Department of Faculty Research Interests Updated August 2009 Name Email Dept. Research Interest HIV prevention, microbicides, Quarraisha Abdool Karim [email protected] Epidemiology HIV vaccines, AIDS treatment, (South Africa) clinical trials HIV prevention, microbicides, Salim Abdool Karim (South [email protected] Epidemiology HIV vaccines, AIDS treatment, Africa) clinical trials

Pediatric HIV infection, Mother-to- Elaine J. Abrams [email protected] Epidemiology child HIV transmission

Habibul Ahsan Molecular & genetic [email protected] Epidemiology (Adjunct) (Chicago) epidemiology Cancer Epidemiology, Health Service, Steven R. Arikian Outcomes Assessment, Cost- [email protected] Epidemiology (Adjunct) effectiveness Analysis, Health Informatics Pediatric HIV/AIDS; infant Stephen M. Arpadi [email protected] Epidemiology nutrition

Traumatic injury to children; Barbara A. Barlow [email protected] Epidemiology injury prevention

Epidemiology of and R. Graham Barr [email protected] Epidemiology chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Epidemiology methods

Racial/ethnic health disparities; social determinants of health; early-life Debbie S. Barrington [email protected] Epidemiology determinants of health; African-American and Caribbean immigrant women's health

Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Daniel Barth-Jones particularly HIV and Sexually Transmitted [email protected] Epidemiology (Wayne State University) Infections. Infectious Disease Modeling and Simulation.

Health of the public, health promotion and Mary T. Bassett [email protected] Epidemiology disease prevention, women's health issues.

Epidemiology & Population Social epidemiology, immigration, gender, Lisa M. Bates [email protected] life course, reproductive health, infectious and Family Health diseases, international and domestic

Seth F. Berkley (Adjunct) [email protected] Epidemiology AIDS vaccine research (IAVI)

Gerard C. Bodeker Researches and advises on international (Adjunct) (Oxford [email protected] Epidemiology public policy on traditional, University) complementary and alternative medicine Race/Ethnicity; Social determinants of health; Life Luisa N. Borrell [email protected] Epidemiology course events and health; (Adjunct) Lehman College Periodontal diseases epidemiology Schizophrenia & psychiatric Michaeline A. Breshnahan [email protected] Epidemiology epidemiology

Name Email Dept. Research Interest

Thomas Briese [email protected] Epidemiology Virology

Relationship between early Alan S. Brown [email protected] Epidemiology developmental factors and risk of major psychiatric disorders

Health services delivery & rural Linnea Capps (Harlem [email protected] Medicine & Epidemiology community health in Latin Hospital) America Chronic Diseases; population L. David Carmichael [email protected] Medicine & Epidemiology based medicine

Pediatric HIV, measuring efficacy of prevention of mother to child transmission Rosalind J. Carter [email protected] Epidemiology (PMTCT) programs, HIV and pregnancy, HIV testing technologies, foodborne disease outbreaks

Neighborhood effects on health, Magdalena Cerda [email protected] Epidemiology social determinants of psychiatric (C.U.E.S.) disorders, violence, and drug use Mary Ann Chiasson (Health [email protected] Epidemiology HIV infection in women Solutions)

Patricia R. Cohen [email protected] NYSPI & Epidemiology Childhood psychiatric disorders

HIV prevention, sexuality, & Psychiatry & Pamela Y. Collins (NIH) [email protected] stigma among women w/ severe Epidemiology mental illness

Breast cancer chemoprevention, Medicine- Oncology & Katherine Crew [email protected] CAM intervention studies in Epidemiology breast cancer patients

Child health, maternal and perinatal health, disability, injury, Leslie L. Davidson [email protected] Epidemiology family violence and violence against women

Human plasma lipoproteins and Richard J. Deckelbaum [email protected] Epidemiology the cellular effects of dietary and free fatty acids

