Rothenberg Lab
Rothenberg CURED Lab

Past Lab Members

Pediatric Gastroenterologist, Mary Bridge Children's Hospital, Tacoma, WA

Lab Tenure	Name	Current Position
2023	Lillian Zehner	BS Undergraduate Student, Centre College
2023	Emiliy Gonsalvez	Neuroscience Undergraduate Student, University of Cincinnati
2022	Hemchandra Patel	MD Student, University of Cincinnati
2022	Claire Scott	MD Student, University of Cincinnati
2022	Sadie Hergert-Atkinson	Undergraduate, Normandale Community College
2019-2021	Rishi Mehta	Associate Consultant, Boston Consulting Group
2020	Susie Min	Medical Student, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
2016-2019	Adina Ballaban	IRT Programmer, MedPace
2019	Samuel Risma	Undergraduate,Washington University in St. Louis
2019	Andrew Russell	Investor Relations, AcreTrader
2018-2019	Hannah Doll	Graduate Student, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2018	Harsh Agrawal	Medical Student, University of Toledo College of Medicine
2017	Michael Kramer	Consultant at Revenue Solutions Inc. at RSI, Boston, MA
2017	Hayley Flanagan, MD	Internal Medicine & Pediatrics Resident, University of Rochester
2017	Ayushi Jain, MD	Resident, Ohio State University
2015-2017	Cora Miracle	MD / PhD Student, Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine
2016	Jared Cohen	MD Student Technion Medical School, Israel
2016	Rachel Ernst
2016	Tarah Wagner
2016	Rachel Martinez
2015	Olivia Erhardt	deceased; read a memorial story about her beautiful life
2012-2015	Michael Stephens, MD	Resident, Dermatology, Massachusetts General Hospital
2014	Josi Herren, DO	Interventional Radiology Resident, University of Illinois at Chicago
2014	Teresa Pestian	Clinical Research Coordinator, Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Cincinnati Children's
2013	Ahmed Saqr	Medical Student University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
2013	Sam Coffey	Quality Coordinator, ARUP Laboratories, Salt Lake City, UT
2012	Leonel Ampie, MD	Resident, Neurosurgery, University of Virginia School of Medicine
2012	Adam Tardio
2012	Chris Zust, MD	Neurologist, McLeod Neurological Associates, South Carolina
2012	Haitong Tai, MD	Hospitalist, Mountain View, CA
2012	Carly Edelheit	People Operations Specialist at oak9
2011-2012	Jamie Tanzer	Psychotherapist at Repose
2011	Neeraj Maheshwari
2010-2011	Mark Costello, MD	Otolaryngologist, The Christ Hospital, Cincinnati, OH
2010-2011	Tammy Winkler
2009 -2011	Lissa Ziegelgruber (formerly Amin)	Senior Decision Sciences Manager at Pernod Ricard
2009 -2011	Akanksha Mishra	Medical Student, Paul Foster Medical School, Texas
2010	Fezza Rahman
2010	Jeff Zhu	Senior Program Manager - Search & AI Platform at Microsoft, Seattle, WA
2009	Renee Eigsti (formerly Miller), MD	Pathologist, Pathology Services of Kalamazoo, P.C., Kalamazoo, MI
2009	Melissa Brook Zimmerman, MD, MPH	Internal Medicine / Pediatrics, Northwestern Medicine
2009	Michael LaFontaine, PhD	Assistant Dean of Pre-clinical Curriculum and Professor of Biochemistry
2009	Anne-Sarah Cohen	Nurse, Ben Gurion Medical School
2008	Elinor Lee, MD	Assistant Professor, UCLA Department of Medicine Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
2008	Rosie Korman, MD	Pediatrician, Kaiser Permanente, Panorama City, CA
2008	Catherine Nelson (formerly Bouska), DO	Family Medicine and Osteopathy, Gundersen Decorah Clinic, Decorah, IA
2007-2008	Loren Brook, MD	Assistant Professor of Clinical Internal Medicine, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
2007	Joshua Bernstein, MD	Fellow, Allergy and Immunology, National Jewish Health, Denver, CO
2007	Jeffrey James, DO	Premier Orthopedics Centerville, OH
2004	Allison Greenberg
2005 / 2011	Amy M. CaJacob, MD	Assistant Professor, Pediatric Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology, Children's of Alabama
2004	Kiran Mudambi, MD	Pediatric Gastroenterologist, Mary Bridge Children's Hospital, Tacoma, WA
2004	Benita Panigrahi, MD, MS

