CPHAR Mentors

Note: Please contact Peggye Dilworth-Anderson, PhD, CPHAR Director, at (919) 966-9444 for help in selecting and contacting a mentor.

Mary Altpeter, PhD, MSW, MPA Positions: Senior Scientist, UNC Institute on Aging; Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health
Areas of interest: social determinants of health promotion and aging, developing and evaluating evidence-based health promotion interventions, community engagement in program and policy planning, community-based Website: http://www.aging.unc.edu/bio/altpeter.html
Email: mary_altpeter@unc.edu

James Beck, PhD
Positions: Kenan Professor, Department of Dental Ecology
Areas of interest: Oral diseases as risk factors for systemic diseases, effects of utilization of dental services on oral status
Website: http://www.dent.unc.edu/search/people/bio.cfm?EMPLOYEEID=2002
Email: james_beck@unc.edu

Jan Busby-Whitehead, MD
Positions: Lead for Clinical Affairs, UNC Institute on Aging; Professor of Medicine; Director, Center for Aging and Health
Areas of interest: Functional assessment, urinary incontinence, physical activity
Website: http://www.med.unc.edu/aging/fellowship_3year_research.htm/faculty-and-staff/dr.-jan-busby-whitehead
Email: marigold@med.unc.edu

Leigh F. Callahan, PhD
Positions: Professor, Medicine and Social Medicine; Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology
Areas of interest: Self-management and Chronic Disease Outcomes, Physical Activity and Arthritis, Individual and Social Determinants of Chronic Disease Outcomes, Health Disparities, Health Literacy
Website: http://tarc.med.unc.edu/facultymem.php?id=9
Email: Leigh_Callahan@med.unc.edu

Timothy Carey, MD, MPH
Positions: Professor of Medicine; Director, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research
Areas of interest: Clinical effectiveness in outcomes, musculoskeletal diseases, evidence-based practice, use of feeding tubes in the elderly, racial disparities in medical practice
Website: none
Email: tim_carey@unc.edu

Barbara Waag Carlson, Ph.D., RN
Positions: Associate Professor and Associate Director, Biobehavioral Lab, School of Nursing
Areas of Interest: biobehavioral measurement, sleep, breathing, and cognitive decline in older adults
Website: http://nursing.unc.edu/news-events/Nurse-scientist-looks-for-answers-to-help-young-adults-with-SCD.htm
Email: bcarlson@email.unc.edu

Giselle Corbie-Smith, MD, MSc
Positions: Associate Professor, Department of Social Medicine; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology; Director of the Program on Health Disparities, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research
Areas of interest: Barriers to African American participation in clinical trials and disparities in health
Website: http://www.med.unc.edu/socialmed/faculty-staff/giselle-corbies-smith?searchterm=Corbie-Smith
Email: gcorbie@med.unc.edu

Malcolm Cutchin, PhD
Positions: Associate Professor, Division of Occupational Science, Department of Allied Health Sciences; Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Geography; IOA Senior Fellow
Areas of interest: transactions among older people and their environments; social epidemiology; pragmatism
Email: mcutchin@med.unc.edu

Institute on Aging | Publications

Brenda DeVellis, PhD
Positions: Professor, Department of Health Behavior and Health Education; Research Professor, Department of Psychology
Areas of interest: Psychosocial aspects of health-related behavior
Website: http://tarc.med.unc.edu/facultymem.php?id=17
Email: bdevelli@email.unc.edu

Robert DeVellis, PhD
Positions: Research Professor, Department of Health Behavior and Health Education; Associate Director, Arthritis Multidisciplinary Clinical Research Center; Adjunct Professor, Department of Psychology
Areas of interest: Interpersonal, cognitive, and emotional processes related to health status in persons with chronic illness
Website: http://tarc.med.unc.edu/facultymem.php?id=16
Email: bob_devellis@unc.edu

Peggye Dilworth-Anderson, PhD
Positions: Interim Co-Director, Lead for Aging and Diversity, and Director of the Center for Aging and Diversity, UNC Institute on Aging; Professor, Department of Health Policy and Administration; CPHAR Program Director
Areas of interest: Family caregiving to elders, dementia, culture and family, social support and older families, and intergenerational relations in African American families.
Website: http://www.aging.unc.edu/bio/dilworthanderson.html
Email: pdilworth@mail.schsr.unc.edu, dilworth@email.unc.edu

Jo Anne Earp, ScD
Positions: Professor and Chair, Department of Health Behavior and Health Education; Faculty Associate, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
Areas of interest: Social/attitudinal aspects of health/health behaviors
Website: http://www.sph.unc.edu/?option=com_profiles&Itemid=6745&profileAction=ProfDetail&pid=704216901
Email: joanne_earp@unc.edu

