Department of Preventive Medicine
Main Faculty
66 N. Pauline Street
Suite 633
Memphis, TN 38163
"...improving human health
through education, research,
and public service...."
Name and Expertise
Bush, Andrew J., Ph.D., Professor--biostatistics; computer intensive data analysis; longitudinal data analysis; quantitative analysis: large data sets.
Coday, Mathilda C. [Mace], Ph.D., Associate Professor--psychology; cognitive-behavioral interventions for physical activity/tobacco use/diet; relation of psychsocial factors, health habits, and health outcomes.
Connelly, Stephanie, M.D., M.P.H., Assistant Professor--internal medicine, public health
Connor, Pamela D., Ph.D., Professor--community health; primary care affective disorders; academic training grants; medical school admission criteria predictors, learning theory, palliative medicine, smoking and children.
DeBon, Margaret, Ph.D., Assistant Professor--psychology; mental health; women's health; smoking cessation; behavior change intervention.
Graney, Marshall J., Ph.D., Professor Emeritus--biostatistics; gerontology/geriatrics.
Hare, Marion, M.D., M.S., Associate Professor--pediatric epidemiology.
Johnson, Karen C., M.D., M.P.H., Professor and Vice Chair--preventive medicine; clinical trials; internal medicine; women's health, cardiovascular disease, smoking cessation, osteoporosis.
Klesges, Robert C., Ph.D., Professor--cancer prevention and control.
Krushkal Adkins, Julia, Ph.D., Assistant Professor--bioinformatics, statistical genetics, genomics, sequence analysis, genes mapping and association; molecular evolution; population genetics. See http://cgb.uthsc.edu/jkrushkal.
Lamar, Kimberly D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor--community health; environmental health.
McClary, Alicia M., Ed.D., Professor--educational psychology; medical education; community health.
McDonald, Chanchai, Ph.D., Assistant Vice Chancellor of Academic, Faculty, and Student Affairs; Associate Professor--educational technology; biomedical research education and training systems; design, development, and analysis of networked computing systems, software tools, and web-based applications.
Mirvis, David M., M.D., Professor--health systems and health policy; healthcare organization, quality of care, healthcare financing, Medicaid managed care.
Nouer, Simonne, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor--epidemiology; tropical medicine; spatial analysis of health-related data.
Richey, Phyllis A., Ph.D., Assistant Professor--exercise physiology (specialization in pediatric and cardiovascular physiology); exercise physiology and community health intervention: pediatric obesity; hypertension-induced target organ damage.
Runyan, John W., Jr., M.D., MACP, University Distinguished Professor Emeritus--internal medicine; community health; primary care.
Satterfield, Suzanne, M.D., Dr.P.H., Assistant Professor--clinical trials, epidemiology; chronic disease epidemiology, aging, osteoporosis, cardiovascular disease.
Somes, Grant W., Ph.D., Professor and Chair--statistics, particularly categorical data analysis, longitudinal data analysis, medical applications, exact tests; hypertension; weight variation and adverse outcome; community-based research.
Thomas, Fridtjof, Ph.D., Assistant Professor--biostatistics; Bayesian approaches to statistical analysis.
Tolley, Elizabeth A., Ph.D., Professor--biostatistics; causal modeling of physiological and pathophysiological processes; Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS); sepsis and septic shock; quality of life.
Tylavsky, Frances A., Dr.P.H., Associate Professor--nutrition and public health; effects of diet and body composition on bone mass across levels of the life cycle; assessment of body composition.
Viangteeravat, Teeradache, Ph.D., Assistant Professor--computer and electrical engineering; digital signal processing, discrete-time systems, spectral estimation; design, development, and analysis of networked computing systems, software tools, and web-based applications for data processing
Wan, Jim Y., Ph.D., Associate Professor--biostatistics; statistical methods for epidemiologic data; health services research.
Waters, Teresa M., Ph.D., Associate Professor--health economics, health care financing, health policy analysis, cost analysis; financing health care for the poor and underserved, safety net providers, medical malpractice, outcomes research.