Former Members - Predoctoral

Lab Tenure	Name	Current Position
2019-2023	Lydia Mack, MS	Clinical Research Coordinator, Division of Pulmonary Medicine
2018-2022	Sharon Grisaru, PhD	MD / PhD student, Sackler Medical School, Tel-Aviv University
2020-2021	Adina Ballaban	IRT Programmer, MedPace
2017-2018	Cora Miracle	MD / PhD student, Marshall University School of Medicine
2016-2018	Purnima Pathre, MA
2011-2018	Kiran KC
2013-2017	Jared Travers, MD, PhD	Internal Medicine Residency, Case Western Reserve University as part of the Harrington Physician-Scientist Pathway
2014-2017	Jeffrey Rymer, MS	Research Assistant, Vanderbilt University
2017	Jacob Ciricillo	Internal Medicine Residency, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
2015-2017	Leanne Ray
2015-2016	Miriam Peinhaupt	Grant Acquisition Specialist - Office for Grant Acquisition, Danube University Krems
2014-2016	Matthew Eilerman	Nurse Practitioner, Edgewood, Kentucky
2012-2016	Netali Ben-Baruch Morgenstern, PhD	Research Associate, Allergy, Cincinnati Children's
2012-2015	Rahul D'Mello, MD, PhD	Clinical Fellow, Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University
2010-2015	Eileen Alexander, PhD	Associate Professor, Health Services Administration - Undergraduate Program; Xavier University
2008-2015	Emily Stucke, PhD	Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Maryland School of Medicine
2011-2013	Katie (Kemme) Schuckman	Nurse Practitioner, APP Inpatient, Cincinnati Children's Hospital
2010-2012	Kaila Schollaert	In-house CRA at ICON
2010-2012	Shankar Narayanan, MD	Orthopedic Surgeon, OrthoCincy
2006-2012	Thomas Lu, MD, PhD	Gastroenterologist at IU Health Southern Indiana Physicians
2010-2011	Victoria Fabry
2007-2010	Eric Cole, DMD	Dentist
2006-2010	Leah Nesbitt Kottyan, PhD	Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
2005-2010	Melissa McBride	QC Manager at Octal Extrusions Maineville, OH
2004-2010	Hongyan Zhu, PhD	Research Fellow, Language Access Services, Cincinnati Children's
2008-2009	Karen Burwinkel
2006-2007	Elizabeth Kopras, PhD	Senior Research Associate, University of Cincinnati
2006-2007	Yi-Ying (Winnie) Wu, PhD	Postdoctoral researcher at Academia Sinica, Taiwan
2006	Yoni Mahller, MD, PhD	Physician, speciality: Obstetrics/Gynecology, Hoag Hospital and Orange County OBGYN, Newport Beach, CA
2004-2006	James Schlotman, MD	Staff Anesthesiologist, Parkview Physicians Group, Lima, OH
2004-2006	Christine (formerly Fischetti) Taylor, MPH	Research Project Manager at UCL, London, Greater London, United Kingdom
2002-2006	Nikolaos Nikolaidis, PhD	Clinical Trial Manager, Ethicon, Inc.
2001-2006	Patricia Fulkerson, MD, PhD	Medical Officer, NIAID
2005	Charles DeBrosse, MD	Allergist and Immunologist, Allergy and Asthma Centre of Dayton
2003-2005	Jane Abey
1999-2005	Samuel Pope, PhD, JD	Associate Professor of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Rockford
2004	Matthew Doepker, MD	Surgical Oncology, Premier Health, Centerville, OH
2002-2004	Lynn Hassman, MD, PhD	Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis
2000-2002	Emily Muntel, MD, RhMSUS	Rheumatologist, Department of Internal Medicine, UC Health
1999-2002	Jessica L. Colyer (formerly Kavanaugh), MD
1999-2001	Michael Royalty, MD	Anesthesiologist and Pain Specialist, Advanced Pain Care Clinic, IN
1999	Elizabeth Moulton, MD, PhD	Assistant Professor, Pediatrics-Infectious Disease, Baylor College of Medicine
1999	Michael Brigg, MD	Radiologist, United Imaging Consultants, LLC, Mission, KS
1998-1999	Dawn Meagher
1998	Connie Gilloon (formerly Lobas), MD	Anesthesiologist, American Anesthesiology, Abbott Northwestern Hospital, Minneapolis, Minnesota
1998	Angela Damen (formerly Matthews), PhD	Bone Marrow Transplantation & Immune Deficiency Cincinnati Children's
1998	Gregory Bebehani, MD, PhD	Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Hematology, The Ohio State University
1998	Kristen Long
1998	Brenna Carey	Research Associate, Pulmonary Medicine, Cincinnati Children's
1998	Natalie Beckman Jones, MD	Surgeon, Columbus, OH

