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CENTER FOR HEALTH PROMOTION RESEARCH

 

AFFILIATED FACULTY

Kim Adams-Tufts, N.D.
Department: Nursing, Old Dominion University
Research Interests: Public health policy; advanced practice nursing; adolescent health; women's health issues; underserved populations; international Health

Jeffrey M. Albert, Ph.D.
Department: Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Research Interests: Longitudinal data analysis; design and analysis of randomized trials; analysis of compliance data; causal inference

Mohammad Al-Zahrani, DDD, Ph.D.
Department: Assistant Professor, Division of Periodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Research Interests: Risk factors for periodontal disease; particularly obesity; diet quality and physical activity; preventive oral health; public health dentistry

Elaine Borawski, Ph.D.
Department: Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Research Interests: Behavioral intervention design; HIV/STD/pregnancy prevention; tobacco prevention and control; childhood obesity; diet modification; use of technology in weight loss; electronic data collection systems

Jane Brown, Ph.D.
Department: Sociology
Research Interests: Exercise and physical activity; illness management; role of social support in health behavior change

Natalie Colabianchi, Ph.D.
Department: Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Research Interests: Obesity and physical activity; contextual influences on adolescent sexual behavior; and social epidemiology

Catherine Demko, Ph.D.
Department: Community, School of Dental Medicine
Research Interests: Sun exposure and tanning behaviors; skin cancer prevention in children and adolescents

Dennis Drotar, Ph.D.
Department: Behavioral Pediatrics
Research Interests: Behavioral family systems interventions, coping with traumatic brain injury, quality of life of chidren and adolescents living with chronic diseases, psychosocial interventions with children newly diagnosed with diabetes and asthma

Susan Flocke, Ph.D.
Department: Family Medicine
Research Interests: Obesity; physical activity; preventive service delivery

Scott Frank, M.D., M.S.
Department: M.P.H. Program/Family Medicine
Research Interests: Behavior change; smoking cessation; substance abuse; clinical assessment of stress and the role of spirituality and religion in the medical setting

Joseph Frolkis, M.D., Ph.D.
Department: Internal Medicine and Health Care Research
Research Interests: Prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease

Toni Graham, Ph.D.
Department: Family Medicine
Research Interests: Substance abuse; faith-based behavioral intervention

Maureen Hack, M.D.
Department: Neonatology
Research Interests: Growth and development of low birthweight infants; academic, social; psychological and behavioral follow up of LBW infants.

Laura Hayman, Ph.D.
Department: Steinhardt School of Education, New York University
Research Interests: Primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in children; adolescents & families; health & behavior in childhood and adolescence

Carolyn Ievers-Landis, Ph.D.
Department: Behavioral Pediatrics
Research Interests: Dietary modification among chidren with chronic diseases; physical activity; family-based interventions; parental monitoring

David Litaker, M.D., Ph.D.
Department: Internal Medicine and Health Care Research
Research Interests: Preventive health service delivery; prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease

Sana Loue, Ph.D., J.D., M.P.H.
Department: Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Research Interests: Immigration law and health; HIV in underserved populations; ethics in research; the impact of HIV on the family; ethics and needle exchange programs; forensic epidemiology; public health and the law.

Shirley Moore, Ph.D.
Department: Nursing
Research Interests: Recovery following cardiac events; health behavior change; exercise following cardiac events; electronic nursing care; gender differences and elder recovery following cardiac events

Georgia Narsavage, R.N., Ph.D., C.S., A.N.P.
Department: Nursing, School of Nursing, Medical College of Georgia
Research Interests: Gerontology; childhood obesity; international health; informed consent in nursing and public health

R. Scott Olds, Ph.D.
Department: Health Promotion and Education, Kent State University
Research Interests: Chronic disease prevention; tobacco prevention and control; alcohol abuse; risk behavior surveillance

Laura Siminoff, Ph.D.
Department: Bioethics
Research Interests: Informed Treatment Decision Making and Consent; Doctor-Patient Relationship; Organ Donation; Quality and Access to Care

Alfred A. Rimm, Ph.D.
Department: Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Research Interests: Black-white disparity in quality and access to health care; studies of obesity in women; utilization of large databases to study the U.S. health care system

Kurt Stange, M.D., Ph.D.
Department: Family Medicine
Research Interests: Clinical preventive service delivery; cancer prevention and control; primary care research methods; disability prevention in the elderly.

Mary Step, Ph.D.
Department: Communication Sciences
Research Interests: Emotion and human communication in health contexts; motivation and human communication; uses and effects of new media in health contexts

Susan Tortolero, Ph.D.
Department: Epidemiology, University of Texas-Houston
Research Interests: Mental Health; adolescent education in prevention of HIV/STD; suicide

Susan Wentz, M.D.
Department: Office of Urban Health/Net Wellness
Research Interests: Health and technology; online health promotion; community-based behavioral interventions