Primary Faculty

Areas of Interest

 Elaine Borawski, PhD

Health behavior intervention (HIV prevention, obesity and diet modification, physical activity, tobacco prevention); adolescent health (teen pregnancy prevention); survey methodology; health status measurement; outcome-based community evaluations; community-based participatory research.

 Scott Frank, MD, MPH

Health behavior change, smoking cessation, substance abuse, clinical assessment of stress and the role of spirituality and religion in the medical setting.

 Siran Koroukian, PhD

Health disparities in chronic disease, its treatment and the factors associated (i.e., behavioral).  Methodological issues in the use of large databases in health services research; Medicare and Medicaid programs;

  Sana Loue, PhD, JD, MPH

Immigration law and health; HIV in underserved populations; ethics in research; the impact of HIV on the family; ethics and needle exchange programs; forensic epidemiology; public health and the law.

  Nora Nock, PhD

Genetic, molecular and environmental determinants of cancer; energy balance (physical activity and nutrition), obesity and cancer; multivariate modeling; structural equation modeling. 

 Mendel Singer, PhD

Methodological interests include community health interventions, cost-effectiveness analysis, large databases and quality of life. Content areas of special interest include school/communty-based health interventions (emphasis on the Jewish community), obesity, infectious disease, and mental health.

 Erika Trapl, PhD

Health behavior measurement and surveillance; Survey-based data collection methods and technology; Tobacco control; Adolescent sexual behavior; Health literacy; Community-based Interventions.

Secondary Faculty

Areas of Interest

Jill Barnholtz-Sloan, Ph.D.

Cancer Center

Related research interests include cancer epidemiology, health disparities, and cancer outcomes.

David Bruckman, MS

Cleveland Department

of Public Health

Mr. Bruckman coordinates HIV/AIDS and STD surveillance for Cleveland and Cuyahoga County, reporting on vital statistics and children and maternal health indicators for the city. 

Catherine Demko,  PhD

Community Dentistry

Oral cancer screening, health promotion in dental practice, practice change and quality improvement in practice-based research networks.

Susan Flocke, PhD

Family Medicine, PRCHN

Preventive service delivery in the primary care setting, doctor-patient communication of health behavior change and utilization of community resources to facilitate behavior change. Methodological interests include conducting research that mixes quantitative and qualitative methods and engaging practice-based research networks to conduct both large observation and intervention studies.

Marjorie Heinzer, PhD

School of Nursing

Study of resilience in children and adolescents; domestic violence issues in families; grieving and loss in families; childhood obesity and prevention/intervention research; school-based interventions for children ages 10-12 years, and children with chronic illnesses (e.g. BPD).

Carolyn Hodges, MS

Public Health Nutrition

Ms. Hodges is on faculty in the Dept of Nutrition and coordinates the supervised practice rotations for dietetic interns and teaches modules of NTRN 528 Introduction to Public Health Nutrition and NTRN 530 Public Health Nutrition.  Her research interests include community-based  food and nutrition policy research.

Isabel Parraga, PhD

Public Health Nutrition

Public health nutrition education, maternal and child nutrition, and international nutrition.   

Jessica Kelley-Moore, PhD

Sociology

Causes and consequences of health disparities over the life course, particularly those related to race, socioeconomic status, and disability. She is currently interested in how the neighborhood and environment influence the differential health outcomes observed in mid-life and older adults.

Carolyn Landis, PhD

Behavioral Pediatric

Psychology

Behavioral nutrition, physical activity habits and family-level variables that may predispose children to obesity, including expertise in cognitive-behavioral approaches to lifestyle change and motivational interviewing (Ml). 

Li Li, PhD

Family Medicine

Disease prevention, cancer epidemiology and prevention, and cardiovascular disease

Mona Rizkallah, PhD

Family Medicine, PRCHN

Community-based prevention and health promotion, program evaluation, intervention sustainability studies.

Ash Sehgal, MD

Center for Reducing Health Disparities

Identifying and overcoming barriers to quality of care, complex health interventions, adequacy of hemodialysis, nutrition in renal failure, access to kidney transplantation, and medical activism.

Jim Spillsbury, PhD

Center for Clinical Investigation

Sleep in social and cultural context, effects of violence on children’s health and well-being, effects of neighborhoods and child health and development

Kurt Stange, MD, PhD

Family Medicine

Generalist function, primary care practice, practice-based research, cancer prevention and early detection, multimethod research, health promotion, disability prevention, and preventive service delivery in primary medical care.

Jim Werner, PhD

Family Medicine

Practice-based research methods, behavioral health in primary care, and health behavior change