Faculty
Julie Stoner, PhD, Director, Consultative and Collaborative Unit
- Expertise: design and analysis of clinical trials, systematic review and meta-analysis, analysis of cluster-correlated and longitudinal data
- Areas of Interest: diabetes, cardiovascular disease, oral health
David Thompson, PhD, Director, Training Unit
- Expertise: longitudinal data, clinical epidemiology and clinical decision-making
- Areas of Interest: neurology, pediatrics, physical medicine and rehabilitation, physical therapy
Hélène Carabin, PhD, DVM, Director, Novel Methodologies Unit
- Expertise: epidemiology of infectious disease, group-randomized trials,analysis of hierarchical data, epidemiologic methods
- Areas of Interest: international health, zoonoses
Christopher Aston, PhD, Faculty Biostatistician
- Expertise: statistical methods in the analysis of genetic epidemiology studies, clinical trials
- Areas of Interest: diabetes, genetics
Courtney Montgomery, PhD, Faculty Genetic and Molecular Epidemiologist
- Expertise: identification of genetic and environmental causes of complex disease, including the design, implementation and analysis of genetic and genomic data; high-dimension data analysis of biological and clinical systems
- Areas of Interest: autoimmune and inflammatory disorders, relationship between environmental triggers and genes specifically with respect to innate and adaptive immunity
Jennifer Peck, PhD, Faculty Epidemiologist
- Expertise: reproductive and perinatal epidemiology, observational study design and analysis
- Areas of Interest: gestational diabetes, pregnancy outcomes, infertility, environmental exposures to endocrine disrupting compounds
Sixia Chen, PhD, Faculty Biostatistician
- Expertise: survey sampling methods, missing data methods, propensity score modeling
- Areas of Interest: population and public health assessment, analysis of national health survey data
Jonathan Wren, PhD, Faculty Geneticist/Informatics
- Expertise: bioinformatics, genomic analysis, transcriptional analysis (microarray/RNAseq), text mining
- Areas of Interest: predicting function, phenotype and disease relevance for uncharacterized genes and non-coding RNAs; knowledge discovery; biomarker identification and prioritization
Daniel Zhao, PhD, Faculty Biostatistician
- Expertise: clinical trials, animal studies
- Areas of Interest: oncology, rheumatology, diabetes, basic science
Tabitha Garwe,Phd, Faculty Epidemiologist
- Expertise: clinical epidemiological methods, quantitative epidemiological methods
- Areas of Interest: geriatric trauma, injury epidemiology, infectious disease epidemiology
Toby Hamilton, PhD, MPH, OTR/L, FAOTA, Faculty Qualitative Methodologist
- Expertise: qualitative research methods, narrative summary
- Areas of Interest: process of Occupational Adaptation related to occupational performance during times of transition; personal narratives of life, health, illness, and effects on performance of everyday activities; study of Occupational Adaptation in the reentry of ex-offenders to communities
Ying Zhang, MD, PhD, Faculty Biostatistician
- Expertise: longitudinal data analysis, multilevel modeling, quantitative epidemiological methods
- Areas of Interest: epidemiology and prevention of cardiovascular diseases and diabetes, genetic epidemiology of chronic disease with an emphasis on cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, and obesity
Staff
Pravina Kota, MS, MBA, Senior Systems Analyst
- Expertise: database development and administration, programming, data reporting, public health program evaluation
- Areas of Interest: health care informatics, project management, business analytics
Sydney Martinez, MPH, Research Project Coordinator and Evaluator
- Expertise: evaluation, survey development and data analysis, qualitative data analysis
- Areas of Interest: tobacco control, physical activity and nutrition, health disparities, community-based prevention programs
Student Graduate Research Assistants
Xi Chen, MD