Welch Center Trainees, 2011-2012

(This page is currently under construction. If your entry  below does not contain all the pertinent
information about your  program, advisor, educational history and research interests,  please send
that information to
Mary Cay Reynolds.)

        
          

SHERLEY ABRAHAM, MD
Email: sabrah10@jhmi.edu 
Program: Endocrinology Fellow
Advisor: Sherita Golden, MD, MHS
 

Ajagbe
      
              

LONI AJAGBE
Email:
lajagbe@jhsph.edu
Program: ScM, Clinical epidemiology
Advisor: Cheryl Anderson, PhD, MPH, MS
Undergraduate education: Dartmouth College, 2008
Research interests: Human brain physiology and the effects of stimulation

Alexander

          

NADINE ALEXANDER
Email: nalexand@jhsph.edu
Program: ScM, Cardiovascular epidemiology
Advisor: Cheryl Anderson, PhD, MPH, MS
Undergraduate education: Brooklyn College
Research interests: Cardiovascular disease, health disparities, pharmacoepidemiology
Atkinson

MEREDITH ATKINSON, MD
Asst. Professor of Pediatrics/Nephrology
Email:
matkins3@jhmi.edu 
Program: Postdoctoral trainee
 
Advisor: Edgar (Pete) Miller, MD, PhD
Undergraduate education: Mount Holyoke College, 1996
Graduate education: MD, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, 2001;
MHS, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2006
Research interests: Mechanisms of and risk factors for anemia in children with chronic kidney disease, racial and ethnic disparities outcomes in children with chronic kidney disease

         

TAMMY BAKER
Advisor:
Edgar (Pete) Miller, MD, PhD

      

             

Balakrishnan

          

POOJITHA BALAKRISHNAN
Email:
pbalakr2@jhmi.edu
Program: MPH, Epidemiology
Advisor: Hunter Young, MD, MHS
Undergraduate education: University of California, Berkeley, 2009
Research interests: genetic epidemiology of cardiovascular diseases 
    

Bam

       

DIWAS BAM
Email:
dbam@jhsph.edu
Program: MPH, Epidemiology
Advisor: Eliseo Guallar, MD, DrPH
Graduate education: MBBS, Kathmandu Medical College, Nepal 2008
Research Interests : Environmental epidemiology, cardiovascular disease epidemiology

      

Baron

        

JILLIAN BARON
Email:
jbaron1@jhmi.edu
Program: MD, MPH at ICTR
Advisor: Gail Daumit, MD, MHS
Undergraduate education: Brown University
Research interests: HIV/AIDS, substance abuse, prison health


 

CHRISTINE BERRY, MD, MHS
Email: cberry4@jhmi.edu
Program: Post-doctoral KL2 Scholar
Advisor:
Undergraduate education:
 University of Arizona, 2000
Graduate education: MD, Johns Hopkins University, 2004; MHS, Johns Hopkins University, 2010
Research interests: Lung function decline with aging and its impact on the diagnosis and management of lung disease

     

Bezerra
           
              

DANIEL BEZERRA, MD, MPH
Email:
danielbezerra@gmail.com  
Program: Postdoctoral Fellow
Advisor: Richey Sharrett, MD, DrPH
Graduate education: MD, Federal University of Rio de Janiero, Brazil, 2000
Residency: Neurology at Hospital Universitario Clemintino Fraga Filho, Rio de Janiero, Brazil Research interest: Epidemiology of cerebrovascular diseases; stroke prevention and treatment; pathogenesis of lacunal infarcts
        
      

Block

         

LAUREN BLOCK, MD
Email: gold.lauren@gmail.com
Program: GIM Fellow
Advisors: Jessica Yeh, PhD; Lisa Cooper, MD, MPH
Undergraduate Education: Yale University, 2003
Graduate education: MD, Harvard, 2008
Residency: Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 2011
Research interests: Cardiovascular disease, HIV/AIDS, comparative effectiveness research, health policy/access to care
     
         
Bower
        
                   

JULIE BOWER, PhD, MPH
Email: jbower@jhsph.edu
Program: Postdoctoral Fellow, Cardiovascular epidemiology
Advisor: Elizabeth Selvin, PhD, MPH
Undergraduate education: James Madison University, 2000
Graduate education: MPH, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2006; PhD, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 2010
Research interests: Diabetes epidemiology, cardiovascular disease epidemiology and prevention, obesity, physical activity, health disparities               

Brinton

        

BENJAMIN BRINTON
Email: bbrinto1@jhmi.edu
Program: MD, MPH at ICTR
Advisor: Gail Daumit, MD, MHS
Undergraduate education: Brigham Young Univeristy
Research interests: Mental health, disparities, treatment outcomes

       

Brown

         

CHARLES BROWN, MD
Email: cbrownv@jhmi.edu
Program: MHS, Cardiovascular epidemiology
Advisor: Richey Sharrett, PhD
Undergraduate education: Harvard College, 1998
Graduate education: MD, Johns Hopkins, 2005
Residency: Johns Hopkins, 2010
Fellowship: Johns Hopkins, 2011
Research interests: Cerebral autoregulation, post-operative delirium, improving post-surgical  outcomes in high risk patients.
Campbell
       
       

CATHERINE CAMPBELL, MD
Email:
ccampb31@jhmi.edu
Program: MHS, Cardiovascular epidemiology; Cardiology Fellow
Advisors: Wendy Post, MD, MS, and W.H. Linda Kao, PhD, MHS
Undergraduate education: Harvard University, 2001
Graduate education: Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 2005
Residency: Johns Hopkins Hospital
Research interests: Cardiovascular disease, genetic epidemiology        

