Current Fellows

Postdoctoral Fellows

Laurel B. Crown, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow, Prevention Research Training Program

E-mail:
lcrown@uic.edu [1]

Research interests:
Normative and problematic adolescent sexuality and relationships

Karen Kaiser, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow, Cancer Education and Career Development Program

E-mail:
kkaiser1@uic.edu [2]

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 [3]

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

Sven D. Klingemann, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow, Prevention Research Training Program

E-mail:
sklingem@uic.edu [4]

Research interests:
Adolescent health behaviors, and more specifically on the associations between adolescents’ social networks and both substance use and mental health

Tara G. Mehta, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow, Prevention Research Training Program

E-mail: tmehta@uic.edu [5]

Research interests:
Effective models of supervision for community mental health providers working with children, adolescents, and families, which support providers in providing evidence based models of interventions with their clients to improve mental health outcomes for youth and families, cultural factors affecting development, factors involved in the development of a bicultural orientation, and immigrant issues, specifically, second generation immigrant children and adolescents

Silvia Tejeda, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow, Cancer Education and Career Development Program

E-mail:
stejeda@uic.edu [6]

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

Dita Broz, MPH

Predoctoral Fellow, Prevention Research Training Program

E-mail:
dbroz2@uic.edu [7]

Research interests:
Factors associated with high-risk drug use and sex behaviors among non-injecting heroin users and the transmission of HIV and other viral infections, including hepatitis B and C

Amy R. Eisenstein, MA

Predoctoral Fellow, Gerontological Public Health Training Program

E-mail:
aeisen3@uic.edu [8]

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

Wade Ivy III, MPH

Predoctoral Fellow, Prevention Research Training Program

E-mail:
wivy2@uic.edu [9]

Research interests:
HIV/AIDS transmission characteristics and their relation to substance use among African Americans; demographic, social, interpersonal, and contextual characteristics that influence partner selection and risky sexual behavior, especially in Chicago neighborhoods.

Kimberly R. Porter, MPH

Predoctoral Fellow, Cancer Education and Career Development Program

E-mail:
kporte4@uic.edu [10]

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

Renae L. Smith-Ray, MA

Predoctoral Fellow, Gerontological Public Health Training Program

E-mail:
rsmith27@uic.edu [11]

Research interests:
Healthy cognitive aging, whether engaging in healthy behaviors such as physical and mental activities can protect against decline of higher-order cognitive processes, including working memory, in old age.

Katrine L. Wallace, MA

Predoctoral Fellow, Gerontological Public Health Training Program

E-mail:
kwalla2@uic.edu [12]

Research interests:
The nutritional epidemiology of prostate cancer, aging, and quantitative research methodology