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Meet the Team
Peter C.W. Kim, MD, CM, PhD
Vice President
Peter C. W. Kim, MD, CM, PhD, a pediatric surgeon and scientist, is vice president of the Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation at Children’s National Medical Center. In addition, he co-leads the Institute’s Systems Biology Initiative.
As vice president, he implements the Institute’s vision of innovative, multidisciplinary research and development in pediatric surgery. Dr. Kim’s research will focus on the development of smarter surgical tools, including image guidance and robotics; smarter simulation technologies that prepare tomorrow’s pediatric surgeons through a hands-on approach rather than the traditional lecture-based medical training model; and the potential of technologies such as high intensity focused ultrasound (HiFU) as non-invasive alternatives to conventional surgery. He has authored more than 100 papers and 50 abstracts on a range of topics, with special emphasis on developmental molecular biology as well as innovation and technology, including minimally invasive surgical techniques.
Previously, Dr. Kim served as a general neonatal and thoracic surgeon at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, founding Lead for the Centre for Image-Guided Innovation and Therapeutic Intervention (CIGITI) and senior associate scientist in the hospital’s research institute. Dr. Kim also held the appointment of professor of surgery at the University of Toronto. During his time at the Hospital for Sick Children, Dr. Kim co-led the clinical Airway Reconstruction Team which provided international expertise in the management of complex airway diseases. In addition, he investigated application-specific surgical robotic systems for pediatric surgery, including an image-guided minimally invasive capable robotic arm called KidsArm. Dr. Kim also led the creation of the Fetal Alert Network (FAN), a provincial network to monitor and provide care for mothers with high-risk pregnancies and babies with anomalies.
Dr. Kim received his medical training, including the distinction of Master of Surgery, at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He completed his surgical residency training at the University of Toronto as well as his fellowship in pediatric surgery at the University’s Hospital for Sick Children.
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- Floortje Blindenbach-Driessen, PhD
- Deborah L. Brown
- Kevin Cleary, PhD
- Julia Finkel, MD
- Eric Hoffman, PhD
- Martha M. Houle, PhD
- Monica Hubal, PhD
- Timothy Kane, MD
- Peter C.W. Kim, MD, CM, PhD
- Marius George Linguraru, PhD
- Lawrence C. Mahan, PhD
- Evan Nadler, MD
- Craig Peters, MD
- Zenaide M. Quezado, MD
- Sasa Radoja, PhD
- Sarah Rebstock, MD, PhD
- Cynthia Ronzio, PhD, M.Ed
- Nabile M. Safdar, MD
- Anthony Sandler, MD
- Raj Shekhar, PhD
- Raymond Sze, MD
- Stanislav Vukmanovic, MD, PhD
- Ziv Yaniv, PhD
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Floortje Blindenbach-Driessen, PhD
Floortje Blindenbach-Driessen, PhD, serves as managing director for innovation and entrepreneurship education within the Sheikh Zayed Institute at Children’s National. Her role is to research, teach, facilitate and guide the Institute’s innovation processes at both the faculty, student and enterprise levels.
Dr. Blindenbach-Driessen currently serves on the faculty of George Washington University’s School of Business and Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. Her research has appeared in Research Policy and The Journal of Product Innovation Management, two of the top journals in her field. Prior to joining the Institute, Dr. Blindenbach-Driessen worked as a performance consultant and process engineer at the engineering contractor Fluor Daniel. She has taught in the Netherlands, Belgium, Russia, and China as well as at the University of Maryland’s R.H. Smith School of Business. Dr. Blindenbach-Driessen received her masters in chemical engineering from the Delft University of Technology and her doctorate from the Rotterdam School of Management at the Erasmus University.
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Deborah L. Brown
Deborah Brown serves as the executive director for the Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation at Children’s National Medical Center. She serves as chief of staff to the senior vice president, provides leadership and oversight in planning design and construction of 22,000 square feet of Institute lab and office space within Children’s National Medical Center, and leads position development and recruitment. In addition, she oversees all aspects of the Institute’s budget and serves as a liaison with internal and external groups to develop Institute-specific marketing, clinical practice, business, and stewardship plans.