Chen

          

ANDERS CHEN, MD
Email: achen60@jhmi.edu
Program: GIM Fellow
Advisor: Jeanne Clark, MD, MPH
Undergraduate education: BA, Princeton University, 2001
Graduate education: MD, University of California, San Francisco, 2008
Residency: University of Washington, 2011
Research interests: Health disparities, HIV/AIDS

Chen
            
                  

TERESA CHEN, MD
Email: tchen39@jhmi.edu
Program: MHS, Clinical epidemiology; Nephrology Fellow
Advisor: Lawrence Appel, MD, MPH
Undergraduate education: Yale University, 2002
Graduate education: MD, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, 2006
Residency: Washington University in St. Louis, Barnes-Jewish Hospital
Research Interests: Lupus nephritis, anemia

Christman
         
                    

ANDREA CHRISTMAN
Email: achris13@jhmi.edu
Program: MD and PhD, Clinical epidemiology
Advisors: Elizabeth Selvin, PhD, MPH; Sherita Golden, MD, MHS
Undergraduate education: Johns Hopkins University, 2006
Research interests: Psychological and neurological complications of diabetes, liver disease

Cobb

         

LAURA COBB, MS
Email:
lkcobb@jhsph.edu
Program: DrPH, Cardiovascular epidemiology
Advisor: Cheryl Anderson, PhD, MPH, MS; Lawrence Appel, MD, MPH
Graduate education: MS, Harvard School of Public Health, 2007
Research interests: Chronic disease prevention

Collaco

       

J. MICHAEL COLLACO, MD, MS, MPH, MBA
Email: mcollac1@jhmi.edu
Program: PhD Candidate
Advisor: Lawrence Appel, MD, MPH
Undergraduate education: Yale Univ, B.S., 1996
Graduate education: Case Western Reserve Univ, M.D./M.S., 2000; MBA, Johns Hopkins Univ., 2008; MPH, JH Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2011
Residency: JHU, Pediatrics, 2003;
Fellowship: Pediatric pulmonology, 2008
Research interests: Chronic pediatric respiratory diseases

Cunningham

        

BROOKE CUNNINGHAM, MD, PhD
Email: bcunnin7@jhmi.edu
Program: GIM Fellow
Advisor: Lisa Cooper, MD, MPH
Undergraduate education: BA, University of Virginia, 1996
Graduate education: MD, University of Pennsylvania, 2007; MA, University of Pennsylvania, 2001; PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 2006
Residency: Duke University, 2010
Research interests: Health disparities, evidence-based medicine, genetic epidemiology
        

Dalinghaus
           
                    

ERIN DAHLINGHAUS, MD
Email:
edahling@jhsph.edu
Program: MHS, Clinical epidemiology; Pediatrics Fellow
Advisor: Jeffrey Fadrowski, MD
Undergraduate education: Miami University, 2002
Graduate education: MD, University of Toledo College of Medicine, 2006
Residency: Inova Fairfax Hospital for Children, 2010

LINDA DARRELL
Email:
livelowkey1@verizon.net
Program: PhD, social work, Smith College
Advisor:  Ebony Boulware, MD, MPH
Undergraduate education: BS, Stony Brook University, 1974
Graduate education: MSW, Virginia Commonwearlth University, 1996
Research interests: Use of spirituality by persons with chronic illness, depression and affective disorders among minority women, end-of-life care and palliative care for underrepresented populations, health care disparities within the African American community

                

DePasquale
           
                  

NICOLE DEPASQUALE
Email: ndepasqu@jhsph.edu
Program:
MS, Health, Behavior and Society
Advisor: Ebony Boulware, MD, MPH
Undergraduate education: Douglass College, Rutgers University, 2010
Research interests: Social and behavioral science, health-related quality of life, intervention research, medical sociology, aging and the life course, mental health, health education and communication, sociology of the family, and gender 
           
       

Dzeng

           

ELIZABETH DZENG, MD, MPH, MS, MPhil
Email: edzeng1@jhmi.edu
Program: GIM Fellow
Advisor: Jeanne Clark, MD, MPH
Undergraduate education: BS and MS, Stanford University, 2003
Graduate education: 
MS, Stanford University, 2003; MPH, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, 2007; MPhil, University of Cambridge, King’s College, 2008; MD, Johns Hopkins, 2009
Residency: Columbia University, 2011
Research interests: Politics of health, effects of global development policy and capitalist institutions on health, post-conflict health reconstruction, medical ethics   

Fang

WEIGANG FANG
Email:
wfang@jhsph.edu
Program: MPH
Advisor: Michael Klag, MD, MPH
Undergraduate education: Sun Yat-sen University School of Medicine (China), 1995
Graduate education: Master of Medicine, Peking Union Medical College (China), 2001; 
MD, Peking Union Medical College (China), 2010
Residency: Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Medicine, 2001
Fellowship: Peking Union Medical College Hospital, 2002; Visiting Fellow, University of California, San Francisco, General Internal Medicine, 2003
Research interests: clinical epidemiology, cardiovascular epidemiology

 

Fasoro

         

YETUNDE FASORO, DDS, MPH
Email: yfasoro@jhsph.edu 
Program: Epidemiology
Advisor: Eliseo Guallar, MD, DrPH
Graduate education: BDS, University of Ibadan, Nigeria, 2005; MPH, JH Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2010  
Research interests: Effect of lifestyle on heart diseases

