DIR-LAB - Key Persons


Adam Bailey

Job Titles:
  • Software Specialist / Coordinator

Adam Marcus

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Team
  • Interim Associate Dean for Novel Technology and Research Cores

Alan Freeman

Job Titles:
  • Advisor
  • Neurology

Allen Lee

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Associate Director, Office of Multicultural Affairs

Ami Rosen

Job Titles:
  • Director of Student Research

Andres Camacho-Gonzalez

Job Titles:
  • Advisor

Andrew Furman

Job Titles:
  • Advisor

Anna Goebel

Job Titles:
  • Pipeline President

Annie James Butler

Job Titles:
  • Program Coordinator
  • Program Coordinator, Office of Multicultural Affairs

Antonio Graham

Job Titles:
  • Faculty Advisor

Arnold J. Berry

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Team
  • Assistant Dean, Medical Education Director, Continuing Medical Education

B. Donald Biggs

Job Titles:
  • CAA Program Instructor

Barbara J. Pettitt

Job Titles:
  • Advisor

Ben Krohn

Job Titles:
  • CAA Program Instructor

Bijal Shah

Job Titles:
  • Advisor

Bonnie B. Lowery

Job Titles:
  • Advisor

Branden Ford

Job Titles:
  • Program Staff Member
  • Simulation Laboratory Manager, Human Patient Technologist

Bree Eaton

Job Titles:
  • Advisor

Bryan J. Wells

Job Titles:
  • Advisor
  • Cardiology
  • FACC, FSVM

Cara B. Cimmino

Job Titles:
  • Advisor

Carlos del Rio

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Team
  • Executive Associate Dean, Emory School of Medicine at Grady Health System

Cecelia Bellcross

Job Titles:
  • Program Director

Chad W. Ritenour

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Team
  • Associate Dean, Clinical Services, Emory University Hospital

Chris Knudson

Job Titles:
  • Advisor

Cindy Derdeyn

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Team
  • Assistant Dean, Faculty Affairs

Constance B. Nagle

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Team
  • Associate Dean, Clinical Planning and Finance, Emory at Grady

Cynthia Guo

Job Titles:
  • Vice President of Logistics

Dan Brown

Job Titles:
  • SP Educator / Coordinator

Daniel Dressler

Job Titles:
  • Internal Medicine

David Yu

Job Titles:
  • Radiology

Dean Vikas Sukhatme

Dean Vikas Sukhatme came to Emory in 2017 as a researcher, clinician, and translational scientist, with goals to re-imagine medicine as a community and improve health for all.

Deb Laubscher

Job Titles:
  • SP Educator / Coordinator

Delquita C. Myles

Job Titles:
  • Program Staff Member
  • Credentialing Coordinator

Dimitri Cassimatis

Job Titles:
  • Cardiology

Douglas Ander

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Team
  • Assistant Dean, Medical Education

Drew Kohlhorst

Job Titles:
  • Staff Member

Edward Castillo

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor / Department of Biomedical Engineering / Cockrell School of Engineering / the University of Texas
Dr. Castillo earned his M.A. (2005) and Ph.D (2007) from the Computational and Applied Mathematics department at Rice University. His current research areas include image processing and surface reconstruction from noisy point cloud data. Dr. Castillo also holds an adjunct appointment in the Computational and Applied Mathematics Department at Rice University. Dr. Castillo is also the proud recipient of a 2013 NIH Extramural Loan Repayment Award (NIH LRP).

Elisa Hoover

Job Titles:
  • SP Educator / Coordinator

Elizabeth (Beth) Zeichner

Job Titles:
  • Vice President of Mentorship

Elizabeth Adebiyi

Job Titles:
  • Program Staff Member
  • Paralegal

Ellen Mangione

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Team
  • Interim Chief of Staff, Atlanta VA Health Care System

Erica Brownfield

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Team
  • Associate Dean, Medical Education

Eunice D. Shinn

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Assistant
  • Program Staff Member

Ezra Pak-Harvey

Job Titles:
  • Evaluation Chair

Farah Chapes

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Team
  • Senior Associate Dean and Chief Operating Officer, Emory School of Medicine

Gaurav Patel

Job Titles:
  • Program Director
  • Associate Clinical Program Director

Gordon Churchward

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Team
  • Assistant Dean, Medical Education and Student Affairs

Greg Jarvis

Job Titles:
  • CAA Program Instructor

Guido Silvestri

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Team
  • Executive Associate Dean, Research Strategy / Professor and Chair, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Gustavo Pradilla

Job Titles:
  • Neurosurgery

Haian Fu

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Team
  • Associate Dean, Innovation and International Strategies

Hannah Chong

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Program Coordinator, BLS / ACLS Certifications Technology Specialist

Heather H. Hamby

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Team
  • Executive Associate Dean / Chief Business Officer, Emory School of Medicine and Physician Group Practice

Hugh A. Stoddard

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Team
  • Assistant Dean, Medical Education

Ira Horowitz

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Team
  • Executive Associate Dean, Faculty and Clinical Affairs

Ira K. Schwartz

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Team
  • Associate Dean, Medical Education and Student Affairs, Admissions

J. William Eley

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean
  • Executive
  • Member of the Leadership Team

Jaffar Khan

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Team
  • Assistant Dean, Education

James B. Williams

Job Titles:
  • Medical Education Building

James R. Hall

Job Titles:
  • Program Director
  • Clinical Program Director

James Steinberg

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Team
  • Associate Dean, Clinical Services, Emory University Hospital Midtown

