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David Ashkin, M.D.,
F.C.C.P.
Courtesy Assistant Professor
- Medical Director and Co-PI, Southeastern National Tuberculosis
Center (Gainesville, FL)
- Medical Executive Director, A.G. Holley State Hospital (Lantana,
FL)
- Florida Deputy State TB Health Officer
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Lorena Baccaglini, DDS, DDS, MS, PhD
Assistant Professor
- Dept. Community Dentistry & Behavioral Science, COD
- Affiliate Assistant Professor, Dept. Epidemiology and Biostatistics, PHHP
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Rebecca J. Beyth, MD, MSc
Associate Professor and Division Chief, GRECC NF/SGVHS
- Career Development and Education
- Dept of Aging & Geriatrics, UF COM
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Sherrilene Classen, PhD, MPH, OTR
Assistant Professor
- sclassen@phhp.ufl.edu
- (352) 273-6062
- Dr. Classen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Occupational Therapy (OT), University of Florida (UF). She received her BA in OT from
the University of the Orange Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa (1984); a MPH with a concentration in Epidemiology from UF (2004); a PhD
in OT from Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, FL (2002); and completed a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at UF (2004). As a recipient of a
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Career Development award (2004-2007), she is developing a health promotion plan for older drivers
in North America. Her research interests center around older driver safety issues, including: identifying the determinants of safe driving,
reduction of crash-related injuries/fatalities, and promoting safe driving and independent community mobility among older adults. She is
also interested in the simultaneous effects of medications, chronic conditions, physical, social, and policy, and vehicle design on the
driving performance of older adults. She instructs and mentors graduate students in the OT and Rehabilitation Science Doctoral Programs, has
authored a book chapter and numerous peer reviewed articles on aging issues, and presented research findings at leading national conferences.
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Richard Davidson,
M.D., M.P.H.
Affiliate Professor
- Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor, Division of Internal
Medicine, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine (University
of Florida)
Director, Office of Interdisciplinary Education, Health Science
Center (University of Florida)
- Director, Office of Generalist Education, College of Medicine
(University of Florida)
- Associate Clerkship Director (Internal Medicine Component) for
the Family Medicine and Ambulatory Care Clerkship, Department of
Community Health and Family Medicine & Department of Medicine,
College of Medicine (University of Florida)
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Meenakshi Devidas, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Health
Policy Research
Co-Director, Children's Oncology Group Statistics and Data Center,
University of Florida site
Lead Statistician, Children's Oncology Group Acute Lymphoblastic
Leukemia Disease Committee
Associate Program Director, Children's Oncology Group
Contact Information:
Children's Oncology Group
Dept of Epidemiology & Health Policy Research
104 North Main Street, Suite 600
Gainesville, FL 32601
Phone: 352.273.0551
Fax: 352.392.8162
E-mail: mdevidas@cog.ufl.edu
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Karen L. Farrell,
R.N., B.S.N., R.M.
Courtesy Instructor
- Training Coordinator, Southeastern National Tuberculosis Center
(Gainesville, FL)
- Executive Director of Nursing, A.G. Holley State Hospital (Lantana,
FL)
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Malay Ghosh, Ph.D.
Affiliate Professor
- Distinguished Professor, Department of Statistics, College of
Liberal Arts & Sciences (University of Florida)
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Abraham Hartzema,
Pharm.D., Ph.D., M.S.P.H., FISPE
Affiliate Professor
- Professor and Eminent Scholar, Perry A. Foote Chair in Health
Outcomes Research and Phramacoeconomics, Department of Pharmacy
Health Care Administration, College of Pharmacy (University of Florida)
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Elena Hollender,
M.D.
Courtesy Assistant Professor
- Director of Clinical Services, Southeastern National Tuberculosis
Center (Gainesville, FL)
- A.G. Holley State Hospital (Lantana, FL)
- Florida Deputy State TB Health Officer
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Michael Lauzardo,
M.D.
