Epidemiology

Along with providing education and training, department of Epidemiology faculty and researchers have achieved national and international reputations for excellence in their respective fields of research and expertise. Short summaries of faculty are detailed below.

Department Chair

Sharon L.R. Kardia, Ph.D.
Genetic epidemiology with a focus on genetics of common chronic diseases, especially cardiovascular disease and hypertension.

Core Faculty

	Allison E. Aiello, Ph.D., M.S. Multidisciplinary approaches for assessing antibiotic resistance in the community, clinical, and institutional setting; lifecourse SES, social context, and infectious diseases in elderly minority populations.
	Cibele T. Barbosa-Cesnik, M.D. Reproductive and women's health, particularly infectious diseases in women.
	Ana Baylin, M.D., Dr.P.H. Nutritional Epidemiology, genetics, chronic disease, global health
	Lawrence F. Bielak, D.D.S., M.P.H. Epidemiology of subclinical coronary atherosclerosis and coronary artery calcification.
	Matthew L. Boulton, M.D., M.P.H. Public health systems/services, surveillance and field investigation of infectious diseases, uses of isolation and quarantine, assessment of the public health workforce, and public health in China
	Ana V. Diez-Roux, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H. Social determinants of health, neighborhood health effects, cardiovascular disease epidemiology, epidemiologic methods generally and methodological issues related to the presence of multiple levels of analysis.
	Joseph N.S. Eisenberg, Ph.D., M.P.H. Infectious disease, transmission modeling, risk assessment, waterborne pathogens, vectorborne disease.
	Kathleen Ford, Ph.D. Social and behavioral aspects of the AIDS epidemic, sexual behavior, and sexually transmitted diseases (U.S. adolescents and international populations), cognitive and physical functioning, migration and health.
	Betsy Foxman, Ph.D. Molecular epidemiology of infectious disease.
	Sandro Galea, M.D., M.P.H., Dr.P.H. Social and economic determinants of population health, epidemiology of mental health and substance use, consequences of conflict and mass trauma.
	Sonja R. Gerrard, Ph.D. Virus assembly and egress, genetic determinants of pathogenesis, viral evolution, emerging Bunyaviral diseases.
	Siobán D. Harlow, Ph.D. Womens health, occupational health, reproductive epidemiology, international health.
	Katherine J. Hoggatt, Ph.D. Epidemiologic methods, environmental epidemiology, perinatal epidemiology.
	Sharon L.R. Kardia, Ph.D. Genetic epidemiology with a focus on genetics of common chronic diseases, especially cardiovascular disease and hypertension.
	James S. (Jim) Koopman, M.D., M.P.H. Analysis and control of infection transmission systems, theoretical basis for epidemiological analysis, causal modeling of epidemiological processes, complex systems, networks, public health surveillance.
	Lynda D. Lisabeth, Ph.D., M.P.H. Race-ethnic and gender differences in stroke, stroke epidemiology, the genetics of ischemic stroke.
	Carl F. Marrs, Ph.D. Molecular epidemiology of bacterial pathogens with focus on Escherichia coli in UTI, Haemophilus influenzae in otitis media and group B streptococcus in neonatal disease.
	Daniel S. McConnell, Ph.D. Estrogen and androgen assays or pathways.
	JoLynn P. Montgomery, Ph.D., M.P.H. Applied epidemiology and public health practice with specialization in control of communicable diseases, disease surveillance systems, and public health emergency preparedness and response.
	Arnold S. Monto, M.D. Occurrence, etiology and prevention of infectious diseases in industrialized and developing countries, frequency and cause of respiratory infections in families living in the community.
	Hal Morgenstern, Ph.D. Musculoskeletal conditions, cancers, neuropsychiatric disorders, nonintentional injuries, cardiovascular disease, psychosocial aspects of disease, occupational and environmental health, research methods, and access to and quality of health care.
	Marie S. O'Neill, Ph.D. Environmental epidemiology, air pollution, climate change, environmental equity, international health, cardiovascular mechanisms.
	Suzanne E. Ohmit, Dr.P.H. Clinical trials - vaccine evaluations. Longitudinal cohort studies
	Patricia A. Peyser, Ph.D. Genetics and cardiovascular disease.
	Amr S. Soliman, M.D., Ph.D. Cancer, cancer epidemiology, international health, developing countries, special populations, field methods.
	MaryFran R. Sowers, Ph.D. Women's health, particularly the social and biological interfaces at the mid-life, endocrinology of chronic diseases including osteoporosis, the arthrides, diabetes and related inflammatory processes, impact of biological factors on functional limitations
	Usha Srinivasan, PhD
	Yan V. Sun, Ph.D., M.S. Genetic/genomic epidemiology with a focus on genome-wide association studies of common human diseases, especially cardiovascular disease.
	Kristin M. Tomey, Ph.D. Nutrition-related health factors, neighborhood effects on physical activity patterns, change in body composition during menopause.
	Mark L. Wilson, Sc.M., Sc.D. Ecology of infectious disease, spatial pattern analysis, global change and health.
	Zhenhua Yang, M.D., Ph.D. Molecular epidemiology and pathogenesis of tuberculosis.
	Lixin Zhang, Ph.D., M.S. Molecular epidemiology of infectious, genomics and bioinformatics, bacterial pathogenesis.
	H. Thomas Zheng, Ph.D., M.S. Parametric and non-parametric models; scientific computing and computer simulation; statistical filtering; signal processing; theory and application of nonlinear dynamic systems, chaos and fractal.

