Ph.D.      University of Texas Medical Branch

M. B. A.  University of Texas at Austin

B. A.      University of Texas at Austin

Current responsibilities as Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health are to provide leadership, direction and support to the faculty, staff and students of the Department.  The Department has seven Divisions including: Sociomedical Sciences, Environmental Toxicology, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Human Nutrition, Clinical Preventive Medicine, Medical Humanities, International Health and Institutional and Correctional Health.  The Department has teaching responsibilities in the School of Medicine in the first, second and fourth years of the curriculum and is responsible for residency programs in General Preventive Medicine, Aerospace Medicine, Occupational Medicine and a combined Internal Medicine/Preventive Medicine program; in addition the departmental faculty administer eight distinct curricula within the graduate program in Preventive Medicine and Community Health through the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences.  The Department maintains investigative programs in each of its divisions.  The Department maintains a variety of service programs both inside the University and in the external community. 

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND INTERESTS:

Health services and systems research

Evaluation and development of statistical and research methods in biomedical and health investigations

Evaluative research

"Goodness of Fit" tests

Non-Parametric tests for the equality of location parameters

Non-Parametric measures of association