Leaders & Mentors
UNC BIRCWH Leaders
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Kim Boggess, MDPrincipal Investigator Dr. Boggess is a 2003 UNC BIRCWH graduate. She previously served as project director under the guidance and mentorship of Dr. Eugene Orringer before stepping into the role of Principal Investigator for the 2015 renewal of the program. She has extensive experience with translational and clinical research in women’s health, and in the training and career development of medical students, residents, fellows, and junior faculty. Over the past 20 years she has mentored more than 20 fellows and junior faculty, 15 of who have gone on to academic careers and/or independent funding. |
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Angela Kashuba, PharmDAssociate Research Director Dr. Kashuba is also a 2003 UNC BIRCWH graduate. She is recognized as an international leader in preclinical and clinical pharmacology and analytical chemistry in the study of optimizing the prevention and treatment of HIV infection. Since graduation from the UNC BIRCWH program she has successfully competed for greater than $13 million in federal grant funds and mentored more than 30 fellows and junior faculty. Her role as Director of the UNC Center for AIDS Research Clinical Pharmacology and Analytical Chemistry Core and Director of the UNC CARE Collaboratory Pharmacology Core give her experience and campus-wide presence to serve as the Resource Laboratory Network Director for Scholars. |
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Morris Weinberger, PhDUNC BIRCWH Leadership Team Dr. Weinberger has been a member of the UNC BIRCWH Leadership Team since 2000 and has an exceptional record of mentoring both MD and PhD faculty and fellows who conduct translational research. |
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Susan Pusek, MPH, MSUNC BIRCWH Leadership Team Ms. Pusek coordinates education, training, and career development related to clinical and translational research across the UNC campus and serves as the liaison for research collaborations among local institutions (eg, Duke University, NC State A&T). |
UNC BIRCWH Advisory Board
The UNC BIRCWH Interdisciplinary Advisory Committee (IIAC) is composed of leaders and investigators from a wide variety of disciplines, Departments, Centers, and Schools across the UNC campus. Each member was selected because of a demonstrated interest and expertise in interdisciplinary women’s health or sex/gender research, scientific mentoring, and promotion of diversity in the workplace, and/or career planning and development. The tasks of the IIAC are to:
- recruit and select Scholars
- review individualized career development plans and monitor Scholar progress
- provide annual review of the UNC BIRCWH program
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Jane Weintraub DDS, MPH, Chairperson Adjunct Professor, Health and Policy Management Alumni Distinguished Professor, Dental Ecology Profile |
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Rebecca Fry PhD Carol Remmer Angle Distinguished Professor and Associate Chair for Strategic Initiatives, Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering Director of Graduate Studies, Toxicology Profile |
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Diane Berry, PhD Beerstecher-Blackwell Distinguished Term Professor & Assistant Dean for Research Profile |
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Susan Girdler PhD Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology Associate Chair for Junior Investigator Development Director of the Stress & Health Research Program Profile |
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Kim Brouwer PhD Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education William R. Kenen, Jr. Distinguished Professor Profile |
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Michele Jonsson-Funk PhD Associate Professor, School of Public Health Director, Center for Pharmacoepidemiology Profile |
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Toni Darville MD Division Chief, Pediatric Infectious Disease Vice Chair of Research, Department of Pediatrics Scientific Director, Children’s Research Institute Co-Director, UNC MD-PhD Program Professor of Pediatrics and Microbiology & Immunology Profile |
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Silvia Tomášková PhD Professor of Anthropology Professor and Chair of Women’s & Gender Studies Profile |
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Maxine Eichner JD Graham Kenan Distinguished Professor of Law Profile |
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Anissa Vines PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology Research Fellow, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research Profile |
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Jennifer Webster-Cyriaque DDS, PhD Professor, Dental Ecology, School of Dentistry Profile |
UNC BIRCWH Mentors
Our faculty/mentor pool, which is extremely deep, comprises a great many well-qualified and talented investigators. We have 75 faculty members from all five schools on the Health Affairs Campus (Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Public Health, and Dentistry) and the College of Arts and Sciences. Our faculty represent 28 Centers and 23 departments. There are 22 distinguished professors, 19 professors, 27 associate professors, and seven assistant professors. Many of our faculty hold additional positions including 26 Center or Program Directors; 5 Chairs; 5 Vice or Associate Chairs; four Division Chiefs; one Executive Associate Deans; two Associate Vice Chancellors; four Associate Deans; one Vice Dean; and one Dean. Collectively our faculty members have $258,657,760 in grants and contracts from year 2015 forward; that is an average of $3,448,760 per faculty member. Their areas of research represent everything from basic sciences to clinical medicine, epidemiology and population sciences to cellular/molecular levels, and clinical trials of all sizes to grants or contracts ranging from small to muliti-million dollar Program and Center grants.
