Faculty
Ira Adams-Chapman
School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics
Ira_adams-chapman@oz.ped.emory.edu
Robert Agnew
Chair Department of Sociology
bagnew@emory.edu
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Robert Agnew, PhD is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Sociology Department at Emory University. He has published four books and approximately 70 articles on the causes of crime and delinquency, with his most recent books being Juvenile Delinquency: Causes and Control (Oxford University Press, 2005), Why Do They Do It? A General Theory of Crime and Delinquency (Oxford University Press, 2005), and Pressured Into Crime: An Overview of General Strain Theory (Oxford University Press, 2006). He is best known for his development of general strain theory, one of the leading theories of crime and delinquency.
Angela Amar
Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing
angela.amar@emory.edu
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Angela Amar, PhD, RN, FAAN, is an Acting Associate Professor in the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University. Dr. Amar’s research focuses on traumatic experiences especially violence, mental health responses to trauma, and aspects of forensics nursing. Her research trajectory focuses on facilitating help seeking behavior and reporting of violence in adolescent and young adult females.
She has had funding from the Nurse Faculty Scholar program with Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Health Resource and Services Administration, and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
Dr. Amar received her BSN and MN from Louisiana State University Medical Center and her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. She is certified as an Advanced Practice Adult Psychiatric nurse. She has published several data-based papers on dating violence and sexual assault and is active in university service related to violence and diversity. She is on the Board of Directors of the International Association of Forensic Nurses, an Associate Editor for the Journal of Forensic Nursing, a Distinguished Fellow with the International Association of Forensic Nurses and a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing.
Peter Ash
School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry
peter.ash@emory.edu
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Peter Ash, PhD is a forensic child psychiatrist who is Director of the Psychiatry and Law Service and Chief of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Emory University School of Medicine. He is an Associate Professor in the Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. His current research areas include malpractice, adolescent violence, standards for mental health care in juvenile detention facilities, and the diversion of mentally ill criminal defendants into mental health treatment programs.
David Burke
School of Medicine, Department of Rehabilitation (Chair)
dburke2@emory.edu
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Formerly at Harvard University Medical School, Dr. Burke was a founding member of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation there and was the Medical Director of the Clinical Unit of Traumatic Brain Injury at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston, as well as Director of the residency program. Dr. Burke is a specialist in the treatment of patients with traumatic brain injuries and has built a solid record of scholarship, clinical leadership and teaching. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of Rehab in Review. He has several interests in musculoskeletal and sports medicine, and has served as a consultant to the U. S. Department of Homeland Security.
John Carter
School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology
jcarter@sph.emory.edu
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Dr. Carter is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Epidemiology Department of the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. His research interests include: health indicators related to maternal, infant, and child health; risk factors associated with sudden unexpected infant death (SUID); surveillance for intentional and unintentional child death and injury; program evaluation; and the use of quantitative data in decision making. He has provided data management and analysis consulting services to various Georgia governmental and private agencies for over 15 years.
Dennis Choi
Executive Director, Neurosciences Institute
dennis.choi@emory.edu
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In 2007, Dr. Dennis Choi joined Emory University as Executive Director of the university's Neuroscience Initiative. He is currently a member of the Institute of Medicine and its Neuroscience Forum, the Executive Committee of the Dana Alliance for Brain Research, and the visiting committee advising the Harvard-MIT Health Science and Technology Program. Past service has included the National Academy of Science's Board on Life Sciences, multiple editorial boards (including the Board of Reviewing Editors for Science, and founding co-editorship of Neurobiology of Disease) and advisory boards, presidency of the Society for Neuroscience, chairmanship of the U.S. National Committee to the International Brain Research Organization, and vice-presidency of the American Neurological Association. His research on mechanisms of brain or spinal cord injury has been recognized by several awards.
Carolyn Clevenger
Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing
ccleven@emory.edu
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Carolyn Clevenger is a Gerontological Nurse Practitioner currently serving as a Special Fellow in Advanced Geriatrics at the VA Medical Center. She is also a Clinical Assistant Professor at Emory's Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing where she has been on faculty since 2003. She has worked in the area of contractures in long-term care, home-based primary care of older adults and Alzheimer's disease. Her current clinical research focuses on elderly persons with dementia who access acute care at the point of the emergency department. Clevenger is President of the Georgia chapter of the Gerontological Advanced Practice Nurses Association (GAPNA), Team Lead for Student Training in the Atlanta Regional Geriatric Education Center and a member of the Education Core of the Emory Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center.
Michael DeGuzman
School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics
michael_deguzman@oz.ped.emory.edu
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Michael DeGuzman, MPH, is project manager at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, directing emergency department initiatives in quality, evidence-based medicine and research. Mr. DeGuzman is currently completing coursework in Six Sigma training, with an emphasis in healthcare service delivery. He has participated in the Atlanta Tbilisi Health Partnership and the Emergency Department Personnel Training at the Central Republican Hospital project to advise on program evaluation and health informatics capacity building in the ED.
Christopher Dente
School of Medicine, Department of Surgery
cdente@emory.edu
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Christopher J Dente, MD, is an assistant professor of Surgery for Emory University and an Associate Director of Trauma for Grady Memorial Hospital. Dr. Dente serves on the education and promotions committees, focusing on updating and improving the educational system for the general surgery residency.
Ralph DiClemente
School of Public Health, Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education
rdiclem@sph.emory.edu
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Ralph J. DiClemente, Ph.D. is Charles Howard Candler Professor of Public Health and Associate Director, Emory Center for AIDS Research. He holds concurrent appointments as Professor in the School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, in the Division of Infectious Diseases and the Department of Pediatrics, in the Division of Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases and Immunology, and the Department of Psychiatry. Dr. DiClemente is an internationally recognized expert on the development and evaluation of prevention programs tailored to African American adolescents and young adults. He is particularly well versed in designing programs that use peer-based models of implementation and that are culturally and developmentally appropriate. He is the author of more than 120 publications.
Kristin Dunkle
School of Public Health, Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education
kdunkle@emory.edu
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Kristin Dunkle, PhD, MPH is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education at the Rollins School of Public Health. Her research addresses the social and behavioral epidemiology of HIV, sexual health, and gender-based violence among both men and women in Africa and the USA. Her primary research focus is elucidating connections between gender-based violence, gender inequality, economic inequality, and sexual health risks, with a focus on HIV/AIDS.
Nancy Fajman
School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics
nancy.fajman@oz.ped.emory.edu
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Nancy Nost Fajman, MD, MPH received her MPH in 1987 and her MD in 1991 from Emory University. Since completing her Pediatrics residency at Emory she has worked in the area of general pediatrics and child abuse evaluation. She attends twice weekly at clinics in the assessment of child abuse - at Hughes Spalding and at Scottish Rite hospitals. She was the medical director for the Child Protection Program at Egleston Children's Hospital and she has been an active member of the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Child Abuse and Neglect, the Georgia Child Fatality Investigation Program Advisory Board, and as a Governor appointed member of the Georgica Child Fatality Review Panel.
Henry Falk
Rollins School of Public Health, Environmental Health; Former CDC Coordinating Center Director
hfalk2@emory.edu
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Dr Henry Falk served in multiple capacities at CDC, including Assistant Administrator of ATSDR, Director of the National Center for Environmental Health, and Director of the Coordinating Center for Environmental Health and Injury Prevention. He retired from the US Public Health Service Commissioned Corps as Rear Admiral in 2002, and from the CDC in December, 2010, although he continues there as a part-time consultant to the Deputy Director, ONDIEH, CDC on global aspects of Noncommunicable Diseases, Injury and Environmental Health. Currently, he is also part-time at Emory Rollins School of Public Health as an Adjunct Professor of Environmental Health. At CDC, he helped start the environmental health, injury, disaster epidemiology, lead poisoning prevention, asthma, radiation studies, and a variety of other programs; he began his career at CDC as an EIS Officer and worked on the initial investigations of vinyl chloride induced hepatic angiosarcoma. He has approximately 150 publications, and is the recipient of several awards, including the Distinguished Service Award of the US Public Health Service and the William C Watson Medal of Excellence at CDC.
David Feliciano
School of Medicine, Department of Surgery (Chief of Surgery, Grady Memorial Hospital)
dfelici@emory.edu
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Dr. Feliciano has been the Chief of Surgery at Grady Memorial Hospital since 1992. Board-certified in Surgery and in Surgical Critical Care, he has strong interests in trauma, endocrine surgery, surgical oncology and vascular surgery. His research interests are use of ultrasound in truncal trauma; damage control celiotomy; and the effect of metabolic state on outcome from vascular injuries. He has over 400 publications and is co-editor of the textbook TRAUMA (6th edition, 2008). He has received 33 teaching awards and has been listed as one of America's "Top Doctors."
Martha Fineman
Emory School of Law
mlfinem@emory.edu
Julie Gazmararian
School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology
jagazma@sph.emory.edu
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Prior to coming to Emory, Dr. Gazmararian was in the Epidemic Intelligence Service program at the Centers for Disease Control and at the USQA Center for Health Care Research (previously the Prudential Center for Health Care Research). She is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology. Her primary research interests include issues in underserved populations, particularly related to reproductive health and health literacy. She is leading a multi-disciplinary health literacy workgroup at Emory University, served as an editor of the AMA book on health literacy, as well as contributed to the IOM report on health literacy.
