Sport Faculty

**Mentorship subject to change based on research availabilty**

Name/Degree(s)	Rank	Primary (& Secondary) Appointment(s)	Role in Program	Research Interest
Beitelshees, Amber, PharmD, MPH	Assistant Professor	Department of Medicine, UMSOM	Mentor	Treatment and prevention of cardiovascular disease and diabetes
Black, Maureen, PhD	Professor	Department of Pediatrics, (Epidemiology and Public Health, Family and Community Medicine, Department of Medicine), UMSOM	Mentor	Nutrition and child development, focusing on both under nutrition and overweight
Blumenthal, Jacob, MD	Assistant Professor	Department of Medicine, Co-Director of the GRECC Assessment Clinic, UMSOM	Mentor	The effects of aging and obesity on cytokine production by adipose tissue and their relationship to systemic levels and constituents of the metabolic syndrome, as well as examine the effect(s) of weight loss and aerobic exercise training in an older subset of subjects
Clark, Jeanne, MD, MPH	Professor and Director	Division of General Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (JHUSOM)	Mentor	Obesity, Diabetes Mellitus, Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
Crimmins, Sarah, DO	Assistant Professor	Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, UMSOM	Mentor	Medical Complications of Pregnancy, Diabetes in pregnancy, Gestational diabetes, group prenatal care, prevention of preterm labor.
D’Adamo, Christopher, PhD	Assistant Professor	Department of Family & Community Medicine, Center for Integrative Medicine(Department of Epidemiology & Public Health), UMSOM	Mentor	Synergistic effects of diet and exercise on the prevention of obesity and chronic disease.
Davis, Stephen, MBBS	Professor	Department of Medicine, UMSOM	Mentor	Diabetes, Hypoglycemia, Exercise, Inflammation
Fink, Jeffrey, MD, MS	Professor	Department of Medicine, Division of Epidemiology; Division Head, General Internal Medicine, UMSOM	Mentor	Epidemiology of chronic kidney diseas
Hager, Erin, PhD	Associate Professor	Department of Pediatrics(Department of Epidemiology & Public Health), UMSOM	Mentor	Physical activity assessment and the development and validation of novel methods for assessing constructs related to nutrition
Joy, Nino, MD	Instructor	Department of Medicine, UMSOM	Mentor	Glucose and pancreatic clamps investigating the independent effects of insulin and glucose on endothelial function, inflammation, and atherothrombotic balance
Katzel, Leslie, MD, PhD	Associate Professor	Department of Medicine, UMSOM	Mentor	Aging, exercise, physical functioning and cognition
Kittner, Steven, MD, MPH	Professor	Department of Neurology(Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Maryland), UMSOM	Mentor	Apply epidemiological principles to neurological problems. He established a population-based case-control study of ischemic stroke in young adults with a biorepository of DNA, serum, and plasma, which has been utilized to study novel stroke risk factors. This work has included historical, biochemical, and more recently genetic factors.
Magaziner, Jay, PhD, MS	Professor and Chair	Department of Epidemiology and Public Health and Director of its Division of Gerontology(Department of Medicine, Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science), UMSOM	Mentor	Epidemiology of hip fracture, psychosocial aspects of health and log-term care, and methods for studying older populations
Magee, Michelle, MD	Associate Professor	Department of Medicine, Georgetown University School of Medicine (GUSOM); Director, MedStar Diabetes Institute	Mentor	Type 2 diabetes, diabetes therapeutics and complications, disparities in diabetes care, hospital management of diabetes, readmission rate reduction, personal health records, mobile health, hypertension and related comorbidities, cardiovascular disease, lipids, diabetes self-care management
Mitchell, Braxton, PhD	Professor	Department of Medicine (Epidemiology & Public Health), UMSOM	Mentor	Genetic basis of heart disease, stroke, diabetes, obesity, and other common aging-related diseases
Olson, John, MD, PhD	Professor	Department of Surgery, UMSOM	Mentor	Hyperparathyroidism and obesity
Ortmeyer, Heidi, PhD	Assistant Professor	Department of Medicine, Division of Gerontology, UMSOM	Mentor	Human-Animal interaction effects on physical activity, Quality of life, and Cardiovascular health in older Veterans
Parker, Elizabeth, PhD, RD	Assistant Professor	Department of Family and Community Medicine, UMSOM	Mentor
Passaniti, Antonio, PhD	Professor	Department of Pathology/Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UMSOM	Mentor	Angiogenesis, antioxidants and insulin sensitivity