Tuberculosis; HIV; infectious Moise Desvarieux [email protected] Epidemiology diseases

Disaster and Public Health Charles J. DiMaggio [email protected] Epidemiology Preparedness, Injury Control

Bruce P. Dohrenwend [email protected] Psychiatry & Epidemiology Stress & major mental disorders

Health Policy & John J. Doyle Cancer Epidemiology, outcomes [email protected] Management & research, cost benefit analysis, and (Adjunct) (Quintiles) Epidemiology health informatics

Cynthia R. Driver Surveillance and epidemiology of [email protected] Epidemiology including determinants of diabetes (Adjunct) (D.O.H.) incidence and prevalence.

Name Email Dept. Research Interest

Ernest Drucker Epidemiology of mass incarceration - [email protected] Epidemiology effects on families and communities; (Adjunct) substance abuse

HIV treatment trials, Wafaa El Sadr [email protected] Epidemiology microbicides, prevention

Mitch Elkind [email protected] Neurology & Epidemiology Neuro Epidemiology

HIV care and treatment, reproductive health, Batya O. Elul [email protected] Epidemiology epidemiological research in resource-poor settings Global and domestic HIV-prevention John A. Encandela and AIDS-related evaluation and [email protected] Epidemiology research, multiple-method research, (Adjunct) mental health, community-based interventions

Environmental epidemiology; Pam Factor-Litvak [email protected] Epidemiology research methodology Relationship between clinical & Robin Flam [email protected] Medicine & Epidemiology classical epidemiology; HIV in resourse limited settings

Cardiovascular diseases; William T. Friedewald [email protected] Medicine & Epidemiology disease prevention; clinical trials

HIV treatment; risk reduction in HIV infected persons; provision Gerald H. Friedland (Yale) [email protected] Epidemiology of HIV treatment in resource limited settings; HIV and injection drug use Blood borne pathogens among Crystal M. Fuller (C.U.E.S.) [email protected] Epidemiology adolescents & young adult drug users

Social Epidemiology, Urban Sandro Galea [email protected] Epidemiology Health, Epi of Mental Health and (University of Michigan) Substance Abuse

Environmental epidemiology; Inge F. Goldstein [email protected] Epidemiology respiratory disease epidemiology

Epidemiology and Comorbidity Renee D. Goodwin [email protected] Epidemiology of Anxiety Disorders Staphylococcal molecular epidemiology Rachel J. Gordon [email protected] Epidemiology and pathogenesis as well as venticular assist device infections Adolescent suicide; psychiatric Madelyn S. Gould [email protected] Psychiatry & Epidemiology pharmacoepidemiology

Disparities in Care; Prevention of Epidemiology, Medicine, Cancer; Breast Cancer; Screening Victor R. Grann [email protected] Health Policy & for Genetic Mutations of Cancer; Management Quality of Life and Cost Effectiveness

Name Email Dept. Research Interest Ronald H. Gray Reproductive and perinatal (Johns Hopkins) [email protected] Epidemiology epidemiology, HIV, STDs (Adjunct) Complementary/alternative medicine, integrative medicine, Heather A. Greenlee [email protected] Epidemiology cancer prevention, cancer survivorship Intersection between psychiatry and medicine; Prenatal and Raz Gross (Israel) [email protected] Epidemiology childhood exposures and risk of mental illness; 9/11 studies

Clinical & laboratory studies of Scott M. Hammer [email protected] Epidemiology antiretroviral therapy & drug resistance

NYSPI, Psychiatry & Alcohol; drugs; psychiatric Deborah S. Hasin [email protected] Epidemiology problems; measurement issues Epidemiology of neurological W. Allen Hauser [email protected] Neurology & Epidemiology disorders Gary A. Heiman Epidemiology of (Adjunct) (Rutgers [email protected] Epidemiology Neuropsychiatric genetic University) disorders; Genetics of longevity

