Robert Agnew, Emory College, Chair Department of Sociology
bagnew@emory.edu
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Robert Agnew, PhD is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Sociology Department at Emory University. He has published four books and approximately 70 articles on the causes of crime and delinquency, with his most recent books being Juvenile Delinquency: Causes and Control (Oxford University Press, 2005), Why Do They Do It? A General Theory of Crime and Delinquency (Oxford University Press, 2005), and Pressured Into Crime: An Overview of General Strain Theory (Oxford University Press, 2006). He is best known for his development of general strain theory, one of the leading theories of crime and delinquency.
Peter Ash, School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry
peter.ash@emory.edu
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Peter Ash, PhD is a forensic child psychiatrist who is Director of the Psychiatry and Law Service and Chief of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Emory University School of Medicine. He is an Associate Professor in the Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. His current research areas include malpractice, adolescent violence, standards for mental health care in juvenile detention facilities, and the diversion of mentally ill criminal defendants into mental health treatment programs.
Katharine Sieck Barrett, School of Nursing
ksieck@emory.edu
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Katherine Barrett, PhD, MA has focused research and professional presentations have addressed parental sleep and child fatalities; the predictive value of sleep disturbances on perinatal mood disorders; school failure among high school students; cultural models and class conflict in the juvenile welfare system; violence, foster care and American myths of family; and, narrative development among adolescents. She served on the Board of Advisors for Stanford' Foster Care College Project.
David Burke, School of Medicine, Department of Rehabilitation (Chair)
dburke2@emory.edu
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Formerly at Harvard University Medical School, Dr. Burke was a founding member of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation there and was the Medical Director of the Clinical Unit of Traumatic Brain Injury at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston, as well as Director of the residency program. Dr. Burke is a specialist in the treatment of patients with traumatic brain injuries and has built a solid record of scholarship, clinical leadership and teaching. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of Rehab in Review. He has several interests in musculoskeletal and sports medicine, and has served as a consultant to the U. S. Department of Homeland Security.
John Carter, School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology
jcarter@sph.emory.edu
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Dr. Carter is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Epidemiology Department of the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. His research interests include: health indicators related to maternal, infant, and child health; risk factors associated with sudden unexpected infant death (SUID); surveillance for intentional and unintentional child death and injury; program evaluation; and the use of quantitative data in decision making. He has provided data management and analysis consulting services to various Georgia governmental and private agencies for over 15 years.
Arthur Chang, School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine
arthur.chang@emory.edu
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Dr. Arthur Chang, MD, MS is an Assistant Professor with Emory University and a toxicologist for the Georgia Poison Control Center. Dr. Chang practices clinically at the emergency departments of Emory Crawford Long Hospital and Grady Hospital. Additionally, he provides consultation for the management of patients with acute poisonings and occupational exposures. He also supervises the education of Emory University-CDC medical toxicology fellows and resident physicians in toxicology.
Dennis Choi, Executive Director, Neurosciences Institute
dennis.choi@emory.edu
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In 2007, Dr. Dennis Choi joined Emory University as Executive Director of the university's Neuroscience Initiative. He is currently a member of the Institute of Medicine and its Neuroscience Forum, the Executive Committee of the Dana Alliance for Brain Research, and the visiting committee advising the Harvard-MIT Health Science and Technology Program. Past service has included the National Academy of Science's Board on Life Sciences, multiple editorial boards (including the Board of Reviewing Editors for Science, and founding co-editorship of Neurobiology of Disease) and advisory boards, presidency of the Society for Neuroscience, chairmanship of the U.S. National Committee to the International Brain Research Organization, and vice-presidency of the American Neurological Association. His research on mechanisms of brain or spinal cord injury has been recognized by several awards.
Michael DeGuzman, School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics
michael_deguzman@oz.ped.emory.edu
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Michael DeGuzman, MPH, is project manager at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, directing emergency department initiatives in quality, evidence-based medicine and research. Mr. DeGuzman is currently completing coursework in Six Sigma training, with an emphasis in healthcare service delivery. He has participated in the Atlanta Tbilisi Health Partnership and the Emergency Department Personnel Training at the Central Republican Hospital project to advise on program evaluation and health informatics capacity building in the ED.
Christopher Dente, School of Medicine, Department of Surgery
cdente@emory.edu
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Christopher J Dente, MD, is an assistant professor of Surgery for Emory University and an Associate Director of Trauma for Grady Memorial Hospital. Dr. Dente serves on the education and promotions committees, focusing on updating and improving the educational system for the general surgery residency.
Ralph DiClemente, School of Public Health, Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education
rdiclem@sph.emory.edu
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Ralph J. DiClemente, Ph.D. is Charles Howard Candler Professor of Public Health and Associate Director, Emory Center for AIDS Research. He holds concurrent appointments as Professor in the School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, in the Division of Infectious Diseases and the Department of Pediatrics, in the Division of Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases and Immunology, and the Department of Psychiatry. Dr. DiClemente is an internationally recognized expert on the development and evaluation of prevention programs tailored to African American adolescents and young adults. He is particularly well versed in designing programs that use peer-based models of implementation and that are culturally and developmentally appropriate. He is the author of more than 120 publications.
Nancy Fajman, School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics
nancy.fajman@oz.ped.emory.edu
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Nancy Nost Fajman, MD, MPH received her MPH in 1987 and her MD in 1991 from Emory University. Since completing her Pediatrics residency at Emory she has worked in the area of general pediatrics and child abuse evaluation. She attends twice weekly at clinics in the assessment of child abuse - at Hughes Spalding and at Scottish Rite hospitals. She was the medical director for the Child Protection Program at Egleston Children's Hospital and she has been an active member of the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Child Abuse and Neglect, the Georgia Child Fatality Investigation Program Advisory Board, and as a Governor appointed member of the Georgica Child Fatality Review Panel.
Julie Gazmararian, School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology
jagazma@sph.emory.edu
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Prior to coming to Emory, Dr. Gazmararian was in the Epidemic Intelligence Service program at the Centers for Disease Control and at the USQA Center for Health Care Research (previously the Prudential Center for Health Care Research). She is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology. Her primary research interests include issues in underserved populations, particularly related to reproductive health and health literacy. She is leading a multi-disciplinary health literacy workgroup at Emory University, served as an editor of the AMA book on health literacy, as well as contributed to the IOM report on health literacy.
