One means to judge the ability of a department to train graduate students and post-doctoral fellows and the strength of their training is the subsequent success of the trainees. This section allows you to view the current positions of selected trainees. To view the list of all past graduate students click here.
Name |
Date Ph.D. Conferred |
Current Position |
| Boudrias, M-H | Jun-07 | Post Doc, Mentor Heidi Johansen-Berg, Ph.D., University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital |
| Eisner-Janowicz, Ines (NRA) | Jun-07 | Relocated to China |
| Ho-Chen, Jennifer | Jun-07 | Post Doc, Mentor Dr. Peter D. Wagner, University of California in San Diego |
| Orth, Teresa | Jun-06 | Completing MD at KUMC |
| Stowe, Ann | May-06 | Post Doc, Washington University in St. Louis |
| Casillan, Alfred | Mar-06 | Resident, General Surgery, KUMC |
| Hermann, Brian | Oct-05 | Post Doc, Mentor Kyle Orwig, Ph.D., Center for Research in Reproductive Physiology, University of Pittsburgh |
| Lei, Ning | May-05 | Post Doc, Mentor Dr. Michael Shens, UMDNJ - Robert Woods Johnson Medical School, Rutgers University |
| Dancause, Numa | Apr-05 | Post Doc, University of Rochester, NY |
| Jackson (Williams), Shalmica | Jul-04 | Senior Research Scientist Sigma (Kansas City, KS) |
| Wagoner, Kara | Jul-04 | Nursing School |
| Blacklock, Audrey | Jun-04 | Resident, Neuro-Ophthalmology, University of Minnesota |
| Thummel, Ryan | Jun-04 | Post Doc, Mentor David Hyde, Ph.D., Notre Dame University |
| Warn, Don | Jun-03 | Managing Director, Integrative Imaging, Kansas Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Center, KUMC |
| Brown, Naoki | Sep-02 | Senior Research Specialist at Pediatric Department, Vanderbilt University Medical Center |
| Friel, Kathleen | Jun-02 | Post Doc, Mentor Jack Martin, Ph.D., Columbia University |
| Park, Michael | Apr-02 | Resident, PGY-5 Neurosurgery, Brown University Medical Center |
| Song, Haengseok | Apr-02 | Senior Scientist, Laboratory of Reproductive Biology & Infertility, Cheil Medical Research Institute Cheil General Hospital & Women's Healthcare Center, Kwandong University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea |
| Call, Gerald | Dec-01 | Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Midwestern University, Glendale, AZ |
| Thway, Theingi | Nov-01 | Scientist, Protein Labs, Amgen Inc, Thousand Oaks, CA |
| Henderson, Kyle | Jun-01 | Research Assistant Professor, Cardiovascular Research Institute, Loyola University Medical School, Maywood, Illinois |
| Steinle, Jena | Mar-01 | Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Tennessee, Memphis |
| Chien, Jeremy | Aug-00 | Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MI |
| Zoubina, Elena | Jan-00 | Research Assistant Professor, Molecular & Integrative Physiology, KUMC |
| Raymond, Leigh | Nov-99 | Research Analyst, Shook, Hardy & Bacon Law Offices, Kansas City, MO |
| Lee, Young-soo | Apr-99 | Post Doc, Mentor Peter J. McKinnon, Ph.D., St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis |
| Lim, Jade | Oct-98 | Associate Professor, Biomedical Science & Technology, Institute of Biomedical Science & Technology (IBST) Konkuk University |
| Hou, Yue-Ping | Jul-98 | Received MD from School of Medicine, KUMC in May 2007 |
| McKiernan, Brian | Jul-98 | Associate Professor and Chairman, Dept. of Physical Therapy Education, Rockhurst, Kansas City, MO |
| Wallace, Darren | Apr-98 | Research Assistant Professor, the Kidney Institute, KUMC |
| Peter, Thomas | Mar-98 | Private consulting business in St. Louis, MO |
| Cheng, Ying (Catherine) | May-97 | Current Position Unknown |
| Jean Hiebert | May-97 | Associate Professor, Department of Physical Therapy, Rockhurst |
| Whitman, Robert | Aug-96 | Director of Sleep Disorders Center and Pulmonary Diagnostics, KUMC |
| Rasmussen, Christine | Apr-96 | Research Analyst, Shook, Hardy & Bacon |
| Kover, Karen | Mar-96 | Assistant Professor, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Children's Mercy Hospital |
| Flietstra, Rebecca | Dec-95 | Faculty Member at Nazarene University in La Jolla , California |
| Chen, Hualin | Jun-95 | Chengdu Institute of Organic Chemistry, Graduates School of CAS, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China |
| Hamlin, Gary | Oct-94 | Associate Lecturer, James Cook University of North Queensland |
| Clinton, Toni | Sep-94 | Laboratory Director, Memphis -Shelby County Health Department, Memphis, TN |
| Zachow, Robert | Dec-93 | Associate Professor, Department of Physiology/Biophysics, Robert Wood Medicine School, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey |
| Lu, Xing-Jian | Jun-93 | Physician , Private Practice |
| Samson, Frank | Nov-92 | Assistant Professor, Universidad del Mar in Valparaiso, Chile |
