Lewis Katz School of Medicine (LKSOM) at Temple University, located on the Health Sciences Center campus, is dedicated to excellence in education, research and patient care achieved by faculty, staff and students who represent the diversity of society. LKSOM takes pride in the excellence of its teaching, research and service programs by:
- providing education that is patient-centered, instilling in learners the school’s ethic of human service and lifelong learning;
- engaging in research that advances and integrates basic and clinical science; and
- administering patient care with compassion and understanding, utilizing contemporary knowledge and techniques.
Located in the historic city of Philadelphia where American medicine has its roots, LKSOM has been known for its faculty’s uncommon interest in and concern for students and its commitment to the highest quality of care for all people. On November 1, 2007, the Medical School broke ground on a new home. The 11-story, 480,000-square-foot glass and brick structure opened in May 2009 and has proven to be highly functional for both education and research.
On September 16, 1901, Russell H. Conwell, founder of Temple University, opened a medical school, lit by gaslight, for the “common man.” The faculty consisted of 27 lecturers, demonstrators and instructors. Medical practitioners taught classes at College Hall, next to the Baptist Temple, on present-day Main Campus. Samaritan Hospital, two miles up Broad Street, was the site of clinical instruction. Anatomical dissections on cadavers, which were delivered in pickle barrels, were performed in a hayloft. According to admissions materials, “matriculates of academic or scientific colleges, or graduates of reputable high schools of the first grade, or a normal school established by State authority, of both sexes, are admitted to the first year class without examination.” In the inaugural class, 31 students began the five-year program that included:
- classes held on nights and weekends to accommodate students’ day jobs,
- 15 required textbooks,
- total tuition and fees of a modest $635, and
- a curriculum requiring 700 hours of work each year.
From such modest beginnings, LKSOM has emerged as a school of national reputation. Nationally ranked by U.S. News & World Report, the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University prepares students for a rewarding career in medical practice or research. The combined energy created by enthusiastic faculty, state-of-the-art technology, and soaring new facilities makes Temple an exciting place to study medicine today.
Graduate Faculty
Michael V. Autieri, Professor, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; PhD, Hahnemann University.
Mary F. Barbe, Professor, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; PhD, Wake Forest University.
Lucia Borriello, Assistant Professor, Department of Cancer and Cellular Biology, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; PhD, University of Paris.
Bettina A. Buttaro, Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Education and Data Science, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; PhD, University of Minnesota.
Marion M. Chan, Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Education and Data Science, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; PhD, Cornell University Medical College.
Parkson Lee-Gau Chong, Professor, Department of Medical Genetics and Molecular Biochemistry, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Judith Daniels, Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Education and Data Science, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Satoru Eguchi, Professor, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; MD, Tohoku University School of Medicine, PhD, Tokyo Medical and Dental University.
John Elrod, Professor, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; PhD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
Concepcion Estaras, Assistant Professor, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; PhD, University of Barcelona.
Arthur Feldman, Laura H. Carnell Professor, Department of Medicine, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; MD, PHD, Louisiana State University.
Silvia Fossati, Associate Professor, Department of Neural Sciences, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; PhD, University of Florence.
Gianluca Gallo, Professor, Department of Neural Sciences, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; PhD, University of Illinois.
Ana Gamero, Associate Professor, Department of Medical Genetics and Molecular Biochemistry, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; PhD, University of South Florida.
Glenn Stephen Gerhard, Professor and the Joseph and Rebecca Goodfriend Endowed Chair in Genetics, Department of Medical Genetics and Molecular Biochemistry, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; MD, The Pennsylvania State University.
Kathleen M. Giangiacomo, Associate Professor, Department of Medical Genetics and Molecular Biochemistry, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; PhD, University of Pennsylvania.
Xavier Graña-Amat, Professor, Department of Cancer and Cellular Biology, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; PhD, University of Barcelona.
Dale S. Haines, Associate Professor, Department of Medical Genetics and Molecular Biochemistry, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; PhD, Hahnemann University.
Wen-Zhe Ho, Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; MD, Wuhan University School of Medicine.
Liselotte Jensen, Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Inflammation, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; PhD, University of Aarhus.
Shin Hyeok Kang, Associate Professor, Department of Neural Sciences, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; PhD, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Kamel Khalili, Laura H. Carnell Professor, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Inflammation, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; PhD, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
Mohsin Khan, Associate Professor, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; PhD, University of the Punjab.
Laurie Kilpatrick, Professor, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Inflammation, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; PhD, University of Pennsylvania.
Seonhee Kim, Associate Professor, Department of Neural Sciences, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; PhD, Rutgers University.
Lynn Kirby, Professor, Department of Neural Sciences, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; PhD, University of Pennsylvania.
Raj Kishore, Professor, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; PhD, Lucknow University.
Beata Kosmider, Professor, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Inflammation, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; PhD, University of Lodz.
Barbara Krynska, Research Associate Professor, Department of Shriners Hospitals Pediatric Research Center, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; PhD, Medical University of Silesia.
Satya P. Kunapuli, Professor, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; PhD, Indian Institute of Science.
