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Name(Last, First) |
Department |
Organization |
Area of Interest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abraham, Edward | Professor and Chairman | UAB | |
| Aderaw, Zewdie | Environmental health | University of gondor | Epidimiology |
| Alarcon, Graciela | Professor, Jane Knight Lowe Chair of Medicine in Rheumatology | UAB | Lupus, Arthritis |
| Allison, David | PROFESSOR | UAB | |
| Allman, Richard M. | Professor and director | UAB | Mobility, geriatric care quality improvement, outcome assessment of geriatric health care and patient-doctor communication |
| Alvarez, Ronald D. | Professor & Director | UAB | |
| Amos, John F. | Dean | UAB | |
| Angner, Erik | Asst Professor | UAB | |
| Aponte-Wesson, Ruth | ASST PROFESSOR | UAB | |
| Appel, Susan J. | Associate Professor of Nursing | UAB | Cardiometabolic Risk |
| Ard, Jamy | Assistant professor | UAB | Obesity, Dietary patterns, Health disparities |
| Arnoletti, Juan Pablo | Assistant Professor | UAB | |
| Ashford, II, Rowell S. | Assistant Professor | UAB | Addressing health disparities |
| Austin, Erika | Assistant professor | Uab | HIV research |
| Autrey, Pamela | ASST PROFESSOR | UAB | Health promotion of African Americans in relation to obesity, exercise behavior, and health disparities |
| Bailey, William C. | PROFESSOR&DIRECTOR | UAB | |
| Bartolucci, Alfred A. | Professor | UAB | grant participation |
| Bashir, Khurram | ASST PROFESSOR | UAB | Clinical Trials, Epidemiological & Outcomes Research, actively involved in research related to Multiple Sclerosis |
| Baskin, Monica L. | Assistant Professor | UAB | Childhood Obesity; Design and implementation of behavioral interventions to address major health problems among people of color (e.g. obesity, sickle cell disease) |
| Boggiano, Mary | Associate Professor | UAB | |
| Boppana, Suresh | ASSOC PROFESSOR | UAB | maternal and congenital CMV infection |
| Boyd, Gwendolyn | PROFESSOR | UAB | Fostering research in anesthesiology for minority and women |
| Bridges, Jr., S. Louis | Associate Director | UAB | Rheumatoid arthritis in African Americans |
| Bronstein, Janet M. | Professor | UAB | racial and ethnic disparities in health services utilization; examining the structure of delivery systems |
| Brooks, Michael | ASST PROFESSOR | UAB | School Counselor Effectiveness |
| Brooks, C Michael | Professor, School of Health Related Professions | UAB | Health disparities |
| Buckner, Ellen B. | Professor | UAB | |
| Carroll, William R. | Associate Professor | UAB | Improving the health status of minority groups and expanding the participation of minorities in biomedical and behavioral research and education |
| Castiglioni, Analia | ASST PROFESSOR | UAB | Educational Research and mentoring in Residency Training |
| Chang, Pi-Ling | ASSOC PROFESSOR | UAB | Training outstanding minority students interested in basic research |
| Chattopadhyay, Debasish | ASST PROFESSOR | UAB | Geographic Medicine |
| Chen, Dongquan | ASST PROFESSOR RESEARCH | UAB | Bioinformatics and Medical Informatics |
| Cherrington, Andrea | Assistant professor | University of alabama | diabetes, obesity, health disparities |
| Chester, Willie | CLINICAL ASST PROFESSOR | UAB | |
| Childs, Gwendolyn | Assistant professor | UAB | HIV prevention, adolescent sexual behavior |
| Choudhry, Mashkoor | Assistant Professor | UAB | |
| Chowdhury, Nazma H. | Research Assistant | UAB | Diabetes |
| Clements, Kay | Associate Professor | UAB | |
| Coar, T. Madelyn | Associate Professor | UAB | Targeting the identification and training of underrepresented minorities for careers in academic dentistry; dental health care disparities in Alabama |
| Cockerham, William Carl | Distinguished Professor | UAB | |
