A-Z Faculty
Below is a list of all Center for Education in Health Sciences faculty. View individual profiles of our faculty members — with publication and contact information, research and clinical specialties and more — via the links below.
Rydberg, Leslie K
Associate Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Medical Education
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General Rehabilitation - cancer rehabilitation, medically complex rehabilitation, post-transplant rehabilitation, rehabilitation in cardiac diagnoses. Neuro Rehabilitation - nontraumatic spinal cord i... [more]
Scharle, Elizabeth A
Assistant Professor of Medicine (General Internal Medicine)
Scholtens, Denise M
Professor of Preventive Medicine (Biostatistics) and Neurological Surgery
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Dr. Denise Scholtens is interested in statistical problems arising from high-throughput omics data. She is Chief of the Division of Biostatistics and Associate Director for Biostatistics in the Robert... [more]
Sheehan, Diane Dudas
Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
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Family Nurse Practitioner with years of experience in nursing, rehabilitation, wound care and orthopaedics.
Sheehan, Karen M
Professor of Pediatrics (Emergency Medicine), Medical Education and Preventive Medicine (Public Health Practice)
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Karen Sheehan, MD, MPH is a Professor of Pediatrics and Preventive Medicine at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. She is a founding volunteer of the Chicago Youth Programs, a commu... [more]
Simon, Melissa A
Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology (General Obstetrics and Gynecology)/Preventive Medicine and Medical Social Sciences (Implementation Science)
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Dr. Simon's primary research interests are aimed at promoting health equity and eliminating health disparities among low income, medically underserved women across the lifespan. Integrating health ser... [more]
Soulakis, Nicholas Dean
Adjunct Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine (Health and Biomedical Informatics) and Preventive Medicine (Epidemiology)
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Nicholas Soulakis is a public health scientist whose research focus lies at the intersection of epidemiology and informatics with an emphasis on understanding the expanding, data-rich environment crea... [more]
Tandon, Shiv Darius
Professor of Medical Social Sciences (Intervention Science)
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My research focuses on the prevention of mental disorders and promotion of positive well-being among vulnerable populations. Much of my mental health research is with perinatal populations, including ... [more]
Verta, Jr., Michael J
Lecturer of Medical Education
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My primary interests are in the minimally-invasive repair of abdominal and thoracic aortic aneurysms as well as Type B dissections. I am institutional principal investigator for the Harvest BMAC trial... [more]
Walunas, Theresa L
Associate Professor of Medicine (General Internal Medicine), Medical Social Sciences, Microbiology-Immunology and Preventive Medicine (Health and Biomedical Informatics)
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I received my PhD in immunology from the University of Chicago where I discovered the function of CTLA-4, the first checkpoint inhibitor. Following my MS in computer science, I worked in microbial gen... [more]