Faculty Directory
 

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Jointly appointed faculty
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Adjunct faculty
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Primary faculty
 
Araba N. Afenyi-Annan, MD, MPH
Transfusion medicine.
Office: 919-966-8460
E-mail: araba.afenyi-annan@pathology.unc.edu
 

C. Robert Bagnell, Jr., PhD
Light and electron microscopy; computer-based methods.
Office: 919-966-2413
E-mail: robert.bagnell@pathology.unc.edu

 
Nicholas Bandarenko, III, MD
Therapeutic apheresis; peripheral blood stem cell collection; thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP); apheresis red blood cell collection and apheresis software; education and teaching of transfusion medicine/apheresis.
Office: 919-966-8466
E-mail: nicholas.bandarenko@pathology.unc.edu
 
Dwight A. Bellinger, DVM, PhD
Atherosclerosis, thrombosis, and von Willebrand's disease.
Office: 919-966-3111
E-mail: dwight.bellinger@pathology.unc.edu
 
Kirsten M. Boland, BS, MHS
Pathologists' Assistant.
Office: 919-843-1476
E-mail: kirsten.boland@pathology.unc.edu
 

Jessica Booker, PhD
Molecular Genetic Pathology and Clinical Molecular Genetics Laboratory.
Office: 919-966-7894
E-mail: jessica.booker@pathology.unc.edu

 
Thomas W. Bouldin, MD
Cellular response to toxic injury in the central and peripheral nervous systems; neuropathology; ocular pathology; and pathology of peripheral neuropathies.
Office: 919-966-4585 or 919-843-1074
E-mail: tbouldin@med.unc.edu
 
Jayne C. Boyer, PhD
Human molecular genetics; molecular mechanisms of microsatellite instability.
Office: 919-966-6921
E-mail: jayne.boyer@pathology.unc.edu
 
John F. Bradfield, DVM, PhD
Laboratory animal medicine and pathology.
Office: 919-843-6330
E-mail: john.bradfield@pathology.unc.edu
 

Claudia Brady, BS, MHS
Pathologists' Assistant
Office: 9190843-1476
E-mail: claudia.brady@pathology.unc.edu

 
Mark E. Brecher, MD
Blood component processing and storage; transfusion strategies; bacterial contamination of blood; stem-cell transplantation; and mathematical modeling of transfusion stategies.
Office: 919-966-2318
E-mail: mark.brecher@pathology.unc.edu
 

Debra Budwit, MD
Surgical pathology and gynecologic pathology.
Office: 919-843-1476
E-mail: debra.budwit@pathology.unc.edu

 
John D. Butts, MD
Analysis of violent deaths to identify possible interventions; injury control; and forensic pathology.
Office: 919-966-2253
E-mail: john.butts@pathology.unc.edu
 
John F. Chapman, Jr., DrPH
Clinical biochemistry; laboratory evaluation of fetal lung maturation, diabetes mellitus, hypertension and coronary artery disease; and laboratory automation.
Office: 919-966-3725
E-mail: john.chapman@pathology.unc.edu
 
Frank C. Church, PhD
Molecular and cellular mechanisms of thrombosis, hemostasis, vascular biology, and tumor cell invasion; structure-activity relationships of serine proteases and serine protease inhibitors.
Office: 919-966-3311
E-mail: frank.church@pathology.unc.edu
 
Thomas B. Clark, III, MD
Forensic pathology; application of computer systems in medicine.
Office: 919-966-2253
E-mail: thomas.clark@pathology.unc.edu
 
William B. Coleman, PhD
Biology of liver stem-like cells; mechanisms of hepatocarcinogenesis; genetic mechanisms of tumor suppression; epigenetic mechanisms of gene regulation in human breast cancer; genetic determinants of breast cancer susceptibility; and the molecular genetics of lung cancer.
Office: 919-966-2699
E-mail: william.coleman@pathology.unc.edu
 
Marila Cordeiro-Stone, PhD
DNA replication, DNA repair, and cell cycle checkpoints in human cells; mechanisms of carcinogenesis by solar radiation; pathogenesis of melanoma.
Office: 919-966-1396
E-mail: marila.cordeiro-stone@pathology.unc.edu
 
