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Department of Preventive Medicine

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Dept. of Preventive Medicine
66 N. Pauline Street
Suite 633
Memphis, TN 38163
Telephone #: 901-448-5900

"...improving human health
through education, research,
and public service...."



Main Faculty
Name
Expertise/Interests
Bush, Andrew J., Ph.D.
    Professor
biostatistics; computer intensive data analysis; longitudinal data analysis; quantitative analysis: large data sets
Coday, Mathilda C. [Mace], Ph.D.
    Associate Professor
psychology; cognitive-behavioral interventions for physical activity/tobacco use/diet; relation of psychsocial factors, health habits, & health outcomes

Connelly, Stephanie, M.D., M.P.H.
    Assistant Professor

internal medicine
Connor, Pamela D., Ph.D.
    Professor
community health; primary care affective disorders; academic training grants; medical school admission criteria predictors, learning theory, palliative medicine, smoking & children
DeBon, Margaret, Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor
psychology; mental health; women's health; smoking cessation; behavior change intervention
Graney, Marshall J., Ph.D.
    Professor Emeritus
biostatistics; gerontology/geriatrics
Hare, Marion, M.D., M.S.
    Associate Professor
pediatric epidemiology
Johnson, Karen C., M.D., M.P.H.
    Professor & Vice Chair
    
preventive medicine; clinical trials; internal medicine; women's health, cardiovascular disease, smoking cessation, osteoporosis
Klesges, Robert C., Ph.D.
    Professor
cancer prevention and control
Krushkal Adkins, Julia, Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor
bioinformatics, statistical genetics, genomics, sequence analysis, genes mapping & association; molecular evolution; population genetics.  
See http://cgb.utmem.edu/jkrushkal.
Lamar, Kimberly D., Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor
community health; environmental health
McClary, Alicia M., Ed.D.
    Professor
educational psychology; medical education; community health
McDonald, Chanchai, Ph.D.
    Assistant Vice Chancellor of Academic, Faculty,
    & Student Affairs
    Associate Professor
educational technology; biomedical research education and training systems; design, development, and analysis of networked computing systems, software tools, and web-based applications
Mirvis, David M., M.D.
    Professor
health systems & health policy; healthcare organization, quality of care, healthcare financing, Medicaid managed care
Nouer, Simonne, M.D., Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor
epidemiology; tropical medicine; spatial analysis of health-related data
Richey, Phyllis A., Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor
exercise physiology (specialization in pediatric & cardiovascular physiology); exercise physiology & community health intervention--pediatric obesity; hypertension-induced target organ damage
Runyan, John W., Jr., M.D., MACP
    University Distinguished Professor Emeritus
internal medicine; community health; primary care
Satterfield, Suzanne, M.D., Dr.P.H.
    Assistant Professor
clinical trials, epidemiology; chronic disease epidemiology, aging, osteoporosis, cardiovascular disease
Somes, Grant W., Ph.D.
    Professor & Chair
statistics, particularly categorical data analysis, longitudinal data analysis, medical applications, exact tests; hypertension; weight variation & adverse outcome; community-based research
Thomas, Fridtjof, Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor
biostatistics; Bayesian approaches to statistical analysis
Tolley, Elizabeth A., Ph.D.
    Professor
biostatistics; causal modeling of physiological and pathophysiological processes; Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS); sepsis & septic shock; quality of life
Tylavsky, Frances A., Dr.P.H.
    Associate Professor
nutrition and public health; effects of diet & body composition on bone mass across levels of the life cycle; assessment of body composition--methodologic issues
Viangteeravat, Teeradache, Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor
computer and electrical engineering; digital signal processing, discrete-time systems, spectral estimation; design, development, and analysis of networked computing systems, software tools, and web-based applications for data processing
Wan, Jim Y., Ph.D.
    Associate Professor
biostatistics; statistical methods for epidemiologic data; health services research
Waters, Teresa M., Ph.D.
    Associate Professor
health economics, health care financing, health policy analysis, cost analysis; financing health care for the poor & underserved, safety net providers, medical malpractice, outcomes research