Epidemiology & Biostatistics PhD Program Graduates

Wyatt Peter Bensken, PhD

Program: Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Advisor: Siran Koroukian, PhD

Dissertation: Disparities and Inequities in Health, HealthCare, and Outcomes for People Living with Epilepsy

Currently: Research Investigator at OCHIN, Inc. and Adjunct Faculty here in PQHS. Link to Dr. Bensken's website here.

Benjamin Booker, PhD

Program: Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Advisor: Jennifer Cullen, PhD, MPH

Dissertation: Insomnia Symptoms and Associated Outcomes Among Men With Advanced Prostate Cancer

Zuxi Cui, PhD

Program: Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Advisor: Fredrick R. Schumacher, PhD, MPH

Dissertation: Assessing Genetic Imputation Quality and its Application in Rare Variant Analysis for Genome-Wide Association Studies: A Simulation-Powered Approach

Gwendolyn Ann Roberdeau Donley, PhD

Program: Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Dissertation: The Role of Perception and Crisis in Food Environments, Vaccine Acceptance, and Financial Stress

Currently: Postdoctoral National Poverty Fellow with the Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Shuo Fang, PhD

Program: Epidemiology and Biostatistics

PhD conferred 01/15/2021

India Jarita Gill, PhD, MPH

Program: Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Dissertation: Investigating the Neighborhood Context of Racial Inequities in Child Ashtm Emergency Healthcare

Currently: Postdoctoral Fellow, Social Interventions Research and Evaluation Network, University of California San Francisco

Jesus Gutierrez, PhD

Program: Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Advisor: Catherine M. Stein, PhD

Dissertation: Epidemiological Factors Associated with Acute Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Infection and Active Disease

Emily Hannon, PhD

Program: Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Advisors: Diane Dowd, PhD, Alex Yee-Chen Huang, MD, PHD, James Kazura, MD, and Scott Williams, PhD

Dissertatiion: Assessing Heterogneity in the Immune Response Against Malaria in African Children

Currently: Emily is working on the MD component of the Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) - an MD/PhD combined degree program.

Karen Yingyi He, PhD

Program: Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Degree conferred 01/17/2020

Kakul Joshi, PhD, MPH

Program: Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Advisor: Erika Trapl, PhD

Dissertation: Food Banking during COVID-19: Understanding Food Sourcing, Quality, and Factors Influencing Healthier Food Inventory

Currently: Senior Evaluator, Professional Data Analysts

Youjun Li, PhD

Program: Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Advisor: Jeffrey M. Albert, PhD

PhD conferred 01/19/2024

Yiying Liu, PhD

Program: Epidemiology & Biostatistics

PhD conferred 05/17/2020

Noah Jeffery Lorincz-Comi, PhD

Program: Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Advisor: Xiaofeng Zhu, PhD

Dissertation: Developing and Applying New Tools to Study Complex Disease Risk

Michael Lyon McHenry, PhD

Program: Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Dissertation: Genomic and Co-Evolutionary Determinants of Clinical Severity in Active Tuberculosis Patients

Currently: Housestaff, Division of Medicine Administration, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Elina Misicka, PhD

Program: Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Dissertation: Understanding Genetic Drivers of Age at Onset and Risk Conferred by Obesity in Multiple Sclerosis

Currently: Postdoctoral Fellow, Neuroimmunological Disorders Gene-Environment Epidemiology Lab, Department of Population & Quantitative Health Sciences, CWRU.