Georgette A. Dent, MD
Hematopathology and medical education.
Office: 919-962-8334 FAX: 919-966-0730
E-mail: georgette.dent@pathology.unc.edu
 
Cherie H. Dunphy, MD
Hematopathology; applications of flow cytometry, immunohistochemistry, cytogenetics and molecular techniques to diagnosis of hematologic malignancies.
Office: 919-843-0718
E-mail: cdunphy@unch.unc.edu
 
Rosann A. Farber, PhD
Human molecular genetics; somatic-cell genetics; instability of simple sequence repeats (microsatellites) in mammalian cells; and DNA-bases diagnosis of genetic disorders (fragile X mental retardation, hereditary colorectal cancer).
Office: 919-966-6920
E-mail: rosann.farber@pathology.unc.edu
 
Thomas H. Fischer, PhD
Atherogenesis, including the development of gene therapies for reducing smooth muscle proliferation and migration; study of platelets in the amplification of coagulation.
Office: 919-966-3274
E-mail: thomas.fischer@pathology.unc.edu
 
William K. Funkhouser, MD, PhD
Surgical pathology, immunology, transplantation pathology, and molecular pathology.
Office: 919-863-1069
E-mail: william.funkhouser@pathology.unc.edu
 

Maryanne Gaffney-Kraft, DO
Forensic pathology.
Office: 919-966-2253
Fax: 919-962-6263
E-mail: mgkraft@ocme.unc.edu

 
Cynthia Gardner, MD
Forensic Pathology
Office: 919-966-2253
Email: cgardner@ocme.unc.edu
 

Diana Garside, PhD, DABFT
Forensic toxicology.
Office: 919-966-2253
E-mail: dgarside@ocme.unc.edu

 
Virginia L. Godfrey, DVM, PhD
Veterinary pathology; animal models of disease; T cell development and biology; and autoimmune disease.
Office: 919-966-2903
E-mail: virginia.godfrey@pathology.unc.edu
 
M. David Goodman, MD
Autopsy pathology.
Office: 919-843-3569
E-mail: dgoodman@med.unc.edu
 
Oleg V. Gorkun, PhD
Thrombosis and hemostasis.
Office: 919-966-2617
E-mail: oleg.gorkun@pathology.unc.edu
 

Margaret L. Gulley, MD
Molecular diagnostics, hematopathology and oncology, and Epstein-Barr virus-related diseases.
Office: 919-843-4595
E-mail: margaret.gulley@pathology.unc.edu
Dr. Gulley's Molecular Diagnostics web page

 
Susan Hadler, MD
Medical education.
Office: 919-843-4662
E-mail: susan.hadler@pathology.unc.edu
 
Catherine A. Hammett-Stabler, PhD
Clinical toxicology and therapeutic drug monitoring; development of criteria for optimal and appropriate testing; development and evaluation of new methods; influence of genetics on drug metabolism (pharmacogenetics).
Office: 919-966-3724
E-mail: CStabler@unch.unc.edu
 

Seigo Hatada, PhD
Appling gene targeting for curing genetic diseases and developing a safer method for gene therapy based on gene targeting.
Office: 919-966-6915
Email:seigo_hatada@med.unc.edu

 
Tracy M. Heenan, DVM
Director, Office of Institutional Animal Care and Use
Office: 919-966-5569
Fax: 919-966-8429
E-mail: tracy.heenan@pathology.unc.edu
 
Jonathon W. Homeister, MD, PhD
Molecular mechanisms of leukocyte trafficking and homing in inflammatory and/or immune reactions; glycobiology of the Selectin adhesion molecules and their ligands, and how these molecules contribute to the pathophysiology of the atherosclerotic and thrombotic disease processes.
Office: 919-966-9748
Fax: 919-966-6718
E-mail: jonathon.homeister@pathology.unc.edu
 
J. Charles Jennette, MD
Elucidating immunopathogenic mechanisms in human and experimental glomerular diseases and vasculitides; developing innovative approaches for using renal biopsy specimens and serology to diagnose and understand kidney disease.
Office: 919-966-4676
E-mail: charles.jennette@pathology.unc.edu
 

