Faculty & Staff

Department of Epidemiology

Faculty

Amr Soliman, MD, PhD
Interim Chair and Professor, Department of Epidemiology
Cancer, cancer epidemiology, international health, developing countries, special populations, field methods.
Lorena Baccaglini, DDS,PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology
Clinical research, evidence–based medicine, systematic reviews, epidemiological methods, genetic epidemiology, oral and systemic diseases, wound healing, growth factors, head and neck injuries 
Debora Barnes-Josiah, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology
Identification and prevention of infant and child mortality. Racial and ethnic disparities in maternal and child health. Prevention of poor pregnancy outcomes and neonatal mortality
Robert Chamberlain, PhD
Research Professor, Department of Epidemiology
Cancer, cancer epidemiology, international health, developing countries, special populations, field methods
Ayman El-Mohandes, MBBCH, MD, MPH
Dean and Professor, College of Public Health
Community based participatory research methods in large population-based randomized clinical trials to test interventions aimed at improving behavioral and biological risks in minority pregnant women.  Reduction of infant mortality, both in the United States in minority populations, as well as globally in resource-poor countries.
Leslie Elliott, MPH, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology
Occupational and environmental health, with an emphasis on respiratory disease. Health effects of volatile organic compounds in indoor environments and bicyclists’ exposures to particulate matter.  Adult-onset allergy and epidemiological methods.
KM Monirul Islam, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology
Epidemiology of sexually transmitted infections. Global infectious disease epidemiology. Epidemiology of colorectal cancer. Occupational health. Program Evaluation.
Peter Iwen, MS, PhD
Professor, Department of Pathology and Microbiology and Department of Epidemiology
The development and optimization of molecular assays for the identification of microbial pathogens with an emphasis on the detection of emerging fungal and bacterial pathogens. Collaboration with bioinformatics researchers to develop curated databases that can be used with different molecular platforms for identification purposes.
Lina Lander, ScD
Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology
Identifying sources of occupational injuries and musculoskeletal trauma. Case-crossover study design methodology and applications. Medical errors and adverse events.
Tricia D. LeVan, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology
Genomic Medicine, Genetic Epidemiology. Gene by environment interactions in COPD and Asthma. Functional genomic studies. Genetic and epigenetic influences of pathogen colonization in the lung.
Kalpana Panigrahi, PhD
Director of Community Research Sciences for Global Health & Development
Pinaki Panigrahi, MD, PhD
Professor, Department of Epidemiology. Director, Center for Global Health and Development.
Pathogenesis of Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases of the G.I. tract, international health, human research protection and clinical trials 
Philip Smith, MD
Professor, Department of Internal Medicine and Department of Epidemiology.
Biopreparedness research, development of biocontainment patient care unit, hospital environmental cleaning assessment, nursing home infection control research.
Shinobu Watanabe-Galloway, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology
Psychiatric services research with focus on adults with serious mental illness and of childhood mental disorder early intervention.

 

Adjunct/Courtesy Faculty

Dana Loomis, PhD
Angela Hewlett, MD
Ted Mikuls, MD, MSPH
Anne O'Keefe, MD, MPH
Sudhir K. Satpathy, MBBS, MD, MSc.

 

Masters Trained Epidemiologist
Kate Watkins, MPH

Contact us
Department of Epidemiology
College of Public Health
Department of Epidemiology
984395 Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, NE 68198-4395