Health Services Researchers
Robert Bossarte, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Community Medicine
He is a Behavioral scientist who completed his graduate degree in Sociology at the University of Notre Dame. He completed postdoctoral training in applied epidemiology in the Epidemic Intelligence Service program at the Cneters for Disease Control and Prevention, where he worked in the areas of violence prevention and polio eradication. Dr. Bossarte's research interest include suicide, substance use, violence prevention, adolescent health, rural health, and research methodology.
rbossarte@hsc.wvu.edu
Andrew S. Bradlyn, PhD
Professor, Behavioral Medicine & Psychiatry, SOM
Co-director, Health Behavior Research Center
Special Interests:
Hyperactivity,
Chronic illness,
Behavior problems,
Pain, and
Young children.
abradlyn@hsc.wvu.edu
Mary W. Carter, PhD
Assistant Professor, Center on Aging, Department of Community Medicine, SOM
Dr. Carter is currently collaborating on a project investigating factors contributing to highly discretionary and ambulatory care sensitive hospitalizations among nursing home residents with a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease. Additionally, she is exploring how resident risk of hospitalization varies in relation to facility performance on select quality indicators (e.g., decubitus ulcers; physical restraint use).
mcarter@hsc.wvu.edu
Jeffrey Coben, MD
Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine and Community Medicine at WVU, serves as Director of the Center for Rural Emergency Medicine, and Scientific Director for the Injury Control Research Center.
Dr. Coben's research utilizes public health and health services research methods to examine topics relevant to emergency medicine and trauma prevention. Major areas of concentration include intimate partner violence and transportation-related injuries.
jcoben@hsc.wvu.edu
Lesley Cottrell, PhD
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, SOM
lcottrell@hsc.wvu.edu
Geri A. Dino, PhD
Associate Professor in the Department of Community Medicine at West Virginia University and the PI and Director of the CDC-funded WV Prevention Research Center.
Dr. Dino has a nationally-focused, extramurally-funded research program in adolescent smoking intervention that involves multiple collaborations at local, state, and national levels.
gdino@hsc.wvu.edu
Edward Doyle, MD, MSc
Professor, Community Medicine
Dr. Doyle's interests are in Workers' Compensation systems; repetitive strain disorders -- particularly carpal tunnel; and primary/secondary prevention of tobacco use.
edoyle@hsc.wvu.edu
Alan Ducatman, MD, MSc
Professor & Chair Department of Community Medicine
Dr. Ducatman's research is in neurotoxicity, lung toxicity, disease clustering, quality assurance in medical surveillance, and career opportunities of environmental health physicians.
aducatman@hsc.wvu.edu
Barbara S. Ducatman, MD
Chair/Professor, Pathology, SOM
Research areas are in Occupational Lung Carcinogenesis, Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology.
bducatman@hsc.wvu.edu
Brian J. Gerber, PhD
Assistant Professor, Division of Public Administration
Specialization: Regulatory policy and environmental management, hazards management and homeland security, public policy analysis, research methods.
bjgerber@mail.wvu.edu
R. Turner Goins, PhD
Associate Director for Research, Associate Professor, Center on Aging, Department of Community Medicine, SOM
Dr. Goins’ primary research interests include health-related quality of life among rural elderly.
rgoins@hsc.wvu.edu
Paul Gordon, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor, Human Performance - Exercise Physiology, SOM
Research interest: Physical Activity and Public Health; Relationship of physical activity on cardiovascular disease; cardiovascular disease risk factors including obesity and blood lipids.
pgorgon@hsc.wvu.edu
Joel Halverson, PhD
Director of the Office for Social Environment and Health Research (OSEAHR).
OSEAHR was co-founded by Dr. Halverson in 1997. Its continuing mission is to conduct and disseminate policy-relevant research on aspects of the social environment that contribute to geographic, rural-urban, social class, racial/ethnic, and gender inequalities in health and disease.
