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CGHD Members

Primary Faculty

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    Douglas Brubaker, PhD

    Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Center for Global Health and Diseases, School of Medicine
    Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine
    Member, Developmental Therapeutics Program, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center
    Core Member, University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Blood, Heart, Lung and Immunology Research Center, School of Medicine

    Email: dkb50@case.edu

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    Adam Burgener, PhD

    Professor, Department of Pathology, School of Medicine
    Director, Center for Global Health and Diseases, School of Medicine
    Member, Population and Cancer Prevention Program, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center
    Adel Mahmoud Professorship of Global Health and Vaccines

    Email: axb1160@case.edu

    Phone: 216.368.2072

  • Christina Farr

    Christina Farr, PhD

    Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, School of Medicine
    Member, Center for Global Health and Diseases, School of Medicine
    Member, Population and Cancer Prevention Program, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center

    Email: cxf288@case.edu

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    James W. Kazura, MD

    Professor, Department of Pathology, School of Medicine
    Distinguished University Professor, School of Medicine
    Adel A. Mahmoud Professorship in Global Health and Vaccinology, Department of Pathology, School of Medicine
    Member, Center for Global Health & Diseases, School of Medicine

    Email: jxk14@case.edu

    Phone: 216.368.4810

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    Christopher L. King, MD, PhD

    Professor, Department of Pathology, School of Medicine
    Associate Professor, Department of Medicine
    Member, Center for Global Health and Diseases, School of Medicine

    Email: christopher.king@case.edu

    Phone: 216.368.4817

  • Stephanie Langel

    Stephanie Langel, PhD

    Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, School of Medicine
    Member, Center for Global Health and Diseases, School of Medicine

    Email: sxl2057@case.edu

    Phone: 216.368.0514

  • Gina Lewin

    Gina Lewin, PhD

    Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, School of Medicine
    Member, Center for Global Health and Diseases, School of Medicine

    Email: grl48@case.edu

    Phone: 216.368.1650

  • David Zidar

    David Zidar, MD, PhD

    Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, School of Medicine
    Member, Center for Global Health and Diseases, School of Medicine

    Email: daz21@case.edu

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    Peter A. Zimmerman, PhD

    Professor, Department of Pathology, School of Medicine
    Professor, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, School of Medicine
    Professor, Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences
    Member, Center for Global Health and Diseases, School of Medicine

    Email: peter.zimmerman@case.edu

    Phone: 216.368.0508

Secondary Faculty

  • Katherine Dobbs

    Katherine Dobbs, MD

    Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics
    Member, Center for Global Health and Diseases, School of Medicine

    Email: katherine.dobbs@case.edu

    Phone: 216.368.3681

  • Daniel J. Tisch, PhD

    Daniel J. Tisch, PhD, MPH

    Professor, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, School of Medicine
    Director, Master of Public Health Program
    Member, Center for Global Health and Diseases, School of Medicine
    Member of the Board of Directors, Association for Prevention Teaching and Research

    Email: daniel.tisch@case.edu

Other Members

  • Cynthia Beall

    Cynthia Beall, PhD

    Distinguished University Professor Emerita
    Sarah Idell Pyle Professor of Anthropology, College of Arts and Sciences
    Co-Director, Center for Research on Tibet, College of Arts and Sciences
    Elected Member, National Academy of Sciences
    Elected Member, American Philosophical Society
    Elected Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
    Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
    Member of the Board of Directors, American Association for the Advancement of Science
    Editor-in-Chief, Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health
    Member of the Editorial Board, American Journal of Human Biology: High Altitude, Medicine, and Biology

    Email: cynthia.beall@case.edu

    Phone: 216.368.2277

  • Alicia Berard

    Alicia Berard, PhD

    Adjunct Instructor, Department of Pathology, School of Medicine
    Member, Center for Global Health and Diseases, School of Medicine

    Email: axb1296@case.edu

    Phone:

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    W. Henry Boom, MD

    Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, School of Medicine
    Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases & HIV Medicine, School of Medicine
    Director, Tuberculosis Research Unit, School of Medicine

    Email: whb@case.edu

    Phone: 216.368.1949

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    Henri Brunengraber, MD, PhD

    Professor Emeritus, Department of Nutrition, School of Medicine
    Professor, Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine
    Member, Cancer Genomics and Epigenomics Program, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center

    Email: henri.brunengraber@case.edu

    Phone:

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    Stephen Carpenter, MD, PhD

    Assistant Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases & HIV Medicine, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine
    Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, School of Medicine

    Email: sxc1507@case.edu

    Phone: 216.368.4512

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    Miriam Cremer, MD, MPH

    Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine
    Member, Population and Cancer Prevention Program, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center
    Member, Center for Global Health and Diseases, School of Medicine

