{"id":38,"date":"2017-08-09T10:29:14","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T14:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/muscle\/?page_id=38"},"modified":"2025-05-28T16:29:48","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T20:29:48","slug":"lab-alumni","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/muscle\/research-team\/lab-alumni\/","title":{"rendered":"Lab Alumni"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past 20 years more than 60 mentees (undergraduates, graduate students, residents, post-doctoral fellows, visiting scientists, and volunteers) have trained with the Thompson research team. Undergraduate students completed honor&#8217;s theses or directed research studies. Graduate students successfully defended Master theses. PhDs, post-doctoral fellows, and visiting scientists participated in advanced training, and volunteers had fun!<\/p>\n<p>These 60 mentees live around the world and participate in the scientific process in many ways. Below are a few examples of former lab members.<\/p>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>Former collaborator Research Assistant Professor<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Guoxian Wei, MS, DDS, PhD, Boston university, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Former Post-doctoral Fellows<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Dawn Lowe,\u00a0 Professor, Department of Rehab Medicine, University of Minnesota<\/li>\n<li>LeAnn Snow,\u00a0Assistant Professor, Department of Rehab Medicine, University of Minnesota<\/li>\n<li>JongHee Kim,\u00a0Associate Professor and Chair, Hanyang University<\/li>\n<li>Lisa Ferguson-Stegall,\u00a0Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Hamline University<\/li>\n<li>Cory Baumann,\u00a0Post-doc fellow, Department of Rehab Medicine, University of Minnesota<\/li>\n<li>Dongmin Kwak, PhD<\/li>\n<li>Lais Perazza, PhD<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Former PhD Students<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Reid Nelson,\u00a0Professor, Health and Human Performance, Concordia University Wisconsin<\/li>\n<li>Otto Sanchez,\u00a0Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota<\/li>\n<li>LeAnn Snow,\u00a0Assistant Professor, Department of Rehab Medicine, University of Minnesota<\/li>\n<li>Chiao-nan Chen,\u00a0Associate Professor, YangMing University<\/li>\n<li>Danielle (Brunjes) Templeton,\u00a0Clinical Trials Manager, Mount Sinai Health System<\/li>\n<li>Ted Graber,\u00a0Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy, East Carolina University<\/li>\n<li>Haiming Liu,\u00a0Post-doc fellow, University of Washington<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Former MS Students<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Mike Sandmann,\u00a0Physical Therapist, Wilsonville, OR<\/li>\n<li>Scott Johnson,\u00a0Physical Therapist, Windsor, CO<\/li>\n<li>Jon Groskreutz,\u00a0Physical Therapist, Orange City, IA<\/li>\n<li>Manesi Volpe,\u00a0Physician<\/li>\n<li>Kerri Petro,\u00a0Physical Therapist, Sammamish, Washington<\/li>\n<li>Pooja Arora,\u00a0Physical Therapist<\/li>\n<li>Selena Zheng,\u00a0Physician, Williston Park, NY<\/li>\n<li><span>Mahdiyeh Manafi, PhD Student<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><strong>Former Boston University Undergraduate Students<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Basya Pearlmutter, Research Assistant, Louis Stokes VA Medical Center, Cleveland, OH<\/li>\n<li>Julimar Avila, Graduate Student, Boston University\/Metropolitan College, MA<\/li>\n<li>Chris M. Bougher, Medical Student, <span>Albert Einstein College of Medicine<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Deborah Malekan, <span>DDS Candidate, Columbia University College of Dental Medicine<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Parth Shah<\/li>\n<li>Nick Yuen<\/li>\n<li>Ava Camarero<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past 20 years more than 60 mentees (undergraduates, graduate students, residents, post-doctoral fellows, visiting scientists, and volunteers) have trained with the Thompson research team. Undergraduate students completed honor&#8217;s theses or directed research studies. Graduate students successfully defended Master theses. PhDs, post-doctoral fellows, and visiting scientists participated in advanced training, and volunteers had fun! 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