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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.

Anita Wang, Ph.D.
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.
Statistical genetics; genetic epidemiology; functional genomics.

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

Chronic Disease Epidemiology

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

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

Brenda Cartmel, Ph.D.
Cancer epidemiology.

Mayur M. Desai, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Director, Advanced Professional MPH Program. Psychiatric/medical comorbidity; psychosocial epidemiology; health services research.

Andrew T. DeWan, Ph.D.
Genomic Epidemiology

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

Jhumka Gupta

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

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.
Cancer screening, epidemiology, and health disparities.

Stanislav V. Kasl, Ph.D.
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. (Sabbatical)
Cardiovascular disease in the elderly and epidemiology.

Xiaomei Ma, Ph.D.
Cancer Epidemiology.

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

Rafael Pérez-Escamilla

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.

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
Edward A. Bortnichak, Ph.D.
Amy Darefsky, 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.

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
Atmospheric chemistry; total exposure assessment; environmental epidemiology.

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

Kathleen M. McCarty, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Environmental and molecular epidemiology; metals and biomarkers

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)
Linda C. Degutis, Dr.P.H. (Surgery)
Mark B. Russi, M.D., M.P.H. (Internal Medicine)
Nina S. Stachenfeld, Ph.D. (OB/Gyn)

LECTURERS
Diane D. Aye, M.P.H., Ph.D .
Priscilla F. Canny, 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.

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-borne, 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.

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

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

Peter J. Krause, M.D.
Vector-borne diseases including babesiosis, Lyme disease and anaplasmosis.

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
Nancy H. Ruddle, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology

SECONDARY
Warren A. Andiman, M.D. (Pediatrics)
Robert S. Baltimore, M.D. (Pediatrics)
Michele Barry, M.D. (Internal Medicine)
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)
Jeffrey R. Powell, Ph.D. (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology)
Eugene D. Shapiro, M.D. (Pediatrics)
Andre N. Sofair, M.D. (General Medicine)

LECTURERS
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.

Rafael Pérez-Escamilla, Ph.D., Director of Office of Community Health; Public Health Practice Research; community health; nutrition.

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

A. David Paltiel, Ph.D. (Sabbatical)
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
Harlan M. Krumholz, M.D. (Internal Medicine)
Robert A. Rosenheck, M.D. (Psychiatry)
Howard Forman, M.D. (Diagnostic Radiology)

LECTURERS
Thomas J. Balcezak, M.P.H., M.D. (Internal Medicine)
Michael G. Bochenek, J.D.*
Marna P. Borgstrom, M.P.H.
John C. Bradley, M.B.A.
Marguerite M. Callaway, M.S., M.B.A.*
Gayle L. Capozzalo, M.P.H.
Katrina H. Clark, M.P.H.
Martha G. Dale, M.P.H.*
Richard D’Aquila, M.P.H.
Henry G. Dove, Ph.D.
Peter Ehrenkranz, M.P.H., MD.*
Anne-Marie Foltz, M.PH., Ph.D.*
Gerald S. Freedman, B.M.E., M.P.H., M.D.*
Blair D. Gifford, MA, Ph.D.*
William A. Gillespie, M.B.A., M.D.*
James F. Jekel, M.P.H., M.D. (Emeritus)*
William L. Kissick, M.D., M.P.H., Dr. P.H.
Lowell S. Levin, M.P.H., Ed.D. (Emeritus)*
Jennifer A. Mattera, M.P.H. (Internal Medicine)*
Stephen M. Merz, M.H.S.A.
Jorge Otero, M.S., M.D.*
Cynthia K. Pope, Ph.D.*
William P. Quinn, M.P.H.
Dorothea Wild, MPH., M.D.
Joseph A. Zaccagnino, M.P.H.
Feng Zhao, M.D./Ph.D.*

* Lecturers in the International Programs

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.

Achyuta Adhvaryu, Ph.D.
Health economics; adoption of health technologies in developing countries; social networks and health.

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.
Health economics; social network effects on health behaviors; economic effects of early fertility; long term effects of childhood health; combining genetics and social science.

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. (Sabbatical)
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)
Robert A. Rosenheck, M.D. (Psychiatry)

LECTURERS
Harris M. Allen, M.A., Ph.D.
Thomas J. Balcezak, M.P.H., M.D. (Internal Medicine)
Marna P. Borgstrom, M.P.H.
John C. Bradley, M.B.A.
Marguerite M. Callaway, M.S., M.B.A.
Gayle L. Capozzalo, M.P.H.
Katrina H. Clark, M.P.H.
John G. Culhane, J.D.
Martha G. Dale, M.P.H.
Richard D’Aquila, M.P.H.
Henry G. Dove, P.h.D.
Peter Ehrenkranz, M.P.H., M.D.
Gerald S. Freedman, B.M.E., M.P.H., M.D.
Shelley G. Geballe, M.P.H., J.D.
Blair D. Gifford, M.A., Ph.D.
William A. Gillespie, M.B.A., M.D.
Norbert Hirschhorn, M.D. (formerly GHD)
Bruce Jennings, M.A.
Sosena Kebede, M.P.H., M.D.
Bonnie D. Kerker, Ph.D.
Sharon D. Langer, M.Ed., J.D.
Jerold R. Mande, M.P.H.
Mary Alice Lee, M.S.N., Ph.D.
Jennifer A. Mattera, M.P.H. (Internal Medicine)
Stephen M. Merz, M.H.S.A.
Jorge Otero, M.S., M.D.
William P. Quinn, M.P.H.
Theodore W. Ruger, J.D.
Stephanie Spangler, M.D. (Deputy Provost, Biomedical Health Affairs)
Dorothea Wild, M.P.H., M.D.
Joseph A. Zaccagnino, M.P.H.

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.

Rafael Pérez-Escamilla, Ph.D.
Community Health and Nutrition.

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)
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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