Office of the Dean | Behavioral and Community Health

(301) 405-0388

Dr. Aldoory conducts and publishes studies in health communication, focusing on diverse audiences of health campaigns and media messages. Her multi-methodological research emphasizes women's health and adolescent health. She is former Director of the Center for Risk Communication Research and has won several research paper awards. Some of the scholarly journals she is published in are Journal of Communication, Health Communication, Journal of Health Communication: International Perspectives, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, Communication Yearbook, and Journal of Public Relations Research. Her most recent book chapters are in the Handbook of Health Communication and the Handbook of Risk and Crisis Communication. Aldoory has been recipient of research grants from the Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition and from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and continues to consult for various health and social service agencies.

Family Science

(301) 405-4010

A former Congressional Science Fellow, Dr. Anderson focuses her research on family policy issues, at risk families, rural families, and health policy. Having been awarded over $2.7 million in external funding, she has conducted policy analysis/research for the United States Senate, the Connecticut Legislature, the Minnesota Legislature, and for two Presidential Campaigns. She is a Fellow in the National Council on Family Relations. Dr. Anderson serves on numerous journal editorial boards, currently including the Journal of Family Relations and the Journal of Family and Economic Issues. She has edited three family policy books, and written and collaborated on numerous policy publications. She has received the College outstanding teacher and outstanding research awards.

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Behavioral and Community Health

(301) 405-2518

Anne Anderson-Sawyer is a lecturer in the Department of Behavioral and Community Health. She is also the Coordinator of the BCH Undergraduate and MPH Internship Program.

Kinesiology

(301) 405-2474

Sports and late capitalism; Cultural Studies; Contemporary cultural theory; Globalization and sport; For more information please see Physical Cultural Studies Website or Dr Andrews' research webpage.

Behavioral and Community Health

(301) 405-2527

Kenneth Beck received a Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Syracuse University. He is a Professor in the Department of Behavioral and Community Health at the University of Maryland. His research interests include the determinants of threat perception, and risk taking, including alcohol misuse and impaired driving. His research has dealt with adolescents and parents, as well as multiple DWI offenders.

Kinesiology

Adam is a member of the PCS Research Group in the department of Kinesiology. His research advances the critical and theoretical study of physical culture by interrogating the cultural and political economies of sport and the active body. He is currently working toward completing his Ph.D. thesis at the University of Otago in New Zealand entitled "Sons of Samoa - Football, Postcolonial Subjectivity, and the Cultural Politics of Neoliberal Athletic Labor Markets." His project is an ethnographic exploration of interconnections between football, Samoan identity, and historical and contextual power relations.

Family Science

(803) 777-8760

Dr. Billingsley is the author of seven books, including: The Black Church and Social Reform (1999); Climbing Jacob's Ladder (1992); Black Families in White America (1968, 1988); The Evolution of the Black Family (1974); Children of the Storm: Black Children in American Child Welfare (1971). He is also the recipient of numerous professional awards including: Community Leadership Award (1988) from the National Council of Negro Women; Marie Peters Award from the National Council on Family Relations (1989); and the DuBois, Johnson, Frazier Award from the American Sociological Association (1992).

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Behavioral and Community Health

(301) 405-8546

Dr. Boekeloo is a professor in the Department of Behavioral and Community Health and director of the University of Maryland Prevention Research Center (UMD PRC), whose mission is to reduce health disparities in Maryland along the national capital border. The UMC PRC facilitates research to develop models of disease prevention and health promotion through community-based participatory research (CBPR). Dr. Boekeloo's research focuses on STD/HIV prevention, adolescent health and patient/provider communications.

Family Science | Office of the Dean

(301) 405-3581

Dr. Braun is a Professor in the Department of Family Science and holds an appointment as Family Policy Specialist with the University of Maryland Extension. She also serves as a Faculty Scholar in the Horowitz Center for Health Literacy. Her research focuses on family health literacy education and policy, rural, low-income family health and program evaluation. She's author of over 100 articles and has directed funded research and outreach projects totally over $15M.

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Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health

Dr. Brown coordinates the State of Maryland Pesticide Education & Assessment Program. Her research focuses on identifying practices that minimize exposure and can be effectively implemented, and on health effects of pesticide exposure.

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Kinesiology

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(301) 405-2503

Dr. Elizabeth Brown has been on the faculty in the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Maryland, College Park for the past twenty years.

She has a focus is on undergraduate teaching, advising and recruiting.

Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health

(301) 405-5599

Antonio Busalacchi is the Director of ESSIC and a Professor in the Department of Atmospheric & Oceanic Science. Tony came to ESSIC in 2000, after serving as Chief of the NASA/Goddard Laboratory for Hydrospheric Processes. Tony received his Ph.D. degree in oceanography from Florida State University in 1982. He has studied tropical ocean circulation and its role in the coupled climate system. His interests include the study of climate variability and prediction, tropical ocean modeling, ocean remote sensing, and data assimilation. His research in these areas has supported a range of international and national research programs dealing with global change and climate, particularly as affected by the oceans.

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Behavioral and Community Health

(301) 405-0757

Dr. Butler has a Dr.P.H. in Health Services Administration from the University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public Health. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship in cancer prevention and tobacco control at the University of Kansas, School of Medicine. His research interests are tobacco control and prevention and the social and environmental influences on smoking. Thus, his research is anchored in an ecological framework that incorporates individual, social structure and environmental influences in understanding and eliminating tobacco-related health disparities. To eliminate these disparities, he believes it is imperative to build ongoing and permanent relationships with community members and to design and conduct interventions where the community participates fully in all aspects of the research process.

Family Science

(301) 405-0299

Dr. Mia Smith Bynum is an associate professor in the Department of Family Science. Her research focus includes African American family processes, parenting in ecological context, African American mental health, adolescent mental health, racial identity, racism and health, risk and resilience in African American youth.

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Epidemiology and Biostatistics

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(301) 405-8037

Olivia Carter-Pokras, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Maryland College Park School of Public Health. Dr. Carter-Pokras has conducted health disparities research in the Federal government and academia for three decades. She has an extensive history of ensuring that the community has a voice in research conducted at the national and local levels. Dr. Carter-Pokras has published more than 86 journal articles, Federal government publications, book chapters and books, and her research has played a critical role in national recognition of health disparities experienced by the Latino community.

The previous Director of the Division of Policy and Data, Office of Minority Health, Department of Health and Human Services; Dr. Carter-Pokras has been recognized by the Surgeon General, Assistant Secretary for Health and Latino Caucus of the American Public Health Association for her career achievements to improve racial and ethnic data and develop national health policy. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Maryland College Park, Dr. Carter-Pokras was an Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine where she currently serves as adjunct faculty. Dr. Carter-Pokras lectures on epidemiologic methods, chronic disease epidemiology, cultural competency and health disparities to medical, dental and public health students.

Dr. Carter-Pokras is the Principal Investigator for a NCHMD conference grant to support an annual meeting of the National Consortium for Multicultural Education for Health Professionals, and a NICHD community based participatory research grant on oral health of Latino and Ethiopian children and their mothers. She is the research director for the CDC-funded University of Maryland Prevention Research Center. She has just completed a NHLBI cultural competency and health disparities academic award at the University of Maryland, and a state tobacco disparities evaluation project. She is currently conducting health assessments of Latinos in Baltimore and Montgomery County in close partnership with local government and community-based organizations. Dr. Carter-Pokras is an elected fellow of the American College of Epidemiology, and has served on the boards of leading public health associations--the American College of Epidemiology and the American Public Health Association. She currently serves on the Policy Committee of the American College of Epidemiology, the Education Board of the American Public Health Association, and the Institute of Medicine's Committee on Advancing Pain Research, Care, and Education.

Community of Science profile:

http://myprofile.cos.com/opokras

Cultural Competency website:

http://sph.umd.edu/epib/cultural_competency/

Health Services Administration

(301) 405-9053

Dr. Jie Chen is an assistant professor in the Department of Health Services Administration, School of Public Health, at the University of Maryland, College Park. She received her PhD (2008) degree in economics from Stony Brook University. Dr. Chen conducts research in two fields (1) health disparity and (2) health policy analysis. Her health disparity research focuses on identifying and quantifying the factors associated with the disparities in health care access, utilization and expenditure among different racial and ethnic groups and immigrants in the United States. Dr. Chens research on health policy focuses on investigating the efficiency and quality of the health care delivery system. She is specialized in mental health policy analysis among the culturally and linguistically diversified population. She also has conducted studies on patient-centered care, consumer activation, health information technology and health insurance cost-sharing strategies. An additional field of her research involves applying economic and econometric models to broad health services research. Dr. Chens recent work has been published in Medical Care, Health Affairs, Health Services Research, American Journal of Public Health, Empirical Economics, and other peer-reviewed health services and economic journals.

http://www.jiechen.org

Epidemiology and Biostatistics

(301) 405-6421

Dr. Chen is an Assistant Professor of Biostatistics at School of Public Health, University of Maryland College Park. He received his Ph.D. degree in Biostatistics from Emory University in 2012, under the advising of Dr. DuBois Bowman.

His primary research interest focuses on developing statistical methods for the complex high-dimensional biomedical data including neuroimaging data and proteomics data by using tools of machine learning, Bayesian methods, and functional data analysis.

