OHDREP Scholars Year 5
Shauntice Allen
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Mentor: Olivia Affuso, PhD
Olamide Crown, PhD
Jackson State University
Mentor: Timothy Turner, PhD
Jia Li, PhD, MS
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Mentor: Monica Baskin, PhD
Ariane Mbemi, PhD
Jackson State University
Mentor: TBD
OHDREP Scholars Year 4
Emily Grenn, MD
University of Mississippi Medical Center
Mentor: Matthew Kutcher, MD, MS
Jessica Grayson, MD, MS
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Mentor: Smita Bhatia, MD, MPH
Candice Myers, PhD, MS, MA
Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University
Mentor: Peter T. Katzmarzyk
OHDREP Scholars Year 3
Azad Bhuiyan, MD, PhD, MPH
Jackson State University, School of Public Health, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Associate Professor
Mentor: Marinelle Payton, MD, PhD
Meagan Gray, MD
UAB, Heersink School of Medicine, Assistant Professor
Mentor: Jayme Locke, MD
Fokhrul Hossain, PhD
Louisiana State University, School of Medicine, Instructor
Mentor: Lucio Miele, MD, PhD
Christina Jordan, PhD
University Mississippi Medical Center, Director BioBank
Mentor: Michael Stefanek, PhD
OHDREP Scholars Year 2
Brittain Heindl, MD
Cardiology Fellow, Heersink School of Medicine Cardiovascular Diseases
Mentor: Tim Garvey, MD
Cody Morris, PhD, MS
Assistant Professor, Department of Human Studies
Mentor: Eric Plaisance, PhD
Caroline Presley, MD
Assistant Professor, Division of Preventive Medicine, Heersink School of Medicine
Mentor: Andrea Cherrington, MD, MPH
OHDREP Scholars Year 1
Susan Andreae, PhD, MPH
Instructor, Department of Preventive Medicine
Grant Plans: K Award
Proposed Title: Motivating Family Members to Help Each Other to Make Healthy Choices: Developing and Pilot Testing a Family Centered PA Program for Youth and Their Parents with Diabetes
Amber W. Kinsey, PhD, CISSN
Post-Doctoral Scholar, Nutrition Obesity Research Center
Grant Plans: K Award
Proposed Title: Using Positive Outliers to Develop an Intervention to Improve the Maintenance of Physical Activity among African American Women
Irena Stepanikova
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
Grant Plans: R03
Proposed Title: Develop a Program of Research in Social Determinants of Obesity which Concerns the Mechanisms that Link Social Factors, such as Rach/Ethnicity to Obesity
Lua Wilkinson
NIH Postdoctoral Trainee, Nutrition Obesity Research Center
Grant Plans: K Award
Proposed Title: Predicting Future Risk for Type 2 Diabetes in African-Americans across the Life-span
Tammi Taylor, PhD
Jackson State University
Mentor: Clifton Addison, PhD