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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.

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

Atar Baer PhD, MPH
Affiliate Assistant Professor
Communicable disease prevention and control; design and evaluation of public health surveillance systems.

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

Gerard A. Cangelosi PhD
Affiliate Associate Professor
Infectious disease exposure and diagnosis, focusing on mycobaterial diseases.

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.

Jennifer H. Cohen PhD, MPH
Maternal and child nutrition, food quality and safety, and developing metrics to measure scientific, health, and clinical impacts of research and programs.

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

Robert L. Davis MD, MPH
Affiliate Professor
Pharmacogenomics; drug safety; medication safety during pregnancy

Julia Dilley PhD, MES
Affiliate Instructor
Current work focuses on supporting chronic disease prevention programs and health disparities research for state health programs in Washington and Alaska.

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

James N. Kiarie MBBCh, Mmed
Affiliate Associate Professor

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.

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

Marian L. Neuhouser PhD
Affiliate Associate Professor
Nutrition and physical activity

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
TB, HIV prevention and infection control

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
New medicines & vaccine development for infectious diseases, HIV and other sexually transmitted infections, business and finance of new medicines & vaccine development, sustainable models of new medicines & vaccine development for the developing world, and local life sciences development. Always interested in talking and working with students sharing these research interests or considering a similar career area.

Other Areas of Involvement

Advisory Board for the Biotechnology Laboratory Training program at Bates Technical College, the Board of Directors for Tacoma Goodwill, the Board of the Tacoma Goodwill Heritage Foundation, as an Advisory Board Member for the UW Extension Certificate Program in Basic Bioscience, and Member of the Scientific Advisory Board at IntegraVentures, a Seattle-based lifesciences investment firm

Kanwarjit Singh MD, MBA
Affiliate Assistant Professor
Epidemiology of neglected tropical diseases; clinical trial methodologies for vaccine and drug development and licensure; evidence- based policy making for public health interventions.

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 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