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

Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, MD, PhD
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Epidemiology of Aging
- Epidemiology of Cardiovascular and Neurological Disorders
- Implementation Science
- Cardiovascular disease, health disparities, health of young adults, chronic disease prevention, kidney disease, hypertension, implementation science, simulation modeling

Maria Glymour, ScD, MS
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Epidemiology of Aging
- Epidemiology of Cardiovascular and Neurological Disorders
- Lifecourse
- Research Methods in Epidemiology
- Social Epidemiology
- Social determinants of health in aging; Cognitive aging, Alzheimer's disease, and dementia; Socioeconomic and geographic determinants of stroke incidence and outcomes; Causal inference in social epidemiology

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

Mark J. Pletcher, MD, MPH
Professor
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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

Neil Risch, PhD
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Biostatistics
- Epidemiology of Cardiovascular and Neurological Disorders
- Genetic Epidemiology

Justin White, PhD
Associate Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Epidemiology of Cardiovascular and Neurological Disorders
- Global Health
- Implementation Science
- Lifecourse
- Research Methods in Epidemiology
- Social Epidemiology
- Health economics, behavioral risk factors, tobacco use, global health policy, behavioral economics, applied econometrics, impact evaluation
Secondary Faculty

Willa Brenowitz, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Epidemiology of Aging
- Epidemiology of Cardiovascular and Neurological Disorders
- Lifecourse
- Research Methods in Epidemiology
- Social Epidemiology
- Alzheimer's disease and related dementias, role of sensory impairments and other chronic diseases in brain aging, social determinants of health, causal inference 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

Nancy Hills, PhD
Associate Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Epidemiology of Cardiovascular and Neurological Disorders

Alka Kanaya, MD
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Epidemiology of Cardiovascular and Neurological Disorders
- diabetes, atherosclerosis, cardiovascular disease epidemiology, health disparities among Asian Americans

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

Jorge Kizer, MD
Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Epidemiology of Cardiovascular and Neurological Disorders
- risk factors for heart disease and stroke, the interrelationship of glucose and lipid metabolism, bone and mineral disease, and cardiovascular disorders, particularly in the context of aging and HIV

Meyeon Park, MD, MAS
Associate Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- Epidemiology of Cardiovascular and Neurological Disorders
- patient-oriented research about cardiovascular risk, genetic predisposition, and lifestyle factors in kidney disease

Mary Whooley, PhD
Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- Epidemiology of Cardiovascular and Neurological Disorders
- Implementation Science
- Clinical informatics, Big Data, depression screening, cardiovascular outcomes, cardiac rehabilitation

Kristine Yaffe, MD
Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Epidemiology of Aging
- Epidemiology of Cardiovascular and Neurological Disorders
- Lifecourse
- epidemiology of dementia and cognitive aging, modifiable risk factors for dementia, dementia prevention trials
Affiliate Faculty

Dhruv Kazi, MD, MS
Associate Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Epidemiology of Cardiovascular and Neurological Disorders
- Global Health
- Health economics, cost-effectiveness, m-health, global health, anticoagulation
Postdoc

Sarah Ackley, PhD
Fellow
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Biostatistics
- Epidemiology of Cardiovascular and Neurological Disorders
- Infectious Disease
- Mathematical modeling of tuberculosis with molecular data

Teresa Filshtein, PhD
Fellow
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Epidemiology of Aging
- Epidemiology of Cardiovascular and Neurological Disorders

Kendra D. Sims, PhD
Postdoc
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Epidemiology of Cardiovascular and Neurological Disorders
- Research Methods in Epidemiology
- Environmental determinants of older adult health disparities