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Current
Students
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Anita Nash
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Noe
Perez, M.A.
 Noe
Perez holds a Master of Arts degree at the University of Houston with a
major in Sociology. Mr. Perez received his Bachelor of Arts degree in
Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. His research interests
involve diabetes risk factors as well as management behavior. Mr.
Perez’s prior research has focused upon the effects of stress, social
support, and depression upon glycemic control among Mexican diabetics.
Currently, he is investigating the role of health behaviors and
co-morbidities upon diabetes management. Mr. Perez has also recently
completed a two year position as a pre-doctoral fellow at the Sealy
Center on Aging.
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Kristin
Sheffield
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Recent
Graduates
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Ivonne
Berges, Ph.D.
 Ivonne
Berges holds a Ph.D. in Preventive Medicine and Community Health.
She is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Allied
Health Sciences, Division of Rehabilitation Sciences, at the
University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas. She
received the UTMB Scholar Award "Building Interdisciplinary Research
Careers in Women's Health (BIRCHW). She is a member of the
Clinical Research Scholars Program at UTMB. Her current
research focuses on stroke outcomes research in older ethnically
diverse populations.
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Flora
Dallo, Ph.D.
 Flora
Dallo completed a double major in Biology and Middle Eastern Studies at
the University of Michigan. Ms. Dallo received her MPH in Epidemiology
at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. Ms. Dallo is
currently appointed as an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the
University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas Texas. She is currently working
on several manuscripts related to diabetes, Arab American health, and
health disparities. She was awarded a Robert Wood Johnson New
Connections Initiative Grant from 9-1-2006 to 8-31-2007, where she
analyzed data from the Survey on Disparities in Quality of Health Care:
Spring 2001 examining the association between nativity status and
quality of patient-physician interactions, specifically for Hispanics
and Asians. She is also in the process of applying for two NIH grants,
one focused on health disparities in diabetes and one focused on
translational research in diabetes. She will be teaching two courses,
Introduction to Epidemiology and Health Disparities in Public Health in
Fall 2007.
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Meredith Masel, Ph.D., L.M.S.W.
 Meredith Masel holds a Master of
Science degree at the University of Texas at Austin with a major in
Social Work Administration and Planning. Ms. Masel received her
Bachelor of Science degree at Louisiana State University with a major in
Human Services Management. Ms. Masel entered the PhD program with
a strong desire to gain the foundation of knowledge needed to pursue a
career in health and mental health research and teaching at the
University level. Currently, she is conducting research on the health
behaviors of older Mexican Americans, and she is a graduate assistant to
researchers studying the health concordance of older Mexican American
couples.
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Kushang V.
Patel, Ph.D., M.P.H.
 Kushang
Patel received a PhD in Preventive Medicine and Community Health in
2004 and completed postdoctoral training at the National Institute
on Aging in 2007. He is now a Research Scientist in the Laboratory
of Epidemiology, Demography, and Biometry at NIA/NIH. His research
investigates various exposures in relation to disability and
mortality in older adults.
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Punita
K. Sunder,
Ph.D.
Punita Sunder received her Ph.D. from the
Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health in 2006 and
double B.A. degrees in Biology and Anthropology from Rice University
(Houston, Texas) in 2002. Her research interests focus on high risk
behaviors among adolescents and young adults, particularly on predictors
of trajectories of risk profiles among adolescent subgroups. While at
UTMB, she studied contextual and individual-level predictors of
substance use among low income women, and adolescent girls’
communication with their mothers regarding potential topical
microbicides (used to prevent pregnancy and to protect against STDs).
Ms. Sunder is currently in training to become a physician at the Baylor
College of Medicine in Houston, Texas.
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John Fred Thomas,
Ph.D., M.S.
Dr. John F. “Fred” Thomas is a Program Director/Analyst/Consultant
with the Office of Community Health Services.
He is the primary investigator responsible for the Robert
Wood Johnson Local Initiative Funding Program, “Telemedicine in GISD
Schools for Children’s Mental Health”. He is was recently funded
for and is the primary investigator
for the President's Cabinet-funded, "Depression Psychoeducation,
Screening and Referral to Services in Galveston Schools" and
is involved in numerous other community based research projects and
outreach efforts. In addition to his research responsibilities, Dr.
Thomas serves as the coordinator for a UTMB Ambulatory Community
Selective course designed to provide advanced medical students with
a community-based learning opportunity on the art and practice of
medicine in a community setting. He has been a member of the UTMB
community since 2002. Dr. Thomas is also a Licensed Clinical Social
Worker and serves as field faculty for the University of Houston
College of Graduate Social Work.
Dr. Thomas was born in Lubbock, Texas. He completed his Bachelor of
Business Administration degree in Finance in 1982 at Texas State
University in San Marcos. He went on to complete a Master of Social
Work at the University of Texas in 1995. After completing his LCSW
he spent time as an executive director of a community-based
non-profit agency providing clinical services and had a private
practice as a clinician specializing in child and family
assessments. He completed his doctoral work at UTMB in the Graduate
School of Biomedical Sciences in Preventive Medicine and Community
Health with a focus in Psychiatric Epidemiology.
Areas of
expertise include depressive symptomatology and comorbidity issues;
mental health services to underserved populations; and,
community-based participatory research.
Current memberships in scientific societies include the
Gerontological Society of America, the Society for Social Work and
Research, American Public Health Association, and the Texas Public
Health Association. He currently serves as Chair of the Galveston
Children Youth Development Board, Galveston Independent School
District Educational Foundation Board and is active on a number of
other community organization boards.
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