                    

Flickinger 

          

TABOR FLICKINGER, MD
Email:
tflicki1@jhmi.edu
Program: MPH, GIM Fellow
Advisor: Mary Catherine Beach, MD, MPH
Undergraduate education: College of William and Mary, 2003
Graduate education: MD, University of Virginia, 2007
Residency: University of Virginia, 2010
Research interests: Medical education, HIV/AIDS, medication adherence, behavior change, health literacy
        

Foster

         

MEREDITH FOSTER, ScD
Email: mfoster@jhsph.edu
Program: Postdoctoral Fellow, Cardiovascular epidemiology
Advisor: Josef Coresh, MD PhD; W.H. Linda Kao, PhD
Undergraduate education: Wellesley College, 2005
Graduate education: MPH, Yale School of Public Health, 2007; ScD, Harvard School of Public Health, 2011
Research interests: Cardiovascular and chronic kidney disease epidemiology

LIZ FRANCIS
Email:
efrancis@jhsph.edu
Advisor: Ebony Boulware, MD, MPH

      

                  

Gadgil
         
          

MEGHANA GADGIL, MD
Email: mgadgil2@jhmi.edu
Program: GIM Fellow
Advisor: Edgar (Pete) Miller, MD, PhD
Undergraduate education: BA, Williams College, 2002
Graduate education: MD, UMDNJ - New Jersey Medical School, 2007
Residency: Brown University, 2010
Research interests: Clinical research, women's health, maternal mortality, international health 

Garcia Alvarez

ANA GARCIA ALVAREZ, MD
Email:
angarcia@jhsph.edu
Program: Postdoctoral Fellow
Advisor: Eliseo Guallar, MD, DrPH
Graduate education: MD, University of Salamanca, 2003
Residency: Cardiology, Hospital Clinic Barcelona, Spain, 2009
Fellowship: Cardiovascular Imaging, Mount Sinai, NY, 2010
Research Interests: Cardiovascular epidemiology, myocardiopathies and heart failure, cardiovascular imaging, atherosclerosis and coronary artery disease, statistics, methodology and genetics


           

Garcia Ruiz
          
                 

JOSE MANUEL GARCIA RUIZ
Email:
jomagaru@gmail.com
Program:  Postdoctoral Fellow
Advisor: Eliseo Guallar, MD, DrPH
Graduate education: MD, Spain, 2003
Residency: Cardiology, Spain, 2009
Research interests: Type 2 diabetes mellitus in CVD population, atherosclerosis regression

Giles

        

MONICA GILES, MD
Email:
mgiles2@jhmi.edu; mgiles@jhsph.edu  
Program: MHS, Endocrinology Fellow
Advisor: Fred Brancati, MD, MHS; Sherita Golden, MD, MHS
Undergraduate education: George Washington University, 2003
Graduate education: MD, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, 2007
Residency: University of Chicago Hospitals, 2010
Research interests: Health disparities in diabetes

ALEXIS GORDON
Advisor:
Jeanne Clark, MD, MPH

      

              

Gribble

              
                    

MATTHEW GRIBBLE
Email:
mgribble@jhsph.edu
Program: PhD, Genetic Epidemiology
Advisors: Eliseo Guallar, MD, DrPH; Ana Navas-Acien, MD, PhD; Daniele Fallin, PhD
Undergraduate education: Stanford University, 2009
Research interests: Diabetes in American Indians, molecular epidemiology / biomarkers, gene/environment and exposure/exposure interactions, and methodological issues in environmental epidemiology

Griffioen
   
             
                   

ANNE GRIFFIOEN
Email:
agriff23@jhu.edu
Program: MHS, Clinical epidemiology
Advisor: Terri Beaty, PhD
Undergraduate education: Johns Hopkins University, 2011
Research interests: Adolescent and women's health, sexually transmitted infections, HPV

Gudzune
      
        

KIMBERLY GUDZUNE, MD, MPH
Email: kgudzun1@jhu.edu
Program: GIM Fellow
Advisors: Jeanne Clark, MD, MPH; Lisa Cooper, MD, MPH 
Undergraduate education: BA, University of Colorado, 2001
Graduate education: MD and MPH, Tulane University, 2006
Residency: University of Maryland Medical System
Research interests: Obesity, patient-physician communication, social networks
      
        

KATHERINE HAHN
Advisor:
Jeanne Clark, MD, MPH

     

             

TYISH HALL-BROWN, PhD
Program: KL2 Junior Faculty Scholar
Advisor:

      

         

Hambridge

      

HALI HAMBRIDGE
Email:
 hali.hambridge@jhu.edu  
Program: ScM, Clinical epidemiology
Advisor: Rosa Crum, MD, MHS
Undergraduate education: Cornell University, 2010
Research interests: Mental health, health outcomes and services

    

Hamedani

ALI HAMEDANI
Email:
ali.g.hamedani@gmail.com     
Program: MHS, Clinical epidemiology; ICTR
Advisor: Gail Daumit, MD, MHS
Undergraduate education: Yale University, 2008
Graduate education: MD, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 2013
Research interests: movement disorders, psychiatric comorbidities of neurologic disorders
   

      

        
       

Hammond
          
        

