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   Huguette Albrecht
   Rina Alcalay
   Laurel Beckett
   Robert Bell
   Deborah Bennett
   Alan R. Buckpitt
   Lesley Butler
   Diana Cassady
   Rosemary Cress
   Colleen Denny-Garamendi
   Kathryn DeRiemer
   David Ross Gibson
   Ellen B. Gold
   Danielle Harvey
   Irva Hertz-Picciotto
   Calvin H. Hirsch
   Ana-Maria Iosif
   Philip H. Kass
   Kyoungmi Kim
   J. Paul Leigh
   Bruce N. Leistikow
   Chin-Shang Li
   Stephen A. McCurdy
   Danh Nguyen
   LiHong Qi
   David Rocke
   Marc B. Schenker
   John Troidl
   Xiaowei Yang
   Reem Yunis
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Faculty

  Huguette Albrecht
Assistant Professional Researcher, PhD

916-734-7421

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

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

  Robert Bell



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.
Assistant Professor, PhD

Exposure Science Web Page
530-754-8282

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

Lesley Butler Cancer epidemiology, diet and lifestyle factors, use of molecular markers to assess gene-environment joint effects, esp. investigations of genetic susceptibility to compounds in the diet.
Assistant Professor, PhD

530-752-3898

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.
Assistant Professor, DrPH

530-754-5550 DaVinci
530-757-3263 TCEC

Rosemary Cress Cancer epidemiology, ovarian and colorectal cancer, quality of cancer care, and health disparities.
Assistant Professor, DrPH

916-779-2610

  Colleen Denny-Garamendi Public Health, Family Planning and Reproductive Health, International Health, Social and Cultural Determinants of Health, Needs Assessment and Program Planning.
Assistant Professor


  Kathryn DeRiemer Infectious disease epidemiology, including outbreaks; global health; transmission of airborne pathogens; Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Assistant Professor, PhD, MPH

530-754-5989

  David Ross Gibson Epidemiology and prevention of HIV/AIDS, substance abuse and HIV, community interventions.
Emeritus Professor, Ph.D.

916-444-7082

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

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

Irva Hertz-Picciotto Autism, as well as pregnancy outcomes such as spontaneous abortion, fetal growth, and early childhood morbidity. Effects of environmental exposures, including metals, pesticides, persistent organics and air pollution, as well as interactions with nutrition, medical interventions and genetics. Epidemiologic methods, control groups, causal inference, Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs).
Environmental and Occupational Health Division Chief, Professor, PhD

530-752-3025

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

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

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

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

J. Paul Leigh Econometrics, Health and Labor Economics.
Professor, PhD

530-754-8605
916-734-8542 CHSR/PC

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

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

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

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

LiHong Qi Design and analysis of genetic association studies, survival analysis, modeling missing data and measurement error problems.
Assistant Professor, PhD

530-754-9234

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

Marc B. Schenker Environmental and occupational risk factors for respiratory disease and lung cancer, biological monitoring of occupational exposures, 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

John Troidl Areas of focus include health policy and management, especially regarding community based organizations such as Community and Migrant Health Centers. Public health and clinical workforce diversity and distribution. Governance, management, and financial solvency of primary care organizations. Application of economic and organizational theory to the management of health care organizations. Public and private entity payment systems and incentive plans for health services providers. Online education for public health and other professionals.
Academic Administrator, Ph.D., MBA

530-754-9036

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

  Reem Yunis
Assistant Project Scientist, PhD

916-734-8986

Volunteer Faculty

  • Kathleen H. Acree, Chief, Chronic Disease Control Branch, CDPH
  • Robert O. Bates, Medical Consultant
  • Michael M. Bronshvag, Physician
  • Gilberto F. Chavez, Associate Director for Public Health and State Epidemiologist, CDPH
  • Lynne U. Chronister, Associate Vice Chancellor of Research, UC Davis
  • Gwendolyn Doebbert, Assistant Chief, Health Information Policy & Projects, CDPH
  • Thomas J. Ferguson, Medical Director, Cowell Student Health Center, UC Davis
  • Susan Foerster, Chief, Cancer Prevention and Nutrition Section, CDPH
  • 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
  • Alexander Kelter
  • 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
  • Kathryn Shack, Health Educator, Nutritionist
  • Kurt P. Snipes, Chief, Cancer Surveillance and Research Branch, CDPH
  • Richard Sun, Medical Consultant, California Department of Health Care Services
  • Roger B. Trent, Chief, Injury Surveillance & Epidemiology Section, EPIC Branch, CDPH
  • Glennah Trochet, Sacramento County Public Health Officer
  • Patricia Wiggins

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