Current interest areas include health disparities, social epidemiology with an emphasis on place characteristics that contribute to variations in health outcomes, health impacts related to social and economic change, and spatial/quantitative methods.
jhalverson@hsc.wvu.edu
Carole V. Harris, PhD
Professor, Behavioral Medicine & Psychiatry, SOM
Co-director, Health Behavior Research Center
Special Interests:
Child and adolescent psychology,
Anxiety disorders in children and adolescents, and
Impact of health problems on children and adolescents.
charris@hsc.wvu.edu
Jim Helmkamp, PhD
Research Professor, Director, West Virginia University Injury Control Research Center.
Current research interest: descriptive epidemiology of occupational (WV FACE Program) and recreational (ATV) fatalities and injuries, and collaboration with DHHS Region III for injury prevention through the Mid-Atlantic Injury Control Network.
jhelmkamp@hsc.wvu.edu
Michael Hendryx, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Community Medicine.
Research Director, Institute for Health Policy Research West Virginia University.
mhendryx@hsc.wvu.edu
Kimberly A. Horn, EdD
Associate Professor,
Department of Community Medicine
Associate Director of Population Health Research, Mary Babb Randolph
Cancer Center
Director, Translational Tobacco Reduction Research Program (T2R2)
Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center,
West Virginia University
Research interest focuses on tailoring programs to meet the needs of high-risk children and adolescents. She recently co-developed a nationally recognized teen smoking cessation called Not On Tobacco (N-O-T) which has received national and international recognition. The program was adopted by the American Lung Association.
khorn@hsc.wvu.edu
Dina L. Jones, PhD
Assistant Professor, Orthopaedics, SOM
Research interests focus on physical activity, knee osteoarthritis, total hip and knee arthroplasty, rehabilitation interventions in individuals with rheumatic diseases, epidemiology, and fibromyalgia.
djones@hsc.wvu.edu
George Kelley, DA, FACSM
Full Professor and Director of the Meta-Analytic Research Group in the Department of Community Medicine here at West Virginia University (WVU) in Morgantown.
Research interest includes, but is not limited to, use of the meta-analytic approach for examining the effects of physical activity on health-related disease.
gkelley@hsc.wvu.edu
Richard Meckstroth, DDS
Chair, Dental Practice & Rural Health, SOD
Research Interests: Tobacco cessation, sports injury prevention, barriers to dental care and geriatric education concerns.
remckstroth@hsc.wvu.edu
Lessley Ann Miller, PhD
Assistant Professor, Pharmaceutical Systems & Policy, SOP
Research interest include outcomes research in prostate and cervical cancer. Decision and cost-effectiveness analysis.
lamiller@hsc.wvu.edu
Robert Pack, PhD
Associate Professor in the Department of Community Medicine.
Research interest include adolescent health, rural health, behavior change interventions, antecedents of risk behavior and detained, high risk and incarcerated populations.
rpack@hsc.wvu.edu
L Christopher Plein, PhD
Chair and Associate Professor, Division of Public Administration
Specialization: Legal and political foundations, internship coordination, public policy analysis, science and technology policy, economic development. analysis.
lplein@mail.wvu.edu
Cecil Pollard, MA
Director, Office of Health Services Research
My primary interest is in community research, with focus on improving quality of care for patients with chronic conditions such as diabetes, cardiovascular, asthma and kidney disease. With a focus on under served and vulnerable populations.
cpollard@hsc.wvu.edu
Sandra L. Putnam, PhD
Director, Population Health Research Center and Senior Research Scientist
Alcohol; drug abuse - Screening and intervention; Health services research.
sputnam@pire.org
Ian Rockett, PhD
Professor, Associate Chair, and Director of Educational Programs in the Department of Community Medicine.
Research interest include the epidemiology of injury and substance abuse, suicide misclassification, life table applications, and the history of public health.
irockett@hsc.wvu.edu
Goerge E. Trapp, PhD
Professor, Comp Sci & Electrical Engineering, WVU
Dr. Trapp’s current research focus is on biometrics and his interests include Information Sharing Systems, Software Development, Mathematical Modeling of Electrical Circuits.
getrapp@mail.wvu.edu
Kimberly Williams, PhD
kwilliams@hsc.wvu.edu
Bei Wu, PhD
Assistant professor, Center on Aging, Department of Community Medicine, SOM
Her main research interests are dementia and caregiving, access to care and health service utilization among elders with chronic diseases, and minority aging.
bwu@hsc.wvu.edu