EDWARD HAMMOND, MD, MPH
Email: HammondE@kennedyKrieger.org  
Program: PhD, Clinical epidemiology
Advisor: Rosa Crum, MD, MHS
Graduate education: MD, University of Ghana Medical School, Ghana, 1999; MPH, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2004
Research interests:  Clinical Epidemiology; Neuroimmunologic
disease; CNS manifestations of HIV/AIDS and neurologic disease; HIV therapeutics; Prediction modeling
             

Hanff

      

THOMAS HANFF
Email:
thanff1@jhmi.edu
Program: MD, MPH at ICTR
Advisor: Gail Daumit, MD, MHS
Undergraduate education: University of California, Los Angeles
Research interests: Neurology, genetic epidemiology, cerebrovascular disease

      

REBECCA HARRINGTON
Email: rharring@jhsph.edu
Program:
PhD, Epidemiology 
Advisor: Rosa Crum, MD, MHS
Undergraduate Education: Brown University 1999
Graduate Education: MPH Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2004
Research interests: perinatal psychiatric epidemiology, developmental delays, autism

      

Harris

       

KENDRA HARRIS, MD, MSc
Email:
kharri53@jhmi.edu
Program: MHS, Clinical epidemiology
Advisor: Kala Visvanathan, MD, MHS
Undergraduate education: Grinnell College
Graduate education: MD, JHU School of Medicine; MSc, Oxford University
Research interests: Clinical trials, safety and organizational change

VALERIE HARVEY
Email:
Program:
Master's student, JHBSPH
Advisor: Ebony Boulware, MD, MPH  

    

Havers

        

FIONA HAVERS, MD
Email:
fhavers@jhmi.edu
Program: MHS, Infectious Diseases Fellow
Advisor: Amita Gupta, MD
Undergraduate education: Yale University, 1997
Graduate education: MA, Harvard University 2002;  MD, University of Washington 2007 Residency: Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital
Fellowship: Johns Hopkins, Infectious diseases
Research interests: HIV epidemiology
   

      
       

Hernaez

RUBEN HERNAEZ, MD, PhD, MPH
Email: 
rhernae1@jhmi.edu 
Program: Postdoctoral trainee, Epidemiology 
Advisor: Jeanne Clark, MD, MPH
Graduate education: MD, University of Navarra, Spain, 1999; MPH, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2006; PhD, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2010
Residency: Endocrinology and Nutrition, Clinic and University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain, 2005; Internal Medicine, Georgetown University Hospital/Washington Hospital Center, 2011-
Research interests: nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, diabetes mellitus

      

IAN HSU
Email:
Program:
MD student
Advisor: Mary Catherine Beach, MD, MPH

      

           

Hui
             
          

XUAN HUI
Email:
xhui@jhmi.edu
Program: ScM, Cardiovascular epidemiology
Advisor: Josef Coresh, MD, PhD
Undergraduate education: Capital Medical University, China, 2010
Research interests: Postmarketing surveillance of prescription drugs for chronic diseases, drug effectiveness, pharmacoepidemiology, epidemiology methods

Jackson
          
         

CHANDRA JACKSON, MSc
Email: cjackson@jhsph.edu
Program: PhD, Cardiovascular epidemiology
Advisors: Moyses Szklo, MD, DrPH; Frederick Brancati, MD, MHS
Undergraduate education: Bethune-Cookman University, 2003
Graduate education: MSc, Harvard University School of Public Health, 2007
Research interests: Obesity and type 2 diabetes epidemiology and prevention, minority health, urban health, health disparities and inequalities, community-based participatory research                      

BRITTANY JOCK
Advisor:
Cheryl Anderson, PhD, MPH, MS

     

           

Johns

        

TANYA JOHNS, MD
Email:
tjohns7@jhmi.edu
Program: MHS, Clinical epidemiology; Nephrology Fellow
Advisors: L. Ebony Boulware, MD, MPH; Cheryl Anderson, PhD, MPH, MS
Undergraduate education: Cornell University 2002
Graduate education: MD, Weill Cornell Medical College, 2007
Research interests: Kidney disease, health care disparities

Jonassaint

         

CHARLES JONASSAINT, PhD
Email: cjonass1@jhmi.edu
Program: GIM Fellow, MHS, Cardiovascular epidemiology
Advisors: Jeanne Clark, MD, MPH; Mary Catherine Beach, MD, MPH
Undergraduate education: Minot State University, 2002
Graduate education: PhD, Duke University, 2009
Internship: Duke University (Medical Psychology), 2009
Research Interests: Stress and coping, genetics, cardiovascular disease, sickle cell disease, socioeconomic health disparities

Jones
          
           

MIRANDA JONES, MHS
Email: mijones@jhsph.edu
Program: PhD, Cardiovascular epidemiology
Advisor: Ana Navas-Acien, MD, PhD
Undergraduate education: University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 2008
Graduate education: MHS, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2010
Research interests: Cardiovascular disease, environmental exposures, secondhand smoke exposure, arsenic exposure
          
                

Juraschek
          
                  

STEPHEN JURASCHEK
Email:
sjurasc1@jhmi.edu
Program: MD and PhD, Cardiovascular epidemiology
Advisor: Edgar (Pete) Miller, MD, PhD
Undergraduate education: Boston College, 2005
Research interests: Cardiovascular and renal disease, epidemiologic methods

Keet
           
         

