May 18, 2007 — Dr. Tzung "John" Hsiai has been promoted to Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering with Tenure.

Hsiai has earned a PhD in biomedical engineering from UCLA and an MD from the University of Chicago after completing his undergraduate education at Columbia University. He is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Disease and is an attending physician with the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine at USC, and holds a joint appointment with the Keck School. Dr. Hsiai is the first holder of the Robert G. and Mary G. Lane Early Career Chair.

Working with collaborators from the Keck School’s Departments of Preventive Medicine and of Cardiothoracic Surgery and the Institute for Genetic Medicine, the USC School of Pharmacy, and Good Samaritan Hospital and colleagues in the Viterbi School, Hsiai is using MicroElectroMechanical Systems to investigate the mechanisms whereby hemodynamics regulates the development of coronary artery disease.