Mentor Database

Behavioral and Community Health Sciences

Faculty by primary department	Secondary appointment	Primary mentoring area(s)	Research focus keywords
Steven M. Albert, PhD, MA, MS professor smalbert@pitt.edu	Clinical and Translational Science Institute	research	aging digital health chronic disease health behavior cognition behavioral interventions clinical trials

Biostatistics

Jeanine M. Buchanich, PhD, MPH, MEd vice dean jeanine@pitt.edu		research	epidemiology environmental health overdose cohort
Yan Ma, PhD, MA, MS professor and chair yanma@pitt.edu		research and education	biostat methods health disparities orthopedics anethesiology
Gong Tang, PhD professor got1@pitt.edu		research, education and practice	clinical trials epidemiology causal inference
George C. Tseng, ScD professor and vice chair for research ctseng@pitt.edu	human genetics, computational and systems biology	research	bioinformatics genomics statistical learning machine learning

Environmental and Occupational Health

Patricia L. Opresko, PhD
professor
plo4@pitt.edu

chemical biology, pharmacology (SOM)

research

genome instability
cancer
DNA damage
DNA repair
aging
telomere biology
genotoxic stress

Epidemiology

Lisa M. Bodnar, PhD, MPH, RD professor lbodnar@pitt.edu	obstetrics & gynecology	research	nutrition obesity pregnancy children postpartum
Samar R. El Khoudary, PhD, MPH, BPharm, FAHA professor and vice chair for education sae25@pitt.edu	Clinical and Translational Science Institute	research and education	women's health cardiovascular lipids fat depots menopause methods
Anthony Fabio, PhD, MPH associate professor afabio@pitt.edu	Clinical and Translational Science Institute	research and education	social epidemiology health equity violence firearms
Tiffany Gary-Webb, PhD, MHS professor tgary@pitt.edu		research and practice	epidemiology social determinants health equity health disparities chronic disease diabetes cardiometabolic
Nancy W. Glynn, PhD associate professor		research and education	aging physical activity fatigue physical function
Balasubramani K. Goundappa, PhD research associate professor balagk@edc.pitt.edu	Clinical and Translational Science Institute	research and education	clinical trials influenza vaccine effectiveness maternal influenza immunization and VE
Catherine L. Haggerty, PhD, MPH professor and vice chair for practice haggerty@pitt.edu		research and practice	epidemiology infectious disease sexually transmitted infection infertility pregnancy children's health global health
Caterina Rosano, MD, MPH professor and vice chair for research car2530@pitt.edu		research	population neuroscience gerontology mobility neurocognitive assessment
Sonja Swanson, PhD associate professor sas766@pitt.edu		research and education	causal inference epidemiologic methods suicide prevention mental health

Health Policy and Management

Kevin D. Broom, PhD, MBA associate professor, vice chair for education and MHA program director kevinbroom@pitt.edu		education	finance competency CBE
Julie M. Donohue, PhD professor and chair jdonohue@pitt.edu		research	substance use disorders mental health pharmaceutical policy Medicaid Medicare administrative data

Human Genetics

Lisa S. Parker, PhD professor, Dickie, McCamey & Chilcote Professor of Bioethics and director, Center for Bioethics and Health Law (philosopher-bioethicist) lisap@pitt.edu	Center for Bioethics and Health Law, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies	research and education	ethics policy gender/feminist theory genomic research return of research results informed consent
Beth L. Roman, PhD associate professor and vice chair for research romanb@pitt.edu		research and education	vascular biology BMP signaling genetic vascular disease arteriovenous malformations hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia zebrafish
Daniel E. Weeks, PhD professor weeks@pitt.edu	biostatistics	research and education	statistical genetics genetic epidemiology statistical methodology human genetics biostatistics epigenetics The R programming language statistics genetics of complex human disease

Infectious Diseases and Microbiology

Phalguni Gupta, PhD
professor emeritus
pgupta1@pitt.edu

no secondary appointment

research

virology
molecular biology
biochemistry
epidemiology of infectious diseases

School of Medicine

Mohamed H. Yassin, MD, PhD
associate professor
mhy8@pitt.edu
SOM profile

infectious diseases and microbiology

research

infection prevention
health care epi
device disinfection

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