CORINNE KEET, MD
Asst. Professor of Pediatrics/Allergy and Immunology
Email: ckeet1@jhmi.edu
Program: PhD, Clinical epidemiology
Advisor: Terri Beaty, PhD 
Undergraduate education: University of California, Berkeley, 2001
Graduate education: MD, University of California, San Francisco, 2004
Residency: Johns Hopkins Hospital, pediatrics, 2007
Research interests: Pediatric allergy
           
        

KetlogetsweKERUNNE KETLOGETSWE, MD
Email: kketlog1@jhmi.edu 
Program: Cardiovascular Fellow; ScM, Cardiovascular epidemiology
Advisor: Wendy Post, MD, MS; Elizabeth Selvin, PhD, MPH
Undergraduate education: Swarthmore College, 2000
Graduate education: MD, Harvard Medical School, 2006
Residency: Brigham and Women's Hospital, 2009
Fellowship: Cardiovascular Medicine, Johns Hopkins, 2013
Research interests: Global cardiovascular disease prevention, cardiovascular epidemiology, HIV and cardiovascular disease

KinsmanHELEN KINSMAN
Email:
 hk@jhmi.edu
Program: MD student 
Advisor: Mary Catherine Beach, MD, MPH 

LAREINA LAFLAIR
Email: llaflai1@jhmi.edu  
Program:
Epidemiology 
Advisor: Rosa Crum, MD, MHS

      

              

Lamprea
          
 
                  

JULIO LAMPREA, MD, MPH
Email:
jlamprea@jhsph.edu
Program: PhD, Cardiovascular epidemiology
Advisors: Moyses Szklo, MD, DrPH; Ebony Boulware, MD, MPH
Graduate education: MD, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana School of Medicine, Colombia, 2006; MPH, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2009
Research interests: Cardiovascular disease epidemiology

Lauder
         
        
NAUDIA LAUDER, MD
Email: nlauder2@jhmi.edu
Program: Gastroenterology Fellow
Advisor: Ebony Boulware, MD, MPH
Undergraduate education: Johns Hopkins University, 1999
Graduate education: MD, Yale University School of Medicine, 2005; MHS, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2011
Residency: Johns Hopkins, internal medicine, 2008
Research interests: Disparities in liver diseases, disease biomarkers

      

Lazo
                  
           

MARIANA LAZO ELIZONDO, MD, PhD, ScM
Email: mlazo@jhsph.edu
Program: Post-doctoral trainee, Clinical epidemiology
Advisor: Jeanne Clark, MD, MPH; Fred Brancati, MD, MHS
Graduate education: MD, La Salle University, Mexico, 2001; ScM, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2006
Research interests: Epidemiology of diabetes and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease
           
       

Mandy Li

               

MANDY LI
Email:
mali@jhsph.edu
Program: PhD, Epidemiology
Advisor: W.H. Linda Kao, PhD, MHS
Undergraduate education: BS, Nanjing Agricultural University, China, 2005
Graduate education: MS, University of Idaho, 2007
Research interests: Genetic epidemiology for diabetes, kidney disease, and cardiovascular disease 
            

Meng Li

        

MENG LI
Email:
mengli@jhsph.edu
Program: ScM, Clinical epidemiology
Advisor: Jodi Segal, MD, MPH
Undergraduate education: Sun Yat-sen University (China), 2011
Research interests: Pharmacoepidemiolgy, clinical trial design and analysis, pharmacoeconomics

 

RUOXI LIN
Email:
 tmp1125@163.com  
Program: Epidemiology
Advisor: Gail Daumit, MD, MHS

    

          

Mahmoodi

     

BAKHTAWAR KHAN MAHMOODI, MD, PhD
Email: bmahmood@jhsph.edu
Program: Epidemiology Fellow
Advisor: Josef Coresh, MD, PhD, MS
Undergraduate education: University of Groningen (The Netherlands), 2006
Graduate education: MD, PhD, University of Groningen (The Netherlands), 2010
Reasearch interests: Cardiovascular and chronic kidney disease epidemiology

         

Martin

        

KIMBERLY MARTIN, PhD
Email: kdmartin@jhmi.edu
Program: GIM Fellow
Advisor: Lisa Cooper, MD, MPH
Undergraduate education: New York University, 2004
Graduate education: PhD, Yale University, 2009
Research Interests: Epidemiology, patient-provider communication

       

McAdams
   
              
                    

MARA McADAMS DeMARCO, MS
Email: mmcadams@jhsph.edu
Program: PhD, Cardiovascular epidemiology
Advisor: Josef Coresh, MD, PhD
Undergraduate education: Carnegie Mellon University, 2004
Graduate education: MS, Harvard University School of Public Health, 2006
Research interests: Cardiovascular epidemiology, epidemiologic methods, gout and hypertension
         
          

McGinty

        

BETH McGINTY, MS
Email:
emcginty@jhsph.edu
Program: PhD, Health and Public Policy
Advisor: Gail Daumit, MD, MHS
Graduate education: MS, Columbia, 2006
Research interests: Mental health services and policy
 
         

Mongraw-Chaffin
       
                  

MORGANA MONGRAW-CHAFFIN, MPH
Email:
mmongraw@jhsph.edu
Program: PhD, Cardiovascular epidemiology
Advisor: Cheryl Anderson, PhD, MPH, MS
Undergraduate education: University of California, Santa Barbara, 2004
Graduate education: MPH, University of California, Berkeley, 2006
Research interests: Cardiovascular disease, women's health, cohort studies
          
          

Monroe

        

