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Elaine Anderson, Interim Chair of Family Science - Professor Family Science |
| 1204D Marie Mount Hall eanders@umd.edu (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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Anne Anderson-Sawyer, Lecturer Public and Community Health |
| 2387 SPH Bldg. aasawyer@umd.edu (301) 405-2518
Anne Anderson-Sawyer is a lecturer in the Department of Public and Community Health. She is also the Coordinator of the PCH Undergraduate and MPH Internship Program.
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Nancy Atkinson, Assistant Professor Public and Community Health |
| 2364 SPH Bldg. atkinson@umd.edu (301) 405-2522
Nancy L. Atkinson received a Ph.D. in Health Education from the University of Maryland Department of Public and Community Health. She is a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Public and Community Health, at the University of Maryland. Her research interests include instructional design, public health informatics, women's health, health communication, and patient-provider communication.
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Kenneth Beck, Professor Public and Community Health |
| 2387 SPH Bldg kbeck1@umd.edu (301) 405-2527
Kenneth Beck received a Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Syracuse University. He is a Professor in the Department of Public 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.
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Andrew Billingsley, Professor Emeritus Family Science |
| 1204 Marie Mount Hall abilling@gwm.sc.edu (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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Bradley Boekeloo, Professor and Associate Dean Public and Community Health |
| 2387 SPH Bldg. boekeloo@umd.edu (301) 405-8546
Dr. Boekeloo is an Associate Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP) and Director of Graduate Studies, in the Department of Public and Community Health, College of Health and Human Performance. He has conducted studies on patient-provider communication about prevention for the last 15 years. Dr. Boekeloo is founder and director of the Laboratory for Health Behavior Assessment and Intervention in the Department of Public and Community Health.
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Bonnie Braun, Herschel S. Horowitz Endowed Chair and Director of the Center for Health Literacy Family Science | Office of the Dean |
| 2232 SPH Bldg. bbraun@umd.edu (301) 405-0388
Dr. Braun is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Family Science and holds an appointment as Family Policy Specialist with Maryland Cooperative Extension. 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. See: http://www.sph.umd.edu/fmst/people/fac/braun.html
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Elizabeth Brown, Instructor Kinesiology |
| 2353 SPH Bldg. ebrown2@umd.edu cv (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.
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Antonio J Busalacchi, Affiliate in MIAEH Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health |
| tonyb@essic.umd.edu (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. Dr. Busalacchi's Webpage
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Olivia Carter-Pokras, Associate Professor Epidemiology and Biostatistics |
| 1240D SPH Bldg. opokras@umd.edu cv (301) 405-8037
Olivia Carter-Pokras, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Maryland College Park School of Public Health. She 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 to address health disparities. Her research has played a critical role in national recognition of health disparities experienced by Latin American immigrants. Dr. Carter-Pokras is the Principal Investigator for a NHLBI cultural competency and health disparities academic award, a state tobacco disparities evaluation contract, and a community based participatory research grant from NICHD on oral health of Latino and Ethiopian children and their mothers. She conducts health assessments of Latinos in Baltimore and Montgomery County in close partnership with local government and community based organizations. Dr. Carter-Pokras is a member of the Board of Directors for the American College of Epidemiology, and the Executive Board of the American Public Health Association. more information
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Eva R Chin, Assistant Professor Kinesiology |
| 2134B SPH Bldg erchin@umd.edu cv (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 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 400 times already).
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Jane Clark, Professor and Chair Kinesiology |
| 2351D SPH Bldg. jeclark@umd.edu cv (301) 405-2452
Jane E. Clark is a Professor in the Department of Kinesiology. 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 work examines the role of sensory information in the development of upright posture and locomotion in infants.
