Faculty
Core Faculty
The PHGIC is directed by Sharon Kardia, PhD, with a committee of School of Public Health faculty members.
Sharon Kardia, PhD
Associate Professor, Epidemiology
Director, Public Health Genetics Program
Co-Director, Life Sciences and Society Program
Co-Director, Center for Public Health and Community Genomics
Dr. Kardia's main research interests are in the genetic epidemiology of cardiovascular disease and its risk factors. She is particularly interested in gene-environment and gene-gene interactions and in developing novel analytical strategies to understand the complex relationship between genetic variation, environmental variation, and risk of common chronic diseases. (Dr. Kardia is on sabbatical during 2007)
Goncalo Abecasis, DrPhil
Associate Professor, Biostatistics
Dr. Abecasis' research focuses on the development of statistical tools for the identification and study of genetic variants important in human disease.
Michael Boehnke, PhD
Richard G. Cornell Collegiate Professor of Biostatistics
Director, Center for Statistical Genetics
Director, Genome Science Training Program
Dr. Boehnke's research focuses on problems of study design and statistical analysis of human genetic data, with a particular emphasis on development of statistical methods for human gene mapping, and their application to diseases including type 2 diabetes and bipolar disorder. (Dr. Boehnke is on sabbatical during the 2007-08 academic year)
Toby Citrin, JD
Adjunct Professor, Health Management and Policy
Director, Michigan Public Health Training Center
Co-Director, Life Sciences and Society Program
Co-Director, Center for Public Health and Community Genomics
Professor Citrin focuses on the development of community-academic partnerships to strengthen research, teaching and practice, and he specializes in the ethical, legal and social issues arising from the incorporation of genetics in public health policy and practice.
Stephen B Gruber, MD, PhD
H. Marvin Pollard Professor of Internal Medicine
Associate Professor, Epidemiology
Associate Professor, Human Genetics
Dr. Gruber’s research focuses on the genetic epidemiology of solid tumors, genetic predisposition to cancer among Ashkenazi Jews, and relationships between environmental risk factors and genetic predisposition to cancer.
Peter Mancuso, PhD
Assistant Professor, Environmental Health Sciences
Dr. Mancuso’s research focuses on environmental factors that regulate pulmonary immune responses. He has used cellular, molecular and integrative biology to determine the impact of environmental influences such as dietary fatty acids, obesity, malnutrition, and tobacco smoke exposure on alveolar macrophage biology and pulmonary responses to bacterial infection.
Carl F Marrs, PhD
Associate Professor, Epidemiology
Interim Director, PHCIC
Dr. Marrs’ research focuses on the bacterial genes involved in allowing some strains of a given bacterial species to cause disease. Specific areas of focus are urinary tract infections caused be E.Coli, otitis media caused by Haemophilus influenzae, and new born invasive GBS disease.
Elizabeth Petty, MD
Associate Professor, Human Genetics
Associate Professor, Internal Medicine
Dr. Petty’s research focuses on molecular genetic mechanisms underlying tumorigenesis with a focus on identifying and characterizing the roles of novel cancer genes. Also clinical genetics research projects related to the cost-effect and ethical application of molecular genetic tests in medicine.
Patricia Peyser, PhD
Professor, Epidemiology
Dr. Peyser’s research focuses on genetics and epidemiology, the
contribution of inherited differences among individuals to the
prediction of diseases, and studies of diseases and traits that
aggregate in families. Community based studies in Rochester, MN and in the Old Order Amish in Lancaster, PA focus on cardiovascular disease and its genetic and environmental etiologies.
Julia Richards, PhD
Associate Professor, Opthalmology and Visual Services
Associate Professor, Epidemiology
Dr. Richards studies the underlying genetic causes of inherited eye diseases with an emphasis on glaucoma. Her work entails gene mapping, gene cloning and bioinformatic approaches to gene identification, cDNA library construction and microarray screening as part of gene expression studies, mutation screening in clinical and clinical trials populations, and genotype/phenotype correlations.
J. Scott Roberts, PhD
Assistant Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education
Dr. Roberts' research is focused on the process and impact of genetic risk assessment for adult-onset disorders.
Affiliated Faculty
Betsy
Foxman, Ph.D.
Professor, Epidemiology
Director, Center for Molecular and Clinical Epidemiology of Infectious
Diseases
Alfred
Franzblau, MD
Professor, Environmental Health Sciences
Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine
Associate Research Scientist, Center for Ergonomics
Stephen
Modell, MD
Research and Disseminations Director, Genome Policy Project
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