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Doctoral Program Subcommittee on Epidemiology


Degree Programs: Full-Time: M.Phil., Ph.D.

Department Chair: Ezra Susser, M.D., Dr.P.H.
722 W. 168th Street, Room 1508A
New York, NY 10032
Tel: 212.342.2133


Director of Graduate Studies: Leslie L. Davidson, M.D., M.Sc.
722 W. 168th Street, Room 1612 New York, NY 10032
Tel: 212.342.0247


Faculty

Quarraisha Abdool Karim:
Associate Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, M.S., Ph.D., Columbia, Natal, 1989, 2000
Interests: HIV/AIDS epidemiology, ethics, adolescents, gender
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Salim S. Abdool Karim:
Professor, M.B., Ch.B., Natal, 1983
Interests: HIV prevention and vaccine research
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Elaine Abrams:
Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, M.D., Columbia, 1982
Interests: Pediatric HIV infection, mother-to-child HIV transmission
Judith Absalon:
Assistant Professor, M.D., M.P.H., SUNY (Stonybrook), Columbia, 1996, 2002
Interests: Sexually transmitted infections, HIV/AIDS
Habibul Ahsan:
Associate Professor, M.D., Dhaka, 1988
Interests: Molecular epidemiology of cancer
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Steven Arikian:
Adjunct Assistant Professor, M.D., M.B.A., Catania, Long Island University, 1987, 1990
Interests: Cancer Epidemiology, health service, outcomes assessment, cost-effectiveness analysis, health informatics
Stephen Arpadi:
Associate Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, M.D., M.S., George Washington, Columbia, 1982, 1991
Interests: Pediatric HIV/AIDS
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Barbara A. Barlow:
Professor of Surgery in Epidemiology, M.D., Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1967
Interests: Tramumatic injury to children, injury prevention
Mary T. Basset:
Associate Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, M.D., M.P.H., Columbia, Washington, 1979, 1985
Interests: Reproductive healt, Socioeconomic status and health
Seth Berkley:
Adjunct Professor, M.D., 1981
Interests: AIDS vaccine research
Alan Berkman:
Associate Professor, M.D., Columbia, 1971
Interests: Clinical trials, HIV prevention, HIV vaccine trials
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Gerard Christopher Bodeker:
Adjunct Professor, M.D., EdD, Harvard, 1986, 1989
Luisa Borrell:
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Dentistry, M.P.H., D.D.S., Ph.D., Columbia, Michigan (Ann Arbor), 1994, 1994, 2001
Interests: Social deteminants of health, periodontal diseases epidemiology
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Michaeline Bresnahan:
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology (in Psychiatry), M.P.H., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia, 1994, 1997, 1999
Interests: Risk factors for autism spectrum disorders and schizophrenia
Thomas Briese:
Associate Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, M.S., Ph.D., Freie Universitat Berlin (Germany), 1983, 1987
Interests: Virology
Alan Stuart Brown:
Associate Professor, M.D., Jefferson Medical College, 1987
Interests: Studies the relationship between early developmental factors and risk of major psychiatric disorders
Jennifer Calder:
Adjunct Assistant Professor, D.V.M., M.P.H., Ph.D., Veterinary Sciences (Hungary), Columbia, Florida (College of Veterinary Medicine), 1984, 1990, 1994
Interests: Hospital epidemiology and infection control
Linnea Capps:
Assistant Clinical Professor, M.D., M.P.H., Missouri, Columbia, 1977, 1985
Interests: Health services delivery and rural community health in Latin America
Dorothy Castille:
Adjunct Associate Research Scientist, Ph.D., California (Berkeley), 1996
Interests: Psychological Anthropology, Psychiatric Epidemiology
Katherine T Chen:
Assistant Professor, M.D.,M.P.H., Harvard Medical School, Mailman School of Public Health, 1990, 1999
Interests: Epidemiology of obstetric and gynecologic infections
Mary Ann Chiasson:
Associate Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Dr.PH, Columbia, 1988
Interests: HIV infection in women
Patricia R. Cohen:
Professor, Ph.D., NYU, 1968
Interests: Childhood psychiatric disorders
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Pamela Y. Collins:
Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry (in Epidemiology), M.D., M.P.H., Cornell, 1991
Interests: HIV prevention, sexuality and stigma among women with severe mental illness
