Lab Members

Current Members

Justine C. Lee, MD, PhD, FACS

Principal Investigator

Xiaoyan Ren, MD, PhD

Adjunct Associate Professor

Wei Chen, PhD

Assistant Project Scientist

Youngnam (Emma) Kang, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Zhenjiang (Mark) Ma, MD

Research Assistant

Anne Hall, BS

2024-2025 Research Fellow

Catherine (CeeCee) Cascavita, BA

2024-2025 Research Fellow

Archi Patel

Undergraduate Student

Kaavian (Kaav) Shariati, BS

Medical Student

Jose Chevalier, BS

Medical Student

Sarah Fadich, PA-C

Medical Student

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Residents

Anthony A. Bertrand, MD, MBA

2019-2020 Research Fellow

Nirbhay S. Jain, MD

Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Alumni

Elizabeth J. Volpicelli, MD

2016-2017 Research Coordinator

Julia R. Ayeroff, BA

2017-2018 Research Coordinator

Fransia De Leon, MD

2018-2019 Research Coordinator

David Foulad, MD

2017-2019 Research Fellow

Hi'ilani M.K. Potemra, BS

2018-2019 Research Coordinator

Shengyu (Sam) Lyu, DDS, PhD

2019 Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow

Miles J. Pfaff, MD, MHS

2014-2020 UCLA Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Resident

Candace H. Chan, MD

2019-2020 Research Coordinator

Allison C. Hu, MD

2019-2020 Research Fellow

Brian N. Dang, MD

2019-2020 Research Fellow

Michelle Oberoi, MD

2020-2021 Research Fellow

Rachel Caprini, BS

2020-2022 Research Coordinator

Harshini Malapati, MD

Medical Student

Johnny Lin, PhD

Statistical Consultant

Natalie Dahan, BA

2021-2022 Research Technician

Qi (Lori) Zhou, DDS, PhD

2018-2021 Postdoctoral Fellow

Vivian Hu, MD

2020-2021 Medical Student

Dillon Dejam, MD

2021-2022 Research Fellow

Ami Hayashi, MD

Medical Student

Jonnby LaGuardia, MD

2022-2023 Research Fellow

Shahrzad Moghadam, MD

2022-2023 Research Fellow

Madeline Chin, MD

2022-2023 Research Fellow

Kelly Huang, BS

Research Coordinator

Maiwand Bedar, MD, MSc

Postdoctoral Fellow

Jeremiah Taylor, BS

2023-2024 Research Fellow

Nghiem Nguyen, BA

2023-2024 Research Fellow