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Social and Behavioral Sciences

Paul D. Cleary, Ph.D., Dean and Chair
Health care quality; effect of organizational characteristics on care quality; health behavior.

Brian P. Leaderer, Ph.D., M.P.H., Deputy Dean and Vice Chair.
Atmospheric chemistry; total exposure assessment; environmental epidemiology.

 

Biostatistics

Theodore R. Holford, Ph.D. Division Head
Statistical methods in epidemiology; population models for time trends in cancer incidence; spatial methods for environmental epidemiology.

Lisa Calvocoressi, Ph.D.

Elizabeth B. Claus, Ph.D., M.D.
Statistical genetics; risk models; genetic epidemiology; breast cancer and neurosurgery outcomes.

Yongtao Guan, Ph.D.
Statistical methods for the analysis of spatial data including testing and modeling directional properties of spatial processes.

Ralitza Gueorguieva, Ph.D.
Repeated measures and longitudinal data analysis; random effects models; statistical methods in psychiatric research.

Haiqun Lin, M.D., Ph.D.
Statistical methods in longitudinal data and biomarker; frailty models; latent class models.

Steven (Shuangge) Ma, Ph.D.
Statistical methods for interval censored data, computational biology, semiparametric M- estimation.

Robert W. Makuch, Ph.D.
Modeling of biomedical time series data; methodologic issues in clinical trials; regulatory affairs.

Annette Molinaro, Ph.D.
Bioinformatics; prediction; cancer; genomics; outcomes research statistical genomics; survival analysis.

Peter N. Peduzzi, Ph.D.
Design, conduct and analysis of clinical trials; issues in multivariable analysis; issues involving informed consent.

Ning Sun, Ph.D.
Bioinformatics; functional genomics.

Daniel Zelterman, Ph.D.
Categorical data analysis; goodness of fit tests; mixture models; statistical methods in cancer research.

Heping Zhang, Ph.D.
Bioinformatics; Nonparametric regression and classification; Statistical methods and applications in Genetics, Genomics, Epidemiology and Psychiatry.

Hongyu Zhao, Ph.D. (Spring Triennial)
Statistical genetics; genetic epidemiology; functional genomics.

EMERITUS
Colin White, M.B.B.S., Ira Vaughan Hiscock Professor Emeritus of Public Health and Statistics

SECONDARY
Prakash Nadkarni, M.D. (Anesthesiology)

 

Chronic Disease Epidemiology

Kathleen D. Belanger, Ph.D.
Perinatal epidemiology.

Michael B. Bracken, Ph.D., M.P.H. (Sabbatical)
Perinatal epidemiology; neuroepidemiology; pharmacoepidemiology; clinical trials.

Brenda Cartmel, Ph.D.
Cancer epidemiology.

Mayur M.Desai, Ph.D., M.P.H.

Robert Dubrow, Ph.D., M.D.
Cancer epidemiology; HIV prevention; chronic disease prevention.

Nora E. Groce, Ph.D.
Cross cultural issues in health and development; health and social change; violence in society; international disability policy.

Laura Grosso, Ph.D.
Perinatal epidemiology; maternal caffeine consumption and reproductive outcomes.

Josephine Hoh, Ph.D.
Searching for the cause of age-related macular degeneration.

Debbie Humphries Ph.D., M.P.H.

Jeannette R. Ickovics, Ph.D.
Director, Social Behavioral Sciences Program. Community-based HIV/AIDS studies; interaction of psychosocial behavioral and biomedical factors that influence recovery.

Melinda L. Irwin, Ph.D.
Health promotion; exercise interventions; cancer biomarker.

Beth A. Jones, Ph.D., M.P.H. (Sabbatical)
Cancer screening, epidemiology, and health disparities.

Stanislav V. Kasl, Ph.D. Division Head.
Psychosocial epidemiology; occupational health.

Trace Kershaw, Ph.D.
HIV/STD prevention and reproductive and maternal-child health epidemiology.

Becca R. Levy, Ph.D.
Aging and psychosocial epidemiology.

Tené Lewis, Ph.D.
Psychosocial epidemiology; racial disparities; cardiovascular disease.

Judith H. Lichtman, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Cardiovascular disease in the elderly and epidemiology.

Xiaomei Ma, Ph.D.
Cancer Epidemiology.

Susan T. Mayne, Ph.D., F.A.C.E.
Nutritional epidemiology; nutrition and cancer prevention.

Harvey A. Risch, M.D., Ph.D.
Cancer epidemiology and etiology, diet, occupational/environmental exposures and cancer; epidemiological methods; cancer control and prevention.

Douglas Shenson, M.D., M.P.H., M.A., M.S.

