Leadership and Program Faculty

Program Director

James S. Pankow, PhD

Pamela Lutsey, PhD

Primary Mentors

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

Lisa Harnack, DrPH, RD
Nutritional Epidemiology

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

Abigail Johnson, PhD, RD
Dietary Assessment, Dietary Patterns, Microbiome

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

Faye Norby, PhD
Cardiac arrhythmias, substance use, CVD epidemiology

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

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

Tess Peterson, PhD, MPH
Heart Failure, Aging, HIV, Omics

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

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

Lin Yee Chen, MD
Cardiology

Lisa Chow, MD
Endocrinology

Paul Drawz, MD
Nephrology

Daniel Duprez, MD
Cardiology

Joel Farley, PhD
Pharmacy

Weihua Guan, PhD
Biostatistics

Aaron Kelly, PhD
Pediatrics

Cavan Reilly, PhD
Biostatistics

Elizabeth Seaquist, MD
Endocrinology

Chetan Shenoy, MD
Cardiology

Julia Steinberger, MD
Pediatrics

Steven Stovitz, MD
Family Medicine and Community Health

Bharat Thyagarajan, PhD, MD
Laboratory Medicine

Jeremy Van’t Hof, MD
Cardiology

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