Senior Faculty
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Principal Investigator / Lab Director
Tom C. Nguyen
Dr. Tom C. Nguyen leads Nguyen Lab X with a focus on minimally invasive cardiac surgery, cardiovascular innovation, surgical education, and outcomes research. His work centers on advancing patient-centered cardiac care while mentoring the next generation of surgeon-scientists. He serves as Chief Medical Executive of Baptist Health Heart & Vascular Care and Chair of Cardiovascular Sciences at Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine
Faculty Lead, Cardiac Surgery
Joseph T. McGinn Jr., M.D.
Dr. Joseph T. McGinn Jr. is Chief of Cardiac Surgery at Baptist Health Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute and Director of the FIU/Baptist Health Thoracic Surgery Fellowship. A pioneer in minimally invasive coronary bypass surgery, he developed the McGinn Technique and has trained physicians worldwide. His work focuses on innovative approaches to cardiac surgery, physician training, and expanding access to advanced surgical techniques.
Cardiac Surgery, Quality and Outcomes
Bradley S. Taylor, M.D., MPH
Dr. Bradley S. Taylor is a board-certified cardiac surgeon and Chief of Cardiac Surgery for the North Region at Baptist Health Heart & Vascular Care. His clinical and research work focuses on robotic cardiac surgery, hybrid coronary revascularization, valvular heart disease, and open and endovascular repair of aortic aneurysms and dissections. He brings expertise in surgical innovation, quality improvement, outcomes research, and trainee education to Nguyen Lab X.
​Collaborating Faculty
Robotic & Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery
Makoto Hashimoto, M.D., Ph.D.
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Cardiothoracic Surgery / Surgical Outcomes & Innovation
Bryon A. Tompkins, M.D
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Research fellows
Dedication. Expertise. Passion.
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Medical Residents/Fellows
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Jonathan Burke, MD, PhD
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David Caldwell, MD, PhD
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Joline Fan, MD
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Andrew Moses Lee, MD
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Clara Starkweather, MD, PhD
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Maxwell Wang, MD, PhD
Alumni
Postdocs
Gopala Anumanchipalli, PhD (Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley)
Maxime Baud, MD PhD (Epileptologist, Lead of e-lab, University of Bern)
Maryam Bijanzadeh, PhD (iRhythm Technologies)
Kristofer Bouchard, PhD (Research Scientist, LBNL)
Jen Dwyer, MD PhD (Sleep fellowship, Stanford University)
Erik Edwards, PhD (Research Scientist, EMR.AI)
Dario Englot, MD PhD (Assistant Professor, Neurosurgery, Vanderbilt)
Neal Fox, PhD (Crystal Springs Uplands School)
Laura Gwilliams, PhD (Assistant Professor, Stanford University)
Liberty Hamilton, PhD (Assistant Professor, University of Texas, Austin)
Ankit Khambhati, PhD (Assistant Professor, University of California, San Francisco)
Fatemeh Khatami, PhD (Assistant Professor, University of the Pacific)
Katsuaki Kojima, MD PhD MPH (Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati)
Deborah Levy, PhD (Postdoctoral Lecturer, Princeton University)
Yuanning Li, PhD (Assistant Professor, ShanghaiTech University)
Nima Mesgarani, PhD (Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering, Columbia)
Yulia Oganian, PhD (Assistant Professor, University of Tübingen)
Erin Rich, MD PhD (Assistant Professor, Neuroscience, Mount Sinai)
John Rolston, MD PhD (Assistant Professor, Neurosurgery, University of Utah)
Narayan Sankaran, PhD (Fellow, Kavli Center for Ethics, Science and the Public, University of California, Berkeley)
Terri Scott, PhD (Assistant Teaching Professor, Northeastern University Oakland)
Prashanth Selvaraj, PhD (Research Scientist, Institute for Disease Modeling)
Matthias Sjerps, PhD (Postdoc, Radboud University Nijmegen)
Will Schuerman, PhD (Amazon AWS)
Emily Stephen, PhD (Assistant Professor, Statistical Neuroscience, Boston University)
Pengfei Sun, PhD (Software Engineer, Cisco)
Azadeh Yazdan, PhD (Assistant Professor, Neuroengineering, University of Washington)
Han Yi, PhD (Institute for Defense Analyses)
Yizhen Zhang, PhD (Resident Researcher, OpenAI)
Lingyun Zhao, PhD (Assistant Professor, Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh)
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Medical Residents / Students
Jonathan Breshears, MD
Sattar Khoshkoo
Katsuaki Kojima
Kunal Raygor, MD
Graduate Students
Ilina Bhaya-Grossman, PhD (Postdoc, Stanford University)
Josh Chartier, PhD (Research Scientist, Facebook Reality Labs)
Connie Cheung, PhD (Research Scientist, Scanadu)
Emily Cibelli, PhD (Postdoc, Northwestern University)
David Conant, PhD (Head of Bioinformatics, Synthego)
Ben Dichter, PhD (CatalystNeuro)
Kaylo Littlejohn, PhD (Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Roblox)
Sean Metzger, PhD (Researcher, OpenAI)
David Moses, PhD (Postdoc, University of California, San Francisco)
Leah Muller, PhD (Intuitiv Surgical)
Claire Tang (Data Scientist, Samba TV)
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Staff​
Vanessa Anderson (Medical Student, Columbia University)
Miranda Babiak (Speech Pathologist, UPMC)
Nathan Cahn (DocMatter)
Ruofan Cai (Graduate Student, University of Washington)
Dharshan Chandramohan
David Chang (Medical Student, Cornell University)
Maansi Desai (Graduate Student, University of Texas)
Max Dougherty (Medical Student, Yale University)
Felicia Elefant (Clinical Collaborations Project Coordinator, NeuroPace, Inc.)
Mona Fahim (Signal Integrity Engineer, Rambus)
Rujul Gandhi (Graduate Student, Harvard University)
Vineeth Kakani (Research Coordinator, Axion)
Garret Kurteff (Graduate Student, University of Texas)
Daniel Lam (University of Chicago Medical School)
Morgan Lee (Medical Student, University of Southern California)
Aria Lin (Medical Student, University of California, San Francisco)
Ben Lucas
Pierluigi Mantovani (Evolution Devices)
Siddharth Marathe (Medical/Graduate Student, Baylor College of Medicine-Rice University)
Tanay Poddar (Medical Student, University of Central Florida)
Angela Ren (CMU HCI program)
Ryon Sabouni
Margaret Seaton (Medical Student, University of California, San Diego)
Alia Shafi (Software Engineering Student, App Academy)
Deanna Wallace, PhD
Catherine Wang (Graduate Student, San Diego State University-University of California, San Diego)
David Xie