Giving Tissue Health A VOIS
Giving Tissue Health A VOIS
Emile R. Mohler III, M.D. | Director of Vascular Medicine
Dr. Emile Mohler is director of the Vascular Diagnostic Center and of Vascular Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Health System and is Professor of Medicine at the University Of Pennsylvania School Of Medicine in Philadelphia. Dr. Mohler practices at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania where he has been teaching and mentoring medical students for more than twenty years.
Dr. Mohler directs a research team focused on identifying the potential role of adult stem cells in treating diabetic vascular disease. As a leading expert in vascular medicine he gave numerous lectures both nationally and internationally, has published over 130 manuscripts, edited five books and serves as a reviewer for nine prestigious peer-reviewed journals. He is the recipient of multiple government and industry grants.
Dr. Mohler is a member of several academic, scientific, and pharmaceutical committees including the Cardiovascular Institute, the Institute for Human Gene Therapy, the American Heart Association, the American College of Physicians and the Institute for Medicine and Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
Dr. Mohler received his MD from Georgetown University School of Medicine and completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at Georgetown University Medical Center
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Arjun Yohd, Ph.D. | Director of the LRSM
Dr. Arjun Yodh is Professor of Physics & Astronomy as well as Professor of Radiation Oncology at the University of Pennsylvania. He has been appointed as the “James M. Skinner Professor of Science”, a chair designed to recognize exceptional scholars for their contributions to science. He is also the Director of The Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter (LRSM) at the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Yodh’s work focuses on advanced imaging techniques relying on the use of visible and near infrared light to explore and characterize inner structures within human tissues without using invasive methods. By collaborating with other physicists, biologists and clinicians he helps transform fundamental concepts in optics and physics into medical applications, improving breast cancer imaging techniques or functional imaging of the brain.
Dr. Yodh is a member of several interdisciplinary institutes at the University of Pennsylvania including, the Institute of Medicine and Engineering (IME), the Bioengineering Graduate Group, and the Abramson Cancer Center.
Dr. Yodh received his B.Sc. from Cornell University, and his Ph.D. from Harvard University. He joined the University of Pennsylvania faculty in 1988, following a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at AT&T Bell Laboratories.