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(301) 405-2478

Dr. Eva Chin is an Assistant Professor in Kinesiology. She received her PhD in Kinesiology at the University of Waterloo in Canada and then completed postdoctoral fellowships in Physiology at the University of Sydney in Australia and in Molecular Cardiology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.

Prior to coming to the University of Maryland Dr. Chin worked for Pfizer Global Research & Development as a Principle Scientist in the Frailty and Diabetes therapeutic areas. She then became an Associate Director working with teams on early stage clinical trials for novel Obesity and Osteoporosis drugs.

Dr. Chin's research emphasis is on calcium signaling in skeletal muscle and the role that calcium plays in both maintaining muscle force output and regulating muscle gene expression. By understanding how calcium signals in skeletal muscle, this research may help in optimizing exercise and drug prescriptions for treating age-related muscle wasting, muscle atrophy due to neuromuscular disease and insulin resistance in diabetics. To date, she has 35 publications, most in top-tier journals, and a number of them very highly cited (one more than 600 times already).

Kinesiology | Office of the Dean

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(301) 405-2438

Jane E. Clark was appointed dean of the University of Maryland School of Public Health on July 1, 2012. She is a Professor in the Department of Kinesiology and previously served as chair of that department for ten years. Her work focuses on understanding the development of movement control and coordination in motor skills. Using a dynamic systems approach, Dr. Clark and her colleagues have demonstrated that the newly walking infants limbs, like those of the adult walker, act like coupled nonlinear limit cycle oscillators at both the intralimb and interlimb levels of coordination. Her current research examines the role of sensory information in the development of upright posture and locomotion in infants.

Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health

301.405.9550

U.S. Science Envoy to Southeast Asia, Dr. Colwell is a Distinguished Professor at both the University of Maryland at College Park and Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. She has focused her research on global infectious diseases, water and health, and is currently developing an international network to address emerging infectious diseases and safe drinking water for both the developed and developing world. Dr. Colwell served as the 11th Director of the National Science Foundation from 1998-2004. She is recipient of the 2010 Stockholm Water Prize awarded on September 9, 2010 by the King of Sweden.

Family Science

Emily Cook is a third year Family Science doctoral candidate from Montgomery Village, Maryland. She earned a B.A. with Highest Honors in Psychology from Emory University and a M.S. in Couple and Family Therapy from the University of Maryland. Emily's masters thesis investigated the impacts of trauma symptoms on maternal parenting and child psychological health. Her dissertation will examine the impacts of deployment on active duty military couples' marital satisfaction using longitudinal data from the Department of Defense. Emily currently serves as Project Director for the Maryland Veterans Resilience Initiative, a two year grant that partners the University of Maryland School of Public Health with the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. She also works in a private practice as a licensed couple and family therapist. In her time away from clients and work, Emily enjoys spending time in the company of her husband and friends, exploring new local restaurants, and reading novels.

Family Science

Epidemiology and Biostatistics

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(301) 405-0560

Dr. Cruz-Cano has a M.S. in Statistics and a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at El Paso. His research interests include Computational Statistics, Computational Intelligence and Bioinformatics.

Health Services Administration

(301) 405-1210

Dr.Dagher received her Ph.D. in 2007 and her dissertation was nominated for the University of Minnesota Best Dissertation Award. Her research focuses on the risk and protective factors associated with maternal postpartum depression and the impact of this mental disorder on health services use and costs. She also studies the impact of work policies (e.g., policies of maternity leave after childbirth and job flexibility policies), work organization (e.g., job demands, job control, and supervisor and coworker support), and work-family conflict on workers mental and physical health outcomes and health care expenditures. To answer these research questions, she uses quantitative statistical methods that pertain to cross-sectional and longitudinal data.

Behavioral and Community Health

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(301) 405-5760

Dr. Daughters is currently an Assistant Professor and the Director of the Stress, Health, and Addictions Research Program (SHARP) in the Department of Behavioral and Community Health. She received her PhD in clinical psychology and completed her clinical internship at the Brown University Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies. Her research expertise includes the neurobiological and behavioral determinants of stress, addiction, and HIV risk behavior, and the translation of this knowledge into effective prevention and intervention programs aimed at reducing health disparities. She currently holds multiple NIH funded grants, and her current research interests include the examination of (1) depression and HIV medication interventions for low income HIV positive substance users; (2) neural correlates of distress tolerance using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI); (3) stress based behavioral and biological indicators of treatment failure/relapse across addictive disorders; and (4) distress tolerance as a risk factor for adolescent substance use and HIV risk behaviors.

Kinesiology

301-405-2475

Behavioral and Community Health

(301) 405-2526

Dr. Desmond's research interests are in minority and community health issues, including violence prevention programs for high-risk youth and community-university partnerships (she is a founding member of the Seat Pleasant-University of Maryland Health Partnership). She has experience with program evaluation and survey development; she worked on the Cash and Counseling Demonstration and Evaluation Preference Study (an evaluation of consumer directed personal care services for the elderly and people with disabilities), funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Kinesiology

Sam is a recent MA program graduate who is a part of the Exercise Physiology (KNES 360) laboratory instruction team.

Family Science

(301) 405-4013

Dr. Epstein focuses on assessment and treatment of couple relationships, cognitive-behavioral therapy, depression, anxiety, cross-cultural research on family relationships, domestic violence, and family coping with stress. He is the author/editor of four books: Depression in the Family (1986), Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy with Families (1988), Cognitive-Behavioral Marital Therapy (1990), and Enhanced Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Couples: A Contextual Approach (2002).

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Family Science

Patty Fanflik is a fifth year Family Science doctoral candidate and a native of Maryland. She received her Bachelor's degree in Psychology from Palm Beach Atlantic University, a Master's of Science in Human Development and Family Science from Kansas State University, and a Master's of Arts in Sociology from Southern Illinois University. Patty spent six years as deputy director of the Office of Research and Evaluation at the National District Attorneys Association/American Prosecutors Research Institute. She is also a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. Patty's research experience has included large-scale national surveys, experimental and quasi-experimental investigations, and qualitative case studies.

Office of the Dean

(301) 405-2473

Colleeen (aka "Coke") Farmer is the assistant dean for undergraduate affairs in the School of Public Health. She is a native cheesehead and graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a degree in physical education. She served in the Peace Corps after college while figuring out what to do with her life. She earned her master's degree in exercise science from the iceberg called Northern Michigan University, coached college field hockey and then sought warmth and culture while earning her Ph.D. in exercise physiology at the University of Maryland. Her dissertation was entitled, "Effects of Strength Training on Lipoporotein Lipid Profiles and Post-Heparin Lipase Activity" and, after eight years in administration, no longer understands a word of it. She was most fortunate to be the Director of the Wellness Research Laboratory, the university's faculty and staff wellness program, for 15 years, and served five years as the assistant chair in the Department of Kinesiology before becoming assistant dean. She still believes our mission can change the world.

Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health | Behavioral and Community Health

(301) 405-2519

Dr. Robert Feldman is an occupational health psychologist with a primary appointment in the Department of Behavioral and Community Health where he teaches a course entitled Health Education in the Workplace. He is co-author of Occupational Health Promotion: Health Behavior in the Workplace. Before coming to the University of Maryland, Dr. Feldman was on the faculty of Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health in the Divisions of Health Education and Occupational Medicine working on the NIOSH Educational Resource Center. His current research includes workplace smoking cessation among Costa Rican government workers and US Latino workers. For the past 15 years Dr Feldman has been evaluating NIEHS Hazardous Materials Worker Health and Safety Programs.

Family Science

(301) 405-3672

Nicole Finkbeiner is a fifth year Family Science doctoral candidate from Levittown, PA. She completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, with a B.S in Psychology and a minor in Womens Studies. She earned a M.S. in Marriage and Family Therapy from University of Maryland College Park. Nicole has worked at Saint Marys County Detention Center, serving as a liaison between incarcerated individuals and various criminal justice organizations. She has also interned at the Human Rights Campaign in D.C. Nicole is currently conducting research with FMSC faculty on the transition to adulthood.

Kinesiology

Dr. Friedman's research focuses the relationship between sport and governance in the postindustrial city with a perspective informed by cultural studies and cultural geography. By examining sports facilities such as stadiums and arenas, he is concerned with the ways in which space expresses and (re)produces power relationships, social identities, and societal structures. His research has been recognized by the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport and has been published in the Sociology of Sport Journal, Journal of Urban Affairs, Journal of Sport History, and Economic Development Quarterly. For more information, please visit the Physical Cultural Studies website.

Behavioral and Community Health

(301) 405-0818

Dr. Craig S. Fryer, DrPH, MPH is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Behavioral and Community Health and holds a leadership position in the newly established Center for Health Equity at the University of Maryland. He completed undergraduate studies at Case Western Reserve University in Clinical Nutrition with a minor in Human Development. Dr. Fryer received his MPH from the University of Pittsburgh in Health Services Administration with an emphasis in community health promotion and received his DrPH with a focus in Sociomedical Sciences from the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University.