ANNE MONROE, MD, MSPH
Email: amonroe4@jhmi.edu
Program: GIM Fellow
Advisor:
Undergraduate education:
BA, University of North Carolina, 1998
Graduate education: MD, Stony Brook University, 2005; MSPH, University of Miami
Residency: University of Miami/ Jackson Memorial Hospital,
Research interests: HIV, STDs, health disparities, access to care issues
Nazarian
           
          

SAMAN NAZARIAN, MD
Asst. Professor Medicine/Cardiology
Email: snazarian@jhmi.edu
Program: PhD, Clinical epidemiology
Advisor: Moyses Szklo, MD, DrPH
Undergraduate education: University of California, Davis, 1995
Graduate education: MD, Stanford University School of Medicine, 1999
Residency: Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School; Cardiovascular medicine and cardiac electrophysiology: Johns Hopkins Hospital
Research interests: sudden cardiac death; ventricular tachycardia, atrial fibrillation, cardiac magnetic resonance
        
           

Ndumele
           
            

CHIADI NDUMELE, MD
Asst. Professor Medicine/Cardiology
Email: cndumel2@jhmi.edu
Program: Cardiology Fellow; MHS, Cardiovascular epidemiology
Advisors: Josef Coresh, MD, PhD
Undergraduate education: Johns Hopkins University, 1998
Graduate education: MD, Harvard Medical School, 2003
Residency: Brigham and Women's Hospital
Research interests: Cardiovascular disease prevention, obesity, atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease
          
       

Derek Ng

        

DEREK NG, ScM
Email:
 dng@jhsph.edu
Program: PhD, General Epidemiology and Methodology
Advisor: Lisa Jacobson, PhD
Undergraduate education: Yale University, 2005
Graduate education: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2009
Research interests: Pediatric chronic kidney disease epidemiology, cohort studies, epidemiology methodology

Olufade

                     
                       

TEMITOPE OLUFADE, MS, MPH
Email:
tolufade@jhsph.edu
Program: PhD, Clinical epidemiology
Advisor: Cheryl Anderson, PhD, MPH, MS; Ebony Boulware, MD, MPH
Undergraduate education: Montclair State University, 2002
Graduate education: MS, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey; MPH Drexel University, 2006
Research interests: Screening and prevention of chronic diseases, clinical trials, epidemiologic methods      

LAUREN PACEK
Advisor:
Rosa Crum, MD, MHS

      

         

Palamaner

      

GHANSHYAM PALAMANER SUBASH SHANTHA, MD, MPH
Email: gpalaman@jhsph.edu
Program: PhD, Cardiovascular epidemiology
Advisor: Josef Coresh MD, PhD; Hunter Young MD, MHS
Undergraduate education: MBBS, Sri Ramachandra University, Chennai, India, 2006
Graduate education: MD, Sri Ramachandra University, Chennai, India, 2009; MPH, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2011
Research interests: Renal and cardiovascular disease epidemiology

             

Palta
         
                

PRIYA PALTA, MHS
Email:
ppalta@jhsph.edu
Program: PhD, Epidemiology of Aging
Advisor: Sherita Golden, MD, MHS
Undergraduate education: University of Florida, 2008
Graduate education: MHS, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2010
Research interests: Cognition, physical functioning, health disparities in older adults

Patel

         

BIRJU PATEL
Email:
birjupatel@jhmi.edu
Program: MD, MPH at ICTR
Advisor: Mary Catherine Beach, MD, MPH
Undergraduate education: Johns Hopkins University
Research interests: Cardiovascular and intensive care outcomes research

        

Paterno

         

MARY PATERNO
Email:
mpatern3@son.jhmi.edu
Program: PhD-SON at ICTR
Advisor: Mary Catherine Beach, MD, MPH
Undergraduate education: Boston University
Graduate education: MSN, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing
Research interests: Reproductive/contraceptive decision making

      

Pitts

 

SAMANTHA PITTS, MD, MPH
Email: spitts4@jhmi.edu 
Program: GIM Fellow 
Advisor: Jeanne Clark, MD, MPH
Undergraduate education: BA, Brown University, 1992
Graduate education: MD, University of California, San Francisco, 1996;
MPH, University of California, Berkeley, 2009
Residency: University of California, San Francisco, 1999
Research interests: Health disparities, epidemiology, evidence-based medicine, chronic infectious diseases, vaccine preventable diseases
 

Poon

          

ANNA POON, MA
Email:
apoon@jhsph.edu
Program: MHS, Cardiovascular epidemiology
Advisor: Elizabeth Selvin, PhD, MPH
Undergraduate education: BA, University of Chicago, 2008
Graduate education: MA, American University, 2010
Research interests: Cardiovascular disease, socioeconomic health disparities, type 2 diabetes

JENNIFER PRICE, MD
Email: jcohen@jhmi.edu
Program: KL2 Postdoctoral Scholar
Advisor:

    

           

Purnell
        
        
TANJALA S. PURNELL, MPH
Email: tpurnell@jhsph.edu   
Program: PhD, Health Services Research and Policy
Advisor: L. Ebony Boulware, MD, MPH
Undergraduate education: B.S. Computer Science, Tougaloo College, 2005
Graduate education: MPH, Ohio State University, 2006
Research interests: Health and healthcare disparities in chronic kidney disease; disparities in access to kidney transplantation; shared medical decision making; health services research; health informatics

Putcha
             
          