| Contreras, Juan L | Assistant Professor of Surgery | UAB | Human Islet Transplant Program |
| Crain, Marilyn | Associate Professor | UAB | tuberculosis. HIV |
| Crawford, Myra | Clinical Professor (Research) | UAB | Alabama Tobacco Free Families Project (ATOFF) & the Smoking Cessation/Reduction in Pregnancy Trial (SCRIPT) |
| Cross, James | ASST PROFESSOR | UAB | burns and trauma |
| Curiel, David T. | Director | UAB | |
| Dashiff, Carol J. | Professor/Chair | UAB | Child development,Diabetes in adolescents; chronic illness in adolescent; parenting and promotion of autonomy and health |
| Davis, Richard O. | Professor/Vice Chairman of Community Outreach & Development | UAB | perinatal and infant mortality in the Black Belt and other areas of the state |
| de la Torre, Jorge | ASSOC PROFESSOR | UAB | |
| Deal, William B. | Dean | UAB | |
| Descartes, Maria | ASSOC PROFESSOR | UAB | Human genetics |
| Devilliers, Patricia | Asst Professor | UAB | |
| Durant, Raegan | Assiatant Professor | UAB | Disparities in hospital use among patients with heart failure |
| Durant, Nefertiti | Assistant Professor | UAB | Obesity |
| Eaves, Yvonne | Assistant professor | University of alabama at birmingham | caregiving and minority aging research |
| Echols, Karen | Consultant/Civitan | UAB | Child development and rehabilitation treatment for children with Cerebral Palsy |
| Ehiri, John | ASST PROFESSOR | UAB | |
| El-Galley, Rizk | ASSOC PROFESSOR | UAB | Prostate cancer and the differences between races |
| Elder, Keith | Assistant professor | Uab | Cancer health disparties, minority men's health, aging, and hiv/aids |
| Elder, Keshia | Assistant professor | Uab | High prevalence of visual morbity in minorities; factors influencing treatment outcomes in minority populations |
| Eloubeidi, Mohamad | ASSOC PROFESSOR | UAB | |
| Estrada, Carlos | Associate professor | University of alabama at birmingham | |
| Fernandez, Jose | ASST PROFESSOR | UAB | Genetic admixture |
| Foran, James | ASST PROFESSOR | UAB | |
| Forero-Torres, Andres | Assistant Professor & Director | UAB | Target Radioimmunotherapy |
| Fouad, Mona | Professor of Medicine | UAB | Health disparities among racial/ethnic minority populations |
| Fowler, Karen B. | Research Associate Professor | UAB | young minority women and their newborns in the study of congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection and disease sequelae in infected children |
| Franklin, Frank | Professor/Chairman | UAB | |
| Frazier, Marcela | Asst. Professor | UAB | prevalence of high astigmatism in children of Mexican descent; healthcare provision to minorities |
| Garrison, Carol Z. | President | UAB | |
| Garvey, W. Timothy | Professor/Chairman, Department of Nutrition Sciences | UAB | Obesity |
| Gary, Lisa C. | Assistant Professor | UAB | |
| Gawne, Timothy | ASSOC PROFESSOR | UAB | Physiological optics |
| Giardina, Carole | Assoc Professor | UAB | Long-term care, healthcare administration and finance |
| Gilbert, Gregg H. | Professor/Chairman | UAB | Geriatric oral research |
| Gilford, Jr., Willie | ASST PROFESSOR | UAB | |
| Gillespie, Yancey | Professor | UAB | Expanding treatment and research of Brain Tumor Program to include minorities. |
| Girkin, Christopher | ASSOC PROFESSOR | UAB | Disparities of glaucoma in African Americans |
| Granger, Wesley | Associate Professor | UAB | Health screening & pulmonary diseases research |
| Grant, Joan | PROFESSOR | UAB | partnership with family caregiversAfrican American stroke survivors |
| Grimley, Diane | ASSOC PROFESSOR AND CHAIR, HEALTH BEHAVIOR | UAB | Sexually transmitted diseases |
| Gutierrez, Hector | Associate Professor | UAB | |
| Hagood, James | ASSOC PROFESSOR | UAB | investigating ways to reduce health disparities in pediatric respiratory conditions such as asthma and bronchopulmonary dysplasia |
