Faculty
Principal Investigators
Edward M. Schwarz, Ph.D., Yeshiva, Einstein, 1993 ![Edward M. Schwarz, Ph.D.](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/ecv_binary/faculty/generated/profile_web/4247.jpg)
Richard and Margaret Burton Distinguished Professor of Orthopaedics
Director, Center for Musculoskeletal Research (CMSR)
Professor of Microbiology and Immunology and of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Osteoimmunology and Novel Drug Therapies for Rheumatoid Arthritis, Bone Regeneration and Osteomyelitis
Jennifer H. Anolik, M.D, Ph.D, University of Rochester 1994, Ph.D., 1996, M.D.
Professor of Medicine - Allergy/Immunology and Rheumatology
B Cell Autoimmunity and Novel Drug Therapies for Lupus and Rheumatoid Arthritis, Osteoimmunology
Hani A. Awad, Ph.D., University of Cincinnati, 1999 ![Hani A. Awad, Ph.D.](https://urmc.rochester.edu/ecv_binary/faculty/generated/profile_web/7756.jpg?width=80&height=103)
Donald and Mary Clark Professor of Orthopaedics
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Director, Center for Musculoskeletal Research (CMSR)
Director, BMTI Core CMSR
Biomechanics and Musculoskeletal Tissue Engineering
Jeevisha Bajaj, Ph.D., National Center for Biological Sciences, TIFR, 2011![Bajaj](/getmedia/657c9ecf-020f-43d2-b0c4-82247405d3fd/Bajaj-Jeevisha.aspx?width=74&height=111)
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Genetics
Role of cancer stem cell interactions with their microenvironment in disease progression
Christopher Beck, M.A., Ph.D., University of Rochester, 2000, 2005
Associate Professor of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, of Neurology, for the Center for Health and Technology and of Orthopaedics
Karen L. Bentley, M.S., University of Rochester, 1984![Bentley](/getmedia/84a68623-0def-4eb9-b99c-5d77a22aaa09/Bentley.aspx?width=74&height=91)
Senior Associate of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and in the Center for Musculoskeletal Research
Brendan F. Boyce, M.D., UK-U Glasgow, 1972 ![Brendan F. Boyce, M.B.Ch.B.](https://urmc.rochester.edu/ecv_binary/faculty/generated/profile_web/4765.jpg)
Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Director, Anatomic Pathology; Co-Director, HBMI Core CMSR
Bone Cell Biology and Bone Pathology
Mark R. Buckley, Ph.D., Cornell University, 2010 ![Mark Buckley](http://www.hajim.rochester.edu/bme/people/faculty/buckley_mark/assets/images/buckley_head_thumb.jpg)
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Multi-scale Biomechanics (Cell Level to the Organ Level)
Laura M. Calvi, M.D., Harvard, 1995
Dean's Professor of Medicine - Endocrine/Metabolism
Microenvironment of Hematopoietic Stem Cells (HSC) in the Bone; Stem Cell Microenvironmental Interactions and Pharmacologic Strategies
Chike Cao, Ph.D., Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, 2007![Cao](/getmedia/01bafda1-4b2f-42bc-ac63-996fda38abbb/Chike-Cao-Headshot.aspx?width=74&height=90)
Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics
Calvin L. Cole, Ph.D., Georgia Statue University, 2016![Calvin Cole](/getmedia/c7d65c68-e75c-48eb-8ae7-d44995cb3a10/Calvin-Cole_2.aspx?width=75&height=112)
Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics and of Surgery, Cancer Control
Biological Mechanisms of Cancer-Related Skeletal Muscle Wasting, Musculoskeletal Injury Prevention and Performance Enhancement
David J. Ciufo, M.D., University of Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, 2014![Ciufo](/getmedia/34ac5ceb-e5d0-4988-8bcc-7661e1f26716/David-Ciufo_1.aspx?width=75&height=112)
Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics
Robert T. Dirksen, Ph.D., University of Rochester, 1991
Lewis Pratt Ross Professor and Chair of Pharmacology and Physiology
Elucidate the Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms that Control Intracellular Calcium Dynamics in Skeletal Muscle Cells in Health and Disease
Roman A. Eliseev, M.D., Ph.D., University of Rochester, 2002
