People

Stephen C. Cannon, MD, PhD
Chair of Physiology, Interim Chair of Molecular & Medical Pharmacology, Interim Director, Crump Institute for Molecular Imaging

Yousang Gwack, PhD
Executive Vice Chair, Physiology; Professor, Physiology

Laura Denardo, PhD
Vice Chair for JEDI, Physiology; Assistant Professor, Physiology

Marino Di Franco, PhD
Director, Physiology Student Laboratory

Baljit S. Khakh, PhD
Professor, Physiology; Professor, Neurobiology; Associate Director of Research, Brain Research Institute; Vice Chair, UCLA Neuroscience; Director, UCLA Physiology Outreach Program

Peipei Ping, PhD
Professor of Physiology, Medicine/Cardiology, & Biomedical Informatics; Director of Integrated Data Science Training in Cardiovascular Medicine @ UCLA; Associate Director of Scalable Analytics Institute (ScAI) Computer Science.

Thomas J. O'Dell, PhD
Professor, Physiology; Gail Patrick Endowed Administrative Chair in Brain Research

Ernest M. Wright, PhD, DSc
Emeriti on recall; Distinguished Professor
Secondary Appointments

Gregory A. Brent, MD
Professor In Residence, Medicine; Professor In Residence, Physiology

Linda L. Demer, MD, PhD
Professor, Medicine; Professor, Physiology; Professor, Bioengineering

Jared Diamond, PhD
Distinguished Professor, Geography; Distinguished Professor, Physiology; Distinguished Professor, Public Health UCLA

Tamir Gonen, PhD
Professor, Biological Chemistry; Professor, Physiology

Eduardo Marban, MD, PhD
Professor In Residence, Medicine; Professor In Residence, Physiology; Director, Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute

Istvan Mody, PhD
Distinguished Professor, Neurology; Distinguished Professor, Physiology

Riccardo Olcese, PhD
Professor, Anesthesiology; Professor, Physiology

Rene R.S. Packard, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor In-Residence, Medicine; Assistant Professor In-Residence, Physiology

Tamer I. Sallam, MD, PhD
Professor, Medicine; Professor, Physiology

Yin Tintut, PhD
Adjunct Professor, Medicine; Adjunct Professor, Physiology

Thomas Vondriska, PhD
Professor, Anesthesiology; Professor, Medicine; Professor, Physiology

Shimon Weiss, DSC
Distinguished Professor, Chemistry and Biological Chemistry; Distinguished Professor, Physiology, Department of Physics, Institute for Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials, Bar-Ilan University Ramat-Gan, 52900 Israel