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Kardia Lab - Genetic Epidemiology

Group Leader
	Sharon Kardia, Ph.D. Genetic epidemiology with a focus on genetics of common chronic diseases, especially cardiovascular disease and hypertension.	skardia@umich.edu (734) 763-1871

Faculty
	Lawrence Bielak, D.D.S., M.P.H. Epidemiology of subclinical coronary atherosclerosis and coronary artery calcification.	lfbielak@umich.edu (734) 647-4162
	Ana 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.	adiezrou@umich.edu (734) 764-5435
	Patricia Peyser, Ph.D. Genetics and cardiovascular disease.	ppeyser@umich.edu (734) 763-4077
	Yan Sun, Ph.D., M.S. Genetic/genomic epidemiology with a focus on genome-wide association studies of common human diseases, especially cardiovascular disease.	yansun@umich.edu (734)998-6308
	Kristin Tomey, Ph.D. Nutrition-related health factors, neighborhood effects on physical activity patterns, change in body composition during menopause.	ktea@umich.edu 734-615-9572

Administrative Staff
	Maureen Roche	rochemoe@umich.edu

Research Fellow
	Jennifer Smith, Ph.D., M.P.H., M.A. Genetic epidemiology and epigenetics of common chronic diseases and their risk factors, including blood pressure, kidney function, ischemic brain injury, and cognition.	smjenn@umich.edu (734) 615-9455

Research Staff
	Tracy Fuller	tfuller@umich.edu
	Vernon Layher	vlayher@umich.edu (734)615-8918
	Ting Lu	lut@umich.edu (734)546-7148
	Tina Matter	tinab@umich.edu
	Maureen Roche	rochemoe@umich.edu
	Koji Yanagisawa	kyan@umich.edu (734)615-9725
	Wei Zhao	weizhao@umich.edu (734)763-5801

Doctoral Students
	Jennifer Bragg-Gresham, M.S. Kidney disease: Anemia management, QoL, Mortality, Hospitalization, Best practices, Medication use and outcomes, Comorbidities. Genetics: Aging, GWAS of complex traits, Heritability. Transplantation: Organ allocation, Marginal kidney & liver donation	jennb@umich.edu
	Alicia Lazarus, M.P.H. Epigenetics, genetics, hypertension, cardiovascular disease	alaz@umich.edu
	Erin Payne, M.P.H. Chronic disease genetics, stress genetics	payneer@umich.edu
	Chun Yi Wu	wuchunyi@umich.edu

Partners
	Donna Arnett, Ph.D., M.S.P.H.	(205) 934-7066
	Eric Boerwinkle, Ph.D.
	Aravinda Chakravarti, Ph.D.	aravinda@jhmi.edu (410) 502-7525
	Mariza De Andrade, Ph.D.	mandrade@mayo.edu
	Tom Mosley	tmosley@umc.edu (601) 984-2763
	DC Rao	rao@wubios.wustl.edu (314) 362-3608
	Sharon Terry, MA
	Stephen Turner, Ph.D.	turnersd@hawaii.edu