 | Edward Aberger
Community Health, Department of
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| | Christopher Ahnallen
Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies
Community Health, Department of
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 | Susan Allen
Community Health, Department of
Dr. Allen studies home care issues among people with chronic conditions and disabilities. Her research focuses on formal and family home care, and on the implications of unmet need for help at home for quality of life and service use among people with disability who live in the community. She is also interested in psychosocial outcomes of female cancer survivors, as well as the outcomes of female veterans deployed to serve in the war in Iraq. |
| | Timothy Apodaca
Community Health, Department of
Dr. Timothy Apodaca's research focuses most broadly on the investigation of psychological treatment. He is particularly interested in testing brief forms of counseling to assist individuals in changing substance use behavior, and in seeking to identify active ingredients in psychotherapy. His research focuses on both adult and adolescent populations. |
| | Stanley Aronson
Community Health, Department of
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 | Annlouise Assaf
Community Health, Department of
Dr. Assaf's research is in chronic disease epidemiology, specifically cardiovascular and cancer epidemiology and prevention. Her current research focuses on the following: Pharmacoepidemiology; clinical trials; qualitative evaluation; women's health issues and health risks in postmenopausal women including heart disease; osteoporosis; cancer; effects of diet; hormone therapy; and calcium and vitamin D supplements. |
| | Utpala Bandyopadhyay
Community Health, Department of
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 | Nancy Barnett
Community Health, Department of
Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies
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 | Bruce Becker
Emergency Medicine, Dept. of
Community Health, Department of
Bruce Becker is principal investigator on a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant "Smoking Cessation in Mothers and Older Family Members of Babies Being Treated in a Special Care Nursery." He is a co-investigator on several other NIH grants investigating smoking cessation in different clinical settings and was co-investigator on an NIAAA grant, "Emergency Department Brief Intervention for ETOH Positive Injured Patients." |
| | Diane Becker
Community Health, Department of
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| | Stanley Hoyt Block
Community Health, Department of
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 | Brian Borsari
Community Health, Department of
Dr. Borsari's research interests include the development and implementation of brief interventions with college student drinkers, the assessment and practical application of social norms on college campuses, drinking games in the college environment, social influences on alcohol (e.g., modeling), and the course of substance abuse in the third decade of life. He is also investigating client and therapist utterances that occur during a motivational interviewing session that are associated with subsequent changes in alcohol use and consequences
Through his work at the Providence VAMC, Dr. Borsari also conducts research on the assessment and treatment of PTSD and substance abuse in veterans. |
 | Stephen Buka
Community Health, Department of
Center for Population Health & Clinical Epidemiology
Stephen Buka, Sc.D. is an epidemiologist and developmental psychologist whose work focuses on the causes, development and prevention of major psychiatric and cognitive disorders. Current studies include investigations of prenatal risks for schizophrenia, attention deficit disorder and addictive disorders, including neuroimaging and molecular genetics techniques; and community-level influences on youth substance use and delinquency. He directs the New England Family Study, a 50-year, three-generation longitudinal study of 17,000 infants born in New England in the 1960s, and Brown's Center for Population Health & Clinical Epidemiology. |
 | Jasmina Burdzovic Andreas
Community Health, Department of
Center for Population Health & Clinical Epidemiology
Dr. Burdzovic Andreas' main interests are in the broad area of developmental psychopathology, and in the specific processes of developmental risk, resilience, and protective factors. While traditional research primarily has explored the question of "why" children develop behavioral and mental health problems, Dr. Burdzovic Andreas has primarily been attracted to the question of why many of them do not show negative outcomes, even when there are many reasons we would expect them to. |
| | James Burrill
Community Health, Department of
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| | Christy Capone
Community Health, Department of
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| | Colleen Caron
Community Health, Department of
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| | Kenneth Chay
Economics, Department of
Community Health, Department of
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| | Jennifer Christian
Community Health, Department of
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 | Joseph Ciccolo
Community Health, Department of
Dr. Ciccolo's broad research interest is in using exercise as a tool for enhancing physical and mental health in both apparently healthy and known disease populations. He is specifically interested in 1) studying the role of resistance training, and how it relates to physical activity adherence; and 2) the interaction between exercise (i.e., resistance training) and substance use and abuse. He is currently the PI of an NCI funded study examining the effects of resistance training on smoking cessation in men and women. |