Shuxin Li, Professor, Department of Neural Sciences, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; MD, PhD, Henan Medical University.
Xiaolei Liu, Assistant Professor, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; PhD, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.
Lee-Yuan Liu-Chen, Professor, Department of Neural Sciences, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Victor Luna, Assistant Professor, Department of Neural Sciences, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; PhD.
Grace X. Ma, Laura H. Carnell Professor, Department of Urban Health and Population Science, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; PhD, University of Oklahoma.
Sadia Mohsin, Assistant Professor, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; PhD, University of the Punjab.
Marc Monestier, Professor, Department of Biomedical Education and Data Science, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; MD, PhD, University of Lyon.
Henry P. Parkman, Professor, Department of Medicine, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; MD, Case Western Reserve University.
Yuri Persidsky, Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; MD, PhD, Kiev State Medical Institute.
Steven N. Popoff, Professor and the John Franklin Huber Chair, Department of Biomedical Education and Data Science, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; PhD, Loyola University.
Domenico Praticò, Professor and the Scott Richards North Star Charitable Foundation Chair for Alzheimer's Research, Department of Neural Sciences, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; MD, University of Roma, La Sapienza Medical School.
A. Koneti Rao, Sol Sherry Professor, Department of Medicine, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; MBBS, All India Institute of Medical Sciences.
Scott M. Rawls, Professor, Department of Neural Sciences, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; PhD, East Carolina University School of Medicine.
Victor Rizzo, Professor, Department of Biomedical Education and Data Science, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; PhD, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, New Jersey Medical School.
Thomas J. Rogers, Professor, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Inflammation, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Slava Rom, Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; PhD, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
Brad S. Rothberg, Professor, Department of Medical Genetics and Molecular Biochemistry, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; PhD, University of Florida.
Abdelkarim Sabri, Professor, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; PhD, Rene Descartes University.
Mahmut Safak, Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Inflammation, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; PhD, Thomas Jefferson University.
Umadevi Sajjan, Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Inflammation, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; PhD, University of Mysore.
Ilker K. Sariyer, Research Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Inflammation, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; PhD, DVM, Temple University.
Bassel E. Sawaya, Professor, Department of Cancer and Cellular Biology, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; PhD, Rene Descartes University.
Rosario Scalia, Professor, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; MD, PhD, University of Catania.
Michael Selzer, Professor, Department of Shriners Hospitals Pediatric Research Center, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; MD, PhD, New York University.
Scott K. Shore, Associate Professor, Department of Medical Genetics and Molecular Biochemistry, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; PhD, Drexel University.
Stephanie E. Sillivan, Assistant Professor, Department of Neural Sciences, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; PhD, Vanderbilt University.
Jillian Simon, Assistant Professor, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago.
Tomasz Skorski, Professor, Department of Cancer and Cellular Biology, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; MD, PhD, DSc, Medical Academy of Warsaw.
George Smith, Professor, Department of Neural Sciences, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; PhD, Case Western Reserve University.
Nathaniel W. Snyder, Associate Professor, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; PhD, University of Pennsylvania.
Jonathan Soboloff, Professor, Department of Cancer and Cellular Biology, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; PhD, University of Ottawa.
Young-Jin Son, Professor, Department of Neural Sciences, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; PhD, University of Texas at Austin.
Dianne R. Soprano, Professor Emerita, Department of Medical Genetics and Molecular Biochemistry, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; PhD, Rutgers University.
Vincent Tam, Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Inflammation, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; PhD, Harvard Medical School.
Gareth Thomas, Associate Professor, Department of Neural Sciences, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; PhD, Dundee University.
Ying Tian, Associate Professor, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; PhD, Temple University.
Douglas Tilley, Professor, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; PhD, Queen's University.
Pedro Torres-Ayuso, Assistant Professor, Department of Cancer and Cellular Biology, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; PhD, Autonomous University of Madrid.
Alexander Y. Tsygankov, Associate Professor, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; PhD, Bach Institute of Biochemistry, Moscow.
Çagla Tükel, Professor, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Inflammation, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; PhD, Ankara University.
Ellen M. Unterwald, Professor, Department of Neural Sciences, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; PhD, Boston University School of Medicine.
Hong Wang, Laura H. Carnell Professor, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; MD, PhD, University of Montreal.
Sara Jane Ward, Associate Professor, Department of Neural Sciences, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; PhD, Wake Forest University.
Kelly A. Whelan, Assistant Professor, Department of Cancer and Cellular Biology, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; PhD, Drexel University.
Marla R. Wolfson, Professor, Department of Center for Translational Medicine, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; PhD, Temple University.
Sheng Wu, Associate Professor, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; PhD, University of Victoria.
Ling Yang, Associate Professor, Department of Medical Genetics and Molecular Biochemistry, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; PhD, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Xiao-Feng Yang, Professor, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; MD, PhD, University of Montreal.
Jun Yu, Professor, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; MD, Yale University School of Medicine.
M. Raza Zaidi, Associate Professor, Department of Cancer and Cellular Biology, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; PhD, Rutgers University, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
Wei Zhang, Assistant Professor, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Lewis Katz School of Medicine; PhD, Sun Yat-Sen University.