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Mary S. Applegate

Mary S. Applegate
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
School of Public Health
Director
New York State Preventive Medicine Residency Program

Areas of expertise:
Reproductive health; family planning; adolescent pregnancy; sexuality; maternal & child health; breastfeeding promotion; preventive medicine; public health
Campus e-mail:
mapplegate@uamail.albany.edu
Campus phone:
(518) 402-0283
http://www.albany.edu/reddotroot/expert_2555.htm
David O. Carpenter

David O. Carpenter
Director
Institute for Health and Environment
Professor
Environmental Health Sciences and Biomedical Sciences

Areas of expertise:
Human health effects of environmental contaminants, including metals and organic compounds.
Campus e-mail:
carpent@uamail.albany.edu
Campus phone:
(518) 525-2660
http://www.albany.edu/reddotroot/expert_4387.htm
Senior Research Associate Sridar Chittur, Department of Biomedical Science

Sridar V. Chittur
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Sciences

Areas of expertise:
Drug discovery; genomics; gene-expression; microarrays; flow cytometry; enzymology; high throughput technologies
Campus e-mail:
schittur@albany.edu
Campus phone:
(518) 591-7215
http://www.albany.edu/reddotroot/expert_5010.htm
Associate Professor Liang Chu, School of Public Health

Liang Chu
Associate Professor
School of Public Health

Areas of expertise:
Environmental heterogeneous chemistry; surface chemistry
Campus e-mail:
lchu@albany.edu
Campus phone:
(518) 474-6340
http://www.albany.edu/reddotroot/expert_2124.htm
Sharon DeWitte

Sharon DeWitte
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology

Areas of expertise:
human osteology; paleodemography; paleopathology; paleoepidemiology; the Black Death; epidemics
Campus e-mail:
sdewitte@albany.edu
Campus phone:
(518) 442-4715
http://www.albany.edu/reddotroot/expert_1219.htm
Diane Dewar

Diane Dewar
Associate Professor
School of Public Health

Areas of expertise:
Health economics; medical technology; aging; end-of-life care; palliative care; health policy
Campus e-mail:
ddewar@albany.edu
Campus phone:
(518) 402-0290
http://www.albany.edu/reddotroot/expert_5024.htm
Associate Professor Mary Gallant, chair, Department of Health Policy, Management and Behavior

Mary Gallant
Chair, Associate Professor
Department of Health Policy, Management and Behavior

Areas of expertise:
Aging; health promotion chronic illness management; social support; public health
Campus e-mail:
mgallant@uamail.albany.edu
Campus phone:
(518) 402-0333
http://www.albany.edu/reddotroot/expert_2573.htm
Edward Hannan

Edward Hannan
Distinguished Professor
School of Public Health

Areas of expertise:
Health services research; evidence-based medicine; outcomes research; cardiac surgery; angioplasty, trauma systems; carotid endarterectomy; volume-outcome relationships in health care; medical decision-making; risk-adjustment; medical errors; patient safety
Campus e-mail:
elh03@health.state.ny.us
Campus phone:
(518) 402-0297
http://www.albany.edu/reddotroot/expert_2676.htm
Timothy Hoff

Timothy Hoff
Associate Professor
Department of Health Policy, Management, and Behavior

Areas of expertise:
Physicians; managed care; patient safety
Campus e-mail:
thoff@albany.edu
Campus phone:
(518) 402-6512
http://www.albany.edu/reddotroot/expert_2476.htm
Janine Jurkowski

Janine Jurkowski
Assistant Professor
Department of Health Policy, Management, and Behavior

Areas of expertise:
Health disparities/minority health; Latino health; community based public health; disability
Campus e-mail:
jjurkowski@albany.edu
Campus phone:
(518) 402-0420
http://www.albany.edu/reddotroot/expert_1451.htm
Heather Larkin

Heather Larkin
Assistant Professor
School of Social Welfare

Areas of expertise:
Substance abuse; co-occurring disorders; impact of adverse childhood experiences; homelessness; aging; meditation interventions; integrative service system responses; Integral Restorative Processes (IRP)
Campus e-mail:
hlarkin@albany.edu
Campus phone:
(518) 591-8779
http://www.albany.edu/reddotroot/expert_1199.htm

Kristi J. McClamroch
Assistant Professor
School of Public Health

Areas of expertise:
Epidemiology; sexually transmitted infections (STI); HIV; sex work; Haiti; Madagascar; the Democratic Republic of Congo
Campus e-mail:
kmcclamroch@albany.edu
Campus phone:
(518) 402-0397
http://www.albany.edu/reddotroot/expert_2677.htm

