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Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Environmental Health Division

Epidemiology Faculty

Xinhua Yu
Associate Professor, Program Coordinator
xyu2@memphis.edu
Phone: 901.678.3433
Office: 305 Robison
Big data, Chronic diseases, Health outcomes
James Gurney
Dean, Professor
Phone: 901.678.1673
Office: 236 A Robison
Childhood cancer, Pediatric chronic disease, Sickle cell disease
Wilfried Karmaus
Professor
Phone: 901.678.2491
Office: 301 Robison
Epigenetics, Asthma, Allergies, Eczema, Body Mass Index (BMI)
Fawaz Mzayek
Associate Professor
fmzayek@memphis.edu
Phone: 901.678.1662
Office: 300 Robison
Cardiovascular risk, Smoking, Obesity
Vikki Nolan
Assistant Dean, Associate Professor
Phone: 901.678.1696
Office: 228 Robison
Sickle cell, Cancer, Infectious diseases
Matthew Smeltzer
Matthew Smeltzer, PhD
Assistant Professor
Phone: 901.678.3702
Office: 222 Robison
Clinical epi, Lung cancer, Sickle cell, Implementation science

Biostatistics Faculty

Dr. Zhang
Hongmei Zhang, PhD, MS
Professor, Division Director, and Program Coordinator
for Biostatistics
hzhang6@memphis.edu
Phone: 901.678.4704
Office: 224 Robison
Variable Selection, Bayesian Network & clustering, Epigenetic studies
Yu (Joyce) Jiang
Assistant Professor
yjiang4@memphis.edu
Phone: 901.678.4641
Office: 216 Robison
Bayesian methods, statistical genetics & epigenetics, latent variable modeling
Meredith Ray
Assistant Professor
maray@memphis.edu
Phone: 901.678.5390
Office: 220 Robison
Epigenetics, Bayesian clustering, Lung cancer, fMRI brain data
George Relyea
Associate Professor
Phone: 901.678.1716
Office: 226 Robison

Environmental Health Faculty

Chunrong Jia
Associate Professor
Phone: 901.678.2655
Office: 337 Robison
Air pollution, Exposure Assessment, Environmental disparity
Pratik Banerjee
Associate Professor
pbnerjee@memphis.edu
Phone: 901.678.4443
Office: 338 Robison
Food safety, molecular epidemiology of food-borne pathogens, food access in metropolitan settings, food regulations and policies
Debra Bartelli
Director of Undergraduate Programs, Research Associate Professor
Phone: 901.678.1395
Office: 233 Robison
ACEs, Built Environment, Senior Food Insecurity, WASH