NIRUPAMA (NIRU) PUTCHA, MD
Email: nputcha1@jhmi.edu
Program: Clinical epidemiology; Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellow
Advisor: Gregory Diette, MD
Undergraduate education: Northwestern University, 2003
Graduate education: MD, University of Alabama School of Medicine, 2007
Residency: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 2010
Research interests: Asthma and the environment

Rampal
        
                     

SANJAY RAMPAL, MBBS, MPH
Email:
srampal@jhsph.edu
Program: PhD, Cardiovascular epidemiology
Advisors: Eliseo Guallar, MD, DrPH; Moyses Szklo, MD, DrPH
Graduate education: MBBS, M.S. Ramaiah Medical College, Bangalore, India, 1997;
MPH, Harvard University School of Public Health, 2004
Research interests: Cardiovascular disease epidemiology, clinical epidemiology, nutritional epidemiology, epidemiologic methods          
         

JENNIFER REESE
Email:
Program:
 Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Fellow
Advisor: Mary Catherine Beach, MD, MPH

     

         

Remigio-Baker
         
                 

ROSEMAY REMIGIO-BAKER, MPH
Email: rremigio@jhsph.edu
Program: PhD, Cardiovascular epidemiology
Advisor: Sherita Golden, MD, MHS; Moyses Szklo, MD, DrPH
Undergraduate education: University of California, San Diego, 2000
Graduate education: MPH, San Diego State University, 2003
Research interests: Health disparities, cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, depression, obesity
          
         

Robinson

       

RAYMOND ROBINSON
Email: rrobinson@jhmi,edu
Program: MD, MPH at ICTR
Advisor: Mary Catherine Beach, MD, MPH 
Undergraduate education: University of California, Davis
Research interests: patient safety

      

Rubin
             
        

JONATHAN RUBIN, MD
Email: jorubin@jhsph.edu
Program: MHS, Cardiovascular epidemiology
Advisor: Josef Coresh, MD, PhD
Graduate education: University of Panama, Panama, 2006
Residency: Social Security Hospital, Panama; Nicolas Solano Hospital and Gorgas Research Institute, Panama

ROBERT RUSHER, MD, MHS
Email: rrusher1@jhmi.edu
Program: KL2 Postdoctoral Scholar
Advisor:

     

         

Sam

       

TANYKA SAM, MD, MPH
Email:
tsam@jhsph.edu
Program: GIM Fellow
Advisor:
Undergraduate education:
BA, Cornell University, 2002
Graduate education: MD, SUNY-Buffalo, 2007; MPH, JHU Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2011
Residency: SUNY-Buffalo, 2010
Research interests: Urban health, environmental justice, and community based participatory research 
 
Sanders
        
          

RENATA SANDERS, MD, MPH
Asst. Professor of Medicine/General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine
Email: rarring3@jhmi.edu
Program: ScM, Clinical epidemiology
Advisors: Frangiscos Sifakis, PhD, MPH, and Jonathan Ellen, MD
Undergraduate education: Johns Hopkins University, 1995
Graduate education: MPH, Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, 1999; MD, University of Virginia School of Medicine, 2000
Residency: University of Cincinnati and Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Centers
Research interests: Developing successful HIV prevention strategies in adolescents
           
          

MAUNANK SHAH, MD
Email:
 mshah28@jhmi.edu
Program: KL2 Postdoctoral Scholar
Advisor:
       
      

            

YUICHI SHIMADA
Email:
Program:
Master's student, JHBSPH
Advisor: Cheryl Anderson, PhD, MPH, MS

       

     

ROBERT SHIN
Email:
 eshin10@jhu.edu 
Program: BA/MHS, Environmental Health Sciences 
Advisor: Ana Navas-Acien, MD, PhD
Research interests:
        
      

MICHELLE SICARD, MD
Email:
msicard1@jhmi.edu
Program: KL2 Postdoctoral Scholar
Advisor:

     

            

Sick

       

ANNA SICK
Email:
asick1@jhmi.edu
Program: MD, MPH at ICTR
Advisor: Mary Catherine Beach, MD, MPH
Undergraduate education: University of Maryland, College Park
Research interests: Preventive health, epidemiology, infectious disease, international health

        

Siddiqui

MONA SIDDIQUI, MD
Email: msiddiq2@jhmi.edu 
Program: GIM Fellow
Advisor: Jeanne Clark, MD, MPH
Undergraduate education: University of Maryland, 2000
Medical school: MD, Johns Hopkins, 2004
Residency: Howard University Hospital, 2006; George Washington University Hospital, 2008
Research interests: Biostatistics, depression and mental illness, health disparities, health services research, outcomes research

       

ALISON SINGER
Email:
asinger@jhsph.edu
Program: PhD, Occupational and environmental epidemiology
Advisor: Eliseo Guallar, MD, DrPH
Undergraduate education: Brown University
Graduate education: MHS, JH Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2011
Research interests: environmental epidemiology

 

Singh

         

SONAL SINGH, MD, MPH
Asst. Professor of Medicine/General Internal Medicine
Email: ssingh31@jhu.edu
Program: PhD, Clinical epidemiology
Advisor: Chris Beyrer, MD, MPH, and Eric Bass, MD, MPH
Graduate education: MD, Patna University Medical College, Patna, India, 1999; MPH, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2008
Research interests: Pharmacoepidemiology, comparative effectiveness, evidence-informed medicine, health and human rights
        
          

Tan
         
               

JING WEN TAN
Email:
jitan@jhsph.edu
Program: ScM, Clinical epidemiology
Advisor: Homayoon Farzadegan, PhD
Undergraduate education: University of California, Los Angeles, 2009
Research interests: Pharmacoepidemiology, especially drug effectiveness and patient outcomes; vaccine trials and safety

