Current Students

HHP Doctoral Students

Charles Hodgman

cfhodgman@uh.edu

Advisor/Lab: Dr. Emily LaVoy

Research Interests: Exercise Physiology, Energy Metabolism, Exercise Immunology, Immunometabolism

Tiao Hu

thu5@cougarnet.uh.edu

Lab/Advisor: Dr. Michael Cottingham

Research Interests: disability sport promotion, athletes with disabilities branding and marketing, and the experience of minorities within the disability sport community.

Wishal Khan

wkhan7@cougarnet.uh.edu

Advisor/Lab: Dr. Heather Caslin/Laboratory of Integrated Physiology (LIP)

Research Interests: To understand the complex relationship between innate immune cells inside adipose tissues.

Jessica Kirschmann

jmkirschmann@uh.edu

Advisor/Lab: Dr. Craig Johnston, RISE Lab

Research Interests: Lifestyle and nutrition in individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their caregivers and the overall health of athletes from high school students to professionals.

Komal Kukkar

kkkukkar@cougarnet.uh.edu

Lab/Advisor: Dr. Pranav Parikh

Research Interests: Stroke rehabilitation, Fall prevention, Neurotechnologies, Machine learning/Deep learning, Computational Neuroscience

Rebekah (Hunt) Maddux

rhunt@cougarnet.uh.edu

Lab/Advisor: Laboratory of Integrated Physiology/Dr. Emily LaVoy

Research Interests: exercise physiology, exercise immunology, immunometabolism

Kingsley Okechukwu Oforka

okoforka@cougarnet.uh.edu

Advisor/Lab: Laboratory of Integrative Physiology/Dr Emily LaVoy

Research Interests: My research focuses on exploring the impact of exercise on the immune system and its application in improving health outcomes, particularly in the context of immune-related conditions such as cancer.