Cardiovascular and Sleep Disorders K12 Career Development Program

The Third Coast CFAR HIV-related Cardiovascular and Sleep Disorders K12 Career Development Program (TC-CS K12) is a collaboration between the University of Chicago and Northwestern University that provides an interdisciplinary pathway to academic productivity for the next generation of physician and non-physician junior faculty scientists. The ultimate objective of our program is to identify, inspire, and support the development of independent, NHLBI-funded investigators in HIV research with strong and broad methodological and conceptual skills as well as collaboration expertise/enthusiasm.

In 2021, the TC-CS K12 program issued request for applications for investigators based at Northwestern University or the University of Chicago.

TC-CS K12 Program Directors

John Schneider, MD, MPH
Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology
Director of the Chicago Center for HIV Elimination
University of Chicago
55th Site Medical Director
Howard Brown Health

Hossein Ardehali, MD, PhD
Thomas D. Spies Professor of Cardiac Metabolism
Professor of Cardiology and Pharmacology
Director of the Feinberg Cardiovascular and Renal Research Institute at the Center for Molecular Cardiology
Northwestern University

The Third Coast CFAR HIV-related Cardiovascular and Sleep Disorders K12 Career Development Program is sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (K12 HL143959).

TC-CS K12 Scholars

Jade Pagkas-Bather, MD, MPH
Instructor of Medicine
Section of Infectious Diseases & Global Health
University of Chicago

Lauren Beach, JD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medical Social Sciences and Preventive
Medicine
Northwestern University

Danijela Maric, PhD
Research Assistant
Professor of Cell and Development Biology
Northwestern University

Bohdan Khomtchouk, PhD
Instructor of Medicine
Section of Computational Biomedicine &
Biomedical Data Science
University of Chicago

Mary Clare
Masters, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Division of Infectious Diseases
Northwestern University