McNair Faculty Mentors

STEM

Applied Physics & Astronomy

 

Biochemistry

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Kanneboyina Nagaraju

Vice Dean and Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences; Chair, Department of Health Outcomes and Administrative Sciences

School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Research Interests

  • Immunology
  • Neuromuscular diseases
  • Autoimmune diseases
  • Drug development
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Biological Sciences

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D. Andrew Merriwether

Professor; Collegiate Professor for College in the Woods

Anthropology; Residential Life

Research Interests

  • Ancient DNA/PaleoGenomics
  • Molecular Anthropology
  • Peopling of the New World and The Pacific
  • Plant and Animal Domestication
  • Population Genetics/Phylogenetics
  • Forensic DNA
  • Molecular Epidemiology
  • Biomedical Anthropology
  • Evolutionary Biology/Molecular Evolution
  • Paleodemography
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Chemistry

Computer Science

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Madhusudhan Govindaraju

Vice Provost for International Education and Global Affairs (IEGA); Vice Provost for International Education & Global Affairs (IEGA); Professor, Computer Science

International Education and Global Affairs; Academic Affairs, Office of the Executive VP and Provost; Computer Science

Research Interests

  • Cloud computing
  • Big Data computing
  • Distributed systems
  • High performance computing
  • Web services
  • Component-based technologies
  • Problem-solving environments
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Geography

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Mark E. Reisinger

Associate Professor

Geography

Research Interests

  • Internal migration in the United States
  • Latino immigration and internal migration
  • race and ethnic geographies
  • Restructuring of Local Labor Markets
  • Regional Economic Development
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Geology

 

Neuroscience

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J. David Jentsch

Professor

Psychology

Research Interests

  • Behavior genetics
  • Drug addiction and alcoholism
  • Impulsivity
  • Incentive motivation
  • Reinforcement and reward

Teaching Interests

  • Behavioral Neuroscience
  • Biological Basis of Mental Illness
  • Behavior Genetics
  • Effective NIH Grantsmanship
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Lisa M. Savage

Professor and Chair

Psychology

Research Interests

  • Disorders of Memory
  • Neurodegeneration
  • Neuroplasticity and Neurotrophins
  • Neurobiology of Reward

Teaching Interests

  • Drugs and Behavior
  • Alcoholism and Alcohol-induced brain damage
  • Behavioral Neuroscience
  • Neuroplasticity and Behavioral Recovery
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Physics

 

Psychology

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Jennifer M. Gillis

Professor

Psychology

Research Interests

  • Assessment and treatment issues for individuals with autism spectrum disorders across the lifespan
  • service provider training and development

Teaching Interests

  • Laboratory in Child Behavior
  • Undergraduate Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders
  • Assessment and Treatment and Evaluation
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Christopher R. Bishop

Professor/Director of Undergraduate Integrative Neuroscience Program

Psychology

Research Interests

  • Parkinson's Disease
  • Neuroplasticity
  • Drug Development

Teaching Interests

  • The Diseased Brain
  • Experimental Psychology-Learning
  • Movement Disorders Laboratory
  • Clinical Neuroscience
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Lisa M. Savage

Professor and Chair

Psychology

Research Interests

  • Disorders of Memory
  • Neurodegeneration
  • Neuroplasticity and Neurotrophins
  • Neurobiology of Reward

Teaching Interests

  • Drugs and Behavior
  • Alcoholism and Alcohol-induced brain damage
  • Behavioral Neuroscience
  • Neuroplasticity and Behavioral Recovery
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Matthew D. Johnson

Professor and Director of Clinical Training

Psychology

Research Interests

  • Changes in marriages and family functioning
  • Intimate Partner Violence
  • Psychological science impacting public policy

Teaching Interests

  • Intimate Relationships
  • Research Methods in Psychology
  • Statistics and Research Design

Clinical Interests

  • Private practice
  • Clinical supervisor
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Norman E. Spear

Distinguished Professor Emeritus

Psychology

Research Interests

  • Developmental behavioral neuroscience; characteristics and neurobiological mechanisms of the ontogeny of alcohol ingestion and alcohol reinforcement during early ontogeny; very early learning and the ontogeny of memory
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Bioengineering

 

Computer Engineering

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Alok C. Rastogi

Associate Professor and Associate Director CASP

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interests

  • Photovoltaic energy conversion materials and devices
  • Thin film earth abundant semiconductors solar cells
  • Organic solar cells and hybrid solar cells
  • Electrochemical supercapacitor materials and devices for energy storage
  • Nanomaterials
  • Low power spintron
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Seokheun (Sean) Choi

Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interests

  • Bioelectronics and Microsystems
  • BioMEMS/NEMS
  • Microfluidics
  • Semiconductors
  • Biosensors and Biofuel cells
  • Bioenergy
  • Nanotechnology
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Yu Chen

Associate Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interests

  • Smart cities
  • Intelligent surveillance
  • Edge-fog-cloud computing
  • Internet of Things
  • Security & Privacy

Teaching Interests

  • Hardware-based security
  • Network security
  • Computer network architecture
  • Compter architecture
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Electrical Engineering

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Xiaohua (Edward) Li

Associate Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interests

  • ​Signal processing in communications and wireless networks
  • Cognitive radio networks
  • Wireless information assurance
  • Blind equalization​

Teaching Interests

  • Digital Signal Processing II
  • Neural Networks and Deep Learning
  • Digital Communication Systems
  • Wireless Communications
  • GameTheory for Wireless Communications
  • Adaptive Signal Processing
  • Advanced Mathematics for Electrical Engineering
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Industrial Systems Engineering

 

Material Science and Engineering

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Jeffrey Mativetsky

Associate Professor; Director of Materials Science and Engineering

Physics, Applied Physics and Astronomy; Materials Science and Engineering

Research Interests

  • Organic Electronics and Solar Cells
  • Nanomaterials
  • Nanoscale Electrical Property Mapping
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Mechanical Engineering

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James M. Pitarresi

Vice Provost; Distinguished Teaching Professor; Vice Provost; Vice Provost for Online and Innovation Education

Mechanical Engineering; Center for Learning and Teaching; Academic Affairs, Office of the Executive VP and Provost

Research Interests

  • Computational mechanics
  • vibration modeling and testing
  • opto-mechanical techniques
  • electronic packaging
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Junghyun Cho

Professor; Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies; Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies

Mechanical Engineering; Thomas J. Watson College of Engineering and Applied Science

Research Interests

  • Materials
  • ceramic films
  • metals and alloys
  • microstructure design of advanced materials
  • mechanical property
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Systems Science & Industrial Engin.

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Daryl Santos

Vice Provost for Diversity and Inclusiveness; Professor

Academic Affairs, Office of the Executive VP and Provost; Systems Science and Industrial Engineering

Research Interests

  • Production scheduling and control
  • Engineering optimization
  • Quality Assurance
  • Engineering management
  • Electronics packaging
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Sang Won Yoon

Professor

Systems Science and Industrial Engineering

Research Interests

  • Integrated production and service systems
  • Healthcare systems engineering
  • Decentralized decision modeling
  • Collaborative control theory
  • Enterprise collaboration and coordination
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Peter Borgesen

Professor

Systems Science and Industrial Engineering

Research Interests

  • Manufacturing processes and reliability
  • Current emphasis on electronics packaging and flexible hybrid electronics reliability
  • Cross-disciplinary experimental research (materials science, mechanics, industrial engineering), practical guidelines and models, incomplete data interpretation, statistics
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School of Management

 

SOCIAL SCIENCES

Anthropology

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Douglas J. Glick

Associate Professor; TRIP Courtesy Title

Linguistics Program; Anthropology; Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)

Research Interests

  • Linguistic anthropology
  • semiotics
  • mass media
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Economics

Linguistics

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Cynthia M. Connine

Emerita Professor of Psychology and Linguistics

Psychology

Research Interests

  • Spoken word recognition
  • Speech perception
  • Language processing
  • Psycholinguistics

Teaching Interests

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Bilingualism
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Perceptual learning
  • Practical pedagogy in university teaching
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Political Science

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Ricardo René Larémont

Professor

Political Science

Research Interests

  • Comparative Politics
  • Islamic Law
  • Islamic Politics
  • Conflict Resolution

Teaching Interests

  • Government and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa
  • Political Islam
  • Development of the Modern State
  • Nationalism
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Sociology

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Gladys M. Jiménez-Muñoz

Associate Professor, Chair

Sociology

Research Interests

  • U.S. Women’s History
  • Latinas/os in the U.S.
  • Puerto Rican Women’s History
  • Feminist Theories
  • Cultural Studies
  • Critique of Coloniality
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Juanita Díaz-Cotto

Affiliated Faculty, Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies; Affiliated Faculty, Latin American and Caribbean Areas Studies Program; Professor, Sociology

Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Latin American and Caribbean Area Studies Program; Sociology

Research Interests

  • Criminal Justice/Penal Institutions
  • Gender/Sexuality
  • Latinas and Other People of Color in the U.S.
  • Latin American and Caribbean History
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Joshua M. Price

Professor

Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)

Research Interests

  • Carceral Studies
  • Racial and Gender Violence
  • Colonialism and Language
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Africana Studies

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Titilayo Okoror

Chair and Associate Professor

Africana Studies

Research Interests

  • Health Disparities
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Sexual Health
  • Cardiovascular Health

Teaching Interests

  • Global Health
  • Refugee & Immigrant Health
  • Community and Public Health
  • Qualitative Research Methods
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Art History

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Brian K. Wall

Associate Professor

Cinema

Research Interests

  • Critical Theory, Particularly that of Adorno and Benjamin and the Historical Avant Garde
  • Film Noir
  • German Expressionism and Weimar Cinema
  • Paracinema
  • Marxism
  • Psychoanalysis and Phenomenology
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Asian and Asian American Studies

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Chenqing Song

Director; Associate Professor

Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP); Department of Asian and Asian American Studies

Research Interests

  • Chinese phonology
  • Historical linguistics
  • Tones in poetic prosody
  • Chinese as a foreign language teaching

Teaching Interests

  • Chinese language teaching
  • Chinese linguistics and culture
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David C. Stahl

Professor, Japanese Program Coordinator

Department of Asian and Asian American Studies

Research Interests

  • Modern Japanese literature and film
  • Unresolved issues from the Asia Pacific War
  • Examination of traumatic Japanese narratives in trauma/PTSD studies terms
  • Japanese-English literary translation

Teaching Interests

  • Survey courses on modern Japanese literature and Japanese Cinema
  • Artistic representation of Japanese Asia Pacific War experience
  • Unresolved issues from modern Wars in Asia
  • Social trauma
  • dissociation and recovery
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English

 

History

 

Latin American Caribbean Studies

 

Philosophy

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Jeffner M. Allen

Professor of Philosophy/Africana Studies; Professor of Philosophy/Africana Studies

Africana Studies; Philosophy

Research Interests

  • Cultural Imaginaries and Representation
  • Trans-Genre Writing
  • Feminist and Lesbian Studies
  • Postcolonial Studies
  • Diasporic Literatures
  • Water and Environmental Studies
  • Transdisciplinary Studies
  • Multi-Platform Works
  • 20th and 21st Century European Philosophy
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Charles A. Goodman

Professor, Graduate Director of Philosophy; Professor

Philosophy; Department of Asian and Asian American Studies

Research Interests

  • Asian Philosophy
  • Ethical Theory
  • Applied Ethics

Teaching Interests

  • Asian Philosophy
  • Ethical Theory
  • Applied Ethics
  • Metaphysics
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Philosophy, Interpretation and Culture

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Joshua M. Price

Professor

Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)

Research Interests

  • Carceral Studies
  • Racial and Gender Violence
  • Colonialism and Language
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Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies [WGSS]

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Dara J. Silberstein

Associate Research Professor of WGSS

Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Research Interests

  • U.S. women’s labor history with a focus on the effects of public policies and laws on women’s status.

Teaching Interests

  • A Legal History of Sexuality in the United States
  • Women and the Law
  • Introduction to Women’s Studies
  • Feminism and Activism
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Sean G. Massey

Associate Professor

Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Research Interests

  • Sexuality and Gender
  • Anti-Homosexual Prejudice
  • Racial Bias in Education and Law Enforcement Contexts
  • Relationship Between Social Science and Social Change
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ARTS

Cinema

 

CCPA

Human Development

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Leo Wilton

Professor

CCPA Human Development

Research Interests

  • Health disparities and inequities (HIV and AIDS prevention)
  • Black psychological development and mental health
  • Integrative community-based research
  • Mixed- and multi-methods research
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Public Administraton

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George Homsy

Director of Environmental Studies; Associate Professor and Director of Environmental Studies Program

Environmental Studies Program; CCPA Public Administration

Research Interests

  • Sustainability
  • Sustainable communities and regions
  • Heritage and neighborhood sustainability
  • Community planning across generations
  • Land use and economic development planning
  • Citizen participation in local government policymaking
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Pamela Mischen

Faculty Advisor to the President; Associate Professor

President, Office of the; CCPA Public Administration

Research Interests

  • Knowledge management and inter-organizational networks
  • Local government capacity to create sustainable communities
  • Sustainability metrics for communities
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EDUCATION

