About

Team

Meet the faculty and staff of the KU Medical Center Implementation Science for Equity Center of Biomedical Research Excellence.

Principal Investigators

Christie Befort, Ph.D.

Professor, Population Health

Kimber Richter, Ph.D., MPH, NCTTP

Professor, Population Health

Project Director

Deborah Bixler, MBA

Project Director, Implementation Science & Equity Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE)

Population Health, KU School of Medicine

Research Project Leads

Heather Gibbs, Ph.D., RD, LD

Assistant Dean, Student Affairs, School of Health Professions

Jaime Perales Puchalt, PhD, MPH

Assistant Professor, Neurology

Taneisha Scheuermann, Ph.D.

Program Director, Master of Science in Clinical Research Program Co-Director, Population Health

Sharla Smith, Ph.D., MPH

Associate Professor, Population Health

Community Engagement and Outreach Core

Ton Miras Neira

Core Coordinator

Project Manager, Family Medicine and Community Health, KU School of Medicine

Kristina Bridges, Ph.D.

Community Liason Lead

Research Assistant Professor, Family Medicine and Community Health, KU School of Medicine

Mariana Hildreth

Community Liason Lead

Communications Coordinator, Population Health, KU School of Medicine

Sarah Kessler, PhD, MPH

Professor, Family Medicine and Community Health

Mariana Ramirez, LMSW

Community Liaison Lead

Director, Juntos Center for Advancing Latino Health, Population Health, KU School of Medicine

Ethics Core

Jason Glenn, PhD

Associate Professor, History and Philosophy of Medicine

Jomella Watson-Thompson, Ph.D.

Co-Investigator, Ethics Core

Associate Professor, Applied Behavioral Science, University of Kansas
Director of the Center for Service Learning
Principal Investigator and Director of the Youth Violence Prevention Center, Kansas City

Pragmatic Implementation Science Methods Core

Junqiang Dai, Ph.D.

Research Assistant Professor, Biostatistics & Data Science

Edward Ellerbeck, M.D., MPH, CPH

Professor, Population Health

Shellie Ellis, M.A., Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Population Health

Byron Gajewski, PhD

Professor, Biostatistics & Data Science

Jinxiang Hu, PhD

Associate Professor, Biostatistics & Data Science

Dinesh Pal Mudaranthakam, PhD, MBA, MS

Assistant Professor, Biostatistics & Data Science

Michelle Redmond, Ph.D., M.S.

Associate Professor, Population Health

Mentors

Ross Brownson, Ph.D.

(External Mentor to Dr. Scheuermann)

Steven H. and Susan U. Lipstein Distinguished Professor

Washington University in St. Louis

Brown School

Jeffrey Burns, MD, MS

Edward H. Hashinger Professor of Medicine

Edward Ellerbeck, M.D., MPH, CPH

Professor, Population Health

Kimber Richter, Ph.D., MPH, NCTTP

Professor, Population Health

Debra Sullivan, Ph.D., RD

Department Chair, Dietetics and Nutrition

Jamie Zoellner, Ph.D., RD

(External Mentor to Dr. Gibbs)

Professor and Registered Dietician, Public Health Sciences

Co-Program Lead, Cancer Prevention and Population Health (CPH) Program

University of Virginia

Internal Advisory Committee

Mario Castro, M.D., MPH

L.E. Phillips and Lenora Carr Phillips Professor, Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine

Dianne Durham, PhD

Professor (tenured), Neurology

Jerrihlyn McGee, DNP, RN, CNE

Clinical Associate Professor, School Of Nursing

Barbara Polivka, PhD, RN, FAAN

Professor, School Of Nursing

Jacob Sosnoff, Ph.D.

Associate Dean, Research, School of Health Professions

Implementation Science for Equity COBRE

Implementation Science for Equity COBRE
Population Health
University of Kansas Medical Center
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