PRIDE Faculty Member Index

Faculty Member Index

PRIDE Faculty Member Index First Name Dr. Andrea

Last Name Troxel

Title Organization Biography Andrea Troxel, ScD: Dr. Troxel is a Professor of Population Health and Director of the Division Professor of Population Health NYU Langone Health and School of Biostatistics, where she leads a growing group of over 50 faculty, staff, and students and Director of the Division of of Medicine. conducting methodological and collaborative research in medicine and population health. She Biostatistics at NYU Langone has extensive expertise in the design, conduct, and analysis of all phases of clinical studies, Health and she is an expert on randomized trials of behavioral interventions and on adaptive trial designs, with special focus on pragmatic trials and hybrid effectiveness/implementation studies.

Dr. Troxel’s research aims to integrate the development of novel analytic approaches and their application to a wide range of areas in health and health care. Her research has garnered substantial extramural funding, and she has served on numerous National Institutes of Health study sections and Data Safety Monitoring Boards (DSMBs) for randomized trials. She is the author of more than 275 articles in the literature of statistical methodology, behavioral research, and other areas of medicine, and is highly regarded nationally and internationally for her contributions to biostatistics and biomedical collaborations.

Dr. Andrew

Varga

Andrew W. Varga, MD: Dr. Varga is a neuroscientist and physician at The Mount Sinai Integrative Sleep Center, board certified in both neurology and sleep medicine. He earned a Ph.D. in neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine and subsequently attended medical school at New York Medical College. He completed an internship in Medicine at St. Vincent's Catholic Medical Center and a residency in Neurology at Harvard - Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He then completed a fellowship in Sleep Medicine at NYU. Dr. Varga has a longstanding interest in mechanisms of learning and memory and the role of sleep in memory consolidation. His clinical interests involve all areas of sleep medicine with particular interest in movement disorders in sleep (RLS, REM Behavior Disorder), sleep in neurodegenerative diseases (such as Alzheimer’s Disease and Parkinson’s Disease), and generalized cognitive deficits as a function of fragmented sleep.

Dr. Anne‐Marie

Chang

Assistant Professor of Anne-Marie Chang, Ph.D: Dr. Chang is an assistant Professor of Biobehavioral Health and College of Nursing her research involves the inter-relationships of sleep physiology and Biobehavioral Health and behavior, circadian rhythms, cardio-metabolic health, cognitive function and genomics.

College of Nursing at Penn State Research projects in my lab include epidemiological studies in large samples, intervention field studies, and intensive inpatient studies in the laboratory related to sleep loss and/or sleep extension on various health outcomes. Her previous work has examined the effects of light on sleep; particularly the light emitted from electronic media devices. Dr Chang interests are also related to Genetic analysis of sleep and circadian rhythms, and interactions that influence cardiometabolic function in humans; examination of environmental effects on sleep physiology, circadian rhythms, and neurobehavioral and cognitive performance.

Dr. Arthur

Caplan

Arthur L. Caplan, Ph.D: Dr. Caplan is the Drs. William F. and Virginia Connolly Mitty Professor of Bioethics, Department of Population Health. Dr. Caplan is currently the ethics advisor to the U.S. Department of Defenses’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency on synthetic biology, a member of the University of Pennsylvania’s External Advisory Committee for its Orphan Disease Center, a member of the Ethics and Ebola Working Group of the World Health Organization and an advisor to the National Institutes of Health on organ transplantation. Dr. Caplan also serves as the chairperson of the Compassionate Use Advisory Committee (CompAC). He has served on a number of national and international committees including as the chair of the National Cancer Institute Biobanking Ethics Working Group, chair of the Advisory Committee to the United Nations on Human Cloning; chair of the Advisory Committee to the Department of Health and Human Services on Blood Safety and Availability. He has also served on the Presidential Advisory Committee on Gulf War Illnesses, the special advisory committee to the International Olympic Committee on genetics and gene therapy.

Professor of Bioethics at the Department of Population Health at NYU Langone Health

NYU School of Medicine.

Dr. Azizi

Seixas

Azizi Seixas, Ph.D: Dr. Seixas is an Assistant Professor at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, in the Department of Population Health and Psychiatry. Dr. Seixas’ research broadly focuses on three areas: 1) multilevel determinants of sleep and cardiovascular disease disparities, 2) longterm health consequences of cardiovascular disease (CVD) disparities, and 3) developing adaptive, group-tailored, and personalized behavior modification interventions, with the use of machine learning analytical tools, to improve health and well-being. Dr. Seixas’ research addresses sociocultural and environmental determinants of chronic diseases (such as cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease, and mental illness) and behaviors that prevent access to adequate care in disparity communities. Dr. Seixas was recently awarded a NHLBI career award to investigate whether insufficient sleep and/or obesity, which are two to three times more prevalent among blacks compared to whites. Dr. Seixas’ previously funded NIH/NINDS Diversity Supplement Award. In 2020, Dr. Seixas was chosen by Cell Press as one of a hundred most inspiring Black scientists in America.

Assistant Professor at NYU School of Medicine, in the Department of Population Health and the Center for Healthful Behavior Change

NYU School of Medicine.

Dr. Carla

Boutin‐Foster

Carla Boutin-Foster, MD, MS: Dr. Boutin Foster is the associate dean of the office of Diversity Associate Dean of the Office of Education and Research under her leadership, the Office of Diversity Education and Research Diversity Education and implements, sustains, and evaluates structured programs to attract and retain students, Research at SUNY Downstate trainees, and faculty from diverse backgrounds traditionally underrepresented in medicine and Health Sciences University biomedical research. She has served as the director and principal investigator of the Comprehensive Center of Excellence in Disparities Research and Community Engagement (CEDREC),the mission of CEDREC was to conduct innovative health disparities research, engage community partners and diversify the biomedical research pipeline. Dr. Boutin-Foster is an alumna of the Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and a Nanette Laitman Clinical Scholar in Community Health. She has written numerous peer-reviewed publications on cardiovascular disease disparities and behavioral science research.Dr. Boutin-Foster was the chair of the Minority Health Council of the New York State Department of Health and was a member of the Public Health and Health Planning Council for New York State.

Dr. Chau

Trinh‐Chevrin

NYU Langone Health and School Associate Professor in the Chau Trinh-Shevrin, DrPH: Dr. Trinh-Shevrin is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Population Health and Medicine, Director of the Section for Health Equity, as well as Vice Chair of Medicine.