Trained as behavioral scientist, Dr. Fryer utilizes mixed methods research to examine the sociocultural context of health and health disparities, with a concentration in community-engaged research. His work focuses on racial and ethnic health disparities in substance use and dependence, specifically tobacco and marijuana among urban youth and young adult populations. Collateral research endeavors include: qualitative methods; behavioral intervention research; HIV/AIDS and STI prevention; and the recruitment and retention of underrepresented communities into research.

Family Science

(301) 405-9749

Laura M. Garnier Dykstra, M.A. is a Faculty Research Associate. Her research interests include diversion and nonmedical use of prescription medications, the impacts of parents and peers on drug use and minor deviance and associations between drug use and mental health.

Behavioral and Community Health

(301) 405-0766

Mary A.Garza, PhD, MPH is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Behavioral and Community Health and she will have a leadership role in the newly established Center for Health Equity at the University of Maryland. Dr. Garza received her MPH from the School of Public Health at San Diego State University with an emphasis in health education and health promotion. She received her PhD in Health Policy and Management with a focus in Social and Behavioral Sciences from the Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University where she also completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Cancer Epidemiology.

Dr. Garza's research activities embrace the full spectrum of the intervention research process from planning, developing, implementing, and evaluating, to dissemination of research findings using a community-based participatory research approach. She has a strong interest in health disparities research, including understanding the interplay of psychosocial, behavioral, and neighborhood-level factors associated with health behavior; specifically, the factors related to sustained compliance with cancer screening. Dr. Garza's research interests also include the role and influence of religion and spirituality on health outcomes.

Family Science

(301) 405-4006

Dr. Gaylin's research focuses on family therapy theory, process, and outcome; parent-child relationships; and impact of community violence on families. He has published in such journals as Journal of Consulting Psychology, Family Relations, Human Sexuality, Journal of Clinical Child Psychology, and The Person-Centered Review.

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Kinesiology

(301) 405-2490

Dr. Gentili's research focuses on the investigation of functional non-invasive brain biomarkers, which assess the level of cognitive-motor performance and learning when humans interact with new dynamics or kinematics tools. Another aspect of his research is to develop bio-inspired control systems able to learn to manipulate anthropomorphic robot limbs (arm/finger), while at the same time incorporating the main biomechanical features of human movement. These two research fields contribute to the development of next generation smart prosthetics.

Kinesiology

Drew Ginsberg has his Bachelors in Applied Exercise Science from Springfield College and his Master's in Physical Education from Manhattanville College. For four years he was an assistant men's lacrosse coach at Manhattanville College in Purchase New York. He has also taught middle and high school health and physical education, and has coached high school soccer in New York State.

Behavioral and Community Health

(301) 405-2029

Dr. Glover serves as Professor and Chair, Department of Behavioral & Community Health. An internationally recognized authority on the topics of smoking cessation and smokeless tobacco, Dr. Glover has more than 200 publications and approximately 22 million dollars in grants from a variety of funding agencies.

Epidemiology and Biostatistics

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(301) 405-0271

Robert Gold is an accomplished researcher and nationally known expert in the application of technology in health education and health promotion. His publications include numerous research and evaluation articles, dozens of pieces of software for organizations such as the Addiction Research Foundation and the American Cancer Society, and commercially published software and textbooks. Dr. Gold was the founding dean of the School of Public Health, previously the chair of the Department of Behavioral and Community Health and has served as Vice President at ORC Macro.

Family Science

(301) 405-3672

Research Focus:

Families and households, living arrangements of fathers, gender roles, methodology, ethnicity

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Behavioral and Community Health

(301) 405-2524

Dr. Green is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Behavioral and Community Health. Dr. Green brings to the department expertise in prevention science, with a particular focus on school-based interventions for children. Her work focuses on development over the life course, and in particular how early family, school, and environmental influences, as well as behaviors (e.g., substance use) affect later health and well-being. She is particularly interested in gender and racial differences in development. Much of her research has been with low-income, urban community populations followed longitudinally, and thus health disparities is a key topic of her research. She is skilled in advanced statistical techniques, in particular propensity score matching and latent variable modeling.

Family Science

(301) 405-4012

Dr. Grutzmacher currently works in the areas of health and nutrition literacy, food security, and nutrition assistance and education for low-income populations. She is the PI on the Maryland Health and Nutrition Literacy Study, a needs assessment for Maryland FSNE aimed at improving our understanding of the nutrition knowledge, attitudes, skills, and behaviors of SNAP-eligible Maryland families. In a partnership with the Maryland State Department of Education, she is also serving as the Co-Project Director of a Team Nutrition Training Grant project aimed at examining the effectiveness of training food service staff to use nudges and other environmental cues to improve the nutrition environment and student fruit and vegetable selection in elementary school cafeterias.

Dr. Grutzmacher mentors the Food Deserts Gemstone team, which is conducting a multi-year undergraduate research project examining the food access environment in Prince George's County. She also advises the University of Maryland Alternative Breaks program's health teams, fostering experiential service learning experiences for undergraduate students in the areas of child health, health care access, and HIV/AIDS.

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Kinesiology

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(301) 405-2487

Jim Hagberg, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Maryland, College Park. Dr Hagberg is also the Co-Chair of the University of Maryland Institutional Review Board (IRB). He is also a Professor of Geriatrics/Gerontology in the Division of Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine and Baltimore Veterans Administration Medical Center. His major academic emphasis is research and teaching and he is and has been funded by NIH, the VA, the American Heart Association, and the US Olympic Committee. His graduate students, both Masters and Doctoral, are intimately involved in his research grant projects. His current research addresses the effect of acute and chronic exercise on circulating angiogenic cells, a type of adult stem cell that has recently been recognized as a novel cardiovascular disease risk factor. His work involves functional, gene expression, and molecular studies under cell culture and ex vivo conditions using a number of pharmacologic inhibitors and activators in these cells isolated from a wide range of active and inactive individuals. Dr. Hagberg is also deeply committed to undergraduate teaching as evidenced by his KNES 260 course entitled "Science of Physical Activity and Cardiovascular Health" that he teaches as part of the campus-wide liberal arts CORE program. Dr Hagberg was one of six campus-wide UMCP Distinguished Scholar-Teachers for 2002-2003. In 2002 Dr Hagberg also received the University System of Maryland Regent's Award for Research. He also was awarded the American College of Sports Medicine Citation Award in 2004.

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(301) 405-2485

Dr. Hatfield and his research team investigate exercise and sport psychology issues from a cognitive neuroscience or biological psychology perspective. Their research focuses on 1) health-related issues such as the effect of exercise on the aging brain and the protective effects of physical activity on brain processes that underlie memory and executive function. An important question is whether the neurobiological benefits of exercise are more prominent in those individuals who are genetically at risk for dementia and Alzheimer's disease. The research team also addresses 2) issues related to human performance in order to understand critical brain processes underlying superior cognitive-motor performance, how emotion alters the brain and the quality of performance, and the management of stress in high-performance individuals such as competitive athletes and specialized military personnel.

Epidemiology and Biostatistics

(301) 405-2551

Xin He, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Maryland, College Park.

Dr. He's current research focuses on longitudinal data analysis, survival analysis, nonparametric and semiparametric methods, as well as applications in clinical trials, epidemiology, and other public health related studies.

Family Science

(301) 405-8501

Dr. Hofferth's research interests include American children's use of time, immigrant child health, fathers and fathering, research methods, and family policy. She codirects the Maternal and Child Health Program in the Family Science Department. Hofferth has a NIH-funded study that integrates, documents and disseminates individual-level data on how people allocate their time. She also manages an NSF-funded research coordinating network that assists with developing and planning a set of observatories for the Social, Behavioral, and Economic (SBE) sciences.

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Behavioral and Community Health

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(301) 405-6659

Dr. Holt has a PhD in Social Psychology from Saint Louis University. She trained postdoctorally at the Health Communication Research Laboratory, School of Public Health, Saint Louis University. Her research interests involve community-based and culturally appropriate health communication, and the application of spirituality/religiosity to these interventions. She is also involved in the scientific study of the role of religious involvement in health cognitions, behaviors, and outcomes. Dr. Holt is involved in instrument development and validation in these areas as well.

Behavioral and Community Health

(301) 405-2520

Thematically my research has concentrated on adolescent engagement in risk and protective health behaviors, with a directed focus on these behaviors among urban African American youth. In an effort to understand the psychosocial influences on behavior I have explored the relationship between stress and coping processes, and adolescent risk taking and resilience. One behavioral outcome of particular interest has been violence and in this regard my research has examined its correlates, predictors, consequences, and protective factors.

Family Science

Katie is a fifth year Family Science doctoral student, is originally from Malvern, PA. She graduated from Duke University with a B.S. in Psychology, a Certificate in Human Development, and a minor in Sociology. She earned a M.S. in Couple and Family Therapy at the University of Maryland. Katie has won a Post-baccalaureate Intramural Research Training Award at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, N.I.C.H.D. She also worked as a Residential Leader at the Good Shepherd Center in Baltimore, a research assistant at the University of Delaware, a Clinical Intern at the Center for Adoption Support and Education, and as a research specialist at the Atlantic Coast Child Welfare Implementation Center. Katie currently teaches FMSC 302, Research Methods for Family Science in Public Health. Her Masters Thesis focused on the impact of couple therapy for abusive behavior on partner's negative attributions about each other and the relationship between cognitive and behavioral change. Her dissertation explores the role of the adoptive family environment and discrepancies in parent-adolescent views of their family on the development of transracially adopted adolescents.

Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health

(301) 405-7428

Dr. Anwar Huq is a Professor in the Maryland Pathogen Institute at the University of Maryland. He came to Maryland as a faculty in the Department of Microbiology in 1989. He received his PhD in microbiology from the University of Maryland in 1984 He has studied the ecology of Vibrio cholerae and plankton, more specifically copepods, its host in the environment that lead to major findings in the survival, multiplication and transmission of this pathogen in the environment.

Dr. Huq's research interest includes understanding of pathogens, focusing on waterborne pathogens with the ultimate goal of disease prevention and or intervention. Bacterial pathogens that are occurring naturally in the environment cannot be eradicated. Moreover, with global climate change, significant impact is expected to take place on many of these pathogens. His work on the ecology, survival, transmission and detection of V. cholerae with ultimate goal for prediction and prevention of the disease cholera involving conventional microbiological methods, immunological methods, and molecular biology, along with oceanography, limnological methods and satellite remote sensing technology. Dr. Huq has also worked extensively on safe drinking water for people in developing countries.

Kinesiology

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(301) 405-2486

My research interests consist of the effects of aging, diet and exercise training on risk factors for age-related diseases and disability.

Kinesiology

(301) 405-2505

Dr. Iso-Ahola's research interests and activities are two-fold: (1) Social psychological factors in athletic performance (e.g. mental training), and (2) social psychology of exercise and health (e.g. motivation for exercise). He has published four books and over 70 research articles in refereed journals and chapters in edited books. He has received 3 prestigious research awards and has been invited to serve as distinguished visiting professor in Australia, Canada, Finland, Holland, and New Zealand.

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(301) 405-2512

In my laboratory, we study how the brain combines sensory information about the environment and one's own body movement to better understand patient populations with neurological disease and injury that lead to balance problems.

Kinesiology

(301) 405-2497

Dr. Jette is interested in socio-cultural aspects of health, physical activity and the (female) body, with a focus on: the production of biomedical knowledge about health and physical activity (i.e., how it is that certain ideas come to be accepted as "truth"); how this knowledge has been (and is) put to use in the operation of power in differing socio-historical contexts; representations of health and (un)healthy bodies in various cultural contexts; and the subject positions individuals take up in relation to various health-related messages. She is currently examining exercise and nutrition advice being provided to pregnant women in the context of the obesity epidemic and is utilizing feminist poststructuralist discourse analysis to explore how pregnant women of differing socio-cultural backgrounds understand and experience health, physical activity and pregnancy weight gain. Overall, Dr. Jette's research agenda is linked by a consistent focus on the multiple ways that active bodies are articulated into the operation of social power, with the aim of illuminating power inequalities and giving voice to subjugated knowledge(s).

Family Science

(301) 405-8940

History and ethics of public health and human services, health policy and communications, sociomedical science

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Family Science

(301) 405-3672

Dr. Kessel, a community pediatrician for over 30 years, is a distinguished advocate, educator, and researcher in public health, public policy, pediatrics, and maternal and child health. His career in the US Public Health Service included serving as an Assistant Surgeons General and a senior program director for applied research, community-based programs, and professional education.

Dr. Kessel developed and led countless MCH initiatives, including those focused on reducing infant mortality, expanding health insurance for children, improving environmental health, preventing childhood overweight and obesity, breaking the cycle of violence/trauma among children witnessing domestic violence and terrorism, and conducting a longitudinal study of child health and development.

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Family Science

(301) 405-3500

Dr. Kim's areas of interest are family resource management, financial stress, and financial well-being.

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Health Services Administration

(301) 405-2469

Christopher King is board certified in healthcare management and a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives. He received a Bachelor of Science in Community Health from East Carolina University and Master of Health Science from Towson University.

Christopher currently serves as Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations for Washington Hospital Center and is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Consumer Health Foundation. He collaborates with foundations and corporations to create health services that will increase access to care and improve the quality of care for residents of the Washington, D.C. area.

Christopher is committed to evidence-based medicine and building healthcare infrastructures that demonstrate improvements in safety, quality, and desired clinical outcomes.

Epidemiology and Biostatistics | Office of the Dean

(301) 405-7201

Dr. Kleinman is a dentist and a board certified specialist in dental public health. Her research has included epidemiologic studies of dental, oral and craniofacial diseases, oral cancer and HIV-related conditions. She has participated in the development of several Surgeon General reports and was the co-executive editor of Oral Health in America: A Report of the Surgeon General (2000). Dr. Kleinman has a particular interest in enhancing the understanding and elimination of health disparities, with a focus on the role of factors that transcend health conditions such as health determinants, health promotion interventions and health literacy.

Kinesiology

(301) 405-2450

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Dr. Knight is currently the Vice President and Director of Research and Development at Canon U.S. Life Sciences, Inc. His research interests include rapid molecular genetic techniques for pathogen detection, human genetics and diagnostic applications as well as the global movement of infectious disease agents and international cooperation to control infectious diseases.

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Family Science

Kinesiology

Family Science

(301) 405-7574

Jaslean has a Ph.D., University of Washington, Clinical Psychology, 1999.

Her research focus is African American interracial couples and families, intimate partner violence, couple therapy, ethnic minority families

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Epidemiology and Biostatistics | Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health

301-405-4581

Dr. Mei-Ling Ting Lee is Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Director of the Biostatistics and Risk Assessment Center (BRAC) at the University of Maryland, College Park. Dr. Lee's current research is focused in the following areas: (a) Statistical Methods for Genomic and Proteomic Data; (b) Threshold Regression Models for Risk Assessments: with Applications in Cancer, Environmental Research and Occupational Exposure; (c) Rank-based Nonparametric Tests for Correlated Data: with Applications in Epidemiology and Genomics; (d) Statistical Applications in Microbiology and Pharmacokinetics;(e) Multivariate Distributional Theory and Applications.

Dr. Lee holds Fellowship status in several international statistical organizations, including the American Statistical Association, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and the Royal Statistical Society. She was named the Mosteller Statistician of the Year in 2005 by the American Statistical Association, Boston Chapter. Dr. Lee has published a book on "Analysis of Microarray Gene Expression Data" and co-edited two other books. Dr. Lee is the founding editor and editor-in-chief of the international journal Lifetime Data Analysis, the only international statistical journal that is specialized in modeling time-to-event data. The journal is currently publishing the sixteen's volume.

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Epidemiology and Biostatistics

(301) 405-7251

Dr. Sunmin Lee is a social epidemiologist with a main research interest in social determinants of health. Her research has focused on the major social determinants of cardiovascular disease, cognitive decline, obesity, and health behaviors.

More recently, Dr. Sunmin Lee's research area expanded to Health Disparities Studies focusing on Asian Americans. Her research in this area looks into various health problems and challenges that Asian Americans face, as well as proposing potential recommendations and intervention programs that may contribute in reducing health disparities. Her recent work of community-based participatory research includes a health needs assessment in 13 Asian American communities, smoking studies in four Asian American communities, and a liver cancer prevention study in three Asian American communities in Maryland.

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Family Science

(301) 405-4011

Dr. Leslie focuses on gender issues, social support, and ethnic families. She has published six chapters and over 30 refereed articles in journals such as Journal of Marriage and the Family, Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, and Journal of Family Psychology.

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301-405-2450

For the past 20 years, Dr. Lindle has been involved in the health and fitness field as an educator, researcher, and consultant. Currently, she is the health and wellness consultant to various government, corporate and non-profit agencies including the United States Secret Service (USSS), NAVY, United States Air Force (USAF), District of Columbia Fire and Emergency Medical Services (DCFEMS) , Montgomery County Fire and Rescue (MCFR), National Volunteer Fire Council (NVFC), Center for Disease Control (CDC), YMCA of the USA, and SportFIT Training Center.

She is also an adjunct faculty member in the Kinesiology Department, at the University of Maryland, School of Public Health, where she teaches a variety of exercise physiology courses. Her research focus has been in the areas of muscle physiology, biomechanics, and genetics. Her current reserach interests are in the area of occupational fitness of firefighters, law enforcement officers and the military.

Epidemiology and Biostatistics

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(301) 405-3102

Dr. Liu is associate professor of Epidemiology in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatisitcs, School of Public Health, University of Maryland, College Park. He graduated from UCLA School of Public Health in 2002, with a doctoral degree in Epidemiology.

His research focuses on social and behavioral aspects of HIV/AIDS and research methodology. In the past five years, his research projects mainly covered egocentric social and risk networks for HIV infection, sexual risks, non-injection and injection drug use, stigma, survey methodology (e.g., respondent-driven sampling), and advanced analytical techniques (structural equation modeling, actor-partner interdependent modeling, and psychometric analysis). Findings from his research have generated significant impacts as the identification of multi-faceted factors for HIV infection is highly likely to provide new targets for preventive interventions.