Kathleen A. Kaiser-Rogers, PhD
Clinical cytogenetics.
Office: 919-966-1595
E-mail: kkr@med.unc.edu

 

Masao Kakoki, MD, PhD
Prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases and the identification of genes that confer susceptibility or resistance to the diseases with the use of genetically engineered mice.
Office: 919-966-6915
E-mail: mkakoki@med.unc.edu

 
David G. Kaufman, MD, PhD
Cellular and molecular mechanisms of cancer development, including (1) regulation and organization of DNA replication in the early part of the S phase; and (2) epithelial cell-stromal cell interaction in normal human endometrial tissue and alterations during cancer development.
Office: 919-966-1396
E-mail: david.kaufman@pathology.unc.edu
 
William K. Kaufmann, PhD
Human DNA metabolism and carcinogenesis; stages of hepatocarcinogenesis.
Office: 919-966-8209 ; Laboratory: 919-966-8552
E-mail: bill_kaufmann@med.unc.edu
 
Hyung-Suk Kim, PhD
Gene targeting and animal models for human diseases; hypertension and hereditary cerebral hemorrhage with amyloidosis and molecular evolution.
Office: 919-966-6915
E-mail: hyung-suk.kim@pathology.unc.edu
 
Suzanne L. Kirby, MD, PhD
Research interests in stem cell biology, transplantation biology, and gene therapy. Clinical interests in hematologic diseases and bone marrow transplantation.
Office: 919-966-1947
E-mail: kirbys@med.unc.edu
 
Joe Kornegay, DVM, PhD
Duchenne muscular dystrophy; canine model; translational studies; muscle hypertrophy
Office: 919-966-9398
E-mail: joe.kornegay@pathology.unc.edu
 
Ruth A. Lininger, MD, MPH
Gynecologic and breast pathology; molecular carcinogenesis, molecular pathology, and molecular epidemiology research, especially of breast, ovarian, endometrial, and cervical cancer; the application of high-throughput microarray gene sequencing/ genotyping technologies to research and diagnosis.
Office: 919-843-1078
E-mail: ruth.lininger@pathology.unc.edu
 
Chad A. Livasy, MD
Breast and gynecologic pathology; cytopathology; prognostic factors for breast cancer; correlations of tumor molecular profile with clinical behavior.
Office: 919-843-1068
E-mail: chad.livasy@pathology.unc.edu
 
Susan T. Lord, PhD
Relationship of macromolecular structure to biological function using human fibrinogen as the model macromolecule; molecular mechanisms in thrombosis and hemostasis.
Office: 919-966-3548
E-mail: susan.lord@pathology.unc.edu
 
Christopher Mack, PhD
Molecular mechanisms of cardiovascular disease; transcription and cell signaling pathways that regulate smooth muscle cell differentiation.
Office: 919-843-5512
E-mail: cmack@med.unc.edu
 
Nobuyo N. Maeda, PhD
DNA-level studies of the generation of variations of genes, particularly in multi-gene families; gene targeting and molecular pathology of atherosclerosis; and molecular evolution.
Office: 919-966-6914
E-mail: nobuyo.maeda@pathology.unc.edu
 
Nadia N. Malouf, MD
Developmental regulation and morphogenesis of cardiac and skeletal muscle membranes and contractile proteins.
Office: 919-966-4511
E-mail: nadia.malouf@pathology.unc.edu
 
Susan J. Maygarden, MD
Role of growth regulatory factors in prostatic carcinoma; clinicopathologic applications of fine needle aspiration cytology; and surgical pathology.
Office: 919-843-1071
E-mail: susan.maygarden@pathology.unc.edu
 
Gayle C. McGhee
Medical education.
Office: 919-966-4492
E-mail: gayle.mcghee@pathology.unc.edu
 

C. Ryan Miller, MD, PhD
Neuropathology: characterization of the molecular genetic mechanisms responsible for the heterogeneity of patient responses to cancer chemotherapy.
Office: 919-966-4585
Email: rmiller@med.unc.edu

 

Melissa B. Miller, PhD
Use of molecular methodologies to understand the basis of clinical treatment failures and inaccurate laborator diagnoses with regard to infectious diseases; DNA microarrays in the study of cystic fibrosis microbiology.
Office: 919-966-3723
Email: MBMiller@unch.unc.edu

 
Vincent J. Moylan, Jr., BA
Pathologists' Assistant.
Office: 919-966-4467
E-mail: vmoylan@unch.unc.edu
 
Volker Nickeleit, MD
Renal pathology and transplant pathology.
Office: 919-966-2421
E-mail: volker.nickeleit@pathology.unc.edu
 
Judith N. Nielsen, DVM
Animal health maintenance and productivity with emphasis on infectious disease prevention, diagnosis and eradication.
Office: 919-843-6536
E-mail: jnielsen@med.unc.edu
 
Deborah L. Radisch, MD
Forensic pathology.
Office: 919-966-2253
E-mail: dradisch@ocme.unc.edu
 
Howard M. Reisner, PhD
Use of immunological and molecular probes to study function of normal and abnormal coagulation factors; factors regulating human immune response to coagulation factors; immunochemical studies of opportunistic infectious agents; and genetic factors and cardiovascular risk.
Office: 919-966-4265
E-mail: howard.reisner@pathology.unc.edu
 
Tara Rubinas, MD
Gastrointestinal pathology and hepatopathology
Office: 919-843-2618
E-mail: tara.rubinas@pathology.unc.edu
 
John L. Schmitz, PhD
Molecular diagnosis of sexually transmitted diseases; applications of flow cytometry in the clinical laboratory; laboratory immunology; and histocompatibility.
Office: 919-966-3723
E-mail: john.schmitz@pathology.unc.edu
 
Dennis Simpson, PhD
Cell biology, molecular biology and virology.
Office: 919-966-8552
E-mail: dennis.simpson@pathology.unc.edu
 
Harsharan Singh, MD
Nephropathology and electron microscopy.
Office: 919-966-2421
E-mail: harsharan.singh@pathology.unc.edu
 
Scott V. Smith, MD
Surgical pathology, pediatric pathology, hematopathology, cardiovascular pathology, and autopsy pathology.
Office: 919-843-1075
E-mail: scott.smith@pathology.unc.edu
 
Oliver Smithies, DPhil
Correction of genes with mutant pathologies (gene therapy); construction of animal models of human genetic diseases to facilitate better studies of the resultant pathology and develop new modes of treatment.
Office: 919-966-6913
E-mail: oliver.smithies@pathology.unc.edu
 
Nobuyuki Takahashi, MD, PhD
Renal mechansims of essential hypertension and diabetic nephropathy: generation and characterization of genetically modified mice by targeting kidney genes using homologous recombination, computer simulation and gene therapies.
Office: 919-966-1338
E-mail: ntakaha@med.unc.edu
 
Joan M. Taylor, PhD
Dissecting the cellular signaling pathways that regulate normal and aberrant growth in the cardiovascular system. Characterizing the role of adhesion signaling and tyrosine kinases in cardiomyocyte hypertrophy and smooth muscle cell growth and migration.
Office: 919-843-5511
E-mail: joan.taylor@pathology.unc.edu
 
Leigh Thorne, MD
Molecular pathology, muscle pathology, and tissue banking.
Office: 919-966-8003
E-mail: lthorne@unch.unc.edu
 
Richard R. Tidwell, PhD
Role of proteases in pathogenesis of disease; design and synthesis of new agents for treatment of opportunistic pathogens associated with AIDS.
Office: 919-966-4294
E-mail: richard.tidwell@pathology.unc.edu
 
Michael D. Topal, PhD
Molecular basis for chemically-induced mutations; protein-DNA interactions.
Office: 919-966-8208
E-mail: michael.topal@pathology.unc.edu
 
Keith E. Volmar, MD
Neoplasia and developmental abnormalities of the pancreas, extrahepatic bile ducts, and genito-urinary system; applications of exfoliative and aspiration cytology in the pancreatico-biliary tract.
Office: 919-843-1908
E-mail: keith_volmar@med.unc.edu
 