Before joining the Institute, Ms. Brown was the executive director of the Children’s Hospital Foundation, serving as the chief administrative and operations officer for the fundraising arm of Children’s National Medical Center. Ms. Brown earned her undergraduate degree in history from the University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland, and a master’s degree in education from the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
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Kevin Cleary, PhD
Technical Director and Lead Principal Investigator
A research professor and engineer, Dr. Cleary leads the Institute’s interdisciplinary bioengineering team with a focus on improving visualization in pediatric surgery through medical devices and robotics. As part of that work, he will modify devices designed for adult surgery to work better in the smaller bodies of children.
Embracing the unprecedented opportunity to work side by side with physician researchers and other engineers, Dr. Cleary seeks to expand and improve the application of robotics and other devices in pediatric surgery. Dr. Cleary believes the fledgling field of pediatric robotics can advance faster thanks to the unique multidisciplinary set up of the Institute. Dr. Cleary comes to Children’s National from Georgetown University Medical Center’s Department of Radiology where he was director and professor at the Imaging Science and Information Systems Center. He is the co-editor of the book “Image-Guided Interventions: Technology and Applications.” Dr. Cleary received his doctorate from the University of Texas in Austin and was an NSF-sponsored post-doctoral fellow in robotics in Japan.
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Julia Finkel, MD
Principal Investigator
Julia Finkel, MD, leads the Pain Medicine Initiative in the Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation and is vice chief of the Division of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine at Children’s National. The ultimate goal of the Pain Medicine Initiative is to eliminate pain in children’s medicine. As one of the nation’s preeminent pain medicine physician-scientists, Dr. Finkel is a leader in the field of pain medicine. She is a fellowship-trained pediatric anesthesiologist in the Joseph E. Robert, Jr., Center for Surgical Care at Children’s National. Under her leadership the pediatric pain medicine program at Children’s National has grown to its present level of more than 2,500 clinical patient encounters a year.
Dr. Finkel has extensive experience designing and conducting clinical trials relating to analgesics in children and receives substantial support from industry. Her areas of research interest include the modulation of opioid analgesia, tolerance, and hyperalgesia; the development of methodologies to objectively measure pain, and analgesia and developmental pharmacology of analgesics. Dr. Finkel completed her medical training at the State University of New York at Syracuse and her pediatric anesthesiology training at Children’s National. Full bio.
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Eric Hoffman, PhD
Lead Principal Investigator
A world-renowned human geneticist, Eric Hoffman, PhD, co-leads the Systems Biology Initiative of the Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation. The Systems Biology team integrates biological sciences, computational sciences, and engineering to map the complex interactions of biological activity with greater precision than ever before. Additionally, Dr. Hoffman directs the Research Center for Genetic Medicine at Children’s National and is the James Clark Chair in Molecular Genetics as well as chair of the Department of Integrative Systems Biology at the George Washington University. The center is an interdisciplinary research facility of 100 scientists working on the most common childhood disorders as well as advanced therapeutic approaches for specific rare disorders. The center integrates state-of-the-art genome-enabled approaches with drug development and clinical trial networks.
Dr. Hoffman has more than 400 publications and is among the more frequently cited scientists working today. His center receives about $10 million a year in research support of projects related to muscular dystrophy, asthma, obesity, type 2 diabetes, sports medicine, and brain disorders. Dr. Hoffman received his doctorate in biology (genetics) from Johns Hopkins Unviersity and completed post-doctoral studies at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. Full bio.
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Martha M. Houle, PhD
Martha M. Houle, PhD, serves as director of education for the Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation, where she is responsible for administering the Joseph E. Robert, Jr., Fellowships in Pediatric Surgical Innovation and the other educational programs of the Sheikh Zayed Institute.
Dr. Houle is a humanist with extensive administrative experience in higher education. For more than 20 years she taught her specialty, 17th century French literature, along with women’s studies, writing, and literary theory at the College of William and Mary, where she holds the title of Professor Emerita. Her research has been interdisciplinary in nature, focusing on humor, allegorical maps, fairy tales, casuistry and early modern midwifery. Immediately prior to joining the Sheikh Zayed Institute, Dr. Houle researched and wrote principal gifts proposals and business plans for the Children’s Hospital Foundation at Children's National Medical Center. Dr. Houle holds her doctorate from the University of California, San Diego.