Courtesy Assistant Professor
- Assistant Professor, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and
Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine (University
of Florida)
- Principal Investigator, Southeastern National Tuberculosis Center
(Gainesville, FL)
- A.G. Holley State Hospital (Lantana, FL)
- Florida Deputy State TB Health Officer
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Wendy B London
Research Associate Professor and Associate Program Director, University
of Florida
Principle Investigator and Co-Director, Children's Oncology Group (COG)
Statistics and Data Center (SDC), University of Florida site
Lead Statistician, COG Neuroblastoma Disease Committee
Contact Information:
Children's Oncology Group Statistics and Data Center
104 N. Main St, Suite 600
Gainesville, FL 32601
Phone: 352.273.0552
Fax: 352.392.8162
E-mail: wendy@cog.ufl.edu
Link to COG website:
http://childrensoncologygroup.org
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Volker Mai
Assistant Professor
- Microbiology and Cell Science and Emerging Pathogen Institute
- University of Florida
- Bldg. 981 room 1247
- PO box 110700
- Gainesville, FL 32611-0700
- Phone: 352-846-0956
- Fax: 352-392-5922
- vmai@ufl.edu
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Jesus Ortiz, M.D.
Courtesy Assistant Professor
- Director of Behavioral Medicine, A.G. Holley State Hospital (Lantana,
FL)
- Southeastern National Tuberculosis Center (Gainesville, FL)
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L. Douglas Ried, Ph.D.
Courtesy Professor
- Professor, Department of Pharmacy Health Care Administration,
College of Pharmacy (University of Florida)
- Research Health Scientist, Rehabilitation Outcomes Research Center,
Veterans Affairs Health Services Research & Development/Rehabilitation
Research and Development, North Florida/South Georgia Veterans Health
System & University of Florida (Gainesville, FL)
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Jerne Shapiro, MPH
(email:Jerne_Shapiro@doh.state.fl.us)
Adjunct Instructor
Jerne Shapiro is the Epidemiologist for the Alachua County Health
Department. In 2005, she began teaching as an Adjunct Professor for
the Division of Epidemiology; she currently teaches the Epidemiology
of Infectious Disease course. In 1993, Jerne received a dual BS from
UF in Plant Pathology and Microbiology with a minor in Chemistry.
Prior to graduate school, she spent a year traveling around the globe
where she discovered the wonderful world of public health. After graduating
with her MPH in Communicable and Tropical Health from USF in 2001,
she was accepted into the Florida Epidemic Intelligence Service (FL
EIS). Upon completion of the two-year FL EIS fellowship, she began
work at the Alachua County Health Department as the County Epidemiologist.
In 2005, she graduated from USF Public Health Leadership Institute.
Jerne has led numerous outbreak investigations, maintains infectious
disease surveillance for Alachua County, and coordinates research
projects.
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David S. Sheps, MD, MSPH, FACC
(email:shepsds@medicine.ufl.edu)
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
Professor of Medicine
Associate Chief, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
1601 SW Archer Road, VAMC Room E342
Gainesville FL 32608
352 379-4159, 376-1611 ext 5051, fax 271-4537
David S. Sheps received his M.D. from the University of North Carolina,
completed his residency in the Department of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Hospital and completed a fellowship in cardiology at Yale University
School of Medicine. He has an MSPH in Epidemiology from the University
of North Carolina. Dr. Sheps is Professor and Associate Chair in the
Division of Cardiology at the University Of Florida College Of Medicine
and is a staff cardiologist at the Gainesville VA Medical Center. He is
Director of Nuclear Cardiology at the University of Florida. Effective
January 2002, Dr. Sheps was recognized for his accomplishments in
behavioral medicine by being appointed as Editor-in-Chief of the
Psychosomatic Medicine Journal.
Dr. Sheps is a well-recognized expert in the field of the effects of
psychological stress in patients with coronary artery disease and mental
stress ischemia. He has focused on behavioral, clinical and
epidemiologic manifestations of disease expression, particularly in
coronary artery disease. He currently has two ongoing NIH grants:
Mindful Based Stress Reduction and Myocardial Ischemia, focuses on
treatment of patients with psychological stress induced ischemia to
attempt to see if adverse prognosis of stress induced ischemia can be
altered; Psychological Stress and Risk of Cardiac Events investigates a
broad spectrum of coronary artery disease patients with both nuclear
cardiac imaging and peripheral vascular analysis to more easily detect
the large number currently at risk for adverse events.
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Ronald I. Shorr, M.D., M.S. (email:rshorr@aging.ufl.edu
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Director, GRECC, NF/SG VHS
Professor, Department of Aging & Geriatrics
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Scott Tomar, D.M.D., Dr.P.H.,
M.P.H.
Courtesy Associate Professor
- Associate Professor & Chair, Community Dentistry and Behavioral
Science, College of Dentistry (University of Florida)
- Vice President, 2007-2008 Executive Council, American Association
of Public Health Dentistry
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Almut Winterstein, Ph.D.
Courtesy Assistant Professor
- Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacy Health Care Administration,
College of Pharmacy (University of Florida)
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