Sport Faculty
**Mentorship subject to change based on research availabilty**
Name/Degree(s) |
Rank |
Primary (& Secondary) Appointment(s) |
Role in Program |
Research Interest |
Assistant Professor |
Department of Medicine, UMSOM |
Mentor |
Treatment and prevention of cardiovascular disease and diabetes |
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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 |
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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 |
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Professor and Director |
Division of General Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (JHUSOM) |
Mentor |
Obesity, Diabetes Mellitus, Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease |
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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. |
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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. |
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Professor |
Department of Medicine, UMSOM |
Mentor |
Diabetes, Hypoglycemia, Exercise, Inflammation |
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Professor |
Department of Medicine, Division of Epidemiology; Division Head, General Internal Medicine, UMSOM |
Mentor |
Epidemiology of chronic kidney diseas |
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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 |
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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 |
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Associate Professor |
Department of Medicine, UMSOM |
Mentor |
Aging, exercise, physical functioning and cognition |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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Professor |
Department of Medicine (Epidemiology & Public Health), UMSOM |
Mentor |
Genetic basis of heart disease, stroke, diabetes, obesity, and other common aging-related diseases |
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Professor |
Department of Surgery, UMSOM |
Mentor |
Hyperparathyroidism and obesity |
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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 |
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Assistant Professor |
Department of Family and Community Medicine, UMSOM |
Mentor |
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Professor |
Department of Pathology/Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UMSOM |
Mentor |
Angiogenesis, antioxidants and insulin sensitivity |
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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 |
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Adjunct Associate Professor |
Department of Medicine, Division of Gerontology, UMSOM |
Mentor |
Angiogenesis, aging, exercise, insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, peripheral arterial disease |
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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 |
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Distinguished Professor and Dean |
Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, UMSOM |
Mentor |
Diabetes in pregnancy, birth defects and prenatal diagnosis |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Professor |
Department of Neurology, UMSOM |
Mentor |
Neuropathy, mitochondrial, diabetes, autonomic nervous system |
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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 |
|
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. |
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Professor |
Department of Medicine, Division of Gerontology(Epidemiology & Public Health), UMSOM |
Mentor |
Phenotypes associated with aging successfully and the genetics of longevity |
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Associate Professor |
Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition, UMSOM |
PI |
Nutrition, diabetes, obesity, genetics |
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Professor |
Department of Medicine, UMSOM |
Mentor |
Diabetes, endocrinology, metabolism, insulin action, insulin resistance, pharmacology, pharmacogenetics, SGLT2 inhibitors, metreleptin |
|
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. |
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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. |
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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 |
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Associate Professor |
Department of Surgery, UMSOM |
Mentor |
Thyroid diseases, including thyroid cancer, and treatment of hyperparathyroidism |
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Assistant Professor |
Department of Family & Community Medicine |
Mentor |
Systematic Reviews, Informational Retrieval, Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Knowledge Translation |
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Assistant Professor |
Department of Medicine, UMSOM |
Mentor |
Air pollution, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, inflammation |
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Professor |
Department of Medicine, UMSOM |
Mentor |
Lipid Metabolism and Transport, Nafld, Cardiovascular Disease |
**Mentorship subject to change based on research availabilty**