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Katherine Crew:
Assistant Professor, M.D., M.S., Columbia University, 1999, 2005
Interests: Breast cancer chemoprevention
L. David Carmichael:
Associate Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, M.D., M.P.H., Albert Einstein, Columbia, 1976, 1983
Interests: Chronic diseases, population-based medicine
Leslie L. Davidson:
Professor, M.D., M.Sc., Columbia, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (University of London), 1978, 1982
Interests: child health, maternal and perinatal health, disability, injury, family violence and violence against women
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Richard J. Deckelbaum:
Professor, M.D., McGill (Canada), 1963
Interests: As Director of the Human Institute of Nutrition, Dr. Deckelbaum studies human plasma lipoproteins and the cellular effects of dietary and free fatty acids; Lipoprotein-receptor-cell interaction; lipid emulsion metabolism; free fatty acids and cell lipid-lipoprotein metabolism and gene expression
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Moise Desvarieux:
Associate Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, M.D., A.E.A., D.M.M., M.P.H., Ph.D., Port-Au-Prince (Haiti), Paris, Pasteur, Columbia, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1997
Interests: Tuberculosis, HIV, infectious diseases
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Charles Joseph DiMaggio:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D, Columbia, 2002
Interests: Disaster and Public Health Preparedness, Injury Control
Bruce P. Dohrenwend:
Professor, Ph.D., Cornell, 1955
Interests: Stress and major mental disorders
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
John J. Doyle:
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Health Policy Management and Epidemiology, M.P.H., Dr.P.H., Columbia University, 1988, 2005
Interests: Outcomes research
Cynthia R. Driver:
Adjunct Assistant Professor, M.P.H., Dr.P.H., Columbia University, 1984, 2005
Interests: Infectious disease, TB
Ernest Drucker:
Visiting Professor, Ph.D, City University (New York), 1969
Maureen Durkin:
Associate Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Ph.D., M.P.H., Dr.P.H., Wisconsin (Madison), Columbia, 1982, 1985, 1988
Interests: Neurodevelopmental disabilities; pediatric injuries
Wafaa El-Sadr:
Professor, M.D., Cairo, 1974
Interests: HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Batya O. Elul:
Assistant Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, M.A., Ph.D., Harvard School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins, 1996, 2004
Interests: HIV care and treatment, reproductive health, epidemiological research in resource-poor settings
John A. Encandela:
Assistant Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, M.A., Ph.D., West Virginia University, University of Pennsylvania, 1981, 1994
Interests: Global and domestic HIV prevention and AIDS-related evaluation and research
Pam Factor-Litvak:
Associate Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Ph.D., Columbia, 1992
Interests: Environmental epidemiology
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Jeffrey Fagan:
Professor, M.S., Ph.D., SUNY (Buffalo),, 1971, 1975
Interests: Violence epidemiology, social control of violence
William T. Friedewald:
Professor, M.D., Yale, 1963
Interests: Cardiovascular diseases; disease prevention, clinical trials
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Gerald H. Friedland:
Visiting Professor, M.D., NYU, 1964
Crystal Fuller:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Johns Hopkins, 1999
Interests: Hepatitis among adolescents, infectious disease HIV epidemiology
Sandro Galea:
Assistant Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, M.D., Toronto (Canada), 1994
Interests: Social Epidemiology, Urban Health, Epi of Mental Health and Substance Abuse
Marilie D. Gammon:
Associate Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, M.P.H, Ph.D., Washington (Seattle), Yale, 1982, 1989
Jack Geiger:
Visiting Professor, M.D., M.Sc., Western Reserve, Harvard, 1958, 1960
Interests: Racial/Ethnic Disparities of Health Care
Inge F. Goldstein:
Special Lecturer, Dr.P.H., Columbia, 1975
Interests: Environmental epidemiology
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Renee Goodwin:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Northwestern, 1998
Interests: Psychiatric epidemiology
Madelyn S. Gould:
Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1980
