Current/Past Scholars

Carolyn Porta, PhD, MPH, RN SANE-A, FAAN, FNAP, Population Health and Systems Cooperative, School of Nursing; Research: Coping intervention with Latina adolescents; BIRCWH Scholar Appointment Dates: 2008-2011; Contact: [email protected]

Jerica Berge, PhD, MPH, LMFT, CFLE, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Medical School; Research: Family and home environment in adolescent obesity: predictors and interventions; BIRCWH Scholar Appointment Dates: 2008-2011; Contact: [email protected]

Susanta Hui, PhD, MS, Department of Radiation Oncology, Medical School; Research: A novel long-lived 41 CA marker to assess bone turnover for breast cancer patients treated with aromatase inhibitor and bisphosphonate drugs; BIRCWH Scholar Appointment Dates: 2008-2011; Contact: [email protected]

Rahel Ghebre, MD, MPH, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women's Health, Medical School;  Research: Feasibility of home self-collection for cervical cancer screening utilizing human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA testing;  BIRCWH Scholar Appointment Dates: 2008-2011;  Contact: [email protected]

Daheia Barr-Anderson, PhD, Physical Activity and Health Promotion, School of Kinesiology; Research: A tailored physical activity and health eating intervention for African-American girls; BIRCWH Scholar Appointment Dates: 2010-2011;  Contact: [email protected]

Kristine Talley, PhD, RN, GNP-BC, School of Nursing; Research: Disability Prevention in Frail Older Women; BIRCWH Scholar Appointment Dates: 2011-2014; Contact: [email protected]

Bharat Thyagarajan, MD, PhD, MPH, Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology, Medical School; Research: The Role of Mitochondria in Determining Breast Cancer Susceptibility; BIRCWH Scholar Appointment Dates: 2010-2013; Contact: [email protected]

Vishal Lamba, PhD; Research: Pharmacogenetic predictors of variability in expression of drug response (ADME) genes; BIRCWH Scholar Appointment Dates: 2011-2013; Contact: [email protected]

Katy Kozhimannil, PhD, MPA, Division of Health Policy & Management, School of Public Health; Research: Measuring Quality and Evaluating Strategies for the Care of Women with Diabetes in Pregnancy; BIRCWH Scholar Appointment Dates: 2010-2013; Contact: [email protected]

Anne Blaes, MD, Division of Hematology and Oncology, Medical School; Research: Vascular Assessment in Breast Cancer Survivors Taking Aromatase Inhibitors; BIRCWH Scholar Appointment Dates: 2013-2016; Contact: [email protected]

Susan Mason, PhD, MPH, Epidemiology & Community Health, School of Public Health; Research: Psychological and Behavioral Mechanisms Linking Abuse Victimization to Obesity;  BIRCWH Scholar Appointment Dates: 2013-2017; Contact: [email protected]

Alicia Allen, PhD, MPH, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Arizona College of Medicine;   Research: Effects of smoking on Stress-Induced Allopregnanolone responses in women by Menstrual Phase; BIRCWH Scholar Appointment Dates: 2014-2016; Contact: [email protected].

Rebekah Nagler, PhD, Hubbard School of Journalism & Mass Communication, College of Liberal Arts; Research: Effects of Media Exposure to Cancer Screening Controversy: A Mixed-Methods Study; BIRCWH Scholar Appointment Dates: 2014-2017; Contact: [email protected]

Deanna Teoh, MD, MS, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women's Health, Medical School;    Research: Improving Adherence to the 2012 Cervical Cancer Screening Guidelines Research Areas;   BIRCWH Scholar Appointment Dates: 2016 - 2019; Contact: [email protected]

Britt Erickson, MD, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women's Health, Medical School; Research: Moving beyond estrogen: The role of cooperating steroid hormone receptors (progesterone, androgen and glucocorticoid) in endometrial cancer; BIRCWH Scholar Appointment Dates: 2018-2021; Contact: [email protected]

Sarah Hoffman, PhD, MPH, MSN, RN, Population Health and Systems Cooperative Unit, School of Nursing; Research: Intergenerational transmission of trauma between Karen women refugees who have survived torture and their children; BIRCWH Scholar Appointment Dates: 2018-2019; Contact: [email protected]

Linda Koehler,, PT, CLT-LANA, PhD, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Medical School; Research: Axillary Web Syndrome Ongoing Medical Evaluation and Intervention;  BIRCWH Scholar Appointment Dates: 2017-2019; Contact: [email protected]

Megan Paulsen, MD, Department of Pediatrics, Medical School; Research: Maternal-Fetal Programming of Energy Homeostasis in the Development of Obesity and Metabolic Disease; BIRCWH Scholar Appointment Dates: 2019-2021; Contact: [email protected] 

Catherine Burrows, PhD, LP, Department of Pediatrics, Medical School; Research: Sex Differences in Autism Spectrum Disorder: An Examination of the Female Brain and Behavioral Phenotype;  BIRCWH Scholar Appointment Dates: 2021-2023; Contact: [email protected] 

Angie S Lobo, MD, Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Medical School; Research: Menopause and Chronic Kidney Disease; BIRCWH Scholar Appointment Dates: 2023-2024; Contact: [email protected] 

Junia Nogueira de Brito, PhD, MPH, MBA, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Medical School; Research: The Positive Deviance Approach to Childhood Obesity: A Way Toward Health Equity

Melanie Nicol, PharmD, PhD, Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, Award: 2016-2018; Research: Identifying Determinants of Efficacy in Female Genital Tissue to Optimize HIV Prevention for Women.

Rachel Isaksson Vogel MS, PhD, Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women's Health, Medical School, Research: Cognitive Decline after Chemotherapy in Women with Ovarian Cancer; Award:2016-2019

Beshay Zordoky, PhD, Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy; Research: Molecular mechanisms of sexual dimorphism in delayed doxorubicin-induced cardiomyopathy; Award: 2018-2020