Departments of Population for Research in the Department of Population Health. Dr. Trinh-Shevrin’s research focuses on Health and Medicine, Director the rigorous development and evaluation of multi-level strategies to reduce health disparities of the Section for Health Equity, and advance health equity. Dr. Trinh-Shevrin is Principal Investigator of a NIH National Institute as well as Vice Chair for on Minority Health and Health Disparities U54 Specialized Center of Excellence grant that Research in the Department of supports the NYU Center for the Study of Asian American Health and co-principal investigator Population Health of a CDC-sponsored Prevention Research Center that is a partnership between the NYU School of Medicine’s Department of Population Health and the City University of New York School of Public Health.Dr.Trinh-Shevrin is on the board of directors for the Chinatown YMCA of New York City. She has co-authored more than 75 peer-reviewed publications and is co-editor of two textbooks, Asian American Communities and Health and Empowerment and Recovery: Confronting Addiction during Pregnancy with Peer Counseling.

Assistant Professor at Mount Sinai

Ichan School of Medicine

Penn State University

Suny Downstate Health Sciences University

Cheryl L. Kunis, MD.: Dr. Kunis graduated magna cum laude with distinction in anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania and received an MD degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. After completing a three year clinical and research fellowship in Nephrology at the New York University School of Medicine, she joined the faculty at Columbia University where she is a Clinical Professor of Medicine. As a member of the Nephrology division, she has a large clinical practice, has been the principal investigator on numerous clinical trials and has authored a number of papers in renal disease. Dr. Kunis completed a masters in bioethics at Columbia University and has expanded her medical interests to include bioethical issues in the treatment of

Dr. Cheryl

Kunis

Nephrologist

New York‐Presbyterian Hospital‐ Columbia and Cornell

Dr. Collins

Airhihenbuwa

Professor of Health Collins AIrhihenbuwa, PhD: Dr. Collins is a Professor of health managament & policy at School of Public Health at Georgia State University. He also leads the interdisciplinary team Managament & Policy at School known as the Global Research Against Non-communicable disease (GRAND). He is an expert of Public Health at Georgia in creating solutions to promote health equity in national and global health and has more than State University 30 years of experience advancing research on culture, identity and health to inform strategies for training young professionals to conduct health behavior and public health research and intervention. He is also the author of the cultural model (PEN-3) that is used in several countries to develop programs and interventions to address health inequity. He also has served as a visiting scholar to UN agencies such as the World Health Organization and major universities.

Dr. Airhihenbuwa has authored more than 130 articles and book chapters and six books, including “Health and Culture, Beyond the Western Paradigm” in 1995 and “Healing Our Differences. He is the recipient of several prestigious awards including the Scholar of the Year by the American Association of Health Education, and the symbol of H.O.P.E award by the American Journal of Health Promotion.

Georgia State University

Dr. Daniel

Sarpong

Director of the Center for Daniel Sarpong, P.hD: Dr. Sarpong is currently the Director of the Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities Research and Education, Endowed Chair of Health Disparities and Minority Health and Health Professor of Biostatistics at Xavier University of Lousiana. he was Research Professor of Disparities Research and Biostatistics, Senior Biostatistician with RCMI Translational Research Network Data Education, Endowed Chair of Coordinating Center, and Associate Director with the Center of Environmental Health at Health Disparities and Professor Jackson State University (JSU). he served in various capacities/positions at the Jackson Heart of Biostatistics at Xavier Study (JHS), the largest single site epidemiological study investigating the etiology and University of Lousiana. progression of cardiovascular disease in African Americans. He was Director, Co-Principal Investigator and Senior Biostatistician of the JHS Coordinating Center. His programmatic focus has been in the use of data from large epidemiological studies and intervention trials and the application of translational research approaches to mitigate both biological and social determinants of health disparities. The programmatic focus of Dr. Sarpong’s research is in the areas of large epidemiological studies and lifestyle modification intervention trials designed to mitigate health disparities.

NYU Langone Health.

Dr. David

Lee

Dr. David

Rapoport

Director of the Sleep Medicine David Rapoport MD: Dr. Rapoport is Professor of Medicine, Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He has been involved in clinical research in Research Program at Mount Sleep Medicine since 1979 and is currently the Director of the Sleep Medicine Research Sinai Program at Mount Sinai. Dr. Rapoport has a longstanding interest in the physiology of sleep disordered breathing (sleep apnea and snoring). He was one of the early users and developers of nasal CPAP as a treatment for sleep apnea. He holds multiple U.S. and European patents for improvements on nasal CPAP. Dr. Rapoport is the founder and President of the Foundation for Research in Sleep Disorders. This non-profit organization supports sleep research through grants and fellowship stipends, and has contributed to the education of future sleep scientists and to funding research leading to development of new diagnostic and therapeutic techniques in sleep medicine. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the American Sleep Apnea Association and formerly of the American Lung Association of the City of New York.

NYU School of Medicine.

Dr. Dayna

Johnson

Assistant Professor in the Dayna Johnson, Ph.D, MPH: Dr. Johnson is a sleep epidemiologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University in Department of Epidemiology at Atlanta GA. She received her doctorate degree in Epidemiologic Science from the University of the Rollins School of Public Michigan and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Sleep and Circadian Disorders at Harvard Health, Emory University in Medical School. Her research is aimed at understanding the root causes of sleep health Atlanta GA disparities and their impact on cardiovascular disease by 1) addressing the social and environmental determinants of sleep disorders and insufficient sleep; and 2) investigating the influence of modifiable factors such as sleep disorders and disturbances on disparities in cardiovascular outcomes. More specifically, Dr. Johnson’s research further explicates the social contributors to racial/ethnic disparities in sleep by quantifying the contribution of social, household-level and neighborhood-level factors with objective and well-validated subjective measures of insufficient sleep using data from different epidemiologic cohort studies. Her passion is in understanding and addressing why certain populations have higher rates of poor sleep and developing interventions to reduce those rates.

Emory University

Dr. Erin

Rogers

Assistant Professor, Erin Rogers, DrPH, MPH: Dr. Rogers is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Population Health at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Her research is motivated by a Department of Population commitment to reducing tobacco-related health disparities, with a focus on smokers with mental Health at NYU Grossman School health conditions and smokers living in poverty—two populations with persistently high rates of of Medicine tobacco use. Specifically, she investigates gaps in tobacco treatment for smokers with psychiatric diagnoses and develop interventions to enhance the implementation of tobacco use treatment into behavioral health settings. In addition, she also aims to understand economic determinants and costs of tobacco use and to develop interventions that reduce financial insecurity as a barrier to cessation in low-income populations. In pursuit of these aims, she has received extramural funding from the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Veterans Health Administration (VHA), and Robin Hood Foundation. She is an active member of the American Public Health Association, the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT), and Academy Health. She serves on the Disparities Committee for SRNT and the Advisory Committee for the Behavioral Health Services Research Interest Group at Academy Health.

NYU School of Medicine.