Jeffrey Lennox

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Team
  • Associate Dean, Clinical Research

Jennifer M. Stever

Job Titles:
  • CAA Program Instructor

Jennifer R. Laing

Job Titles:
  • CAA Program Instructor

Jeremy Boss

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Team
  • Associate Dean, Basic Research

Jeremy Sterling

Job Titles:
  • CAA Program Instructor

Jerri J. Elder

Job Titles:
  • Director of Admissions
  • Program Staff Member

John D. Thompson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Team
  • Chairman of Gynecologic Surgery and Professor, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics / Director, the Emory Clinic Inc

Joshua A. Barwick

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Team
  • Associate Dean, Faculty Affairs Administration

Katherine S. Monroe

Job Titles:
  • Program Director
  • CAA Academic Program Director

Kathy Griendling

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Team
  • Executive Associate Dean, Faculty Affairs and Professional Development

Kellie Clearo

Job Titles:
  • Internal Medicine

Lauren Lichten

Job Titles:
  • Assistant
  • Program Director

Leon L. Haley

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Team
  • Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases

Lindsey Amerson

Job Titles:
  • CAA Program Instructor / Clinical Sites Coordinator

Marc Overcash

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Team
  • Assistant Dean, Information Technology

Marcia Lucombe

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Assistant
  • Program Staff Member

Maria M. Aaron

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Team
  • Associate Dean, Graduate Medical Education

MarieAnge Charlestin

Job Titles:
  • Program Coordinator

Marilane B. Bond

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Team
  • Associate Dean, Medical Education

Mark E. Mullins

Job Titles:
  • Neuroradiology

Martha Ward

Job Titles:
  • Internal Medicine

Matt Lewis

Job Titles:
  • CAA Program Instructor

Michael Hart

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Team
  • Assistant Dean, Research, Veterans Affairs Medical Center

Michele Sumler

Job Titles:
  • Interim Director, ExCEL Simulation Center

Nadia Ali

Job Titles:
  • Co - Assistant Program Director

Nancy DeSousa

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director

Nathan O. Spell, III

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Team
  • Associate Dean, Education and Professional Development

Philip H. Shayne

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Team
  • Assistant Dean, Graduate Medical Education

R. Wayne Alexander

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Team
  • Professor of Medicine

Ravi Rajani

Job Titles:
  • Vascular Surgery

Reginald Adams

Job Titles:
  • Program Associate Sr, ExCel Simulation Center

Richard Castillo

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator
  • Website Developer, Data Sharing & Technical Support / Founder and Principal Investigator
Dr. Castillo founded the Deformable Image Registration Laboratory as part of his PhD work to validate the use of DIR-based lung function imaging derived from CT. His current research interests include quantitative performance evaluation of deformable image registration, and quantitative function & morphometric image analysis. Dr. Castillo completed his MS (2007) and PhD degrees (2011) in the Department of Imaging Physics at MD Anderson Cancer Center through the UT Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, and received his initial certification by the American Board of Radiology in 2016. Dr. Castillo was previously awarded the UT GSBS Aaron Blanchard Award in Medical Physics, an NIH Extramural Loan Repayment Award (NIH LRP), as well as an NIH Research Scientist Development Award (K-01). He is co-investigator on an active NIH/NCI R01 (R01CA200817, PI: Vinogradskiy) evaluating safety and clinical efficacy of functional avoidance radiotherapy based on CT ventilation imaging, and principal investigator on a Winship Invest$ Pilot Grant investigating novel imaging technologies for cardiothoracic toxicity evaluation in radiotherapy. Dr. Castillo is also principal investigator (MPI) on a newly award NIH/NCI Academic Industrial Partnership Grant (R01CA236857).

Rudy Guerra

Job Titles:
  • Professor and Chair / Department of Statistics / Rice University
Dr. Guerra is generally interested in biological problems with an emphasis in biomedical research. Current interests include meta-analysis for genetic linkage studies, case-control studies using haplotype blocks, and identification of multiple genetic markers influencing a single trait. More recently, he has been learning about bioinformatics via macroarray studies and biological pathways. Projects in these areas are motivated by various system biology efforts with University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB, Galveston), Baylor College of Medicine, and M. D. Anderson Cancer Center.

Sasi Duggirala

Job Titles:
  • CAA Program Instructor

Seth Ehrlich

Job Titles:
  • MMSc, CHSE, CAA Program Instructor / Director of Simulation

Sherry Stewart

Job Titles:
  • Center Manager

Sheryl Heron

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Team
  • Assistant Dean, Medical Education
  • Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer / Associate Dean for Community Engagement, Equity and Inclusion

Stephanie T. Dixon

Job Titles:
  • Assistant
  • Program Director
  • Program Staff Member

Stephanie Wechsler

Job Titles:
  • Medical Director

Stephen Brandt

Job Titles:
  • Endocrinology

Thomas N. Phillips

Job Titles:
  • Program Staff Member
  • Education Technology Coordinator

Tracey Henry

Job Titles:
  • Faculty Advisor

Vikas P. Sukhatme

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Team
  • Dean and Woodruff Professor, Emory School of Medicine / Chief Academic Officer, Emory Healthcare

W. Robert Taylor

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Team
  • Associate Dean for Clinical Research / Georgia CTSA / Assistant Deans

Will Bundy

Job Titles:
  • MMSc, CHSE, CAA Program Instructor

Yolanda Hood

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Dean, Student Success and Multicultural Affairs
  • Director, Office of Multicultural Affairs

Yulanda Greene

Job Titles:
  • CAA Program Instructor