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Monica Hubal, PhD
Principal Investigator
Monica Hubal, PhD, an exercise physiologist and geneticist, is a principal investigator for the Systems Biology Initiative at the Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation. At the Institute, Dr. Hubal collaborates with researchers and physicians to examine the genetics of weight loss surgery through identifying the expressed genes that correlate with bariatric surgery success-- which could lead to the use of a personalized medicine approach to care.
Dr. Hubal brings to the Institute her expertise in molecular adaptations to diet and exercise, genetic variations related to body composition and performance, and multi-scale data integration. She has applied her dual training backgrounds in exercise physiology and genetic medicine to the study of genetic and molecular mechanisms driving obesity and cardiometabolic disease in young adult and adolescent populations. Prior to joining the Institute, Dr. Hubal was a post-doctoral fellow in the Research Center for Genetic Medicine at Children’s National Medical Center. Dr. Hubal earned her bachelor of science in biology from Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, master of science in kinesiology from Texas A&M University, and doctorate in philosophy from the University of Massachusetts.
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Timothy Kane, MD
Principal Investigator
Dr. Timothy Kane is a pediatric surgeon and researcher who specializes in endoscopic surgery. As principal investigator in the Institute’s Bioengineering Initiative, Dr. Kane will focus on the development of the minimally invasive surgery program through clinical practice, instruction, and research. He will work to improve minimally invasive surgical techniques and speed their incorporation into standard clinical care for pediatrics.
Prior to joining Children’s National, Dr. Kane was chair of the Committee on Surgical Innovation, clinical director of the Division of Pediatric General and Thoracic Surgery, and director of Minimally Invasive Surgery at the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. During his time there, he was named to the “Top Doctors” List in Pittsburgh Magazine from 2006 to 2009. Dr. Kane received his medical education from the SUNY Health Science Center at Syracuse. He completed his internship and surgical residency at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center.
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Marius George Linguraru, PhD
Principal Investigator
Marius George Linguraru, PhD, is a principal investigator in the Bioengineering Initiative of the Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation. Within the Bioengineering Initiative, Dr. Linguraru leads the medical image analysis efforts and will develop tools for computer-aided diagnosis, minimally-invasive interventions and multi-organ modeling of anatomy and physiology in children. These efforts will enhance traditional medical imaging modalities and create modern clinical tools for pediatric radiology and oncology. Surgeons will be able to perform less invasive interventions with the use of pioneering imaging techniques.
Dr. Linguraru is internationally known for his work in radiology and medical image processing, particularly in harnessing software based technology to enhance the clinical use of existing imaging tools. He joins the Sheikh Zayed Institute from the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, where he served as staff scientist in Radiology and Imaging Sciences. He maintains an appointment as a guest researcher within that center at NIH. Dr. Linguraru is currently a Member Elect of the Technical Committee for Medical Imaging and Image Processing of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Dr. Linguraru completed his doctorate at University of Oxford and holds two masters degrees from the University of Sibiu, Romania. He held postdoctoral fellowships at Harvard University and the French National Institute of Research in Informatics and Mathematics.
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Lawrence C. Mahan, PhD
Lawrence C. Mahan, PhD, serves as director of innovation and business development for the Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation and the Office of Innovation and Investigational Therapeutics in the Children's Research Institute. Dr. Mahan brings multi-disciplinary biomedical research experience with more than 100 publications and 4 patents as well as international and domestic business development experience in the biotechnology, medical technology and pharmaceutical industries.
In his position at Children’s National, Dr. Mahan is responsible for intellectual property and innovation management, business development and strategic alliance opportunities, and the advancement of academic entrepreneurship. Before joining Children’s National, Dr. Mahan previously held positions at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Director of Programs & Operations at the Maryland Biotechnology Center, and Business Development Liaison in the Office of Research and Development at the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute. Dr. Mahan received his doctorate from the University of California, San Diego.