Dr. Liu has been actively and productively involved in research activities. Since 1997, he has participated, as a PI, Co-PI, or consultant, in 13 HIV-related studies in China and 6 studies in the United States. He has continuously received research funding from NIH (as PI on R03, R21, and R01 grants), the Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR), the International Society for Infectious Diseases (ISID), the UCLA AIDS Institute, and other agencies. So far, Dr. Liu has authored a total of 66 peer-reviewed papers, including 47 publications (h-index: 18) in English journals and 19 in Chinese journals.

Epidemiology and Biostatistics

(215) 204-5108

Grace X. Ma, Ph.D. is a tenured full Professor in the Department of Public Health and Director of Center for Asian Health, College of Health Professions at Temple University. As a behavioral health scientist, Dr. Ma's research focuses on community-based participatory intervention research (CBPR), early detection, patient navigation of Hepatitis B, cancers and chronic illnesses, smoking cessation, access and quality of healthcare in medically underserved, uninsured and high-risk Asian American populations. In 2000, Dr. Ma founded the Center for Asian Health, one of the first in the nation dedicated to reducing cancer and other health disparities among Asian Americans. Dr. Ma in partnership with Asian community leaders co-founded the first Asian Community Health Coalition (ACHC) in the Eastern region of the U.S., including Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York City and Washington DC areas. Over the past decade, Dr. Ma has received over 50 grant awards from various sources, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to conduct research in her expertise areas. Dr. Ma's research collaboration extends to the Southeast and Southwest regions of China. This international component of her research focuses on longitudinal studies of tobacco and cancer control in China. Dr. Ma has authored and co-authored 5 books, over 90 peer-reviewed publications and delivered over 420 professional presentations at regional, national and international conferences. The impacts of these publications and presentations are reflected in public health academic teaching and mentorship, research and practices, as well as in Asian and minority health care policies and programs in the United States.

Dr. Ma has taught graduate courses in public health, substance abuse and addiction, research methods, and behavioral health, among others. Dr. Ma has trained and mentored over 110 junior researchers. Among them, 19 post-doctoral fellows/junior faculty; 51 pre-doctoral fellows in dissertations; 23 masters fellows in theses and interns.

Dr. Ma has served on numerous scientific advisory boards in cancer, Hepatitis B, tobacco control, diabetes and other chronic disease issues. She has also served on national, state and community health advisory boards. She is an active member of numerous public health professional associations, journal editorial boards, national and statewide tobacco and cancer control plans. Dr. Ma, a nationally and internationally recognized scholar has received numerous distinguished awards from academic institutions, scientific associations, and NIH and community organizations that include 2010 Partnership Award by Nanjing Cancer Survivors Association, Nanjing, China; 2009 Outstanding Scientific Publication Award by NCI-CRCHD, NIH; 2009 Outstanding Health Leadership Award from Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association and Chinese Community Center, Inc. NYC; 2008 Distinguished Asian Health Leader Award from Penn Asian Senior Services; 2006 NYC Chinese Community Cultural Center's Asian Health Leadership Award; 2005 National Institutes of Health's Martin Luther King Award in Reducing Health Disparities; 2004 NCI-CRCHD Community Healthcare Leadership Award; and 2001 NCI's Atlantic Region Cancer Information Service award.

Behavioral and Community Health

(301) 405-3453

Pamela Manning is a lecturer at the Department of Behavioral and Community Health.

Health Services Administration

(301) 405-2469

Dr. Tracey T. Manning, research associate professor, Center on Aging, and senior scholar, Burns Academy of Leadership, both at University of Maryland College Park, has specialized in transformational leadership development and leadership education for 25 years. Her expertise in assessing and developing transformational leadership and leadership self-efficacy particularly focuses on non-traditional leaders, such as women, volunteers, and older adults. In her Center on Aging position, she conducts leadership development programs and outcomes assessment for the University of Marylands Legacy Leadership Institutes, and coordinates the Centers program evaluation services. She recently served as external evaluator for the MetLife/National Council on Aging Wisdom Works I self-directed teams program and is principal investigator and leadership training coordinator on the Wisdom Works Phase II program.

Family Science

(301) 405-4015

Elisabeth Maring is a Faculty Research Associate and a Family Life Specialist with the University of Maryland Extension at UMD. Her research interests include adolescents and families, community violence, substance abuse, healthy homes, at-risk youth and families, and cross-cultural and international research on families. Lis received her Ph.D. in Family Science from the University of Maryland and her Ed.M. in Risk and Prevention for Adolescent Youth from Harvard University.

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(301) 405-9437

Catherine is a recent graduate from the University of Maryland, School of Public Health. After a successful career in information technology, she pursued her interest in health promotion and disease prevention and received her MPH from the Behavioral and Community Health program. Her research interest is oral health literacy, especially its impact on health outcomes and interventions that can minimize the barriers presented by low oral health literacy. Her master's thesis investigated the health literacy of dentists relating to oral cancer prevention and early detection.

Kinesiology

(301) 405-2499

Dr. McDaniel holds an affiliate appointment with the Department of Communication. His teaching and research are focused on marketing and media phenomena, in the area of sport management. He has presented his work to a number of academic groups including: The American Marketing Association, The Association for Consumer Research, The American Academy of Advertising, The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, the North American Society for Sociology of Sport and the North American Society for Sport Management.

Health Services Administration

Dr. Meyer has a joint appointment as Professor of the Practice in the School of Public Health and the School of Public Policy.

He is also a principal with Health Management Associates (HMA) in the Washington, D.C. office. In this capacity Dr. Meyer is conducting health care research, policy analysis, and strategic planning for grant-making foundations, health industry leaders, and state and federal agencies.

Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health

Shirley A. Micallef received a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in plant biology from the University of Malta and a Ph.D. in microbial ecology from the University of Massachusetts Boston. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture. Her main interests include the microbial ecology of bacteria in soil and how microorganisms interact with plants. Her current research is focusing on food safety of fruits and vegetables, specifically looking at Salmonella on pre-harvest tomatoes and using bacterial models to investigate possible means of contamination of crops with human pathogens residing in the environment.

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(301) 405-2495

Dr. Miller's research centers on how the neural, muscular, and skeletal systems interact to produce locomotion in health and pathology.

Epidemiology and Biostatistics | Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health

(301) 405-0389

Dr. Milton earned a BS in Chemistry from the University of Maryland Baltimore County (Cum Laude), an MD from Johns Hopkins University and a DrPH (Environmental Health) from Harvard University. He trained in medicine at Emory and Boston Universities and Occupational and Environmental Medicine at Harvard. He previously served on the faculties of the Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health and the Department of Work Environment, University of Massachusetts Lowell School of Health and Environment. He is currently Professor and Director of the Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health, University of Maryland School of Public Health, College Park, MD, Affiliate Professor of Medicine, University of Maryland, Adjunct Senior Lecturer on Occupational and Environmental Health at Harvard School of Public Health and Honorary Professor, Department of Community Medicine, University of Hong Kong. He is board certified in internal and occupational medicine and has 20 years of experience in occupational medicine referral practice. He teaches courses on environmental and occupational hygiene, aerobiology, toxicology, indoor air quality, respiratory epidemiology, physiology, pathology, pathophysiology. Dr. Milton is a past chair of the ACGIH Bioaerosols committee and a member of the committee since 1988. He a member of the editorial boards of Applied Environmental Microbiology, Indoor Air, and BMC Public Health. He is a recipient of the Lloyd Hyde Research Award of Emory University, the Harriet Hardy Award from the New England College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, and was elected a Fellow of the International Society for Indoor Air Quality and Climate in 2008.

Dr. Milton leads multidisciplinary investigations of the health effects of bioaerosols with three major themes: 1) the relationship of asthma onset and exacerbation to exposure to allergens and microbial products, 2) investigation and prevention of airborne infection transmission, and 3) exhaled breath analysis. His asthma research includes studies of occupational asthma and the impact of ambient bioaerosols on asthma exacerbation, especially the impact of low level, early life endotoxin exposure on the risk of childhood allergy and asthma. His research on mechanisms and prevention of airborne infection transmission includes productivity effects of rhinovirus colds in office workers and asthmatic children, mathematical models, and laboratory and epidemiological studies of control methods for influenza and agents of biological warfare and terrorism. Exhaled breath analysis is a unifying theme with ongoing work on exhaled gas and particle phase biomarkers for lung inflammation and studies of exhaled particles as the vehicle of airborne communicable disease transmission.

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Click here to see Dr. Milton's recent presentation on mechanisms of transmission of swine flu, given at the Institute of Medicine August 12, 2009.

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Family Science

(301) 405-3299

Dr. Mokhtari's interests include economic transition, fiscal reform, applied econometrics: family economics, microeconomics of household behavior, microeconometric analysis of the Russian household behavior in transition to a market economy (Data Set: RLMS), reform in the Russian Federation (RF) and the Central Asian Republics (CARs). He teaches Research Methods,

Personal and Family Finance, and Family Economics.

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Health Services Administration

(301) 405-6545

Karoline Mortensen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Services Administration, School of Public Health, at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is also affiliated with AcademyHealth, the American Society of Health Economics, the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, the International Health Economics Association, the Maryland Population Research Center and the University of Maryland Prevention Research Center.

