Guillermo Ameer
QSI RENU Director
Daniel Hale Williams Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Surgery
Director, Center for Advanced Regenerative Engineering
Director, Regenerative Engineering Training Program
Meet Our Team
Institute Faculty
Christopher Ahuja
Clinical Assistant Professor, Neurological Surgery
Hasan Alam
Chair, Department of Surgery
Loyal and Edith Davis Professor of Surgery
Professor, Surgery (Trauma and Critical Care, Cell and Developmental Biology
Luisa Arispe
Chair, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology
Stephen Walter Ranson Professor of Cell Biology
Professor, Cell and Developmental Biology
Vadim Backman
Sachs Family Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Medicine
Director, Center for Physical Genomics and Engineering
Ankit Bharat
Chief of Thoracic Surgery
Harold L. and Margaret N. Method Professor of Surgery
Professor, Surgery (Thoracic Surgery), Medicine (Pulmonary and Critical Care)
Daniel Borja-Cacho
Associate Professor, Surgery (Organ Transplantation)
Jacqueline Alexis Burke
Research Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Director, The Tolerance Lab
Earl Cheng
Division Head, Urology; Co-Head
Reconstructive Pediatric Urology
Founders’ Board Chair in Urology
Professor of Urology
Igor Efimov
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Medicine (Division of Cardiology)
Director of Graduate Studies for Biomedical Engineering
Najib El Tecle
Assistant Professor, Neurological Surgery
Mark Eskandari
Chief of Vascular Surgery in the Department of Surgery
James S. T. Yao Professor of Vascular Surgery
Professor, Surgery (Vascular Surgery), Medical Education, Radiology
Colin Franz
Associate Professor, Physical Medicine and RehabilitationAssociate Professor, Neurology
Robert Galiano
Professor
Director of Research
Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery
Associate Professor, Department of Dermatology
Nathan Gianneschi
Jacob & Rosaline Cohn Professor
Department of Chemistry
Materials Science and Engineering
Biomedical Engineering and Pharmacology
Yogesh Goyal
Assistant Professor, Cell and Developmental Biology
Assistant Professor, McCormick School of Engineering
Karen J. Ho
John Marquardt Clinical Research Professor of Vascular Surgery
Associate Professor, Surgery (Vascular Surgery)
Bin Jiang
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Douglas Johnston
Chief, Division of Cardiac Surgery
Surgical Director, Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute
Professor of Surgery
Aggelos Katsaggelos
Joseph Cummings Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and (by courtesy) Computer Science and Radiology
Director, Image and Video Processing Lab (IVP)
Co-Director, Center for Scientific Studies in the Arts (NU-ACCESS)
Deputy Director of Computation, Center for Computational Imaging and Signal Analytics in Medicine
Shana Kelley
Neena B. Schwartz Professor of Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering
Maciej (Matt) Lesniak
Chair, Department of Neurological Surgery
Michael J. Marchese Professor of Neurosurgery
Neurosurgeon-in-Chief, Northwestern Medicine
Program Leader, Neuro-Oncology
Professor, Neurological Surgery, Neurology – Ken and Ruth Davee Department
Joseph Leventhal
Fowler McCormick Professor of Surgery
Professor, Surgery (Organ Transplantation)
Yuan Luo
Director, Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine – Center for Collaborative AI in Healthcare
Professor, Preventive Medicine (Biostatistics and Informatics), Pediatrics
Professor, McCormick School of Engineering
Satish Nadig
Edward G. Elcock Professor
Surgery, Microbiology / Immunology, & Pediatrics
Vice Chair for Faculty Development, Department of Surgery
Chief, Division of Abdominal Transplant Surgery
Director, Comprehensive Transplant Center
Amy Paller
Chair, Department of Dermatology
Director, Skin Biology and Disease Resource-Based Center
Walter J. Hamlin Professor of Dermatology
Professor, Dermatology, Pediatrics (Dermatology)
Susan Quaggin
Chair, Department of Medicine
Director, Feinberg Cardiovascular and Renal Research Institute
Irving S. Cutter Professor of Medicine
Jonathan Rivnay
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Director of PhD Admission of Biomedical Engineering
John Rogers
Louis Simpson and Kimberly Querrey Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Biomedical Engineering and Neurological Surgery
Director, Querrey Simpson Institute for Bioelectronics
Electrical and Computer Engineering by courtesy
Mechanical Engineering by courtesy
Chemistry and Dermatology by courtesy
Michael Rosen
Professor of Surgery, Lerner College of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic
Medical Director of the Abdominal Core Health Quality Collaborative
Director of Research Department of DDSI
Adjunct Professor, Surgery (Gastrointestinal), Northwestern Medicine
Arun Sharma
Research Associate Professor, Urology (Pediatric Urology)
Cheng Sun
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Angelo Tanna
Vice Chair, Department of Ophthalmology
Director of Glaucoma in the Department of Ophthalmology
Professor, Ophthalmology
Nicholas J. Volpe
Chair, Department of Ophthalmology
George W. and Edwina S. Tarry Professor of Ophthalmology
Professor, Ophthalmology
Adam M. Sonabend Worthalter
Associate Professor, Neurological Surgery
Clyde Yancy
Vice Dean, Health Equity
Magerstadt Professor
Professor of Medicine and Medical Social Sciences
Chief, Division of Cardiology
Associate Director, Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Deputy Editor, JAMA Cardiology
Hao Zhang
Professor of Biomedical EngineeringDirector, Center for Engineering in Vision and Ophthalmology