Philip Graitcer, School of Public Health, Department of Global Health
pgraitc@mac.com
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Philip L. Graitcer, MPH, DMD is an adjunct professor for Emory University Department of Environmental and Occupational Health and Hubert Department of Global Health. Dr. Graitcer has an international reputation for his research and publications in the area of bicycle and motorcycle helmets. Graitcer is the creator andfacilitatorof the World Health Organization's Helmet Initiative, and he has written and edited Headlines, WHO's official publication on helmets since 1993. Prior to joining Emory, Graitcer spent 18 years at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as a medical epidemiologist, the last 8 years as a member of CDC's injury prevention program. Graitcer is also an independent radio producer, creating and writing features on health, science, and culture for public radio programs in Atlanta as well as for NPR, Marketplace and the BBC.
Elizabeth Griffiths, Emory College, Department of Sociology
elizabeth.griffiths@emory.edu
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Elizabeth Griffiths, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Emory University. Dr. Griffiths' research focuses on explaining spatial and temporal trends in homicide across neighborhoods, the role of family structure in producing victimization risk, and public housing in the urban context. Dr. Griffiths is presently a co-investigator on a multi-year evaluation of a HOPE VI public housing redevelopment project in Atlanta. Her research has appeared in such journals as Criminology and The Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency.
Kate Heilpern, School of Medicine, Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine
kheilpe@emory.edu
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Dr. Katherine L. Heilpern, MD is the Ada Lee and Pete Correll Professor and Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine. She is a member of the Institute of Medicine [IOM] Board on Military and Veterans' Health, and the president of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine. She is the recipient of several federal, state and foundation grants that explore the relationship between emerging infectious diseases and public health entities.
Odette Harris, School of Medicine, Department of Neurosurgery (Chief)
oharris@emory
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Odette Harris, MD, MPH is Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at Emory and Chief of Neurosurgery Service at Grady Memorial Hospital. Dr. Harris has authored several articles and has won many research awards including the Congress of Neurological Surgeons Clinical Fellowship Award and the government of Jamaica's National Road Safety Council Award for outstanding contribution in traumatic brain injury.
Sheryl Heron, School of Medicine, Assistant Dean
sheron@emory.edu
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Dr. Sheryl Heron, an Associate Professor and Associate Residency Director in the Department of Emergency Medicine and the Assistant Dean for Medical Education and Student Affairs on the Grady Campus at Emory University. She was appointed by the Governor to the Georgia Commission on Family Violence and also serves on the Women's Resource Center to End Domestic Violence, the Domestic Violence Task Force in Dekalb County, the National Center for Injury Control Advisory Committee and the Public Health Committee of the American College of Emergency Physician's. She has worked with the Institute of Medicine on a report on educating health professionals on Family Violence. She is currently the co-Chair of the newly formed University wide Domestic Violence Working Group.
Vicki Stover Hertzberg, School of Public Health, Department of Biostatistics
vhertzb@sph.emory.edu
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Vicki Stover Hertzberg, PhD is Associate Professor in the Department of Biostatistics in the Rollins School of Public for Emory University. She also is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science in Emory College for Emory University. Vicki Stover Hertzberg received her undergraduate degree from Miami (Ohio) University in 1976 and her Ph. D from the University of Washington in 1980. She is a member of the American Medical Informatics Association and the External Advisory Committee for Randomized Trial of Indomethacin for Intraventricular Hemorrhage at Yale University. Vicki Stover Hertzberg's statistical interest consists of public health informatics, clinical trials methodology, reproductive data analysis, environmental statistics, and statistical applications in stroke and genetics.
Debra Houry, School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine
dhoury@emory.edu
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Dr. Debra Houry, MD, MPH, is Vice-Chair for Research and Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine and in the Department of Behavioral Science and Health Education and Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at the Rollins School of Public Health. She is currently the Director for the Center for Injury Control, Rollins School of Public Health and teaches several courses on violence and injury prevention at Emory. Her primary research interests are in the prevention of violence against women, mental health issues related to violence, and emergency care. She has been the Principal Investigator on two federally funded grants totaling 1.6 million dollars, one entitled "Computer based screening for Domestic Violence and Mental Health Symptoms", the other "Safety and Effectiveness of Computer screening for Domestic Violence Victims and Perpetrators". Dr. Houry has authored more than 50 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters on injury prevention and violence. Dr. Houry has been the recipient of several national awards, including the Jay Drotman Award, given annually by the American Public Health Association for the most outstanding young public health professional in the country (2002) and the first Linda Saltzman Memorial Intimate Partner Violence Researcher Award from the Institute on Violence, Abuse, and Trauma (2007). She serves on several national committees for the American College of Emergency Physicians, Society for Academic Emergency Physicians, and the Academy for Violence and Abuse. She is an Associate editor for Annals of Emergency Medicine.
Nadine Kaslow, School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry
nkaslow@emory.edu
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Nadine J. Kaslow, Ph.D., ABPP is a Professor with tenure, Emory University School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences; Chief Psychologist, Grady Health System; and Special Assistant to the Provost. She holds a joint appointment in the Departments of Psychology, Pediatrics, and Emergency Medicine, and the Rollins School of Public Health. At Emory, she is President of the University Senate and Chair of the Faculty Council. Currently, she is the recipient of grants from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institute of Mental Health focused on the treatment of intimate partner violence and suicidal behavior in African American women, as well as a grant from the American Foundation of Suicide Prevention focused on helping families cope with the loss of a loved one to suicide.
Arthur Kellermann, School of Medicine, Associate Dean
akell01@emory.edu
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Arthur Kellermann, M.D., M.P.H., is a Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Emory University School of Medicine. Until 2006, he served as founding Chair of the Emergency Medicine and founding director of the Center for Injury Control at the Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University. Dr. Kellermann has published over 200 scientific papers on topics ranging from injury prevention to emergency cardiac care and public health. He holds several national awards for his research, including Emory University's "Scholar/Teacher" Award, and the John G. Wigenstein Award, the highest award given by the American College of Emergency Physicians. In 1999, Dr. Kellermann was elected to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and from 2001 to 2004, he co-Chaired the IOM Committee on the Consequences of Uninsurance and then served on the IOM's Committee on the Future of Emergency Care in the U.S. Health System. From September 2006 to December 2007, he took a leave of absence from Emory to work on the professional staff of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in Washington DC. He returned to Emory in January 2008 to become the School of Medicine's first Associate Dean for Health Policy.
Christine Keyes, School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine
cekeyes@sph.emory.edu
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Christine Keyes, MD is an associate professor in Emergency Medicine for Emory University. She received her M.D. degree from Wake Forest School of Medicine and completed her Emergency Medicine residency at Vanderbilt University. Dr. Keyes provides patient care at Emory University Hospital and is the current International Health Fellow in the Department of Emergency Medicine.
