Faculty and Staff
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Latifa S. Abdelli, MS, Ph.D.
Lecturer
Health Sciences
Location: HS II
Room: 208
E-mail: [email protected]
Areas of Specialty:
- Stem cells in tissue repair and regeneration
- Role of Gut-Brain axis in health and disease
Alexandra Barraza-Oliphant
Administrative Assistant II
Health Sciences
Location: HS II
Room: 210E
E-mail: [email protected]
Keith Brazendale, Ph.D., MS
Assistant Professor
Health Sciences
Location: HS II
Room: 210A
E-mail: [email protected]
Areas of Specialty:
- Childhood Obesity
- Physical Activity
- Sedentary Behavior
- sleep
Steven Burroughs, MS, RDN, LDN, CDN
Instructor
Health Sciences
Location: HS II
E-mail: [email protected]
Areas of Specialty:
- Critical Care Nutrition Support
- Energy and Protein Metabolism and Regulation
- Nutritional Management of Chronic Diseases
Cheryl Cavaliere, Ph.D., MS, RDN, LDN
Lecturer
Health Sciences
Location: HS II
Room: 210K
E-mail: [email protected]
Areas of Specialty:
- Nutrition for Prenatal and Lactating Women
- Nutrition for Children and Infants
- Plant-Based Nutrition for Chronic Disease Prevention
- Stress and Emotional Eating
- Strategies for Resolving Food Insecurity
- Food and Exercise as Medicine
Katia Ferdowsi, MD, MPH
Lecturer
Health Sciences
Location: HS II
Room: 210J
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 407-823-1446
Areas of Specialty:
- Disease prevention
- Public Health
- common and preventable diseases in youth
- Global Health
Martha Garcia-Stout, PharmD, JD
Lecturer
Health Sciences
Location: HS II
Room: 214
E-mail: [email protected]
Shante Jeune, Ph.D., RDN
Assistant Professor
Health Sciences
Location: HS II
Room: 209
E-mail: [email protected]
Areas of Specialty:
- Nutrition Education
- Eating Behaviors
- Self-regulation and Cognitive Skills
Gail Kauwell, Ph.D., RDN, LDN, FAND
Department Chair, Professor
Health Sciences
Location: HS II
Room: 210C
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 407-823-0782
Areas of Specialty:
- Folate and vitamin B12 requirements and metabolism
- Nutrient-gene interactions/epigenetic alterations and disease risk
Yen-Han Lee, Ph.D., MPH
Assistant Professor
Health Sciences
Location: HS II
Room: 218
E-mail: [email protected]
Areas of Specialty:
- Substance Use
- Global Health
- Health disparities
- Geriatric health
- Secondary Data Analysis
Eunkyung “Muriel” Lee, Ph.D., RDN
Assistant Professor
Health Sciences
Location: HS II
Room: 213
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 407-823-3365
Areas of Specialty:
- Evaluation of cancer treatment using the patient-reported outcomes research and comparative effectiveness research approaches
- Interrelationship among adjuvant radiotherapy, comorbidity, survival, and health-related quality of life among older women with breast cancer
- Evaluation of healthy behaviors among cancer survivors utilizing the National Health and Nutrition Survey (NHANES) data
- Evaluation of interventions in improving quality of life among cancer survivors
Humberto Lopez Castillo, MD, Ph.D., CPH, CMI-Spanish
Assistant Professor
Health Sciences
Location: HS II
Room: 217
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 407-823-3012
Areas of Specialty:
- Alcohol use and abuse
- Risky sexual behaviors
- Cardiovascular health
- Sexual minority populations
- Secondary data analyses
- Sexual and reproductive health
A’Naja Newsome, Ph.D., ACSM-CEP
Lecturer
Health Sciences
Location: HS II
Room: 210H
E-mail: [email protected]
Areas of Specialty:
- Clinical Exercise Physiology
- Exercise Psychology
- Physical Activity Epidemiology
- Research Measurement
Erin Rolle, PT, DPT, NCS
Internship Experiences Coordinator II
Health Sciences
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 407-823-4096
Michael J. Rovito, Ph.D., MA, CHES
Associate Professor
Health Sciences
Location: HS II
Room: 215
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 407-823-3888
Areas of Specialty:
- Cancer Survivorship
- Testicular Cancer
- Quality of Life
- Men's health
- Public Health
Suha Saleh, Ph.D.
Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Affairs, Associate Professor
Dean's Office, Health Sciences
Location: HS I
Suite: 365
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 407-823-6761
Areas of Specialty:
- Health education
- College student health
- Eye disorders and diabetes
Joy D. Scheidell, Ph.D., MPH
Assistant Professor
Health Sciences
Location: HS II
Room: 219
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 407-823-3004
Areas of Specialty:
- Substance Use
- Sexual and reproductive health
- Harm reduction
- Health inequities
- Epidemiologic methods
Danielle Webster, Ph.D.
Associate Lecturer
Health Sciences
Location: HS II
Room: 216
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 407-823-2550
L. Timothy Worrell, BS, MPH, RRT
Instructor
Health Sciences
Location: HS II
Room: 212
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 407-823-5236
Areas of Specialty:
- History of cardiology
- Hemodynamic monitoring of the critically ill patient
- Invasive cardiovascular diagnostic techniques
- Non-invasive cardiovascular diagnostic techniques
