PHS Welcomes Dr. Youngji Jo
Youngji Jo, PhD, joins us as an assistant professor from the Boston University Clinical HIV/AIDS Research Training Program, Boston Medical Center. She has studied infectious diseases such as TB and HIV in the US and internationally, using statistical modeling to assess cost effectiveness of interventions and inform policy decisions.
PHS Welcomes Dr. Wenqi Gan
Wenqi Gan, MD, PhD will join as an associate professor, coming to us from the Data and Analytic Services, BC Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, BC, Canada where he has been a lead statistician. He has applied his skills to a wide range of epidemiological data and will serve as a biostatistics resource for the medical school with an office up the hill, but his appointment is in our department. He will have 30% of his time available to pursue research of his own initiative.
PHS Welcomes Dr. Brian Reichow
Dr. Reichow’s current research interests include the translation of research to practice, the use of systematic review methods and meta-analytic methods to identify evidence-based practices, and applied research involving young children with or at risk of developing disabilities and their families.
PHS Welcomes Dr. Ellis Dillon
Dr. Dillon is an Assistant Professor in the Center on Aging with a faculty appointment in the Department of Public Health Services. She is a sociologist and health services researcher who works closely with the Center on Aging team focused on evaluation of innovations in Connecticut Department of Social Services policy and programs for older adults and people with disabilities. She uses mixed methods and qualitative research to evaluate how to improve serious illness care and experience for patients and families, especially in the areas of hospice and palliative care, psychosocial care, and shared decision making. Her research also commonly focuses on access to and delivery of mental health care and the psychosocial well-being of patients, families, clinicians and other healthcare workers.
PHS Welcomes Dr. Bing Lu, MD, DrPH
Dr. Lu is a new professor with tenure who was recruited from the Department of Medicine of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School where he served as the director of biostatistics for the Section of Clinical Sciences, and an associate professor of medicine at Harvard. He also previously worked at Brown University. His research expertise is design and analysis of clinical trials and observational studies, epidemiology and outcomes research in chronic diseases including rheumatic diseases, osteoarthritis, and cardiovascular diseases. He brings with him two active NIH RO1 grants.
PHS Welcomes Dr. Misti Levy Zamora
Dr. Levy Zamora received her Ph.D. degree from Texas A&M University in Atmospheric Chemistry and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Environmental Health and Engineering. She has a broad background in laboratory, indoor, and ambient air pollution data collection and analysis, with a focus on understanding how exposures impact health. She employs both traditional air monitoring techniques and has helped develop and deploy cutting-edge, low-cost technologies.