Cathleen Appelt, PhD
Project Manager

Email: Cathleen.Appelt@med.va.gov
last update:May 26, 2004

David A Asch, MD, MBA
Center Co-PI and Co-chief, Communication and Dissemination Core
Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Robert D. Eilers Professor of Health Care Management and Economics, The Wharton School
Research Areas:
Health Equity, Medical Decision Making

Bio Link: http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/faculty/asch.html
Email: asch@wharton.upenn.edu
PubMed Link: Click Here
last update:January 11, 2008

Sherrie L Aspinall, PharmD
Core Investigator
Research Areas:
Appropriate and cost-effective use of medications, especially antibiotics. Pharmacoeconomics. Racial variations in medication use.

Email: sherrie.aspinall@med.va.gov
PubMed Link: Click Here
last update:September 9, 2003

Charles Atwood, MD
Core Investigator
Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Director, Sleep Disorders Program, VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System
Associate director, UPMC Sleep Medicine Center
Co-director of Sleep Medicine Fellowship, UPMC.
Research Areas:
Sleep disorders, COPD, Dysphagia

Bio Link: http://www.cherp.org/bios/Atwood_may2005_000.htm
Email: charles.atwood@med.va.gov
PubMed Link: Click Here
last update:July 11, 2006

Nichole Bayliss
Research Assistant

Email: nichole.bayliss@med.va.gov
last update:November 11, 2003

Julie Blasiole, MPH
Project Coordinator

Email: julie.blasiole@med.va.gov
last update:July 11, 2005

Sonya Borrero, MD
Associate Investigator

last update:July 11, 2007

Katherine Brickett
Secretary

Email: katherine.bricket@med.va.gov
last update:November 11, 2003

Kimberly Brown, PhD
Administrative Coordinator
Research Areas:
Archeology

Email: kimberly.brown6@va.gov
last update:January 11, 2008

Kelly B Burkitt, PhD
Director of Research Development
Research Areas:
Trauma, health psychology, program evaluation

Email: kelly.burkitt@va.gov
PubMed Link: Click Here
last update:May 3, 2005

David J Casarett, MD, MA
Core Investigator
Staff Physician, Philadelphia VAMC
Director, PROMISE Center
Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Research Areas:
Health Equity, Research Ethics, Medical Decision Making, Informed Consent, End-of-Life Care

Email: casarett@mail.med.upenn.edu
PubMed Link: Click Here
last update:August 26, 2003

Virginia W Chang, MD, PhD
Core Investigator
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Research Areas:
Health Equity, Obesity

Email: vwchang@mail.med.upenn.edu
PubMed Link: Click Here
last update:January 9, 2008

Huanyu Chen, MS
Project Coordinator

Email: huanyu.chen@med.va.gov

Chunrong Cheng
Biostatistician

Email: chunrong.cheng@med.va.gov
last update:October 16, 2003

Carson Clark
Interim Communications Coordinator

Email: Carson.Clark@va.gov
last update:03/04/2009

Elsa Crick
Programmer Analyst

Email: elsa.crick@va.gov
last update:July 11, 2006

Keith Davies
Database Administrator and Programmer

last update:12/18/2008

Sara Eggers
Core Investigator

Email: sara.eggers@va.gov
last update:09202007

Michael J Fine, MD, MSc
Center PI
Professor of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Research Areas:
Health Equity, Pneumonia, Antibiotic Use

Email: finemj@msx.upmc.edu
PubMed Link: Click Here
last update:January 11, 2008

Andrea R Fox, MD
Affiliate Investigator
Research Areas:
Health Equity

Email: andrea.fox@med.va.gov
PubMed Link: Click Here

Linda F Fried, MD, MPH
Core Investigator
Research Areas:
Kidney Disease, Cardiovascular Disease, Epidemiology, Clincial Decision Making

Email: linda.fried@med.va.gov
PubMed Link: Click Here
last update:August 28, 2003

