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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


Dissertation Sponsors

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
Habibul Ahsan:
Associate Professor, M.D., Dhaka, 1988
Interests: Molecular epidemiology of cancer
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Stephen Arpadi:
Associate Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, M.D., M.S., George Washington, Columbia, 1982, 1991
Interests: Pediatric HIV/AIDS
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Alan Berkman:
Associate Professor, M.D., Columbia, 1971
Interests: Clinical trials, HIV prevention, HIV vaccine trials
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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
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
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
Bruce P. Dohrenwend:
Professor, Ph.D., Cornell, 1955
Interests: Stress and major mental disorders
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Wafaa El-Sadr:
Professor, M.D., Cairo, 1974
Interests: HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Pam Factor-Litvak:
Associate Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Ph.D., Columbia, 1992
Interests: Environmental epidemiology
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
William T. Friedewald:
Professor, M.D., Yale, 1963
Interests: Cardiovascular diseases; disease prevention, clinical trials
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Inge F. Goldstein:
Special Lecturer, Dr.P.H., Columbia, 1975
Interests: Environmental epidemiology
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Madelyn S. Gould:
Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1980
Interests: Adolescent suicide; childhood psychiatric disorders
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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
W. Allen Hauser:
Professor, M.D., St. Louis, 1962
Interests: Epilepsy; Alzheimer's disease
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Dale Hesdorffer:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1993
Interests: Epidemiology of convulsive disorders and head trauma
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Susie Hoffman:
Assistant Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Dr.PH, 2000
Interests: HIV/AIDS, gender and other social determinates of risk
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Judith S. Jacobson:
Associate Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, D.P.H., Columbia, 1996
Interests: Cancer, complementary/alternative medicine and asthma
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Jessica Justman:
Assistant Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, M.D., Rochester, 1985
Interests: HIV Prevention and Microbicides, Side-Effects of Antiretroviral Therapy
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Jennie K. Kline:
Adjunct Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1977
Interests: Spontaneous abortion; HIV infection
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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
Bruce G. Link:
Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1980
Interests: Psychiatric epidemiology, sociology, homelessness
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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
Maureen Miller:
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Columbia, 1997
Interests: Social influences of infectious disease transmission dynamics
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Alfredo Morabia:
Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Ph.D., Geneva, 1978
Interests: Epidemiologic methods, breast cancer; surveillance of risk factors
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Stephen Morse:
Associate Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Ph.D., Yale, 1984
Interests: Virology; infectious disease
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Mary Beth Terry:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1999
Interests: Cancer epidemiology, molecular epidemiology of breast cancer
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
David Vlahov:
Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 1988
Interests: Transmission and natural history of infectious diseases
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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




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