Our Team

Meet Our Smart, Diverse, and Collaborative Team

The AIMS Lab at UT Southwester Medical Center is a dynamic place where medicine, engineering, and informatics seamlessly converge, creating a powerful synergy that elevates the standards of education and surgical training to new heights. Our diverse team—comprising attending physicians, residents, medical students, post-docs and data scientists —collaborates to drive innovation and excellence in medical simulation and education.

Principal Investigator

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Dr. Ganesh Sankaranarayanan, Ph.D.

Current Lab Members

Alexis Desir, M.D

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Sofia Garces Palacios, M.D

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Huu Phong Nguyen, Ph.D

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Shekhar Madhav Khairnar, M.S

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Lab Alumni

Amr Al Abbas, M.D

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Shruti Hegde, M.D

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Madhuri Nagaraj, M.D.

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Collaborators

Herbert Zeh III, M.D

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Patricio Polanco, M.D

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Daniel Scott, M.D.

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Carla Holcomb, M.D

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Caroline Park, M.D

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