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Jose Luis Contreras-Vidal, Associate Professor Kinesiology |
| 2343 SPH Bldg. pepeum@gmail.com (301) 405-2495
Dr. Contreras-Vidal's research program integrates behavioral, neuroimaging, and computational neuroscience methods to study the neural mechanisms and computational principles underlying adaptive sensory-motor control in humans during normal and neurological conditions. To accomplish the above goal we use motion sensing, high-density scalp electroencephalography (EEG), magnetoencephalography (MEG), functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIR), and computer simulations of large-scale, biologically-plausible, neural networks of motor systems including the spinal cord, fronto-parietal networks, the basal ganglia and the cerebellum. His translational research involves the development of smart neuroprosthetics, and the transfer of relevant biological principles (hardware and algorithms) to the design and development of a new generation of artificial hands and arms (bio-robotics).
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Rada Dagher, Assistant Professor Health Services Administration |
| 2324 SPH Building rdagher1@umd.edu (301) 405-1210
Dr. Dagher received her PhD in 2007 from University of Minnesota and her dissertation was nominated for the University of Minnesota Best Dissertation Award. Her research focuses on the risk and protective factors of postpartum depression, the work-family interface and employee health, and the health care response to intimate partner violence.
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Stacey B. Daughters, Assistant Professor Public and Community Health |
| 2371 SPH Bldg. & 2103 Cole Field House daughter@umd.edu cv (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 Public 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.
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Sharon Desmond, Associate Professor Public and Community Health |
| 2376 SPH Bldg. desmond@umd.edu (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.
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Norman Epstein, Professor Family Science |
| 1210C Marie Mount Hall nbe@umd.edu (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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Robert Feldman, Professor Public and Community Health |
| 2387 SPH Bldg. rfeldman@umd.edu (301) 405-2519
Dr. Feldman is a health psychologist focusing on cross-cultural research and minority health. He has conducted nutrition research in Kenya, East Africa and investigated the use of complementary and alternative medicine in Australia. He has examined the integration of smoking cessation and occupational health and safety for Latino immigrant workers in Washington, DC and the ceremonial versus commercial use of tobacco among Native Americans in Arizona. Dr. Feldman has published over 50 journal articles, given over 100 professional presentations, and co-authored four books.
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Michael Friedman, Research Assistant Professor Kinesiology |
mtfried@umd.edu
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.
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Ned Gaylin, Professor Emeritus Family Science |
| 1210A Marie Mount Hall ngaylin@umd.edu (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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Rodolphe Gentili, Research Assistant Professor Kinesiology |
| 2144 E SPH Bldg. rodolphe@umd.edu (301) 405-2490
Dr. Gentilli'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.
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Elbert D. Glover, Professor and Chair Public and Community Health |
| 2387 SPH Bldg. eglover1@umd.edu (301) 405-2029
Dr. Glover serves as Professor and Chair, Department of Public & 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.
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Robert Gold, Dean Office of the Dean | Public and Community Health |
| 3310 SPH Bldg. rsgold@umd.edu (301) 405-2437
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 is Dean of the School of Public Health, previously the chair of the Department of Public and Community Health and has served as Vice President at ORC Macro.
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Frances K. Goldscheider , College Park Professor Family Science |
| 1210 F Marie Mount Hall frances_goldscheider@brown.edu (301) 405-3672
Research Focus: Families and households, living arrangements of fathers, gender roles, methodology, ethnicity
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Kerry Green Public and Community Health |
| 2375 SPH Bldg. greenkm@umd.edu (301) 405-2524
Dr. Green is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public 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.
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James Hagberg, Professor Kinesiology |
| 2134E SPH Bldg. hagberg@umd.edu (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 is addressing the effect of genetics, aging, and physical activity on conventional and novel cardiovascular disease risk factors, especially endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs). 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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Bradley Hatfield, Professor Kinesiology |
| 2341 SPH Bldg. bhatfiel@umd.edu cv (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.
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Xin He, Assistant Professor Epidemiology and Biostatistics |
| 1242E SPH Building xinhe@umd.edu (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.
