Faculty

The faculty in the department has expertise in bio statistics and psycho metrics, family medicine, psychiatry, nursing, exercise physiology, nutrition, international health, public health and epidemiology, rehabilitation science, and gerontology.

Click on a name for more information on our Full-time faculty:

• Heibatollah Baghi, PhD, Associate Professor and Coordinator of Epidemiology/Bio statistics Program
• Frieda Butler, PhD, Professor and Coordinator of Gerontology programs
• Rita Carty, RN, PhD, Dean Emerita and Professor
• Cara Frankenfeld, PhD
• Nancy Freeborne, DrPH, MPH, PA-C, Assistant Professor, Community Health Internship Coordinator
• Naomi Lynn Gerber, MD, Director of Center for Study of Chronic Illness and Disability
• Constance Gewa, Assistant Professor
  
• Keith Howell, PhD, Professor, Associate Dean for Research and Program Evaluation
• Kathryn Jacobsen, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor
• Randall E. Keyser, PhD, FACSM, Associate Professor
• James Metcalf, PhD, Professor and Coordinator of Undergraduate Health Science Programs
• Sue Palsbo, PhD, Principal Research Associate, CCID
• Lisa Pawloski, PhD, Associate Professor and Chair of Department of Global and Community Health
• Carlos Sluzki, MD, Professor and Coordinator of Visiting Scholars Program
• J. DeWitt Webster, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor
• Ali Weinstein, PhD, Assistant Professor
• Frank Whittington, PhD, Professor of Gerontology, Associate Dean, Academic Affairs
• Patrice Winter

Click on a name for more information on our Part-time/Adjunct Faculty:

• Margaret Baker, MSc, PhD
• Elvira Beracochea, MD, MPH
• Susan Berkow, PhD, CNS
• Lila Fleming, MS, CHES
• Anna Kanianthra
• Heisung Lee
• Mary (Beth) Potter
• Lorraine Rudowski, MSN, RN, Assistant Professor and Coordinator of International Programs
• Francisco Semião, MS, MPH
• Carol Stiller
• Curtiss Swezy, DrPH, Adjunct Faculty
• Mary (Mellen) Tanamly, MPH, Adjunct Faculty
• Karyn Theis, MS, RD, CNSD, Adjunct Faculty

Affiliate Faculty

• Charlene Douglas, Associate Professor
• Brian Gillette, Student Academic Affairs Coordinator
• Timothy Leslie, PhD
• Thomas Marchione, PhD
• Jean Burley Moore, Professor, Assistant Dean, Nursing Research Development
• Richard Skolnik
• Kate Tulenko
• Nigel Waters