Primary Faculty
Alexis Beatty, MD, MAS
Associate Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- Epidemiology of Cardiovascular and Neurological Disorders
- Implementation Science
- Cardiovascular disease, cardiac rehabilitation, health disparities, digital health, implementation science
Margaret Handley, PhD, MPH
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- Global Health
- Implementation Science
- Lifecourse
- Reproductive, Perinatal and Neonatal Epidemiology
- Research Methods in Epidemiology
- Intervention design, linking public health and primary care interventions to address health disparities, implementation and dissemination sciences, chronic disease prevention, safety net innovation, public health literacy, migration and health/trans-national health, and environmental pollution
Michelle Hsiang, MD, MS
Associate Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- Global Health
- Implementation Science
- Infectious Disease
- Malaria control and elimination, diagnostics, surveillance, mass drug administration, pediatric infectious diseases, clinical trials, operational research
Michael A. Kohn, MD, MPP
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- Epidemiology of Cardiovascular and Neurological Disorders
- Machine Learning
- Research Methods in Epidemiology
- Diagnostic and prognostic testing for stroke, myocardial infarction, sepsis, and other emergency conditions; expert on database management for clinical research
Jeffrey N. Martin, MD, MPH
Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Cancer Epidemiology
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease
- Research Methods in Epidemiology
- Kaposi's sarcoma, Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus, HIV infection, cervical cancer, COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, International research, education in clinical and epidemiological research, mentoring junior faculty or trainees, public health, global health, Africa
Thomas Newman, MD, MPH
Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- Reproductive, Perinatal and Neonatal Epidemiology
- Clinical problems in pediatrics, such as jaundice and infections in newborn babies, urinary tract infections and cholesterol screening
Catherine Oldenburg, ScD, MPH
Associate Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
Mark J. Pletcher, MD, MPH
Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- Epidemiology of Aging
- Epidemiology of Cardiovascular and Neurological Disorders
- Early life causes of atherosclerosis, clinical decision-making regarding use of preventive medications (statins and anti-hypertensive medications), screening for subclinical cardiovascular disease, use of emerging technology and electronic health record systems to improve health, healthcare system embedded research, digital health, COVID-10
Vinayak Prasad, MD, MPH
Associate Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- Randomized trials, bias, health policy
Nooshin Razani, MD, MPH
Associate Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- Global Health
- Implementation Science
- Social Epidemiology
- Pediatric mental health, family and community health, access to greenspace, outdoor play, pediatric resilience
Rebecca Smith-Bindman, MD
Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Cancer Epidemiology
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology
- Understanding the impact of diagnostic testing on important patient outcomes and understanding the difference in access to different tests and variance in accuracy of these tests, the risk of cancer associated with incidental findings identified on ultrasound and CT imaging, and assessing patterns of radiation from diagnostic imaging
Fan Xia, PhD
Assistant Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Biostatistics
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- Research Methods in Epidemiology
- developing statistical methods in causal inference; causal mediation analysis; cluster randomized trials/stepped wedge trials to solve health research problems, including Alzheimer's Disease and Alzheimer's related disorders, HIV, and COVID-19.
Secondary Faculty
Deborah Barnes, PhD
Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- Epidemiology of Aging
- Implementation Science
- Older adults, persons with physical disability, persons with mental illness, cognitive impairment/dementia, cognitive function
Stephen Bent, MD
Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- Evaluation of the safety and efficacy of herbal remedies and dietary supplements
Matthew Cooperberg, MD, MPH
Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- Prostate and renal cancer management
Valerie Flaherman, MD
Associate Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
Hannah Glass, MD
Associate Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- Epidemiology of Cardiovascular and Neurological Disorders
- Reproductive, Perinatal and Neonatal Epidemiology
- Neonatal seizures, neonatal neurocritical care, neuroprotection, environmental health, cerebral palsy, epilepsy
Ralph Gonzales, MD, MSPH
Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- Design, implementation and evaluation of new ways to improve primary care-specialty care communication and care coordination, focusing on strategies that improve quality and outcomes and decrease costs.
Rebecca Jackson, MD
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Cancer Epidemiology
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
Kirsten Johansen, MD
Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- Chronic kidney disease (CKD) and end-stage renal disease (ESRD).
Karla Kerlikowske, MD
Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Cancer Epidemiology
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- Breast cancer
David A. Kessler, MD
Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- Population Dynamics, Biodiversity, Biological Models, Genetic Selection, Drug Safety, Medical Product Safety, Obesity, Tobacco
Helen Kim, PhD, MPH
Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- Epidemiology of Cardiovascular and Neurological Disorders
- Risk factors that predispose younger individuals to stroke and cardiovascular disease
Kerstin Kolodzie, MD, PhD, MAS
Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- perioperative outcomes research; kidney transplantation; abdominal transplantation; regional anesthesia; anesthesia; perioperative care
Elaine Ku, MD, MAS
Associate Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- Cardiovascular health, disparities in access to care, kidney transplantation