Faculty

The Clinical & Population Health Research faculty represent over 30 departments, divisions or affiliated research centers and have a multitude of research interests. Learn more about our faculty from the listing below.

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	Jeroan Allison, MD, MPH Vice Chair of the Department of Quantitative Health Sciences Vice-Provost for Health Disparities Professor Department: Quantitative Health Sciences Research Interests:
	Dario Altieri, MD Professor, Eleanor Eustis Farrington Chair in Cancer Research Department: Cancer Biology Research Interests: Interface between cell survival and cell proliferation in cancer visit official faculty webpage
	Fred Anderson, PhD Professor Department: Surgery, Center for Outcomes Research Research Interests: Cardiovascular epidemiology, evidence based medicine, health outcomes and quality of care visit official faculty webpage
	Elliot Androphy, MD Professor, Barbara and Nathan Greenberg Chair in Biomedical Research Departments: Medicine, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology Research Interests: Biology of cancer, virology, genetics of spinal muscular atrophy visit official faculty webpage
	David Ayers, MD Professor Department: Orthopedics and Physical Rehabilitation Research Interests: Arthroscopy, total knee replacement, total hip replacement, revision hip replacement, revision knee replacement, arthritis surgery visit official faculty webpage
	Becky Briesacher, PhD Assistant Professor Departments: Medicine, Geriatrics Research Interests: Access to prescription drugs, geriatrics, Medicare, drug policy, and long term care visit official faculty webpage
	Robin Clark, PhD Associate Professor Departments: Family Medicine & Community Health, Center for Health Policy and Research Research Interests: Economic evaluation; mental and policy health and substance abuse treatment and policy; and health care financing visit official faculty webpage
	Marjorie Clay, PhD Professor Department: Office of Ethics Research Interests: Research ethics, clinical consultation, ethics education
	Patrick Connolly, MD Professor Department: Orthopedics Research Interests: Adult Spinal Deformity, Cervical Myelopathy, Cervical Spine Disk Herniation, Lumbar Spinal Stenosis, Spinal Fractures visit official faculty webpage
	Mary E. Costanza, MD Professor Department: Hematology/Oncology Research Interests: Breast Cancer and cancer prevention
	Sybil Crawford, PhD Associate Professor Departments: Medicine, Division of Preventive and Behavioral Medicine Research Interests: Biostatistics; women's health, particularly menopause; ethnic differences in health and health care utilization visit official faculty webpage
	Joseph Difranza, MD Professor Department: Family Medicine & Community Health Research Interests: Onset of nicotine dependence; effects of tobacco advertising; tobacco industry public relations programs; tobacco-related complications of pregnancy; school smoking cessation programs; and effects of environmental tobacco smoke visit official faculty webpage
	Elizabeth Dugan, PhD Professor Elizabeth Dugan focuses on issues related to health and aging (e.g., medically impaired older drivers, older patient-health care provider trust and communication). She is a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America (Behavioral and Social Science Section). Dr. Dugan is a graduate of the University of North Carolina Greensboro (PhD Human Development & Family Studies), the University of South Florida (MA Gerontology), and the University of Central Florida (BA Liberal Arts). Prior to joining UMass Boston professor Dugan taught at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine (Public Health Sciences), the University of Massachusetts Medical School (Geriatric Medicine), and was a Senior Research Scientist at the New England Research Institutes. Dr. Dugan continues to teach Scientific Writing for the CPHR doctoral program. Visit Dr. Dugan's faculty page at UMass Boston
	Francis Ennis, MD Professor Departments: Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Medicine, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology Research Interests: Immunology, virology, and clinical research visit official faculty webpage
	Walter Ettinger, MD, MBA Professor President, UMass Memorial Medical Center Associate Vice Provost, Clinical and Population Research Department: Hospital Administration, Medicine, Division of Geriatrics Research Interests: Geriatrics and aging visit official faculty webpage
	Terry Field, DSc Associate Professor Associate Director, Meyers Primary Care Institute Department: Medicine Research Interests: Health disparities, cancer, patient safety, health services research, and long term care visit official faculty webpage
	Andrew Fischer, MD Associate Professor Director of Cytopathology Departments: Pathology, Cell Biology Research Interests: Oncogenes/tumor suppressors, Cell Dynamics, Cancer Biology, Nuclear Architecture, Histopathology visit official faculty webpage