Interests: Adolescent suicide; childhood psychiatric disorders
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
R. Graham Barr:
Assistant Professor, M.D., C.M., M.P.H., Dr.P.H., McGill, Harvard, 1994, 2000
Interests: Epidemiology of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Victor Grann:
Clinical Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology, and Health Policy and Management, M.D., M.P.H., New York Medical, Columbia, 1962, 1997
Interests: Disparities in care, prevention of cancer, breast cancer, screening for genetic mutations of cancer, quality of life and cost effectiveness
Ronald Gray:
Adjunct Professor, M.B.B.S., M.Sc., London, 1965, 1971
Interests: Reproductive and perinatal health, infectious diseases, HIV/STDs
Raz Gross:
Assistant Professor, M.D., M.P.H., Tel Aviv, Columbia, 1986, 2001
Interests: Intersection between psychiatry and medicine, prenatal and childhood exposures and risk of mental illness
Michael J. Hall:
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, M.D., M.S., Columbia Univeristy, Univeristy of Chicago, 1999, 2005
Interests: Cancer epidemiology
Scott Hammer:
Professor, M.D., Columbia, 1972
Interests: Clinical and laboratory studies of antiretroviral therapy and drug resistance
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Susan Harlap:
Professor, M.B.B.S., London, 1963
Interests: Breast cancer, schizophrenia, male and female fertility and reproduction, obstetric complications
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Deborah S. Hasin:
Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1986
Interests: Psychiatric problems; measurement
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Stephani L. Hatch:
Adjunct Assistant Professor, M.A., Ph.D., Georgia State University, Univeristy of Maryland, 1996, 2002
Interests: Psychiatric disorders and social issues
W. Allen Hauser:
Professor, M.D., St. Louis, 1962
Interests: Epilepsy; Alzheimer's disease
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Gary Heiman:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 2002
Interests: Epidemiology of Neuropsychiatric Genetic Disorders; Genetics of Longevity
Daniel B. Herman:
Associate Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, M.S.W., D.S.W., M.S., Hunter (New York), Columbia, 1979, 1991, 1998
Interests: Psychiatric epidemiology, mental health services research
Dawn L. Hershman:
Florence Irving Assistant Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, M.D., M.S., Albert Einstein, Columbia Univeristy, 1994, 2001
Interests: Cancer survivorship, breast cancer, racial disparities
Dale Hesdorffer:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1993
Interests: Epidemiology of convulsive disorders and head trauma
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Hans Hoek:
Adjunct Professor, M.D., Ph.D., Groningen (Netherlands), 1982, 1987
Interests: Eating disorders, psychosis, autism spectrum disorders
Susie Hoffman:
Assistant Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Dr.PH, 2000
Interests: HIV/AIDS, gender and other social determinates of risk
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
David Hoos:
Assistant Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, M.D., M.P.H., New York Medical, Columbia, 1981, 1992
Interests: HIV/AIDS treatment access, HIV and mental health
Mady Hornig:
Associate Professor, M.D., Medical College of Pennslyvania, 1988
Interests: Neuroepidemiology, autism
Christina Hoven:
Assistant Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Dr.P.H., Columbia, 1988
Interests: Epidemiology, childhood psychopathology; services research
Judith S. Jacobson:
Associate Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, D.P.H., Columbia, 1996
Interests: Cancer, complementary/alternative medicine and asthma
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Suh-Hang Juo:
Assistant Professor, M.D., M.S., Ph.D., Kaohsiung Medical (Taiwan), Harvard, Johns Hopkins, 1989, 1994, 1997
Interests: Genetic epidemiology, disease gene mapping
Jessica Justman:
Assistant Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, M.D., Rochester, 1985
Interests: HIV Prevention and Microbicides, Side-Effects of Antiretroviral Therapy
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Steven Kawut:
Irving Assistant Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, M.D., Yale, 1995
Interests: Outcomes in advanced lung disease and lung transpalntation, pulmonary hypertension
Eileen Kennedy:
Adjunct Professor, M.S., D.Sc., Harvard, 1975, 1979
Interests: Nutrition
Jennie K. Kline:
Adjunct Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1977
Interests: Spontaneous abortion; HIV infection
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Beryl Koblin:
Adjunct Associate Professor, Sc.M., Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 1982, 1987
Interests: Infectious diseases, clinical trials, HIV, vaccines, prevention interventions
Louise Kuhn:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1995
Interests: HIV infection in women and children; perinatal epidemiology
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Elaine Larson:
Professor, R.N., Ph.D., Washington, 1981
Interests: Nosocomial infections, skin antisepsis, antibiotic resistance and hygiene
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Joseph Hyungwoo Lee:
Assistant Professor, M.P.H., Dr.P.H., California (Berkeley), Columbia, 1985, 1996
Interests: Genetic epidemiology of Alzheimer's disease and aging
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Stephen R. Leeder:
Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology, M.B.B.S., Ph.D., Univeristy of Sydney (Australia), 1966, 1974
Interests: Community medicine
Bruce G. Link:
Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1980
Interests: Psychiatric epidemiology, sociology, homelessness
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Ian Lipkin:
Jerome L. and Dawn Greene Professor of Epidemiology, M.D.
Interests: Immunopathogenesis and Infectious Diseases;Microbial pathogenesis emerging infections; The role of infectious agents and immune responses in acute and chronic CNS diseases through molecular epidemiology and studies of animal models
Jose A. Luchsinger:
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, M.D., M.P.H., Universidad Central de Venezuela, Columbia University, 1991, 1999
Interests: Relation between diet and vascular risk factors and cognitive disorders
L.H. Lumey:
Associate Professor, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D., Amsterdam (Netherlands), Columbia, 1982, 1985, 1988
Interests: Long-term effects of the Dutch famine on adult health
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Richard Mayeux:
Professor, M.D., Oklahoma, 1972
Interests: Neurological disorders
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Larkin Street McReynolds:
Assistant Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, M.P.H., Ph.D., Univeristy of Texas, Columbia University, 1996, 2004
Interests: Influences of psychiatric disorders
Maureen Miller:
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Columbia, 1997
Interests: Social influences of infectious disease transmission dynamics
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Supriya Gupta Mohile:
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, M.D., M.S., Jefferson Medical College, Univeristy of Chicago, 1998, 2005
Interests: Cancer-related health outcomes and health services research, especially with regard to cancer in the elderly and GU cancers
Alfredo Morabia:
Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Ph.D., Geneva, 1978
Interests: Epidemiologic methods, breast cancer; surveillance of risk factors
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Ellen A.B. Morrison:
Assistant Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, M.D., M.P.H., Washington (St. Louis), Columbia, 1984, 1996
Interests: Sexually transmitted diseases including HIV, infections during pregnancy
Stephen Morse:
Associate Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Ph.D., Yale, 1984
Interests: Virology; infectious disease
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Benjamin Mozes:
Associate Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, M.D., Tel Aviv (Israel), 1975
Interests: Measurement of clinical subjective parameters, construct, scales and trends over time
Sonal Munsiff:
Adjunct Assistant Professor, M.D., NYU, 1989
Interests: Epidemiology and the treatment of drug-resistant TB; clinical aspects of TB in HIV-infected persons
Benjamin Landon Myer:
Adjunct Assistant Professor, M.A., Ph.D., University of Capetown (South Africa), Columbia University, 1999, 2005
Interests: Infectious diseases, social epidemiology, Southern Africa
Merle Myerson:
Assistant Professor, Ed.D., M.D., Columbia Univeristy, Brooklyn School of Medicine, 1989, 1993
Interests: Cardiovascular disease
Denis Nash:
Associate Professor, Ph. D, University of Maryland at Baltimore, 1999
