Faculty Biographies
Harvey Checkoway, Ph.D., Professor, Environmental Health & Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
Dr. Checkoway is a Professor of environmental health and epidemiology at the University of Washington. His main areas of research and teaching are occupational and environmental risk factors for chronic diseases. Recent examples of research projects for which he has been or is principal investigator are studies of: silica, silicosis, and lung cancer among diatomaceous earth industry workers; environmental and genetic risk factors for Parkinson’s disease; and cancer risks among textile workers in Shanghai. He is Director of the UW Superfund Basic Research Program Project, funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. Dr. Checkoway is first author of a textbook on occupational epidemiology, "Research Methods in Occupational Epidemiology," New York:Oxford University Press (1st edition 1989, 2nd edition 2004), and has published over 180 papers in the peer-reviewed scientific literature. He is also the environmental epidemiology editor for the American Journal of Epidemiology. Dr. Checkoway has previously taught approximately 20 short courses in occupational and environmental epidemiology in the US, Europe, and Australia.
Ellen K. Cromley, Ph.D., Senior Research Associate, Institute for Community Research, Hartford, Connecticut
Dr. Cromley is a senior research associate at the Institute for Community Research in Hartford, Conn. Before joining ICR, she was a professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Connecticut and an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Community Medicine of the School of Medicine of the University of Connecticut. She is co-author (with Sara L. McLafferty) of GIS and Public Health. In addition to courses in medical geography, location analysis, and geographic data analysis taught in the Department of Geography, Dr. Cromley has taught a course on GIS for Emergency Preparedness in the summer program at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. She has also conducted GIS workshops at the invitation of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, AcademyHealth, and the American Diabetes Association. Her work at ICR involves using spatial analytic methods and GIS in community-based collaborative research.
Richard C. Dicker, M.D., M.S., Professor of Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Preventative Medicine, St. George’s University, Grenada
Dr. Dicker is currently professor and epidemiology track director in the Dept. of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, St. George’s University, Grenada, after retiring from U.S. Public Health Service and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He graduated from Tufts University, University of Massachusetts Medical School, and the Harvard School of Public Health. At CDC he served in a number of positions including officer in the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS, the “Disease Detectives”), chief of EIS Program, chief of CDC’s Epidemiology Training Unit, and supervisor for EIS Officers stationed in state and city health departments throughout the northeastern United States. He also served as chief medical officer, epidemiology team leader, and then associate regional administrator in the Boston office of the Health Care Financing Administration.
Dr. Dicker has been actively involved in epidemiology teaching and training throughout his career. He is principal author of CDC’s Principles of Epidemiology self-study coursebook as well as numerous applied epidemiology case studies. He has taught field epidemiology in academic settings (Emory, Harvard) and in health departments and Ministries of Health throughout the world. In 1996 the American Public Health Association awarded him its Abraham Lilienfeld Award for Epidemiology Teaching, and in 2004 CDC awarded him its James Virgil Peavy Award for Workforce Development for his contributions to intramural, domestic, and international training in applied epidemiology. He continues to work as a consultant with CDC’s Global AIDS Program to develop and deliver applied epidemiology training to public health practitioners in the Caribbean region.
Bryan Dowd, Ph.D., Professor, Division of Health Policy & Management, University of Minnesota, School of Public Health
Dr. Dowd is Mayo Professor in the Division of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota. He has been at the University of Minnesota since 1980 and served as interim division head from 1998 to 1999. He has published over 100 articles, books and book chapters on his primary research interests, which include employment-based health insurance, Medicare policy and evaluation of non-experimental data. He is the recipient of three Article of the Year awards. His current projects include work on state Medicaid demonstrations, Part D drug coverage, and Medicare reform. He received his Ph.D. in Public Policy Analysis from the University of Pennsylvania, a Masters of Science from Georgia State University and a Bachelor of Architecture from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He teaches health services research methods and health policy analysis in the doctoral program.
