Graduate
Student Training
The Burn
and Shock Trauma Institute is home to graduates students from
several different departments and programs of the Graduate College
of Loyola University.
Our students
are enrolled in graduate programs in the Department
of Microbiology and Immunology, the Department
of Physiology, and the Department
of Cell Biology, Neurobiology, and Anatomy. Students from
the Program
in Molecular Biology, the
Alcohol Research Program and the Program
in Immunology and Aging are also housed at the Institute.
Graduate
Students
John Karavitis, B.S.
Degree: B.S., University of Illinois, Chicago
Mentor: Elizabeth J. Kovacs, Ph.D.
Research: Mechanisms by which acute alcohol
exposure suppresses macrophage phagocytosis
Status: Ph.D. candidate, Department of Cell Biology,
Neurobiology, and Anatomy
email: jkaravitis@lumc.edu |
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Kristen Lauing, B.S.
Degree: B.S., University of South Carolina,
Columbia, SC
Mentor: John J. Callaci, Ph.D.
Research: The effects of alcohol on the Wnt
signaling pathway in bone fracture healing
Status: Ph.D. candidate, Department of Cell Biology,
Neurobiology, and Anatomy
email: klauing@lumc.edu |
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Eva Murdoch, B.S.
Degree: B.S., Saint Xavier University, Chicago
Mentor: Elizabeth J. Kovacs, Ph.D.
Research: Pulmonary inflammation after acute ethanol
exposure and burn injury
Status: Ph.D. candidate, Department of Cell Biology,
Neurobiology and Anatomy
email:
emurdoch@lumc.edu |
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Former Graduate
Students
Eric Boehmer, M.D., Ph.D.
Degree: B.A., Lawrence University, Appleton, WI,
Ph.D., Cell Biology, Neurobiology & Anatomy, M.D., Loyola
University Chicago, Stritch School of Medicine.
Mentor: Elizabeth J. Kovacs, Ph.D.
Research: How aging influences the macrophage
pro-inflammatory response to pathogenic stimuli.
Status: M.D/Ph.D. program 2001-2007. Cell Biology,
Neurobiology & Anatomy. Ph.D. 2005. Effects of
age on mouse macrophage response to inflammatory stimuli.
M.D. 2007.
email: eboehme@mac.edu
Current Position: International Health Residency
Program, Huntington, WV |
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Ahalia Ferreiro, Ph.D..
Degree: M.S., Javeriana University, Colombia
Mentor: Luisa A. DiPietro, D.D.S., Ph.D.
Research: MCP-1 as a regulator of collagen fibrillogenesis
Status:
Ph.D. 2006, Molecular Biology
email: ahalia_herrera@hotmail.com |
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Daniel Fitzgerald, M.S.
Degree: B.S., Loyola University Chicago
Mentor: Elizabeth J. Kovacs, Ph.D.
Research: Ethanol impairs the inflammatory response
during dermal wound healing
Status:
M.S. 2004, Cell Biology,
Neurobiology & Anatomy
email:
fitzbiochem@gmail.com
Current Position: Research Assistant, Arthritis
Center, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago |
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Joanna Goral, Ph.D.
Degree: M.S., Wroclaw University, Poland
Mentor: Elizabeth J. Kovacs, Ph.D.
Research: Mechanisms responsible for alteration of immune
response upon burn and alcohol exposure
Status:
Ph.D. 2005, Acute ethanol exposure inhibits Toll-like
Receptor mediated inflammatory response in murine
macrophages. Cell Biology, Neurobiology,
and Anatomy
email: jgoral@midwestern.edu
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy,
Midwestern University, Downers Grove, Illinois |
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Vanessa Nomellini, B.S.
Degree: B.S., DePaul University, Chicago, IL
Mentor: Elizabeth J. Kovacs, Ph.D.
Research: How aging affects pulmonary complications
after burn injury
Status: 2003 to date. M.D./ Ph.D. program
email:
vnomellini@lumc.edu |
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Katherine A. Radek, Ph.D.
Degree: M.S., Northern Illinois University
Mentor: Luisa A. DiPietro, D.D.S., Ph.D.
Research: Effects of acute ethanol exposure on
angiogenesis and the extracellular matrix in healing
wounds Status: Ph.D. 2005. The effects of
acute ethanol exposure on dermal wound healing in a murine
model of exisional wounding. Cell, Biology,
Neurobiology and Anatomy; Division of Biochemistry.
email: kradek@vapop.ucsd.edu
Current Status: Post-doctoral Fellow, University of
California, San Diego, Department of Dermatology |
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Megan Schrementi, Ph.D.
Degree: B.S., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Mentor: Luisa A. DiPietro, D.D.S., Ph.D.
Research: Site specific differences in wound healing
Status: Ph.D. 2006, Site-specific differences in
wound healing. Department of Microbiology and
Immunology
email:
mschreme@uic.edu
Current Status: Post-doctoral Fellow,
University of IL, Chicago |
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Wenting Sun, M.S., M.D.
Degree: M.D., Beijing University Health Science Center
Mentor: Luisa A. DiPietro, D.D.S., Ph.D.
Research: Effect of ethanol on endothelial cell function
Status: M.S. 2006. , Department of Molecular
Biology.
email:
wentingsun1978@yahoo.com |
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