Ausim Azizi, MD, PhD, is professor and chair of the Department of Neurology at Temple University School of Medicine. He is also the chief neurologist and director of the neurological intensive care unit at Temple University Hospital. Before joining Temple, Dr. Azizi was associate professor and director of the residency program at MCP/Hahnemann University. Dr. Azizi is a general neurologist with a focus on stroke, multiple sclerosis and movement disorders. Dr. Azizi earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas and his MD and PhD degrees from Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, and completed his medical and neurological residency training at Yale University School of Medicine. Dr. Azizi has 15 years of experience in diagnosing and treating neurological diseases, and has also published numerous research articles, book chapters and editorials. His current research is focused on repair and regeneration of damaged nervous systems, with his laboratory exploring techniques to prepare adult derived cells for use in tissue engineering and brain repair. Dr. Azizi is the deputy editor of Neuroscience Letters and on the editorial boards of many other neuroscience journals. In addition, he is a member and official of multiple national and international neuroscience and neurological organizations, past president of the Philadelphia Neurological Society and was a visiting professor to the Mayo Clinic.

Dr. Alfred A. Bove is currently Professor of Medicine at Temple University Medical School. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Drexel University in 1962, and received the MD and PhD degrees from Temple University Medical School in 1966 and 1970. After a medical internship and residency at Temple Hospital, and a post-doctoral fellowship at Temple and the Mayo Clinic, Dr. Bove served two years as an undersea medical officer in the U.S. Navy, and then joined the staff in Cardiology at Temple in 1973. In 1981, he joined the staff of the Mayo Clinic in the Division of Cardiology, and returned to Temple as the section chief in Cardiology in 1986.

Dr. Bove has conducted research in basic cardiac physiology, coronary disease, exercise physiology, environmental medicine and computer information systems in medicine. His current research is directed toward Internet-based disease management systems for patients with chronic disease. His CME program conducted for the American College Cardiology, in the area of cardiac catheterization, was recognized as one of the central intramural programs of the College. Dr. Bove also directs the Temple University Underwater Medicine program, which has provided postgraduate training in environmental medicine to over 400 physicians over the 32-year tenure of the program.

Dr. Bove has organized numerous continuing education programs covering a variety of topics in cardiovascular disease, and has demonstrated a strong commitment to the teaching of medical students, residents, fellows and graduate physicians. He is the Editor in Chief of the web site of the American College of Cardiology. He is an expert in web site design, and medical database development. Dr. Bove has published over 250 original research papers on coronary disease, valvular heart disease, cardiac hypertrophy, exercise, coronary prevention, environmental medicine, and computers in medicine. He has authored texts on coronary disease, exercise medicine and diving medicine.

• Professor of Medicine
• Director, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
• Director, Medical Intensive Care Unit and Ventilator Rehabilitation Unit
• Specialties: Lung volume reduction surgery (LVRS), respiratory muscle function, mechanical ventilation, transplantation
• Medical School: Temple University School of Medicine Training: Pulmonary fellowship, Boston University School of Medicine
• Certification: Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine

• Director, Kidney Transplant Program
• Associate Professor, Surgery
• Specialties: General Surgery, Surgery Special Care, clinical interests in Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation, Vascular Access
• Medical School: State University of New York at Brooklyn College of Medicine
• Training: Transplantation fellowship and Surgical Critical Care fellowship, Thomas E. Starzl Transplant Institute at the University of Pittsburgh; Surgery Research fellowship, University of Arizona College of Medicine; General Surgery residency, University of Arizona College of Medicine Certification: Internal Medicine, Nephrology

• Chair, Department of Surgery
• Clinical interests: Gastrointestinal surgery; gastrointestinal cancer; surgery of the esophagus and stomach; laparoscopic surgery; bariatric surgery; reoperative surgery
• Education: Bachelor’s degree, Princeton University; medical degree, University of Rochester
• Training: Surgical residency, University of Pennsylvania Certification: Surgery