Associate Professor of Orthopaedics
Role of mitochondria in regulation of cell fate in normal stem cells and in cancer cells
Benjamin Frisch, Ph.D., University of Rochester, 2012
Assistant Professor of Medicine - Hematology/Oncology
Hematopoiesis, Leukemic bone marrow microenvironment
Michael Giacomelli, Ph.D., Duke University, 2012![Giacomelli Photo](/getmedia/e43f004f-1afb-40b0-ba49-0c294b8e75df/Giacomelli.aspx?width=75&height=109)
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Steve Gill, Ph.D., Kansas State University, 1989![Gill Photo](/getmedia/19f8dfa2-03e6-4652-8ee8-1bc5bbcafa71/Gill.aspx?width=75&height=103)
Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
Microbial pathogens and the influence of the human microbiome on human health and disease
Brian D. Giordano, M.D., SUNY at Buffalo School of Medicine, 2004
Associate Professor of Orthopaedics
Co-Director, Hip Preservation Program
Hip Abductor Sisease and its Relationship with the Progression of Hip Osteoarthritis
Ram Haddas, Ph.D., Texas Tech University Health, 2013 ![Ram Haddas Headshot](/getmedia/2cbb5725-a289-4e78-99e1-c23a46f0aa60/Ram-Haddas-Headshot-2.aspx?width=75&height=100)
Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics
Jennifer H. Jonason, Ph.D., Yale University, 2006![Jonason, Jennifer](/MediaLibraries/URMCMedia/musculoskeletal-research/research-labs/images/JonasonJennifer72web.jpg)
Research Associate Professor of Orthopaedics
Signaling Mechanisms of Skeletal Development and Disease
Constantinos Ketonis, M.D., Ph.D., Jefferson Medical College, 2011![Constantinos Ketonis, M.D., Ph.D.](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/ecv_binary/faculty/generated/profile_web/25602.jpg)
Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Orthopaedics, Implant Development, Microbiology and Infection, Biofilms
John Paul Ketz, M.D., Medical College of Ohio, 2002![Ketz Photo](/getmedia/ebe29b01-386b-47b1-a278-e8a398c934dd/Ketz.aspx?width=75&height=112)
Associate Professor of Orthopaedics
Benjamin Korman, M.D., Ohio State University, 2009![Catherine Quo](/getmedia/98d9b210-3b36-4687-ac12-b193c893669a/Benjamin-Korman.aspx?width=75&height=113)
Assistant Professor of Medicine - Allergy/Immunology and Rheumatology
Rondy M. Lazaro, M.D., University of Virginia School of Medicine, 2014![Lazaro Photo](/getmedia/adb60a9c-c74b-45e8-9a50-346187c2d099/Lazaro.aspx?width=75&height=93)
Senior Instructor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Jonathan Leckenby, M.B.B.S., Ph.D., University of London, 2006![Catherine Quo](/getmedia/ad4e0c64-7ab9-4ea9-9411-493305698e47/Jonatha-Leckenby.aspx?width=74&height=112)
Assistant Professor of Surgery, Plastic Surgery
Whasil Lee, Ph.D., Duke University, 2011![Whasil Lee](/getmedia/abcc1e51-88b4-49ad-a1d5-80011dbc6941/WLee-headshot.aspx?width=74&height=97)
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering and of Pharmacology and Physiology
Mechanotransduction Signaling Mechanisms of Musculoskeletal Cells
Brea C. Lipe, M.D., Albany Medical Center, 2005![Lipe Photo](/getmedia/cdf6a988-6587-4aa1-8eac-2048b97ececc/Lipe.aspx?width=75&height=112)
Associate Professor of Medicine
Alayna E. Loiselle, Ph.D., University of Rochester, 2009
Associate Professor of Orthopaedics
Co-Director, HBMI Core CMSR
Molecular Mechanisms of Tendon and Bone Regeneration
R. John Looney, M.D., University of Rochester, 1976 ![Richard John Looney, M.D.](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/ecv_binary/faculty/generated/profile_web/1683.jpg?width=74&height=112)
Professor of Medicine - Allergy/Immunology and Rheumatology
Allison J. Lopatkin, Ph.D., Duke University, 2017 ![Allison Lopatkin Headshot](/getmedia/05a38f58-b008-4eab-8c94-e0ddb12fe4b9/lopatkin_headshot.aspx?width=74&height=94)
Assistant Professor - Chemical Engineering
Antibiotic Resistance, Horizontal Gene Transfer, Systems/Synthetic Biology
John D. Lueck, Ph.D., University of Rochester, 2007![John Luck](/getmedia/e7216127-9816-49b0-b00e-d199bc409891/25839.aspx?width=74&height=112)
Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology and of Neurology (Joint)
Michael Maloney, M.D., Georgetown University, 1992
Dean's Professor of Orthopaedics
Sandeep Mannava, M.D., Ph.D., SUNY Upstate (M.D.), 2009, Wake Forest University (Ph.D.), 2012
Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics
Rotator Cuff and Shoulder Surgery, Sports Medicine, Biology of Aging, Regenerative Medicine, Soft Tissue Mechanics
James McGrath, Ph.D., Harvard-MIT, 1998![McGrath Photo](/getmedia/a2bd543f-b6b6-46e3-8322-db321d95f370/McGrath.aspx?width=75&height=112)
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Cell Motility, and Quantitative light microscopy
Benjamin L. Miller, Ph.D., Stanford University, 1994![Miller Photo](/getmedia/ad04d817-d83f-463b-925a-ee4f226177ca/Miller.aspx?width=75&height=112)
Professor of Dermatology and of Biomedical Engineering
Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan, Ph.D., University of Central Florida, 2014![muthukrishnan photo](/getmedia/8d7ddc9b-dd97-4561-81af-0ef2e5fa38d0/Muthukrishnan.aspx?width=75&height=75)
Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics
Thomas Myers, M.D., Temple University School of Medicine, 2005![Myers Photo](/getmedia/00d048b3-f7e2-43a4-b7af-c3ef5671f803/Myers.aspx?width=75&height=112)
Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics
Gregg T. Nicandri, M.D., Virginia Commonwealth University GME Office, 2003![Nicandri Photo](/getmedia/a6b037fe-484c-4576-a7f6-91870b1e2905/Nicandri.aspx?width=75&height=112)
Professor of Orthopaedics
Luke Joseph Peppone, Ph.D., University at Buffalo, The State University ![Peppone Photo](/getmedia/b36792fc-7e39-4a37-a22f-ce093bfe4fa9/Peppone.aspx?width=75&height=99)
of New York, 2007
Associate Professor of Surgery, of Orthopaedics (Joint), and of Cancer Center (Joint)
J. Edward Puzas, Ph.D., University of Rochester, 1976
Senior Associate Dean, Basic Research
Professor of Orthopaedics and of Environmental Medicine
Homaira Rahimi, M.D., Rutgers University, 2004; MTR, University of Pennsylvania, 2011
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Inflammatory arthritis, osteoimmunology and lymphatic dysfunction
Benjamin F. Ricciardi, M.D., Weill Cornell Medical College, 2009![Benjamin Ricciardi](/getmedia/23af18e8-f643-47a5-8fa0-3c6fe837fecb/25398_1.aspx?width=76&height=115)
Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics
Christopher Ritchlin, M.D, M.P.H., Albany Medical College (M.D.), 1982, University of Rochester (M.P.H.), 2008
Professor and Chair of Allergy/Immunology and Rheumatology
Katherine H. Rizzone, M.D., M.P.H., University of North Carolina at ![Rizzone Photo](/getmedia/3e3461e5-c008-439e-8a08-c953039ed6f4/Rizzone.aspx?width=75&height=112)
Chapel Hill School of Medicine, 2008
Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics and of Pediatrics (Joint)
Paul T. Rubery, M.D., Cornell University, 1988
Chair of Orthopaedics & Physical Performance
Caroline Pinto Thirukumaran, Ph.D., University of Rochester, 2016![Caroline P. Thirukumaran, M.B.B.S., M.H.A., Ph.D.](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/ecv_binary/faculty/generated/profile_web/25266.jpg)
Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics
Orthopaedics Health Services Research and Policy
Ilya Voloshin, M.D., Dartmouth, 1998 ![Ilya Voloshin, M.D.](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/ecv_binary/faculty/generated/profile_web/10334.jpg)
Associate Professor of Orthopaedics
Edith M. Williams, M.S., Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo, 2007![Edith Williams](/getmedia/e6d89771-4ff5-4bdd-bbbd-e753d39b8e53/Edith-Williams-Headshot_1.aspx?width=74&height=103)
Dean's Associate Professor of Health Equity
Ronald Wesley Wood, Ph.D., University of Rochester, 1974![Wood Photo](/getmedia/64cf2702-133a-4d0e-9ac1-ed0f32f56f69/Wood.aspx?width=75&height=105)
Research Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, of Neuroscience (Joint) and of Urology (Joint)
