Program Members
Co-Leaders
Members
Steven Bernstein
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
Vice Chair, Academic Affairs
Research Interests:Smoking cessation; healthcare access; disparities; emergency department crowding
- Office:(203) 737-3574
Elizabeth Bradley
Professor of Public Health (Health Policy)
Director, Yale Global Health Initiative
Faculty Director, Global Health Leadership Institute
Master, Branford College, Yale College
Research Interests:Global health; Implementation science; Hospice care; Cardiovascular disease and quality of care; Management research
Brenda Cartmel
Research Scientist in and Lecturer in Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Research Interests:Nutrition; Cancer prevention; Cancer survivorship
Anees Chagpar
Associate Professor of Surgery (Oncology)
Director, The Breast Center at Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven
Program Director, Interdisciplinary Breast Fellowship
Assistant Director, Diversity and Health Equity at Yale Cancer Center
- Appt:(203) 200-2328
Elizabeth Claus
Professor of Public Health (Biostatistics)
Director of Medical Research, School of Public Health
Research Interests:Meningioma; Genome-wide association study; DCIS; Low-grade glioma; Risk prediction; Genetic epidemiology; CNS breast metastases; Intra-operative MRI; LCIS; Acoustic neuroma
- Office:(203) 785-6415
- Appt:(617) 732-6858
Robert Dubrow
Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Research Interests:Glioma; Glioblastoma; HIV-related malignancies; immunosuppression and cancer
Bonnie Gould Rothberg
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Medical Oncology), of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases) and of Pathology
Research Interests:Molecular cancer epidemiology; Cancer prognosis; Melanoma - skin cancer; Lung cancer; Lymphangioleiomyomatosis; Tuberous sclerosis; Next-generation sequencing; Immunohistochemistry and quantitative immunofluorescence; Biospecimens and biobanking; Lifestyle choices associated with cancer outcome
- Office:(203) 737-6313
- Lab:(203) 737-3407
Cary Gross
Associate Professor of Medicine (General Medicine)
Research Interests:Cancer policy; Health policy; Comparative effectiveness; Cancer outcomes; Research ethics and integrity
- Office:(203) 688-8588
- Appt:(203) 688-2471
Theodore Holford
Susan Dwight Bliss Professor of Public Health (Biostatistics) and Professor of Statistics
Research Interests:The current research in which Professor Holford participates involves the development and application of statistical methods in health research. This work focuses on methodology for the analysis of spatial and temporal trends in disease.
Beth Jones
Research Scientist in and Lecturer in Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Research Interests:Cancer; Health disparities; Breast Cancer; Mammography Screening; African American; Black; Hispanic/Latino; Breast Density; Neighborhood; Racism; Obesity; Communication; GST-Polymorphisms; P53; Survival
Nina Kadan-Lottick
Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Hematology / Oncology)
Medical Director, HEROS Program
Research Interests:Late outcomes in survivors of childhood cancer with an emphasis on neurocognitive and psychosocial outcomes; Second malignancies; Osteoporosis
- Office:(203) 785-4640
- Appt:(203) 785-4081
Jennifer Kapo
Associate Professor of Medicine (Medical Oncology)
Chief, Palliative Medicine
- Office:(203) 737-4353
- Appt:(203) 200-4363
Tish Knobf
Professor of and Lecturer in Nursing
Research Interests:Interventions to enhance health outcomes for women diagnosed and surviving cancer.