Robert Geller
School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics (Poison Control Center)
rgeller@emory.edu
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Dr. Geller is Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine and has served as Medical Director of the Georgia Poison Center for 11 years. He has also served as President of the Council of Poison Center Medical Directors and is the Chair of the Georgia Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics Poisoning and Injury Prevention Committee.
Philip Graitcer
School of Public Health, Department of Global Health
pgraitc@mac.com
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Philip L. Graitcer, MPH, DMD is an adjunct professor for Emory University Department of Environmental and Occupational Health and Hubert Department of Global Health. Dr. Graitcer has an international reputation for his research and publications in the area of bicycle and motorcycle helmets. Graitcer is the creator andfacilitatorof the World Health Organization's Helmet Initiative, and he has written and edited Headlines, WHO's official publication on helmets since 1993. Prior to joining Emory, Graitcer spent 18 years at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as a medical epidemiologist, the last 8 years as a member of CDC's injury prevention program. Graitcer is also an independent radio producer, creating and writing features on health, science, and culture for public radio programs in Atlanta as well as for NPR, Marketplace and the BBC.
Michael Haber
School of Public Health, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
mhaber@emory.edu
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Michael J. Haber, PhD, is a Professor at the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University. He has over 30 years of experience in applied and methodological research in biostatistics, and over 100 peer-reviewed papers on biostatistical methods and applications. Dr. Haber has served as the lead biostatistician in numerous biomedical studies, including several clinical trials on Parkinson’s disease and studies on falls in older adults, alcohol abuse and effect of smokeless tobacco. Dr. Haber also collaborates with CDC scientists in research on statistical methods for the analysis of infectious diseases data.
Shannon Hamrick
Department of Pediatrics
shannon_hamrick@oz.ped.emory.edu
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Dr. Hamrick is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology, with a research program focusing on the timing and mechanism of brain injury in high-risk neonatal populations. She is the Assistant Director of the Cardiac Neurodevelopment Program in the Sibley Heart Center at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta-Egleston Children's Hospital, where she investigates brain injury and neuroprotective strategies in congenital heart disease. She is also the site PI for an NICHD Neonatal Research Network trial of late hypothermia for hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy.
Abigail Hankin
School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine
ahankin@emory.edu
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Abigail Hankin, MD, MPH, is an Emergency Physician and Research Fellow with the Emory University School of Medicine. She comes to Emory after completing a Chief Residency at the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. She has previously published articles in the area of school violence and evidence-based medicine. Her current areas of interest include youth violence prevention, intimate partner violence, and unintentional injuries
Kate Heilpern
School of Medicine, Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine
kheilpe@emory.edu
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Dr. Katherine L. Heilpern, MD is the Ada Lee and Pete Correll Professor and Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine. She is a member of the Institute of Medicine [IOM] Board on Military and Veterans' Health, and the president of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine. She is the recipient of several federal, state and foundation grants that explore the relationship between emerging infectious diseases and public health entities.
Sheryl Heron MD, MPH, FACEP
Associate Director of Education & Training
sheron@emory.edu
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Dr. Sheryl Heron, MD, MPH, FACEP is an Associate Professor and Associate Residency Director in the Department of Emergency Medicine, the Assistant Dean for Medical Education and Student Affairs on the Grady Campus and Associate Director of Education and Training for the Center for Injury Control at Emory University. She is Board Certified in Emergency Medicine. She is a Board member for the Women’s Resource Center to End Domestic Violence, a member of the Domestic Violence Task Force in Dekalb County, and the Public Health Committee of the American College of Emergency Physician’s (ACEP). She has worked with the Institute of Medicine on a report on educating health professionals on Family Violence. She is a Past Chair of the Emergency Medicine Section of the National Medical Association. She has received several awards including the Partnership against Domestic Violence’s HOPE Award, the Woman in Medicine Award from the Council of Concerned Women of the National Medical Association, the Gender Justice Award from the Commission on Family Violence and was named a hero of Emergency Medicine by ACEP. Dr. Heron has lectured extensively on the medical response to Intimate Partner Violence, as well as Wellness/Work-Life Balance and Diversity/Disparate Care in Emergency Medicine.
Vicki Stover Hertzberg
School of Public Health, Department of Biostatistics
vhertzb@sph.emory.edu
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Vicki Stover Hertzberg, PhD is Associate Professor in the Department of Biostatistics in the Rollins School of Public for Emory University. She also is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science in Emory College for Emory University. Vicki Stover Hertzberg received her undergraduate degree from Miami (Ohio) University in 1976 and her Ph. D from the University of Washington in 1980. She is a member of the American Medical Informatics Association and the External Advisory Committee for Randomized Trial of Indomethacin for Intraventricular Hemorrhage at Yale University. Vicki Stover Hertzberg's statistical interest consists of public health informatics, clinical trials methodology, reproductive data analysis, environmental statistics, and statistical applications in stroke and genetics.
Debra Houry MD, MPH
Director
Injury Focus: Intimate Partner Violence
dhoury@emory.edu
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Debra Houry, MD, MPH, is Vice-Chair for Research and Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine and in the Department of Behavioral Science and Health Education and Department of Environmental Health at the Rollins School of Public Health. She is the Director of the Emory Center for Injury Control and PI on the CDC Injury Control Research Center grant (1 of 11 nationally). Dr. Houry has authored more than 70 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters on injury prevention and violence. She has been the recipient of several national awards, including the first Linda Saltzman Memorial Intimate Partner Violence Researcher Award from the Institute on Violence, Abuse, and Trauma and the Academy of Women in Academic Emergency Medicine's Researcher Award. She is the President-Elect for the Society for Advancement of Violence and Injury Research and is the President of Emory University Senate.
Fang Hua
School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine
fhua2@emory.edu
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Fang Hua, MD., PhD is Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Emory University School of Medicine. His current research areas include neuroprotection in stroke and traumatic brain injury, the role of Toll-like receptors in brain damage and the mechanisms by which progesterone protects the brain from ischemic and traumatic injury.
Nadine Kaslow
School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry
nkaslow@emory.edu
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Nadine J. Kaslow, Ph.D., ABPP is a Professor with tenure, Emory University School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences; Chief Psychologist, Grady Health System; and Special Assistant to the Provost. She holds a joint appointment in the Departments of Psychology, Pediatrics, and Emergency Medicine, and the Rollins School of Public Health. At Emory, she is President of the University Senate and Chair of the Faculty Council. Currently, she is the recipient of grants from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institute of Mental Health focused on the treatment of intimate partner violence and suicidal behavior in African American women, as well as a grant from the American Foundation of Suicide Prevention focused on helping families cope with the loss of a loved one to suicide.
Ziad Kazzi
School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine
zkazzi@emory.edu
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Ziad Kazzi, MD, FAAEM, is an assistant professor in the department of Emergency Medicine at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia as well as a medical toxicologist at the Georgia Poison Center and the Radiation Studies Branch at the CDC. As an emergency physician and toxicologist, Dr. Kazzi specializes in the recognition, triage, and management of poisonings and holds a deep interest in community environmental health and public health preparedness. Subsequently, he is currently a guest researcher in the radiation studies branch at the CDC and a state-wide educator on "Explosions and Blast Injuries". Over the past two years, he has collaborated with the Alabama Department of Public Health, the Center for Domestic Preparedness, and the CDC on multiple emergency preparedness projects. His contributions include an improvised new drug application for the treatment of Acute Radiation Syndrome, recommendations to policy makers regarding available radiopharmaceuticals, and educational activities such as webcasts, roundtable discussions, and didactics offered to healthcare workers and emergency responders in emergency preparedness. Other ongoing research includes surge capacity, pandemic influenza, and hospital preparedness regarding potential terrorist or Hazmat incidents
Ursula Ann Kelly
Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing
ukelly@emory.edu
Christine Keyes
School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine
cekeyes@sph.emory.edu
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Christine Keyes, MD is an associate professor in Emergency Medicine for Emory University. She received her M.D. degree from Wake Forest School of Medicine and completed her Emergency Medicine residency at Vanderbilt University. Dr. Keyes provides patient care at Emory University Hospital and is the current International Health Fellow in the Department of Emergency Medicine.
Patrick Kilgo
School of Public Health, Department of Biostatistics
pkilgo@sph.emory.edu
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Patrick Kilgo has been a professional statistician for 10 years. He currently is a Senior Associate Faculty member at the Rollins School of Public Health (RSPH) at Emory University where his duties include teaching in the graduate school and biostatistical consulting for clinical departments. He has independent consulting experience in a variety of settings including other academic institutions, governmental agencies, car companies and more. He has expertise in the analysis and methodological aspects of trauma severity and is frequently invited to speak on this topic. Patrick has won major awards including RSPH Professor of the Year (2007) and the USA Today Sports Weekly Presentation Award.
Wendy King
School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics
wking@emory.edu
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Dr. Wendy King joined Emory University's faculty in 2005 as an Emergency Department Pediatric Physician at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Pediatric Hospital. She graduated from Duke University with her MD and has been practicing medicine for ten years. Dr. King is ABMS Board Certified and is a member of Emory's Emergency Pediatric Group. She has published papers on various topics including child abuse fatalities and opportunities for intervention.
