Leaders & Mentors
黑料网 BIRCWH Leaders
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Kim Boggess, MDPrincipal Investigator Dr. Boggess is a 2003 黑料网 BIRCWH graduate. She previously served as project director under the guidance and mentorship of Dr. Eugene Orringer before stepping into the role of Principal Investigator for the 2015 renewal of the program. She has extensive experience with translational and clinical research in women鈥檚 health, and in the training and career development of medical students, residents, fellows, and junior faculty. Over the past 20 years she has mentored more than 20 fellows and junior faculty, 15 of who have gone on to academic careers and/or independent funding. |
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Angela Kashuba, PharmDAssociate Research Director Dr. Kashuba is also a 2003 黑料网 BIRCWH graduate. She is recognized as an international leader in preclinical and clinical pharmacology and analytical chemistry in the study of optimizing the prevention and treatment of HIV infection. Since graduation from the 黑料网 BIRCWH program she has successfully competed for greater than $13 million in federal grant funds and mentored more than 30 fellows and junior faculty. Her role as Director of the 黑料网 Center for AIDS Research Clinical Pharmacology and Analytical Chemistry Core and Director of the 黑料网 CARE Collaboratory Pharmacology Core give her experience and campus-wide presence to serve as the Resource Laboratory Network Director for Scholars. |
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Morris Weinberger, PhD黑料网 BIRCWH Leadership Team Dr. Weinberger has been a member of the 黑料网 BIRCWH Leadership Team since 2000 and has an exceptional record of mentoring both MD and PhD faculty and fellows who conduct translational research. |
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Susan Pusek, MPH, MS黑料网 BIRCWH Leadership Team Ms. Pusek coordinates education, training, and career development related to clinical and translational research across the 黑料网 campus and serves as the liaison for research collaborations among local institutions (eg, Duke University, NC State A&T). |
黑料网 BIRCWH Advisory Board
The 黑料网 BIRCWH Interdisciplinary Advisory Committee (IIAC) is composed of leaders and investigators from a wide variety of disciplines, Departments, Centers, and Schools across the 黑料网 campus. Each member was selected because of a demonstrated interest and expertise in interdisciplinary women鈥檚 health or sex/gender research, scientific mentoring, and promotion of diversity in the workplace, and/or career planning and development. The tasks of the IIAC are to:
- recruit and select Scholars
- review individualized career development plans and monitor Scholar progress
- provide annual review of the 黑料网 BIRCWH program
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Jane Weintraub DDS, MPH, Chairperson Adjunct Professor, Health and Policy Management Alumni Distinguished Professor, Dental Ecology |
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Rebecca Fry PhD Carol Remmer Angle Distinguished Professor and Associate Chair for Strategic Initiatives, Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering Director of Graduate Studies, Toxicology |
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Diane Berry, PhD Beerstecher-Blackwell Distinguished Term Professor & Assistant Dean for Research |
Susan Girdler PhD Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology Associate Chair for Junior Investigator Development Director of the Stress & Health Research Program Profile |
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Kim Brouwer PhD Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education William R. Kenen, Jr. Distinguished Professor |
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Michele Jonsson-Funk PhD Associate Professor, School of Public Health Director, Center for Pharmacoepidemiology |
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Toni Darville MD Division Chief, Pediatric Infectious Disease Vice Chair of Research, Department of Pediatrics Scientific Director, Children’s Research Institute Co-Director, 黑料网 MD-PhD Program Professor of Pediatrics and Microbiology & Immunology |
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Silvia Tom谩拧kov谩 PhD Professor of Anthropology Professor and Chair of Women’s & Gender Studies |
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Maxine Eichner JD Graham Kenan Distinguished Professor of Law |
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Anissa Vines PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology Research Fellow, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research |
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Jennifer Webster-Cyriaque DDS, PhD Professor, Dental Ecology, School of Dentistry Profile |
黑料网 BIRCWH Mentors
Our faculty/mentor pool, which is extremely deep, comprises a great many well-qualified and talented investigators. We have 75 faculty members from all five schools on the Health Affairs Campus (Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Public Health, and Dentistry) and the College of Arts and Sciences. Our faculty represent 28 Centers and 23 departments. There are 22 distinguished professors, 19 professors, 27 associate professors, and seven assistant professors. Many of our faculty hold additional positions including 26 Center or Program Directors; 5 Chairs; 5 Vice or Associate Chairs; four Division Chiefs; one Executive Associate Deans; two Associate Vice Chancellors; four Associate Deans; one Vice Dean; and one Dean. Collectively our faculty members have $258,657,760 in grants and contracts from year 2015 forward; that is an average of $3,448,760 per faculty member. Their areas of research represent everything from basic sciences to clinical medicine, epidemiology and population sciences to cellular/molecular levels, and clinical trials of all sizes to grants or contracts ranging from small to muliti-million dollar Program and Center grants.
