthritis, meniscal degeneration, synovium, inflammation, toll-like receptors
Ernestina Schipani WW Smith Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery New Member	Ernestina.Schipani@Pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Hypoxia, HIF, Mitochondria, Chondrocytes Development Skeleton, Endochondral bone development, Dwarfism, Jansen, Somites, Congenital Scoliosis, Fibrosarcoma
Patrick Seale Associate Professor, Cell and Developmental Biology New Member	sealep@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Adipose tissue, transcriptional regulation, obesity, metabolic disease
Ronnie A. Sebro Assistant Professor of Radiology	Ronnie.Sebro@uphs.upenn.edu	Radiology, bone and soft tissue sarcomas, rheumatology, genetics, bone mineral density, quantitative methods
Chandra Sehgal Research Professor, Radiology	Chandra.Sehgal@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Ultrasound imaging, therapeutic ultrasound, musculoskeletal ultrasound, Doppler flow, microbubble contrast imaging
Brian J. Sennett Associate Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery	Brian.Sennett@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Sports medicine surgery, meniscus, fetal, transplantation, repair, and scaffold
Neil Perry Sheth Assistant Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery	Neil.Sheth@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Hip revision, knee revision, total joint arthroplasty, acetabular bone loss, femoral bone loss, osteolysis, peri-prosthetic infection, and Orthopaedic global health
Eileen M. Shore Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery and Genetics	shore@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Bone formation, cell differentiation, molecular, cell, developmental biology, inherited diseases, bone, cartilage, BMP, GNAS, FOP, POH
Harvey E. Smith Assistant Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery	Harvey.Smith@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Spine, intervertebral disc, MRI
Lachlan J. Smith Associate Professor, Neurosurgery	lachlans@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Spine; intervertebral disc; bone; genetic diseases; regenerative medicine; translational animal models; tissue engineering; drug delivery.
Hee Kwon Song Associate Professor, Radiological Science	hsong@uphs.upenn.edu	Novel DCE-MRI methodologies based on radial data acquisition; novel motion compensation strategies; in vivo iron quantification techniques
Wenchao Song Professor, Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics New Member	Songwe@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Vascular biology of inflammatory mediators, TLRs and macrophage biology
Louis J. Soslowsky Fairhill Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery & Bioengineering	soslowsk@upenn.edu	Orthopaedic biomechanics, tendon and ligament injury, repair and regeneration, shoulder and joint biomechanics
Hansell Stedman Associate Professor, Surgery	hstedman@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Muscular dystrophy, pathophysiology of muscle disease, myosin, molecular therapy, surgery
Holly Stewart Assistant Professor of Large Animal Surgery New Member	hstew@vet.upenn.edu	Subchondral bone, imaging, osteoarthritis, translational models, joint health and disease
Laura Su Assistant Professor, Medicine/Rheumatology New Member	laurasu@upenn.edu	Rheumatoid arthritis, T1D, CD4+ T Cells, memory, vaccine
Kathleen E. Sullivan Professor, Pediatrics Chief, Division of Allergy Immunology	sullivank@email.chop.edu	Lupus, inflammation, epigenetics
Jason Alan Syrcle Associate Professor, Clinical Small Animal Orthopaedic Surgery New Member	syrcle@upenn.edu	Biomechanics, fracture fixation, humerus
Kai Tan Professor of Pediatrics, CHOP New Member	tank1@chop.edu	Systems biology, leukemia, bone marrow microenvironment, computational biology
Quinn Tate Assistant Professor, PM&R Department New Member	quinn.tate@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Chronic pain, spine, electrical neuromodulation
Ottman Tertuliano Assistant Professor, SEAS, MEAM New Member	oat@seas.upenn.edu	Micro- and nano-scale mechanics, bone, fracture mechanics, in situ experimentation, bio inspired materials
Christoph A. Thaiss Assistant Professor, Microbiology New Member	thaiss@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Host environment interactions, microbiome, metabolism
Marco Tizzano Associate Professor, Department of Basic & Translational Sciences New Member	mtizzano@upenn.edu	Solitary chemosensory cells, taste receptors, immunity type 2, rhino sinusitis, periodontitis
