People
Leadership

Rosemary Kozar, MD
Co-Director, STAR ORC
rkozar@som.umaryland.edu
410-328-7611

Wei Chao, MD, PhD
Co-Director, STAR ORC
wchao@som.umaryland.edu
410-328-2660

Peter Rock, MD, MBA
Chair, Department of Anesthesiology
prock@som.umaryland.edu
410-328-6933

Thomas Scalea, MD
Director, Program in Trauma
tscalea@umm.edu
410-328-8976
Administrative Staff
Brandon Goldschmitt
Director of Clinical Business Operations
bgoldschmitt@som.umaryland.edu
410-328-3849
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
Danielle Hill - Basic Researchers
Office Manager
Dhill3@som.umaryland.edu
410-328-9461
Betsy Burcham - Trauma Researchers
Administrative Manager
bburcham@som.umaryland.edu
410-328-3495
Support Staff
Katie Black
Contracts and Grants Coordinator
kblack@som.umaryland.edu
Sophie Li
Contract & Grant Specialist
sophie.li@som.umaryland.edu
410-328-8215
Reetu Neupane
Senior Accountant
rneupane@som.umaryland.edu
410-328-4246
Vanessa Rook
Senior Contract & Grant Specialist
vrook@som.umaryland.edu
410-328-9018
Kalpana Vijay
Contract & Grant Specialist
410-328-0142
kvijay@som.umaryland.edu
Faculty
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
Brandon Bruns, MD
Associate Professor of Surgery
Interests: Emergency General Surgery, Trauma, Open Abdomen Blunt Cerebrovascular Injury
Laura Buchanan, MD
Assistant Professor of Trauma/Surgical Critical Care
Interests: Geriatric patients with acute surgical needs and surgical education
William Chiu, MD
Associate Professor of Surgery
Interests: Neuroendocrine Function in Sepsis, Neuroimmunomodulation in Circulatory Shock, Mitochondrial Injury in Shock
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
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 in Trauma
Interests: Wound Healing and Metabolism
Daniel Herr, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Interests: Critical Care, Cardiac Critical Care, Neuro Critical Care, Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO), ICU Management, Post- Operative Heart Surgery Patients, Sepsis
Caron Hong, MD, MSc
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
Interests: Inflammation secondary to mechanical ventilation in normal lungs, Inflammation secondary to subarachnoid hemorrhage, proteomics and biomarkers, critical care medicine, safety and quality improvement, and medical education
Bingren Hu, PhD
Professor of Anesthesiology
Interests: Molecular mechanisms and treatments of brain ischemia, traumatic brain injury, and hemorrhagic shock
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
Manjari Joshi, MBBS
Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine
Interests: Targeted temperature management, shivering, nutrition and metabolism, inflammation
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)
Seung Lee, MD
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
Interests: CRPS, Using application technology for medical practice
Marta Lipinski, PhD
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
Interests: Autophagy, Neurodegeneration, Traumatic Brain Injury, Spinal Cord Injury, Parkinson's Disease
Jay Menaker, MD
Professor of Surgery
Interests: Emergency Medicine, Surgery, Acute Spinal Cord Injury
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
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
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 post-operative respiratory complications
Robert Rosenthal, MD
Professor of Emergency Medicine
Interests: Cardiac Arrest, Stroke, Traumatic Brain Injury, Hyperoxia, Hypobaria
Chinmoy Sarkar, PhD
Research Associate in Anesthesiology
Interests: Mechanism and function of autophagy lysosome system in neurodegeneration following traumatic brain injury
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
Kinjal Sethuraman, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Interests: Hyperbaric oxygen as treatment for carbon monoxide toxicity, radiation injury, decompression illness, ophthalmic conditions and necrotizing soft tissue infections
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
Gary Schwartzbauer, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery
Interests: Microvascular causes of brain swelling and hemorrhage
Flaubert Tchantchou, PhD
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
Interests: Effects of stress and associated genetic dysfunctions on traumatic brain injury pathophysiology and functional outcomes
Samuel Tisherman, MD
Professor of Surgery
Interests: Hemorrhagic shock, cardiac arrest, therapeutic hypothermia, education, surgical skill, simulation
Roumen Vesselinov, PhD
Research Associate in Epidemiology & Public Health
Interests: Statistics, Econometrics, Data Mining, Forecasting
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