Rollin Gallagher, MD, MPH
Core Investigator
Research Areas:
Pain Management, Health Disparities

PubMed Link: Click Here
last update:May 5, 2005

Ming Geng
Systems Programmer

Email: ming.geng@va.gov
last update:July 11, 2006

Chester Bernell Good, MD, MPH
Core Investigator
Research Areas:
Health Equity

Email: chester.good@med.va.gov
PubMed Link: Click Here
last update:November 11, 2003

Adam Joseph Gordon, MD, MPH
Core Investigator
Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Research Areas:
Health Equity, understanding the clinical outcomes and processes of care of vulnerable patients accessing and undergoing alcohol treatment

Email: adam.gordon@med.va.gov
PubMed Link: Click Here
last update:August 28, 2003

Peter Groeneveld, MD, MSc
Core Investigator
Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Research Areas:
Cost effectiveness, emerging medical technologies, health equity

Email: Peter.Groeneveld@med.va.gov
PubMed Link: Click Here
last update:August 3, 2004

Jennifer Gutierrez
Program Specialist

Email: Jennifer.Gutierrez@med.va.gov
last update:June 21, 2004

Gretchen L Haas, PhD
Steering Committee
Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Director of the Family and Psychosocial Studies Program, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic
Research Areas:
Health Equity, clinical phenomenology and course of schizophrenia and psychotic mood disorders

Email: haasgl@upmc.edu
PubMed Link: Click Here
last update:August 28, 2003

Joseph Hanlon, PharmD, MS
Core Investigator
Research Areas:
Pharmacoepidemiology and health services research related to drug therapy for elders

Email: joseph.hanlon2@med.va.gov
last update:September 18, 2006

Kim Hansen
Research Assistant

Email: kimberly.hansen1@med.va.gov
last update:June 15, 2005

Leslie Hausmann, PhD
Core Investigator

Email: leslie.hausmann@va.gov
last update:12/18/2008

Patricia M Hayes, PhD, MA
Affiliate Investigator

Email: patricia.hayes@med.va.gov
PubMed Link: Click Here
last update:August 28, 2003

Rachel Hess, MD
Affiliate Investigator
Research Areas:
Health Equity

Email: hessr@msx.upmc.edu
PubMed Link: Click Here
last update:August 28, 2003

Sakhena Hin
Program Support Assistant and Research Assistant

Email: Sakena.Hin@va.gov
last update:August 25, 2005

William C. Holmes, MD, MSCE
Core Investigator
Assistant Professor, Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Research Areas:
Quality of Life, Health Status Assessment, Outcomes Research, HIV/AIDS,
Sexual Abuse (Males)

Bio Link: http://www.hsrd.research.va.gov/for_researchers/professional_development/clinician/cda_awardees/info_holmes.cfm
Email: holmeswc@mail.med.upenn.edu
PubMed Link: Click Here
last update:February 2, 2005

Said A Ibrahim, MD, MPH
Core Investigator
Associate Professor of Medicine
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Research Areas:
Understanding how ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and culture impact health care

Email: said.ibrahim2@med.va.gov
PubMed Link: Click Here
last update:June 15, 2005

Jerry C Johnson, MD
Chair, Steering Committee
Chief of the Division of Geriatric Medicine, School of Medicine
Professor of Medicine
Director, Center for Excellence on Minority Health, University of Pennsylvania
Research Areas:
Geriatrics, Minority Health, Neuropsychiatric problems heart failure, Surgical risk and outcomes

Bio Link: http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/gerimed/jjbio2002.shtml
Email: jcjohnso@mail.med.upenn.edu
PubMed Link: Click Here

Rachel Rapaport Kelz, MD, MCSE
Affiliate Investigator
Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Email: rapaporr@uphs.upenn.edu
last update:August 9, 2004

Bruce Kinosian, MD
Core Investigator
Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Research Areas:
Nutrition and aging, Clinical economics,
Home care

Bio Link: http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/aging/fellows/kinosia.html
Email: brucek@mail.med.upenn.edu
PubMed Link: Click Here
last update:August 28, 2003