Dr. Mortensen's research interests are focused on health insurance and health care utilization of vulnerable populations, particularly utilization of Medicaid enrollees and the uninsured. She also explores health insurance transitions and the health status and health care utilization of Hurricane Katrina evacuees in Houston. Professor Mortensen's most recent research has been published in the journals Medical Care, Health Affairs, and the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved. Dr. Mortensen is involved with several projects examining factors that affect health care utilization patterns of Medicaid enrollees. Current research and future projects explore the geographic variation in health care utilization in Medicaid, emergency department utilization, and the implications of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act on Medicaid enrollees and the uninsured. Her work on the effects of copayments and increases in physician reimbursement on health care utilization of preventive services of Medicaid enrollees is funded by the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Mortensen has experience with community partners, including Healthcare for the Homeless-Houston, the Mental Health Policy Analysis Collaborative in Houston, Dimensions Healthcare System, the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Prince George's County Health Department, and the University of Maryland Medical System. She teaches Introduction to Health Systems and Health Economics at the master's level, and Advanced Research Seminar and Health Services Portfolio at the doctoral level.

Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health

(301) 314-2622

Professor Murtugudde studies the effects of the ocean's microscopic floating plants, or phytoplankton. He has discovered that, in aggregate, phytoplankton produce enough heat to affect large-scale weather patterns. In work funded by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, Murtugudde has discovered that climate models must take into account the effects of phytoplankton to predict El Niños and La Niñas. Recent work focuses on downscaling climate predictions to local scales needed for public health policy and environmental public health research. He is currently collaborating with Dr. Amir Sapkota on several projects.

Family Science

(301) 405-4007

Dr. Myricks focuses on family law, children's legal rights, and mediation. He has published articles in such journals as American Journal of Family Law, Family Relations, American Bar Association Children's Legal Rights Journal, and National Organization on Legal Problems in Education.

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Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health

(301) 405-5243

Charley Naney is an Epidemiologist and Faculty Research Assistant in the Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health. Charley earned an MPH from East Tennessee State University. He has extensive field training in bootstrap methods, and has collaborated with many other agencies and institutions, including: the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the U.S. Department of Defense, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Boston Public Health Commission's Research and Evaluation Office, among others. Charleys research spans various topics of current epidemiological interest, including asthma-related quality of life, mental health, and clusters of confirmed Novel H1N1 influenza cases.

Office of the Dean

(301) 405-2454

Dr. Oliveira's research seeks to characterize the developmental process of finger force control that aims to understand changes in the neuromechanical variables as motor control develops.

Kinesiology

(301) 405-2502

Dr. Palla-Kane is the Director of Undergraduate Programs in the Department of Kinesiology.

Research: Dr. Palla-Kane is interested in studying the impact of diversity in the delivery of quality physical education, and she has studied physical education teachers' perceptions and attitudes toward teaching students with disabilities and with culturally-diverse backgrounds. Dr. Palla-Kane's dissertation "Adapted Physical Education Specialists perceptions of diversity issues in the delivery of Adapted Physical Education Services in California Urban Schools" was the first in the field of Adapted Physical Education to explore attitudes and experiences teachers toward students with diverse backgrounds.

Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health

(301) 458-4419

Dr. Parker is Health Research Scientist, Office of Analysis and Epidemiology, National Centers for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, based in Hyattsville, MD. She is a biostatistician with a strong interest in environmental health. Dr. Parker recently created new links between data sets maintained by the National Center for Health Statistics, including NHIS and NHANES, and air pollution data maintained by the EPA. Her work on air pollution health effects includes examination of impacts on asthma, cardiovascular disease, and reproductive health.

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(301) 405-8547

Dr. Penniman Dyer's research is in HIV/AIDS disparities, women's health, and substance use with an emphasis in social, psychological, and cultural determinants of racial/ethnic and gender disparities among marginalized populations, as well as their families. Her research in HIV/AIDS also examines substance use, mental health and sexual risk among Black men who have sex with men and women (MSMW), and how sex and drug risk networks of MSMW translates into risk for their female partners. Additionally, Dr. Penniman Dyer's research involves the examination of risk for females with high risk male sex partners and partners who have been incarcerated.

Dr. Penniman Dyer's research takes an interdisciplinary approach involving social epidemiology, health services research and community based research and has positioned her to expound upon findings from her research, which indicate a need for larger scale, population based studies that examine large networks, and subsequently to the development of policy aimed at reducing the burden of HIV for women and disenfranchised populations.

Dr. Penniman Dyer received her B.A. in Psychology from UCLA, her MPH from California State University, Long Beach and her PhD from the UCLA School of Public Health in Community Health Sciences. During her graduate studies, her work integrated social epidemiology, health services research, and community-based research to contribute to policy, interventions, and evidence-based practice.

The second aspect of her research was developed as a post-doctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins and involves the social context of drug and sexual risk behaviors. These studies have included an examination of the influence of concurrent sex and substance use networks on women's risk for infectious disease. Currently, Dr. Penniman Dyer is working on three studies as an HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) Scholar, examining men who have sex with men (MSM) and men who have sex with men and women (MSMW) with respect to substance use, homophobia and mental health factors that increase risk.

This work will inform research, for which Dr. Penniman Dyer was recently awarded seed funding, that will explore risk perceptions and risk attributions for female partners of MSMW who have varied and often, concurrent sex and drug networks of unknown risk, which affects population health risks.

Currently, Dr. Penniman Dyer is on the research faculty within the department, working on several projects on mental health, and social and economic factors in HIV risk for Black men and women.

Kinesiology

(301) 405-3056

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Behavioral and Community Health

(301) 405-2463

Barry Portnoy, Ph.D. serves as Senior Advisor for Disease Prevention, Office of Disease Prevention (ODP), Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health. His current responsibilities include coordinating the NIH portion of Healthy People 2010 and stimulating collaborative prevention research projects. Prior to joining ODP Dr. Portnoy was with the National Cancer Institute (NCI), Division of Cancer Prevention. He also served as the NCI coordinator for the Department of Health and Human Services Healthy People 2000 and 2010 Objectives as well as serving on NIH's Prevention Coordinators Committee and the NIH Behavior and Social Science Coordinating Committee. He has held teaching appointments at the University of Virginia and the University of Maryland. He also served as an evaluation consultant to the National High Blood Pressure Education Program, the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Disease, the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion and the Department of Education. His research interests include the design and evaluation of chronic disease prevention and control interventions.

Epidemiology and Biostatistics | Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health

(301) 405-5610

Dr. Robin Puett was awarded an MPH in Behavioral Sciences from the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University and doctorates in Epidemiology and Environmental Health Sciences by the Arnold School of Public Health at the University of South Carolina. She completed post-doctoral training with the Department of Environmental Health at the Harvard School of Public Health and comes to MIAEH from the faculty of the University of South Carolina. Her research and teaching interests are in the areas of environmental and spatial exposure assessment and epidemiology. More specifically, much of her research has explored the relationship of ambient air pollution exposures with chronic disease (i.e. cardiovascular disease and diabetes) and mortality. Ongoing and future research in this area is targeted to examine additional health outcomes (e.g. cognitive impacts and breast cancer), the biological pathways involved, and important potential modifiers of these relationships, such as diet and physical activity. Her spatial exposure assessment, epidemiology and statistics work examines neighborhood contextual and built environment factors associated with physical activity, obesity, and chronic diseases. Health disparities is a cross-cutting issue addressed in her spatial and environmental research and teaching programs.

Family Science | Office of the Dean

(301) 405-8825

Dr. Quinn serves as the Associate Dean for Public Health Initiatives, Professor in the Department of Family Science, and Associate Director of the Center for Health Equity at the School of Public Health, University of Maryland at College Park. She is the Principal Investigator on Building Trust between Minorities and Researchers: A Bioethics Research Infrastructure Initiative funded by the National Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD), NIH and co-Principal Investigator on the Research Center of Excellence in Minority Health Disparities. Her research interests include engagement of minority and marginalized communities in research; community advisory boards; and risk communication in emergencies and disasters, with a particular focus on the implications for minority communities.

Behavioral and Community Health

(301) 405-3453

Dwayne Radcliff is a lecturer for the department of Behavioral and Community Health. He received his Masters of Public Health at the University of Maryland in 2002 and his Doctorate in 2008. He also currently works at the Labor and Employee Relations Branch of The U.S. Department of Health and Human Service.

Family Science

(301) 405-4012

Suzanne M. Randolph, Ph.D., is a Retired Associate Professor of Family Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is an African American scholar and her research interests include the normative development of African American infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. Dr. Randolph is currently CO-Project Director of the Head Start Violence Prevention Project at University of Maryland which is funded by the U.S. Department of Education. She is also a CO-Investigator on two other major studies: the Temple University site of the National Study of Early Child Care funded by NICHD and the Johns Hopkins University study "The Ecology of African American Children's Development" funded by the USDHHS/Maternal and Child Health.

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(301) 405-2484

Trained as an exercise physiologist, Dr. Rogers' research interests are the effects of aging on skeletal muscle structure, function and metabolism. Dr. Rogers is currently the Human Subjects' Liaison for the Department of Kinesiology with the Institutional Review Board at the University. He can be contacted with questions about the process of human subjects review of research projects in the department.

