Name | Affiliation* | Research Area | Current Funding |
K. Markides, PhD | Department of Population Health and Health Disparities/ School of Public and Population Health & Sealy Center on Aging, UTMB | Aging in Hispanics, Minorities and aging; Immigrant Health; Aging and the life-course | NIH (R01, T32) |
R. Wong, PhD | Department of Population Health and Health Disparities/ School of Public and Population Health & Sealy Center on Aging, UTMB | Old-age consequences of life cycle economic and family decisions; Mortality and old-age health consequences of Mexico-U.S. migration; Cross-national comparisons of health, social inequality and catastrophic health expenditures | NIH (R01, R03, T32) |
S. Al Snih, MD, PhD | Department of Population Health and Health Disparities/School of Public and Population Health & Sealy Center on Aging, UTMB | Aging in Hispanics; Frailty and health outcomes; Functional outcomes; Disability; Population health and health disparities.
| NIH (R01, R03) |
R. Angel, PhD | Department. of Sociology, UT Austin | Health of older Mexican Americans; Measurement medical sociology; Social welfare; Poverty and minorities; Demography and epidemiology; Research methods and statistics | NIH (R01) |
J. Angel, PhD | Department. of Sociology, UT Austin | Health of older Mexican Americans; Long-term care | NIH (R01, R13) |
J. Baillargeon, PhD | Department of Epidemiology /School of Public and Population Health & Sealy Center on Aging, UTMB | Ethnic variations in pharmacoepidemiology; Health services research; Pharmacoepidemiology; Cancer epidemiology; Infectious disease epidemiology; Comparative effectiveness research
| NIH (R01, R03) |
A. Berenson, MD, PhD | Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology & Sealy Center on Aging, UTMB | Cancer and ethnicity; women’s health | NIH (RO1, K12, T32) |
K. Eschbach, PhD | Department of Population Health and Health Disparities/School of Public and Population Health, UTMB | Immigration and Hispanic Neighborhoods | NIH (R01) |
J. Goodwin, MD | Dept. Internal Medicine & Sealy Center on Aging, UTMB | Comparative effectiveness of cancer care in the elderly, recovery of function after hospitalization; Overutilization of medical tests and treatments; Assessing individual provider performance with administrative data | NIH (P30, R01) |
Y-F. Kuo, PhD | Department of biostatistics and Data Science/School of Public and Population Health & Sealy Center on Aging, UTMB | Comparative effectiveness research; Health services research; Cancer outcomes research; Health policy research; Pharmacoepidemiology Developing/refining algorithms and prediction models | NIH (R01, P30, UL1), AHRQ (R01), PCORI |
C. Mouton, MD | Executive Vice President & Provost, Professor, Department of Family Medicine, Ad interim President of UTMB | Women’s health; health disparities; late life domestic violence; Aging | NIH (RO1, RO1-P2C, K12) NIDRR |
K. Ottenbacher, PhD | Department of Nutrition, Metabolism, and Rehabilitation Sciences/School of Health Professions, UTMB | Functional assessment; Disability in older adults | NIH (R01, R01, P2C, K12), NIDRR |
K. Peek, PhD | Professor and Dean ad interim, School of Public and Population Health, Chair ad interim of the Department of Population Health and Health Disparities | Acculturation and disability in older adults; Social Epidemiology; Health Disparities; Psychological Stress and Stress-related Biomarkers; Minority Aging and Health | NIH (R01) |
M. Raji, MD, MS | Chief, Division of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine/Internal Medicine, UTMB | Cognitive impairment; Dementia; Disability on older adults | NIH (R01, P30) |
E. Volpi, MD, PhD | Director Sealy Center on Aging, Director Pepper Center | Physical function; Sarcopenia; Muscle metabolism | NIH (RO1, P30) |