Assistant Professor, Emory Winship Cancer Institute David Lee, MD: Dr. Lee research uses big data, in the form of large administrative claims databases, and geospatial analysis (using geographic information systems) to analyze patterns Department of Population of health care use in millions of emergency department users. Through a grant from the New Health at NYU Grossman School York State Health Foundation, He also study how to improve rural health surveillance by using of Medicine emergency claims data and novel geographic methods. By using geospatial analysis and data on the one in five Americans who visits an emergency department each year. His current research pursuits include studying diabetes in urban minority communities. In a National Institutes of Health–funded study,he will be comparing “hot spots” and “cold spots” of glycemic control to identify neighborhood-level factors that explain why certain communities have better or worse diabetic health than others.

Dr. George

Mensah

George A. Mensah, M.D: Dr. Mensah is a senior advisor in the Immediate Office of the Director Senior Advisor in the Immediate at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), part of the National Institutes of Health Office of the Director at the (NIH). In this position, Dr. Mensah leads an integrative, trans-Institute effort to advance the National Heart, Lung, and Blood translation of scientific discoveries in heart, lung, and blood diseases research to clinical and Institute (NHLBI) public health practice nationally and globally. Dr. Mensah’s primary focus is in the application of implementation and systems science approaches to address research translation gaps in order to maximize health impact in the prevention and treatment of heart, lung, and blood diseases and the elimination of health inequities. At CDC, Dr. Mensah held several leadership positions over nine years, including the first chief of the Cardiovascular Health Branch; an interim center director; and chief medical officer at the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion.Over the course of his career, Dr. Mensah has authored more than 400 manuscripts, abstracts, book chapters, and an atlas on heart disease and stroke published by the World Health Organization (WHO) and CDC.

UCLA

Dr. Girardin

Jean‐Louis

Girardin Jean-Louis, Ph.D: Dr. Jean-Louis is a Professor of Population Health and Psychiatry Professor of Population Health at NYU Langone Health. He is Director of the NHLBI-funded Program to Increase Diversity in and Psychiatry at NYU Langone Behavioral Medicine and Sleep Disorders Research (PRIDE) Summer Institute and Director of Health, Director of the NHLBI‐ the T32 Program on Translational Behavioral Cardiovascular Health Research. Dr. Jean-Louis’s funded Program to Increase research addresses how psychosocial and environmental determinants of health behavior Diversity in Behavioral Medicine prevent access to adequate care in low-income and black communities. His current studies aim and Sleep Disorders Research to identify barriers to diagnosis and treatment of sleep-related metabolic and brain health (PRIDE) among minorities, and, to ascertain the effectiveness of agile behavioral models in improving adherence to recommended therapies. His research has been involved in several important NIHfunded studies, which have led to over 375 publications, primarily in sleep and cardiometabolic diseases, circadian sciences, aging, and health equity. His research findings have appeared in 180 scientific conference proceedings and book chapters and 200 peer-reviewed scientific journals. He recently received an NIA Career Leadership Award to develop a Center on Translational Sleep and Circadian Sciences.

NYU SOM

Dr. Heather Cole

Lewis

Heather Cole-Lewis, Ph.D, MHP: Dr. Cole-Lewis is the Director of Behavior Science, Johnson Director of Behavior Science, & Johnson Health and Wellness Solutions. She harnesses behavior science research and her Johnson & Johnson Health and passion for human behavior to create health technology that empowers people to make better Wellness Solutions health decisions. She has more than 10 years of expertise in academic research training in disease prevention and management, specializing in the use of consumer-centered technology to leverage behavior change and improve health outcomes. Dr. Cole-Lewis’ research focus includes maternal/child health, HIV prevention, adolescent sexual health and diabetes, both globally and in underserved populations in the U.S. She is a leader in the field of mHealth (mobile health) research and evaluation and holds a Ph.D. in epidemiology from Yale University. She has been also a volunteer in the Advisory Committee Member, a non-profit organization that promotes problem-solving, innovation, and economic development by enabling youth in Kenya, Sierra Leone, and South Africa to harness their entrepreneurial and creative skills through innovation competitions, workshops, and fellowships.

NYU School of Medicine.

Dr. Indu

Ayappa

Indu Ayappa, PhD: Dr. Ayappa is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Professor of Medicine in the Care and Sleep Medicine and is the Director of Research Training of the Sleep Medicine Division of Pulmonary, Critical Program. She has mentored multiple NIH trainees (K awardees) and continues to make this her Care and Sleep Medicine and primary activity. Her research interests are in developing new techniques for the diagnosis and Director of Research Training of treatment of sleep disordered breathing, physiology of the upper airway and investigating the the Sleep Medicine Program at relationship between sleep disordered breathing and daytime function. She has been Principal Mount Sinai investigator on NIH and industry sponsored research grants. She has lead and present several publications, some of them are: Obstructive sleep apnea, cognition and Alzheimer's disease: A systematic review integrating three decades of multidisciplinary research in 2020, Sleep oscillation-specific associations with Alzheimer's disease CSF biomarkers: Novel roles for sleep spindles and tau in 2019 and Obstructive sleep apnea and longitudinal Alzheimer's disease biomarker changes in 2019.

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Dr. James

Gavin

Chief Medical Officer of Healing James Gavin III PhD, MD: Dr. Gavin III is chief medical officer of Healing Our Village, Inc., a corporation that specializes in targeted advocacy, training, education, disease management, Our Village, Inc. and outreach for health care professionals and minority communities. He previously served as chief executive officer and chief medical officer from 2007 to 2019 and executive vice president for clinical affairs at Healing Our Village from 2005 to 2007. Dr. Gavin is also clinical professor of medicine and senior advisor of health affairs at Emory University, a position he has held since 2005, and clinical professor of medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis, a position he has held since 2008. From 2002 to 2005, Dr. Gavin was president of the Morehouse School of Medicine and from 1991 to 2002, he was senior science officer at Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a non-profit medical research organization. He previously served as a director of Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Baxalta (before it was acquired by Shire in June 2016).

Baxter

Dr. Jennifer

Martin

Jennifer L. Martin, Ph.D: Dr. Martin is a clinical psychologist and Professor of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. She is also Associate Director for Clinical and Health Services Research in the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System’s Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center. Dr. Martin’s scientific research program focuses on improving sleep as a key component of maintaining and improving physical and mental health, particularly among women and among older adults with sleep disorders. She is a nationallyknown expert in insomnia disorder and is a National Expert Trainer for the VA’s program to disseminate Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia. Dr. Martin serves on the Board of Directors for the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.

