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Center for Translational Injury Research (CeTIR)

6410 Fannin Street, UPB 1100
Houston, Texas 77030

The Center for Translational Injury Research (CeTIR) at UTHealth Houston is a multidisciplinary team dedicated to advancing trauma care through research and innovation. The staff includes faculty investigators, administrative personnel, clinical and laboratory researchers, external collaborators, and trauma research fellows. Their combined expertise spans acute care surgery, neurobiology, anesthesiology, and military medicine, working together to improve trauma treatment and patient outcomes.

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Faculty Investigators
Charles S. Cox Jr., MD, FACS
Director, Center for Translational Injury Research (CeTIR)
Professor, George and Cynthia Mitchell Distinguished Chair in Neurosciences, and Glassell Family Distinguished Chair,
Department of Pediatric Surgery
Erin Fox, PhD
Assistant Director, CeTIR
Professor, Department of Surgery
Sasha Adams, MD, FACS
Professor, Department of Surgery, Division of Acute Care Surgery
Rondel Albarado, MD, FACS
Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, Division of Acute Care Surgery
Yanna Cao, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Surgery
Thomas Clements, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, Division of Acute Care Surgery
Bryan Cotton, MD, MPH, FACS
Professor and John B. Holmes Professor in the Clinical Sciences, Department of Surgery
Pramod Dash, PhD
Professor, Chair, Nina and Michael Zilkha Distinguished Chair in Neurodegenerative Disease Research, Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy
Marie Françoise Doursout, PhD
Professor, Department of Anesthesiology
Brijesh Gill, MD, FACS
Professor, Department of Surgery
John Harvin, MD, MS, FACS
Professor, Department of Surgery, Division of Acute Care Surgery
Todd Huzar, MD, FACS
Professor, Department of Surgery, Division of Acute Care Surgery
Lillian Kao, MD, MS, FACS
Professor, and Jack H. Mayfield, MD Chair in Surgery, Department of Surgery, Division of Acute Care Surgery
Lillian Liao, MD, MPH, FACS
Professor, Department of Surgery, Division of Acute Care Surgery
Tien C. Ko, MD, FACS
Professor, and Jack H. Mayfield, MD, Distinguished Professor in Surgery, Department of Surgery
Michelle McNutt, MD, FACS
Professor, Department of Surgery, Division of Acute Care Surgery
Laura Moore, MD, FACS
Professor, Department of Surgery
David Meyer, MD, MS, FACS
Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, Division of Acute Care Surgery
Krislynn Mueck, MD, MPH, MS
Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, Division of Acute Care Surgery
Alan Prossin, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, Division of Acute Care Surgery
Thaddeus Puzio, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, Division of Acute Care Surgery
Robyn Richmond, MD
Professor, Department of Surgery, Division of Acute Care Surgery
Charles Wade, PhD
Professor, James H. Red Duke, Jr., MD, Distinguished Professor in Surgery, Department of Surgery, Division of Acute Care Surgery
Michael Wandling, MD, FACS
Assistant Professor, Memorial Hermann Chair, Department of Surgery, Acute Care Surgery
Administration
Charles S. Cox Jr., MD, FACS
Director, Center for Translational Injury Research (CeTIR)
Professor, George and Cynthia Mitchell Distinguished Chair in Neurosciences, and Glassell Family Distinguished Chair,
Department of Pediatric Surgery
Erin Fox, PhD
Assistant Director, CeTIR
Professor, Department of Surgery
Serena Cooper, MBA
Sr. Administrative Manager
Heidi Draehn, M Ed
Program Coordinator
Kim Mankiewicz, PhD
Scientific Editor
Clinical
Destiny Aceves
Research Coordinator I
Dominique Diaz
Research Assistant I
Jamysha Jones
Sr. Research Nurse
Garrett Jost
Research Coordinator II
Thet Thet Khin
Research Assistant I
Melissa Maldonado
Research Assistant I
Ilana Klein Marcuschamer
Research Coordinator I
Kandice Motley
Research Coordinator II
Jenna Purkiss
Sr. Research Nurse
Savanah Weaver
Sr. Research Nurse
Julie Word
Research Nurse
Laboratory
Abrianna Bell
Research Assistant I
Christina Estrada
Research Assistant I
Leslie Gonzalez
Research Assistant I
Destiny Hernandez
Research Assistant I
Daisy Lopez
Research Assistant I
Veda Pa
Research Assistant I
Kevin Peter
Research Assistant I
Willa Yao-Wei Wang, MD
Assistant Director - Clinical Research
External Collaborators
Jessica Cardenas, PhD
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical School
Andrew P. Cap, MD, PhD
U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research
Pär I. Johansson, MD, MPA, DMSc
Transfusion Medicine Rigshospitalet, Denmark
Summer Ott, PsyD
McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston
Vinod Vijayan, PhD
Baylor College of Medicine
Trauma Research Fellows
Tabrez Alam, MD
T32 Postdoctoral Fellow
Jared Covell, MD
T32 Postdoctoral Fellow
Will Rieger, MD
T32 Postdoctoral Fellow