Faculty Experts
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Erin Bell
School of Public Health
Professor
Department: Environmental Health Sciences
Expert in the following:
Environmental exposures, birth outcomes, birth defects, child development
Campus phone: (518) 402-0375
Campus email: [email protected]

Hyunok Choi
School of Public Health
Assistant Professor
Department: Environmental Health Sciences
Expert in the following:
Environmental health; role of pollutants on health; human resilience to adverse environmental conditions
Campus phone: (518) 402-0401
Campus email: [email protected]

Kristin Christodulu
College of Arts and Sciences
Director
Department: Center for Autism and Related Disabilities
Expert in the following:
Autism spectrum disorders, developmental disabilities, challenging behavior, positive behavior support, sleep disturbances
Campus phone: (518) 442-5132
Campus email: [email protected]

Nancy Claiborne
School of Social Welfare
Professor
Department: Social Welfare
Expert in the following:
Human service organizations; design and delivery of service; child welfare; health systems
Campus phone: 442-5349
Campus email: [email protected]

Joanna Dreby
College of Arts and Sciences
Associate Professor
Department: Sociology
Expert in the following:
Immigration; families; children
Campus phone: (518) 956-8150
Campus email: [email protected]

Heather Larkin
School of Social Welfare
Associate Professor
Department: Social Welfare
Expert in the following:
Adverse childhood experiences (ACE) and ACE consequences, including substance abuse and co-occurring disorders; Restorative Integral Support (RIS), including Healthy Environments and Relationships That Support (HEARTS), meditation interventions, and emerging practices; Service Outcomes Action Research (SOAR); Post-Trauma Wellness; intergenerational and lifespan perspectives; aging
Campus phone: (518) 591-8779
Campus email: [email protected]

Catherine Lawrence
School of Social Welfare
Assistant Professor
Department: Social Welfare
Expert in the following:
Social welfare policy; history and services; poverty; child welfare; cultural competence
Campus phone: 437-3692
Campus email: [email protected]

Hal Lawson
School of Social Welfare
Professor
Department: Social Welfare
Expert in the following:
School-family-community partnerships; child welfare; interprofessional collaboration
Campus phone: 442-5355
Campus email: [email protected]

Jennifer Manganello
School of Public Health
Professor
Department: Health Policy, Management and Behavior
Expert in the following:
Health communication; health literacy; health disparities; mass media; social media; media campaigns; health information seeking.
Campus phone: (518) 402-0304
Campus email: [email protected]

Mary McCarthy
School of Social Welfare
Assistant Dean
Department: Social Welfare
Expert in the following:
Child welfare; children and families; political social work
Campus phone: 442-5338
Campus email: [email protected]

David N. Miller
School of Education
Professor
Department: Educational and Counseling Psychology
Expert in the following:
School psychology; developmental psychopathology; behavioral interventions; consultation and prevention, and cognitive-behavior therapy for children and adolescents
Campus phone: (518) 442-5038
Campus email: [email protected]
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Patrick Parsons
School of Public Health
Professor
Department: Environmental Health Sciences
Expert in the following:
Childhood lead poisoning; atomic spectrometry; trace element analysis; inorganic mass spectrometry; human biomonitoring and environmental measurements of toxic metals.
Campus phone: 518-474-7161
Campus email: [email protected]

Lawrence Schell
College of Arts and Sciences
Professor
Department: Anthropology
Expert in the following:
Anthropology; minority health disparities; epidemiology; biostatistics; childhood development; environmental health; risk factors
Campus phone: (518) 442-4714
Campus email: [email protected]

Bruce Svare
College of Arts and Sciences
Professor
Department: Psychology
Expert in the following:
Steroid abuse among athletes (Olympic, professional, collegiate, high school, youth); early specialization and professionalization of young athletes; overemphasis on winning; material rewards (e.g., athletics scholarships and professional contracts); academic corruption in high schools and colleges; increasing of performance enhancing drugs; declining sportsmanship; violence exhibited by athletes, coaches, parents, and fans; media coverage of young athletes; sports gambling; Title IX; increasing abandonment of intramural, recreational, and fitness-based needs of kids; rising obesity; increasing incidents of sports injury, burnout, and overtraining of young athletes
Campus phone: (518) 442-4848
Campus email: [email protected]