| | L. Anthony Cirillo
Community Health, Department of
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| | Melissa Clark
Community Health, Department of
As a survey methodologist, my research interests are in survey design and data collection methodologies. My substantive interests are in women's health and tobacco, and particularly the role that contextual factors play in health behaviors among middle-aged and older women. My work is primarily in the areas of cancer control and detection. A consistent theme of my work is to better understand the context of the lives of underserved populations to better inform public health interventions. |
| | John Colby
Community Health, Department of
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| | Herbert Constantine
Community Health, Department of
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| | Travis Cook
Community Health, Department of
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| | Sara Dolan
Community Health, Department of
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| | Jo-Ann Donatelli
Community Health, Department of
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| | David Dore
Community Health, Department of
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| | Catherine Dube
Community Health, Department of
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| | David Egilman
Community Health, Department of
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| | Lynn Epstein
Community Health, Department of
Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Department of
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 | Edward Feller
Medicine, Department of
Community Health, Department of
Director, Division of Gastroenterology ( Miriam Hosp. ); Co-director, Community Health clerkship (Brown Medical School). Clinical interests include inflammatory pancreatic disease and viral hepatitis in underserved populations. Research focuses on medical student teaching ; fostering student involvement in scientific writing for publication and presentation at scientific meetings, including 64 student presentations at regional or national meetings from 2002-2009. |
| | Zhanlian Feng
Community Health, Department of
Dr. Feng's most recent project, sponsored by The Rhode Island Foundation, examines quality of life deficiencies in U.S. nursing homes. The project aims to describe the prevalence, trend and organizational correlates of quality of life deficiencies in nursing homes over the past decade; to characterize inter- and intra-state variations in the prevalence of such deficiencies; and to compare Rhode Island nursing homes on these outcomes relative to the national average or to homes in other states. |
| | Fred Ferri
Community Health, Department of
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| | Paul Florin
Community Health, Department of
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| | Michael Follick
Community Health, Department of
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 | Peter Friedmann
Medicine, Department of
Community Health, Department of
1) Organization of treatment services, esp. linkage to comprehensive services.
2) Role of primary care in diagnosis and management of substance abuse
3) Sleep disorders and relapse to alcoholism
4) Integration of correctional and community services for addicted offenders. |
| | John Fulton
Community Health, Department of
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| | Marie Ganim
Community Health, Department of
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 | Kim Gans
Community Health, Department of
Dr. Kim M. Gans is a Professor in the Department of Community Health at Brown University and Co-Director of the Brown Institute for Community Health Promotion. |
 | Ilana Gareen
Community Health, Department of
Center for Statistical Sciences
Dr. Gareen focuses on cancer screening trials. She is interested in the downstream consequences of screening, including medical care utilization, iatrogenic consequences, changes in quality of life, and the impact of screening and screening results on smoking cessation.
Dr. Gareen also focuses on potential biases arising in cancer screening trials. |
 | Constantine Gatsonis
Community Health, Department of
Center for Statistical Sciences
Constantine Gatsonis has research interests in Bayesian inference and its applications to problems in biostatistics, medical technology evaluation with emphasis on the clinical evaluation of diagnostic imaging and biomarkers, bioinformatics, and methodologic aspects of health services and outcomes research. |
| | Michael Gerardo
Community Health, Department of
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 | Donald Giddon
Community Health, Department of
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 | David Gifford
Medicine, Department of
Community Health, Department of
Quality of Care
Nursing Homes
Quality Improvement
Public Reporting
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| | Annie Gjelsvik
Community Health, Department of
My current work focuses on providing public access to public health surveillance data to provide health professionals and community organizations with valuable information with which to improve the health of the population through data-driven programs and policies. In addition, I am the Epidemiologist for the Rhode Island Diabetes Control Program. |
| | Irene Glasser
Community Health, Department of
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| | Robert Goldberg
Community Health, Department of
Dr. Robert Goldberg has been actively involved in community-based studies of the natural history and primary and secondary prevention of coronary heart disease, heart failure, and deep venous thrombosis for approximately 2 decades.