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Evan Nadler, MD
Principal Investigator
Evan Nadler, MD, is a pediatric surgeon and researcher specializing in bariatric surgery on adolescents, as well as co-director of the Children’s National Obesity Institute. As principal investigator at the Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation, Dr. Nadler works closely within the Systems Biology Initiative, which entails the gathering of broad data for testing how the body’s complex systems interact. Dr. Nadler, along with genomics experts, seeks to identify the expressed genes that correlate with bariatric surgery success, which could lead to the use of personalized medicine in this space.
Dr. Nadler's basic science research focuses on the liver fibrosis associated with biliary atresia. His clinical and translational science investigates the systems biology of obesity, and the safety and effectiveness of various weight loss procedures in adolescents. Prior to joining Children’s National, Dr. Nadler was an assistant professor in the Department of Surgery at the New York University School of Medicine. He earned his bachelor of science in biological sciences at Stanford University, attended the University of Pennsylvania for his medical education, and completed a research fellowship and pediatric surgery fellowship at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. Full bio.
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Craig Peters, MD
Principal Investigator
Dr. Peters is the chief of the Division of Surgical Innovation, Technology, and Translation in the Joseph E. Robert, Jr., Center for Surgical Care and a principal investigator at the Sheikh Zayed Institute. As part of the Bioengineering Initiative at the Institute, he will focus his interests on using robotics in surgery for children. He will collaborate with colleagues to advance customized surgical planning and evaluation, enhanced tissue/cell visualization during surgery, and minimal and noninvasive surgical methods.
Dr. Peters has extensive experience with treatment of pediatric urologic problems, developing minimally invasive surgical techniques, including robot-assisted procedures, and has conducted NIH-funded research in urinary obstruction, vesicoureteral reflux, and bladder dysfunction. As part of Children’s Surgical Innovation, Technology, and Translation team, he will continue his specialization in infants, children, and adolescents needing surgery from illnesses of the genitourinary tract, encompassing all of the congenital and acquired urinary tract abnormalities of infancy and childhood of the kidneys, ureters, bladder, and male and female genitalia. Prior to joining Children’s, Dr. Peters was chief of the Division of Pediatric Urology at the University of Virginia. Dr. Peters completed his medical education at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, and completed pediatric urology/surgical fellowships at Children’s Hospital Boston through Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Zenaide M. Quezado, MD
Principal Investigator
Dr . Quezado is director of the Pain Neurobiology Lab for the Pain Medicine Initiative at the Sheikh Zayed Institute. Additionally, she is a fellowship trained pediatric anesthesiologist in the Joseph E. Robert, Jr., Center for Surgical Care at Children’s National Medical Center.
An internationally renowned pediatric anesthesiologist, Dr. Quezado is the recipient of multiple NIH awards for excellence in patient care, including the 2005 Director’s Award for dedication to the Magnuson Clinical Center’s mission and her leadership of anesthesia services. She has published more than 50 peer-reviewed manuscripts in clinical and scientific medical journals. Prior to joining Children’s National, Dr. Quezado was chief of the Department of Anesthesia and Surgical Services at the Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center at the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Quezado completed her medical education at Universidade Federal do Ceara in Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil. She completed several anesthesiology fellowships at Massachusetts General Hospital and Shriners Hospital for Children, both in Boston, Massachusetts. Full bio.
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Sasa Radoja, PhD
Principal Investigator
Sasa Radoja, PhD, is a principal investigator in the Immunology Initiative of the Sheikh Zayed Institute and Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine at George Washington University. He is an expert in the field of cytotoxic lymphocytes (CTL), Dr. Radoja has conducted research at Children’s National Medical Center since 2003. A molecular biologist and immunologist by training, Dr. Radoja has been focused on identifying the genes and mechanisms that regulate granule exocytosis mediated cytotoxicity, a major mechanism used by CTL to kill tumor and virally infected cells. He has been involved in studies concerning determination of the genetic basis for hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH), a rare, fatal pediatric immune disorder. He has published more than 10 peer-reviewed articles.