SHARI TARGUM
Email:
 sharitargum@gmail.com  
Program: Master's student, JHBSPH
Advisor: Cheryl Anderson, PhD, MPH, MS

   

              

Tellez-Plaza
         
            

MARIA TELLEZ-PLAZA, MD, MPH
Email: mtellezp@jhsph.edu
Program: PhD, Cardiovascular epidemiology
Advisors: Ana Navas-Acien, MD, PhD, and Eliseo Guallar, MD, DrPH
Graduate education: MD, University of Valencia School of Medicine, Spain, 2002; MPH, Carlos the Third Institute, Madrid, Spain, 2004
Residency: Doctor Peset Hospital, Valencia, Spain
Research interests: Role of low-chronic exposure to cadmium in cardiovascular risk
          
       

Tin

        

ADRIENNE TIN
Email:
atin@jhsph.edu
Program: PhD, Genetic Epidemiology
Advisor: W.H. Linda Kao, PhD, MHS
Graduate education: MS, New Jersey Institute of Technology, 2005
Research interests: the genetic basis of common diseases, particularly chronic kidney disease and other renal-related traits
VanArendonk
      
                  

KYLE VAN ARENDONK, MD
Email:
 kvanare1@jhmi.edu
Program:  KL2 Postdoctoral Scholar
Advisor: Dorry Segev, MD PhD
Program: GTPCI - PhD
Undergraduate education: Dordt College, BA, 2004
Graduate education: MD, University of Iowa, 2008
Research interests: pediatric surgery, transplantation

       

Varella
          
        

MARCIA VARELLA, MD, MHS
Email: mvarella@jhsph.edu
Program: PhD, Clinical epidemiology
Advisor: Leon Gordis, MD, DrPH
Graduate education: MD, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janiero, Brazil, 1998; MHS, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2005
Residencies: Pediatrics, Instituto de Puericultura e Pediatria Martagao Gesteira, Brazil; Neonatology, Instituto Fernandes Figueira, Brazil
Research interests: Fetal origins of adult diseases, childhood nutrition
        
         

Waheed
         
               

SALMAN WAHEED, MD, MPH
Email: swaheed1@jhmi.edu
Program: GIM Fellow, MHS, Cardiovascular epidemiology
Advisor: Josef Coresh, MD, PhD
Undergraduate education: Edwards College, Pakistan, 1996
Graduate education: MBBS, Khyber Medical College, Peshawar, Pakistan, 2002; MPH, University of Massachusetts, 2010
Residency: Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, 2008
Research interests: Epidemiology of cardiovascular and chronic kidney disease
         
         

WangV

         

VIVIAN WANG
Email:
 vwang7@jhmi.edu  
Program: MD student
Advisor: Ebony Boulware, MD, MPH
Undergraduate education: University of Maryland, College Park, 2010
Graduate education: MD, JHU School of Medicine, to be completed 2014
Research interests: Patient-physician communication, cultural competency

      

             

Weygandt

        

LOGAN WEYGANDT
Email: pweygan1@jhmi.edu
Program: PhD, MPH at ICTR
Advisor: Mary Catherine Beach, MD, MPH
Undergraduate education: Washington and Jefferson College
Research interests: Trauma outcomes, health disparities
     

Whelton

        

SEAMUS WHELTON, MD, MPH
Email:
swhelton@jhsph.edu
Program: Postdoctoral Fellow
Advisor: Josef Coresh, MD, PhD
Undergraduate education: Princeton University, 2002
Graduate education: MP, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, 2004; MD, Tulane University School of Medicine, 2008

Wyman
              
        

LISA WYMAN, MPH
Email: lwyman@jhsph.edu
Program: PhD, Cardiovascular epidemiology
Advisor: David Celentano, ScD
Undergraduate education: Washington College, 2002
Graduate education: MPH, University of Michigan School of Public Health, 2004
Research interests: Link between mental health and physical illness
        
        

Yohannan

       

JITHIN YOHANNAN
Email:
jithin@jhmi.edu
Program: MD, MPH at ICTR
Advisor: Gail Daumit, MD, MHS
Undergraduate education: New York University
Research interests: Ophthalmology, urology, cancer, management, prospective studies

       

Zhang
         
            

YIYI ZHANG, MHS
Email: yzhang01@jhsph.edu
Program: PhD, Cardiovascular epidemiology
Advisor: Eliseo Guallar, MD, DrPH
Undergraduate education: Fudan University, Shanghai, China, 2006
Graduate education: MHS, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2008
Research interests: Cardiovascular disease epidemiology, epidemiologic methods
        
        

Zhao
          
                

DI (JODI) ZHAO
Email:
dzhao@jhsph.edu
Program: MHS, Cardiovascular epidemiology
Advisor: Eliseo Guallar, MD, DrPH
Undergraduate education: Peking University Health Science Center, China, 2009
Graduate education: MHS, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2011
Research interests: Cardiovascular drug efficacy in clinical trials

Zheng

LAURA ZHENG
Email:
lzheng@jhsph.edu
Program: PhD, Environmental Health Sciences
Advisor: Ana Navas-Acien, MD, PhD
Undergraduate education: Cornell University, 2007
Graduate education: MEng, Cornell University, 2008
Research interests: Arsenic and cadmium exposure in different populations

 

 

 

 

 

 

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