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  1. Lerner Research Institute
  2. Cleveland Clinic’s Musculoskeletal Research Center (MSRC)
  3. Members

Musculoskeletal Research Center (MSRC)

Director: Kathleen A. Derwin, PhD
Co-Director: Kurt P. Spindler, MD

Members

Orthopaedic & Rheumatologic Institute

Orthopaedic Surgery
Damien Billow, MD   
Georgeanne Botek, DPM
Vahid Entezari, MD
Lutul Farrow, MD
Jason Genin, DO 
Ryan Goodwin, MD
Morgan Jones, MD
Jason Ho, MD
Atul Kamath, MD
Dominic King, DO
Steven Maschke, MD
Anthony Miniaci, MD
Thomas Mroz, MD
George Muschler, MD
Lukas Nystrom, MD
Richard Parker, MD
Nicolas Piuzzi, MD
Eric Ricchetti, MD
Paul Saluan, MD 
Jonathan Schaffer, MD, MBA
Mark Schickendantz, MD   
William Seitz, Jr., MD
Kurt Spindler, MD 

Rheumatology and Immunologic Diseases
Abby Abelson, MD, FACR
Soumya Chatterjee, MD, MS, FRCP
M Elaine Husni, MD, MPH
Brian Mandell, MD, PhD

Rehabilitation and Sports Therapy

Gary Calabrese, DPT

Lerner Research Institute

Biomedical Engineering
Jay Alberts, PhD
Suneel Apte, MBBS, DPhil 
Elise Baron, DEng
Jill Beveridge, PhD
Robb Colbrunn, DEng
Kathleen Derwin, PhD
Ahmet Erdemir, PhD
Bong-Jae Jun, PhD
Xiaojuan Li, PhD
Jinjin Ma, PhD 
Venkata Mantripragada, PhD
Paul Marasco, PhD  
Timothy Mead, PhD
Ronald Midura, PhD 
Kunio Nakamura, PhD 
Sambit Sahoo, MD, PhD
Jun Yang, MD, MS
Mingrui Yang, PhD

Cardiovascular & Metabolic Sciences
Unni Chandrasekharan, PhD
Mitali Das, PhD
Inflammation and Immunity
Yan Li, MD, PhD
Quantitative Health Sciences
Jarrod Dalton, PhD
Peter Imrey, PhD
Michael Kattan, PhD
Nancy Obuchowski, PhD
Jesse Schold, PhD

Imaging Institute

Diagnostic Radiology
Ceylan Colak, MD 
Michael Forney, MD  
Stephen Hatem, MD    
Hakan Ilaslan, MD, MBA 
Mykol Larvie, MD
Josh Polster, MD
Erika Schneider, PhD
WanYong Shin, PhD
Naveen Subhas, MD    
Murali Sundaram, MD   
Carl Winalski, MD 

Nuclear Medicine
Frank DiFilippo, PhD

Neurological Institute

Center for Spine Health
Kush Goyal, MD
Neurosurgery
Michael Steinmetz, MD
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Susan Linder, DPT

Children’s Hospital and Pediatrics Institute

Center for Pediatric Rheumatology and Immunology
Sirada Panupattanapong, MD
Angela Robinson, MD
Andrew Zeft, MD    
General Pediatrics
Ellen Rome, MD, MPH

Digestive Disease & Surgery Institute 

Colorectral Surgery
Massarat Zutshi, MD     
Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Srinivasan Dasarathy, MD    

Anesthesiology Institute
 

Department of Pain Management
Jianguo Cheng, MD, PhD   


Pathology & Lab Medicine Institute

Pathology

Steven Billings, MD
John Goldblum, MD
Scott Kilpatrick, MD
John Reith, MD

Cleveland Clinic Akron General

Department of Research
John Elias, PhD
Joseph Gabra, DEng 

Cleveland Clinic Florida

Orthopaedic Surgery
Wael Barsoum, MD
Carlos Higuera Rueda, MD
Joseph P. Iannotti, MD, PhD
Leonardo P. Oliveira, MD
Vani Sabesan, MD

To become a member of the MSRC, please send an email to owingst@ccf.org.