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Sandra Hofferth, Professor Family Science |
| 1210E Marie Mount Hall hofferth@umd.edu (301) 405-8501
Dr. Hofferth's research interests include American children's use of time, child health, fathers and fathering, research methods, and family policy. She is conducting an NIH-funded study of the influence of intergenerational family processes on the development of involved fathering. She is Director of the Maryland Population Research Center and teaches research methods in the Family Science Department.
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Cheryl Holt, Associate Professor Public and Community Health |
| 2369 SPH Bldg. cholt14@umd.edu cv (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.
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Donna Howard, Associate Professor Public and Community Health |
| 2387 SPH Bldg. dhoward1@umd.edu (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.
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Ben Hurley, Professor Kinesiology |
| 2134D SPH Bldg. benhur@umd.edu cv (301) 405-2486
My research interests consist of the effects of aging and exercise training on risk factors for age-related diseases and disability, with emphasis on the effects of age, gender and genetics on health-related responses to strength training.
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David H Hyde, Instructor Public and Community Health |
| 2374 SPH Bldg. dhyde1@umd.edu (301) 405-2523
As the Director of the undergraduate program I am responsible for a variety of tasks associated with the undergraduate degree in the Department of Public and Community Health. I participate in new student orientation programs, advise current health majors, and help students currently enrolled at UMCP who are interested in becoming Community Health majors. I also teach two classes, Controlling Stress and Tension and Understanding and Coping with Stress, a course in the University's Honors Program. Research Interests With my current responsibilities, as defined by my job description, I have not been engaged in any research. However, I would like to the opportunity to become involved in research, especially in the area of coping. This may include a specific study or a book of some nature. Service Interests: Am currently serving on the Middle States Review Committee for the campus undergraduate program and having participated in a Summer Academy (Dean Hampton) am involved in follow up meetings as we continue to work on a project: Enhancing Student Success Through Intensified Student-Faculty Interaction.
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Seppo Iso-Ahola, Professor Kinesiology |
| 2142 SPH Bldg. isoahol@umd.edu (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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John J. Jeka, Professor Kinesiology |
| 2357 SPH Bldg. jjeka@umd.edu cv (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.
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Sam Joseph, Research Professor (MIAEH) and Emeritus Professor of Microbiology Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health |
| swj@umd.edu (301) 405-0389
BSA from the University of Florida, Gainesville in bacteriology and chemistry; MS and PhD from St. John's University in microbiology. Former Professor and Chair, Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics (Microbiology), University of Maryland; Adjunct Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, UMB; and Former Director, Infectious Diseases Program, Naval Medical Research and Development Command, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, MD. More than 120 refereed publications currently in press with six additional in preparation; and 15 books and chapters. Member of Sigma Xi; Elected Fellow, American Academy of Microbiology; Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science. Extensive contract and grant work with FDA, Naval Medical Research and Development Command; Agency for International Development; Agricultural Experiment Station; USDA; Maryland Department of the Environment.
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Samuel Kessel, Lecturer Family Science |
| 1204 Marie Mount Hall wkessel@umd.edu (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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Maria Khan, Assistant Professor Epidemiology and Biostatistics |
| 1242 SPH Building mrkhan@umd.edu (301) 405-6521
Dr. Khan researches the social and structural determinants of sexual risk behavior, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and HIV in domestic and international settings. Her recent work has focused on investigating STI/HIV among those with a history of incarceration, their sex partners, and other members of their sexual networks. She was recently funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse to evaluate the longitudinal relationship between substance use in adolescence and STI in adulthood, including the degree to which substance use influences STI by increasing risk of involvement in the criminal justice system. Dr. Khan also has substantial field experience conducting epidemiologic field studies to identify determinants of STI/HIV in resource-poor settings.