Dr. John

Torres

Emergency Medicine Specialist Dr. John Torres, MD: Dr. Torres is an Emergency Medicine Specialist in Monument, CO and has over 24 years of experience in the medical field. He graduated from University of New Mexico School of Medicine medical school in 1996. He is also a NBC News correspondent His reporting covers a wide range of health-related issues across all of NBC’s broadcast, cable, and digital platforms. A US Air Force veteran who completed a tour of duty in Iraq in 2004, Torres has contributed to rescue efforts out of the South Pole and in the wake of hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Throughout his career, he has also made numerous humanitarian trips to Central and South America, providing medical care to children in need. Utilizing his combined medical and military experience, Torres teaches NATO Special Forces.

NYU School of Medicine.

Dr. John

Allegrante

John Allegrante, Ph.D.: Dr. Allegrante is Professor of Health Education and Deputy Provost of Professor of Health Education Teachers College, Columbia University. He holds joint appointments in the Graduate School of and Deputy Provost of Teachers Arts and Sciences and Department of Sociomedical Sciences at the Mailman School of Public College, Columbia University Health of Columbia University. He has had over two decades of funding from the NIH to support research on health behavior and health outcomes in chronic disease. He is a fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine and member of the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research.

Columbia University Medical Center

Professor of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Emory University

Dr. Joseph

Ravenell

Associate Dean for Diversity Joseph E Ravenell, MD, MS: Dr. Ravenell is the Associate Dean of Diversity Affairs and Inclusion at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and Associate Professor of Population Health Affairs and Inclusion and Medicine. He is a board-certified internist and clinical hypertension specialist with a strong Director, Diversity in Research, track record in community-based programs and interventions to reduce racial disparities. Since Perlmutter Cancer Center coming to NYU, Dr. Ravenell has been actively cultivating a three-pronged approach to improving hypertension-related outcomes in African American men. In addition to developing research collaborations in New York City to study community-based approaches to improving hypertension-related outcomes in African American men, Dr. Ravenell also helped to launch the Bellevue Hospital Primary Care Hypertension Specialty Clinic in January 2009, and leads a new Hypertension and Lipidology fellowship at NYU. He was awarded a NIH/NHLBI Minority Postdoctoral Supplement Award to study medication-taking behavior in African Americans with hypertension in 2003.

NYU School of Medicine.

Dr. Josephine

Boyington

Program director in the Division Josephine Boyington, Ph.D: Dr. Boyington is a nurse, licensed nutritionist and program director in the Division of Cardiovascular Health at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of Cardiovascular Health at the (NHLBI), part of the National Institutes of Health. She is a certified nutrition specialist by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Certification Board of Nutrition, she also got a Master of Public health by The Jhon Hopkins Institute (NHLBI) University. Dr. Boyington has also several publications, some of them are: Research Education and Mentoring Program in Cardiovascular Diseases for Under-Represented Junior Faculty From NHLBI SIPID/PRIDE in 2019, Mentored Training to Increase Diversity among Faculty in the Biomedical Sciences: The NHLBI Summer Institute Programs to Increase Diversity (SIPID) and the Programs to Increase Diversity among Individuals Engaged in Health-related Research (PRIDE) in 2017.

NHLBI

Dr. Juliet

Iwelunmor

Associate Professor; Behavioral Juliet Iwelunmor, Ph.D: Dr. Iwelunmor is a global health implementation scientist who conducts research in the areas of global health, implementation science, sustainability science, Science and Health Education at and social innovations for health. Her current research focuses on the role social innovations Saint Louis University and social entrepreneurships can play with fostering sustainable health programs that enhance the health and well-being of young people in low and middle income countries. Dr. Iwelunmor has ongoing community-based projects, including an annual Youth Health Fair in Nigeria; a taskstrengthening project in Ghana focused on training community health workers to provide evidence-based hypertension interventions; an adolescent sexual health and empowerment program in Nigeria; and community-based social innovations focused on providing access to low-cost, point-of care health services to people in low and middle income countries.

Saint Louis University.

Dr. Keith

Micoli

Assistant Dean, Postdoctoral Keith Micoli, Ph.D: Dr. Micoli is the Assistant Dean, Postdoctoral Affairs at New York University School of Medicine. he has developed a number of formal programs to foster postdoc Affairs at New York University training, including courses in ethics, grantwriting, lab management and communication skills.

School of Medicine He also has broadened his focus to include career development programs for graduate students. Micoli is the co-primary investigator on NIH’s newly-created Broadening Experiences in Scientific Training grant, awarded in September 2013. The goal of this five-year grant was to promote and foster diverse training opportunities for graduate students and postdocs, explicitly targeting careers beyond academic research. A key feature of NYU’s grant was partnering with employer organizations to deliver education and training necessary to create a more competitive future workforce. His passion is encouraging postdocs and graduate students to take responsibility for their own success by providing the resources they need to develop their own careers.

CTRIS

Dr. Kenneth

Wright

Kenneth Wright PhD: Dr. Wright is Professor in the Department of Integrative Physiology, Director of the Sleep and Chronobiology Laboratory, and member Center for Neuroscience at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is also Adjunct Professor of Medicine in the Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism & Diabetes and member Nutrition and Obesity Research Center at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. His research is aimed at explaining the physiology of sleep and circadian timing in humans, understanding the health and safety consequences of sleep and circadian disruption, such as obesity and impaired cognition, and applying that knowledge to improve public health and safety. His research is also aimed at developing strategies to promote sleep, wakefulness, and health due to insufficient sleep and circadian rhythm sleep-wake disorders. He serves as chair of the program committee for the Associated Professional Sleep Societies (APSS).Dr. Wright has served as a reviewer for numerous national and international grant agencies; he serves as a consultant for government agencies, universities and industry, and as a reviewer for numerous journals.

NHLBI

Dr. Kenneth

Bridges

Kenneth Bridges, MD: Dr. Bridges received the MD degree from Harvard Medical School, and Vice President, Medical Affairs subsequently trained in internal medicine and hematology in Boston, at Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women’s Hospitals, respectively. Following medical subspecialty training, Dr. Bridges worked on the biology of cellular iron metabolism for three years at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. Bridges returned to Harvard as a member of the Hematology Division at Brigham and Women’s Hospital where he achieved the faculty rank of Associate Professor of Medicine. Dr. Bridges published over 70 peer-reviewed articles during his academic career, as well as number book chapters. He also co-authored with Dr. Howard Pearson of Yale University a textbook on red cell disorders and anemia. Dr. Bridges left academia to work in biotechnology, initially with Hoffman La Roche followed by 3 years at Amgen where he worked on Aranesp and participated in the launch of Nplate. Dr. Bridges moved to Onyx Pharmaceuticals where he oversaw several trials involving Kyprolis (carfilzomib) for the treatment of multiple myeloma. Following the Amgen acquisition of Onyx, Dr. Bridges moved to Global Blood Therapeutics in the role of Vice President, Medical Affairs working the new treatment for sickle cell disease, GBT440.

