Mentoring Faculty
| Professional Headshot | Name & Affiliation | Research Focus & Funding | Mentoring Background |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Soham Al Snih, MD, PhD (UTMB) Professor, Population Health & Health Disparities | Aging, frailty, and functional decline; health disparities and aging in Hispanics; chronic disease and multimorbidity in older adults (obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular); physical activity, mobility, and fall risk in older adults. | R03 (PI), R01 (PI), mentors pre-doc, MD fellows, and MS students |
 | Jacqueline L. Angel, PhD (UT Austin) Wilbur J. Cohen Professor of Health and Social Policy and Professor of Sociology | Dementia and community care, health trajectories among Latinos, health care coverage | R01, P30, Mentor R13 (PI) emerging scholars and early career investigators, undergraduate and graduate students; mentoring award recipient: 2023 GSA James Jackson Outstanding Mentorship Award and 2020 American Sociological Association, Outstanding Mentor Award |
 | Abbey Berenson, MD, PhD (UTMB) Professor | Obstetrics & Gynecology Women’s cancer prevention | K12 (PI) Women’s health, Mentors junior faculty, post-doc, and research fellows |
 | James S. Goodwin, MD (UTMB) Professor, Geriatrics & Palliative Medicine | Comparative effectiveness research, barriers to health care delivery | R01 (PI), K05 (PI), CPRIT grant (PI) PI CPRIT grant with mentoring of junior clinical investigators, former PI of P30 and T32 |
 | Yong-Fang Kuo, PhD (UTMB) Professor & Chair, Biostatistics and Data Science Biostatistics | Comparative effectiveness research | 2 R01’s (PI), T32 (PI), CPRIT (PI) AHRQ T32 PI, mentor junior faculty, pre- and post-doc students, fellows |
 | Elizabeth Lyons, PhD, MPH (UTMB) Associate Professor & Chair ad Interim, Nutrition and Metabolism | Technology to improve physical activity | mHealth, R21 (PI), ACS grant (PI), R01 pending (PI) Mentors PhD students, postdoctoral fellows, and junior faculty |
 | Kyriakos Markides, PhD (UTMB) Professor, Population Health & Health Disparities | Aging and health in the Mexican American population, minority aging | P30 (PI), R01 (PI), T32 (PI) RCMAR PI, mentors junior faculty, pre- and post-doc students/fellows |
 | Emily Nicklett, PhD (UTSA), Associate Professor, Social Work and Public Health | Minority aging, social gerontology, chronic disease, health promotion, CBPR approaches | (NIH, AHRQ, RWJF) Mentors junior faculty, pre- and postdoctoral fellows |
 | Amelie Ramirez, PhD (UTHSCSA), Professor and Chair, Population Health Sciences Population health | Cancer, social determinants of health, clinical trials, health communications, tobacco prevention | (NCI, P30, UG3(MPI), ACS, Komen, CPRIT) Director, Inst on H Promotion; Assoc Dir, Comm Outreach and Engagement; mentors junior faculty, pre-and-post-doctoral fellows |
 | Fernando Rios-Mena, MD (UTSA), Professor, Sociology and Demography | Health disparities, maternal and child health, epidemiology | Mentors junior faculty, undergraduate, graduate students |
UT Austin: University of Texas at Austin; UTMB: University of Texas Medical Branch; UTSA: University of Texas at San Antonio; CPRIT: Cancer Prevention Research in Texas; UTHSCSA: UT Health Sciences Center at San Antonio; WHO/PAHO: World Health Organization/Pan American Health Organization
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