Core Faculty
Leadership
Elizabeth Selvin, PhD, MPH
Director, Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research
Tammy M. Brady, MD, PhD, MHS
Deputy Director of Training & Mentorship, Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research
Caitlin W. Hicks, MD, MS
Deputy Director of Faculty & Research, Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research
Core Faculty
Lawrence J. Appel, MD, MPH
Director, ProHealth Clinical Research Unit
Johns Hopkins University
Research Interests: prevention and control of elevated blood pressure and its clinical consequences-cardiovascular disease and kidney disease; lifestyle modification and behavior change
Mary Catherine Beach, MD, MPH
Core Faculty, Berman Institute of Bioethics
Core Faculty, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity
Director, Office of Medical Student Research & Scholarship
Research Interests: health care quality for underserved populations; patient-clinician communication; sickle-cell disease; HIV and substance abuse; bioethics; respect
Wendy L. Bennett, MD, MPH
Director of Research, General Internal Medicine & Johns Hopkins Community Physicians
Co-Director, The Johns Hopkins Center for Women’s Health, Sex & Gender Research
Research Interests: lifestyle and health behavior changes in pregnancy to promote healthy weight gain, and prevent adverse pregnancy outcomes and future chronic disease
Tammy M. Brady, MD, PhD
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Vice Chair for Clinical Research, Department of Pediatrics
Medical Director, Pediatric Hypertension Program
Research Interests: pediatric hypertension, cardiovascular disease, chronic kidney disease in children, obesity, blood pressure measurement
Yvonne Commodore-Mensah, PhD, MHS, RN
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity
Research Interests: cardiovascular; chronic care; community disparities; equity; global; health technology; obesity; public health; research design; social determinants of health
Lisa A. Cooper, MD, MPH
James F. Fries Professor of Medicine
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Equity in Health & Healthcare
Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity
Director, Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute
Research Interests: patient-centered, community-engaged interventions to reduce health disparities and improve health outcomes among socially disadvantaged populations; patient-physician communication and relationships; primary care of patients with chronic conditions
Deidra C. Crews MD, ScM
Deputy Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity
Research Interests: hypertension; kidney disease; health equity; social determinants of health; nutrition; older adults
Rosa Crum, MD, MHS
Associate Director, Johns Hopkins Clinical Research Scholars Program
Research Interest:s psychiatric disorders; mental illness; alcohol and substance use disorders
Gail L. Daumit, MD, MHS
Vice Dean, Clinical Investigation
Director, Johns Hopkins ALACRITY Center for Health & Longevity in Mental Illness
Research Interests: cardiovascular disease risk and premature mortality in persons with mental illness; lifestyle and health behavior interventions, health services research, implementation science, patient safety
Justin B. Echouffo Tcheugui, MD, MPhil, PhD
Associate Director for Student and Resident Education, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Research Interests: diabetes, endocrinology
Michael Fang, PhD, MHS
Department of Epidemiology
Research Interests: diabetes; national surveillance data; diagnosis; screening; wearable technology
Daniel E. Ford, MD, MPH
Director, Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical & Translational Research
Research Interests: pragmatic clinical trials; clinical research informatics; smoking cessation; improving efficiency and quality of clinical trials
Sherita H. Golden, MD, MHS
Hugh P. McCormick Family Professor of Endocrinology & Metabolism
Research Interests: diabetes mellitus; cardiovascular disease and endocrine epidemiology; inpatient diabetes health service research; mental health complications of diabetes; diabetes health disparities
Caitlin Hicks, MD, MS
Associate Fellowship Program Director, Vascular Surgery & Endovascular Therapy
Research Interests: clinical outcomes; aortic aneurysm; peripheral vascular disease; congenital aortic pathology; aberrant subclavian artery; aortic cortication; diabetic foot ulcer; high-value care; implementation science
Chidinma A. Ibe, PhD
Associate Director of Community Engagement, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity
Research Interests: cardiovascular health disparities; community-based interventions; community-engaged research; the role community health workers play in improving health; hypertension management; implementation science; patient-centered outcomes research
