Program Faculty
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, AMSenior 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