Interests: Infectious disease epidemiology, HIV/AIDS, health disparities, and disease surveillance
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Alan Neaigus:
Adjunct Associate Professor, Ph.D., M.C.R.P., University of California (Los Angeles), Rutgers, 1976, 1981
Interests: Infectious Disease Risk Among Youth Drug Users. Drug-Sex Risk Networks
Yuval Neria:
Associate Clinical Professor of Medical Psychology (in Psychiatry and Epidemiology), M.A., Ph.D., Hebrew (Israel), Hafia (Israel), 1982, 1994
Interests: Stress and coping, PTSD, traumatic grief
Alfred I. Neugut:
Myron M. Studner Professor of Cancer Research in the Department of Medicine and Professor of Epidemiology, M.D., Ph.D., Columbia, 1977
Interests: Cancer
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Jeri Nieves:
Assistant Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Ph.D, Columbia, 1993
Interests: Nutrition and osteoporosis
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Ruth Ottman:
Professor, Ph.D., UC Berkeley, 1980
Interests: Genetics
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Ariel Pablos-Mendez:
Associate Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, M.D., M.P.H., Guadalajara (Mexico), Columbia, 1985, 1992
Interests: Tuberculosis
Gustavo Palacios:
Associate Research Scientist, Ph.D., Buenos Aires (Argentina),, 2002
E. Anne Paxton:
Assistant Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, M.P.H., M.I.A., Dr. P.H., Columbia, 1984, 1994
Interests: HIV and breast feeding, trachoma, perinatal transmission of chlamydia
Victor Penchaszadeh:
Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, M.D., M.S., Buenos Aires (Argentina), Johns Hopkins, 1964, 1971
Interests: Genetics, ethics and global health
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Daniel Pilowsky:
Assistant Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, M.D., M.P.H., Buenos Aires, Johns Hopkins, 1976, 1998
Interests: Impact of HIV/AIDS on children and adolescents
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Joyce C. Pressley:
Assistant Professor (also Health Policy and Management), Ph.D., Duke, 1996
Interests: Injury, health disparities, active life expectancy, and related risk factors
Miriam Rabkin:
Assistant Clinical Professor of Epidemiology (also Medicine), M.D., M.P.H., Columbia, 1992, 2002
Interests: Care and Treatment of HIV/AIDS in Resource-Poor Settings
Carlos J. Rodriguez:
Assistant Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, M.D., M.P.H., Columbia Univeristy, 1996
Interests: Cardiovascular epidemiology
Andrew Rundle:
Assistant Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, D.P.H., Columbia, 2000
Interests: Physical activity and cancer; environmental Epidemiology
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Ralph Sacco:
Professor, M.D., Boston, 1983
Interests: Neuroepidemiology
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Judith E. Sackoff:
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Ph.D., Columbia University, 1992
Interests: HIV/AIDS; tuberculosis
Carolyn M. Salafia:
Assistant Professor, M.D., M.S., Duke, Columbia, 1979, 2001
Interests: Applying tools of detailed placental measurements to understanding the developmental origins of health and disease
Neil Schluger:
Associate Professor (Epidemiology), M.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1985
Interests: Epidemiology and clinical trials of tuberculosis
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Nicole Schupf:
Associate Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Ph.D., M.P.H., Dr.P.H., New York University, California (Berkeley), Columbia, 1970, 1984, 1995
Interests: Down syndrome and Alzheimer's disease, hormonal risk factors and Alzheimer's disease
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Sharon B. Schwartz:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1985
Interests: Psychosocial disorders; psychiatric epidemiology
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Ruby T. Senie:
Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Ph.D., Yale, 1984
Interests: Breast cancer epidemiology
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Samuel Shapiro:
Visiting Professor, MBBCh, Witwatersrand (South Africa), 1957
Interests: Epidemiology of medication use, cancer epidemiology
Steven Shea:
Professor, M.D., Columbia, Harvard, 1979, 1984
Interests: Cardiovascular diseases; Epidemiological studies of factors that lead to heart disease; telemedicine in monitoring the control of diabetes