Patrick Kilgo, School of Public Health, Department of Biostatistics
pkilgo@sph.emory.edu
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Patrick Kilgo has been a professional statistician for 10 years. He currently is a Senior Associate Faculty member at the Rollins School of Public Health (RSPH) at Emory University where his duties include teaching in the graduate school and biostatistical consulting for clinical departments. He has independent consulting experience in a variety of settings including other academic institutions, governmental agencies, car companies and more. He has expertise in the analysis and methodological aspects of trauma severity and is frequently invited to speak on this topic. Patrick has won major awards including RSPH Professor of the Year (2007) and the USA Today Sports Weekly Presentation Award.
Wendy King, School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics
wking@emory.edu
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Dr. Wendy King joined Emory University's faculty in 2005 as an Emergency Department Pediatric Physician at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Pediatric Hospital. She graduated from Duke University with her MD and has been practicing medicine for ten years. Dr. King is ABMS Board Certified and is a member of Emory's Emergency Pediatric Group. She has published papers on various topics including child abuse fatalities and opportunities for intervention.
Carol Koplan, School of Public Health, Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education
ckopla2@sph.emory.edu
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Carol Koplan, MD is trained in adult, child and adolescent psychiatry. In the mid 90's, she worked at the Carter Center Mental Health Program where she helped organize the annual Rosalynn Carter Symposia on Mental Health Policy. This sparked her interest in teaching mental health policy, which she has done for the last 12 years at the Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, teaching courses on Mental Health Policy and Prevention of Mental and Behavioral Disorders and Promotion of Mental Health for MPH students. She is currently Vice Chairperson of the Suicide Prevention Coalition of Georgia and has had a leading role in planning two statewide suicide prevention stakeholders' conferences and was Chair of the Planning Committee for a conference on the public health approach to suicide prevention at college/universities in Georgia, attended by teams from 20 colleges in the state.
Delia Lang, School of Public Health, Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education
dlang2@sph.emory.edu
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Delia Lang, PhD, MPH is a clinical psychologist who also holds an MPH in biostatistics. She is an Assistant Research Professor in the department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education at Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University. Dr. Lang's interest has been in working with disadvantaged populations such as adolescents with severe mental illness in Atlanta, adolescent females in the Caribbean, young African women in rural areas of South Africa and commercial sex workers in Yerevan, Armenia. Her latest research interests include the contribution of intimate partner violence on STI/HIV transmission
Jana MacLeod, School of Medicine, Department of Surgery
jmacleo@emory.edu
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Jana MacLeod, MD is an Assistant Professor of Surgery in the Division of Trauma/Critical Care at Emory University School of Medicine and Grady Health System. Dr. MacLeod is the Director of Research for the Division of Trauma and Critical Care and the Director of Research and International Partnerships for the Department of Surgery. She also holds a Masters in Science in Public Health from London University College in London, England and consequently is actively involved in numerous prevention programs and primary prevention-associated research. She is co-PI on the Atlanta site of the Injury Free Kids Coalition which implements and evaluates numerous injury prevention programs for the pediatric population as well as doing applied research to direct future Coalition prevention program endeavors.
Kathy Miner, School of Public Health, Associate Dean
kminer@emory.edu
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Kathleen R. Miner, PhD is an associate professor for the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, as well as an associate dean for applied public health for Emory University Rollins School of Public Health. Kathleen Miner received her Ph.D. in 1984 from Georgia State University and she received her MPH in 1979 from Emory University. Her most recent areas of research interest are developing training and educational programs for Georgia's public health workforce, training efforts for tobacco prevention, and developing a web-based evaluation training series for screening and diagnostic services to women.
Brent Morgan, School of Medicine, Poison Control Center Director
bmorg02@emory.edu
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Brent Morgan, MD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine, the Director of the Medical Toxicology fellowship, and the Chief of the Medical Toxicology section at Emory University. Dr. Morgan established and directs the Georgia Occupational and Environmental Toxicology clinic at Grady Memorial Hospital. It is the only clinic in Georgia certified by the Association of Occupational and Environmental Clinics. Dr. Morgan is the Director of the Southeastern United States for Advanced Hazmat Life Support. Through this educational program Dr. Morgan has instructed > 500 health care providers in the proper care of the hazmat patient.
Lydia Ogden, Institute for Advanced Policy Solutions (Chief of Staff/Administrator)
logden@emory.edu
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Lydia L. Ogden graduated from the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard, in 1998 with an M.P.P. in both strategic management of governmental organizations and networks and in press, politics, and public policy. She holds an M.A. in English Literature from Vanderbilt University (1984) and a B.S. in English and Education from Middle Tennessee State University (1981). She joined the federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry in 1989, where she developed the community involvement program. In 1993, she moved to CDC's domestic HIV/AIDS program (under RSPH Dean Jim Curran), and led NGO networking and, later, strategic planning. In 2001, she became the policy director for CDC's Global AIDS Program; in 2003, she became the agency's Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy. She brings her research interest in public-private value networks to Emory's Institute for Advanced Policy Solutions.
Barbara Rothbaum, School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry
brothba@emory.edu
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Barbara Olasov Rothbaum, Ph.D. received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology and is a tenured full professor in psychiatry at the Emory School of Medicine in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and director of the Trauma and Anxiety Recovery Program at Emory. She has won both state and national awards for her research, is an invited speaker internationally, authors scientific papers and chapters, has published 4 books on the treatment of PTSD and edited 2 others on anxiety, and received the Diplomate in Behavioral Psychology from the American Board of Professional Psychology. She was on the Board of Directors of the International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS), is past president of ISTSS, and was Associate Editor of The Journal of Traumatic Stress. Dr. Rothbaum is also a pioneer in the application of virtual reality to the treatment of psychological disorders.
Laura Salazar, School of Public Health, Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education
lfsalaz@sph.emory.edu
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Laura F. Salazar, PhD is an Assistant Research Professor in Behavioral Sciences and Health Education at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. Dr. Salazar's research interests focus on examining the ecological influences of two important health risk behaviors to adolescents: unsafe sex and dating violence. She currently teaches graduate courses in theory and applied research methods. She has published many scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals related to these health issues, and is also the co-author of the textbook "Research Methods in Health Promotion" as well as author of numerous book chapters.
Jeffrey Salomone, School of Medicine, Department of Surgery
jsalomo@emory.edu
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Jeffrey P. Salomone, MD, is an associate professor of surgery within the Division of Trauma/Surgical Critical Care for the Department of Surgery for Emory University School of Medicine. He also serves as the police surgeon for the city of Atlanta Police Department. His research interests are in the fields of surgical infection, prehospital emergency care, and hemodynamic management and care of victims of severe traumatic brain injury. Previously, Dr. Salomone received the Norman E. McSwain, Jr., PHTLS Leadership Award, and the Physician Health-Care Hero for 2007.