School of Education ( Philosophy, Politics, Law &  Economics)

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Candace A. Mulcahy

Associate Professor

Department of Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership

Research Interests

  • Education policies that apply to youth in corrections
  • Provision of appropriate education and special education services to marginalized youth
  • Effective reading and mathematics instruction for youth with disabilities in public schools and for youth in corrections
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School of Education

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Loretta Mason-Williams

Director of the Community Research and Action, PhD Program; Associate Professor

CCPA PhD Program; Department of Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership

Research Interests

  • Critical quantitative research
  • Issues related to the teacher supply demand and preparation of well-prepared teachers
  • Equitable education
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Elizabeth M. Anderson

Associate Professor; Associate Director

Department of Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership; Institute for Justice and Well-Being; Binghamton University Community Schools

Research Interests

  • Trauma-informed practices
  • Interprofessional education and collaboration
  • Young children with complex academic mental health and health needs
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S. G. Grant

Bartle Professor

Department of Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership

Research Interests

  • Social studies teaching and learning curriculum and assessment
  • New national standards for social studies
  • Curriculum and instructional model that advances inquiry-based teaching practice
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Student Affairs Administration

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Sharon L. Holmes

Provost Associate and Associate Professor; Provost Associate

CCPA Student Affairs Administration; Academic Affairs, Office of the Executive VP and Provost

Research Interests

  • Women in higher education
  • leadership development
  • college student development
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DECKER COLLEGE OF NURSING AND HEALTH SCIENCES

Nursing

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Sharon L. Holmes

Provost Associate and Associate Professor; Provost Associate

CCPA Student Affairs Administration; Academic Affairs, Office of the Executive VP and Provost

Research Interests

  • Women in higher education
  • leadership development
  • college student development
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Gale A. Spencer, PhD, RN

Distinguished Teaching Professor/Decker Chair Community Health Nursing/Interim Director, Kresge Center for Nursing Research

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Research Interests

  • Dating violence in college students
  • LGBTQ healthcare needs
  • Use of the Health Belief Model to investigate health providers' practice behaviors between geography and health

Teaching Interests

  • Epidemiology and biostatistics
  • Community health
  • Nursing research

Clinical Interests

  • LGBTQ healthcare needs
  • Effect of dating violence on the health of college students
  • Effect of flooding on pulmonary disease and mental health in the Southern Tier of New York
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Mary E. Muscari, PhD, MSCr, CPNP, PMHCNS-BC, AFN-BC

Associate Professor/Director, Forensic Health Program/Coordinator, Family Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing Program

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Research Interests

  • Children and adolescents as victims/perpetrators of violence
  • Sexual offending
  • Mass violence

Teaching Interests

  • Advanced practice psychiatric nursing
  • Forensic pediatrics
  • Victimology
  • Criminal psychopathology
  • Sexual offending and victimization

Clinical Interests

  • Children and adolescents as victims/perpetrators of violence
  • Sexual offending
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Sharon A. Bryant, PhD

Associate Dean, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for the Decker College; Co-Director; Associate Director; Associate Professor, Master of Public Health (MPH) Program; Co-Principal Investigator

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences; Science and Technology Entry Program (STEP); Harriet Tubman Center for Freedom and Equity (HTC); Public Health; Upward Bound Math-Science (UBMS)

Research Interests

  • Health promotion and disease prevention behaviors of underrepresented populations
  • Intimate partner violence among college students

Teaching Interests

  • Health disparities and vulnerable populations
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Public Health

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Yvonne Johnston, DrPH, MS, FNP

Associate Professor; Founding Director, MPH Program; Founding Director; Associate Professor/Founding Director, MPH Program

CCPA Social Work; Public Health; Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Research Interests

  • Public health
  • Epidemiology
  • Nursing
  • Population health
  • Program evaluation
  • Chronic disease risk reduction
  • Health promotion
  • Fall prevention among older adults
  • Evidence-based practice
  • Data analytics
  • Social determinants of health
  • Translational research

Teaching Interests

  • Advanced pathophysiology
  • Advanced pharmacology
  • Advanced diagnostics

Clinical Interests

  • Works as a nurse practitioner (part time) with the Broome County Health Department and the New York Center for Agricultural Medicine and Health (NYCAMH) in Cooperstown, N.Y.
  • Oncology nursing
  • Adult health
  • Employee/occupational health
  • Tuberculosis control
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