Faculty and Staff

Preventive Medicine Faculty
Mary Cavanagh, MD, MPH
Clinical Assistant Professor                        
Division: Community and Behavioral Health 
Academic Interests: Cancer Prevention
 
John Chen, PhD
Associate Professor     
Division: Epidemiology
Academic Interests: Biostatistics
 
Linda Cocchiarella, MD, MSc
Clinical Assistant Professor
Division: Environmental, Occupational, and Clinical Preventive Medicine
Academic Interests: Occupational Health; Impairment and disability; Development of work wellness programs
 
Lynette Dias, PhD
Research Scientist/Instructor
Division: Epidemiology
Academic Interests: Epidemiology of eye diseases
 
Li Ming Dong, PhD
Assistant Professor
Division: Epidemiology
Academic Interests: Biostatistics; Epidemiology of eye disease
 
Norman Edelman, MD
Professor
Division: Evaluative Sciences
Academic Interests: Health care policy, with an emphasis on workforce issues
 
Andrew Flescher, PhD
Associate Professor
Division: Medicine and Society
Academic Interests: Literature and narrative ethics; Moral philosophy; Moral psychology; Ethical theory; Health care justice; Virtue theory; Ethics and psychology; Bioethics; Comparative religious ethics
 
Melody Goodman, PhD
Assistant Professor
Division: Evaluative Sciences
Academic Interests: Statistical methods for community based interventions and health disparities research; Community based participatory research; Social determinants of health; Racial/ethnic health disparities 
 
Iris Granek, MD, MS
Associate Professor
Department of Preventive Medicine Chair
Academic Interests: Women's health; Cancer prevention
 
Lauren Hale, PhD
Assistant Professor
Division: Evaluative Sciences
Academic Interests: Sleep patterns; Demography; Social and behavioral determinants of health
 
Amy Hammock, PhD
Assistant Professor
Division: Evaluative Sciences
Academic Interests: Community-based participatory research; qualitative research methods; family violence
Leslie Hyman, PhD
Professor
Division: Epidemiology (Head)
Academic Interests: Epidemiology of eye disease; Diabetes and periodontics; Clinical research
 
Raja Jaber, MD
Associate Professor
Division: Environmental, Occupational, and Clinical Preventive Medicine
Academic Interests: Wellness programs; Mindfulness meditation; Doctor-patient relationships; Readiness to change body-mind, and nutritional medicine in the context of an integrated approach to wellness and chronic illness
 
Steven Jonas, MD, MPH, MS, FNYAS
Professor
Division: Evaluative Sciences
Academic Interests: US Health Care System; Health care delivery; Exercise science
 
Evonne Kaplan-Liss, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Division: Evaluative Sciences
Academic Interests: Environmental and pediatric medicine; Environmental exposures; Medical journalism
 
Carla Keirns, MD, PhD, MSc
Assistant Professor
Division: Medicine and Society
Academic Interests: Community-based research and learning, clinical ethics, health services research, history of medicine, health disparities, chronic disease, epidemiologic transitions and public health ethics
 
John Kovach, MD
Professor
Division: Environmental, Occupational, and Clinical Preventive Medicine
Academic Interests: Environmental exposures; Cancer epidemiology
 
Dorothy Lane, MD, MPH
Distinguished Service Professor
Associate Dean for Continuing Medical Education
Division: Community and Behavioral Health
Academic Interests: Women's health; Cancer epidemiology;  Medical student teaching and competency-based education
 
M Cristina Leske, MD, MPH  
Distinguished Teaching and Service Professor
Division: Epidemiology
Academic Interests: Epidemiology of eye disease; Epidemiology of chronic illnesses
 
Stephen Van McCrary, PhD, JD, MPH
Associate Professor
Division: Medicine and Society
Academic Interests: Clinical biomedical ethics; Ethical and legal aspects of the care of dying patients; Medical decision making; Health law and policy; Psychiatric issues in bioethics consultation
 
Jaymie Meliker, PhD
Assistant Professor
Division: Evaluative Sciences
Academic Interests: Exposure science;  GIScience; Health geography; Environmental epidemiology
 
Hongdao Meng, PhD
Assistant Professor
Division: Evaluative Sciences
Academic Interests: Long-term care financing; Rural health; Cost-effectiveness of medical and public health interventions
 
Catherine Messina, PhD
Research Associate Professor
Division: Community and Behavioral Health
Academic Interests: Cancer epidemiology; Cancer prevention
 
Elza Myola, PhD
Associate Professor
Associate Dean of Educational Development and Evaluation
Division: Community and Behavioral Health
Academic Interests: Evaluation of education programs; Medical student curriculum development; Organizational development; System analysis
 
Barbara Nemesure, PhD
Associate Professor
Division: Epidemiology
Academic Interests: Biostatistics; Cancer epidemiology; Epidemiology of eye disease
 
Stephen Post, PhD
Professor
Division: Medicine and Society
Academic Interests: Alturism and health; Medical Humanities; Compassionate Care; Bioethics
 
Al Rielly, MD, MPH
Division: Environmental, Occupational, and Clinical Preventive Medicine
Academic Interests: Internal Medicine and Preventive Medicine; Public Health
 
John Rizzo, PhD
Professor
Division: Evaluative Sciences
Academic Interests: Microeconomic studies of physician and pharmaceutical markets; Application of econometric methods to clinical outcomes research; Pharmacoeconomic evaluations of medical treatments and technologies
 
Elinor Schoenfeld, PhD
Research Associate Professor
Division: Epidemiology
Academic Interests: Cancer epidemiology; Cancer prevention; Osteoporosis Prevention; Data management and informatics
 
John Shanley, MD
Professor
Division: Environmental, Occupational, and Clinical Preventive Medicine
Academic Interests: Infectious disease medicine; Internal medicine
 
Annie Laurie Shroyer, PhD, MSHA
Professor
Division: Evaluative Sciences
Academic Interests: Clinical outcomes;Health services research; Cardiovascular care; Clinical trials; Health professional education; Evidence-based medicine
 
Peter Williams, JD, PhD
Professor
Vice Dean for Academic Affairs and Faculty Development
Division: Medicine and Society
Academic Interests: Ethical issues in medicine; Malpractice reform and moral reasoning; Humanities and health care
 
Suh Yuh Wu, MA
Research Assistant Professor
Division: Epidemiology Academic Interests: Biostatistics; Cancer epidemiology; Epidemiology of eye disease
 
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