| Wang, Xiao-ning | Sep-92 | Pfizer Global Research and Development, Pfizer, Inc, Groton, CT. |
| Faria, Teresa | Aug-92 | Senior Alliance Manager, Bristol-Myers Squibb |
| Mathiasen, Joanne | Jun-92 | Scientist at Cephalon Corporation in New Jersey |
| Sagrillo, Cathleen | Apr-92 | Stay at home mom |
| Leadley, Robert | Feb-91 | Research & Development, Pfizer, Ann Arbor, MI |
| Saville, Mark | Feb-91 | Current Position Unknown |
| Stiles, Joel | Sep-90 | Director, Center for Quantitative Biological Simulation, Pittsburgh Super Computing Center, Associate Professor, Mellon College of Science, Carnegie Mellon University |
| Widener, Gail | Dec-89 | Associate Professor, Physical Therapy, Samuel Merritt College |
| Irons, Andrew | Sep-89 | Physician Assistant |
| Humphreys, Kelly | Aug-98 | Family Practice, Frontenac, Kansas |
| Brannian, John | Jan-89 | Professor, Director of Reproductive Sciences, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Sanford School of Medicine of the University of South Dakota |
| Huet, Yvette | Jan-89 | Professor of Biology, UNC Charlotte |
Name |
Year Left KUMC Post-Doctoral Position |
Current Position |
Dora Agbas |
1999 |
Research Associate |
Rupasri Ain |
2003 |
Research Assistant Professor |
| S.M. Khorshed Alam | 2004 | Post-Doctoral Fellow |
| Koji Arai | 2004 | Returned to Japan |
| Juan Arroyo | 2004 | Instructor, Obstetrics and Gynecology |
Abderraouf Belhaj-Saïf |
1997 |
Assistant Professor, Unit of Physiology and Program in Neurosciences, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Science, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland |
Sangita Biswas |
2002 |
Senior Research Scientist |
| Juan Bustamante | 2004 | Post-Doctoral Fellow Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine University of Kansas Medical Center |
| Gaurav Chaturvedi | 2005 | Research Assistant Professor Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology University of Kansas Medical Center |
| Carmen Cirstea | 2005 | Research Assistant Professor Hoglund Brain Imaging Center University of Kansas Medical Center |
| Numa Dancause | 2006 | University of Rochester Medical Center Rochester, NY |
Guoli Dai |
1998 |
Research Assistant Professor |
| Mitchell Emerson | 2003 | Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences Midwestern University Glendale, AZ |
| Shawn Frost | 2005 | Research Assistant Professor Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology University of Kansas Medical Center |
Wohaib Hasan |
2003 |
Research Assistant Professor |
| Karla Hutt | 2007 | Post Doctoral Research Fellow |
| Elena Ibanez | 2006 | Returned to Spain |
Jeffrey A. Kleim |
1998 |
Associate Professor |
Gregory Knipp |
1999 |
Assistant Professor |
| Toshihiro Konno | 2004 | Post-Doctoral Fellow |
| Mary Ann Lee | 2003 | Rockhurst University Kansas City, MO |
| Smarajit Maiti | 2002 | Returned to India |
Joanne Marcario |
2000 |
Senior Scientist |
Farshid Marzban |
1996 |
Professor |
| Kim Mitchell | 2005 | Present Position Unknown |
Puliyur MohanKumar |
1997 |
Associate Professor |
Heiner Müller |
1997 |
Assistant Professor |
| Shigeki Oboshi | 2004 | Returned to Japan |
| Okinola Oluola | 2002 | Department of Pediatrics University of Kansas Medical Center |
Kyle Orwig |
1998 |
Assistant Investigator, Magee-Women's Research Institute, Assistant Professor, Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, and Molecular Genetics & Biochemistry, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine |
Tetyana Pedchenko |
2002 |
Research Fellow with Center for Lung Research |
Erik Plautz |
2003 |
Research Assistant Professor |
Xiujun Pi |
2002 |
Research Assistant Professor |
| Barbara Quaney | 2005 | Research Assistant Professor Landon Center on Aging University of Kansas Medical Center |
| ManiMaran Rengasamy | 2006 | Post-Doctoral Fellow Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology, and Therapeutics University of Kansas Medical Center |
| Marianna Rodova | 2005 | Post-Doctoral Fellow |
| Frank Samson | 2003 | Returned to Chile |
| Serge Scherrer | 2002 | Returned to France |
| Long-jiang Shao | 2002 | Present Position Unknown |
| Toru Takahashi | 2003 | Returned to Japan |
| Michael Taylor | 2006 | University of Montana Missoula, MT |
| Fengfeng Wang | 2005 | Present Position Unknown |
| Yongseok Won | 2003 | Present Position Unknown |
| Lihua Yang | 2004 | Washington University St. Louis, MO |
| Aparna Zama | 2006 | Rutgers University New Jersey |
| Bo Zhang | 2004 | Washington University St. Louis, MO |
| Hongzheng Zhang | 2003 | Chattanooga, TN |
| Elena Zoubina | 2005 | Research Assistant Professor Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology University of Kansas Medical Center |
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