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Affiliated Faculty

Robert Block, M.D., M.P.H.
Robert Block, M.D., M.P.H.
Public Health Sciences
Research Interest: Cardiovascular Epidemiology: Role of biomarkers, such as fatty acids, in the pathophysiology and prevention of heart disease. Determining effective ways to help patients with Familial Hypercholesterolemia avoid cardiovascular disease events and measure blood pressure in novel ways.

Mentor for Epidemiology Ph.D. Program
Diana Fernandez, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D.
Diana Fernandez, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D.
Public Health Sciences
Research Interest:

Nutritional Epidemiology: Development of interventions that will help individuals avoid excessive weight gain.


Mentor for Epidemiology Ph.D. Program
Courtney Jones, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Courtney Jones, Ph.D., M.P.H.

CMC Jones Lab

Emergency Medicine
Research Interest: Injury and Emergency Medicine Epidemiology: Risk stratification of injured patients to identify patients who would benefit from trauma center services.

Mentor for Epidemiology Ph.D. Program
Todd Jusko, Ph.D.
Todd Jusko, Ph.D.

Rochester Environment and Child Health (REACH) Laboratory

Public Health Sciences
Pediatrics
Environmental Medicine
Research Interest: Environmental and Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology: Defining the impact of environmental chemicals on immunity and immune-mediated diseases and as a mechanism for susceptibility to other disease outcomes, such as neurobehavioral disorders.

Mentor for Epidemiology Ph.D. Program
Yu Liu, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Yu Liu, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Public Health Sciences
Research Interest: HIV and Infectious Disease Epidemiology: Social behavioral science and epidemiological methods to understand and reduce HIV vulnerabilities among sexual and gender minority populations (e.g. men who have sex with men).

Mentor for Epidemiology Ph.D. Program
Mostafa Mohamed, PhD, MBBCh
Mostafa Mohamed, PhD, MBBCh
Medicine
Public Health Sciences
Research Interest:

Cancer and Aging: Improvement of health outcomes for older adults with cancer; Polypharmacy and use of high-risk medications in older adults with cancer; Treatment decision-making, including chemotherapy dosing decisions, treatment tolerability, and efficacy of cancer therapeutics.


Mentor for Epidemiology Ph.D. Program
David Rich, Sc.D., M.P.H.
David Rich, Sc.D., M.P.H.

Rich Lab

Environmental Medicine
Public Health Sciences
Research Interest:

Cardiovascular, respiratory, and perinatal/reproductive health effects of exposure to environmental agents, including ambient air pollution


Mentor for Epidemiology Ph.D. Program
Christopher Seplaki, Ph.D.
Christopher Seplaki, Ph.D.

Seplaki Lab

Public Health Sciences
Research Interest:

Epidemiology of Aging: Physical and mental health in later life, mechanisms of vulnerability and resilience, population health determinants, issues in measurement and estimation, complex systems analysis


Mentor for Epidemiology Ph.D. Program
Annalynn Williams, Ph.D.
Annalynn Williams, Ph.D.
Surgery
Research Interest:

Cancer-related neuropsychological and psychosocial sequelae, their underlying mechanisms, and effective interventions in adolescent and young adult cancer survivors; Accelerated physiologic and biologic aging as an underlying molecular mechanism by which cancer-related sequelae arise and exploiting those pathways to identify potential interventions among high-risk subgroups.


Mentor for Epidemiology Ph.D. Program
Edwin van Wijngaarden, Ph.D., M.Sc.
Edwin van Wijngaarden, Ph.D., M.Sc.

VanWijngaarden Lab

Epidemiology
Public Health Sciences
Environmental Medicine
Research Interest: Environmental and Neurologic Epidemiology: Defining influences of environmental exposures, in particular toxic metals, on cognitive outcomes in children and adults.

Mentor for Epidemiology Ph.D. Program