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Avery Bechthold

Avery Bechthold

Assistant Professor, Nursing
Cardiovascular disease, health decision making, family caregiving, heart failure, health interventions, mobility, palliative care, person-centered care, underresourced populations, values clarification
Shawn Campagna

Shawn Campagna

Professor, Chemistry and Scientific Programs; Director, UT-ORII
Metabolomics, lipidomics, chemical biology, bioanalytical chemistry, biological signaling, physiology, microbiomes, diabetes, inflammation
Ivis Chapel-Gore

Ivis Chapel Gore

Assistant Professor, Nuclear Engineering
Nuclear medicine, molecular imaging, isotope production, radiochemistry, radiopharmaceutical development, cancer, targeted tracers, drug development, radiolanthanides, transition metals, small animal imaging, inorganic chemistry, biochemistry, ligand design, radiolabeling, diagnostic imaging, targeted therapy
Kelsey Finnie

Kelsey Finnie

Clinical Veterinarian, Office of Laboratory Animal Care
Animal research, animal models of human disease, animal research compliance
Zan Gao

Zan Gao

Professor and Department Head, Kinesiology, Recreation, and Sport Studies
Kinesiology, physical education, exercise, elderly, mobile health, exergaming, mindful movement, physical activity, recreation, sport studies, cancer survivors, fitness, e-health, cancer prevention, apps, wearables, community-based physical activity interventions, behavioral change theory, disease prevention
Bryan Good

Bryan Good

Assistant Professor, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering
Stroke, thrombosis, congenital heart disease, blood pumps, cardiovascular biomechanics, computational modeling, experimental modeling, patient-specific modeling, machine learning
Anahita Khojandi.

Anahita Khojandi

Heath Endowed Faculty Fellow in Business & Engineering and Associate Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering
Markov decision processes, dynamic programming, predictive analytics, reinforcement learning, time series analysis, anomaly detection, genomics, critical care, chronic care, emergency medicine
Xeuping Li

Xueping Li

Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering
Mobile health, agent-based modeling and simulation, health systems engineering, mobile apps, machine learning, optimization via simulation, cyber physical systems, digital twin, Internet of Things
Rachel Patton McCord

Rachel Patton McCord

Associate Professor, Biochemistry & Cellular and Molecular Biology
Chromosome structure, gene regulation, Progeria (premature aging disease), cell fate determination, nucleus structure, single cell genomics, epigenetics, DNA damage, cancer progression, migration, metastasis
Katie Morgan

Katie Morgan

Assistant Professor, Nursing
Interactions of microbiome and human health, neurodegenerative diseases, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, metabolomics, lipidomics, biomarker identification, personalized medicine, chronic conditions
Patricia Roberson

Patricia Roberson

Assistant Professor, Nursing
Family relationships and health, health outcomes for underserved communities, family-based interventions, cancer, diabetes, pain, diabetic foot ulcers, hypertension
Heeyeon Son

Heeyon Son

Assistant Professor, Nursing
Family communication, parent-child communication, parent-child relationship, childhood cancer survivors, children and adolescents with cancer, palliative care, shared decision-making, coping, resilience, symptom distress

Health and Wellness

Research Areas
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Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases
Computational Health and Medicine
Food, Nutrition, and Exercise
Infectious Disease

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