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FACULTY RESEARCH INTERESTS
Below are brief descriptions of epidemiology faculty and their research interest. Expanded information regarding faculty research interests is available by clicking on an individual faculty name below to link to UC Irvine's Faculty Profiles database which provides full professional biographies of UC Irvine researchers.
Hoda Anton-Culver, PhD: Cancer genetics; epidemiology and community research: development of information systems facilitating the exchange of human cancer genetics information and resources; professional and lay community outreach programs helping to prevent and control cancer
Scott Bartell, PhD: Environmental and occupational epidemiology; probabilistic models and statistical methods for environmental epidemiology; exposure assessment; risk assessment and decision analysis (including silica, polychlorinated biphenyls, methylmercury, and perfluorooctanoic acid exposure)
Dwight Culver, MD: Environmental epidemiology; environmental exposure to chemical and physical agents
Ralph Delfino, MD, PhD: Environmental epidemiology; longitudinal studies of air pollution and respiratory and cardiovascular outcomes in susceptible populations; impacts of in-utero and early-life environmental exposures on allergic and respiratory outcomes in children; relationships between reproductive outcomes and exposure to traffic-related air pollution. Studies involve evaluation of personal exposures and gene-environment interactions. A video from an "On The Air" news station broadcast featured Dr. Delfino talking about the effects of traffic-related chemical pollutants on chronic diseases.
Catherine Diamond, MD, MPH: Infectious diseases; antiretroviral therapy and AIDS-related NHL; HIV; AIDS; Kaposi's sarcoma, herpes; American Indian; youth; risky behavior; lipids
Rufus Edwards, PhD: Environmental epidemiology; effects of air pollution particles; VOC; developing world changes; greenhouse gas; European cities; Expolis
Philip Felgner, PhD: Vaccines; gene therapy; drug delivery; liposomes; biophysics; protein microarray
Chad Garner, Ph.D: Biostatistics; theoretical and statistical methods for studying genetic and environmental determinants of common, complex human traits
Daniel Gillen, PhD: Biostatistics; survival analysis; longitudinal data analysis; clinical trials; sequential testing and epidemiologic methods
Deborah Goodman-Gruen, MD, PhD, MPH: Genetic epidemiology; cancer epidemiology; obesity and diabetes; data management, controversies in cancer etiology
Christine McLaren, PhD: Biostatistics: analysis of hereditary hemochromatosis
Ignatius Ou, MD, PhD: Nasopharyngeal carcinoma; head and neck cancer, thoracic malignancies, esophageal carcinoma, targeted therapy
Leonard Sender, MD: Pediatric oncology, comprehensive cancer care, epidemiology of cancer
Daniel Stokols, PhD, theory development in environmental psychology and social ecology; community and work site health promotion; behavior and health effects of environmental stressors
James Swanson, PhD, child development: Pediatric epidemiology; ADD; ADHD
David Timberlake, PhD, genetic epidemiology: Genetic basis for use misuse of licit & illicit substances. Study of genetic predisposition to behavioral disorders, incl. antisocial personality disorder
Nathan Wong, PhD, MPH, epidemiology: Heart disease prevention; coronary calcium; metabolic syndrome; cardiovascular diseases
Pathik Wadhwa, MD, PhD, behavioral medicine: Epidemiology; stress; pregnancy; fetal development; prematurity; neuroendocrine; infant health
Jun Wu, PhD, environmental epidemiology: Air pollution exposure assessment and air pollution epidemiology
Jason Zell, DO, MPH, cancer prevention: Aerodigestive and gastrointestinal malignancies; genetic epidemiology
Argyrios Ziogas, PhD, biostatistics: Statistical methodology for family studies related to genetic (family) data, ascertainment bias and gene enviornment and gene-gene interactions related to cancer etiology