Departmental Alumni
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.
Former Graduate Students:
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Name |
Degree |
Date Degree |
Current Position |
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Luense, Lacey |
Ph.D. |
Nov-12 |
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Lutes, Aracely |
Ph.D. |
Nov-12 |
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Guggenmos, David |
M.D./Ph.D. |
Oct-12 |
Medical Student, KUMC |
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Selfridge, J. Eva |
M.D./Ph.D. |
Sep-12 |
Medical Student, KUMC |
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Agbor, Valientine |
Ph.D. |
Aug-12 |
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Messamore, William |
M.D./Ph.D. |
Aug-12 |
Medical Student, KUMC |
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Tang, Wen |
Ph.D. |
Jul-12 |
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Quinn, Carrie |
Ph.D. |
Jun-12 |
Post Doc, United States Army |
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Doss, Argenia |
Ph.D. |
Nov-11 |
Post Doc, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University |
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Van Acker, Gustaf |
M.D./Ph.D. |
Aug-11 |
Medical Student, KUMC |
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Bethel-Brown, Crystal |
Ph.D. |
Jul-11 |
Post Doc Research Associate, Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience, University of Nebraska Medical Center |
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Smith, S. Kendall |
M.D./Ph.D. |
Jun-11 |
Medical Student, KUMC |
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Morris, Jill |
Ph.D. |
Jun-11 |
Post Doc, Alzheimer and Memory Program, KUMC |
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Park, Won-Mee |
Ph.D. |
Jun-11 |
Internal Medicine Post Doc, University of Texas Southwest Medical Center |
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Jimenez-Alarcon, Tamara |
Ph.D. |
Jun-11 |
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Gorres, Brittany |
Ph.D. |
Apr-11 |
Assistant Professor of Physiology, Cleveland Chiropractic College, Overland Park, KS |
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Hudson, Heather |
Ph.D. |
Apr-11 |
Neuroscience Post Doc, University of Minnesota |
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Tague, Sarah |
Ph.D. |
Mar-11 |
Post Doc, Mentor Dr. Peter Smith |
| Chao, Jie | Ph.D. | Aug-10 | Post Doc Research Associate, Surgery-General Surgery, University of Nebraska Medical Center |
| McDonald, Emily | Ph.D. | Jul-10 | Post Doc, Brown University |
| Thomas, George | M.D./Ph.D. | Oct-09 | Neurology Resident, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH |
| Clarke (Wernli), Gwenaelle |
Ph.D. |
Aug-09 | Post Doc, Anatomy and Cell Biology |
| Carletti, Martha |
Ph.D. |
Jul-09 | |
| Williams, Rachel | Ph.D. | May-09 | Senior Research Scientist, MidAmerica Neuroscience Institute |
| Ting, Alison | Ph.D. | Mar-09 | Post Doc, Oregon Primate Center |
| Gupte, Anisha | Ph.D. | Feb-09 | Post Doc, The Methodist Hospital Research Institute, Houston, TX |
| McGinnis, Lynda | Ph.D. | Feb-09 | Research Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology, KUMC |
| Fiedler, Stephanie | M.S. | Dec-08 | Children's Mercy Hospital |
| Griffin, Darcy | Ph.D. | Jul-08 | Post Doc, University of Pittsburg, Pittsburg, PA |
| Nguyen, Anh-Nguyet | Ph.D. | Jul-08 | Stay at home mom |
| Boudrias, M-H | Ph.D. | Jun-07 | Post Doc, Mentor Heidi Johansen-Berg, Ph.D., University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital |
| Eisner-Janowicz, Ines (NRA) | Ph.D. | Jun-07 | Relocated to China |
| Ho-Chen, Jennifer | Ph.D. | Jun-07 | Post Doc, Mentor Dr. Peter D. Wagner, University of California in San Diego |
| Orth, Teresa | Ph.D. | Jun-06 | Resident, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Arizona |
| Stowe, Ann | Ph.D. | May-06 | Post Doc, Washington University in St. Louis |
| Casillan, Alfred | M.D./Ph.D. | Mar-06 | Resident, General Surgery, KUMC |
| Hermann, Brian | Ph.D. | Oct-05 | Post Doc, Mentor Kyle Orwig, Ph.D., Center for Research in Reproductive Physiology, University of Pittsburgh |
| Lei, Ning | Ph.D. | May-05 | Post Doc, Mentor Dr. Michael Shens, UMDNJ - Robert Woods Johnson Medical School, Rutgers University |
| Dancause, Numa | Ph.D. | Apr-05 | Post Doc, University of Rochester, NY |
| Jackson (Williams), Shalmica | Ph.D. | Jul-04 | Senior Research Scientist Sigma (Kansas City, KS) |
| Wagoner, Kara | M.S. | Jul-04 | Nursing School |
| Blacklock, Audrey | M.D./Ph.D. | Jun-04 | Resident, Neuro-Ophthalmology, University of Minnesota |
| Thummel, Ryan | Ph.D. | Jun-04 | Post Doc, Mentor David Hyde, Ph.D., Notre Dame University |
