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Elizabeth Brownell has an undergraduate degree in anthropology and a M.A. in social anthropology. Elizabeth is a doctoral candidate conducting research among breastfeeding women. Her dissertation will assess the effect of early postpartum Depo Provera receipt on breastfeeding outcomes. Other interests include: reproductive epidemiology, maternal child health and pharmacoepidemiology.
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Natalia Golub is an M.D. / Ph.D. student in the Department of Community and Preventive Medicine. Natalia is in her first year of the Epidemiology PhD program. Her mentor is Edwin VanWijngaarden. Her research interests include disparities in access to and quality of healthcare, refugee health, preventive medicine, and pediatrics.
Megan Herr received a B.S. in Natural Science Individualized Studies with minors in Chemistry and Biology from Daemen College in May 2009. Megan is a first year doctoral student in the epidemiology program.
Claire Hoffmire graduated Summa cum Laude with a B.S. in Cell and Developmental Biology in 2006 from the University of Rochester. Claire is a doctoral candidate with a pre-doctoral fellowship in preventive cardiology. She is working on her dissertation, entitled “The Relationships between Sleep Disturbances, Autism Co-Morbidity, Emotional and Behavioral Problems, and Medical Characteristics among Children with Down Syndrome in New York State.” Claire’s research interests are broad and include sleep, pediatrics, and women’s health, with an emphasis on preventive cardiology and cardiovascular risk within these fields.
Courtney M. C. Jones, MPH graduated summa cum laude from SUNY Brockport in 2005 as a Health Science and Psychology double-major. Before entering the epidemiology doctoral program, Courtney completed her MPH at the University of Rochester in 2008. During this time she also worked as the Health Project Coordinator for a multi-center study which sought to evaluate the American College of Surgeons trauma triage criteria. Courtney's current research interests include the epidemiology of traumatic injuries, with a particular interest in geriatric injury epidemiology and the injury epidemiology of motor vehicle collisions.
Lisa Kakinami received a BA in Psychology from UCLA in 2002 and is currently a pre-doctoral fellow in Preventive Cardiology. Her dissertation is assessing the risk of cardiovascular disease in people with HIV and Hepatitis C. Her other research interests include the community's readiness for an HIV vaccine, and the utility of new technologies to prevent cardiovascular disease.
Roni Kobrosly was raised in Austin, TX and received a B.A. from Rice University in Houston. In 2008 heI graduated from the University of Michigan's M.P.H. program with a focus in Epidemiology. Roni is currently a PhD candidate in the Epidemiology program. His two primary interests include environmental health relating to heavy metals and the social and economic determinants of health. In his spare time he wonders why it is that he seems to be moving to progressively colder and colder environments!
Denisse B. Licón, MPH, CHES graduated with honors as a Psychology major, minoring in Community Health Education and Forensic Sciences at New Mexico State University in 2003. Denisse completed her MPH in 2005 with a minor in Experimental Statistics at New Mexico State University. She then worked for the New Mexico Department of Health as a Health Educator for the Immunizations Program before entering the PhD program in Epidemiology here at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. Denisse's current research interests include infectious disease epidemiology and immunizations with a focus on HPV and the HPV vaccine.
In 2006, Lauren Parlett received her B.S. in Cellular and Molecular Biology from Johns Hopkins University. Before coming to Rochester, she worked as a laboratory technician in two yeast labs at Hopkins. Currently, Lauren is a doctoral candidate working in the Center for Reproductive Epidemiology in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Her dissertation topic is not yet fully formulated, but will integrate her research interests which include environmental epidemiology and women's health.
Erin Philbrick completed her undergraduate studies at University of Rochester in 2009 with a double major in Biology and Health and Society. Erin is a doctoral student with a concentration yet to be decided. Her hobbies include watching baseball, doing crosswords and KenKens and reading mystery/suspense novels.
Kimberly Schmitt has a B.A. from the College of the Holy Cross and an MPH from the University of Rochester. She is a second year student in the Epidemiology Program and is interested in health disparities as they relate to environmental epidemiology and social determinants of health.
Emelian Scosyrev received a MS in Clinical Laboratory Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham a BS in Medical Technology, University of Alabama at Birmingham. Emelian is a doctoral candidate with research interests in cancer epidemiology. His dissertation topic: “The effect of neo-adjuvant platinum-based combination chemotherapy on pathological down-staging and survival of patients with locally advanced urothelialcarcinoma of the bladder.”
Jyoti Shankar is a physician by training. Her dissertation research focuses on the interaction between endocrine signaling pathways and the immune system in breast cancer patients. Her research interests include molecular and evolutionary epidemiology of cancer, immune modulation and endocrinology.
Adam Simning graduated in 2005 from Pomona College, CA, with a degree in Molecular Biology. Adam is a member of University of Rochester’s M.D./Ph.D. Program and is conducting his dissertation on anxiety and depression among elderly public housing residents. He is planning to pursue an academic career in Geriatric Psychiatry. His hobbies involve reading at libraries or bookstores, yard “work,” and visiting parks with his wife.”
Kathleen Spellane received a B.A. in Economics from LeMoyne College and an MBA from the University of Rochester. Prior to entering the PhD program in Epidemiology, Kathleen worked in management capacities in treasury and corporate finance in both the computer and utility industries. Currently, Kathleen is a doctoral candidate whose research interests include the role of exercise in disease prevention and the comparative effectiveness of medical therapies in the context of disease prevention.
Vanessa Stevens received her BS in Microbiology in 2004 at the University of Rochester and is currently a 6th year doctoral candidate. Vanessa has served on the Executive Board of the Society for Epidemiologic Research Student Caucus for the past 3 years. Her main areas of interest are infectious disease epidemiology and pharmacoepidemiology. She anticipates the completion of her thesis, which is entitled “Antibiotic Exposure and Risk of Clostridium difficile-Associated Disease”, within the next 6 months.
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