(Clinical Epidemiology and Clinical Research; Preventive Cardiology and Cardiovascular Epidemiology.) |
 | Pedro Luis Gozalo
Community Health, Department of
Pedro Gozalo is an econometrician and health economist. Dr. Gozalo's research focuses on theoretical and methodological aspects of access to, and utilization of, long-term care services by older adults as well as on the effects of market and provider characteristics on utilization and patient outcomes. |
 | David Greer
Community Health, Department of
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| | Jane Griffin
Community Health, Department of
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 | Chad Gwaltney
Community Health, Department of
Dr. Gwaltney's work has focused on cognitive and emotional factors underlying cigarette smoking initiation, maintenance, and cessation. His research has featured Ecological Momentary Assessment, a method of data collection in which individuals use palm-top computers to report about their experiences as they are happening outside of the laboratory. He is currently conducting a NIDA-funded study of adolescent smoking cessation. |
| | Jana Hesser
Community Health, Department of
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| | Sumner Hoffman
Community Health, Department of
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 | Joseph Hogan
Community Health, Department of
Center for Statistical Sciences
Dr. Hogan conducts research on statistical methods for missing data, causal inference, and sensitivity analysis. Collaborations in HIV/AIDS and behavioral sciences motivate the methodology. Projects in behavioral sciences concern informative dropout, noncompliance, and treatment mediation in intervention trials. Projects in HIV/AIDS include modeling viral and immunologic response to antiviral therapy, neurocognitive effects of HIV, and effects of HIV/HCV coinfection. |
| | E. Andres Houseman
Community Health, Department of
Center for Environmental Health and Technology
Dr. Andres Houseman's research involves latent variable methods, model-based clustering, and high-dimensional data analysis. Recent work has focused on computationally efficient methods for epigenomics research. |
| | John Hustad
Community Health, Department of
His research interests include college student alcohol use, empirically supported treatments, behavioral economics, and biological markers of alcohol use. Dr. Hustad seeks to investigate mechanisms of behavioral change following the completion of commonly used alcohol prevention programs designed for college students. |
 | Orna Intrator
Community Health, Department of
I am a health services researcher educated in statistics and applied mathematics. My research has focused on health care utilization and cost of care of nursing home residents and the organization of professional medical staff in nursing homes. I seek to understand potentially modifiable organizational behavior and strategies and the effect of implementation of policies on those organizational behaviors. In my research I have emphasized the use of novel statistical methods, building sophisticated data systems for complex analyses, and designing statistical models and methods. I have been particularly concerned with the way in which methods and models are used, developing methods to more clearly present and understand their results. |
 | Kristina Jackson
Community Health, Department of
• Apply advanced multivariate quantitative methods (e.g., latent state-trait modeling, latent transition analysis, latent class analysis, mixture modeling) to large-scale social science data sets
• Examine alcohol-tobacco comorbidity
• Characterize developmental course of alcohol use in late adolescence and young adulthood
• Identify critical background and dynamic risk factors and comorbid conditions associated with heavy drinking
• Develop psychosocial models of health behavior |
| | Suzanne Jacobs
Community Health, Department of
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| | Julie Jefferson
Community Health, Department of
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| | Yongwen Jiang
Community Health, Department of
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| | Alicia Justus
Community Health, Department of
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| | John Kelly
Community Health, Department of
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| | Karl Kelsey
Community Health, Department of
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Department of
Center for Environmental Health and Technology
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| | Douglas Kiel
Community Health, Department of
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| | Eunhee Kim
Community Health, Department of
Center for Statistical Sciences
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| | Hyun Kim
Community Health, Department of
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 | Valerie Knopik
Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Department of
Community Health, Department of
Dr. Knopik's primary area of interest is the joint effects and interaction of genetic and environmental (specifically prenatal and early postnatal) risk factors on childhood externalizing behavior (e.g., Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Conduct Disorder, Oppositional Defiant Disorder) and associated learning and cognitive deficits. |
| | Christopher Koller
Community Health, Department of
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| | Jacquelyn Kung
Community Health, Department of
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| | Sylvia Kuo
