Our Team

K. M. Venkat Narayan, MD, MSc, MBA

Ruth and O.C. Hubert Professor of Global Health and Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University Professor of Medicine and Endocrinology, Emory University School of Medicine

Mohammed K. Ali, MBChB, MSc, MBA

Vice Chair of Research and Professor of Medicine, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine Associate Professor in the Hubert Department of Global Health and Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University

Mark Hutcheson, BA

Managing Director

Liliana Aguayo, PhD, MPH

Assistant Professor, Hubert Department of Global Health

Manoj Bhasin, PhD, MS

Departments of Pediatrics, Bioinformatics, Emory University School of Medicine

Rodrigo Carrillo-Larco, MD, PhD

Academic Research Scientist, Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health

Rosette Chakkalakal, MD, MHS

Associate Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine; Director, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, Division of Preventive Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine

Suchitra Chandrasekaran, MD

Associate Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine

Solveig A. Cunningham, PhD, MSc

Professor, Hubert Department of Global Health; Department of Sociology, Department of Epidemiology

Georgia Davis, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Lipids, Emory University School of Medicine

Unjali Gujral, PhD, MPH

Assistant Professor, Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health

Jessica Harding, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, Division of Transplantation, Emory University School of Medicine

Saria Hassan, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine and Associate Director of Research, Department of Medicine, Division of Primary Care, Emory University School of Medicine; Assistant Professor, Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health

Jeehea Sonya Haw, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Lipids, Emory University of School of Medicine

Joyce Ho, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Emory College of Arts and Sciences

Leslie Johnson, PhD, MPH, MLitt

Assistant Professor, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, Division of Family Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine

Thayer Idrees, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Lipids, Emory School of Medicine

Ram Jagannathan, PhD

Associate Research Professor, Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health

Jacob Kigo Kariuki PhD, RN, AGNP-BC, FAHA

Assistant Professor, School of Nursing

Felipe Lobelo, MD, PhD, FAHA

Associate Professor, Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health

Matthew Magee, PhD, MPH

Associate Professor, Hubert Department of Global Health and the Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health

Maya Fayfman, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Emory University School of Medicine

Alexandra Migdal, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Lipids, Emory School of Medicine

Francisco Pasquel, MD, MPH

Associate Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Lipids, Emory University School of Medicine; Medical Director of Endocrinology for the Grady Health System

Shivani A. Patel, PhD, MPH

Assistant Professor, Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health

Priyathama Vellanki, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Emory University School of Medicine;Medical Director, Grady Endocrinology Clinic

Elizabeth Rhodes, PhD, MS

Assistant Professor, Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health

Megha Shah, MD, Msc

Associate Professor, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, Division of Family Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine

Hui Shao, PhD

Associate Professor, Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health

Karen Siegel, PhD, MPH

Assistant Professor, Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health

Lisa Staimez, PhD, MPH

Associate Professor, Hubert Department of Global Health,Rollins School of Public Health

Sathish Thirunavukkarasu, MBBS, MPH, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, Division of Preventive Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine

Guillermo Umpierrez, MD

Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Lipids, Emory University School of Medicine

Jithin Varghese, PhD, MTech

Assistant Research Professor, Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health

Mary Beth Weber, PhD, MPH

Associate Professor, Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health; Nutrition and Health Sciences Program Faculty, Laney Graduate School

Anurag Agrawal, MBBS, PhD

Professor and Dean, Trivedi School of Biosciences, Ashoka University, Acting Head, Koita Centre for Digital Health, Ashoka University

Suvarna Alladi, PhD

Professor and Head of Neurology, National Institute of Mental Health and Nuerosciences, Bangladore, India

Robert Bednarczyk, PhD

Associate Professor, Hubert Department of Global Health and Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health

Bob Buresh, PhD, FACSM, ACSM CEP

Professor of Exercise Science, Department of Exercise Science and Sport Management, Kennesaw State University

Howard Chang, PhD

Associate Professor, Departments of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, and Environmental Health, Rollins School of Public Health

Sandra Dunbar, DSN, RN, FAAN, FAHA

Associate Dean of Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing

Karl Emmert-Fees, MPH

Visiting Research Scholar | Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

Ghada Farhat, PhD, MPH, BSc

Research Associate Professor, Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health

Karla Galaviz Arredondo, PhD, MSc

Assistant Professor, Indiana University Bloomington

Mark Geil, PhD

Professor of Biomechanics and Associate Dean for Research in the Wellstar College of Health and Human Services, Kennesaw State University

Michael Goodman, MD, MPH

Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health

Edward W. Gregg, PhD

Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London.