Gregory C. Gray, M.D., M.P.H., FIDSA, Director, Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases & Professor of Epidemiology, College of Public Health, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
Dr. Gray is a professor of epidemiology in the University of Iowa’s College of Public Health and director of the University of Iowa’s Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases. His medical boards are in Public Health and General Preventive Medicine. He is a fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. He is the recipient of a number of awards for his epidemiological work and teaching including the Legion of Merit, Secretary Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service, and the University of Iowa College of Public Health Faculty Teaching Award (2005) and Faculty Research Award (2007). He has conducted epidemiological studies of emerging pathogens and tropical infectious diseases in the United States, as well as in remote areas of South America, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. His research interests include zoonotic infections, respiratory infections, rapid diagnostics, vaccine trials, and tropical infectious diseases. Currently, he is studying adenovirus and zoonotic influenza infections in the United States, Mongolia, Cambodia, Thailand, and Romania. He has authored more than 140 publications in the peer-reviewed medical literature.
David W. Hosmer, Jr., Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Biostatistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts
Dr. Hosmer is professor emeritus of biostatistics at the University of Massachusetts and is a fellow of the American Statistical Association. He is the co-author (with Stanley Lemeshow) of Applied Logistic Regression and (with Stanley Lemeshow and Susanne May) the text for the course Applied Survival Analysis: Regression Modeling of Time to Event Data. Dr. Hosmer has taught short courses on logistic regression and survival analysis in the United States, Europe, and Australia.
Ellie Kaizar, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, The Ohio State University
Dr. Kaizar is assistant professor of statistics at The Ohio State University. Her areas of active research include survey sampling, meta analysis and missing data, primarily applied to the medical and health services research fields. She has taught courses in the analysis of sample surveys at both Carnegie Mellon University and The Ohio State University, and has published peer-reviewed papers based on survey methodology.
David G. Kleinbaum, Ph.D., Professor of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
Dr. Kleinbaum’s primary experience for 36 years has concerned biostatistical applications to epidemiologic research as well as principles and methods of epidemiology. He is first author of seven textbooks: Applied Regression Analysis and Other Multivariable Methods (4th Edition in press 2007); Epidemiologic Research: Principles and Quantitative Methods (1982); Logistic Regression: A Self-Learning Text (2nd Edition, 2002); Survival Analysis: A Self-Learning Text (2nd Edition, 2005); ActivEpi (CD text, 2002); The ActivEpi Companion Text (2003); and A Pocket Guide to Epidemiology (Dec, 2006).
Dr. Kleinbaum is considered an outstanding teacher of biostatistical and epidemiological concepts and methods at all levels. He is the first recipient (2005) of the Association of Schools of Public Health Pfizer Award for Career Teaching Excellence, which considers all faculty in all disciplines in all Schools of Public Health in the United States. He is also the recipient of the APHA Epidemiology Section’s 2006 Award for Career Teaching, Emory University’s Williams Teaching Award (2000), as well teaching awards from the Schools of Public Health at Emory University and the University of North Carolina. He has taught over 150 short courses on statistical and epidemiologic methods to a variety of national and international audiences.
Dr. Kleinbaum has published widely in both the methodological and applied public health literature. He is also an experienced and sought-after consultant, including providing ad hoc consultation to research staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for the past 16 years.
Stanley Lemeshow, Ph.D., Dean, School of Public Health & Director, Center for Biostatistics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
Dr. Lemeshow is the dean of the School of Public Health and director of the Center for Biostatistics at The Ohio State University. He holds a joint appointment as a professor of biostatistics in the College of Public Health and in the Department of Statistics. He is co-author (with David Hosmer) of Applied Survival Analysis: Regression Modeling of Time to Event (2nd edition) and the text for the course Applied Logistic Regression (2nd edition), and also (with Paul Levy) of Sampling of Populations: Methods & Applications (4th edition). Dr. Lemeshow is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a fellow of the American Statistical Association. He has received the Statistics Section Award of the American Public Health Association. Dr. Lemeshow is currently the director of the Summer Program in Applied Biostatistical & Epidemiological Methods held each year at The Ohio State University and is on the faculty of the Erasmus Summer Program held each August in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. In addition to the courses he teaches in these summer programs and at his own university, he has taught close to 100 short courses in the United States, Europe, and Australia. Last year, he served a three-month research assignment in Paris, France, collaborating with top neuroepidemiologists on a population-based study analyzing the risk function for vascular and cognitive disorders in more than 9,000 elderly people.
