Welcome to a new feature of the Physiology Department's website. We are very proud of the graduates of the Ph.D. Program, and you can see that graduates routinely move on to very successful careers in research, teaching and administration.

Lee Bairnsfather, Ph.D. (1980)
Assistant Vice Chancellor for Information Technology
Chairman of the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Department. LSUHSC-Shreveport

Kevin C. Dellsperger, M.D., Ph.D., FACP, FACC (1983)
Professor and Chairman, Department of Internal Medicine

Professor, Department of Medical Pharmacology
University of Missouri-Columbia

Christoph von Ritter, MD, Ph.D. (1988)
Medical Director of the Clinic, Head of Internal Medicine

District Hospital Triamed Prien a. Chiemsee

Germany

Barbara J. Zimmerman, PhD (1990)

Karen Crissinger, MD, Ph.D. (1989)
Professor, Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology
University of South Alabama, Mobile.

J Keith. Smith, MD, Ph.D. (1989)
Associate Professor of Radiology

Residency Program Director

Chairman of the Residency Selection Committee

Department of Radiology
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

T.K. Tamarappoo, Ph.D. (1989)

Kristine Phillips, M.D., Ph.D. (1993)
Clinical Assistant Professor

Department of Internal Medicine

University of Michigan Health System

Sarah Nelken Jerome, Ph.D. (1995)

Genentech, Inc.

Lipu Kong, MD, Ph.D. (1996)
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Radiology at LSUHSC-Shreveport

Lianxi Liao, M.D., Ph.D. (1996)
Cardiologist (Private Practice)

Dallas/Fort Worth

Yan Chen, MD, Ph.D. (1996)

Terry S. Legrand, Ph.D. (1997)
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences

Louisiana State University - Shreveport

Christopher Kevil, Ph.D. (1998)
Associate Professor, Department of Pathology
LSUHSC-Shreveport

Dwight D. Henninger, Ph.D., D.V.M. (1999)
DSI Pharmaceutical, Boulder, Colorado

Robert Langley, Ph.D. (2000)
Assistant Professor of Cancer Biology

Director, High Resolution Electron Microscopy Facility
MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas

Steven Jones, Ph.D. (2002)
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology
University of Louisville School of Medicine in Louisville, Kentucky

Erin (Pias) Hines, Ph.D. (2002)
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Reproductive Toxicology Division
Environmental Protection Agency
Research Triangle Park , NC

Ian Hines, Ph.D. (2002)
Assistant Professor

Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology
University of North Carolina School of Medicine

Chapel Hill, NC

F. Stephen Laroux, Ph.D. (2002)
Director

Immunology and Inflammatory Diseases

Cequent Pharmaceuticals

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Nathan S. Bryan Ph.D. (2004)
Assistant Professor, Center for Cell Signaling

Institute for Molecular Medicine
University of Texas Health Sciences Center
Houston, Texas

Catherine B. Dayton, Ph.D. (2004)
Director of Admissions
Cooper Medical School of Rowan University

Camden, New Jersey

Katherine C. Wood, Ph.D. (2006)

Post-doctoral Fellow

Pulmonary & Vascular Medicine Branch, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute

National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland

Dmitry Ostanin, Ph.D. (2006)

Assistant Professor

Arthritis and Rheumatology

LSU Health Sciences Center - Shreveport

April C. Carpenter, Ph.D. (2007)

Research Fellow

Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

Department of Opthalmology

Cincinnati, Ohio

John W. Langston, Ph.D. (2008)

Research Scientist

Ikaria

Seattle, Washington

William S. Wright , Ph.D. (2009)

Clinical Assistant Professor

Department of Biomedical Sciences

University of South Carolina School of Medicine

Greenville, South Carolina

Gokhan Yilmaz, M.D., Ph.D.(2010)

Assistant Professor

University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey

New Jersey Medical School - Department of Surgery

Newark, New Jersey

Douglas Wright, Ph.D. (2010)

Assistant Professor

Jefferson College of Health Sciences

Roanoke, Virginia

John Chidlow, Ph.D. (2010)

Post-doctoral Fellow

Yale University

Kimberly Holloway, Ph.D. (2011)

Post-doctoral Fellow

Li-Lab - Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center

Baylor College of Medicine

Houston, Texas

Fridrik Karlsson, Ph.D. (2011)

Post-doctoral Fellow

LSUHSC-Shreveport

Cancer Center

Shrevepot, Louisiana