| Warn, Don | Ph.D. | Jun-03 | Managing Director, Integrative Imaging, Kansas Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Center, KUMC |
| Brown, Naoki | M.S. | Sep-02 | Senior Research Specialist at Pediatric Department, Vanderbilt University Medical Center |
| Friel, Kathleen | Ph.D. | Jun-02 | Post Doc, Mentor Jack Martin, Ph.D., Columbia University |
| Park, Michael | M.D./Ph.D. | Apr-02 | Resident, PGY-5 Neurosurgery, Brown University Medical Center |
| Song, Haengseok | Ph.D. | 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 | Ph.D. | Dec-01 | Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Midwestern University, Glendale, AZ |
| Thway, Theingi | Ph.D | Nov-01 | Scientist, Protein Labs, Amgen Inc, Thousand Oaks, CA |
| Henderson, Kyle | Ph.D. | Jun-01 | Research Assistant Professor, Cardiovascular Research Institute, Loyola University Medical School, Maywood, Illinois |
| Steinle, Jena | Ph.D. | Mar-01 | Associate Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Tennessee, Memphis |
| Chien, Jeremy | Ph.D. | Aug-00 | Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MI |
| Zoubina, Elena | Ph.D. | Jan-00 | Research Assistant Professor, Molecular & Integrative Physiology, KUMC |
| Raymond, Leigh | Ph.D. | Nov-99 | Research Analyst, Shook, Hardy & Bacon Law Offices, Kansas City, MO |
| Lee, Young-soo | Ph.D. | Apr-99 | Post Doc, Mentor Peter J. McKinnon, Ph.D., St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis |
| Lim, Jade | Ph.D. | Oct-98 | Associate Professor, Biomedical Science & Technology, Institute of Biomedical Science & Technology (IBST) Konkuk University |
| Hou, Yue-Ping | Ph.D. | Jul-98 | Received MD from School of Medicine, KUMC in May 2007 |
| McKiernan, Brian | Ph.D. | Jul-98 | Associate Professor and Chairman, Dept. of Physical Therapy Education, Rockhurst, Kansas City, MO |
| Wallace, Darren | Ph.D. | Apr-98 | Research Assistant Professor, the Kidney Institute, KUMC |
| Peter, Thomas | Ph.D. | Mar-98 | Private consulting business in St. Louis, MO |
| Cheng, Ying (Catherine) | May-97 | Current Position Unknown | |
| Jean Hiebert | Ph.D. | May-97 | Associate Professor, Department of Physical Therapy, Rockhurst |
| Whitman, Robert | Ph.D. | Aug-96 | Director of Sleep Disorders Center and Pulmonary Diagnostics, KUMC |
| Rasmussen, Christine | Ph.D. | Apr-96 | Research Analyst, Shook, Hardy & Bacon |
| Kover, Karen | Ph.D. | Mar-96 | Assistant Professor, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Children's Mercy Hospital |
| Flietstra, Rebecca | Ph.D. | Dec-95 | Faculty Member at Nazarene University in La Jolla , California |
| Chen, Hualin | Ph.D. | Jun-95 | Chengdu Institute of Organic Chemistry, Graduates School of CAS, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China |
| Hamlin, Gary | Ph.D. | Oct-94 | Associate Lecturer, James Cook University of North Queensland |
| Clinton, Toni | Ph.D. | Sep-94 | Laboratory Director, Memphis -Shelby County Health Department, Memphis, TN |
| Zachow, Robert | Ph.D. | Dec-93 | Associate Professor, Department of Physiology/Biophysics, Robert Wood Medicine School, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey |
| Lu, Xing-Jian | Ph.D. | Jun-93 | Physician , Private Practice |
| Samson, Frank | Ph.D. | Nov-92 | Assistant Professor, Universidad del Mar in Valparaiso, Chile |
| Wang, Xiao-ning | Ph.D. | Sep-92 | Pfizer Global Research and Development, Pfizer, Inc, Groton, CT. |
| Faria, Teresa | Ph.D. | Aug-92 | Senior Alliance Manager, Bristol-Myers Squibb |
| Mathiasen, Joanne | Ph.D. | Jun-92 | Scientist at Cephalon Corporation in New Jersey |
| Sagrillo, Cathleen | Ph.D. | Apr-92 | Stay at home mom |
| Leadley, Robert | Ph.D. | Feb-91 | Research & Development, Pfizer, Ann Arbor, MI |
| Saville, Mark | M.S. | Feb-91 | Current Position Unknown |
| Stiles, Joel | Ph.D. | Sep-90 | Director, Center for Quantitative Biological Simulation, Pittsburgh Super Computing Center, Associate Professor, Mellon College of Science, Carnegie Mellon University |
| Widener, Gail | Ph.D. | Dec-89 | Associate Professor, Physical Therapy, Samuel Merritt College |
| Irons, Andrew | Ph.D. | Sep-89 | Physician Assistant |
| Humphreys, Kelly | M.D./Ph.D. | Aug-98 | Family Practice, Frontenac, Kansas |
| Brannian, John | Ph.D. | Jan-89 | Professor, Director of Reproductive Sciences, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Sanford School of Medicine of the University of South Dakota |
| Huet, Yvette | Ph.D. | Jan-89 | Professor of Biology, UNC Charlotte |
Former Post-Doctoral Fellows:
| Name | Year Left KUMC Post-Doctoral Position | Current Position |
| Dora Agbas | 1999 | Research Assistant Professor Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology University of Kansas Medical Center |
| Rupasri Ain | 2003 | Research Assistant Professor Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology University of Kansas Medical Center |