	William Fisher, PhD Professor Department: Psychiatry, Center for Mental Health Research Interests: Mental health policy; the delivery of services for persons with severe and persistent mental illness; legal and criminal justice implications of mental health system configuration; psychiatric epidemiology; and statistical methods and evaluative research. visit official faculty webpage
	Gordon FitzGerald, PhD Assistant Professor Department: Surgery Research Interests: Coronary syndromes, venous thromboembolism and survival analysis
	Terence Flotte, MD Professor Dean of the School of Medicine Department: Pediatrics Research Interests: Human Gene Therapy, Cystic Fibrosis, Pediatric Cardiac Surgery and Cardiology visit official faculty webpage
	Patricia Franklin, MD, MBA, MPH Associate Professor Department: Family Medicine & Community Health Research Interests: Patient reported health outcomes; measuring cost and quality of care; total joint replacement outcomes; e-Health interventions; and worksite prevention visit official faculty webpage visit department of Orthopedics faculty webpage
	Carl Fulwiler, MD, PhD Assistant Professor Acting Director, Center for Mental Health Services Research Departments: Center for Mental Health Services Research, Psychiatry Research Interests: Forensic populations and co-occurring mental health and addictions Visit official faculty webpage
	Marzena Galdzicka, PhD Instructor Department: Psychiatry Research Interests: RNA Splicing, Genomics, Gene Expression, Medical Genetics, Genetics visit official faculty webpage
	Robert Goldberg, PhD Professor Department: Medicine Research Interests: Cardiovascular epidemiology, preventive cardiology, and epidemiologic methods visit official faculty webpage
	Joel Gore, MD Professor Departments: Medicine, Cardiovascular Medicine Research Interests: Critical Care/CCU, clinical trials, cardiovascular epidemiology, and coronary artery disease visit official faculty webpage
	Sharone Green, MD Associate Professor Departments: Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Medicine Research Interests: Immunopathogenesis of viral infections, Human T cell responses to flavivirus infections including dengue and West Nile virus, Human immune responses to novel viral vaccines. visit official faculty webpage
	Jerry Gurwitz, MD Dr. John Meyers Professor of Primary Care Medicine Executive Director, Meyers Primary Care Institute; Chief, Geriatric Medicine Departments: Medicine, Family Medicine & Community Health Research Interests: Geriatric medicine; the safe use of medications in elderly patients; and pharmacoepidemiology visit official faculty webpage
	J. Lee Hargraves, PhD Associate Professor Department: Family Medicine & Community Health Research Interests: Patient and consumer assessments of health care and quality of medical care; survey methods to assess health care quality from patients' perspectives; racial and ethnic disparities in health care; and treatment of disparities in health care as an opportunity for improving health care quality. visit official faculty webpage
	Stephen Heard, MD Professor Department: Anesthesiology and Surgery Research Interests: Catheter related blood stream infections, Sepsis and ARDS visit official faculty webpage
	Jay Himmelstein, MD, MPH Professor, Director, Center for Health Policy and Research Department: Family Medicine & Community Health Research Interests: Health services research focusing on Medicaid and disabled populations; work and health policy; and worker's compensation medical care visit official faculty webpage
	Catarina Kiefe, PhD, MD Chair, Department of Quantitative Health Science Professor Department: Quantitative Health Science Research Interests: Health services and outcomes research, specifically ethnic disparities in health care, and measurement and improvement of quality of care
	Robert Klugman, MD Associate Professor Department: Medicine
	Nancy LaPelle, PhD Assistant Professor (adjunct) Department: Division of Preventive and Behavioral Medicine Research Interests: Tobacco dependence treatment & cancer prevention/detection; assessing impact of Parkinson's Disease on activities of daily living; improving awareness of Parkinson's Disease in minority populations; use of computer and website technology to inform practice and motivate health-related behavior change; use of narcotic medications to control non-cancer-related chronic pain; childhood obesity visit official faculty webpage
	Stephenie Lemon, PhD Assistant Professor Departments: Medicine, Preventative & Behavioral Medicine Research Interests: Primary health care delivery; cancer detection and control; chronic disease management and treatment adherence; patient/clinician communication; and clinical decision-making visit official faculty webpage
	Wenjun Li, PhD Assistant Professor Department: Medicine Research Interests: Biostatistics, sample survey, GIS, neighborhood environment, obesity, falls, physical activity, musculoskeletal diseases and randomized clinical trials visit official faculty webpage
	Charles Lidz, PhD Professor Department: Psychiatry Research Interests: Ethical and regulatory issues in medicine and research; coercion in mental health care; and violence involving people with mental illness visit official faculty webpage
	Craig Lilly, MD Assistant Professor Departments: Medicine, Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine Research Interests: visit official faculty webpage
