Program: Surgery
Year Entered: 
Defense Year: 2009
Advisor: Marc Jenkins
Dissertation Title: "Graft Antigen Specific CD4+ T Cells Require CD154 Expression to Clonally Expand and Differentiate to the TH1 Phenotype and Initiate mTOR Dependant Intimal Hyperplasia in Cardiac Allografts."

Degrees received: 
B.A., University of Kansas, 1996
M.D., Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, 2000
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, TC, 2009

Current Position: Cardiothoracic surgeon, Chief, Cardiothoracic Surgery, St. John’s Hospital, Maplewood, MN and Associate Professor, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery and Director, Lung Transplantation Program, University of Minnesota Medical School
Contact Info: [email protected]