Faculty

Epidemiology Appointees

	Karen Edwards, PhD, Chair Genetic Epidemiology, chronic diseases, diet and nutritional epidemiology, Gene x Environment interactions		Rufus Edwards, PhD. Human exposures to air pollution, Indoor air pollution, Paint emissions, Emissions of climate altering pollutant species, Health co-benefits
	Deborah Goodman, MD, PhD, MPH Cancer Epidemiology, Chronic Disease Prevention		Luohua Jiang, MD, PhD Multilevel and Longitudinal Data Analysis, Latent Variable Modeling, Chronic Disease Epidemiology and Prevention, Health Disparities Research
	Feng Liu-Smith, PhD Cancer Epidemiology, cancer biology, melanoma drug resistance, melanoma risk factors, gender difference/gender disparity		Trina Norden-Krichmar, PhD Bioinformatics; genetic factors in human diseases; gene expression analysis; methylation; non-coding RNA; metagenomics; medical, environmental and marine genomics; pharmacogenomics and computational drug discovery
	Christine McClaren, PhD Finite Mixture Distributions, Goodness-of-fit Testing, Statistical Modeling of Biological Processes, Iron Deficiency Anemia, Iron Overload, Hemochromatosis, Epidemiology		Andrew Odegaard, PhD diet, nutrition, lifestyle, physical activity, fitness, obesity, body composition, metabolic disorders, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer, Alzheimer's, cognition, translation
	Hannah Lui Park, PhD Cancer epigenetics, environmental exposures, DNA methylation, cancer biomarkers, genetic epidemiology, epigenetic epidemiology		Sora Park Tanjasiri, DrPH, PhD Cancer health disparities, cancer prevention, breast and cervical early detection, community-based participatory research

Summin Lee

Sunmin Lee, ScD

Social Epidemiology, Health Disparities, Cancer Prevention & Cancer Survivorship, Community-Based Participatory Research, Mixed-Methods Research, Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT), Minority & Immigrant Health

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Joint Appointees

	Maria Corrada-Bravo, ScD aging, dementia, oldest-old, risk and protective factors for dementia, longitudinal epidemiological studies		Kathryn Larsen, MD Disease prevention, health maintenance, Breast cancer, Women's health, Family medicine, Primary care
	Nathan Wong, PhD, MPH Epidemiology, prevention, coronary calcium, metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular diseases

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Other Appointees

Shu-Yuan Liao, MD

St. Joseph Hospital,

Children's Hospital Orange County (CHOC)

Bichlien Nguyen, MD

Memorial Care Health System

Thomas Prendergast, MD, MPH

Epidemiology