Below is a list of 黑料网 BIRCWH mentors and their research focus:
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: Nutrition, CBPR, Obesity : Obesity and women鈥檚 cancers, molecular basis of endometrial cancers : Obesity, GDM, underserved women Kim Boggess, MD: Infection and inflammation in pregnancy outcomes : Sexual and reproductive rights, health politics, and transnational feminist and queer organizing : Epidemiology of gyn cancers, microbiome of fallopian tube and ovarian cancer : Hepatic drug metabolism and transport : Nutrition; obesity in minority women : Diabetes : Breast cancer; clinical trials : Mouse models of fetal growth restriction and preeclampsia : HIV and STI : Molecular base of Chlamydial infection : Breast cancer; clinical trials : Pharmacometrics and aging : Pharmacoepidemiology / Drug Utilization Research, Pharmaceutical and FDA Policies, Treatment of Multiple Chronic Conditions, Cancer Treatment, Mental Illness Treatment : Cancer 鈥� receptors, inhibition and differentiation, signaling : HIV : Environmental toxicology and prenatal exposure Caterina Gallippi, PhD: Biomedical Imaging, Rehabilitation Engineering : Humanized mice, retrovirology, AIDS, stem cell biology and human gene therapy : Women鈥檚 mental health, stress and coping : Nutrition and obesity : Social affiliation and stress on endocrine, neural, and cardiovascular activity, with a focus on potential biologic mediators : Intestinal Stem Cells – Biological Properties and Potential for Therapeutic Application : Biostatistics of women鈥檚 health, maternal health, reproductive health, nutrition and obesity Hendree Jones, PhD: Substance abuse in women : Pharmacoepidemiology; use of large data bases; sex and gender differences in drug utilization and metabolization : Cell Adhesion Molecules and Macromolecular Therapeutics : Clinical Pharmacology, Sex and Gender Differences In Drug Exposure, Response, and Toxicity : Molecular pathogenesis of cancer, regulation of the cell cycle, gynecologic pathology, cell biology : Family management styles : Neonatal pharmacology : Genomics of drug metabolizing enzymes and cardiovascular disease : Cardiovascular disease |
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: Global women鈥檚 health, infectious diseases, violence prevention : Work environments, quality and safety in acute care hospitals; research training : Women鈥檚 mood disorders; women鈥檚 mental health : Epidemiology and Chlamydial infections : Obesity and diabetes in pregnant minority women : Genetic Epidemiology : Oral microbiology : Urinary incontinence and bladder health in adults : Pediatric obesity : Dietary intake, obesity Susan Pusek, MPH, MS: Education and training : GI cancers, epidemiology : General endocrinology, metabolic bone diseases : Reproductive endocrine-related mood disorders : Psychosocial and behavioral issues related weight, interventions : Impact of environmental exposures on population health : Gastrointestinal disorders and cancers : Mouse models of hypertension Jeffrey Stringer, MD: Global women鈥檚 health : Pharmacoepidemiology : Microbiota of the oral cavity : Periodontal disease John M. Thorp, Jr., MD: Reproductive epidemiology and clinical trials : Gender studies : Sex gender difference in oral manifestations of HIV and HPV infection : Biostatistics : Health services research, Primary Care, Patient-centered outcomes research, Pharmaceutical care, Quality of Care : Dental public health, oral epidemiology, clinical research, health disparities research : Pharmacogenetics and mouse models of drug response : Metabolic complications of HIV Jennifer Wu, MD, MPH: Genetics of pelvic floor prolapse : Cancer, minority health, obesity, women鈥檚 health : Mathematical modeling of drug exposure and response : Diabetes Steve Young, MD, PhD: Molecular biology of implantation and reproductive failure
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