Louise-Anne McNutt
Associate Professor
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Areas of expertise:
Infectious disease epidemiology; epidemics; HIV/AIDS in developing countries; transmission of bloodborne pathogens (HIV, hepatitis); sexually transmitted diseases; intimate partner violence
Campus e-mail:
lam08@health.state.ny.us
Campus phone:
(518) 402-0403
http://www.albany.edu/reddotroot/expert_2678.htm
Jean Moore

Jean Moore
Director
Center for Health Workforce Studies

Areas of expertise:
New York State healthcare workforce; U.S. healthcare workforce shortages; nursing shortages; minority health workforce disparities; healthcare workforce solutions
Campus e-mail:
jmm04@health.state.ny.us
Campus phone:
(518) 402-0250
http://www.albany.edu/reddotroot/expert_2575.htm
Philip Nasca

Philip Nasca
Dean
Director of Public Health

Areas of expertise:
Etiological studies of breast cancer; cancer of the female reproductive organs; childhood cancers; nursing; cancer epidemiology
Campus e-mail:
pnasca@uamail.albany.edu
Campus phone:
(518) 402-0283
http://www.albany.edu/reddotroot/expert_2680.htm
Shadi S. Saleh

Shadi S. Saleh
Assistant Professor
Department of Health Policy, Management, and Behavior

Areas of expertise:
Prescription drugs; hospital sector; health care financing; health care outcomes; pay-for-performance; substance abuse
Campus e-mail:
ssaleh@albany.edu
Campus phone:
(518) 402-0333
http://www.albany.edu/reddotroot/expert_4990.htm
Associate Professor Benjamin Shaw, Department of Health Policy, Management, and Behavior

Benjamin Shaw
Associate Professor
Department of Health Policy, Management, and Behavior

Areas of expertise:
Aging; physical activity among elderly; smoking among elderly; alcohol use among the elderly; health during old age; early life trauma; quality of life in old age; aging in Japan; social epidemiology of aging
Campus e-mail:
bashaw@albany.edu
Campus phone:
(518) 402-0325
http://www.albany.edu/reddotroot/expert_4257.htm
Hua Shi, assistant professor, Department of Biological Sciences

Hua Shi
Assistant Professor
Department of Biological Sciences

Areas of expertise:
Molecular and cellular biology of transcription and signal transduction; aptamer-mediated multi-pathway control in living organisms; forward engineering approach to drug discovery and development
Campus e-mail:
hshi@albany.edu
Campus phone:
(518) 442-4767
http://www.albany.edu/reddotroot/expert_4995.htm
Assistant Professor Kendra Smith-Howard, Department of History

Kendra Smith-Howard
Assistant Professor
Department of History

Areas of expertise:
History of dairy farming; history of food; history of public health; history of pesticides/antibiotics in agriculture
Campus e-mail:
ksmithhoward@albany.edu
Campus phone:
(518) 442-5375
http://www.albany.edu/reddotroot/expert_2552.htm
Carol P. Stenger

Carol P. Stenger
Sexuality Counselor
University Counseling Center

Areas of expertise:
Sexuality; sexual health; sex education; European approaches to sex education; AIDS/HIV; sexually transmitted diseases and infections; adolescent sexuality; internet pornography
Campus e-mail:
cstenger@uamail.albany.edu
Campus phone:
(518) 442-5896
http://www.albany.edu/reddotroot/expert_4997.htm
Empire Innovation Professor Martin Tenniswood

Martin Tenniswood
Empire Innovation Professor
Department of Biomedical Science

Areas of expertise:
Chemoprevention of prostate cancer; therapies for prostate and breast cancer; diet and prostate cancer
Campus e-mail:
mtenniswood@albany.edu
Campus phone:
(518) 591-7231
http://www.albany.edu/reddotroot/expert_5016.htm
Empire Innovation Professor JoEllen Welsh

JoEllen Welsh
Empire Innovation Professor
Department of Biomedical Sciences

Areas of expertise:
Nutrition and cancer; hormones; vitamin D; breast cancer
Campus e-mail:
jwelsh@albany.edu
Campus phone:
(518) 591-7232
http://www.albany.edu/reddotroot/expert_2681.htm
Recai M. Yucel

Recai M. Yucel
Assistant Professor
School of Public Health

Areas of expertise:
Analysis of multivariate incomplete data; multilevel models; Bayesian data analysis; computational statistics and response error problems
Campus e-mail:
ryucel@albany.edu
Campus phone:
(518) 402-0421
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