Clinical Epidemiology and Evidence-Based Medicine Teaching Program

Epidemiology Group Faculty

BIOSTATISTICS

Chul Ahn, PhD

• PhD: Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
• Special Interests: research design and analysis, statistical methods for correlated data and repeated measurements

EPIDEMIOLOGY

Jan M.H. Risser, PhD

• PhD in Epidemiology: UT Houston Health Science Center
• Special Interests: nutrition, adolescent medicine

INTERNAL MEDICINE

Don Molony, MD

• MD: University of San Diego, California
• Subspecialty: Nephrology
• Special Interests: epidemiology of renal failure, measurement of clinical outcomes, teaching and implementation of evidence-based medicine

Esmaeil Porsa, MD, MPH

• MD: UT San Antonio Medical School, San Antonio
• MPH (Occupational and Environmental Health): UT Houston School of Public Health
• Special Interests: infectious diseases, medical student education

John C. Ribble, MD

• MD: UT Southwestern Medical School, Dallas
• Special Interests: epidemiology, infectious diseases

Eric Thomas, MD, MPH

• MD: UT Southwestern Medical School, Dallas
• MPH: Harvard School of Public Health, Boston
• Special Interests: reducing errors in medicine

MEDICINE/PEDIATRICS

Joshua Samuels, MD, MPH

• MD: Baylor College of Medicine

• Subspecialty: Nephrology

• MPH: UT Houston School of Public Health
• Special Interests: acute kidney failure, pediatric hypertension, renal disease in cancer patients

OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY

John W. Riggs, MD

• MD: UT Houston Medical School
• Subspecialty: Obstetrics/Gynecology
• Special Interests: undergraduate and graduate medical education, computer assisted learning, clinical decision support

PEDIATRICS

Kathleen A. Kennedy, MD, MPH

• MD: St. Louis University School of Medicine
• Subspecialty: Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
• MPH (Health Services Organization): UT Houston School of Public Health
• Special Interests: clinical research methodology, application of medical evidence to clinical practice

Will Risser, MD, PhD

• MD: Yale University
• PhD (Epidemiology): UT Houston School of Public Health
• Special Interests: sexually transmitted diseases and sports medicine in adolescents, healthcare of underserved adolescent populations

Jon E. Tyson, MD, MPH

• MD: Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans
• Subspecialty: Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
• MPH (Economics, Epidemiology): UT Houston School of Public Health
• Special Interests: clinical research methodology, ethics in clinical research and medicine, application of medical evidence to clinical practice

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