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Affiliate Faculty

Affiliate titles are extended to someone whose primary employment is with an agency outside of the University of Washington, to recognize his or her professional contributions to the Department of Epidemiology in working with faculty and assisting students in practicum settings.

Affiliate Faculty Contact Information List (pdf format)

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Laurie M. Anderson PhD, MPH
Affiliate Assistant Professor
Nutrition, social determinants of health

Jane E. Ballard PhD
Affiliate Assistant Professor
Epidemiology, project evaluation, assessment, asthma

Nitsa Barash PhD
Affiliate Assistant Professor
Disease prevention and control; design and evaluation of public health interventions.

Thomas M. Becker MD, PhD
Affiliate Professor
Infectious and chronic disease epidemiology; interests in viral carcinogenesis as related to cancers in special populations

Lillian S. Bensley PhD
Affiliate Associate Professor
Psychosocial epidemiology; family violence

Janet K. Bobo PhD, MSW
Affiliate Associate Professor
Cancer prevention and control.

Diana Buist PhD, MPH
Affiliate Associate Professor
Primary and secondary prevention and control of breast cancer.

Susan E. Buskin PhD, MPH
Affiliate Assistant Professor
Infectious diseases, including hepatitis, tuberculosis and HIV

Chris Carlson PhD
Affiliate Assistant Professor
Genetic epidemiology of common disease and molecular evolution of functional variation

Chu Chen PhD
Affiliate Professor
Molecular epidemiology; biomarkers for cancer diagnosis and prognosis

Jessica Chubak PhD, MBHL
Affiliate Assistant Professor
Her primary areas of research interest are in epidemiologic methods, translational research (dissemination and diffusion), cancer prevention and control, and pharmacoepidemiology.

Cathy W. Critchlow PhD
Affiliate Professor
Sexually transmitted diseases, virus-associated cancers, epidemiologic methods

Robert L. Davis MD, MPH
Affiliate Professor
Pediatric vaccine safety, vaccine trials; pediatric infectious disease epidemiology; clinical epidemiology/evidenced based medicine

Debra L. Doyle
Affiliate Instructor
Genetics, public policy, economics of healthcare

Sascha Dublin PhD, MD
Affiliate Assistant Professor

Research Interest include pharmacoepidemiology, aging, cardiovascular epidemiology, and epidemiologic methods.

Ann Duerr MD, PhD, MPH
Affiliate Associate Professor
HIV, vaccines, women's health, HPV, STDs

Amira El-Bastawissi MBChB, PhD
Affiliate Assistant Professor
Determining epidemiologic and biologic risk factors for adverse pregnancy outcomes

Assiamira Ferrara MD, PhD
Affiliate Assistant Professor
Diabetes mellitus among children and adolescents

William Foege MD, MPH
Affiliate Professor
Smallpox, injury prevention, preventive medicine, and public health

Andrew J. Karter PhD
Affiliate Professor
Diabetes epidemiology; social determinants of health; pharmacoepidemiology

Roxanne P. Kerani PhD, MPH
Affiliate Assistant Professor
Geographic Information System & Infectious Disease Epidemiology

Mark Kestin PhD, MPH
Affiliate Associate Professor
Lipoprotein metabolism, essential fatty acids, dietary fiber, dietary assessment, analysis of nutrients in foods, free radicals/antioxidants, diet and the prevention of cancer

Barbara C. Leigh PhD, MPH
Affiliate Assistant Professor
Alcohol and drug use; sexual behavior

Jennifer C. Lovejoy PhD, MA
Affiliate Professor
Effects of reproductive hormones on obesity and the role of diet in the prevention of obesity and Type 2 diabetes.

Margaret M. Madeleine PhD, MPH
Affiliate Instructor
Human papillomavirus-related cancers, cancer immunogenetics, pathogens in cancer etiology

Judith Malmgren PhD, MS
Affiliate Assistant Professor
Application of epidemiologic methods in studying health services problems

Margaret T. Mandelson PhD, MPH
Affiliate Associate Professor
Cancer Surveillance, breast cancer, and health care management systems

Dorothy Mbori-Ngacha Mmed, MPH
Affiliate Associate Professor
Expertise in mother-to-child HIV-1 transmission and pediatrics

Polly A. Newcomb PhD, MPH
Affiliate Professor
Identification of modifiable risk factors for common cancers--colorectal, breast and endometrium

Katherine Newton PhD, MA
Affiliate Associate Professor
Women's health issues, including menopause, hormone replacement therapy, cardiovascular disease in women, and diabetes

Patrick W. O'Carroll MD, MPH
Affiliate Professor
Informatics, epidemiology, suicide prevention, public health systems, and preparedness

Renee Ridzon MD
Affiliate Assistant Professor
HIV prevention and epidemiology; tuberculosis epidemiology

Frits R. Rosendaal MD
Affiliate Professor
Hemostasis and thrombosis

Delia Scholes PhD, MS
Affiliate Professor
Health issues of young women, including STD/HIV prevention and contraceptive options

Karen J. Sherman PhD, MPH
Affiliate Associate Professor
Complementary and alternative medicine; musculoskeletal pain; context effects of medical care.

David A. Shoultz PhD, MS
Affiliate Assistant Professor
Drug development, business and finance of drug development, sustainable models of new medicines development for the developing world, local life sciences development

Catherine Stehman-Breen MD
Affiliate Associate Professor
Renal disease and cardiovascular disease in ESRD, sex hormone abnormalities in ESRD, dialysis vascular access and bone disease.

Paul A. Stehr-Green DPH, MPH
Affiliate Associate Professor
Chronic, infectious, vaccine-preventable diseases, environmental health, health-care delivery.

Vivien D. Tsu PhD, MPH
Affiliate Associate Professor
Obstetric complications, newborn health, immunization, cervical and breast cancer

Lynda F. Voigt PhD, MN
Affiliate Instructor
Random digit dialing, hormone replacement therapy, breast cancer and endometrial cancer

Cathy R. Wasserman PhD, MPH
Affiliate Assistant Professor
Morbidity and mortality among the maternal child health population in Washington; analyze and interpret health status and health service information.

Lue-ping Zhao PhD
Affiliate Professor
Estimating equations, correlated data analysis, missing data and sampling