Frank W Sellk is the Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Rhode Island Hospital and The Miriam Hospital and is the Karl Karlson and Gloria Karlson Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. His research interests include the regulation of microcirculation in health and disease, ischemic injury and inflammation during cardiac surgery, collateral vascular formation, and the use of growth factors and cell therapy to increase blood flow to ischemic tissue. He received his medical degree from the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis, Indiana, and completed his residency at Indiana University/Akron City Hospital in Akron, Ohio, and a fellowship at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City, Iowa. He previously served as the Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and as the Johnson and Johnson Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. He is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology, the American College of Chest Physicians, and the American College of Surgeons.
M. Ruhul Abid is an associate professor at Brown University Warren Alpert Medical School in Providence, RI, USA. After completing a fellowship in Vascular Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, in 2001, he began his career as an instructor in medicine in 2002, rising to the rank of assistant professor in 2006 at Harvard Medical School. He joined Brown University Alpert Medical School (AMS) in 2011 and established his vascular biology lab at the CVRC of Rhode Island Hospital (RIH). He served on the Medical Faculty Executive Council of Brown AMS from 2012 to 2015. He is currently the Codirector of the NIH T32 Cardiovascular Research Fellowship Program at RIH and an Executive Advisory Committee member of the Brown Global Health Initiative. He has combined careers in research on cardiovascular diseases and in global health. He was the recipient of the New Investigator Award in Thrombosis in 2006, the 6th Annual International Werner Risau Investigator Award in Vascular Biology in 2011 from the American Heart Association, and the Stars in Global Health from the Grand Challenges Canada in 2018.