Scott Sasser, School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine
ssasser@emory.edu
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Scott Sasser, MD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine , Emory University School of Medicine and in the Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health. Dr. Sasser is the Associate Director for International Programs for the Center for Injury Control, works as a consultant in the Division of Injury Response, in the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC), at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and directs the department's International Health Fellowship. Dr. Sasser was the lead editor on the World Health Organization's (WHO) publication Prehospital Trauma Care Systems, a monograph designed to assist decision-makers in low and middle income countries develop basic prehospital trauma care systems; as an extension of this project, he currently sits on the WHO Trauma and Emergency Care Advisory Committee. Dr. Sasser is currently involved in projects in Kenya, Rwanda, and India, and is currently the recipient of funding from the Fogarty International Center at the National Institutes of Health to provide injury focused public health training to physicians in Mozambique and from the United States Agency for International Development to develop emergency medicine and emergency medical services in the Republic of Georgia.
Hal Simon, School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics
hal.simon@oz.ped.emory.edu
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Hal Simon, MD, MPH is a Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine. He serves as Academic and Research Director, and Associate Division Director for Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Emory University and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta. His childhood injury prevention projects have researched childhood behaviors around firearms, parental medication dosing (and dosing errors), PTSD, drowning prevention, child abuse, and trauma care. Among his many local and national leadership roles in both pediatrics and emergency medicine, Dr Simon serves as the Vice-Chairman for the Georgia, American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Injury and Poison Prevention.
Shakiyla Smith, School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine
lrsmit3@emory.edu
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Ms. Shakiyla Smith is a Senior Research Project Coordinator in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine. In addition to her duties as Deputy Director, Ms. Smith manages several clinical and behavioral research studies in the Department of Emergency Medicine, including a study examining the effects of computer-based screening for intimate partner violence victimization in three urban emergency departments and the feasibility and effectiveness of early psychological intervention with recent trauma victims in the emergency department for the prevention of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Prior to joining Emory, she completed a two year fellowship at NCIPC's Division of Violence Prevention focused on youth violence prevention program evaluation and violence against women research. She also conducted primary research on exposure to community violence. Ms. Smith also has experience as a grant writer and organizational development consultant to non-profit organizations in the Philadelphia region where she raised more than $1 million in government, corporate, and private funding.
Kyle Steenland, School of Public Health, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health
nsteenl@sph.emory.edu
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Kyle Steenland, PhD is a professor in the department of environmental and occupational health at Emory University Rollins School of Public. He is an editor for the American Journal ofIndustrial Medicineand an associate editor of Environmental Health Perspectives. He is a member of the American College of Epidemiology, and International Congress on Occupational Health and an editor of 2 books on occupational and environmental epidemiology.
Donald Stein, School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine
dstei04@emory.edu
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Donald Stein, PhD is a neuroscientist and Asa G. Candler Professor of Emergency Medicine at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Stein served Emory for five years as Vice Provost for Graduate Studies, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and acting Vice President for Research. For more than 40 years, his research has focused on examining the processes underlying recovery of function after traumatic injury to the brain. Most recently this work culminated in the first successful clinical trial with progesterone in moderate to severe acquired brain injury. He is past president of the International Brain Injury Association and serves currently on the National Advisory Council to the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
Robert Stephenson, School of Public Health, Department of Global Health
rbsteph@sph.emory.edu
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Rob Stephenson MSc PhD, is a demographer and Assistant Professor in Global Health, Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, and Emory University. His NIH-funded work on domestic violence examines the intersection between reproductive health and violence in India, examining how the experience of violence influences reproductive health, mental and physical health outcomes for women and children. Dr. Stephenson has also supervised several MPH student thesis examining issues of violence in Kenya, India and Bangladesh.
Claire Sterk, Senior Vice Provost
csterk@emory.edu
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Claire E. Sterk, PhD is a professor in the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education in the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. She also serves as the Senior Vice Provost. Dr. Sterk's work focuses on community-based prevention and intervention programs, health disparities, HIV/AIDS and substance abuse/mental health. Dr. Sterk has successfully maintained NIH funding for the past decade for her work. Her publications include books such as "Fast Lives: Women and Crack Cocaine" (Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 1999) and "Tricking and Tripping: Prostitution during the Era of AIDS (Putnam Valley, NY: Social Change Press, 2000).
Nancy Thompson, School of Public Health, Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education
nthomps@sph.emory.edu
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Nancy Thompson, PhD has been an Associate Professor of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, jointly appointed in Epidemiology, in the Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University since 1983. In 1998, under an Interagency Personnel Agreement with the CDC, she authored Demonstrating Your Program's Worth: A Primer on Evaluation for Programs to Prevent Unintentional Injury, which is now in its second printing. Dr. Thompson has been involved in developing and conducting surveys in a wide range of areas such as consumers' health insurance information needs, the end of life care practices of health care professionals, and knowledge about head and spinal cord injury. Dr. Thompson teaches Instrument Design annually in the CDC-American Evaluation Association (AEA) summer evaluation institute and has taught Master's-level courses in evaluation and research design.
Michael Windle, School of Public Health, Chair Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education
mwindle@sph.emory.edu
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Michael Windle, PhD is a Rollins Endowed Professor and Chair of the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education in Emory's School of Public Health. Prior to joining Emory University in 2006, he was a Professor of Psychology and Director of the UAB Center for the Advancement of Youth Health and the CDC-funded Comprehensive Youth Violence Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Dr. Windle has had continuous funding from NIH for over 20 years and received an NIH MERIT Award in 1996 for his research on adolescent alcohol use and related problems. He has published over 160 journal articles and book chapters, and three books: Children of Alcoholics: Critical Perspectives, The Science of Prevention, and Alcohol Use among Adolescents.
Gina Wingood, School of Public Health, Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education
gwingoo@sph.emory.edu
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Gina M. Wingood, ScD, MPH is the Agnes Moore Endowed Faculty in HIV/AIDS Research; an Associate Professor in the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education; and; Director, Social and Behavioral Science Core, Emory Center for AIDS Research. She currently serves as the Principal Investigator on four NIH-funded studies including assessing the efficacy of a gender and culturally congruent HIV prevention intervention for African-American young adult women and conducting a longitudinal survey examining gender and social factors (e.g. stigma, discrimination, community violence) that affect the sexual health of African-American and Caucasian women. Her research has resulted in the publication of more than 100 articles, which have appeared in JAMA, Pediatrics, JAIDS and AJPH.
David Wright, School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine
david.wright@emory.edu
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David Wright, MD is Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and the principal investigator for several NIH funded projects, including ProTECTª, a clinical trial designed to assess progesterone as a neuroprotectant following acute traumatic brain injury (TBI). In addition, he is conducting collaborative research with the Georgia Institute of Technology to develop new technologies for detecting mild TBI. Dr. Wright has won several awards for research excellence from the SAEM.