Pollin, Toni, PhD	Associate Professor	Department of Medicine, UMSOM(Co-Tract Leader, Human Genetics and Genomic Medicine, Program in Epidemiology and Human Genetics, Graduate Program in Life Sciences)	Mentor	Genetic epidemiology and mapping of diabetes (type 2 and monogenic) and related complications, genomic medicine implementation research
Prior, Steven, PhD	Adjunct Associate Professor	Department of Medicine, Division of Gerontology, UMSOM	Mentor	Angiogenesis, aging, exercise, insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, peripheral arterial disease
Quinn, Charlene RN, PhD	Associate Professor	Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UMSOM	Mentor	Long term care services for older adults, diabetes, technology and aging, mobile health interventions, epidemiology of aging populations
Reece, E. Albert, MD, PhD, MBA	Distinguished Professor and Dean	Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, UMSOM	Mentor	Diabetes in pregnancy, birth defects and prenatal diagnosis
Reeves, Gloria, MD	Associate Professor	Department of Psychiatry, UMSOM	Mentor	Treatment of youth with chronic serious mental illness, antipsychotic-induced weight gain, public health/public policy, family-centered research
Rizzo, Megan, PhD	Associate Professor	Department of Physiology, UMSOM	Mentor	Regulation of insulin secretion from the pancreas, development of optical biosensors to examine dynamic regulation of proteins in living cells
Roghmann, Mary-Claire, MD, MS	Professor	Epidemiology & Public Health(Department of Medicine), UMSOM	Co-Investigator	Implementation of a clinical trial to decrease the recurrence of diabetic foot complication in veterans
Russell, James, MB, ChB, MS	Professor	Department of Neurology, UMSOM	Mentor	Neuropathy, mitochondrial, diabetes, autonomic nervous system
Ryan, Alice, PhD	Professor	Department of Medicine, Division of Gerontology, UMSOM, VA Senior Research Career Scientist	Mentor	Mechanism by which aerobic and resistive exercise and weight loss affect body composition and glucose metabolism in obese elderly
Schneider, Martin, PhD	Professor	Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UMSOM, (GPILS: Program in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Program in Molecular Medicine, Program in Neuroscience)	Mentor	Generation and modulation of the Ca2+ transient in skeletal muscle; Molecular basis of activity dependent skeletal muscle fiber type plasticity; Calcium signaling in neurons.
Sorkin, John, MD, PhD	Professor	Department of Medicine, Division of Gerontology(Epidemiology & Public Health), UMSOM	Mentor	Phenotypes associated with aging successfully and the genetics of longevity
Steinle, Nanette, MD	Associate Professor	Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition, UMSOM	PI	Nutrition, diabetes, obesity, genetics
Taylor, Simeon, MD, PhD	Professor	Department of Medicine, UMSOM	Mentor	Diabetes, endocrinology, metabolism, insulin action, insulin resistance, pharmacology, pharmacogenetics, SGLT2 inhibitors, metreleptin
Terrin, Michael, MD, CM, MPH	Professor	Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine (Department of Medicine), UMSOM	Mentor	Applying epidemiological methods to solve problems in the diagnosis and treatment of heart diseases, vascular diseases, and lung diseases and the prevention of these diseases through address of their risk factors. Translational science.
Thompson, Richard, PhD	Associate Professor	Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UMSOM	Mentor	Development of fluorescence-based biosensors for analytes of clinical and environmental interest, particularly metal ions. The biological and pathological roles of metal ions such as zinc, copper, cadmium, nickel, and cobalt in humans are of growing interest in a variety of diseases, including Alzheimer disease, diabetes, stroke, epilepsy, cancer, macular degeneration of the eye, and others.
Turan, Mehmet Ozhan, MD, PhD	Associate Professor	Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, UMSOM	Mentor	DIabetes in pregnancy, management of diabetes during pregnancy and diagnosis of fetalabnormalities related to diabetic fetopathy
Turner, Douglas, MD, FACS	Associate Professor	Department of Surgery, UMSOM	Mentor	Thyroid diseases, including thyroid cancer, and treatment of hyperparathyroidism
Wieland, Susan, MPH, PhD	Assistant Professor	Department of Family & Community Medicine	Mentor	Systematic Reviews, Informational Retrieval, Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Knowledge Translation
Ying, Zhekang, PhD	Assistant Professor	Department of Medicine, UMSOM	Mentor	Air pollution, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, inflammation
Yu, Liqing 'Justin', MD, PhD	Professor	Department of Medicine, UMSOM	Mentor	Lipid Metabolism and Transport, Nafld, Cardiovascular Disease

**Mentorship subject to change based on research availabilty**