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UAB Pre-Doctoral Training in Obesity-Related Research (T32HL105349)
TRAINEES
Fourth Year
- Matthew Cole Ainsworth, MS (Full Biography)
Pre-doctoral Fellow
UAB Pre-Doctoral Training in Obesity-Related Research
Health Education and Health Promotion
Ryals Public Health Building, Room 227
University of Alabama at Birmingham Birmingham, Alabama 35294
Office: (205) 492-0100
E-mail: ainswrth@uab.edu
- Primary Mentor: : Laura Q. Rogers, MD, MPH; Co-Mentors: Dori Pekmezi, PhD
- Jennifer A. Davis (Full Biography)
Pre-doctoral Fellow
UAB Pre-Doctoral Training in Obesity-Related Research
Genetics, Genomics, and Bioinformatics Graduate Program
Sparks Center, 721
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama 35294
E-mail: davis118@uab.edu
- Primary Mentor: Martin Young, PhD; Co-Mentors: Karen Gamble, PhD; David Allison, PhD
Third Year
- Rachael Miller Orlandella (Full Biography)
Pre-doctoral Fellow
UAB Pre-Doctoral Training in Obesity-Related Research
Graduate Biomedical Sciences, Cancer Biology Track
WTI 301
1824 6th Ave South
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, AL 35233
E-mail: rorlande@uab.edu
- Primary Mentor: Lyse Norian, PhD; Co-Mentors: José Fernández, PhD; Laura Rogers, MD
Second Year
- Valene Garr Barry (Full Biography)
Pre-doctoral Fellow
UAB Pre-Doctoral Training in Obesity-Related Research
Department of Nutrition Sciences
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama 35294
E-mail: vgarr@uab.edu
- Primary Mentor: Barbara Gower PhD; Co-Mentors: Courtney Peterson PhD, Olivia Affuso PhD, and Paula Chandler- Laney, PhD
- Christian E. Behrens Jr. (Full Biography)
Pre-doctoral Fellow
UAB Pre-Doctoral Training in Obesity-Related Research
Department of Nutrition Sciences
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama 35294
E-mail: behrensc@uab.edu
- Primary Mentor: Jose Fernandez, PhD, Co-Mentors: Gordon Fisher, PhD, and Brenda Bertrand, PhD
- Makenzie Louise Callahan, MS, RDN (Full Biography)
Pre-doctoral Fellow
UAB Pre-Doctoral Training in Obesity-Related Research
Department of Nutrition Sciences
1720 Second Avenue South
Birmingham, AL 35294
E-mail: mlc17@uab.edu
- Primary Mentor: Dr. Timothy Garvey; Co-Mentors: Dr. Paula Chandler-Laney and Dr. Jose Fernandez
- Shelly R Nason (Full Biography)
Pre-doctoral Fellow
UAB Pre-Doctoral Training in Obesity-Related Research
Department of Medicine
Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama 35294
E-mail: shnason@uab.edu
- Primary Mentor: Julie Locher, PhD; Co-Mentors: Kirk Habegger, PhD and Jose Fernandez, PhD
First Year
- Robert R. Bowman, MS, MA, MS (Full Biography)
Pre-doctoral Fellow
UAB Pre-Doctoral Training in Obesity-Related Research
Medical Sociology
Heritage Hall, Sociology Graduate Student Suite, 4th Floor
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama 35294
Office: 205-934-3307
E-mail: rrbowman@uab.edu
- Primary Mentor: Julie Locher, PhD; Co-mentors: Paula C. Chandler-Laney, PhD
- Brenda Jeng (Full Biography)
Pre-doctoral Fellow
UAB Pre-Doctoral Training in Obesity-Related Research
Rehabilitation Science
School of Health Professions Building, 360
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama 35294
Office: 205-975-9321
E-mail: bjeng@uab.edu
- Primary Mentor: Robert W. Motl, PhD; Co-Mentors: Laura Q. Rogers, MD, MPH & James H. Rimmer, PhD
- Thomas Hoover (Full Biography)
Pre-doctoral Fellow
UAB Pre-Doctoral Training in Obesity Related Research
Department of Nutrition Sciences
1675 University Blvd, Webb 515
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama 35294
Email: thoover1@uab.edu
- Primary Mentor: Laura Rogers, MD, PhD; Co-Mentors: Daniel Smith, PhD., Ceren Yarar-Fisher, PhD., & David Redden, PhD
- Lindsay E. Pappas, MS, RD, LDN (Full Biography)
Pre-doctoral Fellow
Department of Nutrition Sciences
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama 35294
E-mail: lpappas@uab.edu
- Primary Mentor: Tim R. Nagy, PhD; Co-Mentors: Robert E. Sorge, PhD & T. Mark Beasley, PhD
- Sarah Tucker (Full Biography)
Pre-doctoral Fellow
Department of Nutrition Sciences
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama 35294
E-mail: stucker5@uab.edu
- Primary Mentor: Barbara Gower, PhD; Co-Mentors: Jose Fernandez, PhD & Amy Goss, PhD
Past Pre-Doctoral Trainees:
- Molly C Bernhard, PhD
- Daniella E Chusyd, PhD
- Lauren Adele Fowler
- Rachel A. Harley, MS
- Mary Neslund Latimer, MS, PhD
- Elizabeth Ma, PhD
- Mary Katherine Osborn Ray, PhD
- Camille Schneider, RD, MS
- Sarah Katherine Sweatt, PhD