Maneesh Bawa, School of Medicine, Department of Orthopedics
Mbawa2@emory.edu
David Feliciano, School of Medicine, Department of Surgery (Chief of Surgery, Grady Memorial Hospital)
dfelici@emory.edu
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Dr. Feliciano has been the Chief of Surgery at Grady Memorial Hospital since 1992. Board-certified in Surgery and in Surgical Critical Care, he has strong interests in trauma, endocrine surgery, surgical oncology and vascular surgery. His research interests are use of ultrasound in truncal trauma; damage control celiotomy; and the effect of metabolic state on outcome from vascular injuries. He has over 400 publications and is co-editor of the textbook TRAUMA (6th edition, 2008). He has received 33 teaching awards and has been listed as one of AmericaÕs "Top Doctors."
Robert Geller, School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics (Poison Control Center)
rgeller@emory.edu
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Dr. Geller is Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine and has served as Medical Director of the Georgia Poison Center for 11 years.Ê He has also served as President of the Council of Poison Center Medical Directors and is the Chair of the Georgia Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics Poisoning and Injury Prevention Committee.
Odette Harris, School of Medicine, Department of Neurosurgery (Chief of Service, Grady Memorial Hospital)
oharris@emory.edu
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Dr. Odette Harris is an Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at Emory and Chief of Neurosurgery Service at Grady Memorial Hospital. Dr. Harris has authored several scientific articles and has won many research awards including the Congress of Neurological Surgeons Clinical Fellowship Award, the American Association of Neurological Surgeons Spinal Cord/Spinal Column Injury Award and the Western Neurosurgical Society Resident Award for research on minor traumatic brain injury. Her research efforts have been recognized by the government of Jamaica; where she was awarded the National Road Safety Council Award for outstanding contribution in traumatic brain injury.
Terri McFadden, School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics
tmcfadd@emory.edu
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Terri McFaden-Garden is Co-Principal Investigator for The Injury Free Coalition for Kids of Atlanta. She is a general pediatrician and assistant professor at Emory University School of Medicine. Dr. McFadden-Garden serves as Director of Ambulatory Pediatrics for Hughes Spalding ChildrenÕs Hospital of the Grady Health System. Dr. McFadden-GardenÕs academic and community outreach interests include childhood injury prevention and preschool literacy promotion. She is also co-founder of the Ready Set Read literacy program at Hughes Spalding ChildrenÕs Hospital.
Thomas Moore, School of Medicine, Department of Orthopedics
Tmoor01@emory.edu
Michael Rich, Emory College, Department of Political Science
mrich@emory.edu
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Michael J. Rich is associate professor of political science and director of the Office of University-Community Partnerships at Emory University. He is the author of Federal Policymaking and the Poor, and several publications on federalism and a variety of urban public policy topics, including community development, housing and homelessness, crime, and economic development. His current research focuses on community building and collaborative approaches to poverty reduction, neighborhood revitalization strategies, and welfare reform, particularly concerning issues relating to the accessibility of low-income households to job opportunities and related support services.
Melissa White, School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine
mhwhite@emory.edu
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Dr. Melissa White is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency at Emory University. Her research focus is on prehospital and disaster medicine, and intimate partner violence. Dr. White worked alongside Red Cross nurse volunteers to staff the Atlanta shelters for Hurricane Katrina evacuees, providing evacuees with medical evaluations, prescription drug refills, and specialty referrals.
Shannon Hamrick, Department of Pediatrics
shannon_hamrick@oz.ped.emory.edu
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Dr. Hamrick is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology, with a research program focusing on the timing and mechanism of brain injury in high-risk neonatal populations. She is the Assistant Director of the Cardiac Neurodevelopment Program in the Sibley Heart Center at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta-Egleston Children's Hospital, where she investigates brain injury and neuroprotective strategies in congenital heart disease. She is also the site PI for an NICHD Neonatal Research Network trial of late hypothermia for hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy.
Clark Atlanta University - www.cau.edu
Joyce Dickerson, Department of Social Work
joycedickerson@bellsouth.net
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Joyce G. Carter Dickerson, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Whitney M. Young, Jr., School of Social Work at Clark Atlanta University. She was the Principal Investigator on several grants including a project funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to develop and implement a campus-based Domestic Violence Prevention Program and Resource Center in North Carolina. Dr. Dickerson also coordinated five national conferences on domestic violence. She regularly presents at national conferences and has published on topics related to intimate partner violence, community violence and social work history. She served as Interim Chair of the MSW Program at CAU and was honored in Who's Who Among America's Teachers in 2006.
Margaret Spriggs, Department of Social Work
mspriggs@cau.edu
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Margaret S. E. Counts-Spriggs, PhD is an Associate Professor and the Interim Assistant Dean for the Whitney M. Young, Jr., School of Social Work at Clark Atlanta University. In 2004 she served as the Clark Atlanta University Principal Investigator for a UNCFSP-RAP (Research through Academy-Community Partnerships), sponsored by CDC, to train undergraduate students as health researchers. She has presented several workshops and seminars that address the diversity of aging, and has recently co-authored two articles that explore the impact of religious dimensions of grandparents within intergenerational families and the influence of spirituality on health beliefs within intergenerational families. Present and past board membership include the Helene M. Mills Multipurpose Senior Center, Fulton County Strategies Task Force-Bowden Center, and Aid to Children of Imprisoned Mothers, now known as Forever Family, and the Georgia Gerontology Society.
Clayton State University - www.clayton.edu
J. Celeste Walley-Jean, Department of Psychology
jeanettewalley-jean@mail.clayton.edu
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Dr. Walley-Jean is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Clayton State University. She has clinical experience working with women, men, and adolescents who have used and experienced violence in their relationships. In addition Dr. Walley-Jean's area of research investigates women's use and experience of violence in their relationships, especially African-American college women's interpersonal aggression.
Georgia State University - www.gsu.edu
Timothy Brezina, Department of Criminal Justice
critjbx@langate.gsu.edu
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Dr. Timothy Brezina is an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at Georgia State University. His research program explores the causes and consequences of criminal and delinquent behavior, with a special focus on youth crime and violence. A major aim of this research program is to better understand why some individuals are particularly receptive to the "intrinsic" rewards and reinforcing properties associated with criminal and violent acts. Recent publications appear in the journals Social Problems, Deviant Behavior and Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice.
