Department of Epidemiology 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 asthma 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 Epidemic 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 diabetes [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]