Elizabeth W. Triche, Ph.D.
Perinatal epidemiology and asthma.

Marianne Ulcickas-Yood, Ph.D.
Cancer epidemiology and pharmacoepidemiology.

Herbert Yu, M.D., Ph.D.
Molecular epidemiology in cancer etiology, prevention, and management.

EMERITUS
Adrian M. Ostfeld, M.D., Anna M.R. Lauder Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology and Public Health and Medicine.

SECONDARY
Kelly D. Brownell, Ph.D. (Psychology)
Vincent T. DeVita, Jr., M.D. (Comprehensive Cancer Center)
Selby Jacobs, M.D., M.P.H. (Psychiatry)
Ruth McCorkle, Ph.D. (Nursing)
Peter Salovey, Ph.D. (Psychology)
David L. Snow, Ph.D. (Psychiatry)
Jacob Tebes, Ph.D. (Psychiatry)
Mary E. Tinetti, M.D. (Geriatrics)

LECTURERS
Susan G. Austin, Sc.D.
Edward A. Bortnichak, Ph.D.
Peter A. Charpentier, M.P.H.
Amy Darefsky, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Debbie L. Humphries, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Lloyd M. Mueller, Ph.D.
Jewel M. Mullen, M.D., M.P.H.
Bernard P. Schachtel, M.D.
Denise E. Stevens, Ph.D., M.Sc.
Peter H. Van Ness, Ph.D., M.P.H., M.B.
Kimberly Yonkers, M.D.

RESEARCH AFFILIATES
L. Viola Vaccarino, M.D., Ph.D.

 

Environmental Health Sciences

Tongzhang Zheng, B.Med., Sc.D., Sc.M. Division Head.
Environmental epidemiology; air pollution epidemiology.

Jonathan B. Borak, M.D.

Janneane F. Gent, Ph.D.
Perinatal epidemiology; childhood asthma.

Yinlong Jin, M.D.

Brian P. Leaderer, Ph.D., M.P.H., Deputy Dean and Vice Chair.
Atmospheric chemistry; total exposure assessment; environmental epidemiology.

Lawrence E. Marks, Ph.D.
Director, John Pierce Laboratory. Sensory processes including responses to noise, light, and other environmental stimuli.

Kathleen M. McCarty, Sc.D., M.P.H.

Nina S. Stachenfeld, Ph.D.
Sex hormone effects on body fluid regulation.

Catherine Yeckel, Ph.D.

Yawei Zhang, M.D., Ph.D.
Environmental cancer epidemiology.

Yong Zhu, Ph.D.
Molecular and evolutionary epidemiology.

EMERITUS
Arthur B. DuBois, M.D., Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology and Public Health
John T. Stitt, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology and Public Health
Jan A.J. Stolwijk, Ph.D., Susan Dwight Bliss Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology and Public Health

SECONDARY
Michelle Bell, Ph.D. (Forestry and Environmental Sciences)
David C. Cone, M.D. (Surgery)
Mark R. Cullen, M.D. (Internal Medicine)
Linda C. Degutis, Dr.P.H. (Surgery)
Mark B. Russi, M.D., M.P.H. (Internal Medicine)

LECTURERS
Diane D. Aye, M.P.H., Ph.D .
Andrea L. Boissevain, M.P.H.
Priscilla F. Canny, Ph.D.
Jan Dunn, Ph.D.
Cheryl Fields, M.P.H.
Gary L. Ginsberg, Ph.D.
Carolyn H. Grantham-Millman, M.P.H.
DeWei Li, Ph.D., M.Sc.
Judith A. Sparer, M.S.C.E.
Meredith H. Stowe, Ph.D.

RESEARCH AFFILIATES
Dorothy Cunningham, Ph.D.

 

Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases

Serap Aksoy, Ph.D., Division Head.
Molecular mechanisms of trypanosome transmission by tsetse.

Nadia Abdala, Ph.D., D.V.M.
Laboratory studies on transmission of HIV and other infections.

Matthew L. Cartter, M.D., M.P.H.
Emerging infections.

James E. Childs, Ph.D.

Maria A. Diuk-Wasser, Ph.D.
West nile virus, Lyme disease, malaria, vector-boorne, zoonotic, mosquito, tick, geographic information systems (GIS), remote sensing, spatial statistics, landscape epidemiology.

Durland Fish, Ph.D.
Ecology and prevention of vector-borne diseases.

Alison P. Galvani, Ph.D.
Modeling the evolution and epidemiology of infectious diseases.

Lauretta E. Grau, Ph.D.
HIV and Hepatitis C prevention among injection drug users, with particular focus on female and minority populations.

James L. Hadler, M.D., M.P.H.
Emerging infections.

