AHA-SURF
The Penn State Hershey SURF Program in Cardiovascular Disease is supported by a grant from the American Heart Association. The program provides support for students to spend 10-weeks in a basic or clinical research laboratory focused on cardiovascular research. In addition to a career development seminar series, the SURF program includes a weekly cardiovascular physiology refresher course and weekly cardiovascular research seminar, in which students will have the opportunity to interact with basic science researchers and clinical cardiologists.
Penn State College of Medicine is committed to equal opportunity and maximizing our diversity, and thus encourages applications from women, underrepresented minorities, persons with disabilities, or persons who represent the first generation in their family to attend college.
SURF fellows receive a $4 K stipend for 10 weeks. On-campus housing is also available at an affordable rate.
The following lists of Faculty Mentors include those who participated in the programs in 2012. To learn more about research conducted by these investigators and their expertise, click on the nmae of the investigator. This will direct you to their entry in our Penn State Profile. The faculty participating in the 2012 programs will be listed when this information becomes available.
Track 1 - Circulatory Control and Hypertension
| Gregory Holmes | Neural & Behavioral Sciences |
| Marc Kaufman | Anesthesiology |
| Urs Leuenberger | Cardiology |
| Jianhua Li | Cardiology |
| Lawrence Sinoway | Cardiology |
| Christopher Sciamanna | Internal Medicine |
| Sean Stocker | Physiology |
Track 2 - Renal Function & Injury
| Vernon Chinchilli | Public Health Sciences |
| Alaa Awad | Nephrology |
| W. Brian Reeves | Nephrology |
Track 3 - Cardiac Physiology & Heart Failure
| Charles Lang | Physiology |
| Omar Quintero | Physiology |
| Gerson Rosenberg | Surgery |
| Christopher Yengo | Physiology |
Track 4 - Vascular Biology & Dysfunction
| Mary Lott | Cardiology |
| Kevin Monahan | Cardiology |
| Ian Simpson | Neural & Behavioral Sciences |
Track 5 - Diabetes, Metabolism and Obesity
| Kirsteen Browning | Neural & Behavioral Sciences |
| Andras Hajnal | Neural & Behavioral Sciences |
| Leonard Jefferson | Physiology |
| Mark Kester | Pharmacology |
| Scot Kimball | Physiology |
| Christopher Lynch | Physiology |
| Yuguang Shi | Physiology |
| Renato Travagli | Neural & Behavioral Sciences |
AHA-SURF Director
The Director of the American Heart Association SURF program is Dr. Sean D. Stocker. Dr. Stocker's laboratory employs molecular, neurophysiological, and systems physiology to understand how the central nervous system contributes to cardiovascular disease such as obesity and salt-sensitive hypertension. His research is funded by the National Institutes of Health and the American Heart Association.
Members of the AHA-SURF Advisory Board:
- Sean Stocker, Ph.D., Director, Cellular & Molecular Physiology
- Charles Lang, Ph.D., Co-Director, Cellular & Molecular Physiology
- Chet Ray, Ph.D., Cardiology
- Christopher Yengo, Ph.D., Cellular & Molecular Physiology
- Lawrence Sinoway, M.D.,Cardiology