Leadership and Program Faculty

Program Directors

James S. Pankow PhD
Ryan T. Demmer, PhD

Primary Mentors

Ellen W. Demerath, PhD
Obesity, Childhood Risk, Genetic Epidemiology

Ryan T. Demmer, PhD
Diabetes, Microbiome, Biomarkers

Lisa Harnack, DrPH, RD
Nutritional Epidemiology

David R. Jacobs, Jr., PhD
Design and Analysis, Nutrition Methodology

Kamakshi Lakshminarayan, MD, PhD
Stroke

Russell Luepker, MD
CVD Primary Prevention and Surveillance

Pamela L. Lutsey, PhD
CVD Epidemiology, Dementia, Pharmacoepidemiology

Richard F. MacLehose, PhD
Statistical Methods, Data Analysis

James S. Pankow, PhD
CVD Epidemiology, Type 2 Diabetes, Omics

Mark A. Pereira, PhD
Nutrition, Metabolism, Diabetes, Exercise

Pamela J. Schreiner, PhD
Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology, Biology, Epidemiologic Methods

Sanaz Sedaghat, PhD
Chronic Kidney Disease, Dementia, and CVD Epidemiology

Nancy Sherwood, PhD
Obesity Prevention and Treatment, Intervention Designs

Jaime Slaughter-Acey, PhD
Health Equity, Maternal Child health

Lyn M. Steffen, PhD
Nutritional Epidemiology

Weihong Tang, PhD, MS, MD
CVD Epidemiology, Omics

Rachel Widome, PhD
Tobacco and Policy

Secondary Mentors

Dudley Adams, MD
Pulmonary

Jason Baker, MD
Infectious Disease

Saonli Basu, PhD
Biostatistics

Jesse Berman, PhD
Environmental Health

Shenoy Chetan, MD
Cardiology

Lisa Chow, MD
Endocrinology

Paul Drawz, MD
Nephrology

Daniel Duprez, MD
Cardiology

Sue Duval, PhD
Cardiology

Joel Farley, PhD
Pharmacy

Weihua Guan, PhD
Biostatistics

Aaron Kelly, PhD
Pediatrics

Cavan Reilly, PhD
Biostatistics

Elizabeth Seaquist, MD
Endocrinology

Julia Steinberger, MD
Pediatrics

Steven Stovitz, MD
Family Medicine and Community Health

Bharat Thyagarajan, PhD, MD
Laboratory Medicine

Jeremy Van’t Hof, MD
Cardiology

Lin Yee Chen, MD
Cardiology