MMS Students

Title: Postdoctoral Trainee IV
Department: Surgery - Adult General Research

Title: Postdoctoral Trainee
Department: Surgery – Adult General

Title: Postdoctoral Fellow IV
Department: Surgery – Burn – Shrine

Dr. Popp received his MD from Medical University of Graz Austria in 2013. After 4 years of clinical training in General and Trauma Surgery in Switzerland and Plastic Surgery in Germany, he received a research scholarship in Burn Care at the Shriners Hospitals for Children and UTMB Galveston. During his fellowship he received the following research awards: Star Research Achievement Award, Society of Critical Care Medicine, Suprathel Young Investigator Award - PMI Polymedics Innovations, Travel Grant - Austrian Burn Treatment, Research and Prevention Study Group ABUSG. His Master dissertation is entitled "Acute kidney injury related to antibiotic treatment in rats with major burn injury".

Title: Postdoctoral Trainee IV
Department: Surgery – Burn – Shrine

Dr. Evan Ross, MD studies skeletal muscle cellular biology and mitochondrial function in critical surgical illness under the direction of Drs. Steve Wolf, Andy Murton, and Craig Porter. A 2014 graduate of UT Southwestern in Dallas, Dr. Ross completed two years of general surgery residency at the Dell Medical School in Austin before transitioning into full-time research. His current projects focus on the hormonal control of mitochondrial function and the protein synthetic machinery in skeletal muscle cells. Dr. Ross’s interests in the pathophysiological response to injury span the full spectrum from bench to bedside – in addition to his work in muscle cell biology, Dr. Ross has presented work at national meetings on chronic opioid use after injury and was recently awarded a UTMB Center for Large Data Research pilot grant to use administrative data to study the long-term health consequences of burns and other severe trauma.

Title: Resident Pgl-3
Department: Surgery-General Surgery

Kevin Hancock is currently completing two years of research as a T32 fellow during general surgery training at The University of Texas Medical Branch.