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Nancy L. Sloan:
Assistant Professor, Dr.P.H., Columbia, 1985
Interests: Nutritional and perinatal epidemiology
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Nancy L. Sohler:
Adjunct Assistant Professor, M.P.H., Ph.D., Columbia University, 1995, 2000
Interests: Communityand social medicine
David M. St. Clair:
Visting Professor, M.Phil., Ph.D., Univeristy of Edinburgh, Univeristy of Oxford, 1984, 1993
Interests: Psychiatric and genetic epidemiology, specifically in etiology of schizophrenia
Zena A. Stein:
Professor Emerita and Special Lecturer, B.Ch., Witwatersrand, 1950
Interests: Reproductive disorders; HIV infection
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Steven Stellman:
Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Ph.D., NYU, 1971
Interests: Cancer epidemiology, cause and prevention
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Elmer L. Struening:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Purdue, 1957
Interests: Psychiatric disorders; homelessness
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Charlotte Ann Stueve:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Berkeley, 1985
Interests: Psychosocial disorders; psychiatric epidemiology
Ezra Susser:
Anna Cheskis Gelman and Murray Charles Gelman Professor of Epidemiology (also psychiatry), M.D., Dr.P.H., Columbia, 1982, 1993
Interests: Neurodevelopment and HIV/AIDS; methodology
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Mervyn W. Susser:
Professor Emeritus and Special Lecturer, M.B., B.Ch., Witwatersrand, 1950
Interests: Neurodevelopmental and HIV/AIDS; methodology
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Awash Teklehaimanot:
Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, M.Sc., Ph.D., M.P.H., Bowling Green State Univerity, Purdue University, Harvard, 1978, 1982, 1988
Interests: The epidemiology of malaria dn its impact
Mary Beth Terry:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1999
Interests: Cancer epidemiology, molecular epidemiology of breast cancer
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Lorna Thorpe:
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Ph.D., M.P.H., Michigan, Illinois (Chicago), 1995, 2000
Interests: Chronic disease epidemiology and epidemiology for health practice
Patricia L. Toro:
Assistant Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, M.D., M.P.H., Columbia, 1999
Interests: HIV related TB, HIV Care and Treatment in Developing Countries
Simon Tsiouris:
Assistant Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, M.D., M.P.H., Johns Hopkins, Columbia, 1998, 2994
Interests: TB Epidemiology, Treatment of TB-HIV Co-infections in Resource Poor Settings
Eliecer Valencia:
Lecturer, M.A., J.D., SUNY Binghamton, Rutgers University School of Law, 1982, 1989
Interests: CTI and related service models for the intervention and prevention of homeless among those with severe mental illness
Paolo Vineis:
Adjunct Professor, M.D., Torino (Italy), 1976
Interests: Molecular epidemiology, DNA repair, metabolic polymorphisms, diet and cancer, environmental carcinogenesis, dose-response relationships, theories of carcinogenesis and causality, ethics
David Vlahov:
Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 1988
Interests: Transmission and natural history of infectious diseases
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Ronald Waldman:
Professor of Clinical Population and Family Health (also Epidemiology), M.D., M.P.H., Geneva, Johns Hopkins, 1975, 1979
Interests: Evaluation of humanitarian assistance interventions, child health in developing countries
Isaac Weisfuse:
Associate Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, M.D., SUNY (Downstate), 1982
Interests: Epidemiology of communicable diseases
Myrna A. Weissman:
Professor, Ph.D., Yale, 1974
Interests: Psychiatric disorders; genetics
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Carolyn L. Westhoff:
Professor, M.D., Michigan, 1977
Interests: Gynecological cancers
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Susan A. Wilt:
Assistant Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, M.S., Dr.P.H., Columbia, 1978, 1985
Interests: Assualt injuries, domestic violence, violent behaviors
Ping Wu:
Assistant Professor of Clinical Epidemiology (in Psychiatry), M.S., Ph.D., The Graduate School (Beijing), Lehigh, 1984, 1991
Interests: Adolescent psychiatric epidemiology