Dr. Radoja graduated from the New York University School of Medicine in 2001, in the laboratory of Dr. Alan Frey where he used animal models to study T cell mediated tumor immunity. For the postdoctoral training he joined the laboratory of Dr. Brian Seed at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School in Boston where he studied the molecular basis of lytic granule exocytosis.
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Sarah Rebstock, MD, PhD
Principal Investigator
Sarah Rebstock, MD, is a fellowship trained pediatric anesthesiologist, program director of the Pain Medicine Program and a principal investigator of the Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation. Dr. Rebstock oversees the Pediatric Pain Medicine Program’s Outpatient Clinic at Children’s National. Dr. Rebstock is actively involved in developing pain medicine educational programs for pediatric caregivers, including nurses, residents, and other pediatric clinicians.
Prior to joining Children’s National, Dr. Rebstock was director of the pediatric anesthesiology fellowship in the department of anesthesiology as well as an assistant professor of anesthesiology and pediatrics at the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and the Penn State Hershey College of Medicine in Hershey, Pennsylvania. She was responsible for the creation of the first pediatric pain medicine clinic at that institution. She completed a Master of Science degree in Nutritional Biochemistry at the University of Florida, her medical degree at the Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet in Mainz, Germany and her residency and fellowship in pediatric anesthesiology at the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in Hershey, Pennsylvania.
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Cynthia Ronzio, PhD, M.Ed
Cynthia Ronzio, PhD, MEd is a principal investigator in the Pain Medicine Initiative of the Sheikh Zayed Institute. Her work focuses on research and education in depression, pain, and sleep within social and familial contexts. At the institute, she applies this expertise as well as her experience as a principal investigator in community-based studies to interpret and contextualize study results clinically as well as from a public health perspective. Her research will help the pain medicine initiative understand how social factors can impact the ways a child and family perceive and deal with complex pain. This information will assist the Pain Medicine Initiative to create a pain medicine plan that addresses every physical, social, emotional, and environmental aspect of a child’s pain.
Dr. Ronzio has been an associate professor of pediatrics in the Center for Clinical and Community Research at Children’s National Medical Center since 2000. Her background is in public health with a focus on the social epidemiology of mood disorders. Dr. Ronzio received her PhD in Health Policy from the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health. Additionally, she completed a masters degree in education and human development at the George Washington University.
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Nabile M. Safdar, MD
Principal Investigator
Dr. Safdar is a pediatric radiologist who specializes in musculoskeletal imaging. As principal investigator in the Sheikh Zayed Institute’s Bioengineering Initiative, Dr. Safdar focuses on improving pre- and post-surgical evaluation through biomedical imaging and computational sciences, and improving the training of radiologists and surgeons in these advanced methods, including the use of computer-assisted surgery.
Dr. Safdar is one of a dozen radiologists who is fellowship-trained in imaging informatics. Dr. Safdar’s areas of research include optimizing computer interfaces for communication, measuring, and improving the factors that affect radiologist performance, and computer-aided diagnoses. He works with both bioengineers and orthopedic surgeons in the development of innovative approaches to the diagnosis, treatment planning, motion analysis, and post-operative evaluation of children with musculoskeletal and sports-related diseases and injuries. Prior to joining the Institute, Dr. Safdar was assistant professor of musculoskeletal radiology and pediatric radiology and served on the faculty of the Imaging Informatics Fellowship at University of Maryland Medical Center. Dr. Safdar completed his medical education at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and his fellowship training at both the University of Maryland Medical Center and Children’s National. . Full bio.
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Anthony Sandler, MD
Principal Investigator
Anthony Sandler is interim Surgeon-in-Chief of Children’s National Medical Center and the Diane and Norman Bernstein Professor of Pediatric Surgery in the Joseph E. Robert, Jr., Center for Surgical Care, as well as a principal investigator of the Immunology Initiative at the Sheikh Zayed Institute. Dr. Sandler is internationally known for his research and clinical work on childhood solid tumors and operative repair of congenital anomalies of the gastro-intestinal tract.