Global Blood Therapeutics

Dr. Lauren

Hale

Lauren Hale, Ph.D: Dr. Hale is Professor of Population and Preventive Medicine, Department Professor at the Population and of Family. Dr. Hale is an expert in the social patterns of sleep and how it contributes to a cycle Preventive Medicine, of inequality in health and well-being. Hale suggests that the results raise concerns about public Department of Family at Stony health and social justice, stating that socioeconomic factors matter for sleep. She is currently Brrok Medicine researching what factors affect teenagers and young adults for determining how much they sleep and the consequences of their sleep patterns on their physical and mental health. Other academic interest are: Social Determinants of Sleep, Health Disparities, Demography, Maternal and Child Health, Women’s Health, Health in Retirement. Hale is the founding editor-in-chief of the Sleep Health Journal and has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles. Some of her publications are: Association between portable screen-based media device access or use and sleep outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis in 2016 and Control of confounding and reporting of results in causal inference studies. guidance for authors from editors of respiratory, sleep, and critical care journals in 2019.

Stony Brook Medicine.

Professor in the Department of Integrative Physiology, Director of the Sleep and Chronobiology Laboratory, and Member Center for Neuroscience at the University of Colorado

Professor, Applied Exercise Leah E. Robinson, PhD: Dr. Robinson is an Associate Professor of Movement Science in the School of Kinesiology at the University of Michigan and a Fellow in the American College of Science and Movement Science Sports Medicine. Dr. Robinson received her B.S. from North Carolina Central University in & Director, Child Movement, 2000, M.S. (2002) and Ph.D. (2007) from Ohio State University.Dr. Robinson’s research takes a Activity, & Developmental developmental perspective to motor skill development, physical activity, and developmental Health Laboratory health in preschool and school-age children. She seeks to understand the developmental Program Chair, Movement process of motor skill acquisition along with the underlying factors that shape or that are Science & Research Professor, influenced by a child’s ability to move. Dr. Robinson's grant funding has topped $3,000,000 and Center for Human Growth and she is currently funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The NIH funding supports her Development research on A PATH (Promoting Activity and Trajectories of Health) for Children. Dr. Robinson has more than 75 articles in peer-reviewed journals. Her articles appear in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, Health Psychology, Journal of Motor Learning and Development, Sports Medicine, and Child: Care, Health, and Development.

Dr. Leah

Robinson

Dr. Lidia

Glodzik

Dr. Marie

Bragg

Assistant Professor in Marie Bragg, Ph.D: Dr. Bragg is an an Assistant Professor in the Department of Population Health Section on Health Choice, Policy, and Evaluation at NYU Langone health. Her research the Department of Population interest focus on identifying and affecting environmental and social factors associated with Health Section on Health obesity, food marketing, and health disparities. My recent studies have examined the food and Choice, Policy, and Evaluation at beverage industry’s use of professional-athlete and music-celebrity endorsements in promoting NYU Langone Health unhealthy products; evaluated various advertising techniques used on packaged foods in supermarkets. Dr. Bragg had completed an American Psychological Association–accredited clinical internship at Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center. Her research has been funded through the National Institutes of Health Director’s Early Independence Award, a High-Risk, High-Reward Research program grant.

NYU Langone Health

Dr. Marishka

Brown

Program Director at the Marishka Brown, PhD: Dr. Brown is the Program Director at the National Institutes of Health’s National Center on Sleep Disorders Research, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute where National Institutes of Health’s she manages a portfolio of investigators whose primary research focuses on sleep medicine.

National Center on Sleep She graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg and received a Ph.D. Disorders Research, National in pharmaceutical sciences from the University of Maryland, Baltimore. Her research has Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute focuses on sleep and the circadian biology of sleep disorders, including how the body regulates breathing during sleep, how sleep deficiencies affect the whole body, and what biomarkers can help assess sleep health. She had also participated in a science & Technology Policy Fellow on the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a Postdoctoral Fellow in the University of Pennsylvania. Some of her publications and collaborations are Aging induced endoplasmic reticulum stress alters sleep and sleep homeostasis in 2013 and Aging induced endoplasmic reticulum stress alters sleep and sleep homeostasis in 2017.

National Institute of Health

Dr. Mercedes

Carnethon

Vice Chair, Department of Mercedes Carnethon, Ph.D: Dr. Carnethon is Vice Chair, Department of Preventive Medicine Mary Harris Thompsom, Professor of Preventive Medicine ( Epidemiology) and medicine Preventive Medicine Mary (pulmonary and critical care). Her research focuses broadly on the epidemiology of Harris Thompsom, Professor of cardiovascular disease, obesity, diabetes, lung health and cognitive aging in the population Preventive Medicine subgroups defined by race/ethnicity, geography, socioeconomic status, gender and sexual (Epidemiology) and Medicine orientation/gender identity. She has been also interested in the role that health behaviors such (Pulmonary and Critical Care) at as diet, physical activity and sleep play on health across the lifecourse. She is also leader in Northwestern University postdoctoral training and faculty development in Nortwestern University. She is member of the following society memberships: Sleep Research Society,American College of Sports Medicine, American Diabetes Association, American Heart Association, Society for Epidemiologic Research. She is Co-chair, Obesity Committee, American Heart Association and Committee on Minorities, American Heart Association. Some honors and awards of Dr. Carnethon are: Faculty Mentor of the Year, Medical Faculty Council, Feinberg School of Medicine and Mentor award for best thesis, Institute for Public Health and Medicine.

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

Dr. Michael

Grandner

Director of the Sleep and Health Michael Grandner, Ph.D: Dr. Grandner is the Director of the Sleep and Health Research Program at the University of Arizona, Director of the Behavioral Sleep Medicine Clinic at the Research Program at the Banner-University Medical Center, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry University of Arizona, Director at the UA College of Medicine, His research focuses on how sleep and sleep-related behaviors of the Behavioral Sleep are related to cardiovascular disease, diabetes, obesity, neurocognitive functioning, mental Medicine Clinic at the Banner‐ health, and longevity. He has published over 150 articles and chapters on issues relating to University Medical Center, and sleep and health. He is associate editor of the journal Sleep Health and serves on the editorial an Associate Professor in the boards of the journals SLEEP, Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, Sleep Medicine. He has Department of Psychiatry at the served on both the Mental Health Task Force and Interassociation Taskforce for Sleep and UA College of Medicine Wellness for the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) and works to help improve sleep and performance in professional and non-professional athletes. Dr. Grandner maintains memberships with a number of professional organizations, including the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, the Sleep Research Society, and the American Heart Association.

Arizona University.