Lloyd J. Edwards, PhD
Positions: Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics, UNC School of Public Health
Areas of interest: Mixed model theory and application, longitudinal data analysis, design and analysis of clinical trials
Website: http://www.sph.unc.edu/bios/facstaff/
Email: Lloyd_Edwards@unc.edu

Donna B. Gilleskie, PhD
Positions: Associate Professor, Department of Economics (College of Arts & Sciences)
Areas of interest: retirement; health insurance; older workers; Social Security; health
Website: http://www.unc.edu/depts/econ/profiles/gilleskie.htm
Email: donna_gilleskie@unc.edu

Carol Giuliani, PhD
Positions: Professor, Department of Allied Health Sciences
Areas of interest: Maintain independent mobility, functional assessment
Website: http://www.med.unc.edu/ahs/physical/cgiuliani.htm
Email: carol_giuliani@med.unc.edu

Paul A. Godley, MD, PhD, MPP
Positions: Associate Professor, Department of Medicine; Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology
Areas of interest: Prostate cancer, eliminating racial disparities in health
Website: http://medicine.med.unc.edu/search/profile.aspx?ID=197
Email: pgodley@med.unc.edu

Laura Hanson, MD, MPH
Positions: Associate Professor, Department of Medicine
Areas of interest: End of life care and nursing home policy and practice
Website: http://www.med.unc.edu/pcare/members-palliative-care-program/palliative-care-core-team/all-members/laura-c-hanson-md-mph
Email: lhanson@med.unc.edu

Marilyn Hartman, PhD
Positions: Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
Areas of interest: Mental health processes in older adults
Website: http://www.unc.edu/%7Ehartman/
Email: marilyn_hartman@unc.edu

Joanne Jordan, MD, MPH
Positions: Associate Professor of Medicine; Associate Professor, Department of Orthopaedics; Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology
Areas of interest: Epidemiology of osteoarthritis
Website: http://tarc.med.unc.edu/facultymem.php?id=30
Email: joanne_jordan@med.unc.edu

Thomas R. Konrad, PhD (RETIRED)
Positions: Senior Fellow, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research; Research Associate Professor, Department of Health Policy and Administration; Research Professor, Department of Social Medicine
Areas of interest: Health and aging workforce issues, long term care
Website: http://myprofile.cos.com/konradt90
Email: bob_konrad@unc.edu

Mary R. Lynn, PhD
Positions: Professor, School of Nursing
Areas of interest: Instrument development and measurement for quality care, work satisfaction, home health
Website: http://nursing.unc.edu/news-events/SON-Faculty-Named-as-2012-Faculty-of-the-Year.htm
Email: mary_lynn@unc.edu

Joanne Marshall, PhD, MLS
Positions: Professor, School of Information and Library Science
Areas of interest: Information technology and aging, workforce aging, and public libraries and aging
Website: http://ils.unc.edu/~marshall
Email: marshall@ils.unc.edu

Victor Marshall, PhD
Positions: Professor, Department of Sociology; Adjunct Professor, Department of Health Behavior and Health Education; IOA Senior Scientist; former Director, UNC Institute on Aging
Areas of interest: Work and retirement, aging and family, healthy aging, social theory, qualitative methods, aging policy
Website: http://www.aging.unc.edu/bio/marshall
Email: victor_marshall@unc.edu

Mary Roth McClurg, PharmD, MHS
Positions: Associate Professor, Division of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy
Research Assistant Professor, Division of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Medicine
Areas of interest: Improving the quality of medication use and quality of care of primary care patients with chronic illness; implementation and evaluation of medication therapy management programs
Website: http://www.pharmacy.unc.edu/faculty/faculty-directory/maryroth
Email: mroth@unc.edu

James Mitchell, PhD
Positions: Professor, Sociology and Family Medicine, East Carolina University; Director, Center on Aging, East Carolina University
Areas of interest: Healthcare utilization of minority aged, rural aging
Website: http://www.aging.unc.edu/bio/mitchell.html
Email: mitchellj@mail.ecu.edu

Virginia Neelon, PhD, RN
Positions: Associate Professor, School of Nursing; Director, Biobehavioral Laboratory (BBL)
Areas of interest: Biobehavioral measurement, aging, measurement and management of delirium
Website: http://www.bbl.unc.edu/
Email: vneelon@email.unc.edu

Jonathan Oberlander, PhD
Positions: Associate professor, Dept of Social medicine and Dept of Health Policy and Management, and Adjunst associate professor in political science
Areas of interest: Healthcare reform and older adults, Medicare policy
Website:  http://www.med.unc.edu/socialmed/faculty-staff/jonathan-oberlander
Email: jonathan_oberlander@med.unc.edu