| S.M. Khorshed Alam | 2004 | Post-Doctoral Fellow Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine University of Kansas Medical Center |
| Koji Arai | 2004 | Returned to Japan |
| Juan Arroyo | 2004 | Instructor, Obstetrics and Gynecology University of Colorado at Denver Health Sciences Center |
| 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 MidAmerican Neuroscience Institute Kansas City, MO and Adjunct Assistant Professor Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology University of Kansas Medical Center |
| John Bromfield | 2009 | Post-Doctoral FellowSwansea University, Wales |
| Juan Bustamante | 2004 | Post-Doctoral FellowDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory MedicineUniversity of Kansas Medical Center |
| Gaurav Chaturvedi | 2005 | Research Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Molecular and Integrative PhysiologyUniversity of Kansas Medical Center |
| Carmen Cirstea | 2005 | Research Assistant ProfessorHoglund Brain Imaging CenterUniversity of Kansas Medical Center |
| Gwenaelle Clarke | 2010 | Post Doc, Anatomy & Cell Biology, KUMC |
| Numa Dancause | 2006 | University of Rochester Medical CenterRochester, NY |
| Guoli Dai | 1998 | Research Assistant Professor Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutics University of Kansas Medical Center |
| Mitchell Emerson | 2003 | Department of Pharmaceutical SciencesMidwestern UniversityGlendale, AZ |
| Shawn Frost | 2005 |
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Kansas Medical Center |
| Vijayalaxmi Gupta | 2011 | Research Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology, University of Kansas Medical Center |
| Wohaib Hasan | 2003 | Research Assistant Professor Department of Physiology and Pharmacology Oregon Health and Science University Portland, OR |
| Karla Hutt | 2007 | Post Doctoral Research Fellow University of Minnesota |
| Elena Ibanez | 2006 | Returned to Spain |
| Jeffrey A. Kleim | 1998 | Associate Professor Alberta Heritage Medical Scholar Canadian Center for Behavioral Neuroscience University of Lethbridge Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada |
| Gregory Knipp | 1999 | Assistant Professor Department of Industrial & Physical Pharmacy University of Purdue |
| Toshihiro Konno | 2004 | Post-Doctoral Fellow Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine University of Kansas Medical Center (Has Now Returned to Japan) |
| Ravichandran Kumarasamy | 2010 | |
| Mary Ann Lee | 2003 | Rockhurst UniversityKansas City, MO |
| Smarajit Maiti | 2002 | Returned to India |
| Joanne Marcario | 2000 | Senior Scientist Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology University of Kansas Medical Center |
| Farshid Marzban | 1996 | Professor Department of the Clinical Sciences Parker College Dallas, TX |
| Kim Mitchell | 2005 | Present Position Unknown |
| Puliyur MohanKumar | 1997 | Associate Professor Department of Pathobiology and Diagnostic Investigation and Neuroscience Program College of Veterinary Medicine Michigan State University |
| Heiner Müller | 1997 | Assistant Professor Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology University of Rostock Rostock, Germany |
| Anh-Nguyet Nguyen | 2010 | Stay at home mom |
| Shigeki Oboshi | 2004 | Returned to Japan |
| Okinola Oluola | 2002 | Department of PediatricsUniversity 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 Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Vanderbilt University Medical School |
| Erik Plautz | 2003 | Research Assistant Professor Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology University of Kansas Medical Center |
| Xiujun Pi | 2002 | Research Assistant Professor Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics Medical College of Ohio |
| Barbara Quaney | 2005 | Research Assistant ProfessorLandon Center on AgingUniversity of Kansas Medical Center |
| ManiMaran Rengasamy | 2006 | Post-Doctoral FellowDepartment of Pharmacology, Toxicology, and TherapeuticsUniversity of Kansas Medical Center |
| Marianna Rodova | 2005 | Post-Doctoral Fellow Department of Orthopedic Surgery University Kansas Medical Center |
| 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 MontanaMissoula, MT |
| Fengfeng Wang | 2005 | Present Position Unknown |
| Yongseok Won | 2003 | Present Position Unknown |
| Lihua Yang | 2004 | Washington UniversitySt. Louis, MO |
| Aparna Zama | 2006 | Rutgers UniversityNew Jersey |
| Bo Zhang | 2004 | Washington UniversitySt. Louis, MO |
| Hongzheng Zhang | 2003 | Chattanooga, TN |
| Elena Zoubina | 2005 | Research Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Molecular and Integrative PhysiologyUniversity of Kansas Medical Center |
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