Dr. Sandler has received several awards for outstanding teaching as well as the Joel Rosyln Young Investigator Award from the Association for Academic Surgeons. He currently serves on several committees of the Children’s Oncology Group and has published more than 60 peer reviewed manuscripts in clinical and scientific medical journals. He has also chaired the Publications Committee for the American Pediatric Surgical Association. Dr. Sandler was educated at the University of Pretoria in South Africa, the University of Iowa, and the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Full bio.
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Raj Shekhar, PhD
Principal Investigator
Raj Shekhar, PhD, is a researcher and engineer specializing in multimodality image fusion and augmented reality. As principal investigator in the Bioengineering Initiative at the Sheikh Zayed Institute, Dr. Shekhar co-directs the Fusion Program within that. Dr. Shekhar works with surgeons to advance planning and navigation that will improve surgical performance and outcomes.
Image fusion is a computer-assisted surgery technique that combines imaging data from multiple sources, such as computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, or a laparoscope, to provide more accurate preoperative assessment as well as superior intraoperative visualization and navigation during surgical procedures. Dr. Shekhar’s basic science research focuses on medical image processing, real-time computing, 3D ultrasound, and image-guided interventions.
Prior to joining the Children’s National, Dr. Shekhar was an associate professor of Diagnostic Radiology and an affiliate professor of Bioengineering and Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is also the founder of IGI Technologies, a medical imaging technology startup. He has authored or coauthored more than 75 scientific papers, including nearly 40 published in peer-reviewed journals. He holds five U.S. patents. Dr. Shekhar received his doctorate in biomedical engineering from Ohio State University and a master’s degree in bioengineering from Arizona State University.
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Raymond Sze, MD
Principal Investigator
Raymond Sze is the chief of the Division of Diagnostic Imaging and Radiology at Children’s National Medical Center, the largest of its kind in the Washington-Baltimore region. He is also a principal investigator in the Bioengineering Initiative at the Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation. His expertise is in molecular translational imaging, imaging informatics and image-guided therapy. Dr. Sze’s expansive understanding of computer technology, physics, chemistry, and bioengineering research will guide the Bioengineering Initiative in the Sheikh Zayed Institute into a world-class imaging and therapeutic resource that provides previously unseen levels of precision, detail, and surgical success.
Dr. Sze has received numerous awards for his excellence in medical education and research, including the Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award from the University of Washington, the American Roentgen Ray Society Scholarship, and the John A. Kirkpatrick Young Investigators Award from the Society of Pediatric Radiology. Dr. Sze has four medical imaging patents granted or pending. Dr. Sze completed his medical education at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in Piscataway, New Jersey, and his fellowship training at Children’s Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. Full bio.
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Stanislav Vukmanovic, MD, PhD
Principal Investigator
Stanislav Vukmanovic, MD, PhD is a principal investigator in the Immunology Initiative of the Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation and associate professor of pediatrics and immunology at George Washington University.
The focus of Dr. Vukmanovic's research is studying development and function of T lymphocytes with the goal to manipulate the immune system in diseases requiring either enhancement (cancer, infectious diseases) or dampening (autoimmune diseases, allergies, transplantation) of the immune functions. Dr. Vukmanovic joined Children’s National in 2003 from the NYU School of Medicine, where he was an associate professor of pathology. He is the author of more than 50 peer-reviewed publications in prominent international scientific journals. Dr. Vukmanovic obtained his MD and PhD from Belgrade University School of Medicine in 1984 and 1991, respectively. The experimental part of the work for his PhD was performed at University College London in the laboratory of Av Mitchison on induction of apoptosis in T cells by T cell receptor engagement.
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Ziv Yaniv, PhD
Ziv Yaniv, PhD, is a principal investigator at the Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation. His main areas of interest are image-guided interventions, medical image analysis, computer vision, and software engineering. He actively supports the development of open source software, and is one of the lead developers of the free open source Image-Guided Surgery Toolkit (IGSTK) and a contributor to the Insight Registration and Segmentation toolkit (ITK).
Dr. Yaniv joined the Institute from Georgetown University, where he was an assistant professor in the Department of Radiology. He is a member of the MICCAI society as well as the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology and IEEE Computer societies. He obtained his Ph.D. in computer science from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem Israel, in 2004 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Georgetown University.
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