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Faculty
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Huguette Albrecht |
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Assistant Professional Researcher, PhD
916-734-7421 |
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Rina Alcalay |
Design of effective communication strategies to prevent depression among populations in transition, such as people who have changed cultures, who have been diagnosed with a chronic disease, or who are aging. |
Emeritus Professor, PhD
510-527-0551 |
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Laurel Beckett |
Statistical methods for longitudinal data, population-based studies, and translational research between basic science and clinical medicine. Collaborative research using these methods for studies of chronic diseases, especially the relationship between biology, etiology, and treatment. Current and recent research includes work on Alzheimer's, AIDS, cancer, hypertension, and pulmonary disease. |
Professor, PhD, Biostat Division Chief, Vice Chair - Public Health Sciences
http://biostats.ucdavis.edu/homepage/Beckett.php 530-754-7161 |
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Robert Bell |
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Professor, PhD
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Deborah Bennett |
Fate, transport, and exposure to chemicals in a multimedia environment within the context of environmental exposure and risk assessment. My work currently focuses on organic compounds in the indoor environment, including partitioning to the various surfaces in the home. Research techniques include both modeling approaches and measurement studies. Volatile organic compounds and pesticides are emphasized. |
Associate Professor, PhD
Exposure Science Web Page 530-754-8282 |
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Alan R. Buckpitt |
Reactive metabolic formation, detoxication of reactive metabolites, glutathione as a protective nucleophile, interaction of reactive metabolites with proteins. |
Professor, PhD
530-752-7674 |
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Diana Cassady |
Primary prevention of chronic disease, diet and physical activity, social marketing, reducing disparities in health status, and environmental and policy strategies to promote health. |
Associate Professor, DrPH
530-754-5550 DaVinci 530-757-3263 TCEC |
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Rosemary Cress |
Cancer epidemiology, ovarian and colorectal cancer, quality of cancer care, and health disparities. |
Assistant Professor, DrPH
916-779-2610 |
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Kathryn DeRiemer |
Infectious disease epidemiology, including outbreaks; global health; transmission of airborne pathogens; Mycobacterium tuberculosis |
Assistant Professor, PhD, MPH
530-754-5989 |
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Lorena Garcia |
Health disparities, in particular obesity and diabetes (metabolic and nutritional disorders), intimate partner violence (injuries), immigrant health and acculturation in the Latino community. |
Assistant Professor, DrPH, MPH
530-752-2875 |
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David Ross Gibson |
Epidemiology and prevention of HIV/AIDS, community interventions, social epidemiology. |
Emeritus Professor, PhD
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Ellen B. Gold |
Reproductive and cancer epidemiology, epidemiology of reproductive function and disorders — especially menopause, secondary amenorrhea, anovulation, abnormalities of ovarian function, and spontaneous abortion. |
Department Chair, Epidemiology Division Chief, Professor, PhD
530-752-2446 |
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Danielle Harvey |
Survival analysis, correlated event times, informative censoring, repeated measures, computational methods, and high-dimensional data as in MRI or PET scans. Collaborative research includes work on Alzheimer's, cancer, end-of-life care, dosing errors, and health services and public health issues. |
Assistant Professor, PhD
530-752-8036 |
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Irva Hertz-Picciotto |
Dr. Hertz-Picciotto is an environmental epidemiologist with over 150 scientific publications addressing effects of environmental exposures on pregnancy and child development. She conceived and directs the CHARGE Study, the first large, comprehensive population-based study of environmental factors in autism, and MARBLES (Markers of Autism Risk in Babies – Learning Early Signs), to search for early biologic markers that will predict autism. She is Director of the Northern California Collaborative Center for the National Children’s Study. Dr. Hertz-Picciotto has served as an Advisor to numerous federal and state agencies, including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Toxicology Program, and NIH Interagency Coordinating Committee on Autism Research. She chaired the Expert Panel on CDC’s Vaccine Safety Database for Studies of Autism and Thimerosal. |
Environmental and Occupational Health Division Chief, Professor, PhD
530-752-3025 |
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Calvin H. Hirsch |
Geriatric health-care policy and the organization and delivery of health care to the frail elderly; clinical epidemiology; the use and role of functional assessment in clinical practice; Alzheimer's disease; how to teach geriatric medicine to medical students and residents. |
Professor of Clinical Medicine, MD
916-734-7004 |
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Ana-Maria Iosif |
Methods for longitudinal and clustered data, including longitudinal random
length data. Applications of statistics to psychiatry and biomedical sciences. |
Assistant Professor, PhD
530-754-8303 |
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Philip H. Kass |
Non-experimental inference, epidemiologic methodology and analysis epidemiology of environmental hazards of animals and humans, companion animal epidemiology. |
Professor, DVM, MPVM, PhD
530-752-8631 |
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Kyoungmi Kim |
Statistical methodologies for gene mapping for complex traits and diseases and for analyzing gene expression microarray data. |
Assistant Professor, PhD
530-752-3422 |
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Robin Kipke |
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Sr. Community Health Program Rep.
