Dr. Annette Regan is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Department of Epidemiology, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and an Assistant Professor at the Texas A&M University School of Public Health. Her research is dedicated to epidemiological investigations which aim to inform global policy for improving maternal and child health. She completed her epidemiology training at the Emory University Rollins School of Public Health (MPH, 2006) and infectious disease epidemiology training at the School of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at University of Western Australia (PhD, 2016).
Education
- PhD, Infectious Diseases, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
- MSc, Infectious Diseases, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
- MPH, Epidemiology, Emory University, Atlanta, United States
Dr. J Rao is an internationally renowned cytopathologist and established investigator in cancer molecular epidemiology and biomarker studies. Prior to be a pathologist, he was already an established molecular epidemiologist involved in multiple high profile cancer prevention studies. He completed his anatomic/clinical pathology residency and cytopathology fellowship at UCLA, and joined the UCLA Department of Pathology as a faculty in 1999. Dr. J.
Education
- MD, Shanghai Medical University, Shanghai, China
Dr. Dallas Swendeman, PhD, MPH, is an applied multi-disciplinary behavioral scientist whose research currently focuses on leveraging mobile phones’ nearly ubiquitous integration into our daily routines for innovative intervention and research methods, specifically for prevention, self-management, and treatment adherence and retention interventions targeting HIV/AIDS, substance use, sexual risk behaviors, mental health and quality of life.
Education
- PhD, Community Health Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
- MPH, Community Health Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
- BA, Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Dr. Sheena Sullivan is an infectious diseases epidemiologist, with a focus on viral respiratory pathogens. She completed an MPH at the University of Western Australia in 2002 and her PhD in 2011 at UCLA. She is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Epidemiology with the UCLA Fielding Schools of Public Health.
Education
- BSc (hons), Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia (1998)
- MPH, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia (2002)
- MS, University of California, Los Angeles, USA (2009)
- PhD, University of California, Los Angeles, USA (2011)
Dr. Jørn Olsen, MD, PhD, Professor of Epidemiology and Social Medicine. Born in Denmark and started research at the University of Southern Denmark. Currently working at Aarhus University in teaching, research, and administration. Editor of scientific journals. Head of the Board at the National Institute of Public Health, Denmark, and head of the Work Environment Research Foundation.
Education
- MD, University of Aarhus, Denmark
- PhD, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Dr. Leeka Kheifets is a Professor of Epidemiology at the UCLA School of Public Health. She is widely known for her work in environmental and occupational epidemiology, and currently serves on several international and national committees that advise governments on environmental policy, including the Scientific Expert Group of the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP).
Education
- PhD, Epidemiology, University of California, Berkeley, CA
- MA, Statistics, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Dr. Kerndt received a B.S. in Biology from Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and his MD from the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa. He completed a rotating Internship at San Francisco General Hospital in San Francisco, California and an Internal Medicine Residency and Chief Medical Residency at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, Illinois.
Education
- MPH, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
- MD, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
- BS, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
Dr. Peter Katona is Clinical Professor of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and Adjunct Professor of Public Health at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. He has worked at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and has held appointments at LSU and the LA County EMS Agency. He has been a member of the LA County Disaster Coalition Advisory Committee, the IDSA’s National and Global Public Health Committee, and served on the FDA’s Anti-Infective Drugs Advisory Committee. He was Chairman of the UCLA Infection Control Committee.
Education
- MD, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL, 1977
Prof. Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh, (a.k.a. Kam Kalantar) studied medicine at the Universities of Bonn and Nuremberg in Germany and also obtained MPH and PhD degrees in Epidemiology from University of California Berkeley. His post-graduate trainings include a medicine/pediatrics residency at SUNY Brooklyn program and a Nephrology fellowship at UCSF. During 2000-2012 Dr.
Education
- PhD, Epidemiology, University of California, Berkeley, CA
- MPH, Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA
- MD, Medicine, University of Bonn, Germany
Dr. Christie Younghae Jeon, ScD, is an Epidemiologist and Associate Professor at Cedars-Sinai Division of Hematology/Oncology, and Adjunct Associate Professor at UCLA Fielding School of Public Health in the Department of Epidemiology. The overarching goal of her research program is to develop prevention and early detection strategies for pancreatic and gastric cancers. Of specific interest is understanding the role of pancreatitis, diabetes and infections in these cancers.
Education
- ScD, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 2010
- MS, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 2007
- BA, University of California, Berkeley 2004