Psychiatric epidemiology, mental Daniel B. Herman [email protected] Psychiatry & Epidemiology health services research

Cancer survivorship, breast Dawn Hershman [email protected] Epidemiology & Medicine cancer, racial disparities

Epidemiology of convulsive Dale C. Hesdorffer [email protected] Epidemiology (Sergievsky) disorders & head trauma

Hans W. Hoek (Holland) Eating disorders, Psychosis, [email protected] Epidemiology (Adjunct) Autism spectrum disorders

HIV/AIDS and other STDs among women and men in the Susie Hoffman [email protected] Epidemiology, Psychiatry US, South Africa and the Caribbean; gender and other social determinates of risk

HIV/AIDS treatment access; Procurement of antiretroviral David Hoos [email protected] Epidemiology medications; HIV and mental health Neuroepidemiology; Epi of autism; Microbial and immune Mady Hornig [email protected] Epidemiology factors in neuropsychiatric disorder pathogenesis Epidemiology; childhood Christina W. Hoven [email protected] Psychiatry & Epidemiology psychopathology; services research Metabolic complications of HIV infection, HCV/HIV co-infection, Andrea A. Howard [email protected] Epidemiology TB/HIV co-infection, antiretroviral adherence

Name Email Dept. Research Interest Cancer, Judith S. Jacobson [email protected] Epidemiology complementary/alternative medicine and asthma

Rui Jiang [email protected] Medicine & Epidemiology Nutritional Epidemiology

HIV Prevention and Jessica E. Justman [email protected] Epidemiology Microbicides. Side-effects of Antiretroviral Therapy Biomedical Informatics & Andrew S. Kanter [email protected] TBD Epidemiology Eileen Kennedy (Washington DC) [email protected] Epidemiology Nutrition (Adjunct)

Health disparities, child welfare Bonnie Kerker (Adjunct) at policy, translation of data into [email protected] Epidemiology Department of Health practice and policy development, social epidemiology

Reproductive epidemiology; Jennie K. Kline (Adjunct) [email protected] Epidemiology (Sergievsky) menopause; chromosomal defects

Infectious diseases, clinical Beryl Koblin (Adjunct) [email protected] Epidemiology trials, HIV, vaccines, prevention (New York Blood Center) interventions

HIV infection in women & Louise Kuhn [email protected] Epidemiology (Sergievsky) children; perinatal epidemiology Nosocomial infections, skin Elaine L. Larson [email protected] Nursing & Epidemiology antisepsis, antibiotic resistance, & hygiene Current work involves cross-sectional Mary Latka (South and, longitudinal studies to describe the [email protected] Epidemiology Africa) epidemiology of HIV in community settings in South Africa. Genetic epidemiology of Joseph H. Lee [email protected] Epidemiology (Sergievsky) Alzheimer’s disease & aging

Stephen R. Leeder and [email protected] Epidemiology (Adjunct) (Australia) cardiovascular disease

Innovative methodology, injury Anesthesiological Science & epidemiology and control, alcohol and Guohua Li [email protected] trauma, and clinical research in Epidemiology emergency, perioperative, and critical care settings

Epidemiology, Psychiatry, Social epidemiology; psychiatric Bruce G. Link [email protected] SMS, Sociology epidemiology

Microbial pathogenesis, emerging infections, host- W. Ian Lipkin [email protected] Epidemiology environment interactions in neurologic and neuropsychiatric diseases

Epidemiology of neurological Elan D. Louis [email protected] Neurology & Epidemiology diseases

Name Email Dept. Research Interest

Health effects of the local built environment; physical activity promotion; Gina Lovasi [email protected] Epidemiology cardiovascular, metabolic and respiratory conditions

Relation between diet and vascular risk General Medicine & factors and cognitive disorders (e.g. Jose A. Luchsinger [email protected] Epidemiology Alzheimers' disease), with a particular interest on diabetes and insulin resistance

