Panel of Expert Consultants
Leadership

Kelly Brunst, PhD
TRSC Leader
Associate Professor of Epidemiology
Department of Environmental and Public Health Sciences
Kelly.Brunst@uc.edu

Jack Rubinstein, MD
TRSC Co-Leader
Associate Professor of Clinical
Department of Internal Medicine
Jack.Rubinstein@uc.edu
Advanced echocardiographic imaging and myocardial energy utilization.
TRSC Biostatistics Group

Changchun Xie, PhD
Professor of Biostatistics
Department of Environmental and Public Health Sciences
Changchun.Xie@uc.edu

Liang Niu, PhD
Associate Professor of Biostatistics
Department of Environmental and Public Health Sciences
Liang.Niu@uc.edu
Analytical tool development, omic analyses, data mining, power calculations, and general statistical modeling.
Additional Expert Consultants

Senu Apewokin, MD, FACP
Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine
Department of Internal Medicine
Senu.Apewokin@uc.edu
Infectious disease microbiome.

Ranjan Deka, PhD
Professor
Department of Environmental and Public Health Sciences
Ranjan.Deka@uc.edu

Roman Jandorav, PhD
Associate Professor of Biostatistics
Department of Environmental and Public Health Sciences
Roman.Jandarov@uc.edu

Scott Langevin, PhD
Associate Professor of Epidemiology
Department of Environmental and Public Health Sciences
Scott.Langevin@uc.edu
Molecular biomarkers, cancer epidemiology, and epigenetics.

Nicholas Newman, DO, MS, FAAP
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Department of Pediatrics
Nicholas.Newman@uc.edu
Community engagement, children's environmental health, asthma, and occupational medicine.

Susan M. Pinney, PhD, FACE
Professor of Epidemiology
Department of Environmental and Public Health Sciences
Susan.Pinney@uc.edu

Patrick Ryan, PhD
Associate Professor
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Department of Environmental and Public Health Sciences, Pediatrics
Patrick.Ryan@cchmc.org
Study design - cohort and case-control studies, air pollution, environmental monitoring, imaging (MRIs), atopy, asthma, and reporting back strategies.

Sakthivel Sadayappan, PhD, MBA
Professor of Internal Medicine; Associate Chief
Division of Cardiovascular Health & Disease;
Vice Chair, Basic Research, Internal Medicine;
Director of the Heart Branch of the Heart, Lung, and Vascular Institute
Sakthivel.Sadayappan@uc.edu
Regulators of sarcomere structure and function in cardiac and skeletal muscle, and genetics of cardiovascular disease.

Jeffrey R. Strawn, MD, FAACAP
Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics
Associate Vice Chair of Research
Director, Anxiety Disorders Research Program
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience
Jeffrey.Strawn@uc.edu
Child and adolescent psychiatry, influence of environmental exposures on brain development and neurobehavioral.

Micheal A. Thomas, MD
Professor and Chair
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Michael.Thomas@uc.edu
Reproductive endocrinology, infertility, effects of stress on reproductive function, effects of exposure on reproductive function, strategic planning, and translation coach.

Ying Xia, PhD
Professor
Department of Environmental and Public Health Sciences
Ying.Xia@uc.edu
Gene-Environment (GxE) interactions, development toxicity; epithelial biology, signal transduction.
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