    Email: cremerm@ccf.org

    Phone:

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    Michael Freeman, PhD

    Assistant Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases & HIV Medicine, Center for AIDS Research, School of Medicine

    Email: mlf62@case.edu

    Phone: 216.368.1260

  • David Gurarie

    David Gurarie, PhD

    Professor, Department of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and Statistics, College of Arts and Sciences
    Member, Center for Global Health and Diseases

    Email: david.gurarie@case.edu

    Phone: 216.368.2857

  • Amy Hise

    Amy Hise, MD, MPH

    Professor, Department of Pathology, School of Medicine
    Member, Center for Global Health and Diseases, School of Medicine

    Email: amy.hise@case.edu

    Phone: 216.368.5036

  • John L. Johnson

    John L. Johnson, MD

    Professor, Tuberculosis Research Unit, School of Medicine
    Member, Center for Global Health and Diseases, School of Medicine

    Email: john.johnson@case.edu

    Phone: 216.844.2646

  • Emmitt Jolly

    Emmitt Jolly, PhD

    Associate Professor, Department of Biology, College of Arts and Sciences
    Member, Center for Global Health and Diseases, School of Medicine

    Email: emmitt.jolly@case.edu

    Phone: 216.368.2721

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    Jonathan Karn, PhD

    Professor and Chair, Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, School of Medicine
    Director, Case Center for AIDS Research
    Professor, Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine
    Member, Population and Cancer Prevention Program, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center

    Email: jonathan.karn@case.edu

    Phone: 216.368.3915

  • Desiree LaBeaud

    Desiree LaBeaud, MD

    Member, Center for Global Health and Diseases, School of Medicine
    Professor, Pediatrics, Stanford University

    Email: dlabeaud@stanford.edu

    Phone:

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    Suet Kam Lam, MD, MPH, MS, FAAP

    Founding Faculty Director, Global Health Pathway, School of Medicine
    Assistant Medical Director, Cleveland Clinic Breastfeeding Medicine Clinic
    Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine

    Email: Suet.Lam@case.edu

    Phone:

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    Sana Loue, JD, PhD, MPH, MSSA

    Professor, Department of Bioethics, School of Medicine
    Professor, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, School of Medicine
    Professor, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine
    Secondary Faculty, Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences
    Member, Center for Global Health and Diseases, School of Medicine

    Email: sana.loue@case.edu

    Phone: 216.368.3743

  • Indu Malhotra

    Indu Malhotra, PhD

    Adjunct Faculty, Department of Pathology, School of Medicine
    Member, Center for Global Health and Diseases, School of Medicine

  • Janet McGrath

    Janet McGrath, PhD

    Professor, Department of Anthropology
    Member, Center for Global Health and Diseases, School of Medicine

    Email: jwm6@case.edu

    Phone: 216.368.2287

  • Rajeev Mehlotra

    Rajeev Mehlotra, PhD

    Senior Research Associate, Department of Biological Sciences, School of Dental Medicine
    Member, Center for Global Health and Diseases, School of Medicine

    Email: rajeev.mehlotra@case.edu

    Phone: 216.368.6172

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    Roger Paredes, MD, PhD

    Head, Department of Infectious Diseases, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol
    Principal Investigator, Microbial Genomics, Institut de Recerca de la SIDA – irsiCaixa
    Associate Editor, Journal of Infectious Diseases
    Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, School of Medicine
    Member, Center for Global Health and Diseases, School of Medicine

  • Arsène Ratsimbasoa

    Arsène Ratsimbasoa, MD, PhD

    Adjunct Professor, Department of Pathology, School of Medicine
    Member, Center for Global Health and Diseases, School of Medicine
    Director, Reform of Higher Education and Research, Ministry of Higher Education and Research - Madagascar

  • Charles Kent Smith, MD

    Professor, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, School of Medicine
    Member, Center for Global Health and Diseases, School of Medicine

    Email: cks@case.edu

    Phone:

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    James H. Swain, PhD, RDN, LD, FAND

    Professor, Department of Nutrition, School of Medicine
    Director, Didactic Program in Dietetics, School of Medicine
    Secondary Faculty Appointments in Department of Environmental Health Sciences and Center for Global Health and Disease, School of Medicine
    Member, Center for Global Health and Diseases, School of Medicine

    Email: james.swain@case.edu

    Phone: 216.368.8554

Emeritus Faculty 

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    Charles H. King, MD

    Professor Emeritus, Department of Pathology
    Member, Center for Global Health and Diseases, School of Medicine

    Email: chk@cwru.edu

    Phone: 216.368.3667

  • Michael Lederman

    Michael Lederman, MD

    Professor Emeritus, Department of Pathology, School of Medicine
    Member, Center for Global Health and Diseases, School of Medicine