Research Areas
Richard N. Baumgartner, PhD
Chair, Professor & Distinguished Scholar
rnbaum01@louisville.edu
Nutritional and molecular epidemiology. Current research interests include body composition (obesity, sarcopenia and osteopenia) in relation to aging, chronic disease and disability, and nutritional, hormonal and inflammatory biomarkers in the molecular epidemiology of breast cancer.
Kathy Baumgartner, PhD
Associate Dean, Associate Professor
kbbaum01@louisville.edu
Breast cancer and gaining a better understanding of the relationship of risk and prognosis with ethnicity, obesity, diet, physical activity, genetic susceptibility and admixture, and quality of life.
Rose Devasia, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor
radeva01@louisville.edu
Dr. Devasia was in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) where she investigated several community outbreaks including hepatits A, enterotoxigenic E.coli, and hepatitis B. Following EIS she completed an Infectious Diseases fellowship and for the past 3 years her primary research focus has been on fluoroquinolone-resistant tuberculosis.
Frank Groves, MPH, MD
Assistant Professor
fdgrov01@louisville.edu
Cancer epidemiologist, principal research focus is on the etiology of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (A.L.L.), emphasizing such risk factors as socioeconomic status, birthweight, family structure and housing characteristics.
Carl Hornung, PhD, MPH
Professor
cahorn01@louisville.edu
Clinical research training, cardiovascular disease, evidence-based medicine
Richard Kerber, PhD
Associate Professor
rich.kerber@louisville.edu
Genetic and molecular epidemiology, aging, cancer, evolution & chronic disease, quantitative methods, data management
Susan Muldoon, MPH, PhD
Associate Dean, Assistant Professor
susan.muldoon@louisville.edu
Epidemiology of aging, chronic disease management and end of life care; specifically interested in patient outcomes following long-term acute care, management of breast cancer as a chronic disease and doctor-patient-caregiver communication at the end of life.
Elizabeth O'Brien, PhD
Assitant Professor
liz.obrien@louisville.edu
Genetic epidemiology of chronic and age-related disease
Kira Taylor, PhD, MS
Assistant Professor
kctayl04@louisville.edu
Genetic and environmental influences & their interaction on cardiovascular disease and reproductive traits, gene-environment interactions, women's health, examination of genetic influences across populations
Dongyan Yang, MD, MS
Assistant Professor
dongyan.yang@louisville.edu
Cardiovascular diseases, cancer epidemiology and clinical trails
Kristina Zierold, MS, PhD
Assistant Professor
kristina.zierold@louisville.edu
Environmental and occupational epidemiology & children's health
