Jena J. Steinle, PhD
Professor of Ophthalmology, Visual and Anatomical Scienes, School of Medicine, Wayne State University
Areas of Expertise:
Anatomy & cell biology, ophthalmology
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Madeline R. Sterling, MD, MPH, MS
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine
Areas of Expertise:
Home health care workers, cardiovascular health, health equity, peer support, interventions and clinical trials
Rita Strakovsky, PhD, RD
Assistant Professor of Maternal Nutrition and Toxicology, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Michigan State University
Areas of Expertise:
Perinatal epidemiology, toxicology, nutrition
Edward L. Stuenkel, PhD
Professor Emeritus of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, Medical School
Areas of Expertise:
Beta cell, insulin secretion, exocytosis
Shengyi (Iris) Sun, PhD
Assistant Professor of Molecular Medicine and Genetics and of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics, Wayne State University
Areas of Expertise:
ER-associated degradation, immunometabolism, nutrient metabolism
Jeremy B. Sussman, MD, MS
Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, Medical School
Areas of Expertise:
Development, testing, and implementation of tools for personalized medical decision-making
Meng H. Tan, MD
Professor Emeritus of Internal Medicine, Medical School
Meng H. Tan, MD
Professor Emeritus of Internal Medicine, Medical School
Areas of Expertise:
Dyslipidemias in diabetes, insulin resistance, thiazolidinediones
Deborah Tate, PhD
Professor of Health Behavior and Professor of Nutrition, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina
Director, Communication for Health Applications and Interventions (CHAI) Core
Areas of Expertise:
Diabetes, eHealth/mHealth, weight loss intervention
George W. Taylor, DMD, MPH, DrPH
Professor of Preventive and Restor Dent Sci, School of Dentistry, University of California, San Francisco
Areas of Expertise:
Glycemic control, diabetes complications, periodontal infection
Inas Thomas, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Medical School
Areas of Expertise:
Type 1 diabetes, clinical trial, insulin pump
Renuka Tipirneni, MD, MSc
Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine, Medical School
Areas of Expertise:
Health insurance/Medicaid, social determinants of health, aging
Xin (Tony) Tong, MD, PhD
Research Assistant Professor, Molecular and Integrative Physiology, Medical School
Areas of Expertise:
Transcriptional regulation, post-translational modifications, glucose/lipid metabolism
Raymond C. Trievel, PhD
Associate Professor of Biological Chemistry, Medical School
Associate Professor of Biophysics, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Areas of Expertise:
Chromatin modification, transcriptional regulation, enzyme structure and function
Delia M. Vazquez, MD
Professor of Pediatrics and Professor of Psychiatry, Medical School
Areas of Expertise:
Early life obesity, developmental programming, stress
Tiffany Veinot, PhD
Professor of Information, School of Information
Professor of Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health
Areas of Expertise:
Community health informatics, technology-enhanced disease prevention, big data approach
Kristen J. Verhey, PhD
A. Kent Christensen Collegiate Professor
Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, Medical School
Professor of Biophysics, College of Literature, Science and the Arts
Areas of Expertise:
Cytoskeleton, cilia, membrane trafficking
Sandeep Vijan, MD
Professor of Internal Medicine, Medical School
Areas of Expertise:
Risk modeling, decision making, quality measurement
Matam Vijay-Kumar, PhD
Professor of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Toledo
Areas of Expertise:
IBD, metabolic syndrome, gut microbiota
Anne B. Vojtek, PhD
Associate Professor of Biological Chemistry, Medical School
Areas of Expertise:
Signaling, cell growth, neural differentiation
Jian Wang, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Pathology, Wayne State University
Areas of Expertise:
Amino acid metabolism, one-carbon metabolism, fatty liver disease
Jiemei Wang, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Wayne State University
Areas of Expertise:
Wound healing, non-coding RNA, angiogenesis
Ping Wang, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Radiology, Precision Health Program, College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University
Areas of Expertise:
Islet transplantation, type 1 diabetes, stem cell
Daphne C. Watkins, PhD
University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor
Director, Vivian A. and James L. Curtis Center
Professor of Social Work, School of Social Work
Areas of Expertise:
Mixed methods, social networks, health interventions
Lois S. Weisman, PhD
Sarah Winans Newman Collegiate Professor in the Life Sciences
Research Professor, Life Sciences Institute
Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, Medical School
Areas of Expertise:
Diabetes, phosphatidylinositol 3,5 bis phosphate, endosomes
Stephen J. Weiss, MD
E. Gifford and Love Barnett Upjohn Professor of Internal Medicine and Oncology
Professor of Internal Medicine, Medical School
Research Professor, Life Sciences Institute
Robert Wessells, PhD
Associate Professor of Physiology, Wayne State University
Areas of Expertise:
Cardiac, exercise, drosophila
Margaret V. Westfall, PhD
Associate Professor of Cardiac Surgery, Associate Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology and Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Medical School
Julia Wolfson, PhD
Assistant Professor of International Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
Areas of Expertise:
Obesity and diabetes prevention, food procurement and preparation practices, public health policy
Terrence N. Wong, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine, Medical School
Areas of Expertise:
Acute myeloid leukemia, hematopoiesis, clonal evolution
Maria Woodward, MD, MS
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Medical School
Areas of Expertise:
eHealth, eye care delivery, telemedicine, provider decision support systems
Jun Wu, PhD
Research Assistant Professor, Life Sciences Institute
Assistant Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, Medical School
Areas of Expertise:
Obesity, beige fat, brown fat
Jennifer Wyckoff, MD
Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, Medical School
Areas of Expertise:
Diabetes and pregnancy, insulin pumps, patient education, cystic fibrosis related diabetes, transplant related diabetes
Bin Xu, PhD
Associate Research Scientist, Internal Medicine, Medical School
Areas of Expertise:
LncRNA coactivator, nuclear receptor, adipogenesis
Wen Ye, PhD
Associate Research Scientist, Biostatistics, School of Public Health
Areas of Expertise:
Disease modeling for diabetes, clinical trial design, longitudinal study design and analysis
Wen Ye, PhD
Associate Research Scientist, Biostatistics, School of Public Health
Areas of Expertise:
Longitudinal data analysis, survival data analysis, diabetes disease model