Zainab Hassan Albar, PhD
Program: Clinical Translational Science
Advisor: Abdus Sattar, PhD
Dissertation: Impact of Subclinical Parental and Child Behavioral Problems on Limbic System Development: MRI Insight
PhD conferred 08/16/2024
Hussam Mohammed Alqahtani, PhD
Program: Clinical Translational Science
Advisors: Siran Koroukian, PhD and James Spilsbury, PhD
Dissertation: Investigating the Association Between Complex Multimorbidity and Periodontal Disease: An Analysis of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
: Assistant Professor of Periodontics and Clinical Data Science Researcher, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences
Caroline Elizabeth El Sanadi, PhD
Program: Clinical Translational Science
, MD, PhD, MPH, FACS
Program: Clinical Translational Science
Advisor: Siran Koroukian, PhD
Dissertation: Worse than Death? The Older Patient and Long-Term Outcomes after Emergency General Surgery
: Associate Professor, the MetroHealth System, and Assistant Professor (Secondary Faculty), Departments of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø)
Olivia Marie Hogue, PhD
Program: Clinical Translational Science
Dissertation: Statistical Practice in Preclinical Neurosciences: Implications for Successful Translation of Research Evidence from Animals to Humans
: Assistant Staff, Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Cleveland Clinic
Benjamin Patrick Kramer, PhD
Program: Clinical and Translational Science
Advisor: Johnie Rose, MD, PhD
Dissertation: The Impact of Proteoglycans on Ascending Aortic Dissection Mechanics
PhD conferred 08/16/2024
Uriel Kim, PhD, MBA
Program: Clinical Translational Science
Kim's dissertation looked at the impact of the Affordable Care Act on cancer outcomes in individuals from low-income communities.
Currently: Completing the MD portion of the combined degree Medical Scientist Training Program here at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø.
Carli Jessica Lehr, MD, PhD
Program: Clinical Translational Science
Dissertation: Updating Risk Predictions for Lung Transplant Candidates Bridged with Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Using Novel National Data
: Staff pulmonologist at the Respiratory Institute and assistant professor of Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, specializing in transplant medicine.
Morgan K. McGrath, PhD
Program: Clinical Translational Sciences
Advisor: Jill Barnholtz Sloan, PhD
Currently: Completing the MD portion of the combined degree Medical Scientist Training Program here at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø.
Stephanie Merlino Barr, PhD, MS, RD, LD
Program: Clinical Translational Science
Advisor: Sharon Groh-Wargo, PhD
Dissertation: Examining the Relationship of Malnutrition in Preterm Infants to Critical Clinical Outcomes
PhD conferred 08/16/2024
Laurie Ann Moennich, PhD, MPH, CPH
Advisor: Susannah Rose, PhD
Dissertation: Acceptance and Use of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: A System Dynamics Approach
PhD conferred May 2024
Ryan Nazemian, MD, PhD
Program: Clinical Translational Science, CRSP Program
Advisor: Johnie Rose, MD, PhD
Dissertation: Monitoring Nitric Oxide Bioactivitiy, Tissue Oxygenation and Blood Flow in Neurologically-Diseased (DNC) Organ Donors
: Anesthesiologist, Lahey Hospital & Medical Center
Sarah Diane Ronis, MD, PhD
Program: Clinical Translational Science
Advisor: Kurt Stange, MD
Dissertation: Engagement for Impact in Social Risk Screening and Intervention
: Director of the University Hospitals Rainbow Center for Child Health & Policy and Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Medicine
Jacqueline K. Shaia
Program: Clinical Translational Science
Advisor: Mary Dolansky, PhD, RN, FAAN
Dissertation: Visual Outcomes in Adults, Fulminant, and Pediatric Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension
PhD conferred 05/16/2025
Sandra Y Silva Camargo
Program: Clinical Translational Science
Advisor: Johnie Rose, MD, PhD
Dissertation: Assessment of Risk Factors and Clinical Outcomes of Clostridioides difficile Infection with the NAP1/BI/027 Strain in the Veterans Affairs Healthcare System
PhD conferred 05/16/2025
Wayne Mark Tsuang, MD, PhD, MHS
Program: Clinical Translational Science
Advisor: Johnie Rose, MD, PhD
Dissertation: Towards Translational Geospatial Medicine in Lung Transplantation
: Staff physician in the Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and Associate Professor at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine
Joe Georges Zein, PhD
PhD conferred 05/17/2020
Guangjin Zhou, PhD
Program: Clinical Translational Science
Advisor: Siran Koroukian, PhD
Dissertation: Health-Related Social Needs and Cancer Burden in Persons Living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus
PhD conferred May 2024