Carol Koplan
School of Public Health, Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education
ckopla2@sph.emory.edu
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Carol Koplan, MD is trained in adult, child and adolescent psychiatry. In the mid 90's, she worked at the Carter Center Mental Health Program where she helped organize the annual Rosalynn Carter Symposia on Mental Health Policy. This sparked her interest in teaching mental health policy, which she has done for the last 12 years at the Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, teaching courses on Mental Health Policy and Prevention of Mental and Behavioral Disorders and Promotion of Mental Health for MPH students. She is currently Vice Chairperson of the Suicide Prevention Coalition of Georgia and has had a leading role in planning two statewide suicide prevention stakeholders' conferences and was Chair of the Planning Committee for a conference on the public health approach to suicide prevention at college/universities in Georgia, attended by teams from 20 colleges in the state.
Delia Lang
School of Public Health, Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education
dlang2@sph.emory.edu
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Delia Lang, PhD, MPH is a clinical psychologist who also holds an MPH in biostatistics. She is an Assistant Research Professor in the department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education at Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University. Dr. Lang's interest has been in working with disadvantaged populations such as adolescents with severe mental illness in Atlanta, adolescent females in the Caribbean, young African women in rural areas of South Africa and commercial sex workers in Yerevan, Armenia. Her latest research interests include the contribution of intimate partner violence on STI/HIV transmission
Catherine Lynch
International Fellow, Department of Emergency Medicine
calynch@emory.edu
Terri McFadden
School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics
tmcfadd@emory.edu
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Terri McFaden-Garden is Co-Principal Investigator for The Injury Free Coalition for Kids of Atlanta. She is a general pediatrician and assistant professor at Emory University School of Medicine. Dr. McFadden-Garden serves as Director of Ambulatory Pediatrics for Hughes Spalding Children's Hospital of the Grady Health System. Dr. McFadden-Garden's academic and community outreach interests include childhood injury prevention and preschool literacy promotion. She is also co-founder of the Ready Set Read literacy program at Hughes Spalding Children's Hospital.
Lisa Merck
School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine
lmerck@emory.edu
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Lisa H. Merck M.D., M.P.H. is an Assistant Professor in the Emergency Neurosciences Division of the Emergency Medicine Department at Emory University. Dr. Merck has a public health background in epidemiology, disease prevention, and advocacy for pediatric high risk populations. Dr. Merck's current research in Emergency Medicine focuses on the treatment and prevention of neurological emergencies in adult and pediatric populations. Dr. Merck is also studying ways to reduce iatrogenic exposure to ionizing radiation from diagnostic testing in the Emergency Department.
Kathy Miner
School of Public Health, Associate Dean
kminer@emory.edu
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Kathleen R. Miner, PhD is an associate professor for the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, as well as an associate dean for applied public health for Emory University Rollins School of Public Health. Kathleen Miner received her Ph.D. in 1984 from Georgia State University and she received her MPH in 1979 from Emory University. Her most recent areas of research interest are developing training and educational programs for Georgia's public health workforce, training efforts for tobacco prevention, and developing a web-based evaluation training series for screening and diagnostic services to women.
Thomas Moore
School of Medicine, Department of Orthopedics
Tmoor01@emory.edu
Brent Morgan
School of Medicine, Poison Control Center Director
bmorg02@emory.edu
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Brent Morgan, MD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine, the Director of the Medical Toxicology fellowship, and the Chief of the Medical Toxicology section at Emory University. Dr. Morgan established and directs the Georgia Occupational and Environmental Toxicology clinic at Grady Memorial Hospital. It is the only clinic in Georgia certified by the Association of Occupational and Environmental Clinics. Dr. Morgan is the Director of the Southeastern United States for Advanced Hazmat Life Support. Through this educational program Dr. Morgan has instructed > 500 health care providers in the proper care of the hazmat patient.
Karla Oeler
Department of Film and Media Studies
koeler@emory.edu
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Karla Oeler is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies and a Core Faculty member of the Department of Comparative Literature at Emory University in Atlanta, GA. She is the author of the book A Grammar of Murder: Violent Scenes and Film Form and articles on Dostoevsky, Godard, Parajanov, Scorsese, Renoir, and Bazin.
Lydia Ogden
Institute for Advanced Policy Solutions (Chief of Staff/Administrator)
logden@emory.edu
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Lydia L. Ogden graduated from the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard, in 1998 with an M.P.P. in both strategic management of governmental organizations and networks and in press, politics, and public policy. She holds an M.A. in English Literature from Vanderbilt University (1984) and a B.S. in English and Education from Middle Tennessee State University (1981). She joined the federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry in 1989, where she developed the community involvement program. In 1993, she moved to CDC's domestic HIV/AIDS program (under RSPH Dean Jim Curran), and led NGO networking and, later, strategic planning. In 2001, she became the policy director for CDC's Global AIDS Program; in 2003, she became the agency's Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy. She brings her research interest in public-private value networks to Emory's Institute for Advanced Policy Solutions.
Tom Price
Chief of Medicine, Wesley Woods Geriatric Hospital
tprice2@emory.edu
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Dr. Thomas Price is Chief of Medicine for the Wesley Woods Geriatric Hospital in Atlanta, GA. He is also the Medical Director of the DeKalb County (GA) Rescue Program and Multidisciplinary Team for Elder Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation (VALARI). Dr. Price is an Assistant Professor in the Emory University School of Medicine, serves as Associate Program Director for the Fellowship in Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, and is Medical Director of the AG Rhodes Home at Wesley Woods. He has recently been awarded a Practice Change Fellowship by the John A Hartford Foundation/Atlantic Philanthropies for his work in the detection and treatment of victims of elder abuse.
Kerry Ressler MD, PhD
School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
kressle@emory.edu
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Dr. Kerry J. Ressler received his Bachelor of Science degree in molecular biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his M.D./Ph.D. from Harvard Medical School. In 1992 at Harvard, he was the first student of Dr. Linda Buck (Nobel Prize, 2004), helping to identify the molecular organization of the olfactory receptor system. Dr. Ressler is an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Emory University.
His work focuses on translational research bridging molecular neurobiology in animal models with human genetic research on fear and anxiety disorders. His clinical research examines genetic and behavioral processes that underlie Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) with the goal of understanding the molecular mechanisms that contribute to fear-related disorders. He is on the Scientific Councils of the Brain and Behavior Foundation, Anxiety Disorders Association, and the Dana Alliance for Brain Research, among others. He has won numerous national and international awards, including from the International Society for Trauma Studies. He was recently named a Kraepelin Professor at the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry in Munich, Germany.
He is involved nationally in research decision making in these areas. In addition, he is the Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board for the NIH/Army STARRS (Study To Assess Risk/ Resilience in Servicemembers) Project, as well as on the advisory board for the Marine Resiliency Study. He also participates in VA and NIH grant review to identify the best research programs in anxiety, fear, and emotion modulation.
Michael Rich
Emory College, Department of Political Science
mrich@emory.edu
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Michael J. Rich is associate professor of political science and director of the Office of University-Community Partnerships at Emory University. He is the author of Federal Policymaking and the Poor, and several publications on federalism and a variety of urban public policy topics, including community development, housing and homelessness, crime, and economic development. His current research focuses on community building and collaborative approaches to poverty reduction, neighborhood revitalization strategies, and welfare reform, particularly concerning issues relating to the accessibility of low-income households to job opportunities and related support services.
Barbara Rothbaum
School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry
brothba@emory.edu
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Barbara Olasov Rothbaum, Ph.D. received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology and is a tenured full professor in psychiatry at the Emory School of Medicine in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and director of the Trauma and Anxiety Recovery Program at Emory. She has won both state and national awards for her research, is an invited speaker internationally, authors scientific papers and chapters, has published 4 books on the treatment of PTSD and edited 2 others on anxiety, and received the Diplomate in Behavioral Psychology from the American Board of Professional Psychology. She was on the Board of Directors of the International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS), is past president of ISTSS, and was Associate Editor of The Journal of Traumatic Stress. Dr. Rothbaum is also a pioneer in the application of virtual reality to the treatment of psychological disorders.
Scott Sasser MD
Associate Director of International Programs
ssasser@emory.edu
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Scott Sasser, MD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine , Emory University School of Medicine and in the Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health. Dr. Sasser is the Associate Director for International Programs for the Center for Injury Control, works as a consultant in the Division of Injury Response, in the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC), at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and directs the department's International Health Fellowship. Dr. Sasser was the lead editor on the World Health Organization's (WHO) publication Prehospital Trauma Care Systems, a monograph designed to assist decision-makers in low and middle income countries develop basic prehospital trauma care systems; as an extension of this project, he currently sits on the WHO Trauma and Emergency Care Advisory Committee. Dr. Sasser is currently involved in projects in Kenya, Rwanda, and India, and is currently the recipient of funding from the Fogarty International Center at the National Institutes of Health to provide injury focused public health training to physicians in Mozambique and from the United States Agency for International Development to develop emergency medicine and emergency medical services in the Republic of Georgia.
