People

Senior Team 

Brandon Goldschmitt
Director of Clinical Business Operations
bgoldschmitt@som.umaryland.edu
410-328-3849

Reetu Neupane
Accounting Manager
rneupane@som.umaryland.edu
410-328-4246

Kristie Nichols
Human Resources Program Manager
knichols@som.umaryland.edu
410-328-6844

Mark Scarboro
Sr. Director of Research Operations and Compliance
mscarboro@som.umaryland.edu
410-328-8713

Administrative Support 

Betsy Burcham - Trauma Researchers
Administrative Manager
bburcham@som.umaryland.edu 
410-328-3495

Danielle Hill - Basic Researchers
Office Manager 
Dhill3@som.umaryland.edu
410-328-9461

Michele Robinson - MSTF - 5th Floor
Business Services Specialist
Michele.Robinson@som.umaryland.edu
410-706-3419

Kelly Sikorski - MSTF - 6th Floor 
Senior Program Specialist
KSikorski@som.umaryland.edu
410-706-3418

Grants and Contracts 

Katie Black
Contracts and Grants Coordinator
kblack@som.umaryland.edu

Hillari Howard
Contract & Grant Specialist
hhoward@som.umaryland.edu
410-328-2840

Sophie Li
Senior Contract & Grant Specialist
sophie.li@som.umaryland.edu
410-328-8215

Vanessa Rook
Research Administrator 
vrook@som.umaryland.edu
410-328-9018

Kalpana Vijay
Contract & Grant Specialist
410-328-0142
kvijay@som.umaryland.edu

Neeraj Badjatia, MD, MS
Professor of Neurology
Interests: Targeted temperature management, shivering, nutrition and metabolism, inflammation

James Barrett, PhD
Research Associate in Anesthesiology
Interests: Traumatic Brain Injury, Innate Immunity, Neuroinflammation, Microglia/Macrophage activation, Aging, Neurodegeneration

Konstantin Birukov, MD, PhD 
Anesthesiology Endowed Professor of Entrupenrial Research
Interests: Pathologic mechanisms of development and resolution of vascular endothelial dysfunction and lung injury, including ARDS, shock/trauma, sepsis, and others

Laura Buchanan, MD
Assistant Professor of Trauma/Surgical Critical Care
Interests: Geriatric patients with acute surgical needs and surgical education

Christian Cain, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Interest: public health and violence prevention

Wei Chao, MD, PhD, FAHA
Anesthesiology Endowed Professor in Translational Research
Interests: Innate immune signaling and its role in sepsis and ischemic myocardial injury, trauma, and myocardial ischemic injury

William Chiu, MD
Associate Professor of Surgery
Interests: Neuroendocrine Function in Sepsis, Neuroimmunomodulation in Circulatory Shock, Mitochondrial Injury in Shock

Jose Diaz, MD
Professor of Surgery
Interests: Complex abdominal wall reconstruction, Emergency General Surgery, Acute Care Surgery - Population Analysis

Alan Faden, MD
David S. Brown Professor in Trauma
Interests: Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), Neuroinflammation, Central Nervous System Injury, Neuroprotection, Cell Death and Recovery, Spinal Cord Injury, Chronic Pain

Gary Fiskum, PhD
Professor of Anesthesiology
Interests: Adult and pediatric traumatic and ischemic brain injury; Mitochondrial bioenergetics; Cerebral energy metabolism; Oxidative stress; Apoptosis; Neuroprotection

Samuel Galvagno, DO, PhD
Professor of Anesthesiology
Interests: Aeromedical Critical Care, Patient Monitoring, Resuscitation, Safety & Quality Improvement in the Intensive Care Unit, Medical Education

Mira Ghneim, MD 
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Interests: Surgical Critical Care

Michael Grant, MD, PhD
Professor of Surgery
Interests: Plastic, Reconstructive and Maxillofacial Surgery, Ophthalmology

Thomas Grissom, MD, MSIS, FCCM
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
Interests: Airway management, Critical care air transport, Trauma anesthesiology, Simulation-based education

Daniel Jennings Haase, MD 
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Interests: Critical care, bedside ultrasound, echocardiography, resuscitation, penetrating brain injury

Nader Habashi, MD, FACP, FCCP
Professor of Medicine
Interests: Acute respiratory failure, ARDS, acute respiratory distress syndrome, APRV, airway pressure release ventilation, critical care medicine

