GME Research

Hemangini Dhaibar, PhD

GME Research Director

Dr. Hemangini Dhaibar graduated with a Bachelor of Science (2010, Biotechnology) and a Master of Science (2012, Medical Biotechnology) from India. She continued her education at LSU Health Shreveport, earning a Doctorate degree in Cellular Biology and Anatomy (2012-2020) with a postdoctoral training in Molecular and Cellular Physiology (2020-2023). In August 2023, Dr. Dhaibar joined Willis Knighton Health as Clinical Research Liaison and later in August 2024 as GME Research Director and aims to be a part of the research process at a broad level, from defining research ideas, understanding literature, collecting and analyzing data, to publishing scientific articles.

Dr. Dhaibar possesses an exceptional combination of neuroscience, cardiovascular science, endocrinology, anatomy and cancer biology. During her academic career, Dr. Dhaibar has also taught and researched a wide range of topics of biochemistry, physiology as well as clinical anatomy including full-body human anatomy, embryology, histology and neuroanatomy. She has been involved in educating elementary, high school, college, allied health-occupational health, physician assistants, physical therapy and medical students. Dr. Dhaibar's passion to communicate and educate scientific ideas not only limits to but also involves a combination of individual meetings with group presentations among scientists, physicians, staff, non-science audiences, and co-workers contributing to the development of our community-based research environment here at Willis-Knighton.

In addition, Dr. Dhaibar has won several institutional, regional, state, national as well as international awards for her research endeavors. Some of her former projects include specializations in epilepsy, neurodegenerative diseases, mental stress, cardiovascular complications, environmental pollutants affecting endocrinological systems and infertility. Click here to check out Dr. Dhaibar’s research publications available on Google Scholar.