Current Members
Habib Samady - Director
Dr. Samady is the director of the Georgia Heart Institute as well as a practicing Interventional cardiologist. Prior to joining the Georgia Heart Institute he was the director of interventional cardiology at Emory University Hospital. He has broad research interests including both large clinical trials as well as small biomechanical mechanistic studies.
David Molony - Co-Director
David has a PhD in Engineering from the University of Limerick, Ireland. He did a postdoctoral fellow with Don Giddens at Georgia Tech before joining the lab at Emory University as a research scientist. His main research interests are the use of machine learning for automated image analysis and prediction of patient outcomes.
Adrien Lefieux - Research Scientist
Adrien holds a MSc in mechanical engineering from the University of Compiègne, France, and a PhD in computational mechanics with Ferdinando Auricchio from the University School for Advanced Studies of Pavia - IUSS, Italy. He then worked as a postdoctoral fellow with Alessandro Veneziani at Emory University. His main research interests are in device biomechanics computational modeling and has served as the primary technical expert for patient-specific stent reconstruction.
Kaylyn Crawford - Engineer
Kaylyn majored in Biomedical Engineering and graduated from Georgia Tech in 2019. She is involved in device biomechanics as well as atherosclerosis research. Kaylyn expects to begin medical school in 2022.
Sameer Khawaja - Student
Sameer is a medical student at Emory University and originally began participating in research with the lab as an undergraduate. Sameer has worked on multiple research projects during his time with the lab.
Jessica Navas - Study coordinator
Jessica has a medical degree from Ecuador and as well as coordinating the SHEAR-STENT study she is an experienced analyst of OCT images.
Former Members
Ryan Dunn (2019-2021)
Student at University of Cincinatti
Luke Timmins (2010-2015)
Assistant Professor at University of Utah
Beth Thompson (2016-2018)
Medical student at University of Pennsylvannia
Arnav Kumar (2017-2019)
Interventional Cardiology Fellow at Brigham and Women's Hospital
Sonali Kumar (2019-2021)
Cardiology Fellow at Emory University
Parham Eshtehardi (2015-2017)
Cardiologist at Northside Hospital
Olivia Hung (2013-2015)
Clinical Assistant Professor at University of Arizona
Bill Gogas (2013-2018)
Interventional Cardiologist in Nanjing University
Past Visiting Scholars
Joo Myung Lee
Assistant Professor at Samsung Medical Center
Jin-Sin Koh
Assistant Professor at Gyeongsang National University Hospital
Sung Ahn
Cardiologist at Yonsei University