Iqbal Sayeed
School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine
isayeed@emory.edu
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Iqbal Sayeed, PhD is an Assistant Professor in Emory School of Medicine's Department of Emergency Medicine. Over the years, Dr. Sayeed’s research has focused on detailed examination of the potential of progesterone and its metabolites in the treatment of ischemic stroke and traumatic brain injury and to realize the direct translation of laboratory research to clinical practice in treating TBI and stroke. His research was recently recognized when he was invited to speak at the International Neuroscience 25th Summer School under the auspices of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Graduate School Neurosciences Amsterdamn the topic “Progress in Restorative Neuroscience and Neurology”. Dr. Sayeed served as reviewer for the proposal submitted to American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) Peer Review of Proposals submitted to the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC) and for Veteran Administration merit review panel for brain injury program. As a scientific member of Emory IACUC, he evaluates the protocols, scientific merit and animal welfare issues. He has authored over 30 articles, reviews and scientific papers in peer reviewed journals.
Pamela Scully
Emory College, Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and African Studies
pamela.scully@emory.edu
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Professor Scully is Professor and Chair of the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Emory. She holds a joint appointment in African Studies and is associate faculty in the Department of History. Professor Scully has her Ph.D. in history from the University of Michigan. Her most recent book is Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus: a Ghost Story and a Biography, co-authored with Clifton Crais (Princeton, 2009). She is the author of Liberating the Family? Gender and British Slave Emancipation in the Rural Western Cape, South Africa, 1823-1853 (Heinemann, 1997). Her co-edited collection with Diana Paton of the University of Newcastle, Gender and Slave Emancipation in the Atlantic World came out in 2005 with Duke University Press. She is the author of the AHA pamphlet, Race and Ethnicity in Women's and Gender History in Global Perspective (2006). Professor Scully is working on a book on humanitarian interventions, transitional justice, and sexual violence, with a focus on Liberia. She teaches courses on humanitarian aid and sexual violence in post-conflict societies, gender violence and transitional justice, genealogies of feminist thought, and sexualized violence in war time. She is Deputy Editor of The Women’s History Review and Treasurer and Membership Secretary of the International Federation for Research in Women's History. Professor Scully serves on the editorial board of The Women’s History Review, The Journal of Women’s History, The Journal of British Studies, The Journal of Peacebuilding and Development, and Social Dynamics. She works closely with the Institute for Developing Nations, a partnership between Emory University and The Carter Center, which focuses on collaborative research regarding issues of poverty and development.
Hal Simon
School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics
hal.simon@oz.ped.emory.edu
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Hal Simon, MD, MPH is a Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine. He serves as Academic and Research Director, and Associate Division Director for Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Emory University and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta. His childhood injury prevention projects have researched childhood behaviors around firearms, parental medication dosing (and dosing errors), PTSD, drowning prevention, child abuse, and trauma care. Among his many local and national leadership roles in both pediatrics and emergency medicine, Dr Simon serves as the Vice-Chairman for the Georgia, American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Injury and Poison Prevention.
Iris Smith
Rollins School of Public Health, Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education
ismith@emory.edu
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Iris Smith is an Associate Professor in the Behavioral Sciences and Health Education Department at Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health where she teaches graduate courses in Program Evaluation, Substance Abuse and Social Determinants of Health. In addition to teaching Dr. Smith is the Director of Tracking and Evaluation for the Atlanta Clinical Translational Science Institute and a Co-investigator and Evaluation Co-Lead for the Emory Prevention Research Center. Her research interests include substance abuse treatment and prevention, prenatal drug exposure, and program evaluation. She is Board Vice President for the National Association for Children of Alcoholics and serves on advisory boards for Dekalb County Center for Torture and Trauma Survivors and Georgia NOFAS.
L. Shakiyla Smith MPH
Deputy Director
lrsmit3@emory.edu
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Ms. Shakiyla Smith has developed a commitment to injury and violence prevention both before and throughout her public health career. In addition to coordinating studies screening women for partner violence in emergency rooms, she has conducted primary research on exposure to community violence and its impact on health behaviors and coping responses amongst low-income African American women. She has also worked as a crisis intervention hotline counselor for a domestic violence agency in Philadelphia. Prior to entering the field of public health, Ms. Smith worked as a grant writer and organizational development consultant to non-profit organizations in the Philadelphia region. Ms. Smith also lived and worked in Zimbabwe, Southern Africa for two years. Finally, Ms. Smith received her Master of Public Health degree with a focus in Behavioral Science and Health Education from the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University and a Bachelor degree in English Literature from Swarthmore College. She is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in Adult Education with a focus in Human Resources and Organization Development at the University of Georgia. Currently, she serves as the Deputy Director for the Emory Center for Injury Control (ECIC) and the Deputy Director for Research for the Department of Emergency Medicine in Emory University’s School of Medicine. In her current work, she manages the infrastructure and functioning of a comprehensive research development and support program for the Department of Emergency Medicine and manages the organizational and programmatic activities and evaluation of the Emory Center for Injury Control.
Kyle Steenland
School of Public Health, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health
nsteenl@sph.emory.edu
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Kyle Steenland, PhD is a professor in the department of environmental and occupational health at Emory University Rollins School of Public. He is an editor for the American Journal ofIndustrial Medicineand an associate editor of Environmental Health Perspectives. He is a member of the American College of Epidemiology, and International Congress on Occupational Health and an editor of 2 books on occupational and environmental epidemiology.
Donald Stein
School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine
dstei04@emory.edu
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Donald Stein, PhD is a neuroscientist and Asa G. Candler Professor of Emergency Medicine at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Stein served Emory for five years as Vice Provost for Graduate Studies, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and acting Vice President for Research. For more than 40 years, his research has focused on examining the processes underlying recovery of function after traumatic injury to the brain. Most recently this work culminated in the first successful clinical trial with progesterone in moderate to severe acquired brain injury. He is past president of the International Brain Injury Association and serves currently on the National Advisory Council to the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
Robert Stephenson
School of Public Health, Department of Global Health
rbsteph@sph.emory.edu
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Rob Stephenson MSc PhD, is a demographer and Assistant Professor in Global Health, Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, and Emory University. His NIH-funded work on domestic violence examines the intersection between reproductive health and violence in India, examining how the experience of violence influences reproductive health, mental and physical health outcomes for women and children. Dr. Stephenson has also supervised several MPH student thesis examining issues of violence in Kenya, India and Bangladesh.
Claire Sterk
Senior Vice Provost
csterk@emory.edu
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Claire E. Sterk, PhD is a professor in the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education in the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. She also serves as the Senior Vice Provost. Dr. Sterk's work focuses on community-based prevention and intervention programs, health disparities, HIV/AIDS and substance abuse/mental health. Dr. Sterk has successfully maintained NIH funding for the past decade for her work. Her publications include books such as "Fast Lives: Women and Crack Cocaine" (Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 1999) and "Tricking and Tripping: Prostitution during the Era of AIDS (Putnam Valley, NY: Social Change Press, 2000).
Nancy Thompson
School of Public Health, Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education
nthomps@sph.emory.edu
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Nancy Thompson, PhD has been an Associate Professor of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, jointly appointed in Epidemiology, in the Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University since 1983. In 1998, under an Interagency Personnel Agreement with the CDC, she authored Demonstrating Your Program's Worth: A Primer on Evaluation for Programs to Prevent Unintentional Injury, which is now in its second printing. Dr. Thompson has been involved in developing and conducting surveys in a wide range of areas such as consumers' health insurance information needs, the end of life care practices of health care professionals, and knowledge about head and spinal cord injury. Dr. Thompson teaches Instrument Design annually in the CDC-American Evaluation Association (AEA) summer evaluation institute and has taught Master's-level courses in evaluation and research design.
Melissa White
School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine
mhwhite@emory.edu
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Dr. Melissa White is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency at Emory University. Her research focus is on prehospital and disaster medicine, and intimate partner violence. Dr. White worked alongside Red Cross nurse volunteers to staff the Atlanta shelters for Hurricane Katrina evacuees, providing evacuees with medical evaluations, prescription drug refills, and specialty referrals.
Bryan L. Williams
School of Medicine, Dept. of Family Medicine
bryan.williams@emory.edu
Michael Windle
School of Public Health, Chair Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education
mwindle@sph.emory.edu
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Michael Windle, PhD is a Rollins Endowed Professor and Chair of the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education in Emory's School of Public Health. Prior to joining Emory University in 2006, he was a Professor of Psychology and Director of the UAB Center for the Advancement of Youth Health and the CDC-funded Comprehensive Youth Violence Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Dr. Windle has had continuous funding from NIH for over 20 years and received an NIH MERIT Award in 1996 for his research on adolescent alcohol use and related problems. He has published over 160 journal articles and book chapters, and three books: Children of Alcoholics: Critical Perspectives, The Science of Prevention, and Alcohol Use among Adolescents.
Gina Wingood
School of Public Health, Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education
gwingoo@sph.emory.edu
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Gina M. Wingood, ScD, MPH is the Agnes Moore Endowed Faculty in HIV/AIDS Research; an Associate Professor in the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education; and; Director, Social and Behavioral Science Core, Emory Center for AIDS Research. She currently serves as the Principal Investigator on four NIH-funded studies including assessing the efficacy of a gender and culturally congruent HIV prevention intervention for African-American young adult women and conducting a longitudinal survey examining gender and social factors (e.g. stigma, discrimination, community violence) that affect the sexual health of African-American and Caucasian women. Her research has resulted in the publication of more than 100 articles, which have appeared in JAMA, Pediatrics, JAIDS and AJPH.
