Paula Cupertino, PhD
Associate Director, Community Outreach & Engagement
Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences and Wilmot Cancer Center
Francisco Cartujano, MD
Assistant Director, Community Outreach & Engagement
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences
Tobacco control, minority health disparities
Charles S. Kamen, PhD, MPH
Assistant Director, Community Outreach & Engagement
Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, Cancer Control
Cancer disparities, LGBTQ+ communities health disparities
COE Team
Xeuya Cai, PhD
Research Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology
Statistics, community health promotion
Arlette Chavez Iniguez, MD
Staff Scientist
Tobacco cessation, vaping prevention, minority health disparities
Marlene Elliott
Designated Interpreter to Wyatte C. Hall, PhD
American Sign Language, deaf culture, and interpreting
Kristina Hawes
Community Recruitment Coordinator
Community outreach
Yechu Hua, PhD(c)
PhD Candidate, Health Services Research and Policy
Data informatics and visualization
Trainees
Evelyn Arana, DrPH
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences
Cancer survivorship, rural, older adult health disparities
Nikesha Gilmore, PhD
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, Cancer Control
Prostate cancer, fatigue
Abdi T. Gudina, PhD
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, Cancer Control
Health disparities, lung cancer screening
Wyatte C. Hall, PhD
Research Assistant Professor, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Pediatrics, Public Health Sciences, and Neurology
Health disparities, language deprivation, deaf communities
Candice Lucas, Ed.D., M.B.A.
Chief Community Impact Officer
Community outreach and engagement
Emily Hayes, M.P.A.
Program Manager, Community Outreach & Engagement
Internal project management
Zhanna Kulshanova
Outreach Coordinator, Community Outreach & Engagement
Community outreach and engagement
Sarah Merritt
Rural Community Outreach Coordinator
Primary prevention, rural outreach
Laura Molina
Human Subject Research Coordinator | Community Outreach
Tobacco cessation
Michele Tufano
Cancer Services Program Director, Community Health Educator, Center for Community Health and Prevention
Cancer screenings, uninsured and underinsured community
Reza Yousefi Nooraie, PhD, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences
Social network analysis, dissemination and implementation science
Ruthmarie Hernandez Torres, PhD
CTSI TL1 Population Health Research Postdoc
Smoking cessation, risk factors and mobile engagement in Hispanic/Latino smokers
José G. Pérez Ramos, MPH, PhD
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pediatrics, Public Health Sciences,
Environmental health, global health
Katherine Reith, M.D., M.A.
Assistant Professor, Department of Otolaryngology (SMD)
Health disparities, global health/surgery, cultural and medical anthropology, marginalized populations and the theoretical framework of political economy applied to surgical care and otolaryngologic issues, such as head and neck cancer