Long-term effects of the Dutch L. H. Lumey [email protected] Epidemiology famine on adult health Epidemiology, Neurology, Richard P. Mayeux [email protected] Neurological disorders Psychiatry

Implementing systematic mental health Larkin S. McReynolds [email protected] Epidemiology screening and assessment protocols in juvenile justice settings

Alfredo Morabia (Queens Methods; breast cancer; [email protected] Epidemiology College) surveillance of risk factors Virology; emerging infectious Stephen S. Morse [email protected] Epidemiology disease Epi & treatment of drug-resistant Sonal S. Munsiff [email protected] Epidemiology TB; clinical aspects of TB in HIV- (Adjunct) (D.O.H.) infected persons

B. Landon Myer (South Infectious diseases (HIV prevention [email protected] Epidemiology & treatment, , STIs), Africa) (Adjunct) social epidemiology, Southern Africa

Infectious disease epidemiology, Denis Nash [email protected] Epidemiology HIV/AIDS, health disparities, and disease surveillance.

Infectious Disease Risk Among Alan Neaigus [email protected] Epidemiology Youth Drug Users. Drug-Sex (Adjunct) (N.D.R.I.) Risk Networks Stress and coping; Epi of Yuval Y. Neria [email protected] Epidemiology, Psychiatry posttraumatic stress disorder and Traumatic Grief Medicine, Epidemiology, Alfred I. Neugut [email protected] Cancer epidemiology Cancer Center Jeri W. Nieves (Helen [email protected] Epidemiology Nutrition & Osteoporosis Hayes Hospital)

Urban health, social determinants of Danielle Ompad (Adjunct) health, health disparities, substance use [email protected] Epidemiology and infectious diseases (HIV, HBV & (C.U.E.S.) HCV) heroin cessation, access to vaccines. Genetic epidemiology of Ruth Ottman [email protected] Epidemiology (Sergievsky) neurologic disease Ariel Pablos-Mendez Tuberculosis; cardiovascular [email protected] Medicine & Epidemiology (Rockefeller Foundation) epidemiology

Name Email Dept. Research Interest

Molecular epidemiology of viruses, virus interactions with their hosts and Gustavo F. Palacios [email protected] Epidemiology innovative pathogen detection methods

Maternal mortality, trachoma Epidemiology & Population Anne Paxton [email protected] prevention, and monitoring and and Family Health evaluation

Ethnicity, genetics, and health; Victor B. Penchaszadeh Epi of genetic disorders and birth [email protected] Epidemiology (Buenos Aires, Argentina) defects; Ethical and social issues of human genetics

Michael Phillips [email protected] Psychiatry & Epidemiology Psychiatric Epidemiology

Impact of HIV/AIDS on children Daniel J. Pilowsky [email protected] Epidemiology & Psychiatry & adolescents Injury across the age span, Epidemiology & Health Joyce C. Pressley [email protected] health disparities, active life Policy and Management expectancy

Care & Treatment of HIV/AIDS Miriam Rabkin [email protected] Epidemiology in Resource- Poor Settings

Personality disorders, eating disorders and pregnancy outcome, Ted Reichborn-Kjennerud neurodevelopmental disorders, and [email protected] Epidemiology (Adjunct) (Norway) schizophrenia and other psychoses and obstetric complications

Cardiovascular epidemiology, Medicine - Cardiology & minority cardiovascular health, Carlos J. Rodriguez [email protected] Epidemiology hypertensive heart disease, and stroke

Physical activity & cancer; Andrew G. Rundle [email protected] Epidemiology & EHS Environmental

Perinatal epidemiology, particularly David A. Savitz (Mt. pregnancy complications, preterm birth, [email protected] Epidemiology Sinai) pregnancy loss, and associated research methods

Epidemiology and clinical trials Neil W. Schluger [email protected] Epidemiology of tuberculosis

