Research Advisory Committee

The Research Advisory Committee is comprised of representatives from each of the Sections. The Committee's purpose is to advise the Department Chairman's Advisory Committee on research matters and provide recommendations for Departmental research policy, including assignment of research space and other research-related resources.

The Committee reviews proposals submitted for the Department's Internal Grant Program and Large Equipment Program and provides recommendations for funding to the Chairman. In addition, the Research Committee sponsors the Friday Surgery Research Conference and is responsible for the planning and coordination of the Moses Gunn Annual Research Conference. Committee members are appointed to a one year term.

Our Objectives

• Excellence
• Integrity
• Efficiency

Meet the Committee

Recently Funded RAC Awards

• Judith Connett, Ph.D.
  The Role of Interferon-Gamma in Fas Mediated Apoptosis
• Kevin Chung, M.D.
  A Cost-Utility Analysis of Screw Fixation versus Casting for Treating Complete, Non-Displaced, Waist Fracture of the Scaphoid
• David L. Brown, M.D.
  Cardiac Tissue Engineering
• Andrew C. Chang, MD
  Mechanisms for the Loss of Human Selenium Binding Protein in Esophageal Adenocarcinoma
• Jeffrey D. Punch, MD
  Characterization of the Antigen Specific Helper T Cell Frequency in Liver Transplant Recipients
• Michael G. Franz, M.D.
  Differential Gene Regulation During Fascial Wound Failure
• Daniel D. Myers, Jr. D.V.M., M.P.H.
  The Interrelationship Between P-selectin and Tissue Factor (TF) During Thromobsis
• Margaret V. Westfall, Ph.D.
  Contractile Function Responses to Protein Kinase C Alpha in Normal and Failing Adult Cardiac Myocytes