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To ensure the diversity of future scientist in the United States, we have recruited teaching faculty from complimentary areas of expertise and leaders in the red blood cell field as mentors.

The following is a list of our current teaching faculty.

PRIDE Program Teaching Faculty

Teaching Faculty

Department

Affiliation

 

 Horace DeLisser, MD

 

 Medicine  

 

 University of Pennsylvania

 

 Glorias Dixon, MS

 

 Grant Writing Consultant

 

 The Planning Source

 

 Steven Goodman, PhD

 

 Physiology

 

 University of Tennessee Health Science Center

 

 Lily Jun-Shen Huang, PhD

 

 Cell Biology

 

 UT Southwestern Medical Center

 

 David Kakhniashvili, PhD

 

 Proteomics Core Lab

 

 University of Tennessee Health Science Center

 

 Li Liu, PhD

 

 Molecular and Cellular Biology

 

 University of Texas at Dallas

 

 Betty Pace, MD

 

 Pediatrics

 

 Augusta University

 

 Mohandas Narla, DSc

 

 Laboratory of Red Cell Physiology

 

 Institute of New York Blood Center

 

 Wenbo Zhi, PhD

 

 Obstetrics and Gynecology 

 

 Augusta University

 

 Ramses Sadek, PhD

 

 Biostatistics and Data Science

 

 Augusta University

 

 Rick McIndoe, PhD

 

 Obstetrics and Gynecology

 

 Augusta University

 

 Geno Clark, MBA, CRA

 

 Grant Development Specialist

 

 Georgia Cancer Center

 

 Abdulla Kutlar, MD

 

 Medicine

 

 Augusta University

 

 Rhea-Beth Markowitz, PhD

 

 Medicine

 

 Augusta University

 

 Roni Bollag, MD, PhD

 

 Pathology

 

 Augusta University

 

 Shruti Sharma,  PhD

 

 Translational Genomics 

 

 Augusta University

 

 Alex Pertsemlidis, PhD

 

 Pediatrics/Hematology Oncology

 

 UT Health San Antonio

 

 Niren Patel, MBBS

 

 Hemoglobin Diagnosis

 

 Augusta University

 

 Kenneth Peterson, PhD

 

 Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

 

 University of Kansas Medical Center

 

 Robert Gibson, PhD

 

 Emergency Medicine

 

 Augusta University

 

 Deborah Philp, PhD

 

 Division of Blood Diseases and Resources (DBDR)

 

 National Heart Lung & Blood Institute