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Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences

Pharmacology

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Nutritional Sciences Graduate Faculty

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Eric Blalock, PhD

Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences

Positions Held:
  • Professor
  • Vice Chair of Department
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Maria Boosalis PhD, MPH, RD, LD

Geza Bruckner, PhD


Positions Held:
  • Health Sciences - Clinical Science
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Lisa A. Cassis, PhD

Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences
Saha Cardiovascular Research Center
Saha Aortic Center

Positions Held:
  • Vice President of Research
  • Professor of Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences
  • Co-Director, Division of Nutritional Sciences
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Gang Chen, PhD

Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences

Positions Held:
  • Associate Professor
  • Associate DGS of Nutritional Sciences Graduate Program
  • Graduate Faculty in Nutritional Sciences

Jody Clasey, PhD


Positions Held:
  • Kinesiology and Health Promotion
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Rolf J. Craven, PhD

Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences

Positions Held:
  • Associate Professor
  • Graduate Faculty in Nutritional Sciences
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Alan Daugherty, PhD, DSc, FAHA

Saha Cardiovascular Research Center
Physiology
Saha Aortic Center

Positions Held:
  • Associate Vice President for Research
  • Chair, Physiology
  • Director, Saha Cardiovascular Research Center
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Sanda Despa, PhD

Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences

Positions Held:
  • Professor
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Florin Despa, PhD

Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences
Saha Cardiovascular Research Center

Positions Held:
  • Professor, Lewis Honors Faculty
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B. Mark Evers, MD, FACS

Surgery

Positions Held:
  • Professor of Surgery
  • Mark McDowell Cancer Foundation Chair in the Lucille P. Markey Cancer Center
  • Director, Markey Cancer Center

Christopher Fry, PhD

Physiology

Positions Held:
  • Assistant Professor

Jean Fry, PHD, RDN


Positions Held:
  • Assistant Professor
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Cassandra Gipson-Reichardt, PhD

Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences

Positions Held:
  • Associate Professor
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Howard Glauert, PhD

Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences

Positions Held:
  • Professor
  • Director of Graduate Studies
  • Division of Nutritional Sciences
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Ming Cui Gong, PhD, MD

Physiology
Saha Cardiovascular Research Center
Saha Aortic Center

Positions Held:
  • Professor
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Scott M. Gordon, PhD

Saha Cardiovascular Research Center
Physiology

Positions Held:
  • Associate Professor
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Gregory Graf, PhD

Saha Cardiovascular Research Center
Physiology

Positions Held:
  • Professor, Physiology
  • Associate Director, Saha Cardiovascular Research Center
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Zhenheng Guo, PhD

Saha Cardiovascular Research Center
Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences
Saha Aortic Center

Positions Held:
  • Professor
  • Graduate Faculty in Nutritional Sciences
  • Cardiovascular Research Center

David Hildebrand, PhD


Positions Held:
  • Plant and Soil Sciences
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Terry Hinds, Jr, PhD

Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences

Positions Held:
  • Director of the Drug & Disease Discovery D3 Research Center
  • President, Kentucky Physiological Society (KPS)
  • Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences (Tenured)
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Lance A. Johnson, PhD

Physiology
Sanders-Brown Center on Aging

Positions Held:
  • Associate Professor
  • Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Physiology
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Philip A. Kern, MD

Internal Medicine

Positions Held:
  • Professor of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology
  • Director, Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences
  • Associate Vice President for Clinical and Translational Science
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Terry A. Lennie, PhD, RN, FAHA, FAAN

Saha Cardiovascular Research Center

Positions Held:
  • Professor
  • Nursing Instruction
  • Associate Dean for PhD Studies
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Xiang-An Li, PhD

Physiology
Saha Cardiovascular Research Center

Positions Held:
  • Professor
  • Regular Faculty
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Analia Loria, PhD

Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences
Saha Cardiovascular Research Center

Positions Held:
  • Associate Professor
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Hong S. Lu, MD, PhD

Saha Cardiovascular Research Center
Physiology
Saha Aortic Center

Positions Held:
  • Associate Professor

James C. Matthews, PhD


Positions Held:
  • Animal and Food Sciences

Ann Morris, PhD


Positions Held:
  • Associate Professor and Associate Chair
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Barbara Nikolajczyk, PhD

Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences

Positions Held:
  • Professor of Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences
  • Associate Director for Translational Research in Diabetes, Barnstable Brown Diabetes Center
  • Associate Vice Chair of Basic Science Research, Internal Medicine
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