Down syndrome and Alzheimer's disease, hormonal Nicole Schupf [email protected] Epidemiology risk factors for Alzheimer's disease, aging

Social factors in psychiatric Sharon B. Schwartz [email protected] Epidemiology disorders

Lloyd Sederer [email protected] Epidemiology Psychiatric Epidemiology

Breast cancer epidemiology & Ruby T. Senie [email protected] Epidemiology & SMS prognosis; cancer awareness, education, & training

Name Email Dept. Research Interest

Epidemiology & prevention of Steven Shea [email protected] Medicine & Epidemiology cardiovascular disease

Nancy L. Sohler Access to health care for (Montefiore Med. Center) [email protected] Epidemiology disadvantaged populations (Adjunt)

David M. St. Clair Psychiatric genetics, dementias and [email protected] Epidemiology schizophrenia; clinical and molecular (Adjunct) (Scotland) genetics. Catherine D. Stayton Unintentional and intentional injury [email protected] Epidemiology surveillance. Intimate partner violence. (Adjunct) Correctional health. HIV/AIDS, Low Birth weight Zena A. Stein (Emeritus) [email protected] Epidemiology Infants

Cancer Cause & Prevention: Steven D. Stellman [email protected] Epidemiology ongoing studies in lung & breast cancer

Epidemiology of mental illness C. Ann Stueve [email protected] Epidemiology substance abuse & violence; evaluation research

Neurodevelopment; the epidemiology of schizophrenia ; Ezra S. Susser [email protected] Epidemiology HIV/AIDS; research often focused on disenfranchised, hard-to-reach populations

Mervyn W. Susser Neonatal development; HIV [email protected] Epidemiology (Emeritus) prevention Social disparities in cancer, Parisa Tehranifar [email protected] Epidemiology cancer epidemiology and prevention

The epidemiology of malaria and its Earth Institute & impact. Analysis of the economic Awash Teklehaimanot [email protected] Epidemiology cost of malaria in Africa and other endemic areas of the world.

Cancer Epi, molecular Epi of Mary Beth Terry [email protected] Epidemiology breast cancer

Chronic disease epidemiology, Lorna E. Thorpe (D.O.H.) [email protected] Epidemiology and epidemiology for health practice

HIV- related TB, HIV Care and Patricia L. Toro [email protected] Epidemiology Treatment in Developing (Adjunct) Countries

TB Epidemiology; Treatment of Simon J. Tsiouris [email protected] Epidemiology & Medicine TB-HIV Co-infections in Resource-Poor Settings

Molecular epidemiology, DNA repair, Paolo L. Vineis Metabolic polymorphisms, Diet and [email protected] Epidemiology & Medicine cancer, Environmental carcinogenesis, (Italy) (Adjunct) Dose-response relationships, Theories of carcinogenesis and causality, Ethics

Name Email Dept. Research Interest

Transmission & natural history of David Vlahov (C.U.E.S.) [email protected] Epidemiology infectious diseases, prevention intervention research

Communicable diseases in Ronald J. Waldman [email protected] Population & Family Health complex humanitarian

emergencies

Epidemiology of communicable Isaac B. Weisfuse (D.O.H.) [email protected] Epidemiology diseases

Genetic studies of affective and Myrna M. Weissman [email protected] Psychiatry & Epidemiology anxiety disorders; depression & other psychiatric disorders

Carolyn L. Westhoff [email protected] Gynecology & Epidemiology Ovarian tumors; contraception

Adolescent psychiatric epidemiology; Adolescent substance use, abuse, and Ping Wu [email protected] Epidemiology dependence; Co-occurrence of substance abuse and psychiatric disorders

Sociocultural factors and how they relate Lawrence H. Yang [email protected] Epidemiology to the course of illness of schizophrenia in Chinese-American populations

Lydia B. Zablotska Radiation Cancer Epidemiology, (Adjunct) University of [email protected] Epidemiology Nutritional Epidemiology California San Francisco