Community Health, Department of
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 | Linda Laliberte-Cote
Community Health, Department of
Ms. Laliberte is an attorney, health policy analyst and health services researcher with broad experience in Medicare policy and healthcare issues affecting the elderly. She has conducted research on hospice care, nursing home care, residential care facilities, breast cancer treatment for older women, health insurance access in RI. She is currently a member of the team of investigators studying the long-term care system. |
| | Anthony Lancaster
Economics, Department of
Community Health, Department of
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| | Kate Lynn Lapane
Community Health, Department of
My research program spans multiple settings and reflects multiple interests all relating to medication use. I have performed geriatric pharmacoepidemiologic studies including studies of drug utilization, adverse effects of medications, and beneficial effects of medications in populations systematically excluded from clinical trials, as well as the effects of policy on prescribing trends and studies of interventions to improve the quality of pharmaceutical care. |
 | Thomas Lasater
Community Health, Department of
Professor Lasater has numerous research interests including: community-based research; partnering with religious organizations; behavior change and the underserved; disparity reduction; prenatal and postpartum education; prevention of chronic disease; nutrition change; physical activity; weight control; smoking cessation; innovative technology and communication; epidemiology of chronic disease; and maintenance of behavior change. |
| | Patricia Leddy
Community Health, Department of
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 | Christina Lee
Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies
Community Health, Department of
Dr. Christina Lee's research focuses most broadly on developing and implementing innovative clinical treatment research to reduce alcohol/substance use related health disparities in underserved populations. Other research areas of interest include methods to enhance minority recruitment and retention and mechanisms of change in behavioral health treatment outcomes. |
| | Kimberly Leite-Morris
Community Health, Department of
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 | David Lewis
Community Health, Department of
Medicine, Department of
My academic interest has been in the evaluation of addiction prevention and treatment programs and screening and brief intervention for substance abuse in all clinic practices. For some time I was involved in testing new developments in treatment procedures, including the introduction of new psychopharmalogical agents. More recently, I worked on projects to evaluate the effectiveness of health professional education and the adoption of evidence-based policies. |
 | Crystal Linkletter
Community Health, Department of
Center for Statistical Sciences
Dr. Linkletter develops statistical methods for social network analysis, with emphasis on predicting network connections and understanding how contact structure impacts processes evolving on the network. Other projects include design and analysis of experiments, and statistical modeling of computer experiments. |
 | Tao Liu
Community Health, Department of
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 | Albert Lo
Neurology
Community Health, Department of
Engineering, Division of
• Stroke rehabilitation Phase II/III Clinical Trials in Robotic Neurorehabilitation
• Multiple Sclerosis Clinical Pilot Studies Robotic Neurorehabilitation
• Neuroprotection in Multiple Sclerosis and animal models
• Investigations in Multiple Sclerosis Clinical Epidemiology
• Rhode Island Multiple Sclerosis Study (RIMMS)
• Mild traumatic brain injury: impact on attention, cognition and motor control |
 | Mark Lurie
Community Health, Department of
Mark Lurie, Ph.D., is a social epidemiologist working on the HIV/AIDS, STI, and TB in sub-Saharan Africa. He has studied the role of migration in the spread of HIV in South Africa, examined the evidence for concurrency as a major driver of the HIV epidemic, and his current research, through an NIH R-01 examines the impact of antiretroviral therapy on HIV epidemic dynamics in Sub-Saharan Africa. |
| | James Mackillop
Community Health, Department of
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| | Robert Marshall
Community Health, Department of
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| | Rosemarie Ann Martin
Community Health, Department of
Areas of Research Interest:
1) Research methodology and multivariate statistics in addiction research
2) Outcomes evaluation and predictors of outcome
3) Longitudinal data analysis
4) Motivational enhancement
5) Contingency management interventions |
 | Stephen McGarvey
Community Health, Department of
Dr. McGarvey is concerned with issues of human population biology and international health, specifically modernization-related induced socio-economic and behavioral changes, gene by environment interactions on cardiovascular disease risk factors, tropical parasitology and child nutritional status and health, and environmental issues. His research involves developing-world countries such as Samoa, the Philippines, South Africa and Ghana. |
 | Michael Mello
Emergency Medicine, Dept. of
Community Health, Department of
Injury Prevention and Control - specifically motor vehicle safety, impaired drivers, alcohol as a risk factor for injury, pediatric injury prevention, and home safety |
 | Jane Metrik
Community Health, Department of
