Faculty Experts

Call the Office of Media Relations at (518) 956-8150

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Health
 

Expert in the following: History, philosophy, politics of 17th century England, the Scientific Revolution, ethics in medical triage, organ transplantation and informed consent.
Campus phone: (518) 442-4262
Campus email: [email protected]

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Expert in the following: Cuba and political/economic changes; reproductive health; reproductive technologies; cross-cultural ideas of family; gender; sexuality
Campus phone: (518) 442-4224
Campus email: [email protected]

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Expert in the following:

Environmental exposures, birth outcomes, birth defects, child development

Campus phone: (518) 402-0375
Campus email: [email protected]

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Expert in the following: Effects of toxic environmental agents; epidemiology; human reproduction and fertility
Campus phone: 473-1821
Campus email: [email protected]

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Expert in the following: Maternal and child health; childhood obesity prevention; adolescent health and wellness; community-engaged research
Campus phone: (518) 402-0299
Campus email: [email protected]

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Expert in the following: Through the use of molecular studies, she identifies how human genetic variation influences disease susceptibility and morbidity.
Campus phone: (518) 473-3854
Campus email: [email protected]

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Expert in the following: Identifies the harmful plasticity that occurs after spinal cord injury leads to urinary dysfunction, and the development of methods for counteracting or reversing this harmful plasticity to improve urinary function.
Campus phone: (518) 486-4911
Campus email: [email protected]

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Expert in the following: Human health effects of environmental contaminants, including metals and organic compounds
Campus phone: (518) 525-2660
Campus email: [email protected]

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Expert in the following: Acculturation; immigrant health; elderly Asian Americans
Campus phone: 442-2589
Campus email: [email protected]

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Expert in the following: Health economics
Campus phone: (518) 442-4746
Campus email: [email protected]

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Expert in the following: Fungal and parasite pathogeneses; protein transport; secretion mechanisms; molecular mechanisms
Campus phone: (518) 474-7563
Campus email: [email protected]

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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]

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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]

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Expert in the following: cancer genomics; functional genomics; genetics; breast cancer
Campus phone: (518) 591-7154
Campus email: [email protected]

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Expert in the following: Health economics; health policy; health system; vulnerable populations; medical technology; aging; end-of-life care; palliative care
Campus phone: (518) 402-0370
Campus email: [email protected]

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Expert in the following: Endocrinology, reproductive health, reproductive hormones, animal science.
Campus phone: (518) 956-8170
Campus email: [email protected]

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Expert in the following: Politics of health policy; effects of policies on health outcomes; broader social policies; examined global HIV/AIDS politics, policy and epidemiology
Campus phone: (518) 442-5205
Campus email: [email protected]

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Expert in the following: Aging; health promotion chronic illness management; social support; public health
Campus phone: (518) 402-0262
Campus email: [email protected]

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Expert in the following: Molecular genetics of mycobacteria; infectious diseases; Tuberculosis; human genome; gene therapeutics
Campus phone: (518) 473-7553
Campus email: [email protected]

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Expert in the following: Cancer; RNA; stem cells; therapy-resistant cancer cells
Campus phone: 591-7204
Campus email: [email protected]

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Expert in the following: Psychology of human food choice, eating behaviors, food preferences and aversions, cultural differences in eating behaviors, eating disorders, overweight and obesity, cravings, food cravings, chocolate craving, perimenstrual and pregnancy cravings, social networking and video game addiction, substance use, the status of women in academia (gender biases).
Campus phone: (518) 442-4911
Campus email: [email protected]

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Expert in the following: Diabetes; obesity; smoking; nutrition; Japan
Campus phone: (518) 402-1561
Campus email: [email protected]

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Expert in the following: Community-based participatory research; health disparities; low-income communities, women's health and family health
Campus phone: (518) 402-0420
Campus email: [email protected]

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Expert in the following: acid rain; cloud water chemistry; water and human health issues; health impacts of air pollution