Faculty with Joint Appointments

	Sarah A. Burgard, Ph.D., M.S. Population health, racial ethnic and socioeconomic disparities, job strain and job insecurity, stratification of sleep.
	Carol E. Chenoweth, M.D., M.S. Nosocomial infections and antibiotic resistance in nosocomial and community-acquired, antibiotic-resistant enterococci.
	David H. Garabrant, M.D., M.P.H. Occupational and environmental epidemiology, cancer epidemiology, neuroepidemiology and neurotoxic agents, colon cancer, pancreas cancer, environmental exposure to dioxins.
	Janet R. Gilsdorf, M.D. Haemophilis influenzae pathogenesis, epidemiology of respiratory pathogens in day care, antigenic diversity of H. influenzae.
	Stephen B. Gruber, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H. Molecular epidemiology of cancer, inherited susceptibility to cancer, modification of inherited risk.
	William H. Herman, M.D., M.P.H. Screening, diabetes, diabetes complications, diabetes and pregnancy, diabetes epidemiology, managed care, health economics
	James S. House, Ph.D. Social psychology, political sociology, social structure and personality, psychosocial and socioeconomic factors in health, survey research methods.
	Howard Hu, M.D., M.P.H., Sc.D. Environmental epidemiology, heavy metals, gene-environment and epigenetic-environment interactions; nutrient-toxicant interactions; early life origins of chronic disease; children's environmental health; hypertension, renal dysfunction, cognitive declines, Parkinson's Disease, Alzheimer's Disease, neurodevelopment; environment, chemical sensitivities, global climate change and health.
	John J. LiPuma, M.D. Molecular epidemiology of bacterial infectious diseases, non-pseudomonal pulmonary infections in persons with cystic fibrosis.
	Lewis B. Morgenstern, M.D. Race/ethnic and gender disparities in stroke, access to health care and acculturation of Hispanic Americans, community and professional education for acute stroke treatment and stroke prevention, social epidemiology.
	David C. Musch, Ph.D., M.P.H. Clinical trials, glaucoma treatment, quality of life assessment.
	Duane W. Newton, Ph.D. Virology and molecular diagnostics; development of molecular assays for the diagnosis and management of infectious diseases.
	Julia E. Richards, Ph.D. Mapping, cloning and characterizing genes involved in inherited eye diseases, including prevalent complex diseases such as glaucoma as well as some simple Mendelian disorders that affect the eye.
	Mack T. Ruffin, IV, M.D., M.P.H. Health promotion and disease prevention, cancer chemoprevention, cancer early detection, molecular epidemiology.
	George W. Taylor, Dr.P.H., D.M.D., M.P.H. Relationships between oral diseases and other systemic diseases, particularly the role of oral infections in diabetes mellitus, oral health and pneumonia in older adults and other adverse medical outcomes.

Lecturers and Adjunct Faculty

	David R. Johnson, M.D., M.P.H. Public health practice, policy, immunization.
	Christine L.M. Joseph, Ph.D., M.P.H., B.Sc. Racial/ethnic health disparities; racial differences in asthma incidence, prevalence, and severity/control; the role of IgE in asthma; factors related to asthma management and control in urban adolescents; medication adherence, school-based health
	Eve D. Mokotoff, M.P.H. Efficiently collecting relevant surveillance data and making HIV/AIDS surveillance data useful.
	Divya A. Patel, Ph.D., M.P.H. Women's health, reproductive tract infections, gynecologic cancers, infectious etiology of cancer, health services research.
	Aruna V. Sarma, Ph.D., M.H.A. Natural history of and racial differences in benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) and prostate cancer.
	Dean G. Sienko, M.D., M.S. General public health; Disaster response and preparedness.
	Woosung Sohn, D.D.S, Ph.D., Dr.P.H. Epidemiology and prevention of oral diseases, especially reducing disparities in oral health. Access to care and health services research.
	Howard Stein, Ph.D., M.A., Hon. B.A. The two-way relationship between health and socioeconomic development; the impact of neo-liberalism how it has affected the pattern of globalization and what the implications are to developing countries.

Emeritus Faculty

	Brian A. Burt, Ph.D., M.P.H., B.D.Sc. Epidemiology of oral diseases and conditions, prevention of oral diseases in public health, fluoride and oral health, disparities in oral health, and issues in provision of dental care.
	Kenneth W. Cochran, S.B., Ph.D. Toxic and beneficial effects of mushrooms
	Stephen A. Eklund, Dr.P.H., D.D.S., M.H.S.A. Dental public health, health services research, assessment for treatment needs, outcomes of dental care, and international oral health.
	Ernest Harburg, Ph.D., M.A., B.S.S. Anger, anger-coping and its effects on medically morbid conditions, e.g., high blood pressure, resolution of such conflict.
	Victor M. Hawthorne, M.B., Ch.B., M.D., D.Sc.(hon), FRCP(Edinb), FRCPS Chronic disease prevention; diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
	Millicent W. Higgins, M.B., B.S., M.D., D.P.H., F.A.A.C.P.(Hon) Epidemiology and prevention of cardiovascular and chronic pulmonary diseases and obesity; familial and genetic factors influencing susceptibility to environmental exposures.
	George A. Kaplan, Ph.D. Role of behavioral, social, psychological, and socioeconomic factors in disease prevention and health promotion; role of "upstream" and "downstream" factors in maintaining health, delaying disease, and improving function.
	H. F. "John" Maassab, Ph.D., M.P.H. Virology and microbiology, tissue culture, metabolism of infection, immunology, hospital epidemiology, development of live attenuated cold-adapted influenza virus vaccine for humans (FluMist).
	Friedrich K Port, M.D., M.S., FACP Clinical outcomes studies for patients with chronic diseases
	David Schottenfeld, M.D., M.S. Cancer epidemiology and prevention, with focus on prostate, breast, endometrial and colorectal cancers.