Current Scholars in Alphabetical Order
Scholar:
Phil Bridges, PhD
Department: Clinical and Reproductive Sciences
Project: Regulation of Oviductal Function and Fertility
Mentor: Jay Ko, PhD, and Tom Curry, PhD
Scholar:
Karen Lommel, MD
Department: Psychiatry
Project: Childhood Cancer Survivors: Psychosocial Risks for Female
Rural Adolescent and Young Adults
Mentor: Cathy Martin, MD
Scholar:
Corinne Williams, ScD
Department: Obstetrics and Gynecology
Project: The Effect of Violence on Reproductive Health
Mentor: Ann Coker, PhD, and James E. Ferguson, MD
Scholar:
Faika Zanjani, PhD
Department: Gerontology
Project: Health Disparities Among Women
Mentor: Nancy E. Schoenberg, PhD, and Catherine A. Martin, MD
Graduated Scholars
Scholar: Subbu Apparsundaram, Ph.D.
Department: Anatomy and Neurobiology
Project: Estrogen Modulation of Central Cholinergic and Dopaminergic
Function Regulation of Presynaptic Choline and Dopamine
Mentor: Lothar Jennes, Ph.D.
Scholar:
Kristin Ashford, PhD
Department: Nursing
Project: Smoking and Pre-term Birth
Mentor: James E. Ferguson, MD and Jeffrey Ebersole, MD
Scholar:
Jody L. Clasey, Ph.D.
Department: Kinesiology and Health Promotion
Project: Relationship Between Insulin Sensitivity and Measures of Body
Composition in Obese Prepubescents and Adolescents
Mentor: Dennis Karounos, M.D.
Scholar: Paul Dassow, M.D.
Department: Family Practice
Project: Increasing Colorectal Screening Among Women with the use of
Mailed Educational Prompts
Mentor: Joyce Beaulieu, PhD, MPH, and Mark Dignan, Ph.D., MPH
Scholar: Anita Fernander, Ph.D.
Department: Behavorial Science
Project: The Influence of Stress and Coping on Smoking Status and Smoking
Behaviors Among Disadvantaged African-American Women
Mentor: Linda Dwoskin, Ph.D., and Linda Brown Wright, Ph.D.
Scholar: Joan Griffith, M.D.
Department: Pediatrics
Project: Adolescent Female Obesity, Depression and High-risk Behavior
Mentor: James Anderson, M.D.
Scholar:
Joseph
Holtman, M.D., Ph.D.
Department: Anesthesiology
Project: Gender, Sex Hormones and Pain Responsivity
Mentor: Tom Kelly, Ph.D.
Scholar: Jane Joseph, Ph.D.
Department: Anatomy and Neurobiology
Project: Effects of Hormone Replacement Therapy on Functional Brain
Organization for Spatial and Memory Performance
Mentor: Tom Kelly, Ph.D.
Scholar: Michael W. Kilgore, Ph.D.
Department: Pharmacology
Project: Transcriptional Control of Breast Cancer Through Peroxisome-activated
Receptor Gamma
Mentor: Tom Curry, Ph.D.
Scholar:
Ken Kirsh , Ph.D.
Department: Pharmacy Practice and Science
Mentor: Donald Perrier, Ph.D.
Scholar: Michelle
Lofwall, PhD
Department: Psychiatry
Project: The Role of Gender and Pain on the Abuse Liability, Stress
Response, and Pharmacokinetics of Intranasal OxyContin Among Opioid Users
Mentor: Sharon Walsh, PhD, and Catherine Martin, MD
Scholar: Susan Modesitt, M.D
Department: Ob/GYN
Project: In vitro and in vivo Histone Deacetlyase Inhibitor
Therapy in Ovarian Cancer
Mentors: Tom Curry, Ph.D., and Steve Zimmer, Ph.D.
Scholar: Igho Ofotokun, M.D.
Department: Internal Medicine
Project: Gender Differences in Response and Adverse Reactions to the
Antiretroviral Drugs
Mentors: Claire Pomeroy, M.D.
Scholar:
Alice Thorton, M.D.
Department: Internal Medicine
Project: Epidemiology
and Host Responses to Trichomoniasis
Mentors: Beth Garvy, M.D., and Dennis Fortenberry, M.D.
Scholar: James
Temprano, MD
Department: Internal Medicine
Project: Differences in Exhaled Nitric Oxide Levels and Correlation
with Markers of Asthma Severity in Pregnant Asthmatics and Controls
Mentors: David Mannino, MD, and Beth Garvy, PhD
Scholar: Anand
Vaishnav, MD
Department: Neurology
Project: Effects on Gender on Healthy and Stroke Subtype
Patients on P-selectin Expression in Platelets based on Flow Cytometry
Mentors: Suellen Ferraris, PhD
Scholar: Melinda
Wison, Ph.D.
Department: Physiology
Project: Mechanisms of Estrogen Neuroprotection in HIV-associated Dementia
Mentors: Eric Smart, Ph.D.