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 Dean 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)
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine
Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich

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 Committe

Department of Radiology
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

T.K. Tamarappoo, Ph.D. (1989)
Departments of Medicine and Physiology
Cardiovascular Research Institute
University of California, San Francisco

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)

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)
Chair of Respiratory Care, School of Allied Health Sciences,
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

Christopher Kevil, Ph.D. (1998)
Assistant 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
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)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

F. Stephen Laroux, Ph.D. (2002)
Research Fellow, Department of Medicine,
Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel-Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA

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)
Assistant Professor of Biology
Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, Florida

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

Post-doctoral Fellow

Vascular Medicine Branch, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute

National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland

Dmitry Ostanin, Ph.D. (2006)

Post-doctoral Fellow

Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology

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

Ryan M. Wolfort, M.D., Ph.D. (2008)

Surgery Resident

Department of Surgery, LSUHSC-Shreveport

Shreveport, Louisiana