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Mid-Atlantic NORC Funded Members

Name	Affiliation	Academic Rank	Department/Division	Research Interest
Appel, Lawrence	JHU	Professor	Medicine/Nephrology	Diet, hypertension, lipids, prevention
Argyropoulos, George	Geisinger	Staff Scientist	Weis Research Center	Agouti-related protein (AgRP), obesity, genetics, aging
Baer, David	Geisinger	Research Leader	Medicine/Gerontology	Phytonutrients, energy metabolism, obesity, CVD and diabetes risk
Beamer, Brock	UMD	Assistant Professor	Medicine/Gerontology	Genetics of frailty, aging, sarcopenia, inflammation
Beitelshees, Amber	UMD	Assistant Professor	Medicine/Endocrinology	Pharmacogenetics of beta blockers, genes involved in lipid and glucose metabolism
Bi, Sheng	JHU	Associate Professor	Psychiatry	Neuroscience, obesity, food intake, energy balance
Black, Maureen	UMD	Professor	Pediatrics	Obesity and nutrition in children, physical activity
Boscarino, Joseph	Geisinger	Senior Investigator	Epidemiology	Psychobiology of obesity, CVD, Chronic disease
Brancati, Frederick	JHU	Professor	Medicine/General Medicine	Prevention of diabetes, obesity, ethnic disparities
Caballero, Benjamin	JHU	Professor	Epidemiology	Childhood obesity, energy balance
Carey, David	Geisinger	Senior Scientist	Weis Research Center	Genomics of morbid obesity, CVD
Chaffin, Charles	UMD	Associate Professor	Ob/Gyn	Ovarian lipoprotein metabolism, glucose and lipid metabolism
Chang, Christy	UMD	Assistant Professor	Medicine	Genetics of hypertension, dietary sodium
Clark, Jeanne	JHU	Associate Professor	Medicine/Gastroenterology	Hepatic steatosis, diabetes, obesity
Crow, Michael	JHU	Associate Professor	Medicine	Cachexia of acute lung injury, vascular biology
Damcott, Coleen	UMD	Assistant Professor	MedicineEndocrinology	Genetics of diabetes, obesity, perilipin, CVD
Davis, Stephen	UMD	Professor	Medicine	Diabetes, hypoglycemia, glucoregulatory hormones
Devine, Scott	UMD	Associate Professor	Medicine/Endocrinology	Genetics of obesity, diabetes, pharmacogenetics, nutrigenomics
Dobs, Adrian	JHU	Professor	Medicine/Endocrinology	Hypogonadism, fertility
Farber, Steven	JHU	Investigator	JHU/Carnegie Institute	Lipid and protein metabolism, intestinal physiology, zebra fish
Fink, Jeffrey	UMD	Associate Professor	Medicine/Nephrology	Chronic kidney disease, hypertension
Fraser-Liggett, Claire	UMD	Professor	Medicine	Genetics of complex disease, the microbiome in disease, obesity
Gerhard, Glenn	Geisinger	Staff Scientist	Weis Research Center	Genomic Medicine, morbid obesity, hepatic steatosis
Girnun, Geoffrey	UMD	Assistant Professor	Biochemistry	PPARγ ligands and insulin sensitivity, cancer biology, obesity, diabetes
Goldberg, Andrew	UMD	Professor	Medicine/Gerontology	Obesity, exercise, diet and fat metabolism in aging
Goldberg, Richard	UMD	Associate Professor	Psychiatry	CVD prevention in schizophrenia, wellness, diet and exercise
Gong, Da-Wei	UMD	Associate Professor	Medicine/Endocrinology	Genomics, insulin resistance, obesity, stem cells, diabetes
Hafer-Macko, Charlene	UMD	Associate Professor	Neurology	Inflammation, muscle biology, neuromuscular disease, exercise
Hager, Erin	UMD	Assistant Professor	Pediatrics	Child nutrition and obesity, physical activity in children, adolescent nutrition
Hochberg, Marc	UMD	Professor	Medicine/Rheumatology	Osteoporosis, bone metabolism, rheumatology, hip fracture
Horenstein, Richard	UMD	Assistant Professor	Medicine/Endocrinology	Phamacogenomics, genetics of obesity, insulin resistance, lipid metabolism
Hurley, Ben	UMCP	Professor	Kinesiology	Resistive exercise, lipid and glucose metabolism, frailty, sarcopenia
Ivey, Frederick	UMD	Assistant Professor	Medicine/Gerontology	Exercise rehabilitation, vascular biology, insulin resistance, stroke