Stephanie Kwei
Assistant Professor of Surgery (Plastic)
Research Interests:Breast Reconstruction
- Office:(203) 785-2286
- Appt:(203) 785-2286
Donald Lannin
Professor of Surgery (Oncology)
Research Interests:breast disease and cancer; clinical trial for the study of tamoxifen and raloxifene (STAR trial)
- Office:(203) 200-2328
- Appt:(203) 200-2328
Haiqun Lin
Associate Professor of Public Health (Biostatistics)
Research Interests:Statistical methods for time-varying biological responses
Shuangge Steven Ma
Associate Professor of Public Health (Biostatistics)
Research Interests:Bioinformatics; Survival analysis; Semiparametric methods; Cancer study; Mental disorders; Health economics
Xiaomei Ma
Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Research Interests:Epidemiology of hematological malignancies
Susan Mayne
C.-E.A. Winslow Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Associate Director, Population Sciences at Yale Cancer Center
Department Chair, Chronic Disease Epidemiology
Research Interests:Nutritional epidemiology of chronic diseases; Nutrition and cancer prevention and survivorship; cancer epidemiology and genetics
Ruth McCorkle
Florence Schorske Wald Professor of Nursing and Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Interim Specialty Director, Adult Health
- Office:(203) 737-4137
Sherry McKee
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Director, Yale Behavioral Pharmacology Laboratory
Research Interests:Behavioral pharmacology; Medication development; Medication screening; Alcohol; Tobacco; nAChRs; Gender differences
- Office:(203) 737-3529
Annette Molinaro
Visiting Associate Professor
Research Interests:Statistical genomics/genetics; Computational biology; Cancer; Prediction models; Risk models; Survival Analysis; partDSA; Recursive Partitioning
Linda Niccolai
Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)
Director, HPV-IMPACT Project (Emerging Infections Program)
Research Interests:STIs; HIV
Marcella Nunez-Smith
Assistant Professor of Medicine (General Medicine)
Core Faculty, Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program
Faculty, Global Health Leadership Institute
Research Interests:Healthcare workforce diversity; cancer disparities; role of media on health; discrimination in health care systems; role of race in professional experience
- Office:(203) 785-6454
- Appt:(203) 688-2471
Stephanie O'Malley
Professor of Psychiatry
Director, Division of Substance Abuse Research in Psychiatry
Assistant Chair, Clinical Research
Research Interests:Medications development; Smoking cessation; Heavy drinking or alcohol dependence treatment; Risk reduction
- Office:(203) 974-7590
Elena Ratner
Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences
Research Interests:ovarian cancer; cancer genetics; cancer prophylaxis; micro RNA; sexuality
- Office:(203) 785-7385
- Appt:(203) 200-4176
Harvey Risch
Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Research Interests:Cancer etiology and prevention; Epidemiologic methods; Pancreatic cancer; Ovarian cancer; Gastric cancer; Esophageal cancer; Helicobacter pylori and cancer
- Office:(203) 785-2848
Peter Salovey
Chris Argyris Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases) and Professor of Faculty of Arts and Sciences, of Management, of Sociology and of Psychology
Provost of the University
Research Interests:Health Communication; Health Behavior; Human Emotion
Tara Sanft
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Medical Oncology)
Medical Director of Adult Survivorship for the Yale Cancer Center Survivorship Clinic
Research Interests:the delivery of treatment summaries and survivorship care plans; symptom management; interventions that optimize health and longevity in the cancer survivor
- Appt:(203) 200-2328
Dave Sells
Associate Research Scientist in Psychiatry
Research Interests:Therapeutic Relationships; Disease Survivorship; Experiential Depth; Empathy; Mixed Methodology
Mehmet Sofuoglu
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Acting Director of VA VISN 1 MIRECC
Research Interests:Addiction; Clinical trials; Human laboratory studies
- Office:(203) 937-4809
Benjamin Toll
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Program Director, Smoking Cessation Service at Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven
Research Interests:Smoking cessation clinical trials; Quitline studies; Smoking cessation with cancer patients; Secondary analyses of clinical trial data; Analyses of mediators and moderators of treatment; Assessment, methods, and psychometrics
- Office:(203) 974-5767
- Appt:(203) 688-1378
Shiyi Wang
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Research Interests:Cost-effectiveness analysis; Comparative effectiveness analysis; Meta-analysis; Outcomes research; Simulation modeling
Andrea Weinberger
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Research Interests:Nicotine dependence; Smoking cessation; Smoking relapse; Withdrawal; Gender differences; Co-morbidity; Expectancies; Treatment Development
- Office:(203) 974-7598
Herbert Yu
Professor (Adjunct) of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Research Interests:Gene-environment interaction in cancer development and progression; Energy balance and mitogenic growth factors in cancer; Lifestyle's impact on epigenetic regulation in relation to cancer risk and prognosis; Molecular markers for cancer detection, prognosis and treatment
Yawei Zhang
Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Environmental Health)
Research Interests:Cancer epidemiology; Etiology; Survivorship; Adverse birth outcomes
- Office:(203) 785-6210
Tongzhang Zheng
Susan Dwight Bliss Professor of Epidemiology (Environmental Health)
Department Chair, Environmental Health Sciences
Research Interests:Environmental pollution and human health; Cancer epidemiology and etiology
Yong Zhu
Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Environmental Health)
Research Interests:Circadian genes; MicroRNAs; Shift-work; Breast Cancer; Lymphoma; Prostate Cancer