Phil Nasca, Ph.D., Dean, School of Public Health, State University of New York at Albany
Dr. Nasca currently serves as the dean of the School of Public Health at the State University of New York at Albany. He previously served as professor of epidemiology and associate dean for graduate education at the School of Public Health and Health Sciences at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Professor Nasca is a past president and board member of the American College of Epidemiology, a past member of the National Institutes of Health Epidemiology and Disease Study Section, and a member of Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick’s Public Health Advisory Committee. Professor Nasca also directed the Bureau of Cancer Epidemiology at the New York State Department of Health, which included the population based New York State Cancer Registry.
J. Michael Oakes, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Division of Epidemiology Community Health, University of Minnesota, School of Public Health
Dr. Oakes is a McKnight Presidential Fellow and associate professor in the Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota. He is affiliated with the Minnesota Population Research Center and adjunct professor of sociology. His professional interests center on quantitative methodology, social epidemiology, and research ethics. In 1997 he earned a PhD in sociology, with a concentration in interdisicplinary methodology, from the University of Massachusetts. Dr. Oakes’ increasing interest in health outcomes led him to epidemiology, and in 2000 he joined the Division of Epidemiology at the University of Minnesota. Today he is an active researcher and frequent principal investigator on a wide variety of studies addressing a vast array of methodological, health, and ethical topics. Dr. Oakes has authored over 42 papers exploring problems at the intersection of social and medical sciences; his first text entitled Methods in Social Epidemiology was released last year and has enjoyed wide praise. At UMN, he teaches several graduate-level courses in statistical methods and a PhD seminar in social epidemiology. Finally, Dr. Oakes is an AAHRP site visitor, reviews grant applications for NIH (section HSOD) and RWJF obesity prevention programs, and consults with a number of not-for-profit community organizations aiming to reduce health disparities among populations.
Rachid Salmi, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Public Health and Dean, Institut de Santé Publique, d’Épidémiologie et de Développement and Professor, Universite Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2
Dr. Salmi is a professor of public health with a joint appointment at the Schools of Medicine and Public Health at Université Victor Segalen in Bordeaux (France). After his medical training in Lyon (France), he specialized in Community Medicine, Epidemiology, and Biostatistics at McGill University (Montreal, Canada). He then spent two years at the Centers for Disease Control (Atlanta, GA), and eventually came back to France where he was head of clinical trial methodology and pharmacoepidemiology at Institut Mérieux, a pharmaceutical industry specialized in vaccines. In these contexts, he developed an interest for the appropriate use of epidemiological data and scientific literature for decision making. Since 1991, he teaches epidemiology, biostatistics, and scientific communication in Bordeaux, where he is now dean of the School of Public Health. His research interests cover injury epidemiology and control and program evaluation.
Elizabeth Stasny, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Statistics, The Ohio State University
Dr. Stasny received her Ph.D. in Statistics from Carnegie Mellon University, specializing in missing data in large-scale sample surveys. She came to OSU in 1984 and quickly became interested in crime research, working with missing data in the National Crime Victimization Survey and death-penalty juries. She has enjoyed collaborating with faculty members from across the University, working with faculty members from fields as diverse as Nursing, Human Nutrition, Geology, and Sociology. Professor Stasny is a fellow of the American Statistical Association; she served six years on the US Census Advisory Committee, and is associate editor for Survey Methodology. She is professor and graduate studies chair of Statistics/Biostatistics.
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