Epidemiology

C. Robert Horsburgh Jr.
Chair and Professor. Also, Professor of Biostatistics.
MD, Case Western Reserve University; MUS, Yale University.
Areas of interest: tuberculosis epidemiology and clinical trials, epidemiology of AIDS and AIDS-related infections, and the effects of architectural design on health outcomes.
sph.bu.edu/rhorsbu

Ann Aschengrau
Associate Chair and Professor.
ScD, Harvard University.
Areas of interest: etiology of congenital anomalies, pregnancy loss, breast cancer, environmental epidemiology, reproductive epidemiology, cancer epidemiology, and neuro-developmental disorders.
sph.bu.edu/aaschen

Full Time

Kate Applebaum
Assistant Professor.
DSc, Harvard University; MSPH, Emory University.
Areas of interest: cancer epidemiology, gene-environment interactions, and environmental and occupational exposures.
sph.bu.edu/kappleba

Susan B. Brogly
Assistant Professor.
PhD, MSc, McGill University.
Areas of interest: reproductive epidemiology, adverse harms of in utero exposure, and pediatric HIV infection.
sph.bu.edu/sbrogly

Daniel R. Brooks
Associate Professor.
DSc, MPH, Boston University.
Areas of interest: cancer epidemiology with a special interest in lung and skin cancer, cancer prevention, public health surveillance, prevention of tobacco use, and epidemiology of tobacco-related diseases.
sph.bu.edu/danbrook

Theodore Colton
Chair Emeritus and Professor. Also, Professor of Biostatistics.
ScD, Johns Hopkins University; MS, University of North Carolina.
Areas of interest: biomedical research design, cancer epidemiology, perinatal and child epidemiology, and clinical trials.
sph.bu.edu/tcolton

Patricia F. Coogan
Associate Professor. Senior Epidemiologist, Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University.
DSc, MPH, Boston University.
Areas of interest: pharmacoepidemiology, cancer epidemiology, and history of public health.
sph.bu.edu/pcoogan

Yvette C. Cozier
Assistant Professor. Epidemiologist, Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University.
DSc, MPH, Boston University.
Areas of interest: social and genetic determinants of health in African-American women, specifically the influence of factors such as racism, neighborhood socioeconomic status, and genetics in the development of cancer, cardiovascular and pulmonary disease.
sph.bu.edu/yvettec

Matt Fox
Assistant Professor.
DSc, MPH, Boston University.
Areas of interest: HIV and AIDS, malaria, Africa, Central Asia, clinical trials, epidemi0logic methods, sensitivity analysis.
sph.bu.edu/mfox

Lisa Fredman
Professor.
PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Areas of interest: epidemiology of aging and psychosocial epidemiology.
sph.bu.edu/lfredman

Elizabeth E. Hatch
Associate Professor.
PhD, Yale University.
Areas of interest: cancer and reproductive epidemiology, endocrine disrupting chemicals, prenatal exposures in relation to long-term health effects, life course epidemiology.
sph.bu.edu/eehatch

Natasha Hochberg
Assistant Professor.
MD, Case Western Reserve University; MPH, Emory University.
Areas of interest: emerging infectious diseases, infectious diseases in mobile populations, the epidemiology of parasitic infections and the prevalence of parasitic infections among foreign-born persons with HIV.
sph.bu.edu/nhoch

Susan S. Jick
Professor and Co-Director of the Boston Collaborative Drug Surveillance Program.
DSc, MPH, Boston University.
Area of interest: pharmacoepidemiology.
sph.bu.edu/sjick

David W. Kaufman
Professor. Associate Director, Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University.
ScD, MSc, Harvard University.
Areas of interest: epidemiology of rare drug-induced diseases, etiology of hematologic and renal disorders and drug utilization.
sph.bu.edu/dwk

Wayne W. LaMorte
Professor. Also, Assistant Dean for Education and Professor of Surgery, Boston University School of Medicine.
MD, College of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey; PhD, MPH, Boston University.
Areas of interest: use of technology in teaching.
sph.bu.edu/wlamorte