Paul Michael Titchenell Assistant Professor, Physiology and IDOM New Member	ptitc@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Metabolism, insulin signaling, muscle physiology, muscle growth
Wei Tong Associate Professor, Hematology, Dept. of Pediatrics CHOP	tongw@email.chop.edu	Hematopoiesis, leukemia, stem cells, cytokine receptor, signaling
Andrew Tsourkas Professor, Bioengineering	atsourk@seas.upenn.edu	Molecular imaging, contrast agents, nanomedicine, bioconjugate chemistry, probes
Kyle Vining Assistant Professor, Dental Medicine New Member	viningk@upenn.edu	Biomaterials, mechanobiology, immunology, cancer research, regeneration, stem cells
Susan W. Volk Assistant Professor, Small Animal Surgery	swvolk@vet.upenn.edu	Extracellular matrix, collagen, wound healing, stem cells, and regenerative medicine
Douglas Wallace, MD, PhD Professor & Director, Department of Pediatrics New Member	wallaced1@email.chop.edu	mtDNA, mitochondria, myopathy, exercise, exercise intolerance cardiomyopathy, enchephalomyopathy, , connective tissue
David R. Weber Assistant Professor, Clinician-Educator, PE-Pediatrics New Member	weberd@email.chop.edu	Pediatric osteoporosis, bone health, DXA
Kristy L. Weber Professor/Vice-Chair, Orthopaedic Surgery	Kristy.Weber@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Sarcoma, bone, growth factor inhibitors, hypoxia, metastasis
Felix W. Wehrli Professor, Radiology	wehrli@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Development of image-based methods toward the understanding of tissue architecture, physiology and function and their applications to clinical medicine
Lawrence Wells Associate Professor , Orthopaedic Surgery	wellsl@email.chop.edu	Articular cartilage injury and repair mechanisms, avascular necrosis, stress fractures in adolescents, post-operative pain management in ambulatory surgery patients
Victoria P. Werth Professor, Dermatology & Medicine Chief, Dermatology, Philadelphia V.A. Hospital	werth@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Ultraviolet light effects on skin, autoimmune skin diseases, cutaneous lupus, dermatomyositis
Beth A. Winkelstein Professor, Bioengineering	winkelst@seas.upenn.edu	Biomechanics of neck injuries; mechanical and cellular mechanisms of pain onset and persistence; CNS neuroimmune responses of pain; cervical spine biomechanics; injury mechanics
Shuying Yang Associate Professor, Anatomy & Cell Biology	shuyingy@upenn.edu	Bone remodeling, bone development, tooth development, osteoporosis, arthritis, stem cells and bone regeneration
Arjun Yodh James M. Skinner Professor, Science	yodh@dept.physics.upenn.edu	Experimental condensed matter physics and biomedical optics; fluids & networks, carbon nanotubes, laser spectroscopy, optical microsopy & micromanipulation, functional imaging
Paul Yushkevich Associate Professor, Radiology New Member	pauly2@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	medical image analysis
Babette S. Zemel Research Associate Professor, Pediatrics	zemel@email.chop.edu	Childhood growth and nutrition, body composition, energy expenditure and bone density across the lifespan, patterns of bone mineralization
Miltiadis Zgonis Assistant Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery Co-Director, Human Tissue Laboratory	Miltiadis.Zgonis2@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Shoulder-AC joint, biceps tendon, glenoid labrum, rotator cuff, Knee-cartilage, osteochondritis dissecans, meniscus, ACL, PCL, imaging biology of cartilage, ligament, & tendon, biomechanics articular cartilage, ligament, & tendon, cell/molecular biology, stem cell therapy, tissue engineering
Hongtao Zhang Research Assistant Professor, Pathology & Lab Medicine	zhanghon@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	DNA repair, SUN proteins, neuromuscular disease
Qunzhou Zhang Research Assistant Professor, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery / Pharmacology New Member	zqunzhou@upenn.edu	Mesenchymal stem cells, oral cancer, tissue regeneration
Yejia Zhang Assistant Professor,Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation	Yejia.Zhang@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Mechanism of intervertebral disc degeneration and discogenic back pain
Jun (Jay) Zhu Professor , Microbiology New Member	junzhu@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Bacterial pathogenesis, signal transduction
Wei(Jennifer) Zou Assistant Professor, Radiation Oncology New Member	wei.zou@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Radiotherapy, Medical Physics, Proton radiotherapy, FLASH radiotherapy

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