Kao, Wen Hong Linda	JHU	Associate Professor	Epidemiology	Genetics of obesity, fatty liver, CVD
Kirchner, H. Lester	Geisinger	Sr Research Investigator	Center for Health Research	Biostatistics, genetics of morbid obesity, post surgery weight loss
Kittner, Steven	UMD	Professor	Neurology	Genetics of early onset stroke, thrombosis, vascular biology
Liggett, Stephen	UMD	Professor	Medicine/Pulmonary	Genetics of G-Protein receptors, cardiac phenotypes, obesity
Macko, Richard	UMD	Professor	Neurology	Stroke rehabilitation, insulin resistance, muscle and vascular biology, neuroplasticity
Magaziner, Jay	UMD	Professor	Epidemiology	Epidemiology of aging, frailty, hip fracture
McLenithan, John	UMD	Assistant Professor	Medicine/Endocrinology	Adipocyte biology, insulin signaling, obesity
Miller, Michael	UMD	Professor	Cardiology	Preventive medicine, low fat diets, lipid metabolism
Mitchell, Braxton	UMD	Professor	Medicine/Endocrinology	Genetic epidemiology of diabetes, CVD, osteoporosis
Moran, Timothy	JHU	Professor	Psychiatry	Neuroscience, eating behavior, GI, food intake
Munger, Steven	UMD	Associate Professor	Anatomy and Neuroscience	Taste, olfaction, eating behaviors
Passaniti, Antonio	UMD	Associate Professor	Pathology	Angiogenesis, antioxidants and insulin sensitivity
Polotsky, Vsevolod	JHU	Associate Professor	Medicine/Pulmonary	Sleep-disordered breathing, obesity hypoventilation syndrome, diabetes
Prigeon, Ronald	UMD	Assistant Professor	Medicine/Gerontology	Diabetes, insulin secretion, obesity, biostatistics
Punjabi, Naresh	JHU	Associate Professor	Medicine/Pulmonary	Sleep apnea, sleep architecture, insulin resistance, obesity
Quinn, Charlene	UMD	Assistant Professor	Epidemiology	Diabetes in the elderly, epidemiology of aging and chronic disease
Reece, E. Albert	UMD	Professor and Dean	Dean’s Office	Diabetes and maternal-fetal health, disease prevention
Reeves, Gloria	UMD	Assistant Professor	Psychiatry	Childhood obesity, antipsychotic drugs
Rizzo, Mark	UMD	Assistant Professor	Physiology	Insulin secretion, incretin hormones
Robishaw, Janet	Geisinger	Senior Scientist	Weis Research Center	G-Proteins, diet induced obesity, genetics
Ronnett, Gabriele	JHU	Professor	Neuroscience and Neurology	Metabolism and obesity research, energy balance, olfaction, neuroscience
Royak-Schaler, Renee	UMD	Associate Professor	Epidemiology	Breast cancer, obesity, cancer prevention
Rumpler, William	USDA	Research Physiologist		Energy balance, obesity, cafeteria feeding
Russell, James	UMD	Associate Professor	Neurology	Diabetic neuropathy, prevention, oxidative stress
Ryan, Alice	UMD	Professor	Medicine/Gerontology	Obesity, exercise, glucose metabolism, inflammation muscle biology
Schwartz, Alan	JHU	Professor	Medicine/Pulmonary	Sleep disorder breathing, obesity, metabolism
Shuldiner, Alan	UMD	Professor	Medicine/Endocrinology	Genetics of diabetes, obesity and complex diseases, nutragenomics and pharmacogenomics
Silver, Kristi	UMD	Assoicate Professor	Medicine/Endocrinology	Genetics of islet cell biology, diabetes, insulin secretion
Smith, Barbara	UMD	Professor	School of Nursing	Obesity, exercise, HIV, cachexia
Snitker, Soren	UMD	Associate Professor	Medicine/Endocrinology	PPARγ agonists, insulin sensitivity, energy balance, childhood obesity
Sorkin, John	UMD	Associate Professor	Medicine/Gerontology	Biostatistics, informatics, obesity, diabetes, exercise
Stanley, William	UMD	Professor	Cardiology	Nutrition, energy metabolism, heart failure, mitochondrial function
Steinle, Nanette	UMD	Assistant Professor	Medicine/Endocrinology	Eating behavior, hypertension, gut microbiome, genetics of metabolic syndrome
Still, Christopher	Geisinger	Director	Geisinger Obesity Institute	Morbid obesity, nutrition, preventive medicine
Strickland, Dudley	UMD	Professor	Surgery	Lipoprotein metabolism, LDL receptor