Sarah Cook, Department of Psychology
psyslc@langate.gsu.edu
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Sarah L. Cook, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Community Psychology and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Psychology at Georgia State University. Her research interests combine sexual assault and domestic violence and focus on how social scientists measure women's abuse and assault experiences as well as ethical issues in violence and trauma research. She also studies the role of conflict and coercion in women's responses to abuse, incarcerated women's abuse experiences, and the perceptions and effects of street harassment on higher education students. Currently she serves as past-Chair of the Board of Directors of the Georgia Network to End Sexual Assault and is a member of the Sexual Violence Applied Research Advisory Group (SV-ARAG) of the National Online Resource Center on Violence Against Women.
Susan Kelley, Dean, College of Health and Human Sciences
skelley@gsu.edu
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Susan J. Kelley, PhD is Dean and Professor in the College of Health and Human Sciences at Georgia State University in Atlanta, GA. Dr. Kelley has specialized in the field of child abuse since 1980 and has published numerous journal articles and book chapters on child abuse, and serves on the editorial board of several journals. She is a member of the Board of Directors for Prevent Child Abuse America, Prevent Child Abuse Georgia, St. Joseph's Mercy Care, and the Academy on Violence and Abuse. Dr. Kelley is founder and director of Project Healthy Grandparents, a community-based program that provides services to families in which grandparents are raising grandchildren in parent-absent homes, and is founder and director of the National Center on Grandparents Raising Grandchildren.
Joel Meyers, Director, Center for Research on School Safety, School Climate and Classroom Management
cpsjjm@langate.gsu.edu
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Joel Meyers, PhD serves as Director of the Center for Research on School Safety, School Climate and Classroom Management at Georgia State University. He has substantial prior experience in the evaluation of ongoing programs related to school safety, violence prevention in children and youth, school-based provision of mental health services and school reform. His most recent research efforts include the evaluation of school-based crisis response and emergency management programs, the prevention of violence/bullying in schools, and the prevention of violence/bullying
Brian Payne, Chair, Department of Criminal Justice Chair
bpayne@gsu.edu
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Brian K. Payne, PhD is a professor and chair for the Department of Criminal Justice at Georgia State University. His current interests and teachings include: white collar crime, family violence and crime, victimology, research methods, community-based corrections, drugs and society, and introduction to the criminal justice system. He is the editor of the American Journal of Criminal Justice and has published many books and journal articles.
Katherine Plitnick, School of Nursing
nurkrp@langate.gsu.edu
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Kathy Plitnick, RN, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Byrdine F. Lewis School of Nursing at Georgia State University. She has published several articles and has conducted funded research on the identification and prevention elder abuse.
Monica Swahn, Associate Dean for Research, College of Health and Human Sciences
mswahn@gsu.edu
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Monica Swahn is an associate professor in the Institute of Public Health and the Partnership for Urban Health Research, Georgia State University. She was recently appointed as Associate Dean for Research for the university's College of Health and Human Sciences. She has published 30 publications related to youth violence, suicide and substance use prevention. Prior to joining the Institute, Dr. Swahn worked for the CDC for nine years. She was the Principal Investigator for the Youth Violence Survey which was administered to over 4,000 high school students and designed to assess the overlap among different forms of violent behaviors and she also served as the scientific officer (consultant) for many CDC funded cooperative agreements and grants including three Academic Centers of Excellence in Youth Violence Prevention.In 2006, Dr. Swahn was awarded the prestigious Dixie Snider fellowship in the Office of the Chief Science Officer, CDC.During this fellowship, Dr. Swahn contributed to agency-wide strategic goal and research priority planning and facilitated the preparation and implementation of new research objectives. She also provided assistance and consultations to scientific regulatory services and prepared measures, initiatives, and fiscal year targets for an internal organizational excellence management assessment tool.
Volkan Topalli, Department of Criminal Justice
vtopalli@gsu.edu
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Volkan Topalli, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at Georgia State University. He was a National Science Foundation research fellow assigned to the National Consortium on Violence Research from 1998 to 2000 prior to joining the faculty at Georgia State. He has been funded by private, state, and federal grants to study criminal violence and drug markets. From 2002 to 2003 he served as the Director for the Atlanta component of NIJ's Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring program. He has authored scholarly articles on carjacking, drug robbery, drug dealing, and retaliation, presenting his research at national and international academic research forums.
Jim Emshoff, Department of Psychology
jemshoff@gsu.edu
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As a community psychologist, Dr. Emshoff has focused on substance abuse, HIV/AIDS, violence against women, child abuse, delinquency and community development. He is currently involved in several projects including research on the processes and outcomes associated with community collaboratives and studying how successful programs get disseminated, adopted, and implemented by new users, as well as what dynamics interfere with the successful transfer of these programs to new sites.
Randy Kamphaus, College of Education (Dean)
edurwk@langate.gsu.edu
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Dr. Randy Kamphaus is Dean of the College of Education at Georgia State University (GSU). Prior to joining GSU, he served as head of the Department of Educational Psychology and Instructional Technology at the University of Georgia His research focuses on child mental health screening, models of learning disability diagnosis, and developing classification typologies of child behavior and adjustment. He is currently serving a five-year term as editor of the School Psychology Quarterly.
Daniel Bernard Crimmins, Director, University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities Education, Research and Service program
dcrimmins@gsu.edu
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Daniel Bernard Crimmins, Ph.D. is the Director of the University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities Education, Research and Service (UCEDD) program. In this role he oversees a range of model programs providing training, technical assistance, and exemplary services to individuals with disabilities of all ages. Prior to this, he worked for five years in direct service settings, and then for more than 20 years at New York Medical College in fulfilling these organizations' obligations as one of New York State's UCEDDs. Recently, Dr. Crimmins was a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow in Washington DC, where he worked in the Office of Senator Jim Jeffords on health and education policy.
John Lutzker, Executive Director
jlutzker@gsu.edu
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John R. Lutzker, Ph.D. has published over 125 articles and chapters and is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, and a Clinical Fellow of the Behavior Therapy and Research Society. He is currently Associate Editor of the Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Child Health and Human Development Journal of Family Violence, Child and Family Behavior Therapy, and Behavioral Interventions, and is the author of five books, including Reducing Child Maltreatment: A Guidebook for Parent Services and is editor of Preventing Violence: Research and Evidence-based Intervention Strategies (2006).
Dan Whitaker, Director, National SafeCare Training and Research Center
dwhitaker@gsu.edu
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Dan Whitaker, PhD became the Director of the National SafeCare(R) Training and Research Center in January of 2008. Prior to this, he worked at the CDC where he was a Team Leader in the Prevention Development and Evaluation Branch of the Division of Violence Prevention and he led a team of researchers that conducted prevention research in the areas on child maltreatment, intimate partner violence, and suicide. Dr. Whitaker has published two books and over 40 manuscripts and book chapters, including papers in the American Journal of Public Health, Child Maltreatment, and Aggression and Violent Behavior. He recently edited a book on the Primary Prevention of Intimate Partner Violence to be published by the American Psychological Association. He has served as the CDC advisor to the American Medical Association's National Advisory Committee on Violence and Abuse, and on the advisory board for Healthy Families Georgia and the National Family Preservation Network.