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Jinhee Kim, Assistant Professor, State Family Resource Management Specialist, Maryland Cooperative Extension Family Science |
| 1204J Marie Mount Hall jinkim@umd.edu (301) 405-3500
Dr. Kim's areas of interest are family resource management, financial stress, and financial well-being.
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Christopher King, Lecturer Health Services Administration |
| 2367 SPH Bldg. cking@umd.edu (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.
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Dushanka Kleinman, Associate Dean for Research and Academic Affairs and Professor Epidemiology and Biostatistics | Office of the Dean |
| 3310C SPH Bldg. dushanka@umd.edu (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.
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Mia J Ko, Lecturer Public and Community Health |
| 2377 SPH Bldg. mjko@umd.edu (301) 405-2521
Dr. Ko currently instructs both graduate and undergraduate courses in Public and Community Health. Dr. Ko was an invited speaker in health literacy and health communication at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia. She has published and presented in the area of women's health and smoking cessation and had received a grant for her innovative use of technology in the classroom. Teaching interests include health communication, womens health, consumer behavior, and health behavior.
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Sally Koblinsky, Professor, Assistant President, & Chief of Staff Family Science |
| 1204A Marie Mount Hall koblinsk@umd.edu (301) 405-4009
Areas of research include parenting in at-risk families, child development, homeless families, and community violence.
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Susan Kogut, Adjunct Faculty Kinesiology |
| 2356 SPH Bldg. spkpe4life@msn.com (301) 405-2511
Susan Kogut is an instructor in the Physical Education Teacher Education Program. She has been a NASPE Physical Education Teacher of the Year as a public school teacher, has worked at the University of Maryland for the last 10 years dedicated to helping our undergraduate physical education majors become excellent teachers. She brings the dedication and passion to the university as she did to her physical education classes in the public schools. She has recently received the School of Public Health's Leda Amick Wilson Mentoring Award for her outstanding efforts in the Department of Kinesiology in mentoring the undergraduate physical education majors.
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Jaslean LaTaillade, Assistant Professor Family Science |
| 1204L Marie Mount Hall jaslean@umd.edu (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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Mei-Ling Ting Lee, Professor Epidemiology and Biostatistics |
| 1242 SPH Bldg #255 MLTLEE at UMD dot EDU 301-405-4581
Dr. Mei-Ling Ting Lee is Professor and Director of the Biostatistics Research Center at the University of Maryland, College Park. 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. Her current research is focused in the following areas: (a) Statistical Methods for High Throughput Data Obtained from Microarray Gene Expression Studies, Genomewide Association Studies, and Proteomic Studies using Mass Spectrometry; (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) Lifetime Data Analysis; (e) Multivariate Distributional Theory and Applications; (f) Statistical Applications in Microbiology and Pharmacokinetics. 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 fifteen's volume. Click here to Dr. Lee's research webpage
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Sunmin Lee, Assistant Professor Epidemiology and Biostatistics |
| 1242M SPH Bldg. sunmin@umd.edu (301) 405-7251
Dr. 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, and health behaviors. More recently, Dr. Lee is examining multilevel predictors of obesity in adolescent girls. In this study, she is investigating individual, neighborhood, and school level factors that influence change in weight and percent body fat. Dr. Lee's other main research area is Health Disparities Studies focusing on Asian Americans. Her research in this area looks into various health problems and challenges that Asian Americans face as a minority group, as well as proposing potential recommendations that may contribute in reducing health disparities. Her recent work 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. All of this work has been carried out through close partnerships with various Asian American communities in Maryland. Dr. Lee's homepage
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Leigh Leslie, Associate Professor Family Science |
| 1210D Marie Mount Hall lleslie@umd.edu (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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Rosemary Lindle, Adjunct Faculty Kinesiology |
| rlindle@umd.edu cv 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.
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Tracey Manning, Research Associate Professor Health Services Administration |
| 2367 SPH Bldg. tmanning@academy.umd.edu (301) 405-2529
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.
