Education
- BS, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
- MD, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
- MSHS, University of California, Los Angeles, Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA
- FAAFP, American Academy of Family Physicians, Leawood, KS
Dr. Eckhert is a world expert on dietary trace elements having authored the chapter on Trace Elements in the last three editions of Modern Nutrition in Health and Disease a highly recognized reference and the major text in graduate nutrition education. His current focus is on boron an element that humans absorb from diet in the amount of about 1 mg/day.
Education
- PhD, Biochemistry and Nutrition, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
- MS, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
- BS, Westminster College, New Wilmington, PA
Dr. Liwei Chen is a Professor (tenured) in the Department of Epidemiology at UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. Dr. Chen’s research mainly research area is cardiometabolic disease epidemiology, including the etiology and prevention of obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. In particular, her research focuses on 1) lifestyle factors such as diet and physical activity; 2) the life-course perspective of cardiometabolic diseases for women; 3) maternal and child health; and 4) health disparities in cardiometabolic diseases. Dr.
Education
- Post-Doctoral Intramural Research Training Award (IRTA) Fellowship from the NICHD/NIH, Rockville, MD
- PhD, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD
- MHS, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD
- MS, Iowa State University, Ames, IA
- MD, Xi’an Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Xi’an, China
Dr. DerSarkissian is an epidemiologist whose expertise includes epidemiologic methodology and applications of modern methods to observational health data. She has a wide range of experience in pharmacoepidemiology and health economics and outcomes research, including studies on causal methods and global health. Dr.
Education
- PhD, Epidemiology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
- BA, Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Education
- PhD
- MPH
- RD
Dr. Su Yon Jung is an Associate Professor in the UCLA School of Nursing and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. Dr. Jung is a faulty member of the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Genetics & Genomics Graduate Program in Bioscience. Dr. Jung is a molecular genetic cancer epidemiologist. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
Education
- PhD, Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, PA
- MPH, Occupational Health, The Catholic University of Korea, Graduate School of Public Health, Seoul, Korea
- BSN, Nursing Science, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea
Distinguished Professor of Pathology and of Environmental Health Sciences, and Chair of Molecular Toxicology at the University of California, Los Angeles
Education
- B.Sc. Genetics, University of Edinburgh, UK
- Ph.D. Genetics, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK
Onyebuchi ("Onyi") Arah, MD, MSc, MPH, DSc, PhD, is a Professor of Epidemiology at the Fielding School of Public Health and an Affiliated Professor in the Department of Statistics and Data Science. He has been an Associate Dean at UCLA's Division of Graduate Education. He has served as President-Elect, President, and Past-President of the Society for Epidemiologic Research (SER). He is the Co-Director of the Practical Causal Inference Lab at UCLA. An internationally renowned scholar, he is also Honorary Skou Professor at Aarhus University in Denmark.
Education
- MD, MSc, DSc, MPH, PhD
Dr. Crespi's research areas include cancer prevention and control, cancer epidemiology, cancer survivorship, HIV, obesity, nutrition, physical activity, health disparities, health psychology and quality of life. Her statistical methodology interests include design and analysis of cluster randomized trials and other intervention studies, sample size and power analysis, and longitudinal modeling of chronic disease processes. Dr.
Affiliations
Education
- PhD, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
- MS, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
- BA, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