Robert Heimer, Ph.D.
Hepatitis and HIV syringe exchange programs; molecular epidemiology of HIV and hepatitis.

Kaveh Khoshnood, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Epidemiology of infectious diseases particularly among injection drug users.

Diane McMahon-Pratt, Ph.D.
Director, Postdoctoral Affairs. Leishmania; parasite; vaccines; immunity; epidemiology.

Leonard E. Munstermann, Ph.D.
Medical entomology.

Linda M. Niccolai, Ph.D.
Infectious diseases, behavioral aspects of HIV and sexually transmitted disease (STD) prevention.

Melinda Pettigrew, Ph.D.
Infectious diseases of infants and young children.

Nancy H. Ruddle, Ph.D.
Lymphotoxin and tumor necrosis factor in parasitic and auto-immune diseases and lymphoid organ development.

Christian Tschudi, Ph.D., Director of Graduate Studies.
Genetics of infectious diseases; genomic, bioinformatic and proteomic approaches; gene regulation.

EMERITUS
Martine Y.K. Armstrong, M.D. Senior Research Scientist Emeritus of Epidemiology
Curtis L. Patton, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology
Gregory H. Tignor, Sc.D. Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology

SECONDARY
Warren A. Andiman, M.D. (Pediatrics)
Robert S. Baltimore, M.D. (Pediatrics)
Richard Bucala, M.D. (Internal Medicine)
Michael Cappello, M.D. (Pediatrics)
Louise-Marie Dembry, M.D. (Internal Medicine)
Erol Fikrig, M.D. (Internal Medicine)
Gerald H. Friedland, MD. (Internal Medicine)
I. George Miller, M.D. (Pediatrics)
Eugene D. Shapiro, M.D. (Pediatrics)
Andre N. Sofair, M.D. (General Medicine)

LECTURERS
Louis Alexander, Ph.D.
John F. Anderson, Ph.D., M.S.
Theodore G. Andreadis, Ph.D.
Adalgisa Caccone, Ph.D.

Benjamin A. Fontes, M.P.H., C.B.S.P.
Ruthanne Marcus, M.P.H.

RESEARCH AFFILIATES
Virginia Hodgkinson, Ph.D.
Louis Magnarelli, Ph.D.
Clara Ocampo-Duran, Ph.D.
Nancy Saravia, Ph.D.

 

Health Management

Elizabeth H. Bradley, Ph.D.
Director of Health Management Program. Health care needs of older adults, hospice, and quality improvement efforts.

Susan H. Busch, Ph.D.
Health and mental health economics, access to care for low income families, valuing behavioral health interventions.

Leslie Curry, Ph.D.,M.P.H.
Long term care policy; health services research; qualitative and mixed methods research.

Andrew J. Epstein, Ph.D., M.P.P.
Physician practice patterns, quality improvement, economics of the pharmaceutical industry.

Ingrid Nembhard, Ph.D.
Organizational behavior, organizational theory, quality improvement, organizational learning and knowledge transfer, teamwork and leadership.

A. David Paltiel, Ph.D.
Cost-effectiveness studies; medical decision analysis; health policy modeling.

Mark J. Schlesinger, Ph.D.
Health policy, including mental health and substance abuse; the growth and implications of managed care; public understanding of social polices.

Jody L. Sindelar, Ph.D., Division Head
Health economics; economics of alcoholism; drug use and crime; gender differences in the use of care; antitrust issues.

SECONDARY
David Katz, M.D., M.P.H. (Preventive Medicine)
Harlan M. Krumholz, M.D. (Internal Medicine)
Douglas L. Leslie, Ph.D. (Psychiatry)
Robert A. Rosenheck, M.D. (Psychiatry)

LECTURERS
Gayle Capozzola, M.P.H.
Henry G. Dove, Ph.D.
Howard Forman, M.D.
William Gillespie, M.D.
Kathleen Gondek, Ph.D.
William L. Kissick, M.D., M.P.H., Dr.P.H.
Mary Alice Lee, Ph.D.

 

Health Policy and Administration

Jody L. Sindelar, Ph.D., Division Head
Health economics; economics of alcoholism; drug use and crime; gender differences in the use of care; antitrust issues.

Elizabeth H. Bradley, Ph.D.
Director of Health Management Program. Health care needs of older adults, hospice, and quality improvement efforts.

Colleen L. Barry, Ph.D.
Government regulation of health insurance markets, policy approaches to improving the quality of mental health care, and the politics of health reform.

Susan H. Busch, Ph.D.
Health and mental health economics, access to care for low income families, valuing behavioral health interventions.

Leslie Curry, Ph.D.,M.P.H.
Long term care policy; health services research; qualitative and mixed methods research.