Dr. Michael

Twery

Lidia Glodzik, Ph.D: Dr. Glodzik is an associate professor of psychiatry at Temple University and co-director of the Alzheimer’s Center at Temple, Dr. Glodzik focuses on arterial spin labeling perfusion and on applying new imaging techniques to evaluate metabolic changes in the hippocampus. She also assesses the value of cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers in early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease. Her research interest are also in Alzheimer’s disease biomarkers and neuroimaging. Some of her publications and collaborations are: Phosphorylated tau 231, memory decline and medial temporal atrophy in normal elders in 2010 and Alzheimer’s disease markers, hypertension and gray matter damage in normal elderly in 2013.

Michael J. Twery, Ph.D: Dr. Twery is the director of the National Center on Sleep Disorders Research (NCSDR) in the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute’s (NHLBI) Division of Lung Diseases at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Dr. Twery has led the NIH’s sleep and respiratory neurobiology scientific research group since 1996, and has served as director of the NCSDR since January 2006. In these roles, Dr. Twery oversees the support of research and research training related to sleep disordered breathing, the fundamental functions of sleep and circadian rhythms, and sleep disorder epidemiology and clinical trials. The NCSDR also stewards several forums that facilitate the coordination of sleep research across the NIH, other federal agencies and outside organizations, including the Sleep Disorders Research Advisory Board and a Trans-NIH Sleep Research Coordinating Committee. Dr. Twery served as the program officer for the Sleep Academic Award program, the Specialized Centers of Research on sleep neurobiology effort, and initiatives to study the link between sleep disorders and short sleep duration with cardiovascular disease risk factors.

Associate Professor

Director, National Center on Sleep Disorders Research

Mount Sinai

Weill Cornell Medical School

NYU Langone Health.

Michelle D. Jones-London: Ph.D: Dr. Jones-London serves as Chief, Office of Programs to Enhance Neuroscience Workforce Diversity (OPEN-WD). In this position, she plays a critical role in guiding the Institute’s diversity efforts and chairs the NINDS Diversity Working Group. Dr. Jones-London joined NINDS as a Program Director in July, 2006. Dr. Jones-London earned her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the Department of Neuroscience and Anatomy at Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine. She then received postdoctoral training as a research fellow at University of Pennsylvania in the Department of Psychiatry. Dr. Jones-London came to the NIH in July 2004 as an Emerging Leader Fellow; she performed duties across the Department of Health and Human Services including the Center for Scientific Review, FDA Office of Women's Health Science Program, and the Immediate Office of the Secretary, Intergovernmental/Tribal Affairs Office. Dr. Jones-London directs the diversity training and workforce development programs at NINDS which include Diversity and Re-Entry Supplements, Predoctoral Fellowships to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research (F31), Career Development Awards to Promote Diversity (K22 and K01) and Diversity Research Education Grants (R25) (including the Neuroscience Scholars Program with SfN). She also provides oversight for the Institute’s diversity outreach initiatives at several other national scientific conferences. Her trans-NIH efforts include oversight for the NIH Blueprint ENDURE and DSPAN (F99/K00) programs, the BRAIN Initiative Diversity K99/R00, and former Project Scientist for the NIH National Research Mentoring Network (NRMN). Her research interests have focused on understanding monoaminergic neurotransmitter regulation and mechanisms of behavioral psychopharmacology

Dr. Michelle

Jones‐London

Chief, Office of Programs to Enhance Neuroscience Workforce Diversity

Dr. Nadia

Islam

Dr. Natasha

Williams

Dr. Olugbenga

Ogedegbe

Gbenga Ogedegbe, MD: Dr. Ogedegbe is Professor of Population Health and Medicine at New Professor of Population Health York University School of Medicine and Director of the Division of Health and Behavior, and and Medicine at New York Associate Vice Chancellor of Global Network Academic Planning. He is a board-certified University School of Medicine & internist, hypertension specialist and clinical epidemiologist. As a physician-scientist, the Director of the Division of programmatic focus of his research is the translation into clinical practice, and dissemination of Health and Behavior, and evidence-based behavioral interventions targeted at hypertension-related outcomes and blood Associate Vice Chancellor of pressure control in African Americans who receive care in community-based primary care Global Network Academic practices. He has extensive experience in the development and implementation of practicePlanning based trials of behavioral interventions targeted at minority populations. He has completed several studies that examined the barriers faced by minority populations regarding medication adherence, expectations of hypertension management, and self-efficacy in this population. Dr. Ogedegbe is a permanent member of the NIH study section – Behavior, Medicine, Intervention and Outcomes (BMIO3).

NYU School of Medicine.

Dr. Orfeu

Buxton

Director of the Sleep, Health & Orfeu Buxton, Ph.D: Dr. Buxton is Professor of Biobehavioral Health, Pennsylvania State Univ.; Adjunct Professor, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He directs the sleep, Society Collaboratory at Penn Health & society collaboratory at Penn State. His research primarily focuses on 1) the causes of State chronic sleep deficiency in the workplace, home, and society, and 2) the health consequences of chronic sleep deficiency, especially cardiometabolic outcomes, and the physiologic and social mechanisms by which these outcomes arise. Successful aging is a central focus of this work. Ongoing interdisciplinary human studies involve sleep loss, aging, and insomnia, as well as health disparities. Dr. Buxton serves on the Internal Advisory Board for the Harvard School of Public Health Center for Work, Health, and Well-being. Dr. Buxton is a member of the Work, Family, and Health Network, co-chairs the Steering Committe, and leads the Biomarker and Actigraphy Data Coordinating Center (BADCC) for the Work, Family, and Health Study, among others. Dr. Buxton co-founded the National Postdoctoral Association, a member-driven organization that provides a unique, national voice for postdoctoral scholars.

Penn State University

Dr. Peter

Hare

Peter Hare, Ph.D.: Dr. Hare is the Associate Director of Research Mission Programs at NYU School of Medicine. His primary roles relate to editing the scientific components of grant proposals, helping faculty members to identify appropriate funding opportunities, and developing initiatives to support faculty in their efforts to secure extramural funding (e.g., through administering intramural pilot funding and fostering collaborations). Before joining NYU School of Medicine, He worked for Nature Publishing Group, where he was a senior editor at Nature Biotechnology and editorial lead for their Digital First program. Before that, he was a research associate at the Rockefeller University after completing his Ph.D. at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa.