	Wen-Chieh Lin, PhD Assistant Professor Department: Family Medicine and Community Health Research Interests: Medicaid visit official faculty webpage
	Qin Liu, PhD Assistant Professor Department: Preventive & Behavioral Medicine Research Interests: Statistical design and analysis of clinical trials, population-based and basic science studies; Applied Biostatistical methods: survival analysis; logistic regression models; simulations; power and sample size estimation; hierarchical regression model for meta-analysis; mixed-effects models; Longitudinal data analysis. visit official faculty webpage
	Shan Lu, PhD, MD Professor Department: Medicine Research Interests: Vaccine immunity against viral and bacterial pathogens visit official faculty webpage
	Roger Luckmann, MD, MPH Associate Professor Department: Family Medicine & Community Health Research Interests: Health services research, cancer, and prevention visit official faculty webpage
	Katherine Luzuriaga, MD Professor Departments: Pediatrics, Medicine Research Interests: Microbial pathogenesis, T lymphocytes, infectious disease, HIV/AIDS, and viral infections and immunity visit official faculty webpage
	Yunsheng Ma, PhD, MD, MPH Associate Professor Department: Preventive and Behavioral Medicine Research Interests: Effect of diet and other lifestyle factors on obesity, diabetes, and heart disease; Cardiovascular disease epidemiology; Improving methods of dietary assessment in epidemiological studies; Applied statistical methods in clinical research. visit official faculty webpage
	Lawrence Madoff, MD Professor Department: Medicine Research interests: Infectious disease, immunology
	William McIlvane, PhD Professor Department: Psychiatry Research Interests: Symbolic potential in pre-symbolic populations; behavioral studies of mental retardation and depression; process analysis in behavioral allocation and persistence in severe mental retardation; and typical and atypical brain development: A SEPA Project for Grades 3-6 visit official faculty webpage
	Thomas McLaughlin, ScD, MDiv, MS Professor, Director of the Division of Clinical Research in Pediatrics Department: Pediatrics, Psychiatry Research Interests: Mental health services research; longitudinal data analysis; policy evaluation; and quality measurement; depression; chronic disease management; quality of care; quality of medication prescribing; health applications of new statistical theory visit official faculty webpage
	Tiffany Moore Simas, MD Assistant Professor Department: Obstetrics and Gynecology Research Interests: Pregnancy risks and complications
	Joanne Nicholson, PhD Professor Department: Psychiatry Research Interests: Mental Illness, Mental Health Policy, Parental Mental Illness, Mental Health Services, Systems Change visit official faculty webpage
	Sheila B Noone, PhD Assistant Professor Director, Office of Clinical Research Departments: Office of Clinical Research, Graduate School of Nursing Research Interests: Human subjects protection, capacity-building for clinical research, applied research ethics and research compliance
	Ira S. Ockene, MD Professor David and Barbara Milliken Professor of Preventive Cardiology Department: Medicine visit official faculty webpage
	Judith K. Ockene, PhD, MEd, MA Professor Barbara Helen Smith Chair in Preventive and Behavioral Medicine Chief, Division of Preventive and Behavioral Medicine Department: Medicine Research Interests: Women's health; obesity; multiple risk behaviors; quality of life; population health; tobacco/alcohol use; relationship of lifestyle behaviors to disease; community-based interventions for lifestyle behaviors visit official faculty webpage
	Darlene (Dee) O'Connor, PhD Associate Professor Associate Professor Departments: Family Medicine and Community Health, Center for Health Policy & Research Research Interests: Long-term care policy issues; aging; disability; stakeholder involvement in public policy; and integrating Medicare and Medicaid visit official faculty webpage
	Sherry Pagoto, PhD Assistant Professor Department: Preventive and Behavioral Medicine Research Interests: Emotional eating and obesity; Psychiatric comorbidities of obesity, including depression; Clinical weight loss treatment; Evidence-based research and practice; cancer prevention visit official faculty webpage
	Lori Pbert, PhD Associate Professor Department: Medicine, Preventive and Behavioral Medicine Research Interests: Evaluation of clinic-based interventions for health promotion and disease prevention; Adolescent tobacco treatment; Adolescent obesity prevention and treatment; Tobacco treatment training and certification programs; Asthma management visit official faculty webpage
	Robert Phillips, MD, PhD, FACC, FAHA Professor Director, Heart and Vascular Center of Excellence Senior Vice-President, UMASS Memorial Medical Center Department: Cardiovascular Medicine Research Interests: Hypertensive heart and renal disease visit official faculty webpage
	Julie G. Pilitsis, MD, PhD Adjunct Professor Department: Neurosurgery Research Interests: Deep Brain Stimulation, Parkinson's Disease, Cognition in Neurodegenerative Disorders; Utilization in Health Care.
