Faculty

The Master of Science in Clinical Research faculty represent approximately 20 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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	Ronald Adler, MD, FAAFP Assistant Professor Department: Family Medicine & Community Health Research Interests: Diabetes, hypertension and CAD
	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: Clinical epidemiology; Quality measurement and outcomes research; Health services delivery to medically indigent populations
	Michael Aronson, MD Adjunct Faculty Department: Obstetrics & Gynecology
	Bruce Barton, PhD Professor Department: Quantitative Health Sciences Research Interests: Pain control in pre-term neonates and sickle cell patients, development of obesity in children, and prevention of hip fractures in the elderly Visit official faculty webpage
	Steven Bird, MD Assistant Professor Department: Emergency Medicine
	Ed Boudreaux, PhD Professor Department: Emergency Medicine, Psychology
	Edward Boyer, MD Assistant Professor Department: Emergency Medicine Visit faculty page
	Robert Brown Professor Department: Neurology Visit faculty page
	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 faculty page
	Michael Czech, PhD Professor Department: Molecular medicine Research Interests: RNAi-based therapeutic strategies for inflammatory and metabolic diseases Visit faculty page
	Chad Darling, MD Assistant Professor Department: Emergency Medicine Research Interests: Risk stratification of cardiovascular disesase in the Emergency Department
	Laura Gibson, MD Adjunct Faculty Department: Pediatrics Research Interests: Human T cell responses to cytomegalovirus (CMV) in children and transplant recipients, General and transplant-related infections, Travel Medicine Visit faculty page
	Robert Goldberg, PhD Professor Department: Medicine Research Interests: Cardiovascular epidemiology, preventive cardiology, and epidemiologic methods visit faculty page
	David Harlan, MD Professor Director of the Diabetes Center of Excellence Departments: Medicine and Pediatrics Research Interests: Diabetes management
	Julia Johnson, MD Professor Chair, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Department: Obstetrics and Gynecology
	Shalesh Kaushal, PhD, MD Associate Professor Department: Medicine Visit faculty page
	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
	Jason Kim, PhD Professor Department: Molecular Medicine, Medicine, Ophthalmology, Diabetes, Endocrinology Research Interests: Role of inflammation in obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular complications Visit faculty page
	Mary Lee, MD Professor Departments: Cell Biology, Pediatrics Research Interests: Biology and regulation of Mullerian inhibiting substance; Sexual differentiation and intersex disorders; Testicular differentiation and development (fetal and postnatal) of Leydig cells; The effects of environmental toxins on reproductive development; Gonadal toxicity of chemotherapy and radiation for childhood malignancies Visit faculty page
	Daniel Libraty, MD Associate professor Departments: Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Medicine Research Interests: Studies of human cellular immune responses contributing to pathogenesis and/or protective immunity in emerging viral diseases: Dengue hemorrhagic fever, Hantavirus infections (Hemorrhagic fever renal syndrome and hantavirus pulmonary syndrome), and SARS coronavirus infection Visit faculty page
	Katherine Luzuriaga, MD Professor Departments: Pediatrics, Medicine Research Interests:Microbial pathogenesis, T lymphocytes, infectious disease, HIV/AIDS, and viral infections and immunity visit faculty page
	Louise Maranda Assistant Professor Department: Pediatrics
	Eric Mick, ScD Associate Professor Department: Quantitative Health Sciences Research Interests: Identifying genetic susceptibility to disruptive behavior and mood disorders in children, adolescents and adults visit faculty webpage
	Tiffany Moore Simas, MD Assistant Professor Department: Obstetrics and Gynecology Research Interests: Pregnancy risks and complications
	Ann Moormann, PhD, MPH Associate Professor Departments: Pediatrics, Quantitative Health Sciences Research Interests: Pediatric immunity to infectious diseases focusing on /Plasmodium falciparum/ malaria and Epstein Barr Virus (EBV), epidemiology, Global Health Research, and the etiology of endemic Burkitt lymphoma in Africa. Visit official faculty page
	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 faculty page
	Gary Ostroff, PhD Professor Departments: Interdisciplinary Graduate Program, Program in Molecular Medicine Visit faculty page
	Sharina Person, PhD Associate Professor Department: Quantitative Health Sciences visit official faculty webpage
	Peter Rice, MD Professor Departments: Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Medicine Research Interests: Host Interactions with Neisseria gonorrhoeae: Complement and vaccine development Visit faculty page
	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 faculty page
	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 faculty page
	Jane Saczynski, PhD Assistant professor Departments: Geriatrics, Medicine Research Interests: Disease and the risk for cognitive decline and dementia Visit faculty page
	John Sullivan, MD Professor Department: Pediatrics Research Interests: Immunology, viral infections and immunity, clinical research, infectious disease, HIV/AIDS, and Epstein-Barr Virus visit faculty page
	Molly Waring, PhD Assistant Professor Department: Quantitative Health Sciences Research Interests: Obesity, weight change, cardiovascular epidemiology, methodology, social determinants of disease Visit faculty page
	Stephen Young, MD Adjunct Faculty Department: Obstetrics & Gynecology
	Ralph Zottola, PhD Associate Chief Information Officer, Academic and Research Computing Services Department: Academic and Research Computing Services