Reney Henderson, MD
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
Interests: Allogeneic blood transfusions in cardiac surgery, organ oxygenation while preserving autologous whole blood; and cardiac pulmonary bypass (CPB)

Sharon Henry, MD
Anne Scalea Professor of Trauma
Interests: Wound Healing and Metabolism

Peter Hu, PhD
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
Interests: Utilizing real-time patient field and admission vital signs data to predict life-saving interventions such as emergency blood transfusion, intubation, and emergency surgery; Developing real-time advanced machine learning algorithms to predict trauma patient outcomes

Kartik Kaushik, MSc, PhD
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology & Public Health
Interest: Impacts of transportation on health, including direct effects due to incidents, and indirect effects due to externalities like pollution, stress, etc.

Rosemary Kozar, MD
Professor of Surgery
Interests: Hemorrhagic shock, syndecan-1, endothelial dysfunction, injured elderly, liver trauma

Tibor Kristian, PhD
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
Interests: Acute brain injury and chronic neurodegenerative disorders. Our studies are centered on processes leading to mitochondrial dysfunction and mechanisms of NAD+ catabolism-related pathophysiology.

Margaret Lauerman, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Interests: Surgical Critical Care, Crash Injury Research and Engineering Network (CIREN)

Marta Lipinski, PhD
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
Interests: Autophagy, Neurodegeneration, Traumatic Brain Injury, Spinal Cord Injury, Parkinson's Disease

Nicholas Morris, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Interests: Multimodality Monitoring, Large/Administrative Data, Simulation

Jonathan Morrison, PhD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Interests: Vascular and Trauma Surgery

Sarah Murthi, MD
Associate Professor of Surgery
Interests: Virtual reality applications for medicine and medical training, Surgical Critical Care

Arthur Nam, MD
Associate Professor of Surgery
Interests: Facial Trauma, Secondary Craniomaxillofacial Reconstruction, Vascularized Composite Tissue Transplantation, 3D Printing

Gunjan Parikh, MD
Assistant Professor and Neurology 
Interests: MRI, Neuroimaging, Traumatic Brain Injury, Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage, Intracerebral Hemorrhage, Inflammation, Translational Neuroscience, Multimodality Monitoring

Jamie Podell, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Interest: Neurocritical care, traumatic brain injury, paroxysmal sympathetic hyperactivity, autonomic dysfunction, neuroimaging, physiologic modeling, neuromodulation

Brian Polster, PhD
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
Interests: Basic subcellular mechanisms that govern cell death and survival in neurodegenerative disorders, with a focus on mitochondrial bioenergetics

Joseph Rabin, MD, MS, MIA
Associate Professor of Surgery
Interest: hemorrhage control

Peter Rock, MD, MBA, FCCM
Martin Helrich Chair and Professor of Anesthesiology
Interests: Acute lung injury, septic shock, pulmonary circulation, perioperative myocardial ischemia, medical informatics and postoperative respiratory complications

Robert Rosenthal, MD
Professor of Emergency Medicine
Interests: Cardiac Arrest, Stroke, Traumatic Brain Injury, Hyperoxia, Hypobaria

Thomas Scalea, MD
The Honorable Francis X. Kelly Distinguished Professor in Trauma Surgery
Interests: Emergency Medicine, Shock Trauma, Trauma Surgery, Spinal Cord Injury, Shock, Critical Care

Bogdan Stoica, MD
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
Interests: Mechanisms and modulation of neuronal cell death after central nervous system traumatic injury

Erik Strauss, MD
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology 
Interests: Antifibrinolytic Therapies and Pharmacokinetics, Cardiac Xenotransplantation, Translational Research for Mitral Valve Repair

Samuel Tisherman, MD 
Professor of Surgery
Interests: Hemorrhagic shock, cardiac arrest, therapeutic hypothermia, education, surgical skill, simulation

Brittney Williams, MD 
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
Interests: Cardiopulmonary bypass-associated coagulopathy and sepsis-induced coagulopathy

Junfang Wu, BM, PhD
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
Interests: Spinal cord injury, brain injury, inflammation, autophagy-lysosomal, neuropathic pain, Hv1/NOX2, cell cycle pathway, microRNA, motor function, cognition, depression, neurons, astrocytes, microglia

Shiming Yang, PhD
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
Interests: Large-scale data analysis. Medical sensor signal processing. Developing efficient machine learning algorithms to predict life-saving interventions and long-term outcomes for trauma patients.

Lin Zou, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology 
Interests: Molecular mechanisms of sepsis and septic shock