| Halanych, Jewell | Assistant Professor | UAB | |
| Harris, Audrey | ASST PROFESSOR | UAB | |
| Harrison, Lynda | PROFESSOR&CO-DEPUTY DIRECTOR | UAB | Latino Health Issues |
| Heudebert, Gustavo | Associate Professor | UAB | |
| Hook, Edward | Professor of Medicine&Epidemiology | UAB | management and prevention of sexually transmitted diseases |
| Intoccia, Vincent | Adjunct professor | UAB | Bioethics |
| Ivey, Jean | Associate Professor | UAB | Obesity prevention |
| Jackson, Janice G. | Assistant Professor | UAB | dental related genetic disorders;Community outreach in the department of Pediatric Dentistry |
| Johnson, Lawrence | Director Esophageal Program and GI laboratory | UAB | |
| Jones, Keith A. "Tony" | Professor and Chairman | UAB | |
| Jukkala, Angela | Assistant Professor | UAB | Rural Health Care, Quality of Care, Outcomes |
| Kang, Duck-Hee | Associate Professor School of Nursing | UAB | |
| Kempf, Mirjam-Colette | Research Instructor | UAB | Women Health and Infectious Diseases |
| Kertesz, Stefan | ASST PROFESSOR | UAB | health promotion & disease prevention through clinical care & research concerning the homeless |
| Keyser, Kent | Director | UAB | |
| Kiefe, Catarina | Professor & Director | UAB | Clinical epidemiology, Quality measurement and outcomes research, Health services delivery to medically indigent populations |
| Kimberly, Robert P. | Professor | UAB | autoimmune disease |
| Kimerling, Michael | ASSOC PROFESSOR | UAB | Tuberculosis (TB) prevention and control, both in the US and in high-burden nations |
| Kincaid, Harold A. | Professor & Chair | UAB | |
| Kirklin, James K. | Director Cardiothoracic Transplantation | UAB | Decrease organ rejection in heart transplants of African Americans |
| Kolettis, Peter | Associate Professor Surgery, Urology | UAB | Male infertility |
| Krontiras, Helen | Assistant Professor of Surgery | UAB | Breast cancer |
| Laken, Debra E. | Associate Professor of Respiratory Therapy | UAB | |
| Lance, Marisol | Assistant Professor | UAB | |
| Lara-Castro, Cristina | Post-Doctoral Fellow | UAB | insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, obesity |
| Lathan, Kimberly | Graduate research assistant | Uab | Minority disparities in healthcare |
| Lazrak, Ahmed | Resident Instructor, Med | UAB | Studying ion channels structure function regulation relationships |
| Lemons, Jack E. | Professor | UAB | |
| Lesort, Mathieu | ASST PROFESSOR of Psychiatry | UAB | Community Outreach |
| Lewis, Angela | ASST PROFESSOR | UAB | Health disparities among African Americans; Health Policy, Environmental Justice and Policy |
| Li, Xiaoli | Research Associate Professor | UAB | research and/or education initiatives |
| Litovsky, Silvio | ASST PROFESSOR | UAB | Cardiovascular Pathology |
| LoBuglio, Albert | Distinguished Professor/Director Em | UAB | Pretargeted immunotherapy of cancer |
| Long, Sheri S. | Associate Professor&Chair | UAB | |
| Louis, Patrick J. | Associate Professor and Residency Program Director | UAB | |
| Magnuson, Jeffrey | Associate Professor of Surgery | UAB | expanding the participation of minorities in biomedical and behavior research and education |
| Maples, Elizabeth | ASST PROFESSOR | UAB | Occupational health and safety |
| Marchase, Richard B. | Vice President for Research | UAB | |
| Markert, James | Associate Professor, Division of Neurosurgery | UAB | |
| Marson, Daniel | Director, Division of Neuropsychology | UAB | Clinical neuropsychology |
| Martin, Michelle | Assistant Professor | UAB | Minority Health, Women Health |
| Martin, Roy | Associate professor | Uab | brain cancer |
| May, Roberta | Director, Psychiatric Research | UAB | Project Among African Americans to Explore the Risks of Schizophrenia. |
| Maya, Ivan | Assistant Professor | UAB | |
