People

Richard Casaburi
Medical Co-Director

Richard Casaburi, PhD, MD established the Rehabilitation Clinical Trials Center (RCTC) in 1998. The RCTC conducts multiple concurrent clinical trials, focused on developing strategies such as exercise testing and training to improve the lives of patients with COPD. Dr. Casaburi is Professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and holds the Alvin Grancell/Mary Burns Endowed Chair in the Rehabilitative Sciences at The Lundqusit Institute.

William Stringer
Medical Co-Director

William W. Stringer, MD is a Professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. His research studies focus on improving exercise capacity in patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) with devices, medications, behavioral therapy, and exercise rehabilitation.

Janos Porszasz
Technical Director

Janos Porszasz, MD, PhD is a Professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He is a core member of the research faculty and Technical Director of the Rehabilitation Clinical Trials Unit. His interests include exercise testing methodology and mechanisms of exercise limitation in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Harry Rossiter
Director of Research Training

Harry B. Rossiter, PhD is a Professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He conducts clinical and translational research in respiratory and exercise physiology. His research focuses on oxygen transport and utilization in health and chronic disease. Dr Rossiter received a PhD in Physiology from the University of London, and conducted his postdoctoral training at the Department of Medicine at UCSD.

David Hsia, MD

Pulmonary and Critical Care Physician

Janine Vintch, MD

Pulmonary and Critical Care Physician

Ronald Oudiz, MD

Cardiologist

Charles Lanks, MD

Pulmonary and Critical Care Physician

Leticia Diaz, LVN

Lead Study Coordinator

Renee Love-Indelicato, ND

Study Coordinator

Miriam Urrutia

Study Coorindator

Teresita Endoso, BS, CCS, CPC-A

Adminstrative Assistant

Robert Calmelat, MS

Exercise Physiologist

April Soriano, BS

Exercise Physiologist

Agustin Leyva

Research Assistant

Asghar Abbasi, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Nicholas B. Tiller, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Dongxing Zhao, PhD, MD

Visiting Researcher

First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, China

Wei Yuan, MD

Visiting Researcher

Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, China

Min Cao, MD, PhD

Visiting Researcher

Bejing Chest Hospital, China

Amber Norman, BS

Research Assistant

CSU Long Beach

Fang Lin, MD, MS

Visiting Researcher

Beijing Friendship Hospital, China

Daniel Kwan, BA

Research Assistant

Graduated to: Medical School, University of California, Irvine

Rebeca Nunes, PT

Visiting Gradutate Researcher

University Estadual Paulista Julio de Mesquita Filho, Sao Paulo, Brazil