Dr. Peter Corridon
Dr. Peter Corridon Assistant Professor
Bio
Education
Teaching Areas
Research Interests
Bio

Associate Professor, Department of Physiology and Immunology 

Dr. Peter R. Corridon is Assistant Professor of Immunology and Physiology in the College of Medicine and Health Sciences at Khalifa University. Dr. Corridon is a Medical Biophysicist, inventor, and entrepreneur whose expertise lies at the intersection of biomedicine, microvascular surgery, mathematics, physics, and engineering. He has published several papers in peer-reviewed international journals and conferences and received research grants with colleagues from Germany, and the United States, the United Kingdom, and the United Arab Emirates. His research focuses on microvascular remolding that supports tissue/organ regeneration and replacement and uses functional dynamic imaging to study these processes.

Education
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Institutional Research and Academic Career Development Award Fellow, National Institute of Health,  Institute for Regenerative Medicine and Department Physiology and Pharmacology, Wake Forest University, School of Medicine, NC 
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Science Teaching Pedagogy, Wake Forest University and Winston-Salem State University, Winston-Salem, NC
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Medical Biophysics & Biomolecular Imaging (Integrated Biomedical Sciences Program), Indiana University, School of Medicine Indiana, Indianapolis, United States of America
  • Master of Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York, United States of America 
  • Master of Science, Applied Mathematics,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York, United States of America
  • Master of Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Tuskegee University, Alabama, United States of America
  • Bachelor of Arts, Mathematics, Minors in Linguistics and Sociology, The University of the West Indies, Trinidad & Tobago
Teaching Areas
  • Curricula and Course Development to support the instruction of cardiovascular, pulmonary and musculoskeletal, renal, gastrointestinal and neurophysiology

  • Student Engagement and Retention

Research Interests
  • Microvascular remolding tissue/organ regeneration
  • Whole organ development
  • Functional dynamic imaging