Shannon Self-Brown, College of Health and Human Sciences
sselfbrown@gsu.edu
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Shannon Self-Brown received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the Louisiana State University in 2004, with a specialization in child trauma and pediatric psychology. From 2004-2006, Dr. Self-Brown completed an NIMH-sponsored postdoctoral fellowship at the National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center at the Medical University of South Carolina. She completed a Research Fellowship within the Division of Violence Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2006-2008, where she served as a behavioral scientist on projects developing and testing technology-based programs targeting child maltreatment prevention. Dr. Self-Brown is currently the Associate Director of the National Safecare Training and Research Center at Georgia State University. Her research interests include examining risk and protective factors for youth exposed to community violence, child maltreatment, family violence, and disaster, as well as the evaluation of dissemination/implementation efforts for child maltreatment prevention programs.
Sheri Strasser, Institute of Public Health
sstrasser@gsu.edu
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Sheryl Strasser, PhD, is Assistant Professor of the Institute of Public Health at Georgia State University. Dr. Strasser specializes in interdisciplinary health promotion planning and evaluation research focusing on healthy aging and addressing elder abuse.
Georgia Institute of Technology - www.gatech.edu
Michele LaPlaca, Department of Biomedical Engineering
michelle.laplaca@bme.gatech.edu
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Michele LaPlaca, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and her research interests are in traumatic brain and spinal cord injury, neural tissue engineering, injury biomechanics, neural interfacing, and cognitive impairment associated with brain injury and aging. She has received an NSF Career award and has research projects funded by both NIH and foundations.In addition, Dr. LaPlaca is a member of the National Neurotrauma Society, Women in Neurotrauma Research, the Society of Neuroscience, the American Society for Neural Therapy and Repair, the American Physiological Society, and the Biomedical Engineering Society.
Craig Zimring, Department of Architecture
craig.zimring@coa.gatech.edu
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Craig Zimring, PhD is an Environmental Psychologist and Professor of Architecture at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. His work focuses on understanding the relationships between the physical environment and human satisfaction, health, performance, and behavior. He has served on the board of several organizations, including the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Building Bridges program, National Research Council's Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment, the Environmental Design Research Association, and others. He has won 10 awards for his research.
Kennesaw State University - www.kennesaw.edu
Miriam W. Boeri, Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice
mboeri@kennesaw.edu
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Miriam Boeri, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, Georgia. She holds membership in numerous academic associations, including the Society for Applied Anthropology and the American Sociological Association; she is currently Vice-President for the Georgia Sociological Association. She has been project director or project manager on five grants for research projects based at Emory University and Georgia State University. She is currently a PI on a NIH grant-funded study on "Methamphetamine Use in the Suburbs" based at Kennesaw State University. In addition, she serves as an advisor and collaborator on the socialization program for the Dekalb County Drug Court, an innovative program designed to introduce drug court clients to new social networks.
Rebecca Petersen, Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice
rpeterse@kennesaw.edu
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Rebecca D. Petersen, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of Criminal Justice at Kennesaw State University in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice. She received her Ph.D. in Justice Studies at Arizona State University in 1997. Her current teaching and research interests consist of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency, Youth Gangs, Women and Crime, Corrections, Crime and Technology, and Intimate and Family Violence.
Linda Treiber, Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice
ltreiber@kennesaw.edu
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Linda A. Treiber, PhD. is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Kennesaw State University. Dr. Treiber studies the unintended consequences of rational action and the social sources of premature death and illness including medical error, occupational injury, and the mass marketing of fast foods, prescription drugs, tobacco and alcohol. Ongoing projects include a qualitative study of patients' perceptions of health care mistakes. Dr. Treiber is also currently studying the relationship between technology, pace of work and medication administration errors among Registered Nurses.
Morehouse School of Medicine - www.msm.edu
James Griffin, School of Medicine, Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine
jgriffin@msm.edu
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James P. Griffin, Jr., PhD has been involved in behavioral health promotion, training, education, and research for thirty years. He has an earned doctorate in psychology with specialized training in behavior modification, school psychology, and community/organizational psychology. The last sixteen years of his career have focused on the prevention of alcohol, tobacco, and other drug and violence prevention. Dr. Griffin is faculty at the Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) in the Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine and in the Department of Pediatrics. Dr. Griffin has directed a school-wide violence prevention program in a Metropolitan Atlanta public school as part of a six-university, Hamilton-Fish national consortium at George Washington University. Additionally, for the past five years he has served as the principal investigator for the Imani Project through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. He is presently principal investigator for the Atlanta Violence Prevention Capacity Building Project (ACBP). He has acted as the convener for a six-county initiative, the Metropolitan Atlanta Violence Prevention Partnership (MAVPP), since October, 2005.
Frank Jones, School of Medicine, Department of Surgery
fjones@msm.edu
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Frank K. Jones, MD is an instructor of clinical surgery for Morehouse University. He practices clinically as a trauma surgeon, general surgeon, and surgical intensivist at Grady Memorial Hospital. Dr. Jones received his medical degree from Morehouse School of Medicine in 1991 and his undergraduate degree at Morehouse college, his MPH at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University, and completed his residency at Howard University College of Medicine.
Spelman College - www.spelman.edu
Myra N. Burnett, Vice Provost
mburnett@spelman.edu
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Myra Burnett, PhD is an Associate Professor in Psychology and the Vice Provost at Spelman College. She has taught at Spelman since 1986 and focused her work on Self and Ethnic Group Esteem, Risk Behavior, HIV risk education, and Intimate Partner Violence. She has been funded by the NIH and NSF.
Sandra Sims Patterson, Chair, Department of Psychology
spatters@spelman.edu
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Sandra Patterson, PhD is an Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Psychology. Her research interests include prosocial behavior, adolescent violence, and assessing violence prevention strategies on inner city youth.
Cynthia Spence, Department of Sociology
cspence@spelman.edu
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Cynthia Spence, PhD has served as Assistant Dean for Freshman Studies, Associate Academic Dean and Academic Dean from at Spelman. As an Associate Professor of Sociology, her interests are in higher education access and violence against women. She consulted for the Ford Foundation Institutional Transformation Project, University of Chicago Provost Initiative on Minority Affairs, and Georgia Department of Corrections. She is currently the Director of the UNCF Mellon Programs.