Monique Hennink, PhD

Associate Professor, Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health

Katherine H. Ingram, PhD

Associate Professor of Exercise Science, Wellstar College of Health and Human Services, Kennesaw State University

Lindsay Jaacks, PhD

Assistant Professor of Global Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Kate Winskell, PhD

Associate Professor, Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health

Allan Levey, PhD

Robert W. Woodruff Professor and Director of the Goizueta Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and the Goizueta Institute at Emory University

Joseph Lipscomb, PhD

Professor, Health Policy and Management, Rollins School of Public Health

Michael Laxy, PhD

Associate Professorship for Public Health and Prevention at the Department of Sport and Health Sciences, Technical University of Munich

Vincent Marconi, MD

Infectious Diseases Research Program, Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center; Faculty Physician and Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Emory University School of Medicine; Professor, Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health

Deborah McFarland, PhD, MPH

Associate Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management, Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health

Viswanathan Mohan, MD, PhD, DSc

Chairman & Chief Diabetologist, Dr. Mohan's Diabetes Specialties Centre, Chennai, President & Director, Madras Diabetes Research Foundation, Chennai

Jannie Nielsen, PhD

Visiting Assistant Professor

Reena Oza-Frank, PhD, RD

Principal Investigator and Research Assistant Professor, Center for Perinatal Research, Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Principal Investigator and Research Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, The Ohio State University

Shailaja S. Patil, MD

Professor and Head of Department, Department of Community Medicine, BLDE University, Shri. BMPMC Vijayapur, India

Lawrence Phillips, MD

Professor, Division of Endocrinology, Emory University School of Medicine, Medical Director, Clinical Studies Center, Atlanta VA Medical Center

Dorairaj Prabhakaran, MD, DM, MSc

Professor of Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Public Health Foundation of India, Executive Director, Centre for Chronic Disease Control (CCDC), Program Director, Public Health Leadership and Development Academy for NCDs, Public Health Foundation of India

Arshed Quyyumi, MD, FACC

Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Emory University School of Medicine

Usha Ramakrishnan, PhD

Chair and Distinguished Richard N. Hubert Professor, Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Program Director, Program in Nutrition and Health Sciences, Graduate Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences

K. Srinath Reddy, MD, DM, MSc

President, Public Health Foundation of India, Principal Investigator, Public Health Leadership and Implementation, Academy for NCDs, Public Health Foundation of India

Carlos Del Rio, MD

Executive Associate Dean for Emory School of Medicine at Grady Health Systems, Emory University School of Medicine, Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Emory University, Program Director, Emory AIDS International Training and Research Program, Co-Director, Emory Center for AIDS Research (CFAR)

Rodolfo Galindo, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Lipids, Emory University School of Medicine

Amit Shah, MD, MSCR

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Lipids, Emory University School of Medicine

Nida Shaikh, PhD, RD

Assistant Professor, Georgia State University Byrdine F. Lewis College of Nursing and Health Professions

Kavita Singh, PhD

Senior Research Scientist, Public Health Foundation of India

Laurence Sperling, MD, FACC, FAHA, FACP

Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Emory University School of Medicine; Professor, Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health; Founder and Director of Emory's Heart Disease Prevention Center

Aryeh Stein, PhD, MPH

Professor, Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health

Yan Sun, PhD

Professor, Departments of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health

Nikhil Tandon, PhD

Kenneth Thorpe, PhD

Professor and Chair, Department of Health Policy and Management, Rollins School of Public Health

Abu Mohammed Naser Titu, PhD, MPH, MBBS

Assistant Professor, Division of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Environmental Health, The University of Memphis, School of Public Health

Maria Valero, PhD

Assistant Professor of Information Technology, Director of Internet of Things as Service (IoTaS) Research Group Program Coordinator of MS CyberSecurity, Kennesaw State University

Brian Kliszczewicz, PhD

Full Professor in the Department of Exercise Science and Sports Management at Kennesaw State University

Wendy McKimpson, PhD

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Digestive Diseases, Emory University School of Medicine

Lynn Engelberg Glenn, PhD, APRN-C

Assistant Professor, Augusta University College of Nursing – Department of Nursing Science & Institute of Public and Preventive Health

Felix Teufel, MD

Erica Kocher

Piaopiao Li

Rima Pai

Wilhemina Quarpong

Yara Beyh, MS, LD

Jieun Lee , PhD

Kara Suvada, MPH

Qiaochu Xue, PhD, MPH

Dongmei Zuo, PhD

Aniqa Alam

Public Health Program Associate

Jiali Guo

Biostatistician

Pradeep Tiwari

Assistant Academic Research Scientist

Caroline Bulstra

Aditya Durbha

Sahara Hetherington

Shreyas Rajagopal

Amna Soniwala

Bridgett Figueroa, BS

Research Administrative Assistant

Wendy Gill, MBA

Program Director, Education and Events

Jeff Mills, MBA

Program Director, Georgia Center for Diabetes Translation Research

Myra C. Patrick

Communications Manager

Keriann Roy, MPH

Program Director, CARRS Cohort

Gretchen Wilde, MPH

Research Coordinator

Maria Kersanach

New Ventures Program Manager, EGDRC Diabetes Translational Accelerator

Geetha H. Agadi

Harsha V. Agadi

Rhona S. Applebaum

Anupurna Bhat

Subramanyah Bhat

Constance Barkley-Lewis

Lydia Celeste Bottorff

Venkat Chundi

James Curran

Madhav Durbha

James Gavin

Regine Haardoerfer

Gulshan Harjee

Richard Hubert

Linda Hubert

Michael Johns

Sima Rama

Nalini Saligram

Ravi Saligram

Nita Sardana

Raj Sardana

Vaibhav Srivastava

Claire Sterk

Shankar Subramonian

Jonathan Yaeger