David Wright
School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine
david.wright@emory.edu
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David Wright, MD is Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and the principal investigator for several NIH funded projects, including ProTECT, a clinical trial designed to assess progesterone as a neuroprotectant following acute traumatic brain injury (TBI). In addition, he is conducting collaborative research with the Georgia Institute of Technology to develop new technologies for detecting mild TBI. Dr. Wright has won several awards for research excellence from the SAEM.
Kathryn Yount
Hubert Dept. of Global Health & Dept of Sociology
kyount@sph.emory.edu
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Kathryn Yount, PhD, MHS, is a social/family demographer, and for over 16 years, she has directed or guided large-scale longitudinal surveys and secondary data analyses of women’s empowerment, IPV, and gender gaps in health across the life course. She has collaborated on 27 research grants from federal agencies and foundations and has been PI on half (13) of these projects. She has experience conducting primary research in diverse settings in Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, and South and Southeast Asia. She is PI on an NIH study measuring attitudes about IPV in Vietnam (MPI Schuler) and a World-Bank-UNDP funded panel study concerning the effects of IPV on women’s physical/mental health and economic and activities in Minya, Egypt. She is co-Investigator on an NIH national panel study in Bangladesh (PI Schuler) of recently married rural women exploring the effects of women’s empowerment on their risks of IPV in community context. Dr. Yount has just finished projects on attitudes about IPV against women in Bangladesh (NIH, MPI, PI Schuler) and the determinants of IPV against women in Colombia (NSF, PI/faculty mentor; CDC, Co-I/faculty mentor) and Egypt (NSF, PI). This work has resulted in over 75 publications. She has served as Chair of Emory’s Social Sciences Sub-Committee of the University Research Committee (2008–11), elected representative from the Rollins School of Public Health to the Emory University Faculty Senate and Council (2010 – present), co-chair of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population Panel on Family Demography and Health in Developing Countries (2011-present), a member of the editorial boards for the Journal of Marriage and Family (2005–10) and Population Research and Policy Review (2012–4), and a participant of Emory’s Woodruff Leadership Academy (2011–2).
Cheryl Appleberry
College of Education, Department of Kinesiology and Health
cappleberry@gsu.edu
Timothy Brezina
Department of Criminal Justice
critjbx@langate.gsu.edu
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Dr. Timothy Brezina is an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at Georgia State University. His research program explores the causes and consequences of criminal and delinquent behavior, with a special focus on youth crime and violence. A major aim of this research program is to better understand why some individuals are particularly receptive to the "intrinsic" rewards and reinforcing properties associated with criminal and violent acts. Recent publications appear in the journals Social Problems, Deviant Behavior and Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice.
Lawrence Bryant
School of Health Professions, Division of Respiratory Therapy
ccslob@langate.gsu.edu
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Dr. Bryant's research interests include: tobacco control and elimination: establishment of a cancer survivor's network in Georgia, HIV/AIDS prevention among vulnerable populations
Sarah Cook
Department of Psychology
psyslc@langate.gsu.edu
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Sarah L. Cook, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Community Psychology and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Psychology at Georgia State University. Her research interests combine sexual assault and domestic violence and focus on how social scientists measure women's abuse and assault experiences as well as ethical issues in violence and trauma research. She also studies the role of conflict and coercion in women's responses to abuse, incarcerated women's abuse experiences, and the perceptions and effects of street harassment on higher education students. Currently she serves as past-Chair of the Board of Directors of the Georgia Network to End Sexual Assault and is a member of the Sexual Violence Applied Research Advisory Group (SV-ARAG) of the National Online Resource Center on Violence Against Women.
Daniel Bernard Crimmins
Director, University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities Education
dcrimmins@gsu.edu
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Daniel Bernard Crimmins, Ph.D. is the Director of the University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities Education, Research and Service (UCEDD) program. In this role he oversees a range of model programs providing training, technical assistance, and exemplary services to individuals with disabilities of all ages. Prior to this, he worked for five years in direct service settings, and then for more than 20 years at New York Medical College in fulfilling these organizations' obligations as one of New York State's UCEDDs. Recently, Dr. Crimmins was a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow in Washington DC, where he worked in the Office of Senator Jim Jeffords on health and education policy.
Dean Dabney
Associate Professor, Department of Criminal Justice
ddabney@gsu.edu
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Dean Dabney, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and a Faculty Affiliate to the Partnership for Urban Health Research at Georgia State University. Since 2007, he has served as editor for the Criminal Justice Review and International Criminal Justice Review. His scholarly interests include the investigation of homicide and street violence, the organizational culture within law enforcement agencies, forms of deviance and/or criminal behaviors that occur in organizational settings, and qualitative research methods. He has published several books and had articles recently appear in journals such as Justice Quarterly, Criminal Justice & Behavior, and Violence & Victims.
Dajun Dai
Institute of Public Health, Partnership for Urban Health Research
ddai@gsu.edu
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Dr. Dajun Dai is an Assistant Professor of Geosciences and a Core Faculty Member of the Partnership for Urban Health Research in the Institute of Public Health at Georgia State University. Dr. Dai specializes in Geographic Information Sciences (GIS). He is interested in the theory of GIS, spatial analysis and modeling on socioeconomic and environmental research, and spatial study of health, crime, urban environment, and transportation issues.
Leah Daigle
Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology
Injury Focus: Sexual Victimization
ldaigle@gsu.edu
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Leah E. Daigle is an associate professor of Criminal Justice at Georgia State University. Her most recent research has centered on repeat sexual victimization of college women and the responses that women use during and after being sexually victimized. Her other research interests include the development and continuation of offending over time and gender differences in the antecedents to and consequences of criminal victimization and participation across the life-course. She is co-author of Unsafe in the Ivory Tower: The Sexual Victimization of College Women, which was awarded the 2011 Outstanding Book Award by the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences and Criminals in the Making: Criminality Across the Life-Course, and author of Victimology: A Text/Reader and Victimology: The Essentials. Her research has also appeared in peer-reviewed journals including Justice Quarterly, Victims and Offenders, The Journal of Quantitative Criminology, and The Journal of Interpersonal Violence.
Anna Edwards-Gaura
Institute of Public Health, Center for Healthy Development
aedwards5@gsu.edu
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Dr. Anna Edwards received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Georgia. Since that time, she has served in an Emory University Post-Doctoral position as part of a treatment-outcome study and as a Public Health Research Scientist through Battelle and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She has served as a Clinical Assistant Professor with the National SafeCare Training and Research Center at Georgia State University since 2006 and in that capacity has conducted clinical supervision, research, training, program administration, and curriculum development. Her clinical and research interests include dissemination and implementation of evidence-based parenting programs and prevention of and intervention for child maltreatment.
Jim Emshoff
Department of Psychology
jemshoff@gsu.edu
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As a community psychologist, Dr. Emshoff has focused on substance abuse, HIV/AIDS, violence against women, child abuse, delinquency and community development. He is currently involved in several projects including research on the processes and outcomes associated with community collaboratives and studying how successful programs get disseminated, adopted, and implemented by new users, as well as what dynamics interfere with the successful transfer of these programs to new sites.
Chris Henrich
College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Psychology
psycch@langate.gsu.edu
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Christopher Henrich, Ph.D. is an associate professor of psychology at Georgia State University. His current funded research projects include an evaluation of after-school programs in Kansas City, research in Israel on processes of risk and protection among youths who have been exposed to terror attacks, and research funded through the ECIC on the effects and prevention of bullying in school. Dr. Henrich maintains faculty affiliations with the Center for Research on Atypical Development and Learning and the Center for Research on School Safety, both at GSU, and with the Yale Zigler Center in Child Development and Social Policy.
Randy Kamphaus
College of Education (Dean)
edurwk@langate.gsu.edu
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Dr. Randy Kamphaus is Dean of the College of Education at Georgia State University (GSU). Prior to joining GSU, he served as head of the Department of Educational Psychology and Instructional Technology at the University of Georgia His research focuses on child mental health screening, models of learning disability diagnosis, and developing classification typologies of child behavior and adjustment. He is currently serving a five-year term as editor of the School Psychology Quarterly.
Susan Kelley
Dean, College of Health and Human Sciences
skelley@gsu.edu
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Susan J. Kelley, PhD is Dean and Professor in the College of Health and Human Sciences at Georgia State University in Atlanta, GA. Dr. Kelley has specialized in the field of child abuse since 1980 and has published numerous journal articles and book chapters on child abuse, and serves on the editorial board of several journals. She is a member of the Board of Directors for Prevent Child Abuse America, Prevent Child Abuse Georgia, St. Joseph's Mercy Care, and the Academy on Violence and Abuse. Dr. Kelley is founder and director of Project Healthy Grandparents, a community-based program that provides services to families in which grandparents are raising grandchildren in parent-absent homes, and is founder and director of the National Center on Grandparents Raising Grandchildren.
Jacalyn Lund
College of Education, Department of Kinesiology and Health
jlund@gsu.edu
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Jacalyn Lund, PhD, is a physical education teacher educator who knows that healthy children learn more in schools. She currently serves as Chair of the Kinesiology and Health Department. Her research interests are in getting children active through the development of skillful performance and decreasing childhood obesity. A past president of the National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE), she currently represents NASPE as the Board of Governors Representative to the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance.
