Ilana Gareen
Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Research)
Design and conduct of studies of diagnostic imaging technologies.Focus on patient outcomes associated with diagnostic imaging technologies, including the impact of imaging on patient health, patient quality of life, and medical care utilization; interest in the impact of significant incidental findings detected on screening tests on patient health and health care utilization
igareen**[ta]**t.brown.edu
Annie Gjelsvik
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Pediatrics (Teaching Scholar); Faculty Scholar, Hassenfeld Child Health Innovation Institute
Examining childhood health exposures, health care access and outcomes; using national surveillance databases to understand child health; primary investigator for the
annie_gjelsvik**[ta]**wn.edu
Chanelle Howe
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology
Advanced quantitative methods to enhance causal inference; racial/ethnic health disparities; socioeconomic-based health disparities; neighborhood-based health disparities; HIV/AIDS; cardiovascular health; alcohol/drug use.
chanelle_howe**[ta]**wn.edu
Karl Kelsey
Professor of Epidemiology and Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Director, Center for Environmental Health and Technology
Investigation of the environmental origins of cancer; epigenetics; Study of gene - environment interaction in cancer and development; examination of the epidemiology of the immune system employing epigenetic techniques in archival blood specimens.
karl_kelsey**[ta]**wn.edu
Simin Liu
Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine
Director,
Etiology of chronic disease with special emphasis on investigating how dietary and biological factors and their interactions influence chronic disease development over a person's lifespan; understanding of how dietary and nutritional factors may interact with genetic susceptibilities in determining an individual's risk; obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, nutrition, clinical epidemiology
simin_liu**[ta]**wn.edu
Eric Loucks
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology; Graduate Program Director
Research focuses on elucidating biological mechanisms by which social factors such as mindfulness, education, and early life adversity may influence cardiovascular disease. Dr. Loucks has generated research findings that have helped to better understand how biological factors such as inflammatory markers, epigenetics, blood pressure, obesity, lipids, amongst others, may be important mechanisms through which social factors could influence cardiovascular disease. He is now increasingly moving into practical applications of the work, including randomized controlled trials of mindfulness interventions for cardiovascular disease risk reduction.
eric_loucks**[ta]**wn.edu
Mark Lurie
Associate Professor of Epidemiology
International Health Institute
Epidemiology, prevention and treatment of infectious diseases, particularly HIV, TB and sexually transmitted diseases in
mark_lurie**[ta]**wn.edu
Brandon D.L. Marshall
Manning Assistant Professor of Epidemiology
Examining the causes and consequences of drug and alcohol use, including overdose, HIV/AIDS, and hepatitis C virus infection; structural determinants of health; agent-based modeling; evaluation of harm reduction programs; psychiatric and substance use epidemiology.
brandon_marshall**[ta]**wn.edu
Stephen McGarvey
Professor of Epidemiology and Anthropology; Director, International Health Institute
Global health; noncommunicable diseases, especially cardiometabolic risk factor, in low and middle income countries; genetic epidemiology; obesity; Samoa, American Samoa, South Africa, Kenya.
stephen_mcgarvey**[ta]**wn.edu
Deborah Pearlman
Associate Professor of the Practice
Examining risk and resilience (protective) factors for health risk behaviors (smoking, substance abuse, obesity) and related chronic diseases (asthma, diabetes and heart disease), as well as for mental illness (depression, suicide ideation) and interpersonal violence, using cross sectional and longitudinal data, and applying a social determinants of health framework that examines disparities in the health of children, adolescents and adults at the individual and community levels.
deborah_pearlman**[ta]**wn.edu
David Savitz
Professor of Epidemiology and Obstetrics & Gynecology; Vice President for Research
Studying the health of pregnancy considering environmental, lifestyle, and clinical influences on fetal growth, preterm birth, pregnancy complications, and child health; assessing health effects of environmental pollutants; use of epidemiology to inform policy and health behaviors.
david_savitz**[ta]**wn.edu
Gregory Wellenius
Associate Professor of Epidemiology
Associate Director, Center for Environmental Health & Technology
Performing research to inform the development of healthy and sustainable urban environments, including examining the impacts of outdoor and indoor air pollution, climate change, and the built environment on human health and wellbeing across the lifespan
gregory_wellenius**[ta]**wn.edu
Tongzhang Zheng
Professor of Epidemiology; Director,
Investigating human cancer risk related to environmental and occupational exposures, genetic and epigenetic factors and gene-environment interaction.Particularly interested the fetal origin hypothesis stating that many human cancers start in utero.Also interested in prenatal exposures and fetal growth trajectories and child growth.
tongzhang_zheng**[ta]**wn.edu
Katie Biello
Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Social Science
Identifying and understanding the underlying risk factors for social inequities in HIV/STIs and developing behavioral interventions to reduce HIV risk among racial, sexual and gender minorities and those in resource limited settings, both domestically and globally.
katie_biello**[ta]**wn.edu
Colleen Caron
Clinical Assistant Professor; Director of Data Analytics, Research and Evaluation Unit at RI Department of Children, Youth & Families.
