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Current Fellows

Postdoctoral Fellows

 Karen Kaiser

Karen Kaiser, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow, Cancer Education and Career Development Program

E-mail:
kkaiser1@uic.edu

Research interests:
Health disparities, cancer survivorship, research methods, and racial, ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in breast cancer mortality

Chisina Kapungu

Chisina Kapungu, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow, Prevention Research Training Program

E-mail:
ckapungu@uic.edu

Research interests:
Role of individual, family and contextual factors in HIV risk exposure among urban African American adolescents
 Silvia Tejeda

Silvia Tejeda, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow, Cancer Education and Career Development Program

E-mail:
stejeda@uic.edu

Research interests:
Health disparities and health promotion in the Latino population with particular interest in developing strategies to reduce cancer risk in this population

Predoctoral Fellows

 Amy Eisenstein

Amy R. Eisenstein, MA

Predoctoral Fellow, Gerontological Public Health Training Program

E-mail:
aeisen3@uic.edu

Research interests:
Primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention strategies of mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease
 Kimberly Porter

Kimberly R. Porter, MPH

Predoctoral Fellow, Cancer Education and Career Development Program

E-mail:
kporte4@uic.edu

Research interests:
Cancer epidemiology, the effect of sociodemographic factors on quality of life in brain tumor patients and health and treatment disparities