Co-Directors of the CVRI

Seth L. Robia, PhD

Dr. Robia is a Professor in the Department of Cell and Molecular Physiology, and is the recipient of multiple extramural and intramural funding awards. His lab focuses on heart muscle and how it responds to the varying demands of exercise and rest, and how it becomes disordered when diseased.

He has been co-director of the CVRI since 2015.

Alain Heroux, MD

Dr. Heroux is a Professor in the Department of Medicine and the Medical Director of the Heart Failure and Heart Transplant program at Loyola. He became co-director of the CVRI in 2016.

Division Directors

Vascular Biology and Hemostasis

Jawed Fareed, PhD

Professor, Pathology and Molecular Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Public Health

Bamidele Tayo, PhD

Associate Professor, Public Health Sciences

Neuroscience

Erika Piedras-Renteria, PhD

Associate Professor, Cell and Molecular Physiology

Cardiac Physiology and Biophysics

Aleksey V. Zima, PhD

Associate Professor, Cell and Molecular Physiology

Clinical and Translational Research

Clinical and Translational Research

Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery

Zaid Abdelsattar, MD

Assistant Professor of Surgery, Associate Program Director, Thoracic & Lung Transplant Surgery