Senior Fellows

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Core Investigators**

• Soham Al Snih, MD, PhD** Professor and Assistant Dean for Doctorate Foundational Curriculum, Department of Population Health and Health Disparities, School of Public and Population Health 
• Jacqueline L. Angel, PhD, Wilbur J. Cohen Professor of Health and Social Policy and Professor of Sociology, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin  
• Jacques G. Baillargeon, PhD** Professor and Chair, ad interim Department of Epidemiology, School of Public and Population Health
• Abbey Berenson, MD, MMS, PhD** The Ruth Hartgraves MD Chair in Obstetrics & Gynecology; Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Women’s Health OB GYN
• Anish Bhardwaj, MD, MBA, Vice Provost, John Sealy Chair of Neurology 
• Suresh Bhavnani, PhD** Professor, Biomedical Informatics Biostatistics & Data Science, School of Public and Population Health
• Faraz Bishehsari, MD, PhD, Professor, Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition Department of Internal Medicine, McGovern Medical School, UT Health Houston
• David A. Brown, PT, PhD, FAPTA** Senior Vice President and Dean School of Health Professions 
• Jin Mo Chung, PhD, Cecil H & Ida M Green Distinguished Endowed Chair in Neuroscience Chair Department of Neuroscience and Cell Biology 
• Kathryn Cunningham, PhD, Chauncey Leake Distinguished Professor and Chair of Pharmacology; Director Center Addiction Sciences and Therapeutics
• Kelly Dineley, PhD, Brigadier General and Mrs. Donald B. Wagner Professorship in Neurodegenerative Disease, Mitchell Center for Neurodegenerative Disorders Neurology 
• Steve Fisher, PhD, PT** Professor Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Sciences
• Ken Fujise, MD, Professor, Internal Medicine, L. Locke Chair in Cardiovascular Medicine University of Washington 
• James S. Goodwin, MD** George and Cynthia Mitchell Distinguished Chair in Geriatric Medicine Division of Geriatrics, Department of Internal Medicine
• Mark Hayward, PhD, Professor of Sociology & Centennial Commission Professor in the Liberal Arts, Department of Sociology, The University of Texas at Austin  
• Vivian Ho, PhD, James A Baker III Institute Chair in Health Economics, Baker Institute for Public Policy, Rice University  
• Robert Hummer, PhD, Howard W Odum Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology University of North Carolina  
• Hani Jneid, MD** Professor and Director Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine
• Deborah Jones, PhD, RN, Senior Vice President and Dean, School of Nursing, Rebecca Sealy Distinguished Centennial Chair
• Rakez Kayed, PhD, Professor, John Sealy Chair for Parkinson's Research, Neurology Mitchell Center for Neurodegenerative Disorders Neurology 
• Linda Kenney, PhD, Professor Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
• Yong-Fang Kuo, PhD** Professor and Chair, Department of Biostatistics & Data Science, Director, Office of Biostatistics, School of Public and Population Health
• Michael Laposata, MD, PhD, Professor & Chair Pathology
• Michael Malone, MD, Professor of Medicine & Section Head of Geriatrics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine & Public Health  
• Kyriakos Markides, PhD** Annie & John Gnitzinger Professor of Aging Studies; Director, Division of Social & Behavioral Sciences Department of Population Health & Health Disparities, School of Public and Population Health
• Melissa (Missy) Morrow, PhD** A. Russell Shearn Moody Distinguished Chair in Neurological Rehabilitation and Professor Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Sciences 
• Charles P. Mouton, MD** Executive Vice President, Provost and Dean, John Sealy School of Medicine
• Shawn Nishi, MD, Professor and Division Director ad interim, Pulmonary Critical Care & Sleep Medicine; Program Director, PCCM Fellowship Program; Medical Director, Comprehensive Lung Cancer Screening Program Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine
• Andres Oberhauser, PhD, Professor Neuroscience, Cell Biology & Anatomy 
• Jose Pagan, PhD, Chair and Professor of the Department of Public Health Policy and Management NYU School of Public Health
• John Papaconstantinou, PhD, Bertha and Robert Bucksch Distinguished Professor of Aging Biochemistry & Molecular Biology 
• Darpan Patel, PhD** Professor; Vice Dean for Research and Scholarship School of Nursing
• Kristen Peek, PhD** Dean ad interim, School of Public and Population Health, Professor, Department of Population Health and Health Disparities
• Jose Regino Perez-Polo, PhD, Adjunct Professor  Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
• Mukaila Raji, MD** Edgar Gnitzinger Distinguished Professorship in Aging; Director, Division of Geriatrics Department of Internal Medicine
• Linda Rounds, PhD, RN, Associate Dean for Professional Development, Betty Lee Evans Distinguished Professor in Nursing School of Nursing
• Gulshan Sharma, MD, MPH** Senior Vice President, Chief Medical & Clinical Innovation Officer; Professor, Division of Pulmonary Critical Care & Sleep Medicine  Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Pulmonary Critical Care & Sleep Medicine
• Michael Sheetz, PhD** Professor, Robert A. Welch Distinguished University Chair in Chemistry Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology 
• Melinda Sheffield-Moore, PhD** Senior Vice President and Dean, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences; Lawrence E. Ethridge, Jr. Distinguished Professor, Department of Internal Medicine
• Victor Sierpina, MD,  WD and Laura Nell Nicholson Family Professor in Integrative Medicine Department of Family Medicine Department of Family Medicine
• Kimberly Skarupski, PhD, MPH Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development, Professor Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
• Lawrence Sowers, PhD, Chair and Professor Department Pharmacology and Toxicology
• Heidi Spratt, PhD**, Professor Department of Biostatistics & Data Science, School of Public and Population Health
• Maria Suarez-Almazor, MD, PhD, Barnts Family Distinguished Professor Division of Internal Medicine MD Anderson Cancer Center  
• Oscar Suman, PhD, Leon Hess Professor for Burn Injuries Research Professor, Surgery Surgery
• Karen Szauter, MD, Professor Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology 
• Giulio Taglialatela, PhD, Lawrence J. Del Papa Distinguished Chair in Neurodegenerative Disease; Director, Mitchell Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Department of Neurology 
• Barbara Thompson, MD, Sealy Hutchings and Lucille Wright Hutchings Chair, Department of Family Medicine Department of Family Medicine
• Alfredo Torres, MD** Herman Barnett Distinguished Professor in Microbiology and Immunology Department of Microbiology and Immunology 
• Carole A. Tucker, PhD, PT**  Associate Dean for Research; Director, Center for Health Promotion, Performance, and Rehabilitation Research (CHPPRR); Fannie Kempner Adoue Distinguished Professor in Cognitive Rehabilitation; Chair and Professor, Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Sciences; Professor, Department of Nutrition Sciences and Health Behavior Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation
• Douglas Tyler, MD, John Woods Harris Distinguished Chair in Surgery Surgery
• Huey-Ming Tzeng, PhD, RN, FAAN** Professor, School of Nursing
• Randall Urban, MD** Vice President and Chief Research Officer; Vice Dean, Clinical Research in the School of Medicine Division of Endocrinology, Department of Internal Medicine
• Susan Weller, PhD, Professor Department of Population Health and Health Disparities, School of Public and Population Health
• Rebeca Wong, PhD, Professor Sam and Ann Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies
• Wenbo Zhang, PhD** Professor Department of Ophthalmology and VIsual Sciences