Marijuana's effects on mood and behavior
This human laboratory study examines the pharmacological and psychological bases of acute effects of marijuana on human behavior and decision-making process in marijuana smokers. A number of similar placebo-controlled pharmacological trials with marijuana are conducted in universities and medical schools across the country. |
| | Susan Miller
Community Health, Department of
Dr. Miller studies nursing home (NH) end-of-life care and long-term care utilization and quality. Her ongoing research includes studies that aim to understand the use of hospice care in NHs, how use is associated with state policies, and how hospice care influences quality. Another study is examining NH "culture change" practices, state policies associated with their adoption, and quality outcomes. |
 | Lois Monteiro
Community Health, Department of
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 | Peter Monti
Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies
Community Health, Department of
Peter Monti's research interests include: adolescent substance abuse prevention and treatment; coping skills and relapse prevention; and combined cognitive behavioral and pharmacological interventions. |
 | Vincent Mor
Community Health, Department of
Dr. Mor's research focuses on the organizational and health care delivery system factors associated with variation in use of health services, and outcomes experienced by frail and chronically ill persons. Areas of study include: the quality of nursing home care, Medicare funding for post-acute care, the determinants of hospitalization, disease management for cancer patients and age and racial discrimination in health care treatments. |
| | Donald Murphy
Community Health, Department of
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| | Lucile Newman
Community Health, Department of
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 | Patricia Nolan
Community Health, Department of
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 | Hernando Ombao
Community Health, Department of
Center for Statistical Sciences
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| | Don Operario
Community Health, Department of
I am a social/behavioral scientist studying community-based health interventions and the social epidemiology of HIV/AIDS. My general research interests include social psychological determinants of health inequalities, psychological and health consequences of stigma and discrimination, community collaborative research, and evidence-based public health practice and policy. |
 | George Papandonatos
Community Health, Department of
Center for Statistical Sciences
Dr. Papandonatos has research interests in hierarchical modeling of
continuous and discrete data, and in population genetics,particularly
phenotypes related smoking initiation and progression to nicotine
dependence. |
 | Donna Parker
Community Health, Department of
Dr. Donna Parker's research interests are:
1) Maternal and child health issues
- Smoking cessation and relapse prevention during pregnancy and the postpartum period, particularly among underserved populations;
- Preventing environmental tobacco smoke exposure to newborn infants;
- Postpartum depression among women with partner abuse;
2) Cardiovascular epidemiology
- Translating the ATP III Cholesterol Education Guidelines into Primary Care Practice (Co-PI and Director of Evaluation). |
| | Deborah Pearlman
Community Health, Department of
Deborah Pearlman's substantive research interests are in advancing a deeper understanding of how fundamental causes of disparity (e.g., socioeconomic position, residential racial segregation) influence health over the lifespan. Her current research examines whether race is associated with health outcomes when measures of neighborhood-level poverty are taken into account. Dr. Pearlman's publications include cancer screening, prenatal HIV testing, domestic violence, and children's health. |
| | Maureen Phipps
Obstetrics and Gynecology, Dept. of
Community Health, Department of
Dr. Phipps' interest in women's health is focused on improving health for vulnerable populations. Her research includes adolescent pregnancy, pregnancy outcomes, postpartum depression, prenatal care, contraception, and reducing disparities. Dr. Phipps is committed to mentoring. As a research mentor, journal club advisor and lecturer, she works with trainees to foster skills in understanding clinical research, interpreting medical literature and practicing responsible evidence-based medicine. |
| | Daniela Quilliam
Community Health, Department of
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 | William Rakowski
Community Health, Department of
Dr. Rakowski's research activities focus on a number of areas, including behavioral science approaches to cancer control, with an emphasis on utilization of cancer screening examinations; analyses of factors correlated with the receipt of cancer screening procedures, especially repeat/regular screening; design and implementation of individually tailored interventions; and stage-of-adoption classifications of the performance of health-related behaviors. |
 | Linda Resnik
Community Health, Department of
Dr Resnik's research activities bridge the methodologies of rehabilitation and health services research. Her interests include rehabilitation service delivery, outcomes measurement, prosthetics and amputation, and postdeployment reintegration. She is a member of 3 research teams; Brown's Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research, Providence VA's Research Enhancement Program and Center for Restorative and Regenerative Medicine.