Former Members - Postdoctoral

Lab Tenure	Name	Current Position
2018-2023	Julia Dunn, PhD	Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor at Colorado University Anschutz
2020-2022	Simin Zhang, MD	Instructor, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
2016-2022	Tetsuo Shoda, MD, PhD	Assistant Professor, Division of Allergy and Immunology, Cincinnati Children's
2020-2021	Kevin Murray, MD	Assistant Professor, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition, Cincinnati Children's
2015-2022	Michael Brusilovsky, PhD, MMedSc	Research Associate, Center for Stem Cell & Organoid Medicine (CuSTOM), Cincinnati Children's
2021	Ian Slack, MD	Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Michigan Health
2013-2020	Nurit Azouz, PhD	Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
2016-2020	Jeff Habel, PhD	Translational Labs, Cincinnati Children's Hospital
2019-2020	Li Merlin, PhD	Research Assistant IV, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Cincinnati Children's
2018-2020	John Lyles, MD	Clinical Associate, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition
2019-2020	Yongmei Xie, PhD	Gastroenterologist, Chendu, China
2018-2019	Salvatore Oliva, MD, PhD	Assistant Professor, Pediatric Gastroenterologist, Rome, Italy
2018-2019	Chen Rosenberg, MD	Pediatric Allergist/Immunologist, Massachusetts General Hospital for Children; Instructor, Harvard Medical School
2017-2018	Kelly O'Shea, MD	Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Michigan Health
2016-2017	Misu Paul, MD	Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, UF Health Allergy - Springhill
2015-2016	Vladislav Litosh, PhD	Commissioned Officer in Charge of Medicinal Chemistry Laboratory at the USAMRIID, US Army
2016	Mario Alberto Ynga Durand, MD, PhD	Research Fellow, Division of Allergy and Immunology, Cincinnati Children's
2013-2016	Mohamad Eyad Khorki, MD	Fellow, Nephrology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital
2012-2015	Ben Davis, MD, PhD	Clinical Associate Professor of Internal Medicine - Immunology, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa Health Care
2011-2015	Joseph Sherrill, PhD	Associate Principal Scientist at AstraZeneca
2013-2014	Kan Liu, PhD
2013-2014	YunJae Jung, MD, PhD	Professor, PI of Research Center for Innate Immune-Mediated Chronic Inflammatory Disease, Department of Microbiology, Graduate School of Medicine, Gachon University, Incheon, Republic of Korea
2010-2013	Carine Bouffi, PhD	Senior Scientist, Boehringer Ingelheim
2009-2014	Ting Wen, MD, PhD	ACGME Laboratory Genetics and Genomics Fellow at University of Utah Health
2008-2013	EunJin Lim, PhD, MB (ASCP)CM	Microbiologist, Bureau of Communicable Disease Control (BCDC), Dept. of Public Health and Social Services
2011	Marcia Fantoni Torres, MD, PhD	Adjunct Associate Professor at University of Kentucky, Bowling Green, Kentucky, United States
2010	Aykut Gok, MD	Cerrahpasa Medical School, Istanbul, Turkey
2007-2009	Ariel Munitz, PhD	Professor, Department of Clinical Microbiology and Immunology, Sackler Medical School, Tel-Aviv University
2007-2009	Li Zuo, MD	Allergist, Lakeside Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology, Duluth, GA
2008-2009	Zhihong Wen, MD	Associate Director & Chief Physician, Division of Pediatrics, the People's Hospital of Guangxi Zhuang Nanning, China
2008-2009	Carlos Fernandez Gimenez, MD, PhD	Ministry of Education, Spain FIS-CIC
2004-2009	Carine Blanchard, PhD	Chief Scientific Officer, Aldena Therapeutics
2005-2008	Miguel Stein, MD	Head, Allergy/Immunology Unit E Wolfson Medical Center Holon, Israel
2007	Fejzo Dzafic	Bosnia and Herzegovina
2007	Ann Collier, MD	Allergy and Immunology Specialist, Duke Health
2006-2007	Maria Vicario-Perez, PhD	Assistant Professor Institut de Recerca Barcelona, Spain
2003-2007	Yoshiyuki Yamada, MD, PhD	Assistant Professor, Section Chief, Division of Allergy and Immunology Gunma Children's Medical Center Shibukawa Gunma, Japan
1999-2007	Eric Brandt, PhD	Research Associate, Division of Asthma Research, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
2004-2007	Luqman Seidu, MD	Omni Allergy Immunology & Asthma, Atlanta, GA
2006	Michael Daines, MD	Associate Professor and Division Chief, Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, The University of Arizona College of Medicine Tuscon
2004-2006	Michael Konikoff, MD	Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, Eastern Virginia Medical School Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters, Norfolk, VA
2002-2005	Hiroko Saito (Akei), MD	Freelance Physician, ENT Medical Relief, Japan
2001-2004	Richard Noel, MD, PhD	Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Chief of the Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Duke University School of Medicine
2001-2003	Troy Scribner, MD	Allergist, Roseville, CA
1999-2003	Jesus Guajardo, MD	Associate Professor, Pediatrics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
1998-2001	Simon Hogan, PhD	Professor of Pathology, University of Michigan
1997-2000	Anil Mishra, PhD	Endowed Chair and Professor of Medicine Section of Pulmonary Diseases Tulane University School of Medicine New Orleans, LA
1997-1999	Nives Zimmermann, MD	Associate Professor of Clinical Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
1998	Yoram Stern, MD	Assistant Professor Tel Aviv University