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| Division Head Dorothy Lane, MD, MPH |
Deputy Division Head Yuri Jadotte, MD, PhD, MPH |
The Division of Preventive Medicine and Population Health encompasses research, education and population-based clinical preventive services. Faculty in the division include those who teach medical students, preventive medicine residents, and graduate degree candidates in the Program in Public Health. The scope of the research component is broad and examples include: intervention trials testing educational, behavioral and public health interventions or chemoprevention, as well as the social determinants of health and health services research. The faculty bios include faculty areas of interest, and give a sense of the breadth and depth of the expertise within the division.
Faculty
Michele Bayley, MPH
Instructor, Program in Public Health
Interest: Family Medicine
Cordia Beverley, MD
Clinical Associate Professor
Interests: Cultural competence of healthcare delivery
Sean Clouston, PhD
Professor
Interests: Demography, epidemiology, healthy aging, social inequalities and health, social context, cognitive impairment, physical limitation, longitudinal analysis, global health
Mahdieh Danesh Yazdi, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Interests: environmental epidemiology; air pollution epidemiology, climate change, causal inference, exposure assessment
Alina Denham, PhD
Assistant Professor
Interests: Health policy; Medicaid policy; health equity; racism in healthcare; healthcare access; Medicaid managed care; substance use disorder; quality of administrative health data; conceptual model development; antiracist pedagogy
Norman H Edelman, MD
Professor
Interests: Health policy with focus on the health care workforce, clinical studies of diseases of the airways [COPD and asthma]
Andrew Flescher, PhD
Professor
Interests: Biomedical ethics; Ethics and Health Care Policy; Ethics of Organ Donation; Medical Humanities; Compassion and Altruism; Health Care Justice; Normative Ethics; Moral Theory; Comparative Religious Ethics; Applied Ethics; Ethics and Literature; Drama in the English Language; Philosophy of Religion; Religion and Culture; Arts, Religion and Literature
Iris Granek, MD
Professor
Interests: preventive medicine and public health
Lauren Hale, PhD
Professor
Interests: Social epidemiology of sleep; sleep and obesity; sleep and health; sleep and nutrition; demography; screen time and sleep; sleep health interventions.
Yuri T. Jadotte, MD, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Interests: evidence synthesis, systematic review and meta-analysis; interprofessional collaboration; urban health; cancer prevention and control; social construction of health; salutogenesis and salutology.
Rachel Kidman, PhD
Associate Professor
Interests: Social epidemiology; program evaluation; children and adolescents; HIV and AIDS; childhood adversity; social policy; Africa
Dorothy Lane, MD, MPH
SUNY Distinguished Service Professor
Interests: GME, CME, cancer screening, women's health
Jaymie Meliker, PhD
Professor
Interests: Epidemiology: environmental, spatial, and general, Human exposure assessment to environmental contaminants, Spatial and spatio-temporal methods and analysis, History of public and environmental health, Sustainable food systems, Health impacts of policy interventions
Sritha Rajupet
Clinical Associate Professor
Interests: population-based health interventions, clinical informatics, family medicine, preventive medicine, quality improvement
John A. Rizzo, PhD
Professor
Interests: clinical outcomes research health economics, economic evaluations
Benny Ren, PhD
Assistant Professor
Interests: longitudinal and time-series data analysis, statistical computing and inference techniques for large complex correlated datasets, public health research
Laura Sampson, PhD
Assistant Professor
Interests: Trauma, stress, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, aging, sleep, cardiovascular disease, social epidemiology, psychiatric epidemiology
Marie Sillice, PhD
Assistant Professor
Interests: health disparities in minority populations, particularly African American/Black women, behavioral health, physical activity
Dylan Smith, PhD
Professor
Interests: emotional adaptation to illness and disability, interpersonal relationship factors that influence health and well-being, quality of life measurement (including psychometric development of new measurement techniques)
Susan Sommerville
Instructor
Interests: family medicine
Staff:
Karin Bengtsson
Preventive Medicine Residency Program Coordinator