Nan Klein
Secretary to Dr. Fine

Email: antoinette.klein@med.va.gov
last update:October 21, 2004

Margaret Krumm
Research Coordinator

Email: margaret.krumm@va.gov
last update:January 21, 2006

Shiriki Kumanyika, PhD
Steering Committee
Director, Graduate Program in Public Health Studies (MPH Program)
Professor of Epidemiology, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Research Areas:
Obesity & Weight Management, Nutrition & Chronic Disease, Socioeconomics & African American cutural issues in diet & health

Bio Link: http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/aging/fellows/kumanyik.html
Email: skumanyi@cceb.med.upenn.edu
PubMed Link: Click Here
last update:August 28, 2003

Samuel Kuna, MD, MCSE
Core Investigator
Chief, Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Section, VAMC
Associate Professor of Medicine, the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Research Areas:
Sleep Apnea, Health Equity

Bio Link: http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/lungctr/academic_programs/pulmonary/provider_profiles/skuna.html
Email: skuna@mail.med.upenn.edu
PubMed Link: Click Here
last update:September 16, 2003

C. Kent Kwoh, MD
Chair, Intramural Research Committee
Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Research Areas:
ethnic disparities in rheumatic diseases and rehabilitation/orthopaedic outcomes

Bio Link: http://newsbureau.upmc.com/Bios/BioKwoh.htm
Email: kwoh@pitt.edu
PubMed Link: Click Here
last update:November 13, 2003

Elaine C Lasky, RN, BSN
Project Coordinator

Email: elaine.lasky@med.va.gov
last update:August 28, 2003

Judith R Lave, PhD
Affiliate Investigator
Steering Committee Member
Professor of Health Economics at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health
Research Areas:
cost, utilization and financing of health care services

Bio Link: http://newsbureau.upmc.com/Bios/BioLave.htm
Email: lave@pitt.edu
PubMed Link: Click Here
last update:August 28, 2003

Bruce S Ling, MD, MPH
Core Investigator
Professor, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Research Areas:
Health Equity

Email: lingbs@msx.upmc.edu
PubMed Link: Click Here
last update:August 28, 2003

Janet Lohner
Computer Technical Support

Email: janet.lohner@med.va.gov
last update:August 28, 2003

Judith A Long, MD
Core Investigator
Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Research Areas:
Socioeconomic status, health care disparities of vulnerable populations, health services research

Email: jalong@mail.med.upenn.edu
PubMed Link: Click Here
last update:November 11, 2003

Janet Lynch
Administrative Assistant

Email: janet.lynch@va.gov
last update:January 11, 2008

Alanna Macioce
Research Assistant

Email: alanna.macioce@med.va.gov
last update:October 21, 2004

David S Macpherson, MD, MPH
Affiliate Investigator
Professor, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Email: david.macpherson@med.va.gov
PubMed Link: Click Here
last update:August 28, 2003

Mitchell L Margolis, MD
Affiliate Investigator
Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Division, Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Research Areas:
Lung Cancer and Clinical Pulmonary Medicine

Email: mitchell.margolis@med.va.gov
PubMed Link: Click Here
last update:August 28, 2003

Megan Crowley Matoka, PhD
Core Investigator
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Research Areas:
Organ transplantation

Email: megan.matoka@med.va.gov
PubMed Link: Click Here
last update:November 11, 2003

Kara Mays
Research Assistant

Email: kira.mays@va.gov
last update:July 11, 2006

Kathleen A McGinnis, BS, MS
Project Coordinator

Email: kathleen.mcginnis2@med.va.gov
PubMed Link: Click Here
last update:August 28, 2003

Melissa A McNeil, MD, MPH
Affiliate Investigator
Professor, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Research Areas:
Health Equity

Email: mcneilma@msx.upmc.edu
PubMed Link: Click Here
last update:August 28, 2003

Cheryl Ann Monturo
Nursing Fellow

Bio Link: http://www.nursing.upenn.edu/centers/hcgne/edu_profile_monturo.htm
Email: monturo@nursing.upenn.edu
last update:October 27, 2004