| Mazer-Gurmendi, Raquel | Assistant Professor | UAB | |
| McDougal, Julie | Assistant Professor | UAB | |
| Mcelderry, Cathy | Assistant professor | Uab | |
| Meneses, Karen | Professor & associate dean for research | Uab | Behavioral interventions |
| Mennemeyer, Stephen | PROFESSOR | UAB | Stroke rehabilitation, rehabilitation of drug abusers |
| Meredith, Ruby | Professor Radiation Oncology | UAB | Educational activities for breast cancer patients |
| Michael, III, Max | Dean | UAB | |
| Misra, Vijay | ASSOC PROFESSOR | UAB | |
| Mohl, Raymond | Distinguished Professor | UAB | |
| Montgomery-Barefield, Laura | ASST PROFESSOR | UAB | |
| Mubenga, Timothy kafula | Phsycosocial hiv/aids counsellorr | Catholic diocese of chipata | Prevention of mother to child transmision of hiv |
| Myers, Beverly | Rn, phd student | University of alabama at birmingham | Community health |
| Nagy, Timothy | Professor/Director, Division Physiology and Metabolism | UAB | obesity, diabetes, diet & cancer |
| Nanda, Navin | PROFESSOR, Division of Cardiovascular Disease | UAB | Echocardiography |
| Nelson, Kathleen G. | Sr Associate Dean for Students | UAB | child development; general pediatrics |
| Norton, Thomas | PROFESSOR | UAB | |
| Ovalle, Fernando | Director, Clinical Research Unit | UAB | Diabetes, insulin resistance, & PCOS |
| Owsley, Cynthia | Director, Clinical Research Unit | UAB | Eye diseases and vision impairment in older African Americans |
| Pajaro, Octavio | Asst Professor | UAB | |
| Pamboukian, Salpy | ASST PROFESSOR | UAB | Racial and gender differences in outcomes of cardiovascular disease |
| Parham, Groesbeck | Professor | UAB | Cervical Cancer and HIV in minority populations |
| Park, Na-jin | Asst Professor | UAB | Breast cancer risk and biological responses |
| Partridge, Edward E. | Professor and Director, UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center | UAB | cancer prevention and control in the underserved, minority research |
| Pass, Robert | PROFESSOR | UAB | Congenital cytomegalovirus infection in the new born babies of minority women |
| Pearce, Frank Bennett | Associate Professor | UAB | structural, myocardial disease, transplant |
| Peralta-Carcelen, Ada Myriam | Associate Professor | UAB | |
| Person, Sharina | Associate Professor of Medicine | University of Alabama at Birmingham | Minority health specifically health disparites, reducing disparities in mammography screening, also diabetes & discrimination |
| Pijuan-Thompson, Vivian | Assistant professor | UAB | Cancer Education and Prevention |
| Pisu, Maria | Assistant professor | UAB | health disparities, cancer, obesity |
| Piyathilake, Chandrika | Associate Professor | UAB | |
| Powell, Kathleen | Coord Clin Res Safety and Training | UAB | Nursing - health disparities among minorities |
| RAY, MIDGE | Associate professor | Uab | Health disparieties; behavioral medicine |
| Rich, Robert R. | Senior VP Medicine/Dean School of Medicine | UAB | |
| Richards, J. Scott | Professor & Director of Research | UAB | Director of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation , new initative will involve setting up a health clinic and accompanying research data base program (minimally) in Anniston, AL |
| Richter, Holly | Associate Professor | UAB | Pelvic floor disorders community outreach |
| Roberson, Anthony | Assistant professor | University of alabama at birmingham | Adolescent psychiatric mental health |
| Robinson- Hankins, Shirley | Assistant Professor of Pediatrics | UAB | |
| Rouse, Dwight | PROFESSOR | UAB | |
| Roy, Jane | ASST PROFESSOR | UAB | racial differences in VO2max |
| Saag, Kenneth | ASSOC PROFESSOR of Medicine | UAB | |
| Saag, Michael | Director, AIDS Outpatient Clinic | UAB | AIDS |
| Saeed, Shehzad | Assistant Professor | UAB | |
