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Salaried Primary Appointment Faculty
The 40 faculty members with salaried primary appointments in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics are responsible for the major core of our academic activities, and are engaged in a broad variety of clinical and translational research spanning the major diseases and study designs. In addition to the many projects that are led by Departmental faculty, a unique feature of our Department is the emphasis given to inter-disciplinary collaboration, carrying our expertise in research methods to other departments and institutions. For further information on specific research activities see the profile pages (linked to names, below) or the Division web pages.
| Division & Center Codes | |||
| BIO | Biostatistics | PMPH | Preventive Medicine & Public Health |
| CAE | Cancer Epidemiology | CBMB | Center for Bioinformatics & Molecular Biostatistics |
| CLE | Clinical Epidemiology | CC | San Francisco Coordinating Center |
| CTMS | Clinical Trials & Multicenter Studies | ||
| Links to Profile | Principal Research Interests | |
| Peter Bacchetti PhD Professor |
BIO | Promoting good statistical practices; survival analysis methods; statistical methods for HIV and liver disease |
| Dennis M. Black PhD Professor |
CTMS CC |
Osteoporosis; clinical trials |
| Dejana Braithwaite PhD Assistant Adjunct Professor |
PMPH | Breast cancer etiology and prevention; social and racial/ethnic disparities in breast cancer; systematic review and meta-analysis |
| June Chan ScD Associate Professor |
CAE | Nutritional and hormonal risk factors for prostate cancer incidence, recurrence, and mortality |
| Su-Chun Cheng ScD Associate Professor |
BIO | Biostatistical methods |
| Julie Deardorff PhD Assistant Adj. Professor |
CAE | Risk factors for early pubertal timing among females; Latinos' physical and mental health |
| Richard Feachem PhD, DSc(Med), Professor |
PMPH | Health policy; health and economic development; international and environmental health |
| Lawrence W. Green DrPH Adj. Professor |
CAE | Public health education; psychometrics |
| David Glidden PhD Professor |
BIO | Biostatistical methods; relative contributions of genetic and environmental factors to chronic diseases |
| Robert A. Hiatt MD, PhD Professor and Joint Chair |
CAE | Cancer epidemiology; efficacy and effectiveness of cancer screening in diverse community settings |
| Joan F. Hilton ScD, MPH Professor |
BIO | Inference based on exact permutation tests; randomized controlled trials; categorical data |
| Elizabeth A. Holly PhD, MPH Professor |
CAE | Epidemiology of: non-Hodgkin lymphoma, pancreatic cancer, anal cancer precursor lesions/HPV, melanoma, and childhood brain tumors |
| Stephen B. Hulley MD, MPH Professor |
CLE | Cardiovascular epidemiology; research methods; women's health |
| James G. Kahn MD, MPH Professor |
CLE | Cost effectiveness; HIV disease and reproductive health; health care financing |
| Michael A. Kohn MD Assistant Clinical Professor |
CLE | Application of clinical epidemiology to emergency medicine; database management for clinical research |
| Marion Lee PhD, MPH Adj. Professor |
CAE | Nutrition; cancer; Asian-American health; alternative medicine |
| Christina Lindan MD Associate Adj. Professor |
PMPH | International AIDS (Asia); STD epidemiology and prevention; coccidioidomycoses vaccine development |
| Jian-Hua Mao PhD Assistant Adjunct Professor |
CAE | Biological responses to radiation exposure |
| Jeffrey N. Martin MD, MPH Associate Professor |
CLE | Kaposi's sarcoma; HIV disease progression and treatment |
| Charles E. McCulloch PhD Professor and Vice-Chair |
BIO | Longitudinal data analysis; correlated, non-normal data models; latent class models |
| Dominic Montagu DrPH, MBA, MPH Assistant Adj. Professor |
PMPH | International health |
| John M. Neuhaus PhD Professor |
BIO | Statistical methods for complex dependent data; assessment of the effects of model misspecification |
| Michael C. Nevitt PhD Professor |
CTMS CC | Osteoarthritis; osteoporosis; women's health |
| Thomas B. Newman MD, MPH Professor |
CLE | Jaundice, fever, dehydration, urinary tract infections in infants; health policy; clinical research methods |
| Thomas E. Novotny MD Professor |
PMPH | Tobacco control policy; childhood asthma and second-hand smoke; HIV/AIDS in low prevalence populations of Eastern Europe; public health practice |
| John W. Peabody MD, DTM&H, PhD, FACP Associate Professor |
PMPH | Health policy and health sector reform; health services research; quality of care, measurement, and cross-system comparisons |
| Mark Pletcher MD, MPH Assistant Adj. Professor |
CLE | Prevention of coronary heart disease (CHD); substance abuse |
| Travis Porco PhD, MPH Associate Adj. Professor |
PMPH | Mathematical modeling, simulation, and forecasting of infectious diseases for SFDPH |
| Neil Risch PhD Professor and Joint Chair |
BIO | Human genetics, population genetics, statistical genetics, genetic epidemiology |
| George W. Rutherford MD Professor and Vice-Chair |
PMPH | Epidemiology and prevention of infectious diseases and childhood injury; international health |
| Ann V. Schwartz PhD, MPH Assistant Adj. Professor |
CTMS | Fractures, osteoporosis, falls and physical function, particularly among older adults with diabetes |
| Mark R. Segal PhD Professor, CBMB Director |
BIO CBMB | Bioinformatics; modern regression techniques |
| Saunak Sen PhD Assistant Professor |
BIO CBMB | Genetic analysis of complex traits in model systems; statistical genetics/genomics; Bayesian statistics; statistical computing |
| Stephen Shiboski PhD Associate Adj. Professor |
BIO | Statistical methods for infectious disease research; survival analysis; stochastic processes |
| Eric Vittinghoff PhD Associate Adj. Professor |
BIO | Methods for analysis of epidemiological data and clinical trials; women's health; heart disease; HIV and AIDS |
| Jeff Wall PhD Assistant Professor |
BIO | Evolutionary genetics; human genetics |
| Joseph Wiemels PhD Associate Professor |
CAE | Molecular epidemiology; cancer epidemiology; cancer genetics |
| John Witte PhD Professor |
CAE | Genetic epidemiology; prostate cancer; hierarchical modeling; epidemiologic methods |
| Yuanyuan Xiao PhD Assistant Adj. Professor |
BIO CBMB | Bioinformatics; high-throughput biological data analysis |
| Ru-Fang Yeh PhD Assistant Professor |
BIO CBMB | Genomic sequence and expression data analysis; computational biology; collaborative research |