Pepper Center Investigators

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Faculty	Affiliated UM-OAIC Cores
Addison, Odessa, DPT, PhD, Associate Professor of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science Research Areas: Rehabilitation, mobility assessment of older adults with chronic health conditions oaddison@som.umaryland.edu	REC
Albrecht, Jennifer, PhD, Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health Research Areas: TBI, psychiatric disturbances, health services research, administrative claims analysis, pharmacoepidemiology jalbrecht@som.umaryland.edu	PESC
Beamer, Brock, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine Research Areas: Geriatrics, falls, frailty bbeamer@som.umaryland.edu	Core 2
Braun, Robynne, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Neurology Research Areas: stroke, upper extremity, motor control, kinematics rbraun@som.umaryland.edu	Leadership Academy, Core 3
Chen, Chixiang, PhD, Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health Research Areas: causal inference and machine learning, real-world data/information integration, single-cell/bulk expression data analysis, statistical inference in prediction chixiang.chen@som.umaryland.edu	Leadership Academy, Core 1
Chen, Shuo, PhD, Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health Research Areas: neuroimaging statistics, graph and network analysis, Bayesian modeling, brain aging, genetics, machine learning, clinical trial design and analysis shuochen@som.umaryland.edu	Core 1
Davis, Derik, MD, Professor of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine Research Areas: Musculoskeletal imaging, skeletal muscle quality, shoulder dysfunction in older adults ddavis@som.umaryland.edu	Core 2
Elizabeth Dennis, PhD, RD, Associate Professor of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science Research Areas: community health, nutrition, disease prevention, dietary intake, weight management strategies, lifestyle interventions elizabeth.dennis@som.umaryland.edu	Leadership Academy, REC
Jason Falvey, DPT, PhD, Associate Professor of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science Research Areas: rehabilitation epidemiology, rehabilitation health services research, home health care, disability, older adults jfalvey@som.umaryland.edu	Leadership Academy, Core 1, REC
Gray, Vicki, MPT, PhD, Associate Professor of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science Research Areas: Stroke, Aging, Asymptomatic Carotid Stenosis, Postural Control, Balance, Falls, Exercise Interventions vicki.gray@som.umaryland.edu	Core 3
Katzel, Leslie, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine Research Areas: Clinical geriatrics, exercise interventions, functional assessment in aging, neurocognition lkatzel@som.umaryland.edu	LAC, Core 2
Lal, Brajesh, MBBS, Professor of Surgery Research Areas: Cerebrovascular disease and stroke, cognitive-mobility function, peripheral arterial disease blal@som.umaryland.edu	Core 2
Magaziner, Jay, PhD, MSHyg, Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health Research Areas: Epidemiology of Aging, Hip Fracture jmagazin@som.umaryland.edu	LAC
Magder, Laurence, PhD, Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health Research Areas: Biostatistics, Epidemiologic Methods, Longitudinal Data Analysis lmagder@som.umaryland.edu	Core 1
Orwig, Denise, PhD, Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health Research Areas: Hip Fracture, Pharmacoepidemiology, expert in recruiting and retention of older adults dorwig@som.umaryland.edu	Core 2
Rathbun, Alan, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health Research Areas: Psychiatric and musculoskeletal epidemiology, longitudinal analysis, causal inference arathbun@som.umaryland.edu	Core 1
Resnick, Barbara, PhD, CRNP, Professor of Nursing Research Areas: Pragmatic trials, resilience, nursing home caregivers, functional activities resnick@umaryland.edu	Core 2
Rodgers, Mary, PT, PhD, FAPTA, FASB, FISB, Professor Emeritus of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science Research Areas: Rehab Science, Biomechanics, PT, Technology for Health mrodgers@som.umaryland.edu	LAC
Ryan, Alice, PhD, Professor of Medicine Research Areas: Exercise and nutrition interventions in older adults, insulin sensitivity, adipose and muscle metabolism aryan@som.umaryland.edu	LAC, Core 2
Seliger, Stephen, MD, MS, Associate Professor of Medicine Research Areas: Chronic Kidney Disease, Aging, Cognition, Physical Function sseliger@som.umaryland.edu	PESC
Shardell, Michelle, PhD, Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health Research Areas: structural models, selective survival, machine learning, approaches to missing data, identification of clinical cut-points, instrumental variable methods, time-to-event methods with informative censoring mshardell@som.umaryland.edu	Core 1
Sorkin, John, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine Research Areas: Biostatistics, epidemiology, information science jsorkin@som.umaryland.edu	Core 1
Stains, Joseph, PhD, Professor of Orthopaedics Research Areas: Pre-clinical studies, osteocytes, skeletal system sensing and signal transduction jstains@som.umaryland.edu	Core 2
Terrin, Michael, MD, CM, MPH, Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health Research Areas: Clinical Trials, Pulmonary Disease, Cardiovascular Epidemiology mterrin@som.umaryland.edu	Core 1
Verceles, Avelino, MD, MS, Professor of Medicine Research Areas: physical rehabilitation and nutritional optimization to improve outcomes of older survivors of critical illness averceles@som.umaryland.edu	PESC
Waldstein, Shari, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychology (UMBC) Research Areas: Cognitive function, risk factors, epidemiology waldstei@umbc.edu	Core 3
Ward, Chris, PhD, Professor of Orthopaedics Research Areas: pre-clinical studies, cytoskeleton microtubule research in aging muscle ward@som.umaryland.edu	Core 2
Westlake, Kelly, PhD, MSc, PT, Associate Professor of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science Research Areas: Rehabilitation, Stroke, Balance, Falls, Motor Learning, Upper Extremity, Cognition, Neuroimaging kwestlake@som.umaryland.edu	Core 3
Zhang, Li-Qun, PhD, Professor of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science Research Areas: Rehabilitation robotics, neurorehabilitation, musculoskeletal rehabilitation, device development, translation l-zhang@som.umaryland.edu	Core 3
Zhang, Yuji, PhD, Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health Research Areas: muti-omics data analysis and integration, network medicine, systems biology, systems pharmacogenomics, statistical informatics, machine learning yuzhang@som.umaryland.edu	Core 1

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