Carol Louik
Assistant Professor. Epidemiologist, Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University.
ScD, MS, Harvard University.
Areas of interest: occupational exposures and birth defects and the development of new methods for post-marketing surveillance of prescription medications.
sph.bu.edu/clouik

Allen A. Mitchell
Professor. Director, Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University. Also, Professor of Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine.
MD, Tufts University.
Areas of interest: epidemiology of drug-induced birth defects and postmarketing studies of medication use and effects in children.
sph.bu.edu/allenmit

Julie R. Palmer
Professor. Senior Epidemiologist, Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University.
ScD, Harvard University; MPH, Boston University.
Areas of interest: cancer epidemiology, cardiovascular disease epidemiology, and effects of exogenous female hormones.
sph.bu.edu/jpalmer

Marianne N. Prout
Professor. Also, Associate Professor of Surgery and Assistant Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine.
MD, Cornell University; MPH, Harvard University.
Areas of interest: cancer, in particular designing cancer education course materials using new technologies, breast cancer risk and risk reduction, outreach and education to minority and underserved communities, cancer screening and smoking cessation programs.
sph.bu.edu/mnprout

Lynn Rosenberg
Professor. Associate Director, Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University.
ScD, MS, Harvard University; MS, Boston University.
Areas of interest: drug-induction of disease, cardiovascular disease, cancer epidemiology, and women’s health.
sph.bu.edu/lrosenbe

Edward Ruiz-Narváez
Assistant Professor. Epidemiologist, Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University.
ScD, Harvard University; MSc, University of Costa Rica.
Areas of interest: cardiovascular disease, genetic basis of human complex diseases and gene-environment interaction on human diseases.

Kim Shea
Assistant Professor
PhD, MPH, Boston University

Sherri O. Stuver
Associate Professor.
ScD, Harvard University.
Areas of interest: virus-associated disease and malignancy, especially those related to hepatitis C virus and human T-lymphotropic virus type I infections.
sph.bu.edu/sstuver

Martha M. Werler
Professor. Senior Epidemiologist, Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University.
DSc, Boston University; MPH, University of Michigan.
Areas of interest: reproductive epidemiology, with a focus on maternal risk factors and methods.
sph.bu.edu/werler

Lauren A. Wise
Associate Professor. Epidemiologist, Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University.
ScD, ScM, Harvard University.
Area of interest: reproductive epidemiology.
sph.bu.edu/lwise

Marianne Ulcickas Yood
Research Associate Professor.
DSc, MPH, Boston University.
Areas of interest: pharmacoepidemiology, drug safety, methodologic issues relating to exposure measurement and data quality in large administrative databases.
sph.bu.muyood

Part Time

M. Anita Barry
Assistant Professor. Also, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine. Director, Communicable Disease Control, Boston Public Health Commission.
MD, Columbia University; MPH, Boston University.

Tracy A. Battaglia
Assistant Professor.
MD, MPH, Boston University.

Emelia J. Benjamin
Professor. Also, Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine.
MD, Case Western University; ScM, Harvard University.

Julia G. Brody
Adjunct Assistant Professor. Executive Director, Silent Spring Institute.
PhD, University of Texas.

Julie E. Buring
Adjunct Professor. Professor, Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School.
ScD, Harvard University; MS, University of Washington.

Kee Chan
Assistant Professor. Also, Assistant Professor of Health Sciences, College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences: Sargent College, Boston University.
PhD, MA, Yale University; MS, University of California, San Diego.

Hyon Choi
Professor. Also, Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine.
DrPH, Harvard University; MD, Yonsei Medical College.

Bruce B. Cohen
Adjunct Assistant Professor. Director of Research and Epidemiology, Massachusetts Department of Public Health.
PhD, MPH, University of California, Berkeley; MS, University of California.

Michael Corwin
Associate Professor. Senior Epidemiologist, Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University. Also Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine.
MD, Wayne State University School of Medicine.

Deborah J. Cotton
Professor. Also, Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine. Chief of Medical Service, VA Boston Healthcare System.
MD, Boston University; MPH, Johns Hopkins University.

Donald E. Craven
Adjunct Professor. Also, Adjunct Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine. Professor of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine. Chair, Department of Infectious Diseases, Lahey Clinic.
MD, Albany Medical College.