| Saenz, Karen | Assistant Professor | UAB | Hispanic Health Care |
| Safford, Monika | Associate Director, Deep South Center on Effectiveness | UAB | Disparities in quality of care, CVD prevention |
| Salas, Maribel | Assistant Professor | UAB | Pharmacoepidemiology, pharmacoeconomics |
| Salazar, Maria | ASST PROFESSOR | UAB | improvement of the health delivery system among minority groups and patient education strategies for minority patients |
| Salazar-Gonzalez, Jesus | Instructor | University of alabama at birmingham | HIV/AIDS virology and vaccines |
| Sanchez-Lopez, Lourdes | Assistant Professor of Spanish | UAB | Spanish for Health Professionals |
| Sathiakumar, Nalini | ASSOC PROFESSOR | UAB | Occupational and environmental cancer and infectious disease epidemilogy. |
| Scarinci, Isabel | Associate professor | UAB | Cancer Prevention and Control |
| Schumacher, Joseph | PROFESSOR | UAB | Drug addiction |
| Schwebke, Jane | Professor of medicine | Uab | STD |
| Scott, Johnny W. | PROFESSOR | UAB | Mineral District Society |
| Shrestha, Sadeep | Assistant Professor | UAB | Genetic admixture, genetic suscpetibility |
| Siegel, Herrick | ASST PROFESSOR | UAB | Orthopaedic Surgery |
| Simpson, Tina Y. | ASST PROFESSOR | UAB | Participation of minorities in clinical trials |
| Sims, III, Richard V. | Associate Professor of Medicine | UAB | Older adult mobility, Mineral District Society |
| Smith, Craig | ASST PROFESSOR RESEARCH | UAB | Structural biology relevant to human pathology |
| Smith, Glenda | Asst Professor | UAB | Child Preventive Health, Health Disparities, Alternative Therapies |
| Spear, Bonnie | ASSOC PROFESSOR | UAB | Health disparities in the black belt of Alabama. |
| Spencer, Sharon A. | Professor | UAB | |
| Strong, Theresa | ASSOC PROFESSOR | UAB | |
| Stullenbarger, Elizabeth | Professor, Associate Dean for Graduate Studies | UAB | The Community Outreach/Reach Service Program |
| Sturdevant, Marsha | ASSOC PROFESSOR | UAB | HIV/AIDS, adolescent, STD/pregnancy, and eating disorders |
| Sullender, Wayne | PROFESSOR | UAB | respiratory syncytial virus and acute respiratory infections of children |
| SUTTON, BRYCE | Assistant Professor of Economics | UAB | |
| Tang, Jianming (James) | Associate Professor | UAB | Genetics and Infectious Diseases |
| Thomas, Huw Francis | Professor&Chairman | UAB | Cell Adhesion & Matrix Research Center |
| Thomas, Olivia | Assistant Professor | UAB | Community based obesity research |
| Thornton, John B. | Professor and Chairman, Pediatric Dentistry | UAB | increase access to dental care for underserved children and adults, & those from low-income families |
| Tilashalski, Ken R. | Associate Professor | UAB | Health disparities |
| Trimm, Mickey | Associate professor | The university of alabama at birmingham | |
| Umlauf, Mary Grace | Professor | UAB | Physiological effects of obstructive sleep apnea in minority women |
| Urist, Marshall | PROFESSOR | UAB | |
| Vasconez, Luis | Chief, Division of Plastic Surgery | UAB | |
| Vetter, Thomas | Associate Professor | UAB | |
| Waite, Peter D | Chairman, Dentistry | UAB | |
| Wellons, III, John C. | Assistant Professor, Neurosurgery | UAB | Identifying health care disparities in underserved populations particularly with children and minorities |
| Williams, O. Dale | Professor and Associate Director, Division Preventive Medicine | UAB | Biostatistics |
| Wilson, Bettye G | Associate Professor Med Image and Therapy | UAB | |
| Wright, Jr, Wilson | Professor | UAB | Development of the training and community outreach program |
| Yang, Yingkui | Assistant Professor | UAB | G-protein coupled receptor |
| Young, Carlton | Assistant Professor, Transplantation Surgery | UAB | Mineral District Society |
| Zhang, Zhixin | Assistant Professor, Microbiology | UAB |