Dr. Phyllis

Zee

Chief of Sleep Medicine in the Phyllis C. Zee: Dr. Zee is the Benjamin and Virginia T. Boshes Professor in Neurology, the director of the Center for Circadian and Sleep Medicine (CCSM) and the chief of the Division of Department of Neurology Sleep Medicine (neurology) at the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Benjamin and Virginia T. Boshes Chicago. She is also the medical director of Sleep Disorders Center at Northwestern Memorial Professor of Neurology at Hospital. As director of CCSM, Dr. Zee oversees an interdisciplinary program in basic and Nortwestern University translational sleep and circadian rhythm research, and findings from her team have paved the way for innovative approaches to improve sleep and circadian health. Zee is the founder of the first circadian medicine clinic in the US, where innovative treatments are available for patients with circadian rhythm disorders.Zee also has authored more than 300 peer reviewed original articles, reviews and chapters on the topics of sleep, circadian rhythms, and sleep/wake disorders. She has also trained over 50 pre-doctoral and post-doctoral students and has mentored numerous faculty members. Dr. Zee is a fellow of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, fellow of the American Academy of Neurology and member of the American Neurological Association.

Associate Professor at the Nadia Islam, Ph.D: Dr. Islam is an Associate Professor at the Department of Population Health at NYU Langone Health. Her research focuses on developing culturally relevant Department of Population community–clinical linkage models to reduce cardiovascular disease and diabetes disparities in Health at NYU Langone Health disadvantaged communities. Her work has been featured in the American Journal of Public Health, Diabetes Care, and numerous other peer-reviewed journals. She leads, as principal investigator, several National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)-funded initiatives evaluating the impact of community health worker intervention on chronic disease management and prevention in diverse populations. She also directs the cardiovascular disease and diabetes research track for the NYU Center for the Study of Asian American Health, and she is the research director at the NYU-CUNY Prevention Research Center and principal investigator of a CDC–funded Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH) program project. Dr Islam currently serves on the American Diabetes Association task force on Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islanders.

Natasha Williams, EdD, MHP: Dr Williams is a behavioral research scientist and an assistant professor at NYU School of Medicine. Trained in public health, health education, and health disparities research, Dr. Williams’s research primarily focuses on increasing awareness about the importance of sleep health among minority patients diagnosed with sleep disorders and physical and mental comorbidity, increasing access to treatment for minority populations diagnosed with sleep disorders, and investigating the determinants of sleep disturbance among minority populations. She has been interviewed for Sleep Magazine Review, the Journal for Sleep Specialist. Her research has appeared in over 50 scientific journals and conference proceedings including SLEEP, Sleep Health, Sleep Medicine, and Clinical Sleep Medicine.

Currently, she is the principal investigator of a study that is exploring the barriers and facilitators of adherence to treatment among African American and white patients duly diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea and insomnia.

Assistant Professor at NYU School of Medicine

Associate Director of Research Programs

NINDS

NYU Langone Health.

NYU School of Medicine.

NYU

Mount Sinai

Ricardo Osorio, MD: Dr. Osorio is an Associate Professor of psychiatry and director of the Center for Sleep and Brain Health. His research focuses on using neuroimaging and cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers to help study sleep disturbances as risk factors for cognitive impairment in aging and dementia. He completed his Psychiatry residency training at the Hospital 12 de Octubre (Spain) and the Institute of Neurology (UK) and worked as a Geriatric Psychiatrist at Complejo Hospitalario de Toledo (Spain) in its Memory Disorders Unit. Before coming to NYU, he also worked as a Research Scientist in the Alzheimer’s Project Research Unit (CIEN Foundation, Spain). At CBH he oversees all patient enrollments for the Sleep studies performed at CBH and conducts the Psychiatric and medical history interviews for all Spanish speaking subjects seeking enrollment into both CBH and Alzheimer Disease Center related studies at NYU.

Dr. Ricardo

Osorio

Dr. Robert

Harrington

Dr. Robert

Turner

Assistant Professor in the Robert W. Turner, Ph.D: Dr. Turner is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Clinical Research and Leadership, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Neurology, at Department of Clinical Research the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. He is a health and Leadership at The George disparities researcher with ethnographic and mixed methods training. His current National Washington University School Institute on Aging (NIA) funded K01 award examines psychosocial and neurocognitive risk and of Medicine & Health Science protective factors, accelerated cognitive aging & mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI) among former NCAA Division I and former NFL athletes. This line of research encompasses understanding how traumatic injury, as an occupational hazard, hinders daily living and career planning over the life course. These are many of the same concerns faced by military personnel returning from war.

NBC

Dr. Robert

Fullilove

Professor of Sociomedical Robert E. Fullilove, EdD: Dr. Fullilove is the Associate Dean for Community and Minority Affairs, Professor of Clinical Sociomedical Sciences and the co-director of the Cities Research Sciences, Associate Dean of Group. Dr Fullilove has authored numerous articles in the area of minority health. From 1995 to Community and Minority Affairs 2001, he served on the Board of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention at the Institute of Medicine (IOM) at the National Academy of Sciences. Since 1996, he has served on five IOM study committees that have produced reports on a variety of topics including substance abuse and addiction, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and damp indoor spaces and health. In 2003 he was designated a National Associate of the National Academies of Science. In 1998 he was appointed to the Advisory Committee on HIV and STD Prevention (ACHSP) at the Centers for Disease Control, and in July, 2000, he became the committee's co-chair. Finally, between 20042007, he served on the National Advisory Council for the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine at the National Institutes of Health [NIH]. Since 2010, he has been teaching public health courses in six New York State prisons that are part of the Bard College Prison Initiative (BPI) and serves as the Senior Advisor to BPI's public health program. Dr Fullilove serves on the editorial boards of the journals Sexually Transmitted Diseases, and the Journal of Public Health Policy. He has been awarded the Distinguished Teaching Award at the Mailman School of Public Health three times (in 1995, 2001, and 2013), and in May, 2002, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Bank Street College of Education.

Columbia University Medical Center

Dr. Sairam

Parthasarathy

Sairam Parthasarathy, MD: Dr. Parthasarathy is Professor of Medicine and Chief Division of Director of Center for Sleep and Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, he is also Director of Center for Sleep Circadian Sciences, and UA and Circadian Sciences, and UA Health Sciences. His research focuses on the relationship Health Sciences & Professor of between sleep, breathing, and inflammation in both ambulatory and critically ill patients. He Medicine and Chief Division of serves as the program director for sleep medicine at the University of Arizona and is involved in Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care training clinical and research fellows in sleep medicine. He previously served as a Chairman of and Sleep Medicine at Arizona the Sleep Disorders Research Advisory Board (SDRAB) to the National Center for Sleep University Disorders Research (NIH/NHLBI) and currently is an Associate Editor for the journals SLEEP and Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine. He is board certified in Sleep Medicine as well as Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and has published over 80 papers and book chapters on sleep and respirations related topics. Dr Parthasarathy has received some honors and awards like the Sleep Disorders Research Advisory Board (SDRAB), NCSDR, NIH and the Associate Editor, Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine.

Arizona University.