University of Georgia - www.uga.edu
Jody Clay-Warner, Department of Sociology Department
jclayw@uga.edu
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Jody Clay-Warner, PhD is an Associate Professor and the Graduate Coordinator for the Department of Sociology. Her research focuses on the ways in which group identification alters the effects of procedural and distributive justice in the workplace and in the area of gender and crime, including sexual violence reporting and resistance behaviors.
Phaedra Corso, Department of Health Policy and Management
pcorso@uga.edu
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Phaedra Corso, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management. Prior to joining the UGA faculty in 2006, Dr. Corso worked for 15 years at CDC as an economic and policy analyst.Her research focuses on the practical application of economic evaluation for setting public health policy and assessing health-related quality of life in vulnerable populations. Dr. Corso has co-edited two editions of a primer on how to conduct economic evaluations in public health settings, a book on the incidence and economic costs of injury, and has written numerous articles on economic evaluation applied to prevention interventions.
Pamela Orpinas, Department of Health Promotion and Behavior
porpinas@uga.edu
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Pamela Orpinas, PhD is a Professor in the Department of Health Promotion and Behavior. Her CDC funded work has included national and international studies of the risk factors for violence and bullying among adolescents and adults, and the development and evaluation of theory-based interventions for the prevention of violence.
Rheeda L. Walker, Department of Psychology
rlwo@uga.edu
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Rheeda L. Walker, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Georgia and a licensed clinical psychologist. Dr. Walker's primary research focus is suicide in African-American adults with a particular emphasis on how culturally-relevant factors such as acculturation strategies, ethnic identity, and spiritual well-being mitigate suicide risk. Dr. Walker has authored or co-authored numerous peer-reviewed manuscripts in journals such as Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, Psychological Assessment, Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, and Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology. Dr. Walker was previously a Visiting Research Scientist in University of Rochester Medical Center's Center for the Study and Prevention of Suicide as well as a clinical program faculty member at the University of South Carolina and Southern Illinois University. Dr. Walker's research efforts have been recognized by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Loan Repayment Program-Health Disparities, a competitive award for junior faculty who are engaged in health disparities research. In 2006, Dr. Walker was honored as one of ten "Rising Stars in the Academy" by the national magazine, Diverse Issues in Higher Education.
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Children's Healthcare of Atlanta - www.choa.org
Jordan Greenbaum, Medical Director, Child Protection Program
virginia.greenbaum@choa.org
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Dr. Jordan Greenbaum has worked as a forensic pathologist in the field of child maltreatment for nine years. She served as the medical director of the Child Protection Center of Children's Hospital of Wisconsin form 2001-2006 and joined Children's Healthcare of Atlanta in 2006 as the medical director of the child protection program. Dr. Greenbaum focuses on inpatient and outpatient evaluations of suspected victims of physical or sexual abuse and child neglect. She is the past-president of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children.
Department of Human Resources, Division of Public Health - health.state.ga.us
Lisa Dawson, Director, Injury Prevention Section
lddawson@dhr.state.ga.us
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Ms. Lisa Dawson is Director of the Injury Prevention Section within the Division of Public Health at the Georgia Department of Human Resources. Ms. Dawson has worked in public health and the injury prevention field for more than 13 years. Her roles at the state level include active participation in the Child Fatality Review, Chair of the Traffic Records Coordinating Committee, appointed Commissioner to theBrain and SpinalCord Injury Trust Fundbut also previouslyan Advisory Member for Domestic Violence Fatality Review Project, member of the Suicide Prevention Coalition of Georgia and member of the Georgia SAFE KIDS Coalition. Her focus in the last 3 years has been the unintentional injuries associated with child abuse and neglect and suicide prevention.
Laura Fehrs, Principal Investigator, Georgia Violent Death Reporting System
lafehrs@dhr.state.ga.us
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Dr. Laura Fehrs is currently serving as the Principal Investigator at the Georgia Violent Death Reporting System. Founded in 2003, the GVSRS collects information on all violent deaths in the state, which includes homicides, suicides, unintentional deaths from firearms, deaths related to terrorism, deaths from legal intervention, and those of undetermined intent. Dr. Fehrs was previously the Chief of the Epidemiology Program Office of the Epidemiology Intelligence Service.
Allan Goldman, Director, Division of Aging Services
abgoldman@dhr.state.ga.us
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Allan Goldman is the Director of Preventive Health Programs, Division of Aging Services for the Georgia Department of Human Resources. He is also an adjunct Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Rollins School of Public Health and is a member of the RSPH Alumni Association Board of Governors
Shepherd Center - www.shepherd.org
Mike Jones, Director, Virginia C. Crawford Research Institute
mike_jones@shepherd.org
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Mike Jones, PhD is vice president for research and technology at Shepherd Center and founding director of Shepherd Center's Virginia C. Crawford Research Institute. He is also co-director of the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Wireless Technologies, a joint research program of Georgia Tech and Shepherd Center. He also serves as board chair of Side by Side Clubhouse, a program supporting people with acquired brain injuries in their return to community living. He has been a surveyor for CARF since 1997.
Darryl Kaelin, Medical Director, Acquired Brain Injury
darryl_kaelin@shepherd.org
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Darryl Kaelin, M.D., is the Medical Director for the Acquired Brain Injury Program at Shepherd Center. He oversees Shepherd Center's medical treatment research and specialized care programs for people with acquired brain injury, which is supported by nearly 125 staff members. As a specialist in Rehabilitation Medicine, Dr. Kaelin also evaluates and treats persons with various disabilities. Dr. Kaelin has published widely in many areas of rehabilitation including inpatient management of traumatic brain injury patients and the outpatient rehabilitation of spasticity and neuromuscular disorders.
Herndon Murray, Medical Director, Spinal Cord Injury Program
herndon_murray@shepherd.org
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Herndon Murray, M.D., Medical Director of Shepherd Center's spinal cord injury program is Board Certified by the American Board of Orthopedic Surgery. Dr. Murray is a current member of the American Spinal Injury Association, the Medical Association of Georgia, the Georgia Orthopedic Society, and the Medical Association of Atlanta. He is also a clinical instructor of the division of orthopedic surgery at Emory University.
Ronald Seel, Director of Brain Injury Research, Crawford Research Institute
ron_seel@shepherd.org
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Ronald T. Seel, Ph.D., is Director of Brain Injury Research for the Crawford Research Institute at Shepherd Center. Dr. Seel created and is Director of "ARMED to Succeed", a TBI inpatient rehabilitation medication trials center at the Shepherd Center. He is co-recipient of the 2001 Association of Academic Physiatrists Excellence in Research Writing Award. Dr. Seel has published 29 peer-reviewed articles on brain injury, spinal cord injury, and Parkinson's disease outcomes and co-authored the Neurobehavioral Functioning Inventory (NFI), a statistically validated assessment tool for acquired brain dysfunction.