Message from Chancellor Fox: One of UCSD’s greatest institutional strengths is the breadth and depth of faculty research on a range of important topics. Each month, Chancellor’s Corner will showcase cross-disciplinary faculty expertise in a specific area. I invite you to learn more about the work of these scholars, and I hope you share my pride in their achievements and their contributions to society.

HEART MATTERS

Christine R. Harris, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology
Christine Harris is interested in the function and effects of a number of different specific emotions (particularly, jealousy, embarrassment, envy, and humor) as well as the role of such emotions in health and well-being. Harris also studies how emotional states interact with processes of cognition and judgment. More…

Piotr Winkielman, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
Piotr Winkielman conducts research in the area of social cognition - a field that seeks to understand how people mentally make sense of our social world. Much of his work focuses on the relation between emotion and cognition, the study of how emotions influence our perception and behavior, and how the emotion-cognition interactions manifest in the body and the brain. Winkielman also investigate how people make daily judgments and decisions. More…

James A. Kulik, Professor, Department of Psychology
James Kulik studies social psychological principles as they bear on health-related issues, including health promotion, coping, emotion, emotional contagion, and medical care delivery. Of particular interest are issues relevant to social comparison processes, social support, and stress and affiliation relationships in acute threat situations, e.g., surgical settings. Recently, he has begun to explore the neural underpinnings of emotion. More…

Kirk Knowlton, Professor of Medicine, Chief, Division of Cardiology
Kirk Knowlton studies molecular mechanisms of viral heart disease and cardiomyopathies, as well as regulation of cardiac gene expression during ventricular hypertrophy and failure. More…

Anthony DeMaria, Professor of Medicine; Chief, Division of Cardiology; Co-Director, UCSD Cardiovascular Center - University of California - San Diego
Dr. DeMaria is an expert in the cause, diagnosis and treatment of heart disease in general, and specifically, in state-of-the-art diagnostics such as ultrasound and cardiac imaging. His research focus is the improvement of noninvasive imaging technologies and he has published widely on this topic. More…

Barry H. Greenberg, Professor of Medicine Director, Advance Heart Failure Treatment Program
Barry Greenberg studies new modalities of therapy for heart failure. Molecular regulation of structural and functional changes in myocardium during reactive hypertrophy and remodeling. Role of cardiac cytokines in the remodeling process with focus on changes occurring in the interstitial matrix. Along with being the Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, he is past (and youngest ever) president of the American College of Cardiology and of the American Society of Echocardiography. More…

Denise D. Barnard, Professor of Medicine, Director of Women's Cardiovascular Health, Assistant Director of Advanced Heart Failure Treatment
Dr. Hermann has interests in patient and community education in heart failure as well as heart failure prevention. She is evaluating the effects of the treatment of sleep disordered breathing on heart failure patient stability, and is involved in several clinical heart failure trials. Dr. Hermann serves on the HFSA Clinical Guidelines & Clinical Positions Committee, and the ACC/AHA combined Heart Failure and Heart Transplantion Committee. More…

Ehtisham (Shami) Mahmud, Assistant Professor of Medicine at UCSD and Director, Cardiovascular Catheterization Laboratory and Interventional Cardiology at UCSD Medical Center.
Dr. Mahmud is an interventional cardiologist who performs angioplasty and stenting for blocked arteries to the heart, kidneys, legs and brain. His research interests include the study of medical therapy, gene therapy, stem cell therapy, and device therapy for patients with heart and vascular disease. More…

** To learn more about other campus faculty scholars and areas of expertise, please visit the searchable UCSD Faculty Experts Database at: http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/facultyExperts/