Kinesiology

(301)405-8962

Andrea Romeo is an alumna of the Kinesiology program at the University of Maryland, College Park. She loves sports, especiall the Terps. She is in her 5th year as the assistant field hockey coach at Broadneck High School. Andrea is also an advisor in the department.

Kinesiology

(301) 405-2504

Dr. Roth's areas of interest include understanding the role of genetic variation (and environmental interaction) in determining inter-individual differences in exercise responses, skeletal muscle traits, and other health-related phenotypes; as well as understanding the role of exercise/physical activity in modifying DNA structure (e.g., telomere length, DNA methylation). He directs the Functional Genomics Laboratory.

Family Science

(301) 405-6348

Ph.D., Human Development and Social Policy, Northwestern University, 1999.

Research Focus:Men in low-income families, parents caregiving and providing roles, social policy, qualitative methods

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Family Science

(301) 405-4004

Dr. Rubin has a Ph.D., Child Development and Family Relationships. His research focus is African American families, family diversity, delayed fatherhood, mental illness and families, and family policy.

He has published numerous articles in such journals as Adolescence, Family Issues, Family Relations, National Journal of Sociology, and American Journal of Family Law.

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Epidemiology and Biostatistics

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(301) 405-2491

Brit I. Saksvig, Ph.D., M.H.S. is a Research Assistant Professor. Dr. Saksvig received her masters and doctorate degrees from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her research interests focus on dietary and physical activity behaviors and their association with the prevention of chronic disease. Dr. Saksvig's primary interest is in developing and evaluating school and community-based interventions for children and adolescents.

Dr. Saksvig is the MPH Internship Coordinator and Graduate Director for the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics.

Epidemiology and Biostatistics | Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health

(301) 405-8716

Dr. Amir Sapkota holds a joint appointment at the Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health and the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. Dr. Sapkota received his PhD in Environmental Health Sciences from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and his BS in Chemistry from Clark University. He joins the growing number of faculty at UMCP after successfully completing post-doctoral work at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in Lyon, France.

Understanding exposures that occur among individuals and identifying markers of cellular responses that can predict the development of future diseases enables public health practitioners to identify specific subpopulations at risk, who subsequently can be targeted with proper interventions to prevent such disease occurrence. Within this framework, Dr. Sapkota's primary research interests lie in the area of exposure assessment and environmental epidemiology. He is interested in utilizing personal air measurements, as well as urinary and serum biomarkers to understand the risk of diseases associated with exposures to various air pollutants such as volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), in the environment and at the workplace. At UMCP, Dr. Sapkota will work on a range of topics including the inner city environment and asthma; impacts of traffic on community air pollution; and indoor air pollution from solid fuel usage in developing countries and risk of lung cancer, to name a few.

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Epidemiology and Biostatistics | Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health

(301) 405-1772

Dr. Amy R. Sapkota has a joint appointment with the Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health and the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. She received a PhD in Environmental Health Sciences from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, an MPH in Environmental Health Sciences from the Yale School of Public Health and a BS in Biology from the University of Maryland, College Park. Dr. Sapkota also holds a Certificate in Risk Sciences and Public Policy, and completed post-doctoral fellowships at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Environmental Microbial Genomics Group within Le Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Lyon, France.

Dr. Sapkota's research interests lie in the areas of microbial environmental exposure assessment and environmental epidemiology, with a focus on evaluating the complex relationships between the environment, food and water production systems, and human infectious diseases. Current research projects include: 1) evaluating changes in bacterial antibiotic resistance as large-scale poultry farms transition to organic practices; 2)evaluating Salmonella contamination on tomato farms; 3) investigating the prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in tertiary-treated wastewater used for spray irrigation; and 4) utilizing metagenomic methods to understand total bacterial biodiversity in cigarettes, smokeless tobacco products and environmental tobacco smoke. Other areas of interest include the human health impacts associated with exposures to bacterial and viral pathogens prevalent in the Chesapeake Bay.

Behavioral and Community Health

(301) 405-2517

I currently hold the position of Associate Chairperson for the Department of Behavioral and Community Health. My major research interest is adolescent (particularly college student) sexuality, focusing on sexually transmitted diseases, unintended pregnancy and sexual violence. I am currently working a great deal with intercollegiate athletes in the area of sexual violence. In addition I have a major interest in media development and have written and produced four sexuality films.

Family Science

(301) 405-6344

Christine Schull is a Lecturer in the Department of Family Science.

Kinesiology

(301) 405-2480

Dr. Scott has been on the faculty in the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Maryland, College Park for the past sixteen years. He serves as an instructor and as the Coordinator of the Kinesiological Science program in the Department of Kinesiology. Dr. Scott has presented at local, state, regional and national AAHPERD conventions. In addition he has presented at the Black Faculty and Staff Association Conference at the University of Maryland and at the American Association of University Women annual conference.

Health Services Administration

(301) 652-5001

He currently heads the Healthy Futures Program at the University of Maryland School of Public Health. The primary mission of the Healthy Futures Program is to combat obesity, particularly among low income young children and their families in Prince George's County. He has spent his career in health care delivery, policy and finance in both the public and private sectors. His Congressional activities have led to several new laws and regulations. His previous teaching included 26 years at Yale University in topics including health policy, health care services, health planning and financing. He is currently President and CEO of GTM LLC, a health consulting firm. He holds a M.UrS and MPH from Yale University and a BA from Brandeis University.

Behavioral and Community Health

(301) 405-2464

As the Graduate Program Coordinator for the Department of Behavioral and Community Health, Dr. Sharp oversees admissions, and assists current students with their program plans and other advising needs.

As the co-chair of the Faculty, Staff and Students subcommittee, Dr. Sharp plays an integral role in achieving and maintaining CEPH accreditation for the Department of Behavioral and Community Health and for the school as a whole.

Dr. Sharp also teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in the department, serves on several department and school-wide committees, and maintains research interests in the areas of health literacy, health communication/risk communication strategies, women's health, and stress management.

Epidemiology and Biostatistics | Family Science

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(301) 405-3658

Shenassa's research is primarily focused on families' mental and physical well-being with an emphasis on two general areas: the developmental consequences of prenatal and perinatal exposure to toxins and social disparities in health with a focus on the role of housing and other built environments. As an epidemiologist, Shenassa's work is informed by the fields of sociology and psychology and aims to address questions that can improve public health interventions or shape policy and regulation. His focus on the built environment, particularly housing conditions, is motivated by the potential to reduce health disparities through existing local and federal housing policies.

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Kinesiology

(301) 405-2492

Our research is currently focused on biomechanics and motor control of (1) hand and digits and (2) persons with lower extremity amputations as well as their applications to medicine, rehabilitation, and ergonomics. We are especially interested in understanding the CNS control mechanism for motor redundancy, developments of motor functions in typically developing children as well as children with developmental coordination disorder, developmental changes and intervention & adaptation of motor functions in elderly persons and the persons with neurological/genetic disorders or stroke, and physiological and biomechanical risk and interventions of persons with lower extremity amputations. We use techniques of biomechanics, motor control, neurophysiology, and exercise physiology: kinematic analysis using motion capture systems, kinetic/dynamic analysis, neuromuscular training, TMS, EMG, MEG, MRI, optic fiber Bragg grading (FBG) force sensors, 6-D kinetic pen, cardiovascular exercise, neuromuscular training, epidemiology, etc.

Health Services Administration

(301) 405-2548

Lori Simon-Rusinowitz, M.P.H., Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at the University of Maryland Department of Health Services Administration and Center on Aging. Since 1995, she has served as Research Director for the Cash and Counseling Demonstration and Evaluation (CCDE), the Next Steps replication project, and the National Resource Center on Participant-Directed Services.. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Maryland in the Center on Aging and the School of Public Health, Department of Health Services Administration. Her research focus has been in the field of aging and disability policy issues for the past 25 years. Among her responsibilities as Research Director for the CCDE, Dr. Simon-Rusinowitz has overseen a three-part study of consumers' preferences for consumer-directed personal care as well as other components of the Demonstration and Evaluation. She has led numerous policy implementation studies addressing topics such as: a policy option to hire family caregivers, including a study examining policymakers views about this issue; consumer-directed services for older consumers and their caregivers; workforce issues for personal care workers in consumer-directed and traditional agency settings; training representatives for consumers with dementia in consumer-directed services; and an environmental scan of behavioral health and self-direction. She has published and presented extensively on these topics. Her responsibilities in the Department of Health Services Administration include teaching courses in Health Policy and Politics, Qualitative Research Methods, Professional Writing and Communications, and coordinating the Internship Program.

Prior to joining the University of Maryland, Dr. Simon-Rusinowitz held positions at the George Washington University National Health Policy Forum and The Gerontological Society of America. She earned a Ph.D. in Health Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago and an M.P.H. from the University of Michigan.

Kinesiology

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(301) 405-0344

Dr. Smith is focused on understanding how exercise and physical activity affect human brain function and mental health. Dr. Smith's investigations use magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and electroencephalography (EEG) to examine brain function in people at risk for Alzheimer's disease. Dr. Smith, his team of investigators, and collaborators are interested in the potential efficacy for exercise to affect brain function and memory in healthy older adults at genetic risk for Alzheimer's disease, as well as in patients diagnosed with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI). The ultimate goal is to provide evidence for exercise to delay conversion to Alzheimer's disease and protect against age-related cognitive decline. In addition, Dr. Smith examines how acute and chronic exercise or physical activity may alter emotional reactivity, attention allocation, and cognitive function among patients with anxiety and/or depressive mood disorders.