Examining multilevel factors predictive of child welfare, behavioral health and juvenile justice outcomes employingmultiple research designs, longitudinal, program evaluation and subpopulation comparisons, and general surveillance.Examining the application of data and study findings to inform program, policy and system interventions
colleen_caron**[ta]**wn.edu
Eunyoung Cho
Associate Professor of Dermatology
eunyoung_cho**[ta]**wn.edu
Issa Dahabreh
Assistant Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice
Issa_Dahabreh**[ta]**wn.edu
Valery Danilack
Assistant Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice
valery_danilack**[ta]**wn.edu
Dorothy Dumont
Assistant Professor of Practice
Senior public health epidemiologist at RI Department of Health
Examining social determinants of health and health disparities, particularly within RI; chronic disease and associated health behaviors; incarceration and public health.
dora_dumont**[ta]**wn.edu
Charles Eaton
Professor of Family Medicine, Director of Center for Primary Care and Prevention
Examining the role of nutrition and physical activity on cardiovascular disease with emphasis on subclinical atherosclerosis,sudden cardiac death, heart failure and its sub-types and osteoarthritis; Examining the role of gender and racial and ethnic differences onrisk of obesity and its subtypes, body composition andmolecular biomarkers on cardiometabolicdisease throughout the lifecycle; Pragmatic Primary Prevention Clinical trials- behavioral weight loss, physical activity, aspirin, flavonoids
charles_eaton**[ta]**wn.edu
Jennifer Friedman
Professor of Pediatrics
Dr. Friedman is a pediatrician who conducts international health research out of Lifespan's Center for International Health Research. Her research addresses quantification of and mechanisms of morbidity of parasitic diseases among pregnant women and children.
jennifer_friedman**[ta]**wn.edu
William Hollinshead
Assistant Professor of the Practice
william_hollinshead**[ta]**wn.edu
Julie Jefferson
Assistant Professor of the Practice
julie_jefferson**[ta]**wn.edu
Yongwen Jiang
Assistant Professor of the Practice
yongwen_jiang**[ta]**wn.edu
Hyun (Hanna) Kim
Assistant Professor of the Practice
hyun_kim**[ta]**wn.edu
Wen-Qing Li
Assistant Professor of Dermatology
wen-qing_li**[ta]**wn.edu
Roland Merchant
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
roland_merchant**[ta]**wn.edu
Matthew Mimiaga
Professor of Behavioral & Social Health Sciences and Epidemiology,
Professor of Psychiatry & Human Behavior,
Director, Center for Health Equity Research (
matthew_mimiaga**[ta]**wn.edu
Donna Parker
Associate Professor of Family Medicine (Research)
Smoking cessation among pregnant women and patients with COPD; reproductive risk factors for pregnant women; andclinical trial of patients with COPD
donna_parker**[ta]**wn.edu
Maureen Phipps
Chair and Chace-Joukowsky Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Assistant Dean for Teaching and Research on Women's Health
Phipps' broad interest in women's health has been geared toward improving the health of underserved women.In addition to excellence in clinical care and research, she is dedicated to training the next generation of women’s health providers.
maureen_phipps**[ta]**wn.edu
Abrar Qureshi
Professor and Chair of Dermatology
abrar_qureshi**[ta]**wn.edu
Josiah Rich
Professor of Medicine
josiah_rich**[ta]**wn.edu
Patricia Risica
Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Social Science
patricia_risica**[ta]**wn.edu
Dwight Rouse
Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Dr. Rouse is in his fourth 5-year cycle as Principal Investigator for the NICHD Maternal-Fetal Medicine Units (MFMU) Network. He leads a research staff of 16 at Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island who have broad experience and expertise in the conduct of large observational and randomized intervention studies.
drouse**[ta]**ri.org
Elena Salmoirago-Blotcher
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Research); Assistant Professor of Epidemiology (Research)
Research interests: primary prevention of cardiovascular disease and vascular dementia; psychosocial determinants of cardiovascular disease; mindfulness-based approaches for the promotion of cardiovascular health (physical activity, diet); dissemination of mindfulness-based interventions.
elena_salmoirago-blotcher**[ta]**wn.edu
Peter Simon
Associate Professor of the Practice
peter_simon**[ta]**wn.edu