Fellows

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Core Investigators**

• Amber Armstead, OTR/L, DrPH Assistant Professor, Occupational Therapy
• Jose Barral, MD, PhD Chair of Biomedical Science; Professor of Biomedical Science, Kaiser Permanente Biomedical Science Kaiser Permanente
• Maria Belalcazar, MD** Associate Professor, Division of Endocrinology, Department of Internal Medicine
• Ludwik Branski, MD Associate Professor, Surgery
• Phillip Cantu, PhD** Assistant Professor, Division of Geriatrics, Department of Internal Medicine
• Yunfeng Chen, PhD** Assistant Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
• Eileen Curl, PhD, RN Director of Research Nursing, Lamar University Nursing
• Brian Downer, PhD** Associate Professor; Director, Rehab Science Graduate Program Department of Population Health & Health Disparities, School of Public and Population Health
• Samuel Fagg, PhD, MS** Assistant Professor, John L. Hearn Endowed University Chair of Transplant Surgery Department of Surgery
• Rebecca Galloway, PhD, PT** Associate Professor, Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Sciences
• Syed Gilani, MD Associate Professor, Cardiology
• Sharon Giordano, MD, MPH Professor & Department Chair, Oncology, MD Anderson Cancer Center
• James Graham, PhD, DC Director, Center for Community Partnerships (CCP) Colorado State University
• Letitia Graves, PhD, MSN, RN** Assistant Professor, School of Nursing
• Gabriela Halder, MD, MPH Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology
• Claudia Hilton, PhD, MBA, OTR, FAOTA Associate Professor, Occupational Therapy
• Erin Hommel, MD** Associate Professor, Internal Medicine - Geriatric
• Kimberly Hreha, EdD, OTR/L Assistant Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery, Occupational Therapy, Duke University
• Vinod Kaushik, MD Associate Professor, Program Director, Geriatric Medicine Fellowship Internal Medicine - Geriatric
• Wissam Khalife, MD** Associate Professor, Cardiology
• Michael Kinsky, MD Associate Professor, Anesthesiology; Director, Clinical Research Center Anesthesiology
• Balaji Krishnan, PhD Associate Professor, Neurology
• Chih-Ying "Cynthia" Li, PhD, OTR** Associate Professor, Occupational Therapy
• David Lopez, DrPH, MPH** Associate Professor, Director, Population Health Sciences Graduate Program Department of Epidemiology, School of Public and Population Health
• Elizabeth Lorenzo, PhD, RN Assistant Professor, School of Nursing
• Elizabeth Lyons, PhD, MPH** Grace Bucksch Gnitzinger Distinguished Professor in Aging, Chair and Associate Professor Nutrition Sciences and Health Behavior
• Meredith Masel, PhD, MPH** Assistant Professor, School of Public and Population Health; Program Manager, Oliver Center
• Neil Mehta, PhD, MSc, MA** Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public and Population Health
• Vineet Menachery, PhD** Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology
• Anita Mercado, MD Associate Professor, Division of General Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine
• Sadaf Milani, PhD** Assistant Professor, Division of Geriatrics, Department of Internal Medicine
• Andrew J. Murton, PhD** Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery
• Guy Nir, PhD** Assistant Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
• Hoang Nguyen, PhD** Associate Professor, School of Nursing
• Ikenna Okereke, MD Vice Chairman, Department of Surgery Henry Ford Health System
• Monique R. Pappadis, MEd, PhD** Associate Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Population Health & Health Disparities, School of Public and Population Health
• Norma Perez, MD, DrPH** Associate Professor; Director, Hispanic Center for Excellence Assistant Dean for Student Affairs, John Sealy School of Medicine Division of Geriatrics, Department of Internal Medicine
• John Prochaska, DrPH Associate Dean for Student Affairs and Associate Professor, Department of Population Health & Health Disparities, School of Public and Population Health
• Anna Rotkiewicz-Piorun, MD Associate Professor, Internal Medicine - Geriatrics
• Hanaa Sallam, MD, PhD Assistant Professor, Division of Endocrinology, Department of Internal Medicine
• Rafael Samper Ternent, MD, PhD UT Health Houston
• Katalina Serna, MD, MPH** Assistant Professor, Division of Geriatrics, Department of Internal Medicine
• Sarah Smith, PhD Research Communications Manager, School of Public and Population Health
• Partha Sarkar, PhD Associate Professor, Neurology
• Hani Serag, MD Assistant Professor, Division of Endocrinology, Department of Internal Medicine
• Bartosz Szczesny, PhD Associate Professor, Anesthesiology
• Elizabeth Vaughan, DO, MPH, RD** Associate Professor, Internal Medicine - General Medicine
• Alejandro Villasante-Tezanos, PhD** Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics & Data Science
• Stanley Watowich, PhD** Associate Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
• Stephen Williams, MD Chief, Division of Urology Associate Professor, Urology and Radiology, Robert Earl Cone Professorship Division of Urology, Department of Surgery
• Yuhui (Whitney) Yin, PhD Associate Professor, Pharmacology
• Xiaoying Yu, PhD** Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics & Data Science, School of Public and Population Health
• Huiwen Xu, PhD Associate Professor, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Emory University