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Past and On-Going RCEMS/PERC Collaborators

Meet the many collaborators who work with us at the Pediatric Exercise and Genomics Research Center:

Anjan S. Batra, MD, MBA

Vice Chair, Department of Pediatrics, UC Irvine School of Medicine
Professor, Pediatric Cardiology
Director of Pediatric Electrophysiology

Elliot Botvinick, PhD

Professor of Surgery and Biomedical Engineering
Associate Director of the Edwards Lifesciences Foundation Cardiovascular Innovation and Research Center (CIRC)
Core faculty of the Beckman Laser Institute

Donald R. Blake, PhD

Professor, Chemistry, School of Physical Sciences

Joseph Donnelly, MD

Professor, Department of Pediatrics, UC Irvine School of Medicine
Medical Director, Center for Autism & Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Pediatric Neurologist

Magda El Zarki, PhD


Professor, Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, UC Irvine
Director, Research Institute in Virtual Environments and Computer Games

Bareket Falk, PhD

Professor, Brock University

Jean G. Gehricke, PhD


Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, UC Irvine School of Medicine
Clinical psychologist, Center for Autism & Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Douglas A. Granger, PhD

Professor of Psychology and Social Behavior, Pediatrics and Public Health
Director, UC Irvine Institute for Interdisciplinary Salivary Bioscience Research


Nafiz M. Kiciman, MD

Professor, Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, UC Irvine School of Medicine

Virginia Kimonis, MD, MRCP

Professor, Division of Genetics and Genomic Medicine Dept. of Pediatrics, Neurology and Pathology, UC Irvine School

Kimberley Lakes, PhD

Professor, Department of Psychiatry, UC Riverside School of Medicine

Robert I. Liem, MD

Director, Comprehensive Sickle Cell Program, Center for Cancer & Blood Disorders, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Eliezer Nussbaum, MD

Former Medical Director, Pediatric Pulmonary, Allergy & Cystic Fibrosis, Miller Children’s & Women’s Hospital Long Beach
Professor, Pulmonary Division, Department of Pediatrics, UC Irvine School of Medicine

Janos Porszasz, MD, PhD

Adjunct Professor, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Technical Director, Rehabilitation Clinical Trials Center, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center

David Reinkensmeyer, PhD

Professor, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, UC Irvine Henry Samueli School of Engineering
Professor, Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, UC Irvine School of Medicine

Harry B. Rossiter, PhD

Director, High Resolution Respirometry Core, UCLA
Associate Professor, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center

Margaret Schneider, PhD

Research Professor, UC Irvine School of Social Ecology
Director, Evaluation and Pilot Studies, UC Irvine Institute for Clinical and Translational Science

Sabrina E.B. Schuck, PhD

Executive Director, UC Irvine Child Development School
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, UC Irvine School of Medicine
Volunteer faculty, Psychology & Social Behavior, UC Irvine

Kelli Sharp, PhD

Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Dance in the Claire Trevor School of the Arts
Co-director, I-move, UC Irvine Sue and Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center

Bruce J. Tromberg, PhD (PERC Collaborations until 2019)

Director, UC Irvine Beckman Laser Institute and Medical Clinic
Professor of Surgery and Biomedical Engineering, UC Irvine
Principal Investigator, Laser Microbeam and Medical Program (LAMMP)

Katrine L. Whiteson, PhD

Associate Professor, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, UC Irvine School of Biological Sciences

Co-Director of the UCI Microbiome Center

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