Laura E. Derby
Assistant Professor Emerita.
DSc, Boston University.

Eleni C. Digenis-Bury
Instructor. Senior Epidemiologist, Boston Public Health Commission.
MPH, Johns Hopkins University.

Luc D’jousse
Adjunct Assistant Professor. Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
MD, University of Saarland, Germany; DSc, MPH, Boston University.

Nancy N. Dougherty
Instructor. Also, Instructor of Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine.
MPH, University of Massachusetts; RN, Hartwick College.

R. Curtis Ellison
Professor. Also, Professor of Medicine and Chief, Section of Preventive Medicine & Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine.
MD, Medical University of South Carolina; MS, Harvard University.

Francis A. Farraye
Professor. Also, Associate Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine. Clinical Director, Section of Gastroenterology, Boston Medical Center.
MD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine; MSc, Harvard University.

Lindsay A. Farrer
Professor. Also, Professor of Biostatistics. Chief, Genetics Program, and Professor of Medicine, Neurology, and Genetics & Genomics, Boston University School of Medicine.
PhD, Indiana University.

David T. Felson
Professor. Also, Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine.
MD, Johns Hopkins University; MPH, Boston University.

Louis D. Fiore
Associate Professor. Also, Associate Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine. Staff Physician, VA Boston Healthcare System.
MD, State University of New York, Syracuse.

Kenneth A. Freedberg
Adjunct Associate Professor. Director of Epidemiology and Outcomes Research, Partners AIDS Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital.
MD, MSc, Harvard University.

Karen M. Freund
Professor. Also, Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine.
MD, Stanford University; MPH, Boston University.

Arthur J. Garvey
Assistant Professor. Research Statistician, Veterans Affairs Normative Aging Study.
PhD, MEd, Boston College.

Alan C. Geller
Research Associate Professor. Also, Research Associate Professor of Dermatology, Boston University School of Medicine. Associate Director, Cancer Prevention and Control Center.
MPH, Boston University.

Nicole Glazer
Assistant Professor. Also, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine.
PhD, MPH, University of Washington.

Howard Golub
Adjunct Associate Professor. President, CareStat, Inc.
MD, Harvard University; PhD, MS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Jaimie Gradus
Assistant Professor. Also, Assistant Professor of General Psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine.
DSc, MPH, Boston University.

Robert C. Green
Professor. Also, Professor of Neurology and Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine.
MD, University of Virginia Medical School; MPH, Emory University School of Public Health.

Marian T. Hannan
Adjunct Assistant Professor. Senior Research Associate, Hebrew Rehabilitation Center. Assistant Professor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
DSc, Boston University; MPH, Yale University.

Sonia Hernández-Díaz
Adjunct Assistant Professor. Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard University School of Public Health.
DrPH, MPH, Harvard University; MD, Autónoma University of Madrid, School of Medicine.

Edward Jones Lopez
Assistant Professor. Also, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine.
MD, LaSalle University; MS, Case Western Reserve University.

James A. Kaye
Adjunct Associate Professor. Senior Epidemiologist, Boston Collaborative Drug Surveillance Program.

Timothy Lash
Adjunct Associate Professor. Professor of Cancer Epidemiology, Aarhus University.
DSc, MPH, Boston University.

Elizabeth Lawler
Instructor. Project Manager, Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology Research and Information Center, Veterans Administration New England Healthcare System.
DSc, MPH, Boston University.

Samuel M. Lesko
Adjunct Associate Professor. Director of Research and Medical Director, Northeast Regional Cancer Institute.
MD, Jefferson Medical College; MPH, Yale University.

Anita M. Loughlin
Assistant Professor. Also, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine.
PhD, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; MS, University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

Barbara E. Mahon
Adjunct Assistant Professor. Director of Medical Affairs for North America Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics.
MD, University of California, San Francisco; MPH, University of California, Berkeley.

Diane Feeney Mahoney
Adjunct Associate Professor. Director of Gerontechnology, Enhanced Family Caregiving Through Technology Program and Senior Research Scientist, Research and Training Institute, Hebrew Rehabilitation Center for the Aged.
PhD, Brandeis University; MS, University of Massachusetts Lowell.

