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Sharon Petronella Croisant, PhD
Professor 
Department of Epidemiology
School of Public and Population Health

Sharon Petronella Croisant, MS, PhD is a tenured Professor in the Department of Epidemiology in the UTMB School of Public and Population Health. has > 20 years of experience in leading community-engaged research and outreach. She is heavily involved in building interfaces between and among environmental research, education, and community health, emphasizing a Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) approach. Community-based research is an important focus of her work, primarily in response to emergent environmental health issues experienced by Gulf Coast communities, including natural and manmade disasters. She is the Director of Community Engagement Core for the Gulf Coast Center for Precision Environmental Health (GC-CPEH), which is a P30 Environmental Health Sciences Core Center funded by the national Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. The GC-CPEH, a partnership between UTMB, Baylor College of Medicine, and the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health, is the focal point and catalyst for environmental health research in the Texas Medical Center, driving collaborative and multidisciplinary research and serving the community engagement and policy needs of the Gulf Coast region. She further directs community engagement for the Baylor-Rice Superfund Research Program, also funded by the NIEHS. 

Jonathan Gerber, MD
Associate Professor Non-Tenure Track Clinical
Department of Surgery, Division of Urology 
John Sealy School Medicine

Dr. Jonathan Gerber is a fellowship trained Pediatric Urologist who believes that the child is the most important person in the room during a clinic visit and should be treated as such in order to alleviate the usual fear of seeing a doctor. He strives to include the child in the conversation and decision making and ensure that caregivers have a true understanding of the diagnosis and treatment plan before leaving the office.

Dr. Gerber is a native Houstonian and attended medical school in Houston at UTHealth, followed by a urology residency at SUNY Downstate in Brooklyn, NY. Afterwards he completed his pediatric urology fellowship at Texas Children's Hospital/Baylor College of Medicine.

His clinical interests include the full breadth of pediatric urology, from prenatal urologic counseling, newborn circumcisions and revisions to hernias, hydrocele and undescended testicles. He sees hydronephrosis, kidney stones, urinary tract infections, obstructive uropathy, neurogenic bladder including spina bifida, and hypospadias.

Dr. Gerber comes from a long line of health care professionals. Visiting his grandfather's pediatric clinic, he would remind him how special this job is to take care of children, day in and day out. Pediatric urologic diagnoses can be some of the most concerning for patients and caregivers. At UTMB, we are here to work together to get them through whatever it is they may be facing so that they can get back to being children..