530-752-9990 |
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J. Paul Leigh |
Econometrics, Health and Labor Economics. |
Professor, PhD
530-754-8605 916-734-8542 CHSR/PC |
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Bruce N. Leistikow |
Community health interventions, rural health, quantifying overlooked causes of injuries and other burdens; tobacco control/smoking prevention and cessation; healthcare worker diseases; and diseases of animal confinement workers. |
Associate Professor, MD
530-752-1409 |
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Chin-Shang Li |
Lack-of-fit tests, cure models (including survival analysis), semiparametric and nonparametric regression, generalized linear models, longitudinal data analysis, statistical methodology for genetic data, large sample theory. |
Associate Professor, PhD
http://phs.ucdavis.edu/Faculty/Cssli.php 916-703-9172 CRISP 530-754-9036 MS1c |
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Stephen A. McCurdy |
Epidemiology, occupational hazards for farm workers, occupational hazards for semiconductor workers, general occupational and environmental medicine, toxicology, pesticides, heavy metals. |
Professor, MD, MPH
530-752-8051 |
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Danh Nguyen |
Bioinformatics, molecular cancer classification, microarray gene expression data, partial least squares, dimension reduction, statistical applications in molecular biology. |
Associate Professor, PhD
http://dnguyen.ucdavis.edu/ 530-754-6510 |
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LiHong Qi |
Design and analysis of genetic association studies, survival analysis, modeling missing data and measurement error problems. |
Assistant Professor, PhD
530-754-9234 |
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David Rocke |
Bioinformatics, design and analysis of gene expression, proteomics, and metabolomics data, analysis of mass spectrometry and NMR spectroscopy data, robust statistical methods. |
Distinguished Professor, PhD
http://www.cipic.ucdavis.edu/~dmrocke 530-752-6999 |
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Marc B. Schenker |
Environmental and occupational risk factors for respiratory disease and lung cancer, occupational and other health issues of migrant populations, health hazards of agricultural exposures especially respiratory and pesticide risks, occupational reproductive hazards, health hazards in the semiconductor industry, international issues in occupational and environmental health. |
Professor, MD, MPH
530-752-5676 |
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Xiaowei Yang |
Bayesian model selection strategies for generalized linear models, especially those with missing covariates. Longitudinal data analysis using selection, pattern-mixture, and shared-parameter models for repeated measures with ignorable or nonignorable missing values. Functional regression modeling of data with large dimensionality (e.g., curves or images). Statistical computation and software development focusing on MCMC methods. Clinical trials and epidemiological studies on drug dependence, mental disorder, and general public health problems. PDF CV |
Assistant Professor, PhD
530-752-2143 |
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Reem Yunis |
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Assistant Project Scientist, PhD
916-734-8986 |
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Volunteer Faculty
- Michael M. Bronshvag, Physician
- Thomas J. Ferguson, Medical Director, Cowell Student Health Center, UC Davis
- Erin Griffin, Research Program Specialist, CA Dept of Motor Vehicles
- Bette G. Hinton, Health Officer/Director, Yolo County Health Department
- Frederick B. Hodges, Chief, Program Development Section, Chronic Disease Control Branch, CDPH
- Patrick Marius Koga, MD, MPH, Professor, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, Palo Alto, CA
- Stephanie Lake, ADAPT Coordinator/Health Education, Cowell Student Health Center, UC Davis
- Liana Lianov
- Donald O. Lyman, Chief, Chronic Diseases and Injury Control, CDPH
- Suzanne Nash, Physician, University of California, Davis Employee Health Services
- Jessica Núñez de Ybarra, Public Health Medical Officer, Division of Communicable Disease Control, CDPH
- Michael A. O'Malley, Director, UCD Employee Health Services
- Arti Parikh-Patel, Research Scientist, California Cancer Registry
- Polly Paulson, Health Educator, Cowell Student Health Center, UC Davis
- Maria Lucia de Campos Pecoraro, Associate Director/Director Clinical Development - Dynavax Technology
- Alonzo L Plough, III
- Kurt P. Snipes, Chief, Cancer Surveillance and Research Branch, CDPH
- Richard Sun, MD, MPH, FACPM, Medical Consultant, California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS)
- Glennah Trochet, Sacramento County Public Health Officer
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