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The Executive MPH Program draws on faculty from the departments of the University of Washington School of Public Health. The faculty are involved locally, nationally, and internationally in public health research, policy and practice.

Stephen Bezruchka,  MD, MPH, AM
Senior Lecturer, Health Services and Global Health
Research Interests: Effective methods of disseminating determinants of population health to the general population so they work to change societal structures to improve America's health

Brian Bresnahan,  PhD
Adjunct Research Assistant Professor, Health Services, Research Assistant Professor, Radiology
Research Interests: radiology, health economics

Wendy Baesler,  MA   (profile)
Clinical Assistant Professor, Health Services
Research Interests: Financial Management, Not-For-Profit Accounting

Donna Denno,  MD, MPH   (profile)
Clinical Assistant Professor, Global Health
Research Interests: International Health

David Grembowski,  PhD, MA   (profile)
Professor, Dental Public Health Sciences; Professor, Health Services
Research Interests: Evaluation, prevention, design and performance of health delivery systems; technology diffusion; methodology interests are program evaluation and survey research

Karen Hartfield,  MPH   (profile)
Lecturer, Health Services; Planner, Public Health - Seattle & King County
Research Interests: Effectiveness of health behavior/health promotion interventions

Wendy Johnson,  MD, MPH   (profile)
Clinical Assistant Professor, Health Services
Research Interests: Global Health

David Kalman,  PhD
Professor and Chair, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
Research Interests: Environmental chemistry, detection and fate of chemical hazards in natural and man-made environments

Patricia Lichello,  MA
Affiliate Instructor, Health Services; Director, Health Policy Center Initiative
Research Interests: Health policy; policy research; health marketing and communication

Lloyd Mancl,  PhD, MS   (profile)
Research Associate Professor, Dental Public Health Sciences; Adjunct Research Associate Professor, Biostatistics
Research Interests: Statistical methods for correlated and longitudinal data; generalized estimating equasions and random effects modeling; peridontal disease and TMD

Margaret McKenna,  PhD, MPH, MA   (profile)
Clinical Associate Professor, Health Services
Research Interests: Health behavior, alternative systems of care, help-seeking behavior

Mark Oberle,  MD, MPH
Associate Dean, School of Public Health, Professor, Health Services, Professor, Epidemiology Professor, Global Health, Adjunct Professor, Medical Education & Biomedical Informatics,
Research Interests: Epidemiology, Informatics

Ian Painter,  PhD, MSc
Clinical Assistant Professor, Health Services
Research Interests: Disease surveillance, public health informatics, statistical graphics, statistical computing, Bayesian statistics, clinical trials, statistical genetics

Martha Pilcher,  PhD, MS
Senior Lecturer, Operations Management; Adjunct Lecturer, Health Sciences
Research Interests: Polyhedral theory and cutting planes, symmetric traveling salesman problem, statistics and methodology for comparing heuristics, test problem generation, vehicle routing, logistics, health-care applications of OM/QM tools and techniques

Diana Rakow,  MPH, MPA
Clincial Instructor, Health Services
Research Interests: Health care financing, delivery system redesign, politics

Jeremy Sappington,  MSPH   (profile)
Senior Lecturer, Health Services
Research Interests: Theories and models of management, application of management skills

Deborah Shattuck,  BA   (profile)
Clinical Instructor, Health Services
Research Interests: Health Communication

Sharyne Shiu-Thornton,  PhD, MA
Research Interests: Cultural compentency,community-based participatory research

Lisa Skow,  PhD, MA   (profile)
Clinical Assistant Professor, Health Services
Research Interests: Health promotion and health education

Clarence Spigner,  DrPh, MPH   (profile)
Professor, Health Services
Research Interests: Tobacco-related behavior; racism as a stressor; social construction of 'race' vis-a-vis biological reductionism in health research and behavior; knowledge and opinions about organ donation among ethnic groups; program evaluation; popular culture

Neal Sofian,  MSPH, BGS   (profile)
Clinical Assistant Professor, Health Services
Research Interests: Community networks

John R. (Jack) Thompson,  MSW   (profile)
Senior Lecturer, Health Services
Research Interests: Public health organization and financing, workforce development, integration of health and health care services

Charles Treser,  MPH, DAAS   (profile)
Senior Lecturer, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
Research Interests: Environmental health practice, law & regulation; policy analysis; decision making; program planning and evaluation; education of environmental health

Marcia Williams,  PhD, MPH   (profile)
Senior Lecturer, Epidemiology; Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Rehabilitation Medicine
Research Interests: Early identification of neuromotor abnormalities in pre term infants; developmental consequences of in utero cocaine exposure; etiology of cerebral palsy in low birth weight infants; effects of prenatal exposure to methamphetamine on the developmental outcome of children; risk factors for clubfoot deformity in infants

Noel Weiss,  MD, DrPH   (profile)
Professor, Epidemiology
Research Interests: Cancer epidemiology, epidemiologic methods, clinical epidemiology

William Welton,  DrPH, MA
Senior Lecturer, Health Services, Adjunct Lecturer, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
Research Interests: Organizational Studies, Organizational Behavior and Strategy, Health Management, Health Policy