Karen E. Weck, MD
Molecular genetic pathology.
Office: 919-966-4408
E-mail: karen.weck@pathology.unc.edu
 
Lisa Jacobs Weinstein, MD
Surgical pathology and cytopathology with special interest in gastrointestinal, thyroid, and head and neck pathology, fine needle aspiration cytology.
Office: 919-843-1093
E-mail: lisa_weinstein@med.unc.edu
 
Bernard E. Weissman, PhD
Tumor suppressor genes, gene mapping, cellular differentiation and transformation.
Office: 919-966-7533
E-mail: bernard.weissman@pathology.unc.edu
 
Herbert C. Whinna, MD, PhD
Hemostasis and thrombosis; biochemistry and vascular biology of blood coagulation; protein structure-function.
Office: 919-966-3313
E-mail: herbert.whinna@pathology.unc.edu
 

Julia Whitaker, MS, DVM
Laboratory animal medicine.
Office: 919-843-2498
Fax: 919-843-9340
E-mail: julia_whitaker@med.unc.edu

 
Monte S. Willis, MD, PhD
Molecular mechanisms of cardiac disease and ubiquitin-proteasome biology.
Office: 919-843-2757
Fax: 919-843-1938
E-mail: monte.willis@pathology.unc.edu
 
Ruth E. Winecker, PhD
Forensic toxicology.
Office: 919-966-2253
E-mail: winecker@ocme.unc.edu
 
Alisa Wolberg, PhD
Thrombosis and hemostasis.
Office: 919-966-8430
E-mail: alisa_wolberg@med.unc.edu
 
John T. Woosley, MD, PhD
Dermatopathology; cutaneous tumors; gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary pathology; tumor grading; quantitative microscopy; and stain technology.
Office: 919-843-1083
E-mail: john.woosley@pathology.unc.edu
 
Hong Xiao, MD
Defining the immunopathological mechanisms involved in autoimmune glomerulonephritis and vasculitis.
Office: 919-966-2421
E-mail: hongx@med.unc.edu
 
Xianwen Yi, MD, PhD
Alpha lipoic acid and diabetes mellitus.
Office: 919-966-6916
E-mail: xianwen.yi@pathology.unc.edu
 

Maimoona A. Zariwala, PhD
Genetic analysis of patients with primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD).
Office: 919-966-7050
E-mail: zariwala@unc.edu

 

 
 
Jointly Appointed Faculty
 
Diane M. Armao, MD
Gadobenate dimeglumine (MultiHance), abdominal MRI, hepatocellular carcinom and 3D GRE VIBE, abdominal MRI, pancreatic cancer.
Office: 919-843-8249
E-mail: diane.armeo@pathology.unc.edu
 
H. Robert Brashear, Jr., MD
Bone tumors and bone pathology.
Office: 919-962-0405
E-mail: robert.brashear@pathology.unc.edu
 
Ronald J. Falk, MD
Office: 919-966-2561
E-mail: ronald_falk@med.unc.edu
 
Susan A. Fiscus, PhD
Retrovirology.
Office: 919-966-6872
E-mail: susan_fiscus@med.unc.edu
 
Peter H. Gilligan, PhD
Diagnostic bacteriology; pulmonary disease in cystic fibrosis; and toxin-mediated diarrheal disease.
Office: 919-966-6313
E-mail: celtsfan@med.unc.edu
 
Thomas R. Griggs, MD
Atherosclerosis, thrombosis and hemostasis.
Office: 919-966-5201
E-mail: trg@med.unc.edu
 
Pamela M. Groben, MD
Dermatopathology.
Office: 919-662-4490
E-mail: pamela.groben@pathology.unc.edu
 
J. Ed Hall, PhD
Mechanisms of action, antimicrobial activity and pharmacokinetics of dicationic molecules.
Office: 919-966-6297
E-mail: ed.hall@pathology.unc.edu
 
