Faculty

Name

Research Expertise

Alvaro Alonso, MD, MPH, PhD

Epidemiology of hypertension, nutritional epidemiology, neuroepidemiology (multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis)

Kristin Anderson, PhD, MPH

Cancer etiology; Laboratory-based cancer epidemiology; Pancreatic cancer; Adult solid tumors

Richard Crow, MD

Preventive cardiology programs, trials and methods; Cardiac rehabilitation and work psychology; Ambulatory ECG recording; Computer applications

Susan Duval, PhD

Cardiovascular and diabetes epidemiology; Biostatistical methods; Meta-analysis; Publication bias; Statistical consulting

Darin Erickson , PhD

Alcohol prevention and etiology; Latent variable analysis; Longitudinal and time series analysis

Ellen Demerath, PhD

The relationship between growth rate / developmental timing and chronic disease risk; patterns of change in childhood body composition as they relate to cardiovascular disease and diabetes in later life.

John Finnegan, Jr., PhD

Media communication and public health; Community campaigns; The "Knowledge Gap" and health outcomes; Digital information technology and its impact on public health

Andrew Flood, PhD

Nutritional epidemiology; Cancer epidemiology with emphasis on colorectal cancer; Insulin resistance; IGFs and their binding proteins

Aaron Folsom, MD, MPH

Cardiovascular disease epidemiology; Heart disease surveillance and risk factors

Lisa Harnack, DrPH, RD

Nutritional epidemiology; Nutritional assessment

Bernard Harlow, PhD, MPH

Clinical and population-based reproductive epidemiology; the epidemiology of reproductive cancers; data collection methods; and influence of psychiatric disorders on reproductive function

Eileen Harwood, PhD

Social epidemiology; Policy evaluation of alcohol, tobacco and illicit drugs

Wendy Hellerstedt, PhD

Birth outcomes for underserved women; adolescent reproductive health and pregnancy prevention; pregnancy intention; relationship of parity to chronic disease and birth outcomes, women's health, perinatal and reproductive health, socioeconomic status and health disparities

John Himes, PhD

Child growth and nutrition; Anthropometric assessment of nutritional status; Dietary assessment; Obesity and body composition

David Jacobs, Jr., PhD

Cardiovascular disease epidemiology; Nutritional epidemiology

Robert Jeffery, PhD

Health behavior change; Dietary intervention; Obesity epidemiology, treatment, and prevention

Rhonda Jones-Webb, DrPH

Alcohol studies; Alcohol policy as a prevention strategy; Minority health issues; Behavioral epidemiology

Harry Lando, PhD

Global issues in tobacco reduction; Smoking cessation; Treatment of medically compromised smokers

DeAnn Lazovich, PhD

Cancer prevention and control; Cancer epidemiology

Alan Lifson, MD, MPH

HIV/AIDS; International health; Infectious disease epidemiology

Russell Luepker, MD, MS

Cardiovascular disease epidemiology and prevention; Health behavior; Community trials; Clinical trials

Leslie Lytle, PhD

Planning and evaluating eating behavior change interventions in children;
Youth health promotion research; Theories of health behavior

Michael Miller, PhD, MS, MPE

Statistical analysis; Genetic and epidemiological processes

Claudia Munoz-Zanzi, MV, MPVM, PhD

Infectious disease

Heather H. Nelson, PhD, MPH

Cancer susceptibility and etiology using both laboratory and epidemiologic tools; gene-environment interactions; skin cancer, mesothelioma, and other exposure-related malignancies Member: University of Minnesota Cancer Center

Melissa C. Nelson, RD, PhD

Environmental and behavioral determinants of excess weight gain and obesity during childhood, adolescence and young adulthood. Member: University of Minnesota Cancer Center

J. Michael Oakes, PhD

Quantitative methods; Social epidemiology; Research ethics

Charles Oberg, MD, MPH

Health disparities; Childhood poverty; Health care access and finance

James Pankow, PhD, MPH

Cardiovascular disease epidemiology; Genetic epidemiology; Diabetes epidemiology

Mark Pereira, MPH, PhD

Nutrition and physical activity in the prevention of obesity; Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease

Kim Robien, PhD, RD

Nutrition, molecular epidemiology, cancer survivorship, pharmacogenetics, evidence-based nutrition practice, medical nutrition therapy, parenteral nutrition, hematopoietic cell transplantation

