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Participating SPH Faculty

Core Faculty

Portrait of Jie Chen

Jie Chen

Chair and Professor, Health Policy and Management
Portrait of Typhanye Vielka Dyer

Typhanye Vielka Dyer

Associate Professor, Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Portrait of Luisa Franzini

Luisa Franzini

Professor, Health Policy and Management
Portrait of James Hagberg

James Hagberg

Professor, Kinesiology
Portrait of Bradley Hatfield

Bradley Hatfield

Professor, Kinesiology
Portrait of Rozalina McCoy

Rozalina McCoy

Associate Professor of Medicine and the Associate Division Chief for Clinical Research in the University of Maryland School of Medicine
Portrait of Aryn Phillips

Aryn Phillips

Assistant Professor
Portrait of Steven Prior

Steven Prior

Associate Professor & Associate Chair for Research, Kinesiology
Portrait of Xuanzi (Shirley) Qin

Xuanzi (Shirley) Qin

Assistant Professor
Portrait of Sushant Ranadive

Sushant Ranadive

Associate Professor, Kinesiology
Portrait of Lori Simon-Rusinowitz

Lori Simon-Rusinowitz

(RETIRED) Associate Professor, Health Policy and Management
Portrait of J. Carson Smith

J. Carson Smith

Professor, Kinesiology
Portrait of Stephen B. Thomas

Stephen B. Thomas

Professor, Health Policy and Management
Director, Center for Health Equity
Portrait of Kellee White

Kellee White

Associate Professor, Health Policy and Management
Portrait of Dahai Yue

Dahai Yue

Assistant Professor, Health Policy and Management

Emeriti

Portrait of Robert H. Feldman

Robert H. Feldman

Professor Emeritus, Behavioral and Community Health

Our Affiliate Faculty

Gregg Vanderheiden, Professor of College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland

Gregg Vanderheiden, PhD
Director, Trace R&D Center 
Professor, School of Information Studies
University of Maryland, College Park 

greggvan@umd.edu
(301) 405-2033

 

 

 

Chenfeng Xiong, Assistant Research Professor of School of Engineering at the University of Maryland

Chenfeng Xiong
Assistant Research Professor
Maryland Transportation Institute (MTI), University of Maryland, College Park
Shock Trauma & Anesthesiology Research (STAR) Center, University of Maryland, Baltimore 

cxiong@umd.edu 
(301) 661-9635 

 

 

 

Steven Jay, Assistant Professor of School of Engineering at the University of Maryland

Steven M. Jay
Associate Professor, Fischell Department of Bioengineering
University of Maryland, College Park

smjay@umd.edu
(301) 405-2829

 

 

 

Hee-Jung Song, Associate Professor of College of Agriculture and Natural Resources

Hee-Jung Song 
Associate Professor, Department of Nutrition and Food Service
University of Maryland

hjsong@umd.edu 
(301) 405-8898 

 

 

 

Amanda Lazar, Assistant Professor of College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland

Amanda Lazar 
Assistant Professor
College of Information Studies

lazar@umd.edu
(301) 450-2033


 

Alisa Morss Clyne, faculty member at the University of Maryland

Alisa Morss Clyne 
Associate Professor, Fischell Department of Bioengineering 
University of Maryland, College Park 

aclyne@umd.edu 
(301) 405-9806

 

 

 

Matt Goupell, staff member at the University of Maryland

Matthew Goupell
Associate Professor, Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences
University of Maryland, College Park 

goupell@umd.edu 
(301) 405-8552

 

 

 

Sandra Gordon-Salant, faculty member at the University of Maryland

Sandra Gordon-Salant
Professor, Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences
Director, Doctoral Program in Clinical Audiology
NACS Program and the Language Science Center 

sgsalant@umd.edu
(301) 405-4225

 

 

 

Jonathon Simon, staff member at the University of Maryland

Jonathan Z. Simon
Professor
Affiliation: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of Biology and Institute for Systems Research
University of Maryland, College Park 

jzsimon@umd.edu
(301) 405-3645

 

 

Ricardo Araneda, faculty member at the University of Maryland

Ricardo C Araneda, Ph.D
Associate Professor, Department of Biology 
Director of BISI Graduate Program, PSYS Concentration Area
University of Maryland, College Park 

raraneda@umd.edu
(301) 405-5540

 

 

William Bentley, Director at School of Engineering at the University of Maryland

William E. Bentley
Robert E. Fishchell Distinguished Chair in Engineering
Director, Robert E. Fischell Institue for Biomedical Devices
Professor, Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research
University of Maryland, College Park 

bentley@umd.edu
(301) 405-4321

 

Stefanie Kuchinsky, Investigator of Program of Neuroscience and Cognitive Science

Stefanie E. Kuchinsky, Ph.D
Adjunct Faculty, Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences
University of Maryland, College Park
Research Investigator, Audiology and Speech Pathology Center:
Walter Reed National Military Center, Bethesda, MD 

skuchins@umd.edu
(301) 405-2092

 

Kris Marsh, Associate Professor of Department of Sociology at the University of Maryland

Kris Marsh, Ph.D
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology 
University of Maryland, College Park 

kmarsh1@umd.edu
(301) 405-6395 

 

 

Ritu Agarwal, faculty and staff member of School of Business at the University of Maryland

Ritu Agarwal, Ph.D
Interim Dean & Distinguished University Professor, Robert H. Smith School of Business
Dean's Chair, Robert H. Smith School of Business: Information Systems
Director, Center for Health Information and Decision Systems (CHIDS)
University of Maryland, College Park 

ragarwal@rhsmith.umd.edu
(301) 405-3121

 

Nadine R. Sahyoun, Professor of College of Agriculture and Natural Resources at the University of Maryland

Nadine Sahyoun, Ph.D
Professor, Department of Nutrition and Food Science
University of Maryland, College Park 

nsahyoun@umd.edu
(301) 405-8774

 

 

 

Samira Anderson, faculty member at the University of Maryland

Samira Anderson, AuD., Ph.D
Associate Professor, Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences
University of Maryland, College Park 

sander22@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-4224

 

 

 

 

Jonathan Lazar, Professor of College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland

Jonathan Lazar, Ph.D., LL.M.
Professor, College of Information Studies (iSchool)
Associate Director, Trace Research and Development Center  University of Maryland, College Park 

 jlazar@umd.edu
(301) 405-2825