Valerie A. Murrah, DMD, MS
Oral pathology.
Office: 919-966-2746
E-mail: valerie_murrah@dentistry.unc.edu
 
Timothy C. Nichols, MD
Role of von Willebrand factor in thrombosis and atherosclerosis; molecular biology of porcine von Willebrand factor.
Office: 919-966-1061
E-mail: tnichols@med.unc.edu
 
Charles M. Perou, PhD
Breast cancer; genomics; microarrays; tumor classification; drug resistance.
Office: 919-843-5740
E-mail: cperou@med.unc.edu
 
Gloria A. Preston, PhD
Pathogenesis of renal diseases.
Office: 919-966-2570
E-mail: gloria.preston@pathology.unc.edu
 
Kathleen W. Rao, PhD
Cytological and molecular characterization of structural rearrangements of chromosomes in an attempt to understand etiology and phenotype correlations.
Office: 919-966-1595
E-mail: kathleen.rao@pathology.unc.edu
 
Allen C. Rinas, MS
Cytotechnology education; needle aspiration cytology of rare and unusual lesions.
Office: 919-966-1065
E-mail: allen.rinas@pathology.unc.edu
 
Harold R. Roberts, MD
Biochemistry and physiology of blood coagulation.
Office: 919-966-4305
E-mail: hrr@med.unc.edu
 
William Eugene Sanders, Jr., MD
Thrombosis and platelet receptors; von Willebrand's factor (vWF); and platelet receptor mechanisms with regard to selectins.
Office: 919-966-4743
E-mail: wesand@med.unc.edu
 
Darrel W. Stafford, PhD
Molecular biology; structure-function relationships of coagulation factors.
Office: 919-962-0597
E-mail: darrel.stafford@pathology.unc.edu
 
James A. Swenberg, DVM, PhD
Mechanisms of mutagenesis and carcinogenesis with emphasis on the role of DNA adducts and cell proliferation.
Office: 919-966-6139
E-mail: james.swenberg@pathology.unc.edu
 
Young E. Whang, MD
Androgen receptor, HER-2 and Ack1 tryosine kinase, prostate cancer.
Office: 919-843-9983
E-mail: young.whang@pathology.unc.edu
 
Elizabeth M. Wilson, PhD
Steroid hormone regulation of gene expression; endocrinology; and environmental androgens and antiandrogens.
Office: 919-966-5168
E-mail: elizabeth.wilson@pathology.unc.edu
 

 
 
Adjunct Faculty
 
Peter M. Banks, MD (Carolinas Medical Center)
Gary A. Boorman, DVM, PhD (NIEHS)
Theresa Boyd, MD (American Red Cross Carolinas Region)
Scott R. Burger, MD (Advanced Cell and Gene Therapy)
Robert Brown, MD (Emeritus)
Marla Brumit, MD (American Red Cross Carolinas Region)
Byron E. Butterworth, PhD (CIIT)

Shu Huey Chaing, PhD (State Dept of Health and Human Services)

Jeffrey Everitt, DVM (CIIT)
Dana M. Fowlkes, MD, PhD (Green/Spring Technology)
Christopher W. Gregory, PhD (Voyager Pharmaceutical Company)
Mike Jones, MD (email hmjones@med.unc.edu or mikejones01@nc.rr.com)
Wendell D. Jones, PhD (Expression Analysis, Inc.)
Scott Kilpatrick, MD (Forsyth Medical Center)
Myla Lai-Goldman, MD (Laboratory Corporation of America)
Roger L. Lundblad, PhD (Baxter Health)
Robert R. Maronpot, DVM (NIEHS)
Kevin Morgan, DVM, PhD (CIIT)
Keith Nance, MD (Rex Hospital)
William R. Oliver, MD (Georgia Bureau of Investigation)
Richard S. Paules, PhD (NIEHS)
J. Kevin Ramer, PhD (Hemocellular Therapeutics, Inc.)
Dennis Ross, MD, PhD (Forsyth Medical Center)
Gary Smith, PhD (Roswell Park Cancer Institute)
Charles Wallas, MD (Red Cross)
Douglas C. Wolf, PhD, DVM (EPA)