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Behavioral and Community Health

(301) 405-2463

Nancy Smith has an M.A. in health education and a Ph.D. in Behavioral and Community Health, both from the University of Maryland. She served as a researcher/evaluator for over 25 years, working largely for Washington D.C. area consulting firms on contracts for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Now, back at the University of Maryland she is a lecturer, bringing her practical experience to her teaching. Dr. Smith teaches Principles of Community Health II, a pre-professional skill-building course designed to help undergraduate majors transition into the public and community health workforce, and to develop professional competencies, among which includes proposal writing.

Kinesiology

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(301) 405-2483

The primary goal of Dr. Spangenburg's NIH-funded laboratory is to understand the influence of sex steroids on molecular and cellular mechanisms that regulate skeletal muscle, hepatic, and adipose tissue function. In particular, the laboratory emphasis is focused on defining cellular signaling mechanisms that are altered by sex steroids that influence metabolic function.

Kinesiology

(301) 405-2450

Dr. Damion is a member of the Physical Cultural Studies Research Group in the Department of Kinesiology. For more information see the Physical Cultural Studies website.

Health Services Administration

(301) 405-8357

Stephen B. Thomas, PhD, is professor of Health Services Administration in the School of Public Health and Director of the University of Maryland Center for Health Equity at the University of Maryland in College Park. One of the nation's leading scholars in the effort to eliminate racial and ethnic health disparities, Dr. Thomas has applied his expertise to address a variety of conditions from which minorities generally face far poorer outcomes, including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, obesity and HIV/AIDS. He is principal investigator of the Research Center of Excellence on Minority Health Disparities, funded by the NIH-National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities. He is also principal investigator, with Dr. Sandra Quinn, of the NIH National Bioethics Infrastructure Initiative: Building Trust Between Minorities and Researchers awarded in 2009. For information please visit the Maryland Center for Health Equity website: http://www.healthequity.umd.edu/buildingtrust_bio_thomas.asp"

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Epidemiology and Biostatistics | Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health

(301) 405-6583

Dr Paul C Turner is a new tenure track faculty within the Maryland Institute for Applied and Environmental Health; having recently left the Molecular Epidemiology Unit, University of Leeds, UK. Dr Turner obtained his PhD in Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh, UK, and his undergraduate BSc with honors in Biochemistry and Toxicology at the University of Surrey, UK. He was also a visiting scientist at Johns Hopkins University in 2003 and 2005.

Dr Turner's research interests include understanding (1) the role of fungal toxins (mycotoxins) in chronic disease etiology, (2) establishing intervention strategies to restrict such exposures. Mycotoxins, which include the Aspergillus toxins aflatoxin and ochratoxin A, and the Fusarium toxins deoxynivalenol and fumonisin, contaminate up to 25% of the world's food supply. They are suspected agents in both acute and chronic disease. Aflatoxins are potent liver toxins and carcinogens, and are additionally suspected to cause growth faltering and immune-suppression. Four billion people are estimated to live in regions that are at risk of dietary exposure to aflatoxin. Fundamental research question include (a) understanding synergistic interactions between aflatoxin and hepatitis virus in liver cancer risk; (b) understanding the mechanism(s) of observational data on dose related aflatoxin growth faltering; (c) understanding the potential contribution that aflatoxin plays in early life morbidity and mortality in developing countries, including modulations in susceptibility to infections; (d) development and implementation of sustainable interventions to restrict exposure in the most vulnerable groups; (e) understanding of global climate change models and their impact on changing world patterns and levels of toxin exposure.

Fusarium mycotoxins have been implicated in esophageal cancer, though their potential role remains poorly explored. Deoxynivalenol, also known as vomitoxin, modulates the immune system and is associated with growth faltering in animals. Fumonsins have been linked to neural tube defects, and are a suspected co-risk factor in aflatoxin driven liver cancer. The recent development of an exposure biomarker for DON and a strong candidate for fumonisin provides the opportunity to better understand their potential role in human chronic disease, and better inform intervention strategies.

Kinesiology

301-864-7589

Dennis Vacante, NBCT/CAPE is a National Board Certified Teacher/Certified in Adapted Physical Education. He is also a Regional Itinerant Liaison for Adapted Physical Education for Prince George's County Public School system. He has taught Adapted Physical Education for 37 years. He worked 28 years teaching elementary students who have orthopedic impairments. He presently works with high school students who have intellectual disabilities and with elementary students who have autism spectrum disorders. Besides teaching the Adapted Physical Education course (Knes-333) Dennis is the coordinator of the Children's Developmental Clinic which services 75-85 children with various disabilities in the areas of motor development, language, social skills, and reading. Students interested in volunteering for the clinic which runs each Saturday morning in the School of Public Health Building can find more information on our website: http://www.sph.umd.edu/KNES/cdc/

The Children's Developmental Clinic will begin spring training in the matted gym (ground floor of School of Public Health Bldg.) at 8:30 am on Saturday, February 2, 2013 (casual dress for participation in lively fun activities). Clinic will run every Saturday morning through April 20th with no Clinic on March 23rd (UMD Spring Break). Clinician volunteers will gain experiential knowledge, learning how to work with children with disabilities. Students can also receive college credit for this service/study experience. Every clinician receives a free tee shirt and a certificate verifying volunteer service hours. Most of all, each volunteer will experience the satisfaction of helping a child who has special needs.

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Behavioral and Community Health

(301) 405-3466

I have a joint appointment with the Department of Kinesiology. My projects currently relate to school and community based interventions to increase physical activity in minority women and adolescent girls. I take a behavioral social epidemiological perspective with an emphasis on "social-ecologic models." Currently underway are three national and one local study funded by NIH, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and CDC. My focus in all four studies is the relationship between multi-level environmental factors (individual, social and macro environment) and physical activity and obesity in adults and adolescents.

Family Science

(301) 405-4008

Dr. Wallen studies women and substance abuse treatment; treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder; adoption; the evaluation of foster-child services, and work-family programs.

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Behavioral and Community Health

(301) 405-6652

I am currently National Environmental Public Health Tracking Program for Maryland. The major goal of this project is to identify Maryland-specific data on environmental hazards, exposures to environmental hazards, health outcomes thought to be related to environmental factors. I am also working on the Maryland Exchange Network Water Quality Exchange. The major goal of this project is to build state multi-agency communications by sharing environmental health data.

Family Science

(301) 405-4017

Dr. Werlinich studies family therapy, domestic violence, and families of murdered children. She is the principal investigator of a study of the experiences and coping strategies of mothers of murdered children and the implications for therapists.

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Behavioral and Community Health

(301) 405-3453

Kantahyanee is a lecturer for the Department of Behavioral and Community Health.

Health Services Administration

(301) 405-2470

Laura Wilson is the Chair for the Department of Health Services Administration and the Director of the Center on Aging. She is also Director of RSVP International and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Maryland.

Epidemiology and Biostatistics | Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health

(301) 405-3136

Dr. Wilson's research focuses on environmental justice, environmental health, environmental health disparities, built environment, air pollution monitoring, including the use of passive samplers and semi-continuous monitors, community-based participatory research (CBPR) and community-owned and managed research (COMR). He trained in secondary data analysis, advanced geographic information systems and spatial methods, and other quantitative and qualitative approaches. He has extensive experience performing monitoring of air pollution in neighborhoods located near industrial hog operations and the use of spatiotemporal mapping for human exposure assessment. Dr. Wilson received his PhD and MS degree in environmental health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a two-time EPA STAR fellow, Senior Fellow in the Environmental Leadership Program, and past Chair of the Environment Section of the American Public Health Association.

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Epidemiology and Biostatistics

(301) 405-3085

Dr. Tong Tong Wu received her Ph.D. in Biostatistics from the Department of Biostatistics, UCLA School of Public Health in 2006. She then held a postdoctoral researcher position in the Department of Human Genetics, UCLA when visiting the Department of Statistics at Stanford University. Dr. Wu started as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in August, 2007.

Dr. Wu is a biostatistician with interests in high-dimensional data analysis, survival analysis, machine learning, computational statistics, computational biology and statistical genetics, and longitudinal data analysis. She is also interested in statistical applications and collaboration in various scientific and medical areas.

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Behavioral and Community Health

Tracy Zeeger is a lecturer in the Department of Behavioral and Community Health. She currently teaches Principles of Community Health II. In addition to her teaching responsibilities, Tracy is an advisor for current majors and those students who are interested in changing their major to Community Health.

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Kinesiology

301.405.2498

Jo Zimmerman is an instructor in the Department of Kinesiology. She earned her undergraduate and master's degrees from George Mason University, and has held the ACSM Health Fitness Specialist certification since 1996. Jo has been working in the health and fitness industry for nearly 20 years and teaching for over 14 years.

UMD courses vary by semester, but may include KNES 157N/O, KNES 161N, KNES 200, KNES 350, KNES 332, and KNES 497.