Surgery, Emergency and Critical Care
Adrien Dupanloup, DVM, MS
Assistant Professor, Surgical & Radiological Sciences
(See also: Neurology/Neurobiology, Diagnostic Imaging)
I am an Assistant Professor of Neurology/Neurosurgery and my research interests center on neurosurgical interventions in the management of intracranial disorders. Student interested in clinical research in neurosurgery can be involved in studies ranging from perioperative diagnostics (such as MRI, CT, Electroencephalography), surgical anatomy, and risk factor analysis.
To contact Dr. Dupanloup, please email amdupanloup@ucdavis.edu.
Sabrina Hoehne, DrVetMed, Diplomate ACVECC
Assistant Professor, Surgical & Radiological Sciences
I am an Assistant Professor of Clinical Veterinary Simulation and Small Animal Emergency and Critical Care Medicine at the VMTH. My clinical, teaching, and research interests center around the perception, performance, and patient outcomes in small animal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). Cardiopulmonary arrest is the ultimate emergency and if the veterinary care team does not quickly intervene, it will inevitably lead to death. If, however, high-quality CPR is performed, some patients can achieve return of spontaneous circulation and be reunited with their families. My goals are therefore to investigate the use of simulation-based CPR training on technical and non-technical CPR skills, identifying barriers to high-quality CPR team performance, and to evaluate factors associated with CPR outcomes in veterinary medicine. Potential summer projects may include: 1) the investigation of different CPR cognitive aids on CPR performance in senior emergency and critical care veterinarians, 2) the effect of different cognitive aids on veterinarians’ abilities to identify different cardiac arrest rhythms, 3) participation in developing a veterinary specific tool to assess communication skills during CPR. These research projects will provide students with training in veterinary CPR, with the opportunity to assist in high-fidelity simulation scenario development and programming, operate high-fidelity veterinary manikins, and with practice in assessing technical and non-technical skills needed to provide high-quality CPR.
If you are interested in a STAR project, please contact Dr. Hoehne at snhoehne@ucdavis.edu.
Sarah le Jeune, DVM, CVA, Diplomate ACVS
Clinical Equine Emergency Surgery and Critical Care
Dr. le Jeune is an equine emergency surgeon with a strong interest in acupuncture. Research interests include studies investigating the effectiveness of acupuncture and clinical studies on various facets of equine gastro-intestinal diseases and other equine surgical conditions.
Dr. le Jeune can be reached at sslejeune@ucdavis.edu.
Aijun Wang, PhD
UC Davis Medical Center, Department of Surgery (see also: Translational Research, Orthopedics, Biochemistry)
Dr. Aijun Wang is a Chancellor's Fellow Professor of Surgery and of Biomedical Engineering at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis). He is the Vice Chair for Translational Research, Innovation and Entrepreneurship for the Department of Surgery, Co-founder and Co-Director of the Center for Surgical Bioengineering (CSB), formerly known as Surgical Bioengineering Laboratory, and Dean's Fellow in Entrepreneurship at the UC Davis School of Medicine. He is also a Principal Investigator at the Institute for Pediatric Regenerative Medicine (IPRM) / Shriners Children's Pediatric Research Center, Northern California. Dr. Wang’s research focuses on developing tools, technologies and products that combine molecular, cellular, tissue and biomaterial engineering to promote regeneration and restore function. Specifically, the Wang Group is focused on integrating single cell spatial multi-omics (transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics) to study disease mechanisms and developmental process, and engineering stem cell/gene therapy, extracellular vesicles/nanomedicine, and extracellular matrix/biomaterial scaffolds to treat various surgical conditions and diseases. Dr. Wang and his team at CSB specialize in bringing therapeutics from bench to bedside, through innovative discovery, translational and IND-enabling studies, GMP manufacturing, and ultimately clinical trials in both human and companion animal patients.
Please visit Dr. Wang’s website at https://wanglab.engineering.ucdavis.edu or the website for the Center for Surgical Bioengineering at https://health.ucdavis.edu/surgery/research/index.html
Contact Dr. Wang: aawang@ucdavis.edu.