Simon Rosser, PhD, MPH

HIV/STI prevention; Sexual health; Prevention for HIV+ persons; Religious and sexual identity formation; Internet sex; Internet-based-Public Health surveys and interventions; Virtual community health

Pamela Schreiner, PhD

Etiology of cardiovascular disease particularly as it relates to lipids, obesity, visceral fat accumulation and the perimenopausal transition; Osteoporosis

Lyn Steffen, PhD, MPH, RD

CVD epidemiology and prevention; Nutritional epidemiology; Stroke surveillance; Diet relations with diabetes; Insulin resistance and obesity

Traci Toomey, PhD, MPH

Policy research; Community organizing; Prevention of alcohol and tobacco-related problems; Intentional and unintentional injury prevention

Jian-Min Yuan, PhD, MD

Environmental and genetic factors in the etiology of cancer

Name

Research Expertise

Bruce Alexander, PhD, MS

Occupational and environmental epidemiology; environmental determinants of injury, cancer, respiratory health, reproductive health; global health; application of biological markers in epidemiological research; exposure models for occupational and environmental epidemiology

Jeff Bender, DVM

Antimicrobial resistance; food safety; zoonoses and emerging diseases

Alan Berger, MD

Interventional cardiology; Thrombolytic therapy

Sally Bushhouse, DVM, MPH, PhD

Cancer epidemiology and surveillance

Timothy Church, MS, PhD

Cancer screening, prevention, and causes; Epidemiologic study design; Cardiac disease and medical devices

Kathleen Daly, PhD

Epidemiology of otitis media in children; Risk factors for otitis-media associated hearing loss

Richard Danila, PhD

Emerging infectious diseases including foodborne and bacterial diseases; Preparedness for bioterrorism

Kristen Ehresmann, RN, MPH

Immunizations

Kristine Ensrud, MD, MPH

Osteoporosis; Women's health (epidemiology)

Howard Fink, MD, MPH

Chronic disease epidemiology; Health outcomes in the areas of osteoporosis and sexual dysfunction; Preparation, maintenance and dissemination of systematic reviews

Lael Gatewood, PhD

Health Informatics; Micropopulation; Simulation Health Services Research

Richard Grimm, PhD, MD

Clinical trials on hypertension, lipids, CV risk; Women's health; Complementary and alternative medicine

Myron Gross, PhD

The role of micronutrients in health and disease; Cancer pathobiology; Biomarkers of dietary factor consumption and cancer progression

Linda Halcon, PhD

Adolescent health; Complementary/alternative healing practices; International health; Infectious diseases

Craig Hedberg, PhD

Food safety and infectious diseases

Alan Hirsch, MD

The pharmacotherapy of peripheral arterial disease and claudication; Thrombolysis for deep venous thrombosis

Neal Holtan, MD

History of medicine and public health;
Public health policy

William Hueston, DVM, MS, PhD

Epidemiology of risks and diseases affecting animals and man including transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, antimicrobial resistance; Foodborne disease; Food safety

Harry Hull, MD

Vaccine strategies; Disease eradication as a public health strategy

Edward Kaplan, MD

Infectious disease and pediatric cardiology with a special interest in streptococcal infections (epidemiology, microbiology, and immune response)

Arthur Leon, MD

Emerging Infections

Ruth Lynfield, MD

Exercise science; Exercise physiology

George Maldonado, PhD, MSPH

Epidemiologic methodology

Karen Margolis, MD, MPH

Cardiovascular disease epidemiology and prevention; Women's health

Joseph Neglia, MD, MPH

Pediatric Hematology/Oncology

Kirsten Ness, PhD

Pediatric Cancer

John Oswald, PhD, MPH

Health statistics

Melissa Partin, PhD, MS

Cancer prevention and control; Patient education; Shared decision making

Judith A. Punyko, PhD, MS

Epidemiologyy

Frank Rhame, MD

HIV therapy

Julie Ross, PhD, MPH

Molecular epidemiology; Childhood cancer; Adult leukemia

Alan Sinaiko, MD

Blood pressure/hypertension in children and adolescents

Randall Singer, DVM, MPVM, PhD

Infectious disease epidemiology; Ecologic approach to disease systems

Logan Spector, PhD

Etiology of childhood cancer; Design, conduct; Analysis of epidemiologic studies.

Beth Virnig, PhD, MPH

Administrative data for cancer surveillance and studies of treatment patterns