John Lutzker
Executive Director
jlutzker@gsu.edu
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John R. Lutzker, Ph.D. has published over 125 articles and chapters and is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, and a Clinical Fellow of the Behavior Therapy and Research Society. He is currently Associate Editor of the Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Child Health and Human Development Journal of Family Violence, Child and Family Behavior Therapy, and Behavioral Interventions, and is the author of five books, including Reducing Child Maltreatment: A Guidebook for Parent Services and is editor of Preventing Violence: Research and Evidence-based Intervention Strategies (2006).
Joel Meyers
Director, Center for Research on School Safety, School Climate and Classroom Management
cpsjjm@langate.gsu.edu
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Joel Meyers, PhD serves as Director of the Center for Research on School Safety, School Climate and Classroom Management at Georgia State University. He has substantial prior experience in the evaluation of ongoing programs related to school safety, violence prevention in children and youth, school-based provision of mental health services and school reform. His most recent research efforts include the evaluation of school-based crisis response and emergency management programs, the prevention of violence/bullying in schools, and the prevention of violence/bullying
Brian Payne
Chair, Department of Criminal Justice Chair
bpayne@gsu.edu
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Brian K. Payne, PhD is a professor and chair for the Department of Criminal Justice at Georgia State University. His current interests and teachings include: white collar crime, family violence and crime, victimology, research methods, community-based corrections, drugs and society, and introduction to the criminal justice system. He is the editor of the American Journal of Criminal Justice and has published many books and journal articles.
Katherine Plitnick
School of Nursing
nurkrp@langate.gsu.edu
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Kathy Plitnick, RN, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Byrdine F. Lewis School of Nursing at Georgia State University. She has published several articles and has conducted funded research on the identification and prevention elder abuse.
Laura Salazar
Insitute of Public Health
Injury Focus: Gender-based violence, Teen dating violence
lsalazar1@gsu.edu
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Dr. Laura F. Salazar focuses her research efforts on improving the sexual health of adolescents and adults, who are at heightened risk for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and HIV. She is particularly interested in the intersection of the STI/HIV and gender-based violence (GBV) epidemics. She received her PhD in Community Psychology from Georgia State University’s Department of Psychology in 2001. She subsequently completed a NRSA postdoctoral fellowship in HIV/AIDS at Emory University, School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry. She was a member of the faculty at Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health from 2004-2011. Her intervention research has been funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health and includes the use of media and web-based approaches to expand the reach of health promotion. Dr. Salazar has numerous publications in peer reviewed journals and is a co-author of two public health textbooks: Research Methods in Health Promotion and Health Behavior Theory for Public Health: Principles, Foundations and Applications.
Shannon Self-Brown
College of Health and Human Sciences
sselfbrown@gsu.edu
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Shannon Self-Brown received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the Louisiana State University in 2004, with a specialization in child trauma and pediatric psychology. From 2004-2006, Dr. Self-Brown completed an NIMH-sponsored postdoctoral fellowship at the National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center at the Medical University of South Carolina. She completed a Research Fellowship within the Division of Violence Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2006-2008, where she served as a behavioral scientist on projects developing and testing technology-based programs targeting child maltreatment prevention. Dr. Self-Brown is currently the Associate Director of the National Safecare Training and Research Center at Georgia State University. Her research interests include examining risk and protective factors for youth exposed to community violence, child maltreatment, family violence, and disaster, as well as the evaluation of dissemination/implementation efforts for child maltreatment prevention programs.
Jenelle Shanley
Institute of Public Health, Center for Healthy Development
jshanley@gsu.edu
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Dr. Jenelle R. Shanley is a Clinical Assistant Professor and Associate Director of Training in the Center for Health Development, College of Health and Human Sciences, at Georgia State University. She received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Central Michigan University, specializing in child clinical psychology. Dr. Shanley completed her postdoctoral training through the American Psychological Association accredited program at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. As the Training Director for the National SafeCare® Training and Research Center, Dr. Shanley oversees the training and implementation of SafeCare across the United States and more recently in the United Kingdom. Dr. Shanley’s research interests encompass parenting young children and the prevention and treatment of disruptive behaviors and child physical abuse. Specifically, Dr. Shanley is interested in examining mechanism of change in parenting programs and how to effectively disseminate evidence-based programs focused on parenting practices that promote positive child development. She has published several articles and presented at various professional conferences on parenting and child maltreatment.
Brenda Sims Blackwell
Department of Criminal Justice
bblackwell@gsu.edu
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Dr. Brenda Sims Blackwell is an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at Georgia State University. Her research interests focus broadly on sex and gender differences in offending and differential responses to offenders across the sexes. She also has examined justice responses to domestic violence, and currently serves on the Douglas County Domestic Violence Task Force. Research articles have appeared in journals such as Criminology, the Journal of Criminal Justice, and the Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, among others.
Sheri Strasser
Institute of Public Health
sstrasser@gsu.edu
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Sheryl Strasser, PhD, is Assistant Professor of the Institute of Public Health at Georgia State University. Dr. Strasser specializes in interdisciplinary health promotion planning and evaluation research focusing on healthy aging and addressing elder abuse.
Monica Swahn PhD, MPH
Associate Vice President for Research and Economic Development
mswahn@gsu.edu
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Monica Swahn is an associate professor in the Institute of Public Health and the Partnership for Urban Health Research, Georgia State University. She was recently appointed as Associate Dean for Research for the university's College of Health and Human Sciences. She has published 30 publications related to youth violence, suicide and substance use prevention. Prior to joining the Institute, Dr. Swahn worked for the CDC for nine years. She was the Principal Investigator for the Youth Violence Survey which was administered to over 4,000 high school students and designed to assess the overlap among different forms of violent behaviors and she also served as the scientific officer (consultant) for many CDC funded cooperative agreements and grants including three Academic Centers of Excellence in Youth Violence Prevention.In 2006, Dr. Swahn was awarded the prestigious Dixie Snider fellowship in the Office of the Chief Science Officer, CDC.During this fellowship, Dr. Swahn contributed to agency-wide strategic goal and research priority planning and facilitated the preparation and implementation of new research objectives. She also provided assistance and consultations to scientific regulatory services and prepared measures, initiatives, and fiscal year targets for an internal organizational excellence management assessment tool.
Kevin Swartout
Department of Psychology
kswartout@gsu.edu
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Kevin Swartout, Ph.D. is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at Georgia State University. His current research interests can be broken down into three main areas: social influences on individuals’ aggressive attitudes and behaviors; person-centered approaches to longitudinal data on violence and victimization; and intrapersonal relations between substance use and violence.
Brent Teasdale
Department of Criminal Justice
bteasedale@gsu.edu
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Dr. Brent Teasdale is an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice and a Faculty Affiliate of the Partnership for Urban Health Research and the Center for Leadership in Disability at Georgia State University. Dr. Teasdale specializes in violence by and against people with mental disorders. In addition, Dr. Teasdale has published a number of articles on the evaluation of the Take Charge of Your Life substance abuse prevention program. In addition, he is interested in statistical methodology such as multilevel models and structural equation models. He has published over a dozen journal articles in journals such as the Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Criminal Justice and Behavior, Prevention Science, and Social Problems.
Volkan Topalli
Department of Criminal Justice
vtopalli@gsu.edu
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Volkan Topalli, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at Georgia State University. He was a National Science Foundation research fellow assigned to the National Consortium on Violence Research from 1998 to 2000 prior to joining the faculty at Georgia State. He has been funded by private, state, and federal grants to study criminal violence and drug markets. From 2002 to 2003 he served as the Director for the Atlanta component of NIJ's Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring program. He has authored scholarly articles on carjacking, drug robbery, drug dealing, and retaliation, presenting his research at national and international academic research forums.
Kris Varjas
College of Education, Counseling & Psychological Services
kvarjas@gsu.edu
Dan Whitaker
Director, National SafeCare Training and Research Center
dwhitaker@gsu.edu
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Dan Whitaker, PhD became the Director of the National SafeCare(R) Training and Research Center in January of 2008. Prior to this, he worked at the CDC where he was a Team Leader in the Prevention Development and Evaluation Branch of the Division of Violence Prevention and he led a team of researchers that conducted prevention research in the areas on child maltreatment, intimate partner violence, and suicide. Dr. Whitaker has published two books and over 40 manuscripts and book chapters, including papers in the American Journal of Public Health, Child Maltreatment, and Aggression and Violent Behavior. He recently edited a book on the Primary Prevention of Intimate Partner Violence to be published by the American Psychological Association. He has served as the CDC advisor to the American Medical Association's National Advisory Committee on Violence and Abuse, and on the advisory board for Healthy Families Georgia and the National Family Preservation Network.
Lisa Dawson MPH
Co-Associate Director of Outreach
lddawson@dhr.state.ga.us
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Lisa Dawson is Director of the Office of Injury Prevention within the Georgia Department of Public Health, Maternal and Child Health Program. Lisa has worked in public health and the injury prevention field for more than 17 years. Her roles at the state level include active participation in the Child Fatality Review, active participation in both NHTSA sponsored activities, the Traffic Records Coordinating Committee and Georgia CODES project, she holds a gubernatorial appointment as a Commissioner to the Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Trust Fund, is an Advisory Member for Domestic Violence Prevention Project Connect Program, a former member of the Suicide Prevention Coalition of Georgia and member of SAFE KIDS Georgia. She was among the first certified child passenger safety technician instructors in Georgia.
