Chairman and Professor: Jon H. Robertson, M.D.

Clinical Faculty

Associate Professor, Frederick Boop, M.D.
Associate Professor, Kevin Foley, M.D.
Assistant Professor,Allen Sills, M.D.
Assistant Professor, Jeff Sorenson, M.D.
Assistant Professor, Shelley Timmons, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Julius Fernandez, M.D.
Assistant Professor, L. Madison Michael, M.D.

Research Faculty

Associate Professor, Tayebah Pourmotabbed, Ph.D. (Joint Appointment)
Assistant Professor, Silva Hanissian, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Zixiu Xiang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Jeffrey Buchsbaum, M.D., Ph.D
Assistant Professor, Qihong Zhou, M.D., Ph.D.
Research Instructor, Christopher Duntsch, M.D., Ph.D.

Post-doctoral Scientists and Graduate Students

Jay Weimar, M.D., Ph.D.
Tajana Juzbasic, M.D.
Zorica Janjetovic, M.D.
Umar Akbar, M.D.
Lee Wang, Ph.D.
Chad Batson (M.D., Ph.D. Program)
Peter Boehm, M.D.

Research Technicians

Xiofei Wang, M.D.
Bing Teng, M.D.
Mariya Nazarova, M.D.
Collaborative Partners
George Wood, Ph.D.,
Divi Murali, (Ph.D. Candidate)
Bob Moore, Ph.D.
Atul Shukla, Ph.D.
Yi Sun, Ph.D.
Yi Peng, Ph.D.
Mitchell Steiner, M.D.
Mike Whitt, Ph.D.
Himangi Jayakar, Ph.D.

Community Partners

• Methodist Healthcare
• Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare Foundation
• Gene Therapeutics
• Medical Education and Research Institute (MERI)
• Semmes-Murphey Neurologic & Spine Institute