Campus phone: 474-0516
Campus email: [email protected]

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Expert in the following: Studies the interaction of mosquito and tick-borne arboviruses; arthropod vectors; vertebrate hosts, and the impact transmission intensity and perpetuation of the pathogen.
Campus phone: (518) 869-4524
Campus email: [email protected]

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Expert in the following: Epidemiology; molecular epidemiology; infectious disease epidemiology; genetic epidemiology; HIV/AIDS; viral hepatitis; liver disease.
Campus phone: 518-402-0397
Campus email: [email protected]

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Expert in the following: Health technology; social media; informatics; analytics; global health
Campus phone: (518) 402-6512
Campus email: [email protected]

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Expert in the following: Climate change, extreme weather, and air pollution on human health; disaster epidemiology and public health (WTC 9/11 disaster, Hurricane Sandy, power outages, school environmental factors and children’s health, attendance and performance; environmental exposures and childhood asthma; occupational and environmental risk factors on birth defects and other birth outcomes; global health research; air pollution and traffic exposures on asthma; evaluation of environmental policy’s impact on respiratory health; heavy metal exposures and birth outcomes; fish consumption and heavy metal exposures.
Campus phone: (518) 402-1685
Campus email: [email protected]

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Expert in the following: Molecular biology of parasites and RNA editing in pathogenic parasites
Campus phone: (518) 473-2692
Campus email: [email protected]

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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]

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Expert in the following: Public health policy, HIV/AIDS, resource allocation
Campus phone: (518) 442-5243
Campus email: [email protected]

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Expert in the following: Gene regulation; infectious disease; bacterial pathogenisis
Campus phone: (518) 486-4253
Campus email: [email protected]

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Expert in the following: Role of insulin in brain function and memory; diabetes; Alzheimer's disease
Campus phone: (518) 437-4404
Campus email: [email protected]

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Expert in the following: Neurodegenerative disorders (Huntington's Disease; Parkinson's Disease); stem cells; human genetics
Campus phone: (518) ) 694-8188
Campus email: [email protected]

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Expert in the following: Genetic Epidemiology; Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics; Cancer Genetic Susceptibility; Breast and Ovarian Cancer (BRCA) Genes; DNA Repair Genes; Role of Cancer Genes in Fetal and Placental Development; Gene-Environment Interactions; Family-Based and Genome-Wide Linkage and Association Studies
Campus phone: 518-402-0292
Campus email: [email protected]

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Expert in the following: Etiological studies of breast cancer; cancer of the female reproductive organs; childhood cancers; nursing; cancer epidemiology
Campus phone: (518) 402-0283
Campus email: [email protected]

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Expert in the following: Design and discovery of novel molecules to regulate protein function in nerve systems; ALS; neurodegenerative diseases
Campus phone: (518) 591-8820
Campus email: [email protected]

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Expert in the following: Liver disease; Hepatitis C; RNA therapies; virus-host interactions; translational control, replication and assembly of RNA viruses
Campus phone: 591-8841
Campus email: [email protected]

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Expert in the following: Diseases of the eye such as cataracts, glaucoma and macular degeneration; genetics
Campus phone: (518) 591-8842
Campus email: [email protected]

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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]

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Expert in the following: Structural biology; computational biology; DNA replication
Campus phone: (518) 402-2595
Campus email: [email protected]

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Expert in the following: Social structure and homicide and suicide rates; role of alcohol in violence and mortality; sociology of health and illness; violence and premature mortality in Russia; effects of policy on outcomes like violence and health; rural criminology and sociology
Campus phone: (518) 442-5214
Campus email: [email protected]

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Expert in the following: Comparative effectiveness research; quality of care and patient safety; evaluation of medical technology and digital health; health disparities and practice variation; global health
Campus phone: (518) 402-0325
Campus email: [email protected]

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Expert in the following: Cancer, genetic toxicology, chemoprevention, animal models of cancer
Campus phone: (518) 591-7152
Campus email: [email protected]