Mary H. Palmer, PhD, RNC, FAAN
Positions: Interim Co-Director, UNC Institute on Aging; Helen W. and Thomas L. Umphlet Distinguished Professor in Aging, School of Nursing
Areas of interest: Urinary incontinence, long term care
Website: http://nursing.unc.edu/lib/cgi-bin/son/directories/search.php?x=827
Email: mhpalmer@email.unc.edu

George H. Pink, PhD
Positions: Associate Professor, Department of Health Policy and Administration
Areas of interest: Health care finance and long term care
Website: http://www.sph.unc.edu/?option=com_profiles&profileAction=ProfDetail&pid=709956152
Email: gpink@email.unc.edu

Barry Popkin, PhD
Positions: The Carla Smith Chamblee Distinguished Professor of Global Nutrition, Dept of Nutrition; Director, UNC Interdisciplinary Obesity Center (IDOC); Fellow, Carolina Population Center, member, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
Areas of interest: Obesity; longitudinal methodology , demography, international research on diet, and activity and body composition trends
Website: http://www.sph.unc.edu/?option=com_profiles&Itemid=6839&profileAction=ProfDetail&pid=704278929
Email: popkin@unc.edu

Thomas Ricketts, PhD
Positions: Associate Professor, Department of Health Policy and Administration; Professor, Department of Social Medicine; Director, North Carolina Rural Health Research Program and Program on Health Policy Analysis, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research
Areas of interest: Health policy analysis, health care organization, rural health
Website: http://www.sph.unc.edu/?option=com_profiles&profileAction=ProfDetail&pid=701523240
Email: tom_ricketts@unc.edu

Wayne Rosamond, PhD
Positions: Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology; Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine
Areas of interest: Cardiovascular disease trends and care
Website: http://www.sph.unc.edu/?option=com_profiles&profileAction=ProfDetail&pid=704285035
Email: wayne_rosamond@unc.edu

Ilene C. Siegler, PhD, MPH
Positions: Professor of Medical Psychology, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine; Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University; Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology, UNC School of Public Health, Senior Fellow, UNC Institute on Aging and University of Georgia Gerontology Center. Director, UNC Alumni Heart Study.
Areas of Interest: Caregiving processes and racial similarities and differences. Normal aging and how it intersects with physical disease; intersection between behavioral medicine and psychology of adult development and aging. Longitudinal studies of personality, health and disease, the terminal drop hypothesis. Issues of work, retirement and age discrimination. Personality and hostility as predictors of economic behaviors related to retirement decisions. International Centenarian Studies.
Email: ilene.siegler@duke.edu

Betsy Sleath, PhD
Positions: Associate Professor, Division of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy, School of Pharmacy; Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Health Policy and Administration, School of Public Health
Areas of interest: Physician communication and medications
Website: hhttp://www.pharmacy.unc.edu/research/labs/betsy-sleath
Email: bsleath@email.unc.edu

Philip Sloane, MD, MPH
Positions: Elizabeth & Oscar Goodwin Distinguished Professor of Family Medicine; Director of Geriatric Fellowship Research, Center for Aging and Health; Associate Chair, Department of Family Medicine
Areas of interest: Long term care, clinical trials of interventions in dementia care, geriatric medicine
Website: none
Email: psloane@med.unc.edu

Sally Stearns, PhD
Positions: Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management
Areas of interest: Healthcare economics, Medicare, Medicaid
Website: http://www.sph.unc.edu/?option=com_profiles&Itemid=6452&profileAction=ProfD
Email: sally_stearns@unc.edu

Peter Uhlenberg, PhD
Positions: Professor, Department of Sociology; Fellow, Carolina Population Center
Areas of interest: Population aging, aging policy and demography of intergenerational relations
Website: http://www.cpc.unc.edu/bios/index.php?person=uhlen
Email:peter_uhlenberg@unc.edu

Morris Weinberger, PhD
Positions: Vergil N. Slee Distinguished Professor of Healthcare Quality Management
and Director of the Doctoral Program, Department of Health Policy and Administration
Areas of interest: Improving care of primary care patients with chronic illness, development, implementation and evaluation of pharmaceutical care programs
Website: http://www.sph.unc.edu/?option=com_profiles&Itemid=5650&profileAction=ProfDetail&pid=709694766
Email: mweinber@email.unc.edu

Sheryl Zimmerman, PhD
Positions: Kenan Flagler Bingham Distinguished Professor, School of Social Work and Co-Director, Program on Aging, Disability, and Long-Term Care, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research
Areas of interest: Long-term care, quality of care, quality of life, outcomes research, dementia, functional status, methods for studying older populations, hip fracture, osteoporosis
Website: http://ssw.unc.edu/people/resume/Sheryl%20Zimmerman.pdf (CV)
Email: Sheryl_Zimmerman@unc.edu

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