Chia-Lung Wu, Ph.D., Duke University, 2015![Wu](/getmedia/e7719821-eca1-42f7-a2dc-d8f183c6b8c9/Chia-Lung-headshot.aspx?width=75&height=80)
Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics
Chao Xie, M.D., M.S.B.A., Zunyi Medical College (M.D.), 1992, University of Rochester (M.S.B.A.), 2017
Associate Professor of Orthopaedics
Vice Chair for Biomedical Research and Training in China
Lianping Xing, M.D., Ph.D., China-Fourth Military Medical University (M.D.), 1977, Penn State University (Ph.D.),1994
Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Bone Cancer Biology, Musculoskeletal Repair and Maintenance
Zhenqiang Yao, Ph.D., University of Westminster, 2016![Zhenqiang Yao](/getmedia/051f95fe-802b-4fe6-8066-b3e7c356029e/11594.aspx?width=74&height=88)
Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Shu-Chi (Allison) Yeh, Ph.D., McMaster University, 2015![Allison Yeh](/getmedia/8ec11ab6-626f-4ea4-ac27-b361c0d757f1/Allison-Yeh-Headshot.aspx?width=74&height=123)
Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics
Hengwei Zhang, B.Med., Ph.D., Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu,![Zhang, Hengwei Photo](/getmedia/1aed0694-ffa5-4168-8acf-e14398ed18e1/Zhang-Hengwei_1.aspx?width=75&height=91)
2005
Research Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Xinping Zhang, M.D., Ph.D., Shanghai Medical University (M.D.), 1990, University of Rochester (Ph.D.), 1999
Professor of Orthopaedics
Yi Zhang, Ph.D., National University of Singapore, 2001; M.S., Simon Business ![Zhang, Yi Photo](/getmedia/ba4b10eb-bf7a-4405-a022-2a3940fff887/Zhang-Yi.aspx?width=75&height=112)
School, University of Rochester, 2012; M.B.A., Simon Business School, University
of Rochester, 2014
Research Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Research Track Faculty
John L. Daiss, Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University, 1982![John Daiss, PhD](/MediaLibraries/URMCMedia/musculoskeletal-research/research-labs/images/JohnDaiss.jpg)
Research Associate Professor of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation
Immune Response to Bacterial Infections, Diagnostics of Bacterial Infections, Physical Bases of Chronic Infection
Maria De La Luz Garcia-Hernandez, Ph.D., Center of Research and
Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute Molecular Biomedicine, 2002
Research Assistant Professor of Medicine - Allergy/Immunology and Rheumatology
Nida Meednu, Ph.D., University of Rochester, 2009![Nida Meednu](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/MediaLibraries/URMCMedia/medicine/allergy/images/Meednu-Nida100.jpg?width=74&height=112)
Research Assistant Professor of Medicine - Allergy/Immunology and Rheumatology
Anne E.C. Nichols, Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Inst & State University (Virginia Tech), 2018![Anne Nichols Headshot](/getmedia/8cc2ec08-4a84-4eed-94c1-dc91e7fe7968/Nichols_Anne.aspx?width=74&height=101)
Research Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation
Molecular and Cell Biology of Tendon Adaptation and Tendinopathy
Javier Rangel-Moreno, Ph.D., Mexico-Natl Polytechnic Institute, 2002![Javier Rangel-Moreno](/getmedia/2b27bb52-0045-4400-863a-131725fbe448/22595.aspx?width=75&height=115)
Research Assistant Professor of Medicine - Allergy/Immunology and Rheumatology
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Affiliated Faculty
Allen P. Anandarajah, M.B.B.S., University of Nigeria, 1990![Allen Anandarjah](/getmedia/29665f41-752b-4b35-b150-abddf9155cb8/7562_1.aspx?width=75&height=115)
Associate Professor of Medicine - Allergy/Immunology and Rheumatology
John M. Ashton, Ph.D., University of Rochester, 2011![Ashton](/getmedia/1b2e68e7-a476-4309-8f5b-00d09d42f981/Ashton-John_3.aspx?width=74&height=111)
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Genetics
Co-Director, Functional Genomics Center