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Lis Fost Maring, Faculty Research Associate Family Science |
| 1204H Marie Mount Hall lisfostmaring@yahoo.com (301) 405-4015
Elisabeth Maring is a Faculty Research Associate and a Family Life Specialist with the Maryland Cooperative Extension at UMCP. 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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Lori Marks, Instructor Public and Community Health |
| 2387 SPH Bldg. lnmarks@umd.edu (301) 405-2463
Lori N. Marks, PhD, is an instructor in the Department of Public and Community Health and the Executive Director of the American Academy of Health Behavior. She teaches core undergraduate courses in Public and Community Health and guides students in their internship placement process. Dr. Marks has also taught courses in the Department of Family Studies. Her research interest is in aging, with recent publications focused on consumer-directed personal care for aging and disabled populations.
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Stephen McDaniel, Associate Professor Kinesiology |
| 2337 SPH Bldg. smcdanie@umd.edu (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.
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Jack A. Meyer, Professor of the Practice Health Services Administration |
jmeyer@healthmanagement.com
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.
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Donald Milton, Professor and Director (MIAEH), Affiliate in Epidemiology and Biostatistics Epidemiology and Biostatistics | Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health |
| SPH 2310 dmilton@umd.edu (301) 405-5509
Dr. Milton is Professor and Director of MIAEH and Affiliate Faculty in Epidemiology and Biostatistics. He received his BS in Chemistry from the University of Maryland Baltimore County, his MD from Johns Hopkins University and his DrPH (Environmental Health) from Harvard University. He trained in medicine at Emory and Boston Universities and Occupational and Environmental Medicine at Harvard. He joined the Harvard School of Public Health Faculty in 1990 and was appointed Professor in University of Massachusetts Lowell's School of Health and Environment in 2005. He is board certified in internal and occupational medicine and has 20 years experience in an occupational medicine referral practice. He has taught courses on aerobiology, toxicology, indoor air quality, respiratory epidemiology, physiology, pathology, pathophysiology. He is currently Adjunct Senior Lecturer on Occupational and Environmental Health at Harvard School of Public Health, Lecturer on Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Attending Physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Dr. Milton is a past chair of the ACGIH Bioaerosols committee and a member of the committee since 1988. He is chair of the external advisory board for the UTMB Environmental Health Science Center, Galveston, TX. He is a member of the editorial boards of Applied Environmental Microbiology, Indoor Air, and BMC Public Health. He 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. 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. Dr. Milton's Lab Webpage
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Manouchehr Mokhtari, Associate Professor Family Science |
| 1201 Marie Mount Hall mokhtari@umd.edu (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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Karoline Mortensen, Assistant Professor Health Services Administration |
| 2320 SPH Building karoline@umd.edu (301) 405-6545
Dr. Mortensen earned her PhD in Health Services Organization and Policy from the university of Michigan School of Public Health in 2006. Her research focuses on the differences in utilization of healthcare services among the uninsured, privately and publicly insures, and the untilization patterns of the intermittently insured.
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Noel Myricks, Associate Professor Emeritus, Attorney-at-Law Family Science |
| 1204 Marie Mount Hall nmyricks@umd.edu (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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Ana Palla-Kane, Director of Undergraduate Programs Kinesiology |
| 2351 SPH Bldg anapalla@umd.edu (301) 405-2450
Dr. Palla-Kane is the Director of Undergraduate Programs in the Department of Kinesiology. Research: She 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.
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Barry Portnoy, College Park Professor Public and Community Health |
| 2387 SPH Bldg. bportno1@umd.edu (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.
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Marc A. Rogers, Associate Professor Kinesiology |
| 2140 SPH Bldg. mrogers1@umd.edu cv (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.
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Stephen M. Roth, Associate Professor Kinesiology |
| 2134C SPH Bldg. sroth1@umd.edu cv (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 body composition, sarcopenia risk, exercise responses, and other health-related phenotypes; as well as understanding the role of exercise/physical activity in modifying DNA structure (e.g., telomere length, methylation). He directs the Functional Genomics Laboratory.