Andrew J. Epstein, Ph.D., M.P.P.
Physician practice patterns, quality improvement, economics of the pharmaceutical industry.

Jason M. Fletcher, Ph.D.

William T. Gallo, Ph.D.
Health effects of worker displacement; provision of end-of-life care.

Patricia S. Keenan, Ph.D., M.H.S.
Political and economic analysis of aging policy, health regulation, and insurance markets.

Ingrid Nembhard, Ph.D.
Organizational behavior, organizational theory, quality improvement, organizational learning and knowledge transfer, teamwork and leadership.

A. David Paltiel, Ph.D.
Cost-effectiveness studies; medical decision analysis; health policy modeling.

Jennifer Prah Ruger, Ph.D., M.Sc.
Economic evaluation of addiction programs; health, health systems and development; and health and social justice.

Mark J. Schlesinger, Ph.D.
Health policy, including mental health and substance abuse; the growth and implications of managed care; public understanding of social polices.

EMERITUS
Sally M Horwitz, Ph.D. Associate Professor Emeritus of Public Health
James F. Jekel, M.D., M.P.H. Winslow Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology and Global Health
Lowell S. Levin, M.P.H., Ed.D. Professor Emeritus of Public Health

SECONDARY
Rani A. Desai, Ph.D., M.P.H. (Psychiatry)
Howard P. Forman, M.D., M.B.A.
Amy C. Justice, M.D., Ph.D. (Internal Medicine)
Edward H. Kaplan, Ph.D. (Management Sciences)
Harlan M. Krumholz, M.D. (Medicine)
Douglas L. Leslie, Ph.D. (Psychiatry)
Robert A. Rosenheck, M.D. (Psychiatry)

LECTURERS
Susan S. Addiss, M.P.H., M.U.S.
Amir Afkhami, Ph.D., M.D., M.Phil, M.A.
Harris M. Allen, M.A., Ph.D.
Elaine P. Anderson, M.P.A., M.P.H.
Thomas Balcezak, M.D., M.P.H.
Michael G. Bochenek, J.D.
Marna Borgstrom, M.P.H.
John Bradley, M.B.A.
Marguerite M. Callaway, M.S., M.B.A.
Gayle Capozzalo, M.P.H.
Katrina H. Clark, M.P.H.
John Culhane, J.D.
Henry G. Dove, Ph.D.
Jude Fernando, Ph.D.
Anne-Marie Foltz, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Shelley D. Geballe, J.D., M.P.H.
William Gillespie, M.D.
Beatrice M. Halpaap, Pharm.D.
Norbert Hirschorn, M.F.A., M.D.
Bruce Jennings, M.A.
Bonnie D. Kerker, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Mary Alice Lee, Ph.D., M.S.N.
Jerold R. Mande, M.P.H.
Jennifer Ann Mattera, M.P.H.
Stephen Merz, M.H.S.A.
Valentine Njike, M.D.
Cynthia K. Pope, Ph.D.
William P. Quinn, M.P.H.
Theodore W. Ruger, J.D.
Douglas Shenson, M.D.
Stephanie Spangler, M.D.
Jeffery T. Wack, Ph.D.
Dorothea Wild, M.D., M.P.H.
Feng Zhao, M.D., Ph.D.
Erio Ziglio, Ph.D.

RESEARCH AFFILIATES

Karl Kronebusch, Ph.D., M.P.P., M.Sc.
Spencer Martin, M.D., M.S.

 

Social and Behavioral Sciences

Jeannette R. Ickovics, Ph.D. Program Head.
Community-based HIV/AIDS studies; interaction of psychosocial behavioral and biomedical factors that influence recovery.

Nora E. Groce, Ph.D.
Cross cultural issues in health and development; health and social change; violence in society; international disability policy.

Melinda L. Irwin, Ph.D.
Health promotion; exercise interventions; cancer biomarker.

Stanislav V. Kasl, Ph.D.
Psychosocial epidemiology; occupational health.

Trace Kershaw, Ph.D.
HIV/STD prevention and reproductive and maternal-child health epidemiology.

Tené Lewis, Ph.D.
Psychosocial epidemiology; racial disparities; cardiovascular disease.

Becca R. Levy, Ph.D.
Aging and psychosocial epidemiology.

SECONDARY
Kelly D. Brownell, Ph.D. (Psychology)
Mayur M. Desai, Ph.D., M.P.H. (Psychiatry)
Selby Jacobs, Ph.D. (Psychiatry)
Peter Salovey, Ph.D. (Psychology)
David Snow, Ph.D. (Psychiatry)
Jack Tebes, Ph.D. (Psychiatry)
Mary E. Tinetti, M.D. (Internal Medicine)

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