Christopher M. Loftus, MD, DHC (Hon.), FACS, is chair of the Department of Neurosurgery at Temple University Hospital. He specializes in the treatment of brain aneurysms and vascular malformations, extracranial carotid occlusive disease and cerebral revascularization. He also has broad experience in cervical spine reconstruction, benign and malignant brain tumors and lumbar stenosis. Dr. Loftus earned his bachelor’s degree cum laude from Dartmouth College and his medical degree from the State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate Medical Center. He performed his Neurosurgery residency at The Neurological Institute of New York, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. Prior to joining Temple, Dr. Loftus was for seven years chair of Neurosurgery at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. Prior to Oklahoma, he was for 13 years professor of neurosurgery at The University of Iowa College of Medicine. Dr. Loftus has published more than 200 research studies and peer-reviewed articles, 15 textbooks, 90 book chapters and numerous abstracts, has lectured internationally in 18 countries and serves on the editorial boards and as a reviewer for over a dozen scientific journals. He also serves as Assistant Dean for International Affiliations in the Dean’s Office at Temple University School of Medicine, negotiating and arranging exchange programs with overseas medical schools for students, residents and faculty. He is on the Board of Directors of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, and is Second Vice President (North America) of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies. In 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 he was named one of the "Top Docs" in Philadelphia by Philadelphia Magazine. Dr. Loftus is board certified in Neurosurgery.

Dr. Mangan is a 1973 graduate of George Washington University School of Medicine in Washington, DC. He completed his medical internship and residency at George Washington University Medical Center and Affiliated Hospitals and was board certified in Internal Medicine at ABIM in 1976. He received his clinical and research subspecialty training in Hematology at Tufts-New England Medical Center in Boston from 1976-1979 under Drs. Robert Schwartz and Jane Desforges, where he was awarded a National Leukemia Associated Fellowship.

He was board certified in Hematology in 1978 and joined the faculty at Albany Medical College, where he continued his clinical and laboratory research studies on the regulation of hematopoiesis by immune-lymphocytes. In 1981, he joined the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh, where he continued his clinical and laboratory research studies related to bone marrow and blood stem cell transplantation. He was recruited to the faculty of Temple University where he was promoted to Professor of Medicine.

Over the last 20 years, Dr. Mangan developed a first class Adult Allogeneic and Autologous Bone Marrow and Blood Stem Cell Transplant program, which has transplanted over 1000 patients with hematologic malignancies, marrow failure states and selected solid tumors.

Dr. Mangan has been recognized for his clinical expertise in transplantation by his peers as a Philadelphia “Top Doc” and by Best Doctors in America. Dr. Mangan has been awarded numerous grants from federal agencies, private industry and foundations.

He has published over 180 journal articles, book chapters and/or abstracts in his field and has served on the editorial boards of several prestigious journals, including Bone Marrow Transplantation, Blood, Stem Cells, Journal of Clinical Oncology and Experimental Hematology. He is a frequent lecturer on topics related to bone marrow transplantation and hematopoiesis.

Dr. Mangan served as president of the Pennsylvania Hematology-Oncology Society from 1995-1998. During his tenure as president, of this society, he chaired a committee that established statewide clinical guidelines for marrow transplantation, which were eventually adopted by the Pennsylvania Medical Society.

• Professor and Chair, Department of Radiation Oncology
• Medical Director, Oncology Service Line
• Specialties: general external beam radiation; 3-D conformal radiotherapy; IMRT; IGRT; Gamma Knife® treatments; SRS-SRT; translational research; brain tumors and disorders; prostate, lung, breast and GI cancers
• Medical School: Universidad de Navarra, Spain
• Training: Radiation Oncology residency, Hahnemann University Hospital, Philadelphia; Radiation Oncology and Nuclear Medicine Research fellowship, Hahnemann University Hospital; Oncology fellowship, American Cancer Society
Certification: Radiation Oncology

• Chair, Department of Medicine
• Clinical interests: Esophageal motility disorders including achalasia, noncardiac chest pain and dysphagia; atypical and typical GERD; extraintestinal manifestations of GERD; Barrett’s esophagus; post fundoplication problems; and esophageal motility disease
• Education: Bachelor’s degree, Texas A&M University; medical degree, University of Texas, Southwestern Medical School Training: GI fellowship, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda
• Certification: Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology

• Chairperson, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Sports Medicine
• John W. Lachman Professor
• Program Director
• Specialty interests: hand surgery, distal radius fractures, orthopaedic trauma