Below is a list of UNC BIRCWH mentors and their research focus:
| Linda Adair, PhD: Maternal and child nutrition
Alice Ammerman, DrPH: Nutrition, CBPR, Obesity Victoria Bae-Jump, MD, PhD: Obesity and women’s cancers, molecular basis of endometrial cancers Diane Berry, PhD, ANP-BC, FAANP: Obesity, GDM, underserved women Kim Boggess, MD: Infection and inflammation in pregnancy outcomes Karen Booth, PhD: Sexual and reproductive rights, health politics, and transnational feminist and queer organizing Wendy Brewster, MD, PhD: Epidemiology of gyn cancers, microbiome of fallopian tube and ovarian cancer Kim Brouwer, PharmD, PhD: Hepatic drug metabolism and transport Kimberly A. Brownley, PhD: Nutrition; obesity in minority women John Buse, MD, PhD: Diabetes Lisa Carey, MD: Breast cancer; clinical trials Kathleen Caron, PhD: Mouse models of fetal growth restriction and preeclampsia Myron Cohen, MD: HIV and STI Toni Darville, MD: Molecular base of Chlamydial infection E. Claire Dees, MD, MSc: Breast cancer; clinical trials Julie Dumond, PharmD, MS: Pharmacometrics and aging Stacie Dusetzina, PhD: Pharmacoepidemiology / Drug Utilization Research, Pharmaceutical and FDA Policies, Treatment of Multiple Chronic Conditions, Cancer Treatment, Mental Illness Treatment H. Shelton Earp, III, MD: Cancer – receptors, inhibition and differentiation, signaling Joseph Eron, MD: HIV Rebecca Fry, PhD: Environmental toxicology and prenatal exposure Caterina Gallippi, PhD: Biomedical Imaging, Rehabilitation Engineering J. Victor Garcia-Martinez, PhD: Humanized mice, retrovirology, AIDS, stem cell biology and human gene therapy Susan S. Girdler, PhD: Women’s mental health, stress and coping Penny Gordon-Larsen, PhD: Nutrition and obesity Karen M. Grewen, PhD: Social affiliation and stress on endocrine, neural, and cardiovascular activity, with a focus on potential biologic mediators Susan J. Henning, PhD: Intestinal Stem Cells – Biological Properties and Potential for Therapeutic Application Amy Herring, ScD: Biostatistics of women’s health, maternal health, reproductive health, nutrition and obesity Hendree Jones, PhD: Substance abuse in women Michele Jonsson-Funk, PhD: Pharmacoepidemiology; use of large data bases; sex and gender differences in drug utilization and metabolization Rudolph L. Juliano, PhD: Cell Adhesion Molecules and Macromolecular Therapeutics Angela D. M. Kashuba, BScPhm, PharmD, DABCP: Clinical Pharmacology, Sex and Gender Differences In Drug Exposure, Response, and Toxicity David Kaufman, MD, PhD: Molecular pathogenesis of cancer, regulation of the cell cycle, gynecologic pathology, cell biology Kathleen Knafl, PhD, FAAN: Family management styles Matthew M. Laughon, MD, MPH: Neonatal pharmacology Craig Lee, PharmD, PhD: Genomics of drug metabolizing enzymes and cardiovascular disease Laura Loehr, PhD: Cardiovascular disease |
Terry Magnuson, PhD: Mammalian Genetics/Genomics
Suzanne Maman, PhD: Global women’s health, infectious diseases, violence prevention Barbara Mark, PhD, RN, FAAN: Work environments, quality and safety in acute care hospitals; research training Samantha Meltzer-Brody, MD: Women’s mood disorders; women’s mental health William Miller, MD, PhD, MPH: Epidemiology and Chlamydial infections Wanda K. Nicholson, MD, MPH, MBA: Obesity and diabetes in pregnant minority women Kari North, PhD: Genetic Epidemiology Steven Offenbacher, DDS, PhD: Oral microbiology Mary Palmer, PhD, RNC, FAAN: Urinary incontinence and bladder health in adults Eliana M. Perrin, MD, MPH: Pediatric obesity Barry M Popkin, PhD: Dietary intake, obesity Susan Pusek, MPH, MS: Education and training David Ransohoff, MD: GI cancers, epidemiology Janet Rubin, MD: General endocrinology, metabolic bone diseases David R. Rubinow, MD: Reproductive endocrine-related mood disorders Carmen Samuel-Hodge, PhD: Psychosocial and behavioral issues related weight, interventions Dale P. Sandler, PhD: Impact of environmental exposures on population health Robert S. Sandler, MD, MPH: Gastrointestinal disorders and cancers Oliver Smithies, PhD: Mouse models of hypertension Jeffrey Stringer, MD: Global women’s health Til Stürmer, MD, PhD: Pharmacoepidemiology Flavia Teles, DDS, MS, DMsc: Microbiota of the oral cavity Ricardo Teles, DDS, DMsc: Periodontal disease John M. Thorp, Jr., MD: Reproductive epidemiology and clinical trials Silvia Tomášková, PhD: Gender studies Jennifer Webster-Cyriaque, DDS, PhD: Sex gender difference in oral manifestations of HIV and HPV infection Mark Weaver, PhD: Biostatistics Morris Weinberger, PhD: Health services research, Primary Care, Patient-centered outcomes research, Pharmaceutical care, Quality of Care Jane A. Weintraub, DDS, MPH: Dental public health, oral epidemiology, clinical research, health disparities research Tim Wiltshire, PhD: Pharmacogenetics and mouse models of drug response David Wohl, MD: Metabolic complications of HIV Jennifer Wu, MD, MPH: Genetics of pelvic floor prolapse Anissa Vines, MS, PhD: Cancer, minority health, obesity, women’s health Y. Claire Yang: Mathematical modeling of drug exposure and response Laura Young, MD, PhD: Diabetes Steve Young, MD, PhD: Molecular biology of implantation and reproductive failure Steven Zeisel, MD, PhD |