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Expert in the following: Bio-orthogonal chemistry, RNA synthesis, drug delivery, pharmaceutical chemistry, bioconjugation
Campus phone: (518) 437-4463
Campus email: [email protected]

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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]

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Expert in the following: DNA analysis; cancer; drug resistance; laboratory testing techniques
Campus phone: (518) 474-2088
Campus email: [email protected]

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Expert in the following: Electrophysiology, Imaging, Computational Neuroscience
Campus phone: (518) 442-4367
Campus email: [email protected]

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Expert in the following: Cancer; aging; stem cells and cancer treatment; alcohol abuse
Campus phone: (518) 473-7553
Campus email: [email protected]

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Expert in the following: 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 phone: (518)
Campus email: [email protected]

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Expert in the following: Brain pathology; brain development; drug abuse; neurological disorders (Parkinson's)
Campus phone: (518) 486-2590
Campus email: [email protected]

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Expert in the following: Virus surveillance; outbreak investigation; human pathogens
Campus phone: (518) 402-2709
Campus email: [email protected]

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Expert in the following: Sexuality; sexual health; sex education; European approaches to sex education; AIDS/HIV; sexually transmitted diseases and infections; adolescent sexuality; Internet pornography
Campus phone: (518) 442-2273
Campus email: [email protected]

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Expert in the following: Health and poverty; low birth weight; health and unemployment
Campus phone: 442-4686
Campus email: [email protected]

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Expert in the following: Human genome; diagnostic tools in gene testing
Campus phone: (518) 473-7553
Campus email: [email protected]

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Expert in the following: Newborn screening; genetic disorders; molecular detection techniques; cystic fibrosis
Campus phone: (518) 402-5210
Campus email: [email protected]

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Expert in the following:
Campus phone: (518) 694-8188
Campus email: [email protected]

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Expert in the following: Prostate cancer; vitamin D; androgens; histone deacetylase inhibitors as adjuvant therapeutics for prostate and breast cancer; miRNA and nc-RNA expression in tumor progression
Campus phone: (518) 591-7200
Campus email: [email protected]

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Expert in the following: Climate change and variability; Impacts of climate on the environment and human health; Paleoclimate of the last 1,000 to 1,000,000 years
Campus phone: 518-442-3854
Campus email: [email protected]

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Expert in the following: Mental health; depression; posttraumatic stress disorder; suicide; substance use; violence; trauma exposure; adverse childhood experiences; disasters; social determinants of health; health disparities; epidemiologic methods; complex systems approaches; agent-based modeling.
Campus phone: (518) 473-9385
Campus email: [email protected]

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Expert in the following:

Drug addiction; binge eating disorder; obesity; psychiatric and medical outcomes; psychosocial stress and health; laboratory behavioral model; epidemiology

Campus phone: (518) 473-5861
Campus email: [email protected]

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Expert in the following: Analytical biochemistry; forensic analysis; microarray; multiplexing; single-cell analysis; biosensor; signaling; systems biology; cancer diagnosis
Campus phone: (518) 442-4412
Campus email: [email protected]

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Expert in the following: Public policy; healthcare
Campus phone: (518) 442-5270
Campus email: [email protected]

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Expert in the following: Financing and access to care; health reform; medical outcomes; provider payment
Campus phone: (518) 402-0302
Campus email: [email protected]

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Expert in the following: breast cancer, nutrition, obesity, nuclear receptors, vitamin D, animal models of cancer
Campus phone: (518) 591-7232
Campus email: [email protected]

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Expert in the following: Long-term care, aging, comparative effectiveness research, sensor technology and work related injury prevention, policy impact on dementia care, international health policy comparison.
Campus phone: 518-402-2063
Campus email: [email protected]

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Expert in the following: Statistics; pollution and health
Campus phone: (518) 474-6846
Campus email: [email protected]

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