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Department of Community Medicine

Faculty

Core Teaching Faculty in Specialty Tracks

Department
Specialty Area 

Name

Title/Academic Rank

Teaching Area

Research Interest

Epidemiology and
Biostatistics

Lan Guo, PhD

Assistant Professor

Bioinformatics

Identification of Cancer Biomarkers and Bioinformatics Algorithm Development

George Kelley, DA, FACSM

Professor

Biostatistics

Exercise and Health-Related Disease

Sarah Knox, PhD

Professor

Epigenetics and Systems Biology

Clinical and Population Epigenetics

Juhua Luo, PhD

Assistant Professor

Cancer Epidemiology and Applied Biostatistics

Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention, Health Disparities in Underserved Populations, and Epidemiology Methods

Priscah Mujuru, DrPH, RN,COHN-S

Assistant Professor

Epidemiology

Air Pollution, Logging Injuries

Ian Rockett, PhD, MPH Professor Epidemiology Suicide Prevention and Injury Control

Anoop Shankar, MD, PhD

Associate Professor

Epidemiology

Cardiovascular Disease, Diabetes Mellitus, Hypertension, Chronic Kidney Disease, Sleep Disordered Breathing, Inflammation

Motao Zhu, PhD, MD, MS

Assistant Professor

Biostatistics

Injury Epidemiology and Prevention, Maternal and Child Health, Epidemiology Methods

Social and Behavioral

Kimberly Horn, EdD

Associate Professor

Grant writing

Tobacco Prevention

Ruth Kershner, EdD

Associate Professor

Women’s Health

 

Cecil Pollard, MA

Assistant Professor

Community Health Assessment Evaluation

Diabetes Control, Workers’ Compensation

William Reger-Nash, EdD

Professor

Foundation of Wellness

Wellness, Physical Activity

Judith Sedgeman, EdD

Assistant Professor

Advanced Professional Writing

Mind-body Connection

Kenneth Simon, EdD

Associate Professor

Social and Behavioral Theory

Wellness

R. Turner Goins, PhD

Associate Professor

Rural Gerontology

Rural and Native American Health Care

Keith J. Zullig, MSPH, PhD

Associate Professor

Social and Behavioral Theory

Adolescent Quality of Life Research, Measurement, Substance Use, Community-based Interventions

Health Policy and Management

 

Mary Carter, PhD

Assistant Professor

Gerontology Fundamentals

Aging and Quality of Life

Geri Dino, PhD

Associate Professor

Management of Public Health

Tobacco Prevention

Michael Hendryx, PhD

Associate Professor

Health Policy

Health Disparities

Environmental
Health

Rachel Abraham, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor

Research Seminar, Disaster Response

Public Health Practice

Alan Ducatman, MD, MSc

Professor and Depart. Chair

Environmental Health

Toxic Exposure
Worker’s Compensation

James Helmkamp, PhD

Professor

Injury Control Research Methods

Injury Control

Christopher Martin, MD

Associate Professor

Internal Public Health

Occupational Medicine,
Toxicology of Metals

Michael McCawley, PhD

Associate Research Professor

Occupational Health

Air Pollution, Aerosols, Occupational Health

Charles Werntz, DO, MPH

Assistant Professor

Environmental Health

Lead Toxicology

Generalist

David Brown, PhD

Associate Professor

Rural Gerontology

Gerontology

Thaddeus Herzog, PhD

Associate Professor

Social and Behavioral Theory

Smoking Cessation

Janet Hunt, MPH

Assistant Professor

Practicum

 

Nancy O’Hara Tompkins, PhD

Assistant Professor

Independent Study

Physical Activity, Obesity Prevention

Peter Shaffron, EdD

Professor

Injury Prevention

Older-Driver Mobility

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