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 | Patricia Markham Risica
Community Health, Department of
Professor Risica's research interests include obesity; the influence of location of fat on the body with disease risk; weight gain during pregnancy and keeping weight after pregnancy; breastfeeding; and diabetes, heart disease and obesity among Alaska Natives and other native peoples around the polar parts of the globe. |
| | Therese Rochon
Community Health, Department of
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 | Damaris Rohsenow
Community Health, Department of
1) New behavioral treatments for alcoholism or cocaine abuse focusing on coping skills and motivation;
2) Cognitive mediators of outcome in alcohol and cocaine abuse;
3) Smoking interventions for alcoholics and substance abusers;
4) New pharmacotherapies for tobacco or alcohol dependence;
5) Role of alcohol and hangover in workplace performance and driving;
6) Genetic mediators of pharmacotherapy effects;
7) Develop new assessment tools for alcohol, nicotine, and cocaine dependence. |
| | Thomas Romeo
Community Health, Department of
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| | Rochelle Rosen
Community Health, Department of
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| | Ellen Salvatore
Community Health, Department of
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| | Rachel Schwartz
Community Health, Department of
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| | H. Denman Scott
Community Health, Department of
Medicine, Department of
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 | Edmond Shenassa
Community Health, Department of
Dr. Shenassa's work concerns the interaction between individual and social determinants of health. This work, which is primarily focused on maternal and child health, can be further categorized into two general areas: 1) developmental sequelae of in utero exposures to toxins; and 2) social epidemiology of injury. |
| | Renee Shield
Community Health, Department of
Cultural and medical anthropology, geriatrics education and evaluation in medical school, ethnography of nursing homes, health care reform, ethical decision-making in long term care, work and retirement, rites of passage and reciprocity in nursing homes, end-of-life care, culture change nursing homes, electronic records in medical settings; North America |
| | Sarah Skeels
Community Health, Department of
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| | Kristen Smith
Community Health, Department of
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| | Robert Smith
Community Health, Department of
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 | Daniel Squires
Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies
Community Health, Department of
Dr. Squires' work focuses on the dissemination of evidence-guided practices for the treatment of addictive behaviors. He is currently the PI/Director for the Addiction Technology Transfer Center of New England, and conducts research designed to evaluate comprehensive organizational change and training models for alcohol and other drug treatment organizations and providers. |
 | Joan Teno
Community Health, Department of
Dr. Teno's focus has been on measuring and evaluating interventions to improve the quality of medical care for seriously ill and dying patients. Both as a researcher and clinician, Dr. Teno has devoted her career to understanding how to measure and improve the quality of frail, older and dying persons. She has led a statewide effort to improve pain management in nursing homes, for which she has received an award from the American Cancer Society. |
 | Alvaro Tinajero
Community Health, Department of
Comparative frameworks for national health systems, application of epidemiological methods in public health practice, surveillance of chronic diseases, health information systems and public policy, program evaluation. |
| | Elizabeth Triche
Community Health, Department of
Center for Population Health & Clinical Epidemiology
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 | Amal Trivedi
Community Health, Department of
Medicine, Department of
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 | Denise Tyler
Community Health, Department of
Dr. Tyler's research focuses on long-term care, especially the work of nursing employees in nursing homes. Her research has examined job satisfaction and motiviation among these workers, ways to improve teamwork among frontline nursing employees, cultural competency in nursing homes, and the training of direct-care workers. |
| | Robert Vanderslice
Community Health, Department of
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| | Wendy Verhoek-Oftedahl
Community Health, Department of
Dr. Verhoek-Oftedahl's research is in public health surveillance and epidemiology of violence with particular interest in teen dating violence, domestic and intimate partner violence, sexual assault, child maltreatment, and elder abuse. |
| | Samara Viner-Brown
Community Health, Department of
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 | Patrick Vivier
Community Health, Department of
Dr. Vivier's work focuses on the health status and health services utilization of low income families. Important health issues investigated in Dr. Vivier's work include lead poisoning and childhood obesity. Health system issues addressed by Dr. Vivier and colleagues include emergency department utilization and improving information systems to enhance the delivery of health care. |
| | William Waters
Community Health, Department of
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| | Albert Wessen
Community Health, Department of
Sociology, Department of
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 | Terrie Wetle
Community Health, Department of
Dr. Wetle conducts research on topics associated with the health of aging populations. Her applied ethics research on end of life decision-making has focused on the preferences and experiences of older persons, and the practices of health care professionals. Her work on aging health and function has focused on urinary incontinence and delirium as examples of geriatric syndromes. She has an interest in qualitative and mixed methods research and has published a book on this topic. |
 | Tara White
Community Health, Department of
Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies
Dr. Tara White is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Community Health at Brown Medical School. Dr. White has strong research interests in the biological bases of personality and temperament, and is interested in the differences between people in effects of alcohol and drugs on mood, behavior, and brain function. Her research is conducted at the Brown University Tim Trio 3 tesla MRI facility in Sidney Frank Hall and at the Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies. |
| | David Williams
Community Health, Department of
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| | Valerie Petit Wilson
Community Health, Department of
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| | Mark Wood
Community Health, Department of
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 | Zhijin Wu
Community Health, Department of
Center for Statistical Sciences
Zhijin (Jean) Wu's research interest is in statistical methodology for data from biological experiments, especially those generated from high-throughput biotechnologies. |
| | Zheng Zhang
Community Health, Department of
Center for Statistical Sciences
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