Epidemiology & Biostatistics

• Ashkin, David
• Baccaglini, Lorena
• Beyth, Rebecca J.
• Classen, Sherrilene
• Davidson, Richard
• Devidas, Meenakshi
• Doss, Hani
• Farrell, Karen L.
• Ghosh, Malay
• Hartzema, Abraham
• Hollender, Elena
• Lauzardo, Michael

• London, Wendy
• Mai, Volker
• Marsiske, Michael
• Ortiz, Jesus
• Prins, Cindy
• Ried, L. Douglas
• Robinson, Michael
• Shapiro, Jerne
• Sheps, David S.
• Tomar, Scott
• Ronald I. Shorr
• Winterstein, Almut

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

Lorena Baccaglini, DDS, DDS, MS, PhD
Assistant Professor

• Dept. Community Dentistry & Behavioral Science, COD
• Affiliate Assistant Professor, Dept. Epidemiology and Biostatistics, PHHP

Rebecca J. Beyth, MD, MSc
Associate Professor and Division Chief, GRECC NF/SGVHS

• Career Development and Education
• Dept of Aging & Geriatrics, UF COM

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)

Hani Doss

Hani Doss is a professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Florida. Prior to coming here he was at Ohio State from 1994 to 2005 and before that, was at Florida State for 12 years. For more information about Hani Doss, see his CV in PostScript or PDF format.

Contact information:
Department of Statistics
University of Florida
P.O. Box 118545
Gainesville, FL 32611-8545

PHONE: (352) 273-2991
FAX: (352) 392-5175
E-MAIL: doss@stat.ufl.edu
Home Page : http://web.stat.ufl.edu/%7Edoss/

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

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)

Malay Ghosh, Ph.D.
Affiliate Professor

• Distinguished Professor, Department of Statistics, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences (University of Florida)

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)

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

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
  

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

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

Michael Marsiske, Ph.D. (e-mail: marsiske@ufl.edu) (Office: 352-273-5097)
Associate Director for Research, Institute on Aging; Associate Professor of Health Policy and Epidemiology, and Clinical & Health Psychology (Ph.D., 1992, Pennsylvania State University). 

• The Independent Florida Alligator, August 24, 2000

Cognitive Aging, Measurement of Everyday/Functional Cognition in Older Adult; Interventions to Enhance Elders' Cognitive Performance; Collaborative Cognition; Sensorimotor-Cognition Relations 

Member at Large, Division 20 (Adult Development and Aging) Executive Committee, American Psychological Association (2000-2002)

Network and Internet, Division 20 (Adult Development and Aging) Executive Council, American Psychological Association (1995-)

Recipient, 1997 Springer Award for Early Career Achievement in Research on Adult Development and Aging, (Adult Development and Aging) American Psychological Association

Jesus Ortiz, M.D.
Courtesy Assistant Professor

• Director of Behavioral Medicine, A.G. Holley State Hospital (Lantana, FL)
• Southeastern National Tuberculosis Center (Gainesville, FL)

Cindy Prins, Ph.D.

Cindy Prins received her Ph.D. in Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology from Penn State University where she studied replication of JC virus. She did her post-doctoral training at the University of Florida, focusing on regulation of Vaccinia virus transcription elongation. Concurrently, she earned her MPH in the Epidemiolgy concentration from the College of Public Health and Health Professions at UF. Currently she is employed as an Infection Control Practitioner at Shands Hospital at the University of Florida.

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)
  

Michael Robinson, Ph.D. (e-mail: merobin@nersp.nerdc.ufl.edu) (Office: 352-273-6153)
Professor. (Ph.D., 1988, Bowling Green State University).
Center for Pain Research and Behavioral Health

Health/Medical Psychology, Assessment and Management of Pain, Experimental Pain and Psychophysics, Rehabilitation, Psychophysiology. 

Director of Research, University of Florida Spine Care Program.

Director, Center for Pain Research & Behavioral Health.

Joint Appointment in Physical Therapy.

Joint Appointment in Anesthesiology.

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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.

Ronald I. Shorr, M.D., M.S. (email:rshorr@aging.ufl.edu )
Director, GRECC, NF/SG VHS
Professor, Department of Aging & Geriatrics

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
  

Almut Winterstein, Ph.D.
Courtesy Assistant Professor

• Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacy Health Care Administration, College of Pharmacy (University of Florida)