Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health
Office of Physician-Scientist Development
Third Year Mentor - Clinical Research Study Program (CRSP)
Third Year Mentor - Epidemiology and Public Health Study Program (EPH)
Third Year Mentor - Global Health Study Program (GHSP)
Third Year Mentor - Primary Care Leadership Track (PCLT)
Campus mail:
2200 W. Main Street (Old Wachovia Bldg) Room 622, Durham, NC 27710
Phone:
(919) 660-0331
Chronic disease epidemiology; obesity; health services research; population health; public health; social medicine; health information systems; health surveys; programme evaluation; clinical trials; aging; nutrition; dementia; Global Health
Education and Training
- University of Bergen (Norway), M.D. 1979
- Harvard University , M.P.H. 1983
Selected Grants and Awards
- Duke Women's Reproductive Health Research Scholars
- Duke Creating ADRD Researchers for the Next Generation - Stimulating Access to Research in Residency Program (CARiNG-StARR)"
- Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health
- Maternal obesity, child executive functions and child weight gain
- RAPID: Poirot: From Contact Tracing to Private Exposure Detection
- Capacity Building for Sickle Cell Disease Surveillance in North Carolina (Component A)
- Evaluation of SAS Worksite Health Center
- Early child care and risk of obesity
- The Business of Childcare Homes and Child Health: Innovations for Nurturing Growth
- Preventing obesity in infants and toddlers in child care
- Early child care and risk of obesity
- Teen CHAT:Improving physician communication with adolescents about healthy weight
- Steps to Health: Targeting Obesity in the Health Care Workplace
- Preventing obesity in infants and toddlers in child care
- Evaluation of SAS Worksite Health Center
- FitFab 4 Survivors
- The Sri Lanka Healthy Minds Study
- KAN-DO: A Family-Based Intervention to Prevent Childhood Obesity
- Epidemiology of Dementia in Cache County, Utah (Bridge-Funding Request)
- Epidemiology of Dementia in Cache County, Utah
- Obesity Prevention in Early Childhood
- PREMIER Mental Health Interventions Training Program
- Obesity as a Barrier to Patient-Physician Communication
- Promoting Postpartum Weight Loss in Overweight Women
- Surveillance Methods for Health Care and Related Workers
- Residency Training in Family Medicine No. 93.884A