Omar Danner
Department of Surgery
odanner@msm.edu
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After finishing General Surgery Residency training in 2001 at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Dr. Omar Danner matriculated to The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where he completed a fellowship in Adult Surgical Critical Care Medicine and Trauma. He is currently an Attending Surgeon for the Trauma and Surgical Critical Care Service at Grady Memorial Hospital, as well as a member of the General Surgery teaching staff at Morehouse School of Medicine. His primary areas of interests are (Youth) Violence Prevention, Prevention and Management of Obesity, Chronic Disease and Metabolic Syndrome, Advanced Laparoscopy, Obesity Surgery, and Management of Shock and the Stress/Metabolic Response to Injury. His other major interests include Community Education and Outreach Program Development and Administration.
Frank Franklin
Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine
ffranklin@msm.edu
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Dr. Franklin received a bachelor's degree in Biology from Morgan State University in 1992 and he received his M.P.H. from Morehouse School of Medicine in 1998, with a concentration in International Health, and subsequently received a training certificate in epidemiology and policy studies from the University of Michigan. Dr. Franklin received his Ph.D. in Health and Public Policy, with a concentration in Injury Epidemiology, from the Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2009. Dr. Franklin's work experience includes serving as a Section Epidemiologist with the Georgia Division of Public Health, a Research Fellow with the CDC/Epidemiological Program Office, and a Senior Research Associate with the Center for Health Services Research and Policy at The George Washington University. Collectively, these experiences have given him an extensive background and professional training in applied epidemiology health policy. Dr. Franklin's current research interests include the spatial availability of alcohol and its influence on assaultive violence, structural indices of race and class and their impact on health disparities, and public policies that shape urban health status.
James Griffin PhD
Co-Associate Director of Outreach
jgriffin@msm.edu
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For over thirty years, Dr. James P. Griffin, Jr. has been involved in behavioral health promotion, training, education, and research. He has an earned doctorate in psychology with specialized training in behavior modification, school psychology, and community/organizational psychology. He attended West Virginia University in Morgantown, WV; Howard University in Washington, DC, and graduated in 1991 with a doctorate from the Department of Psychology at Georgia State University in Atlanta, GA. The last twenty-five years of his career have focused on the prevention of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs and violence prevention. This included consultation on the transfer of research-based prevention technologies in Louisville, KY; Memphis, TN; Washington, DC; Atlanta, GA; and Miami, FL.
Dr. Griffin is faculty at the Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) in the Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine and in the Department of Pediatrics. He has also served as adjunct faculty at Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health. He has been principal investigator for various prevention programs operating in public schools in Atlanta, GA. For example, he directed a National Institutes of Health-funded project called the BRAVE Program (Building Resiliency And Vocational Excellence). BRAVE was a substance abuse and violence prevention program designed for African American males. Dr. Griffin also directed a school-wide violence prevention program that operated in a Metropolitan Atlanta public schools. He has also acted as the principal investigator for the Atlanta Violence Prevention Capacity Building Project (ACBP) in collaboration with three community-based organizations. Dr. Griffin is the founder and convener of the Metropolitan Atlanta Violence Prevention Partnership (MAVPP), reaching over 300 government, academic, community- and faith-based organizations, and individuals.
Frank Jones
School of Medicine, Department of Surgery
fjones@msm.edu
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Frank K. Jones, MD is an instructor of clinical surgery for Morehouse University. He practices clinically as a trauma surgeon, general surgeon, and surgical intensivist at Grady Memorial Hospital. Dr. Jones received his medical degree from Morehouse School of Medicine in 1991 and his undergraduate degree at Morehouse college, his MPH at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University, and completed his residency at Howard University College of Medicine.
Arthur Kellermann MD
Director Emeritus
Arthur_Kellermann@rand.org
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Dr. Arthur Kellermann directs RAND's Public Health and Preparedness Initiative. Before joining RAND, he was a professor of emergency medicine and public health and served as associate dean for health policy at the Emory School of Medicine in Atlanta. Kellermann founded Emory's Department of Emergency Medicine and served as its first chair from 1999 to 2007. He established the Emory Center for Injury Control, and holds “excellence in science” awards from two organizations: the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine and the Injury Control and Emergency Health Services Section of the American Public Health Association. A two-term member of the board of directors of the American College of Emergency Physicians, Kellermann was subsequently given the College's highest award for leadership. Elected to the Institute of Medicine (IOM), Kellermann co-chaired the IOM Committee on the Consequences of Uninsurance, which issued six reports on this topic between 2001 and 2004. He also served on the IOM's Committee on the Future of Emergency Care in the U.S. Health System and the Committee on Effectiveness of National Biosurveillance Systems: BioWatch and the Public Health System. As a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow (2006-07) Kellermann worked for the professional staff of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, U.S. House of Representatives. A clinician and researcher, he practiced and taught emergency medicine for more than 25 years in public teaching hospitals in Seattle, Washington; Memphis, Tennessee; and Atlanta, Georgia.
Chalandra Bryant
Department of Child and Family Development
cmb84@uga.edu
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Dr. Chalandra M. Bryant, Ph.D. is a Professor of Child and Family Development at the University of Georgia. She studies close relationships -- particularly marital functioning. She is the PI on a project funded by NICHD. That funding enabled her to collect data about the marriages and health of 700 African American couples living in the South. The primary goal of the project is to examine the role social, familial, economic, occupational, and psychological factors play in marital and health outcomes, as couples transition through the early years of marriage. She has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals about family interactions and contextual factors.
Y. Joon Choi PhD
School of Social Work
choiyj@uga.edu
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Y. Joon Choi, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Georgia. Prior to joining the UGA faculty in 2011, Dr. Choi has worked in the field of domestic violence over 10 years, first as a counselor/advocate for Asian immigrant women in New York City and later as a founding member of a domestic violence prevention project for Asian communities in Michigan, which received the CDC’s Domestic Violence Prevention Enhancement and Through Alliances (DELTA) grant. Her research focuses on domestic violence in immigrant communities, especially developing and evaluating socio-culturally appropriate domestic violence prevention strategies.
Jody Clay-Warner
Department of Sociology Department
jclayw@uga.edu
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Jody Clay-Warner, PhD is an Associate Professor and the Graduate Coordinator for the Department of Sociology. Her research focuses on the ways in which group identification alters the effects of procedural and distributive justice in the workplace and in the area of gender and crime, including sexual violence reporting and resistance behaviors.
Phaedra Corso
Department of Health Policy and Management
pcorso@uga.edu
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Phaedra Corso, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management. Prior to joining the UGA faculty in 2006, Dr. Corso worked for 15 years at CDC as an economic and policy analyst.Her research focuses on the practical application of economic evaluation for setting public health policy and assessing health-related quality of life in vulnerable populations. Dr. Corso has co-edited two editions of a primer on how to conduct economic evaluations in public health settings, a book on the incidence and economic costs of injury, and has written numerous articles on economic evaluation applied to prevention interventions.
Carol Cotton
Department of Health Promotion and Behavior
cpcotton@uga.edu
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Dr. Cotton is currently a faculty member at the University of Georgia in the Department of Health Promotion and Behavior in the College of Public Health. She teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses in program development, implementation and evaluation, and international health, in addition to teaching study abroad in Croatia. She is a founding faculty member of the Croatia study abroad program which is in its 7th year. For the past 10 years she has been the coordinator and supervisor of all undergraduate field experiences in the health promotion department. She has been the co-principal investigator and the lead evaluator for the Georgia Highway Safety Programs Evaluation funded by the Georgia Governor's Office on Highway Safety for the past 14 years, and is the Director of the Traffic Safety Research and Evaluation Group. She is a founding faculty member of the Center for Global Health. Her current research projects include studying motorcycle and scooter rider behaviors and attitudes, and examining the implementation of the new texting while driving law in Georgia. She holds a Ph.D. in health promotion, and an M.Ed. in health education, specializing in community health.
Pamela Orpinas
Department of Health Promotion and Behavior
porpinas@uga.edu
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Pamela Orpinas, PhD is a Professor in the Department of Health Promotion and Behavior. Her CDC funded work has included national and international studies of the risk factors for violence and bullying among adolescents and adults, and the development and evaluation of theory-based interventions for the prevention of violence.
Anne Shaffer
Department of Psychology
ashaffer@uga.edu
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Anne Shaffer, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology in the Clinical Psychology and Brain & Behavioral Sciences Programs at the University of Georgia. Her research encompasses multiple aspects of parenting and family interactions including emotional maltreatment, emotion socialization, and emotion communication. This research focuses on the study of family and close relationships as contexts for risk and protection in development. She approaches research from a developmental psychopathology perspective, integrating developmental and clinical theory to describe and predict factors leading to adaptation and/or maladaptation. Specifically, she pursues two foci in her current program of research: 1) Predictors and outcomes of family processes and interactions that can exacerbate or mitigate the risk of maladaptive outcomes in multiple domains (i.e., social, relational, emotional, behavioral); and 2) applied research to develop and evaluate prevention and intervention efforts that address emotional maltreatment and other maladaptive family interactions.
Rheeda L. Walker
Department of Psychology
rlwo@uga.edu
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Rheeda L. Walker, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Georgia and a licensed clinical psychologist. Dr. Walker's primary research focus is suicide in African-American adults with a particular emphasis on how culturally-relevant factors such as acculturation strategies, ethnic identity, and spiritual well-being mitigate suicide risk. Dr. Walker has authored or co-authored numerous peer-reviewed manuscripts in journals such as <i>Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, Psychological Assessment, Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology</i>, and <i>Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology</i>. Dr. Walker was previously a Visiting Research Scientist in University of Rochester Medical Center's Center for the Study and Prevention of Suicide as well as a clinical program faculty member at the University of South Carolina and Southern Illinois University. Dr. Walker's research efforts have been recognized by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Loan Repayment Program-Health Disparities, a competitive award for junior faculty who are engaged in health disparities research. In 2006, Dr. Walker was honored as one of ten "Rising Stars in the Academy" by the national magazine, <i>Diverse Issues in Higher Education</i>.
Myra N. Burnett
Vice Provost
mburnett@spelman.edu
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Myra Burnett, PhD is an Associate Professor in Psychology and the Vice Provost at Spelman College. She has taught at Spelman since 1986 and focused her work on Self and Ethnic Group Esteem, Risk Behavior, HIV risk education, and Intimate Partner Violence. She has been funded by the NIH and NSF.
Sandra Sims Patterson
Chair, Department of Psychology
spatters@spelman.edu
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Sandra Patterson, PhD is an Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Psychology. Her research interests include prosocial behavior, adolescent violence, and assessing violence prevention strategies on inner city youth.
Cynthia Spence
Department of Sociology
cspence@spelman.edu
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Cynthia Spence, PhD has served as Assistant Dean for Freshman Studies, Associate Academic Dean and Academic Dean from at Spelman. As an Associate Professor of Sociology, her interests are in higher education access and violence against women. She consulted for the Ford Foundation Institutional Transformation Project, University of Chicago Provost Initiative on Minority Affairs, and Georgia Department of Corrections. She is currently the Director of the UNCF Mellon Programs.
Miriam W. Boeri
Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice
mboeri@kennesaw.edu
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Miriam Boeri, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, Georgia. She holds membership in numerous academic associations, including the Society for Applied Anthropology and the American Sociological Association; she is currently Vice-President for the Georgia Sociological Association. She has been project director or project manager on five grants for research projects based at Emory University and Georgia State University. She is currently a PI on a NIH grant-funded study on "Methamphetamine Use in the Suburbs" based at Kennesaw State University. In addition, she serves as an advisor and collaborator on the socialization program for the Dekalb County Drug Court, an innovative program designed to introduce drug court clients to new social networks.
Jennifer McMahon-Howard
Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice
jmcmaho7@kennesaw.edu
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Jennifer McMahon-Howard, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Kennesaw State University. Her research focuses on gender and crime, victimization, and legal change. She is involved in several projects that examine social and legal responses to sexual violence and exploitation. Currently, she is conducting a study that explores the onset, continuation, and desistance from commercial sexual activities for women who entered prostitution as minors. Also, she recently published several articles on rape law reforms and rape victimization in Law & Society Review, Sociological Perspectives, and Violence Against Women.
Rebecca Petersen
Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice
rpeterse@kennesaw.edu
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Rebecca D. Petersen, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of Criminal Justice at Kennesaw State University in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice. She received her Ph.D. in Justice Studies at Arizona State University in 1997. Her current teaching and research interests consist of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency, Youth Gangs, Women and Crime, Corrections, Crime and Technology, and Intimate and Family Violence.
Linda Treiber
Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice
ltreiber@kennesaw.edu
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Linda A. Treiber, PhD. is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Kennesaw State University. Dr. Treiber studies the unintended consequences of rational action and the social sources of premature death and illness including medical error, occupational injury, and the mass marketing of fast foods, prescription drugs, tobacco and alcohol. Ongoing projects include a qualitative study of patients' perceptions of health care mistakes. Dr. Treiber is also currently studying the relationship between technology, pace of work and medication administration errors among Registered Nurses.
Michele LaPlaca
Department of Biomedical Engineering
michelle.laplaca@bme.gatech.edu
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Michele LaPlaca, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and her research interests are in traumatic brain and spinal cord injury, neural tissue engineering, injury biomechanics, neural interfacing, and cognitive impairment associated with brain injury and aging. She has received an NSF Career award and has research projects funded by both NIH and foundations.In addition, Dr. LaPlaca is a member of the National Neurotrauma Society, Women in Neurotrauma Research, the Society of Neuroscience, the American Society for Neural Therapy and Repair, the American Physiological Society, and the Biomedical Engineering Society.
Craig Zimring
Department of Architecture
craig.zimring@coa.gatech.edu
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Craig Zimring, PhD is an Environmental Psychologist and Professor of Architecture at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. His work focuses on understanding the relationships between the physical environment and human satisfaction, health, performance, and behavior. He has served on the board of several organizations, including the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Building Bridges program, National Research Council's Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment, the Environmental Design Research Association, and others. He has won 10 awards for his research.
J. Celeste Walley-Jean
Department of Psychology
jeanettewalley-jean@mail.clayton.edu
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Dr. Walley-Jean is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Clayton State University. She has clinical experience working with women, men, and adolescents who have used and experienced violence in their relationships. In addition Dr. Walley-Jean's area of research investigates women's use and experience of violence in their relationships, especially African-American college women's interpersonal aggression.
Joyce Dickerson
Department of Social Work
joycedickersonphd@yahoo.com
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Joyce G. Carter Dickerson, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Whitney M. Young, Jr., School of Social Work at Clark Atlanta University. She was the Principal Investigator on several grants including a project funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to develop and implement a campus-based Domestic Violence Prevention Program and Resource Center in North Carolina. Dr. Dickerson also coordinated five national conferences on domestic violence. She regularly presents at national conferences and has published on topics related to intimate partner violence, community violence and social work history. She served as Interim Chair of the MSW Program at CAU and was honored in Who's Who Among America's Teachers in 2006.
Margaret Spriggs
Department of Social Work
mspriggs@cau.edu
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Margaret S. E. Counts-Spriggs, PhD is an Associate Professor and the Interim Assistant Dean for the Whitney M. Young, Jr., School of Social Work at Clark Atlanta University. In 2004 she served as the Clark Atlanta University Principal Investigator for a UNCFSP-RAP (Research through Academy-Community Partnerships), sponsored by CDC, to train undergraduate students as health researchers. She has presented several workshops and seminars that address the diversity of aging, and has recently co-authored two articles that explore the impact of religious dimensions of grandparents within intergenerational families and the influence of spirituality on health beliefs within intergenerational families. Present and past board membership include the Helene M. Mills Multipurpose Senior Center, Fulton County Strategies Task Force-Bowden Center, and Aid to Children of Imprisoned Mothers, now known as Forever Family, and the Georgia Gerontology Society.
Tamika Bryant
Stephanie V. Blank Center for Safe and Healthy Children
tamika.bryant@choa.org
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Dr. Tamika Bryant received her Bachelor’s Degree in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University. It was during her undergraduate education in Baltimore that she first became interested in the Child Advocacy field while working as an interview facilitator at the Baltimore Child Abuse Center. She went on to obtain her medical degree from Eastern Virginia Medical School and her pediatric residency training at the University of Chicago Comer Children’s Hospital. Dr. Bryant then completed a 3 year fellowship in Child Abuse Pediatrics at Children’s Hospital Of The King’s Daughters in Norfolk, Virginia. In 2011, Dr. Bryant joined the Blank Center for Safe and Healthy children where she regularly assesses suspected child abuse cases, testifies in court cases and lectures to medical and investigative audiences on issues related to child abuse. She is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Section on Child Abuse and Neglect. She is also a member of the Ray Helfer Society, an honorary society for physicians specializing in child abuse. Her research interests include child abuse in military families and quality improvement of child abuse and neglect evaluations.
Jordan Greenbaum
Medical Director
Virginia.greenbaum@choa.org
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Jordan Greenbaum is the medical director of the Child Protection Center at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, in Atlanta, Georgia. She conducts medical evaluations on children who have been physically or sexually abused or neglected, testifies as an expert witness and serves on local multidisciplinary teams and committees. She is a past president of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children. She has given local, regional, national and international presentations to attorneys, law enforcement, child protection workers, medical personnel and mental health professionals.
Stephen Messner
Stephanie V. Blank Center for Safe and Healthy Children
Stephen.Messner@choa.org
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Dr. Stephen A. Messner earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Richmond. In 2001, he completed his medical school training at the Medical College of Virginia and followed that with the completion of his pediatric residency at the University of Florida. Dr. Messner stayed at the University of Florida as a faculty member in the general pediatrics division where he saw patients for not only general pediatric issues, but also for concerns of abuse and neglect. After being on faculty in Florida for three years, Dr. Messner joined the Stephanie V. Blank Center for Safe and Healthy Children at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta in the summer of 2007. Dr. Messner is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and a member of the Georgia AAP section on child abuse.
