Organizational Structure

AQP-1 facilitating angiogenesis during cirrhosis.

Executive Committee members

• Nicholas F. LaRusso, M.D.
  Director, Center for Cell Signaling in Gastroenterology
• Gianrico Farrugia, M.D.
  Associate Director, Center for Cell Signaling in Gastroenterology
  Director, Pilot and Feasibility Program
• Lisa A. Boardman, M.D.
  Associate Director, Clinical Core
• Gregory J. Gores, M.D.
  Associate Director, Center for Cell Signaling in Gastroenterology
  Director, Scientific Enrichment Program
  Group Leader, Signal Transduction Theme
• Vijay H. Shah, M.D.
  Associate Director, Center for Cell Signaling in Gastroenterology
  Director, Clinical Core
• Stephen C. Ekker, Ph.D.
  Director, Genetics and Model Systems Core
• Mark A. McNiven, Ph.D.
  Director, Optical Microscopy Core
• Joseph H. Szurszewski, Ph.D.
  Group Leader, Ion Channels and Membrane Receptors Theme
• Martin E. Fernandez-Zapico, M.D.
  Group Leader, Genetics and Gene Regulation Theme
• Charyl M. Dutton Gibbs, B.S., M.A.
  Administrator, Center for Cell Signaling in Gastroenterology

Internal Advisory Committee members

• Robert B. Diasio, M.D.
  Director, Mayo Clinic Cancer Center
  Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
• Michael J. Joyner, M.D.
  Former Associate Dean for Research, Mayo Clinic in Rochester
  Department of Anesthesiology
• Gloria M. Petersen, Ph.D.
  Director, Mayo Pancreatic Cancer SPORE Grant
  Director, Cancer Genetic Epidemiology Research Training Program
  Department of Health Sciences Research
• Joseph H. Szurszewski, Ph.D. (IAC Chair)
  Former Chair, Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering
  Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering

External Advisory Committee members

• Daniel K. Podolsky, M.D. (chair)
  University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas

  Expertise: Mechanisms leading to GI tract injury and pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease

• D. Brent Polk, M.D.
  Keck School of Medicine
  University of Southern California

  Expertise: Signal transduction and GI cell differentiation and proliferation in inflammation and tumorigenesis

• Jacquelyn J. Maher, M.D.
  University of California, San Francisco

  Expertise: Mechanisms of hepatoxicity

• Yvette Tache, Ph.D.
  University of California, Los Angeles

  Expertise: Enteric neuroscience