	George Reed, PhD Associate Professor Department: Medicine Research Interests: Biostatistics, applied statistical methods and modeling, obesity and activity, disease severity indicators in rheumatoid arthritis visit official faculty webpage
	Milagros Rosal, PhD Associate Professor Department: Medicine Research Interests: Treatment adherence, health behavior change (smoking, diet, physical activity), stress, women's health, minority health, adjustment to chronic illness, diabetes and Cardiovascular disease prevention, diabetes self-management, mood and anxiety disorders visit official faculty webpage
	Lawrence Rosenthal, PhD, MD, FACC Associate Professor Director, Section of Cardiac Electrophysiology and Pacing Departments: Medicine, Cardiovascular Medicine Research Interests: Electrophysiology, Treatment of cardiac arrhythmias in humans visit official faculty webpage
	Alan Rothman, MD Professor Departments: Center for Infectious Disease and Vaccine Research, Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Medicine Research Interests: Dengue/dengue hemorrhagic fever and other acute viral illnesses of the developing world- physiology and immunology of acute infection, diagnostic and prognostic models, epidemiology of viral transmission and disease. visit official faculty webpage
	Anthony Rothschild, MD Professor Irving S. and Betty Brudnick Professor and Vice-Chair for Research Director, Center for Psychopharmacologic Research and Treatment Department: Psychiatry Research Interests: Pharmacoepidemiology, clinical research, clinical trials and mental illness visit official faculty webpage
	Barry Saver, MD, MPH Associate Professor Department: Family Medicine and Community Health Research Interests: traditional health services research on issues of access, cost, and quality for disadvantaged populations, and cost-effective interventions for improving care for common conditions encountered in primary care visit official faculty website
	Shimul A. Shah, MD Assistant Professor Department: Surgery Research Interests: Hepatocellular carcinoma and liver tumors. Visit UMass Surgical Outcomes Analysis & Research Group (SOAR) for more information.
	John Sullivan, MD Professor Department: Pediatrics Research Interests: Immunology, viral infections and immunity, clinical research, infectious disease, HIV/AIDS, and Epstein-Barr Virus visit official faculty webpage
	Gyongyi, Szabo, MD, PhD Professor Departments: Gastroenterology, Medicine Research Interests: Immune alterations induced by acute alcohol consumption; Intracellular signaling pathways in leukocytes mediating altered cytokine production after alcohol use; Immune mechanisms leading to increased liver injury in HCV plus alcohol; Immunopathogenesis of liver injury in obese mice; Immune mechanisms of increased liver injury in HCV plus alcohol; Therapeutic studies in chronic hepatitis C; Therapeutic approaches in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) Visit official faculty webpage
	Jennifer Tjia, MD, MSCE Assistant Professor Department: Geriatrics, Medicine Research Interests: Effect of state and federal prescription drug policies on elder health outcomes and health service utilization, and understanding the predictors of medication uptake and adherence among older adults visit official faculty webpage
	Jennifer F. Tseng, MD MPH Assistant Professor Director, Surgical Outcomes Analysis & Research Departments: Surgery, Cancer Biology Research Interests: Visit UMass Pancreas Program and UMass Surgical Outcomes Analysis & Research Group (SOAR) for more information
	Carole C. Upshur, EdD Professor Associate Dean, Clinical & Population Health Research Program Roy J. Zuckerberg Endowed Leadership Chair Department: Family Medicine & Community Health Research Interests: Mental health integration in primary care; chronic pain; and delivery of care to disadvantaged populations visit official faculty webpage
	Linda Weinreb, MD Professor Joy McCann Endowed Professorship for Women in Medicine Vice Chair, Family Medicine and Community Health Department: Family Medicine & Community Health Research Interests: Mental health and primary care integration; primary care and trauma services; homeless families and children visit official faculty webpage
	Sharada Weir, PhD Assistant Professor Departments: Family Medicine & Community Health, Center for Health Policy and Research Research Interests: Healthcare quality; cost of trauma care; economics of occupational injury; and health risk predictive modeling/risk adjustment visit official faculty webpage
	Robert Zurier, MD Professor Departments: Medicine, Rheumatology Research Interests: Autoimmunity, Clinical Research, Animal Models of Disease, Gene Expression, Inflammation/Inflammatory Diseases Visit official faculty webpage