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New faculty, tenure and promotions
August 2024
Promotions and Tenure
The School of Public Health & Information Sciences is pleased to announce the following faculty actions approved by the Board of Trustees on June 27, 2024.
- Stephanie Boone, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health was promoted to Associate Professor and awarded tenure.
- Aishia Brown, PhD, Assistant Professor of Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences was promoted to Associate Professor and awarded tenure.
- David Johnson, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Health Management and Systems Sciences was promoted to Associate Professor.
- Doug Lorenz, PhD, Associate Professor (Tenured) of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics was promoted to Professor (Tenured).
New Hires
Dr. Shih-Ting Huang will join the Dept. of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics in August. He has a master’s degree in mathematics from Temple University and a PhD in Mathematics with specialization in statistics from Ruhr-University at Bochum in Germany. He is currently a postdoctoral research associate in the Division of Public Health Sciences at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
Dr. Huang’s research interests include targeted deep learning, machine learning, personalized medicine, and sample-specific cooperative learning to integrate heterogeneous radiomics and pathomics data. His expertise in these areas in addition to a solid methodological background will be valuable assets to our department, the school and the university.
Dr. Shih-Ting Huang’s office will be Room 128.
The Dept. of Health Management & Systems Sciences welcomes Melissa Eggen, PhD, MPH, as an Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) beginning August 1, 2024. Her areas of specialty include maternal-child health, modes of delivery, and breastfeeding. Dr. Eggen exhibits exceptional abilities in policy formulation. Her proficiency in analysis and writing will contribute to her career advancement and the mentorship of graduate students.
Dr. Eggen has been an instructor in the department since Sept. 2023, teaching courses and leading research grants. Prior to that, she worked as program manager and senior policy analyst for various projects within the Center for Health Organization Transformation and the Commonwealth of Institute of Kentucky.
Dr. Eggen earned her PhD in Public Health Sciences with a specialization in Health Management and Policy in May 2024 and was awarded the John M. Houchens Prize for Outstanding Dissertation. She also has an MPH in Maternal and Child Health from the University of Illinois Chicago.
