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Hussam Mohammed Alqahtani, PhD
Program: Clinical Translational Science
Advisors: Siran Koroukian, PhD and James Spilsbury, PhD
Dissertation: Investigating the Association Between Complex Multimorbidity and Periodontal Disease: An Analysis of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
Currently: Assistant Professor of Periodontics and Clinical Data Science Researcher, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences
Haimeng Bai, PhD
Program: Systems Biology and Bioinformatics
Advisor: William S. Bush, PhD
Dissertation: Exploring the Effect of a Haptoglobin Structural Variant on Neurocognitive Phenotypes Using Computational Approaches
Currently: Bioinformatics Scientist, Vanda Pharmaceuticals
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.
Weicong Chen, PhD
Program: Computing and Information Science
Advisor: Curtis Tatsuoka, PhD
Dissertation: High-performance and Scalable Bayesian Group Testing and Real-time fMRI Data Analysis
Currently: Postdoc Research Scholar at the Parallel and Distributed Systems Laboratory (PADSYS Lab), one of the labs in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of California, Merced.
Gwendolyn 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
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
Britney Graham, PhD
Program: Systems Biology
Advisor: Scott Williams, PhD
Currently: Postdoctoral Scientist, Cedars-Sinai
Vanessa Phillis Ho, MD, MPH, PhD, FACS
Program: Clinical Translational Science
Advisor: Siran Koroukian, PhD
Dissertatiion: Worse than Death? The Older Patient and Long-Term Outcomes after Emergency General Surgery
Currently: Associate Professor, Departments of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, Case Western Reserve University (CWRU)
Faculty, Center for Health Equity, Engagement, Education, and Research within the Population Health and Equity Research Institute (PHERI), The MetroHealth System
Medical Director of the Trauma Recovery Center, Institute for H.O.P.E, The MetroHealth System
Director of Trauma Research, Department of Surgery, Division of Trauma, Critical Care, Emergency General Surgery, and Burns
Olivia Marie Hogue, PhD
Program: Clinical Translational Science
Dissertation: Statistical Practice in Preclinical Neurosciences: Implications for Successful Translation of Research Evidence from Animals to Humans
Currently: Assistant Staff, Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Cleveland Clinic
Bowen Jin, PhD
Program: Systems Biology and Bioinformatics
Advisor: William S. Bush, PhD
Dissertation: Transcriptome-Wide Study of Transcriptional Kinetics in Human Cells
Currently: Postdoctoral Researcher, Brigham and Women's Hospital
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
Uriel Kim, PhD, MBA
Program: Clinical Translational Science
Kim's dissertation looked at the impact of the Affordable Care Act on cancer outcomes in individuals from low-income communities.
Currently: Completing the MD portion of the combined degree Medical Scientist Training Program here at CWRU.
Carli Jessica Lehr, MD, PhD
Program: Clinical Translational Science
Dissertation: Updating Risk Predictions for Lung Transplant Candidates Bridged with Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Using Novel National Data
Currently: Staff pulmonologist at the Respiratory Institute and assistant professor of Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, specializing in transplant medicine.
Morgan K. McGrath, PhD
Program: Clinical Translational Sciences
Advisor: Jill Barnholtz Sloan, PhD
Currently: Completing the MD portion of the combined degree Medical Scientist Training Program here at CWRU.
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
Anna Miller, PhD
Program: Genetic and Genome Sciences
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.
Jasmine Olvany, PhD
Program: Genetics and Genome Sciences
Advisor: Scott Williams, PhD
Currently: Research Project Manager in Stroke Intervention Trials at Mercy Health
Michael David Osterman, PhD
Program: Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Advisor: Jonathan L. Haines, PhD
Dissertation: Refining the Use of Polygenic Risk Scoresfor Alzheimer Disease in Diverse and Founder Populations
Currently: Assistant Director of Epidemiology at Epividian, Inc.
Ryan Nazemian, MD, PhD
Program: Clinical Translational Science, CRSP Program
Advisor: Johnie Rose, MD, PhD
Dissertation: Monitoring Nitric Oxide Bioactivitiy, Tissue Oxygenation and Blood Flow in Neurologically-Diseased (DNC) Organ Donors
Currently: Anesthesiologist, Lahey Hospital & Medical Center
Sarah Diane Ronis, MD, PhD
Program: Clinical Translational Science
Advisor: Kurt Stange, MD
Dissertation: Engagement for Impact in Social Risk Screening and Intervention
Currently: Director of the University Hospitals Rainbow Center for Child Health & Policy and Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Wayne Mark Tsuang, MD, PhD, MHS
Program: Clinical Translational Science
Advisor: Johnie Rose, MD, PhD
Dissertation: Towards Translational Geospatial Medicine in Lung Transplantation
Currently: Staff physician in the Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and Associate Professor at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine