Gary C. An, MD, FACS

Gary C. An, MD, FACS

Professor
Acute Care Surgery
Vice Chair of Research

Contact Information
E-mail: Gary.An@med.uvm.edu
Office Location:
Univ. of Vermont, Given E309C, Burlington

Education

MD, University of Miami, Miami, FL (1984-1988)

Postdoctoral Training

General Surgery Resident, University of Illinois, Chicago/Cook County Hospital, Chicago, IL (1988-1993)

Academic Appointments

Professor, Division of Acute Care Surgery, Department of Surgery, Robert Larner, MD College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT (2018-Present)

Other Professional Appointments

Attending, University of Vermont Medical Center (2018-Present)
Associate Professor, Professor of Surgery, University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, Chicago, IL (2010-2018)
Assistant/Associate Professor, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL (2006-2010)
Attending Trauma/Burn Surgeon, Cook County Hospital, Chicago, IL (1997-2006)

Research Grants

Grant Title: Agent-based Models to address the Crisis of Reproducibility and Precision Medicine
Role: Principle Investigator
Source: National Institutes of Health
Dates: 8/2018 – current

Grant Title: Adaptive Simulation to Enable Anatomic-scale Agent-based Modeling
Role: Principle Investigator
Source: National Institutes of Health
Dates: 8/2015 - 5/2018

Grant Title: Hierarchical Representation and Simulation of Modular Cellular Systems.
Role: Site Principal Investigator
Source: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Dates: 10/2008 - 9/2011

Grant Title: Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Spinal Cord Injury. Developmental Project 1:
Development of a Mathematical Model of Inflammation and Healing Following Spinal Cord Injury.
Role: Site Principle Investigator
Source: National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR)
Dates: 9/2007 - 8/2012

Publications

Cockrell RC, An G. Examining the controllability of sepsis using genetic algorithms on an agent-based model of systemic inflammation. PLoS Comput Biol. 2018 Feb 15;14(2): e1005876. PMID: 29447154. PMCID: PMC5813897

Cockrell C, An G. Sepsis reconsidered: Identifying novel metrics for behavioral landscape characterization with a high-performance computing implementation of an agent-based model. J Theor Biol. 2017 Oct 7;430:157-168. [Epub ahead of print]: PMID:28728997. PMCID: PMC5635265

An G, Fitzpatrick BG, Christley S, et al.Optimization and Control of Agent-based Models in Biology: A Perspective. Bull Math Biol. 2017. ePub ahead of print: 08 November 2016. PMID: 27826879. PMCID: PMC5209420

An G, Kulkarni S. An agent-based modeling framework linking inflammation and cancer using evolutionary principles: description of a generative hierarchy for the hallmarks of cancer and developing a bridge between mechanism and epidemiological data. Math Biosci. 2015 Feb;260:16-24. Epub 2014 Aug 1. PMID: 25087460. PMCID: PMC4306653

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An-Cockrell Lab