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
As an infectious disease epidemiologist, my research focuses on the syndemics of substance use, mental health, and infectious diseases. I have led and collaborated on diverse projects examining vaccine-preventable diseases, hepatitis C, tuberculosis, and sexually transmitted infections with a particular emphasis on the intersecting epidemics of HIV, substance use, and mental health. Further, much of this work is grounded in Southern California, providing me with a nuanced understanding of the region’s unique public health challenges and health disparities.
Center Affiliations
Education
- PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
- MPH, Yale University
- BA, University of California, Santa Barbara
Dr. Jacobs is a gastroenterologist and scientist studying the role of intestinal microbes in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and other disorders. He graduated magna cum laude with highest honors from Harvard University with an AB in biochemistry. He subsequently received his MD from Harvard Medical School, graduating magna cum laude in a special field. During college and medical school, he trained in an immunology laboratory studying rheumatoid arthritis with funding from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Education
- PhD, Cellular and Molecular Pathology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
- MD, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
- AB, Biochemistry, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Dr. Carpenter's chapter is one of the evidence-based approaches to the study and application of nutrition in all phases of cancer.
Dr. Anne L. Coleman, M.D., Ph.D. is the Fran and Ray Stark Professor of Ophthalmology at the Jules Stein Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, and Professor of Epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. She is the Director for the UCLA Center for Eye Epidemiology, the Mobile Eye Clinic, and the Center for Community Ophthalmologists and Vision Health. She is a member of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Ophthalmic Devices Panel, the U.S.
Education
- MD, Medical College of Virginia School of Medicine, Richmond, VA
- PhD, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
- MS, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
By training, I am both a clinical psychologist and an epidemiologist.
Graduate Education
- Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, University of California Los Angeles
- M.S., Epidemiology, University of California Los Angeles