Maria Mor, PhD
Core Investigator, Biostatistician; Data Management, Programming, and Statistical Core

Email: maria.mor@med.va.gov
last update:May 26, 2004

Michael E Moreland, MSW
Steering Committee
Director, VISN4

last update:August 28, 2003

Visala Muluk
Affiliate Investigator

Email: visala.muluk@med.va.gov
last update:August 28, 2003

Larissa Myaskovsky, PhD
Core Investigator
Research Areas:
Disparities in transplantation and organ donation, quality of life, and health literacy

Email: Larissa.Myaskovsky@med.va.gov
PubMed Link: Click Here
last update:May 2, 2005

D. Scott Obrosky, MS
Project Coordinator and Statistician/Systems Analyst

Email: David.Obrosky@med.va.gov
PubMed Link: Click Here
last update:June 16, 2004

David W Oslin, MD
Core Investigator
Assistant Professor, Geriatric and Addiction Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center
Research Areas:
Treatment and consequences of alcohol dependence in older adults

Email: oslin@mail.med.upenn.edu
PubMed Link: Click Here
last update:August 28, 2003

Mark V Pauly, PhD
Core Investigator
Bendheim Professor, Professor and Chair of Health Care Systems, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Research Areas:
Medical economics, Insurance theory & regulation, Public finance, Collective decision making

Email: pauly@wharton.upenn.edu
PubMed Link: Click Here
last update:August 28, 2003

Rose M Pfeuffer
Budget Analyst

Email: rose.pfeuffer@med.va.gov
last update:August 28, 2003

Daniel Polsky, PhD
Affiliate Investigator
Assistant Professor of Medicine General Internal Medicine
Research Areas:
Health Insurance, Health Care Finance, Economic evaluation of medical interventions, Mental health and substance abuse policy

Email: polsky@mail.med.upenn.edu
PubMed Link: Click Here
last update:August 28, 2003

Abby Resnick, MA
Biostatistician

Email: abby.resnick@va.gov
last update:August 5, 2005

Edmund Ricci, PhD
Steering Committee
Professor, Sociology in Public Health
Interim Director, Division of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences
Professor, Sociology, University of Pittsburgh
Research Areas:
emergency and disaster medicine, substance abuse health programs, geriatric assessment, and injury prevention

Email: hsaed@vms.cis.pitt.edu
PubMed Link: Click Here
last update:August 28, 2003

Keri Rodriguez, PhD
Core Investigator
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Sociology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Research Areas:
Patient-Provider Communication; End-of-Life Care

Email: keri.rodriguez@med.va.gov
PubMed Link: Click Here
last update:May 18, 2005

Carol Rogina
Site Coordinator, Veterans Aging Cohort Study

Email: carol.rogina@med.va.gov
last update:November 12, 2003

Sylvia E. Rosas, MD, MCSE
Core Investigator
Assistant Professor of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Research Areas:
Health equity, cardiovascular disease in persons with kidney disease

last update:March 25, 2009

Armando Rotondi, PhD
Core Investigator
Associate Professor Critical Care Medicine
Department of Health Policy and Management
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

last update:12/18/2008

Stacey Sadler
Project Coordinator

Email: stacey.porter@med.va.gov
last update:August 28, 2003

Mary Ann Sevick, ScD
Core Investigator
Associate Professor
Research Areas:
Adherence, chronic disease

Email: sevick@pitt.edu
last update:July 12, 2006

Judy A Shea, PhD
Co-chief, Measurement Core
Associate Professor of Medicine, Clinician Educator, Director of Evaluation and Assessment, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Research Areas:
Measurement, Instrument Design, Evaluation, Psychometrics

Email: sheaja@mail.med.upenn.edu
PubMed Link: Click Here
last update:January 9, 2008