Judith A. Baumhauer, M.D., University of Vermont (M.D.), 1989, University of Rochester (M.P.H.), 2009 ![Judith F. Baumhauer, M.D., M.P.H.](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/ecv_binary/faculty/generated/profile_web/3715.jpg?width=100&height=80)
Professor of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation
Michael W. Becker, M.D., University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, 1996![Becker](/getmedia/1bb489c5-24eb-4846-9a46-1061b6c722ab/Becker.aspx?width=74&height=92)
Professor of Medicine - Hematology/Oncology
Danielle Benoit, Ph.D., University of Colorado, 2006![Danielle Benoit](/MediaLibraries/URMCMedia/musculoskeletal-research/images/benoit.jpg)
Adjunct Professor
Therapeutic Biomaterials
Andrew J. Berger, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998![Berger](/getmedia/5e1b2164-b1df-4652-a54d-05665388cad0/Berger.aspx?width=74&height=111)
Professor of Optics and of Biomedical Engineering
Paul S. Brookes, Ph.D., University of Cambridge, 1997![Brookes](/getmedia/fb1d1754-6e18-4134-9a57-ab7a62cf9779/Brookes.aspx?width=74&height=111)
Professor of Anesthesiology and of Pharmacology and Physiology
Edward Brown, Ph.D., Cornell University, 1999![Brown](/getmedia/46cf1f3d-9e30-4302-ab94-a7dca95f9d6b/Brown.aspx?width=74&height=95)
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and of Neuroscience
Timothy P. Bushnell, Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1999![Bushnell](/getmedia/7e637784-4f76-44d0-a8c4-318c00bafcd1/Bushnell_1.aspx?width=100&height=83)
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Director, Shared Resource Laboratories
Emily Carmody, M.D., University of Rochester, 2003 ![Emily E. Carmody, M.D.](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/ecv_binary/faculty/generated/profile_web/24352.jpg)
Associate Professor of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation and of the Cancer Center
Director, Center for Bone Health
Director, Fracture Liaison Service
Regine Choe, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2005![Choe](/getmedia/6ff6ff7e-2813-4410-9855-d304865fe60a/Choe.aspx?width=74&height=92)
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Lisa A. Delouise, Ph.D., M.P.D., Penn State University, 1984 ![Delouise](/getmedia/5584e177-1075-417c-a3de-6952d9c35ab7/Delouise_1.aspx?width=74&height=111)
Associate Professor of Dermatology and of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Paul Dunman, Ph.D., University of Medicine and Dentistry - NJ, 1999![Dunman](/getmedia/8d30b398-c227-4720-b543-24e610545c52/Dunman.aspx?width=74&height=85)
Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology and of Ophthalmology
Rudi Fasan, Ph.D., University of Zurich, Switzerland, 2005![Fasan](/getmedia/4efc602b-8a69-45b9-af27-24612769cf68/Fasan.aspx?width=74&height=111)
Andrew S. Kende Professor of Chemistry
Adolph S. Flemister, M.D., Howard University College of Medicine, 1991![Flemister](/getmedia/a3951c9c-70ad-48fc-8fd9-a33c996d6c8b/Flemister.aspx?width=74&height=111)
Professor of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation
Chief of the Foot & Ankle Division and Podiatry
Vera Gorbunova, Ph.D., Weizmann Institute of Science, 2000 ![Vera Gorbunova](/MediaLibraries/URMCMedia/musculoskeletal-research/images/Vera-Gorbunova_1.jpg)
Doris Johns Cherry Professor of Biology
Biology of Aging
Isaac Harris, Ph.D., University of Toronto, 2013![Harris Photo](/getmedia/31c66721-0e25-4e24-8b10-6af933cfd2eb/Harris.aspx?width=75&height=113)
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Genetics
Minsoo Kim, Ph.D., Ohio State University, 2001![Kim Photo](/getmedia/ec41d82d-d23a-4c29-98a2-5c81399532b9/Kim.aspx?width=75&height=112)
Professor of Microbiology and Immunology and of Pharmacology and Physiology (Joint)
Catherine K. Kuo, Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor![Catherine Quo](/MediaLibraries/URMCMedia/musculoskeletal-research/research-labs/images/Kuo_finalHeadshot.jpg)
Associate Professor of Bioengineering