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Kevin Roy, Assistant Professor Family Science |
| 1204K Marie Mount Hall kroy@umd.edu (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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Roger Rubin, Associate Professor Emeritus Family Science |
| 1210 A Marie Mount Hall rrubin@umd.edu (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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Brit I. Saksvig, Research Assistant Professor Epidemiology and Biostatistics |
| 2316 SPH Bldg. bsaksvig@umd.edu cv (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.
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Amir Sapkota, Assistant Professor MIAEH, Affiliate in Epidemiology and Biostatistics Epidemiology and Biostatistics | Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health |
| Room 2328; SPH Bldg amirsap@umd.edu (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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Amy R Sapkota, Assistant Professor, Affiliate in Epidemiology and Biostatistics Epidemiology and Biostatistics | Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health |
| 2308 SPH Building ars@umd.edu (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) investigating the prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in tertiary-treated wastewater used for spray irrigation; and 3) 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.
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Robin Sawyer, Associate Professor Public and Community Health |
| 2368 SPH Bldg. sawyer@umd.edu (301) 405-2517
I currently hold the position of Associate Chairperson for the Department of Public 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.
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Jaime Schultz, Assistant Professor Kinesiology |
| 2314 SPH Bldg. jschu@umd.edu (301) 405-2475
Dr. Schultz is an Assistant Professor in Physical Cultural studies with an affiliate appointment in Women's Studies at the University of Maryland. Her research on sport and physical activity is informed by feminist cultural studies and new cultural history perspectives. She is concerned with narrativity, particularly as it intersects with issues of power including sex, gender, sexuality, "race" and ethnicity. Her research has won awards from the North American Society for the History of Sport, the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport, the Sport Literature Association and the International Society for the History of Physical Education and Sport. Her publications appear in The Journal of Sport History, Journal of Sport and Social Issues, Sociology of Sport Journal, The International Journal of the History of Sport, Aethlon, Sport in Society, and Stadion.
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Marvin Scott, Instructor Kinesiology |
| 2347 SPH Bldg. mwscott@umd.edu (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.
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Katherine Sharp, Graduate Program Coordinator/Instructor Public and Community Health |
| 2387B SPH Building ksharp1@umd.edu (301) 405-2464
As the Graduate Program Coordinator for the Department of Public 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 public 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.
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Edmond Shenassa, Associate Professor, Director of Maternal and Child Health; Affiliate in Epidemiology and Biostatistics Epidemiology and Biostatistics | Family Science |
| 1204 Marie Mount Hall shenassa@umd.edu cv (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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Jae Kun Shim, Assistant Professor Kinesiology |
| 0110F SPH Bldg. jkshim@umd.edu (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.
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Lori Simon-Rusinowitz, Associate Professor Health Services Administration |
| 2387 SPH Bldg . lasr@umd.edu (301) 405-2548
Lori Simon-Rusinowitz, M.P.H., Ph.D. is an Associate Professor for the University of Maryland Department of Public and Community Health, and Deputy Director of the Cash and Counseling Demonstration and Evaluation Project in the Center on Aging. She is the Undergraduate Community Health Internship Coordinator, as well as the MPH Internship Coordinator, and teaches another senior-level Community Health course.
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Nancy Smith, Lecturer Public and Community Health |
| 2377 SPH Bldg. nsmith10@umd.edu (301) 405-2463
Nancy Smith has an M.A. in health education and a Ph.D. in public 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.
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Espen Spangenburg, Assistant Professor Kinesiology |
| 2134A SPH Bldg. espen@umd.edu cv (301) 405-2483
The primary goal of Dr. Spangenburg's NIH-funded laboratory is to understand the molecular and cellular mechanisms that regulate skeletal muscle and adipose tissue function. In particular, the laboratory emphasis is focused on the cellular signaling mechanisms that various hormones and growth factors utilize to alter gene expression.