Thomas W. Mangione
Adjunct Associate Professor. Adjunct Associate Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Senior Research Scientist, JSI Research and Training Institute.
PhD, MA, University of Michigan.

Nancy Maxwell
Research Assistant Professor
DSc, MA, Boston University.

Tara A. McCarthy
Adjunct Assistant Professor. Epidemiologist, Boston Public Health Commission.
MD, MPH, Tufts University School of Medicine.

Lindsay McNair
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Epidemiology. Medical Director, Clinical Development, Vertex Pharmaceuticals.
MD, University of Connecticut; MPH, Boston University.

Christoph R. Meier
Adjunct Assistant Professor. Head, Basel Pharmacoepidemiology Unit, University Hospital, Switzerland.
PharmD, PhD, University of Basel, Switzerland; MS, Harvard University.

Tuhina Neogi
Associate Professor. Also Associate Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine.
PhD, Boston University; MD, University of Toronto.

P. Kirstin Newby
Associate Professor. Also, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine.
ScD, Harvard University; MPH, MS, Columbia University.

Michael J. O’Brien
Professor. Also, Professor of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine. Chief of Anatomic Pathology, Boston Medical Center.
MB, BCh, National University of Ireland; MPH, Harvard University.

Stephen I. Pelton
Professor. Also, Professor of Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine.
MD, State University of New York.

Charles Poole
Adjunct Associate Professor. Associate Professor, University of North Carolina.
ScD, Harvard University; MPH, University of North Carolina.

Paula A. Quatromoni
Associate Professor. Also Associate Professor of Health Sciences, Boston University College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences: Sargent College. Co-Investigator, The Framingham Nutrition Studies.
DSc, Boston University; MS, University of Maine.

Kenneth J. Rothman
Professor.
DrPH, Harvard University.

Stefan Russmann
Adjunct Associate Professor. Head of Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety, University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland.
MD, University of Freiburg.

Richard Saitz
Professor. Also, Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine. Associate Director, Youth Alcohol Prevention Center. Principal Investigator and Staff Physician, Boston Medical Center.
MD, Boston University; MPH, Harvard University.

Robert Saper
Associate Professor. Also, Associate Professor of Family Medicine.
MD, Harvard Medical School; MPH, Harvard School of Public Health.

Paul C. Schroy III
Professor. Also, Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine. Associate Visiting Physician and Director of Clinical Research, Section of Gastroenterology, Boston Medical Center.
MD, Jefferson Medical College; MPH, Boston University.

George R. Seage III
Adjunct Associate Professor. Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health.
DSc, MPH, Boston University.

Ascher J. Segall
Adjunct Professor. Co-Director, Center for Educational Development in Health, Boston University Health Policy Institute.
MD, University of Lausanne, Switzerland; DrPH, MPH, Harvard University.

Rebecca A. Silliman
Professor. Also, Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine.
MD, MPH, University of Washington; PhD, University of North Carolina.

Sandra C. Smole
Adjunct Assistant Professor. Laboratory Supervisor II, Massachusetts Department of Public Health State Laboratory Institute, Bureau of Laboratory and Environmental Sciences.
PhD, Baylor College of Medicine.

Henrik Sorensen
Adjunct Professor. Professor, Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark.
MD, University of Aarhus.

David W. Sparrow
Professor. Also, Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine. Associate Director and Senior Epidemiologist, Veterans Affairs Normative Aging Study.
DSc, Boston University; MS, University of Massachusetts.

Avron Spiro III
Research Professor. Research Psychologist, Veterans Affairs Normative Aging Study. Also, Research Professor of Psychiatry.
PhD, MS, Pennsylvania State University.

Pantel S. Vokonas
Professor. Also, Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine. Director, Veterans Affairs Normative Aging Study.
MD, Ohio State University.

Philip A. Wolf
Professor. Also, Professor of Biostatistics. Professor of Neurology and Research Professor of Medicine (Preventive Medicine & Epidemiology), Boston University School of Medicine.
MD, State University of New York, Syracuse.

Yuqing Zhang
Professor. Also, Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine.
DSc, Boston University; MPH, Commonwealth Institute of Health, Sydney University, Australia.