Junichi Ishigami, MD, PhD
Department of Epidemiology
Joint Appointment in Medicine
Research Interests: chronic kidney disease; cardiovascular disease; cardiorenal syndrome; infectious disease; vaccination
Nisa M. Maruthur, MD, MHS
Director, General Internal Medicine Fellowship Program
Director of Community Program Implementation, The Johns Hopkins Brancati Center for the Advancement of Community Care
Research Interests: diabetes prevention; type 2 diabetes; obesity; clinical trials
Kunihiro Matsushita, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Research Interests: epidemiology; cardiovascular disease; peripheral artery disease; kidney disease; hypertension; diabetes; obesity; adipokines; risk prediction
Michelle Ogunwole, MD, PhD
Research Interests: racial disparities in maternal health outcomes, postpartum and interpregnancy care, obesity, antiracism in health care
Eliana M. Perrin, MD, MPH
Department of Pediatrics
Schools of Medicine & Nursing
(Joint Appointment in the Bloomberg School of Public Health)
Johns Hopkins University
Research Interests: patient-oriented primary care; childhood obesity; health disparities research; injury prevention; health literacy; pragmatic clinical trials
Scott J. Pilla, MD, MHS
Research Interests: diabetes; hypoglycemia prevention; patient-physician communication; clinical trials
Tanjala S. Purnell, PhD, MPH, FASN
Joint Appointment in Surgery
DIRECTOR, CARDIOVASCULAR & CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY TRACK
Founder & Director, The B.O.L.D. (Building Opportunities for Lasting Discoveries) Health Equity Initiative
Research Interests: epidemiology and health services research related to kidney disease transplantation; health equity; cardiovascular disease, hypertension, obesity and diabetes
Casey Rebholz, PhD, MS, MNSP, MPH
Research Interests: cardiovascular disease and hypertension; kidney disease; biomarkers; omics; nutrition; nutritional epidemiology
Mary R. Rooney, PhD, MPH
Department of Epidemiology
Research interests: epidemiology; diabetes; biomarkers; cardiovascular disease; aging
Somnath Saha, MD, MPH
Research Interests: health equity; racial disparities in health care; workforce diversity; patient-clinician relationships; social determinants of health
Elizabeth Selvin, PhD, MPH
Professor of Epidemiology
Joint Appointment in Medicine
Research Interests: type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease; diagnostics and biomarkers for screening and diagnosis of diabetes and cardiovascular disease; optimizing approaches to screening and management of prediabetes and diabetes; interface of epidemiology and clinical and public health policy; wearable devices; continuous glucose monitoring
Jung-Im Shin, MD, MPH, MS, PhD
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Research Interests: pharmacoepidemiology; diabetes mellitus; chronic kidney disease; health disparities; cardiovascular disease
Valerie K. Sullivan, PhD, MHS, RDN
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Research Interests: nutrition; nutritional epidemiology; cardiovascular disease; kidney disease; omics
Eva Tseng, MD, MPH
Assistant Vice Chair for Women’s Careers in Academic Medicine, Department of Medicine
Research Interests: prevention and treatment of diabetes, obesity, and related conditions; translation of evidence-based care into clinical practice through pragmatic intervention studies
Maya S. Venkataramani, MD, MPH
Associate Director, Community Program Implementation, Johns Hopkins Brancati Center for the Advancement of Community Care
Research Interests: improving the delivery of primary care and preventive services to underserved and low-income communities through family-oriented, community-based approaches and studying the impacts of health-related policies across generations
Nae-Yuh Wang, PhD, MS
Director, Childhood Development After Cochlear Implantation Study Data Coordinating Center
Co-Director, Methods Core, The ALACRITY Center for Health and Longevity in Mental Illness
Research Interests: childhood development after pediatric cochlear implementation; improving health and wellbeing in people with mental illness; preventing postoperative delirium in surgical patients; evaluation of vestibular implantation in Bilateral Vestibular Hypofunction; lifestyle and health behavior interventions for proper body weight in pregnancy and among cancer survivor; clinical trials, longitudinal follow-up studies, EMR based health research
Hsin-Chieh "Jessica" Yeh, PhD
Director, GIM-Welch Center Methods Core
Research Interests: clinical trials of lifestyle intervention; epidemiology of obesity and diabetes, and their relationship with cancer