Sztalryd, Carole	UMD	Associate Professor	Medicine	Adipocyte biology, lipid droplet, obesity, insulin resistance,
Tamashiro, Kellie	JHU	Assistant Professor	Psychiatry	Epigenetics of prenatal environment, metabolic disease
Walston, Jeremy	JHU	Professor	Medicine/Geriatric Medicine	Frailty, inflammation, nutrition, mobility
Watkins, Paul	JHU	Professor	Neurology	Fatty acid metabolism, obesity
White, Owen	UMD	Professor	Medicine	Genomics, bioinformatics, biostatistics
Yang, Rong-Ze	UMD	Assistant Professor	Medicine/Endocrinology	Genomics, liver hepatic biology
Young, Deborah	UMCP	Professor	Epidemiology/Pediatric Endocrinology	Childhood obesity

Mid-Atlantic NORC Associate Members

Name	Affiliation	Academic Rank	Department/ Division	Research Interest
Aja, Susan	JHU	Assistant Professor	Psychiatry	Energy metabolism/obesity/CNS Neuropeptides/Food Intake
Badros, Ashraf	UMD	Associate Professor	Medicine/Oncology	Stem cell transplants, cancer biology
Blumenthal, Jacob	UMD	Assistant Professor	Medicine	Inflammation, obesity, insulin resistance, CVD prevention
Cole, John	UMD	Assistant Professor	Neurology	Genetics of stroke, statistical genetics, stroke risk factors
Elahi, Dariush	JHU	Professor	Surgery	Insulin resistance, morbid obesity, glucose metabolism, gastric bypass, aging
Fu, Mao	UMD	Research Associate	Medicine/Endocrinology	Genetics of diabetes, obesity, CVD
Gorden, Alexis	UMD	Postdoctoral Fellow	Medicine	Gastroenterology, hepatic steatosis, genetics
Hagberg, James	UMCP	Professor	Kinesiology	Kinesiogenetics, exercise, CVD risk factors, lipid metabolism
Hartle II, James	Geisinger	Director, Department of Nephrology	Nephrology	Nephrolithiasis after bariatric surgery
Inscore, Anjeli	UMD	Research Associate	Medicine/Gerontology	Cognitive function, stress, obesity, yoga
Jones, Laundette	UMD	Assistant Professor	Pharmacology	Adiposity, energy balance, breast cancer, biomarkers, obesity
McArdle, Patrick	UMD	Assistant Professor	Medicine/Endocrinology	Genetics, obesity, diabetes
Mongodin, Emmanuel	UMD	Assistant Professor	Medicine	Nutritional effects on gut microbiome, genetics, obesity
O'Connell, Jeffrey	UMD	Associate Professor	Medicine	Statistical genetics, obesity
Ortmeyer, Heidi	UMD	Assistant Professor	Medicine/Gerontology	Muscle biology, glucose and fat metabolism
Pollin, Toni	UMD	Assistant Professor	Medicine	Genetics of complex disease, diabetes, lipid metabolism
Prior, Steven	UMD	Assistant Professor	Medicine	Exercise, insulin resistance, angiogenesis
Rodriguez, Annabelle	JHU	Associate Professor	Medicine/Endocrinology	Lipoprotein metabolism, genetic epidemiology
Roth, Stephen	UMCP	Associate Professor	Kinesiology	Genetics, exercise, muscle metabolism, aging
Saksvig, Brit	UMCP	Research Assistant Professor	Epidemiology	Obesity prevention in children, physical activity
Shaughnessy, Marianne	UMD	Associate Professor	Nursing	Stroke rehabilitation, cognitive function, CVD risk factors
Smesler, Diane	Geisinger	Research Associate	Henry Hood Research Center	Genetics of obesity, metabolic syndrome, diabetes
Streeten, Elizabeth	UMD	Associate Professor	Medicine/Endocrinology	Bone metabolism, osteoporosis
Wang, Hong	UMD	Postdoctoral Fellow	Medicine/Endocrinology	Adipocyte biology, lipid droplet
Wang, Yan	UMD	Epidemiol-ogist/ Data Analyst	Pediatrics	Epidemiology, obesity, drug abuse, children
Warren, Kimberly	UMD	Research Associate	Psychiatry	Eating behavior, metabolic syndrome, physical fitness, schizophrenia
Wortman, Jennifer	UMD	Assistant Professor	Medicine/Endocrinology	Genome analysis, human microbiome, bioinformatics
Yarowsky, Paul	UMD	Associate Professor	Pharmacology	Neurodegenerative diseases, cholesterol metabolism
Norann Zaghloul	UMD	Assistant Professor	Medicine/Endocrinology	Functional assessment of genes associated with common, complex disorders (zebrafish); rare ciliopathies, obesity