Dr. Stephen

Glatt

Dr. Susan

Czjakowski

Dr. Tene

Lewis

Bob Harrington, MD: Dr. Harrington serves as president of the American Heart Association (AHA) for 2019-20. He is a world-renowned interventional cardiologist and clinical investigator in the area of heart disease and Arthur L. Bloomfield Professor of Medicine and Chairman of the Department of Medicine at Stanford University. He was previously the Richard Sean Stack, MD Distinguished Professor and the Director of the Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI) at Duke University. His research interests include evaluating antithrombotic therapies to treat acute ischemic heart disease and to minimize the acute complications of percutaneous coronary procedures. Committed to training and mentorship, Dr. Harrington has served as the principal mentor for more than 20 post-doctoral clinical research fellows. He has authored more than 520 peer-reviewed manuscripts, reviews, book chapters, and editorials.

Stephen Glatt, PhD: Dr. Glatt is Director of the Psychiatric Genetic Epidemiology & Neurobiology Laboratory (PsychGENe Lab). The mission of the PsychGENe Lab is to develop and apply methods for finding the causes of mental health and mental illness. The vision of the lab is that we will discover those causes and use that information to design interventions that treat or prevent these disorders, or foster resilience to them. We are running numerous research projects aimed at finding the genes and environmental risk factors for a wide variety of disorders, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, autism spectrum disorder, and substance abuse disorders, among others. Our pipeline seeks to identify “risk genes” for these disorders by studying affected individuals and families and then to reveal how such genes alter brain biology leading to a vulnerability to mental illness.

Associate Professor at NYU School of Medicine & Director, Center for Sleep and Brain Health

NYU School of Medicine.

President

AHA

Director of the Psychiatric Genetic Epidemiology & Neurobiology Laboratory (PsychGENe Lab)

Susan M. Czajkowski, Ph.D: Dr. Czajkowski is Chief of the Health Behaviors Research Branch Chief of the Health Behaviors (HBRB) of the National Cancer Institute (NCI). She is an expert on psychosocial and behavioral Research Branch (HBRB) of the risk factors for disease, including the development and testing of interventions for behavioral National Cancer Institute (NCI) risk factors such as obesity, physical inactivity, adverse diets, and non-adherence to medical regimens; the roles of social support and depression in disease risk and recovery; and the assessment of health-related quality of life and psychosocial functioning in patients with chronic diseases.Dr. Czajkowski was also the lead project officer for the NIH-funded Obesity Related Behavioral Intervention Trials (ORBIT) network, a cooperative agreement program supporting seven research sites across the U.S. with the goal of translating findings from basic research on human behavior into more effective interventions to alter obesity-related health behaviors (e.g., diet, physical activity).

Tené T. Lewis, Ph.D: Dr. Lewis is an Associate Professor at Emory University, Rollins School of Pubblic Health. Her primary area of research is in the area of health psychology/psychosocial epidemiology, with an emphasis on cardiovascular health in women. She has a particular interest in understanding how psychological and social factors contribute to the disproportionately high rates of cardiovascular disease morbidity and mortality observed in African-American women compared to women of other racial/ethnic groups. Dr. Lewis has two primary projects: one focused on psychosocial stress, resilience, and ambulatory blood pressure in healthy African-American women, and the other focused on psychosocial stress, inflammation and atherosclerosis in African-American women with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. Dr. Lewis’ scientific work has received honors from the American Psychosomatic Society and the Health Psychology Division of the American Psychological Association and has been featured in the Washington Post, USA Today, Essence Magazine, JET magazine and on National Public Radio (NPR).

Associate Professor at Emory University

Suny Upstate Medical University

OBSSR

Johnson & Johnson

Dr. Valerie

Purdie‐Greenaway

Director of the Laboratory of Valerie Purdie-Greenaway, Ph.D: Dr. Purdie-Greenaway is the director of the Laboratory of Intergroup Relations and the Social Mind (LIRSM). She is an associate professor in the Intergroup Relations and the Department of Psychology at Columbia University, core faculty for the Robert Wood Johnson Social Mind (LIRSM). She is an Health & Society Scholars Program (RWJ Columbia-site), and research fellow at the Institute for associate professor in the Research on African-American Studies (IRAAS) at Columbia. Her research has promotes the Department of Psychology at development of research regarding people with threatened identities, and examines the Columbia University consequences of their experiences for intergroup relations, the goal of her research is to deepen in our understanding of culture and intergroup relations in society and to eventually inform educational and public policy. She has been awarded grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Russell Sage Foundation, Spencer Foundation and William T. Grant Foundation. In 2013, Dr. Purdie-Greenaway was awarded the Columbia University RISE (Research Initiative in Science and Engineering) award for most innovative and cutting-edge research proposal titled, “Cells to Society” approach to reducing racial achievement gaps: Neuro-physiologic pathways involved in stereotype threat and social psychological interventions.

LIRSM/Columbia University

Dr. Valerie Purdie

Purdie‐Greenaway

Associate Professor of Valerie Purdie-Greenaway, Ph.D: Dr. Purdie-Greenaway is Associate Professor of Psychology & Special Advisor to the Executive Vice President for Arts and Sciences, Department of Psychology & Special Advisor to Psychology at Columbia UNiversity. She is the director of the Laboratory of Intergroup Relations the Executive Vice President for and the Social Mind (LIRSM). She is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at Arts and Sciences, Department Columbia University, core faculty for the Robert Wood Johnson Society Scholars Program of Psychology at Columbia (RWJ Columbia-site), and research fellow at the Institute for Research on African-American University Studies (IRAAS) at Columbia. Her research interests include diversity, stereotypes and intergroup relations.[3] She is the first African American to receive tenure in the academic sciences at Columbia University, and is credited with coining the term "intersectional invisibility".

Columbia University Medical Center

Ms. Dorice

Vieira

Dorice Vieira, MHP: Ms. Vieira is the NYU Health Sciences Library liaison to Graduate Medical NYU Health Sciences Library Education and the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology. She also coordinates clinical Liaison to Graduate Medical outreach for those interested in incorporating evidence-based practice during clinical rounds Education and the Department and conferences. Dorice is also a faculty member of two NIH-funded training grants in the of Obstetrics & Gynecology Department of Population Health: The Program to Increase Diversity Among Individuals Engaged in Health-Related Research (PRIDE) in the Behavioral Medicine & Sleep Disorders Research and the NYU/University of Ghana Cardiovascular Research Training Institute (CaRT) funded by NIH/Fogarty International Center. She is an associated faculty member in the College of Global Public Health and teaches the Global Public Health Informatics course. Her work includes evidence-based practice instruction, collaboration in systematic, narrative and other review-type research, and using such tools as EndNote, Google applications, etc. for “knowledge informatics” support. Dorice is a fellow of the New Academy of Medicine whose members are distinguished professionals in the medical and health professions.

NYU Langone Health.