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Damion Thomas, Assistant Professor Kinesiology |
| 2136 SPH Bldg. thomas@umd.edu (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.
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Carolyn Voorhees, Research Associate Professor Public and Community Health |
| 2358 SPH Bldg. ccv@umd.edu (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.
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Jacqueline Wallen, Associate Professor Family Science |
| 1204E Marie Mount Hall jwallen@umd.edu (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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Min Qi Wang, Professor Public and Community Health |
| 2373 SPH Bldg. mqw@umd.edu (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.
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Carol Werlinich, Instructor, Director of the Family Service Center Family Science |
| 1204C Marie Mount Hall cwerlin@umd.edu (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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Laura Wilson, Chair of Health Services Administration; Professor Health Services Administration |
| 2367 SPH Bldg lwilson@umd.edu (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.
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Tongtong Wu, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics Epidemiology and Biostatistics |
| 1242C SPH Bldg, ttwu@umd.edu cv (301) 405-3085
Tongtong Wu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Maryland College Park. Dr. Wu obtained her Ph.D. from the Department of Biostatistics, UCLA School of Public Health in 2006, and then she worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Human Genetics, UCLA. Dr. Wu is a biostatistician with interests in survival analysis, computational statistics, and statistical genetics. While studying methods of survival analysis, she focuses on semi/nonparametric modeling and two-stage design. In the field of computational statistics, Dr. Wu works on multi-category classification and variable selection. Her research can be applied to cancer classification and the genetic determination of diseases and has other useful applications. Dr. Wu also studies longitudinal data analysis as it applies to HIV research.
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Tao Xiao, Faculty Research Assistant; Full-time Research Staff Epidemiology and Biostatistics |
| 1240H SPH Bldg. taoxiao@umd.edu (301) 405-2550
Tao is a biostatistician at the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistcs at the school of Public Health.
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Cong Ye, Faculty Resident Assistant; Full-time Research Staff Epidemiology and Biostatistics |
| 1204E SPH Bldg. yecong@umd.edu (301) 405-6421
Cong is a Faculty Resident assistant at the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the School of Public Health.
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Deborah Rohm Young, Chair of Epidemiology and Biostatistics- Professor Epidemiology and Biostatistics | Kinesiology |
| 1242A SPH Bldg. dryoung@umd.edu cv (301) 405-0271
Dr. Young is a physical activity epidemiologist with research expertise in community-based physical activity intervention trials, physical activity assessment, cardiovascular disease risk factors, and obesity prevention. She mostly studies population subgroups that are known to be underactive, such as racial/ethnically diverse women and adolescent girls. Dr. Young is an affiliate faculty member in Kinesiology. Dr. Young's research is funded by the National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. She has led and participated in a number of extramurally-funded projects evaluating the effects of community-based interventions on physical activity, obesity and weight gain prevention, and cardiovascular disease risk factors. more information
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Guangyu Zhang, Assistant Professor Epidemiology and Biostatistics |
| 1242 B, SPH Bldg. guangyuz@umd.edu cv (301) 405-3102
Guangyu Zhang, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. She obtained her PhD in 2007 from the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Michigan, School of Public Health, and a master degree from Nutritional Sciences from Cornell University. Her major research interest is in the missing data field, Bayesian methods, longitudinal data analysis and mixture models. She is also interested in the applications of biostatistics to the public health-related topics, such as obesity, hypertension, HIV/AIDs, aging, and cancer. Courses: EPIB 655 Longitudinal Data Analysis (Spring 2008) EPIB698A Special Topics: Introduction to SAS Statistical Programming Links: More information about Biostatistics: http://www.amstat.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=main
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Jo Zimmerman, Instructor Kinesiology |
| 2354 SPH Building jzimmer1@umd.edu 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 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 12 years.
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