Yvette Shipman
Research Coordinator

Email: yvette.shipman@med.va.gov
last update:October 21, 2004

Melissa Skanderson, BA, MSW
Project Coordinator

Email: melissa.skanderson@med.va.gov
PubMed Link: Click Here

Ali F Sonel, MD
Core Investigator
Research Areas:
Cardiovascular disease

Email: Ali.Sonel@med.va.gov
PubMed Link: Click Here
last update:August 28, 2003

Margaret Stinemen, MD
Affiliate Investigator
Associate Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Research Areas:
Health disparities (ethnic, age-related), particularly in those with disabilities or receiving rehabilitative services.

Email: mstinema@mail.med.upenn.edu
last update:May 26, 2004

Roslyn A Stone, PhD
Co-Chief, Biostatistics and Informatics Core
Associate Professor of Biostatistics, graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh
Research Areas:
generalized linear models, survival, design and analysis of cluster-randomized studies

Email: roslyn@pitt.edu
PubMed Link: Click Here
last update:August 28, 2003

Stephanie Studenski, MD
Affiliate Investigator
Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Research Areas:
Health Equity

Email: StudenskiS@msx.dept-med.pitt.edu
PubMed Link: Click Here
last update:July 11, 2006

Galen E Switzer, PhD
Associate Director

Associate Professor of Medicine & Psychiatry, Center for Research on Health Care, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Research Areas:
psychometrics, quality of life, tissue donors, bone marrow transplantation

Email: switzerge@msx.upmc.edu
PubMed Link: Click Here
last update:September 14, 2005

Stephen B Thomas, PhD
Co-chief, Communication and Dissemination Core
Director, Center for Minority Health
Philip Hallen Professor of Community Health and Social Justice, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh

Bio Link: http://www.cmh.pitt.edu
Email: sbthomas@pitt.edu
PubMed Link: Click Here
last update:August 28, 2003

Martha E Trudeau, RN, MPA
Administrative Director, CHERP
Research Areas:
Antibiotic use, infection control

Email: martha.trudeau@med.va.gov
PubMed Link: Click Here
last update:November 12, 2003

Kevin G Volpp, MD, PhD
Core Investigator
Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Assistant Professor Health Care Systems, the Wharton School
Research Areas:
Quality impacts of natural experiments in health policy reform, Risk behavior and non-use of beneficial preventive services

Bio Link: http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/faculty/volpp.html
Email: Volpp70@mail.med.upenn.edu
PubMed Link: Click Here
last update:March 3, 2005

Abdus Wahed, PhD
Investigator

Bio Link: http://www.biostat.pitt.edu/wahed.htm
last update:June 5, 2007

Mary B Walsh, RN
Administrative Officer

Email: mary.walsh3@med.va.gov
last update:November 12, 2003

Janet Weiner, MPH
Affiliate Investigator
Associate Director for Health Policy, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics

Email: weinerja@mail.med.upenn.edu
last update:August 28, 2003

Mark G Weiner, MD
Co-Chief, Data Management, Computer Programming, and Statistical Core
Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Research Areas:
Medical Informatics, Informations needs in clinical research

Email: mweiner@mail.med.upenn.edu
PubMed Link: Click Here
last update:August 28, 2003

Steven Weisbord, MD, MSc
Core Investigator
Medical Trainee, Clinical Research, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Email: Steven.Weisbord@va.gov
PubMed Link: Click Here
last update:July 11, 2006

Rachel Werner, MD, PhD
Core Investigator
Research Areas:
Health Disparities, Discrimination, Quality of Care

Email: rwerner@mail.med.upenn.edu
PubMed Link: Click Here
last update:May 6, 2005

Xiangyan Xu
Biostatistician

Email: xiangyan.xu@med.va.gov
last update:October 21, 2004

Susan Zickmund, PhD
Core Investigator
Research Areas:
Patient/Physician Communication, health equity

Email: susan.zickmund@med.va.gov
PubMed Link: Click Here
last update:July 11, 2005