Mechanobiology, Stem Cells, Tissue Engineering, Development Biology, Biomaterials, Orthopaedics
Jane Larae Liesveld, M.D., University of Iowa College of Medicine, 1980![Liesveld Photo](/getmedia/6e12ba4f-e2e2-4f39-818b-280fd61ac85e/Liesveld.aspx?width=75&height=100)
Professor of Medicine
David C. Linehan, M.D., University of Massachusetts Medical Center, 1990![Linehan Photo](/getmedia/25f10b4b-9e9e-4fe7-aecb-84ca31146d1e/Linehan.aspx?width=75&height=100)
Professor and Chair of Surgery
Seymour I. Schwartz Professorship in Surgery
Kah Poh Loh, B.Med.Sci., M.B.B.Ch., B.A.O., Royal College of Surgeons ![Loh Photo](/getmedia/9bcac388-3eaf-4ae7-b9ad-674bd7d55c89/Loh.aspx?width=75&height=75)
in Ireland, 2012
Senior Instructor of Medicine
Lynne E. Maquat, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 2009 ![Lynne Elizabeth Maquat, Ph.D.](https://urmc.rochester.edu/ecv_binary/faculty/generated/profile_web/5781.jpg)
Professor and Director, Center for RNA Biology
Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Cancer Center
J. Lowell Orbison Distinguished Service Alumni Professor
Disease-Associated mRNA Decay Pathways
David J. Mitten, M.D., University of Rochester, 1992![David Mitten](/getmedia/0ccf81eb-a2aa-4436-b51b-22bf86d870ae/4810.aspx?width=75&height=113)
Professor of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation
Patrick J. Murphy, Ph.D., Cornell University, 2013![Patrick Murphy](/getmedia/aeb4cf1f-f4fe-47b4-bd6f-30faec107dee/HeadShot_1.aspx?width=75&height=83)
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Genetics and of Biology (Joint)
Karen M. Mustian, Ph.D., U of N Carolina at Greensboro, 2003;![Mustian Photo](/getmedia/6e9c45c3-a39a-4af0-b563-eb495ec058b2/Mustian.aspx?width=75&height=99)
M.P.H., University of Rochester, 2009
Professor of Surgery, of Public Health Sciences (Joint), of Radiation Oncology (Joint) and of Cancer Center (Joint)
Mark Noble, Ph.D., Stanford University, 1977![Mark Noble PhD](/MediaLibraries/URMCMedia/musculoskeletal-research/research-labs/images/Noble.jpg)
Martha M. Freeman, MD Professor in Biomedical Genetics
Professor of Neuroscience
Archibald Perkins, M.D., Ph.D., Columbia University College of Physicians ![Perkins Photo](/getmedia/930371cc-ba7c-4d82-a48f-aa68cb09db5f/Perkins_1.aspx?width=74&height=112)
and Surg, 1986
Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Ruchira Singh, Ph.D., Kansas State University, 2008![Singh Photo](/getmedia/dc7581cc-d422-49f4-bda2-4c12e382d695/Singh.aspx?width=75&height=112)
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, of Center for Visual Science A&S (RC) (Joint) and of Biomedical Genetics (Joint)
Eric M. Small, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 2003![Small Photo](/getmedia/17a0129c-0eca-4dd3-8732-c98c7c1086c5/Small.aspx?width=75&height=112)
Associate Professor of Medicine, Aab Cardiovascular Research Institute,
of Biomedical Engineering (Joint) and of Pharmacology and Physiology (Joint)
Ralf G. Thiele, M.D., Johann Wolfgang Goether University, 1991![Thiele Photo](/getmedia/3c85fdd9-40a0-4e7d-85c1-8624b2898ae5/Thiele.aspx?width=75&height=112)
Associate Professor of Medicine - Allergy/Immunology and Rheumatology
Charles A. Thornton, M.D., University of Iowa, 1981 ![Charles A. Thornton, M.D.](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/ecv_binary/faculty/generated/profile_web/2932.jpg)
Saunders Family Distinguished Professor in Neuromuscular Research
Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience
David Weber, M.D., M.S., University of Kansas (M.D.), 2007, University of Pennsylvania (M.S.), 2013
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Relationships Between Bone Health, Body Composition and Chronic Disease in the Pediatric Population
Michael J. Zuscik, Ph.D., University of Rochester, 1993 ![Michael Zuscik](https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/getmedia/e14d493f-31af-4945-939f-b7dff2169405/Zuscik-Michael-PhD-225-300print.aspx)
Adjunct Professor
Cartilage Biology and Osteoarthritis