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Biomedical and Behavioral Research Interest List

Welcome to the Biomedical and Behavioral Research Interest page.

Please click on a category below to view a listing of California State University, Fresno Faculty/Staff with research interests in these areas. If your category is not listed, please submit your information to have it added it to the list.

Abuse/Violence
Aging
AIDS/HIV
Antioxidants
Biomedical Infomatics
Children's Issues
Chronic Disease
Cultural Issues
Dementia
Disabilities
Disease/Disorders
Endocrinology
Environmental Pollution
Gastroenterology
Health Policy
Incarceration Issue
Injury Prevention
International Social Work
Medical Imaging
Medicine
Mental Health
Neurochemistry
Neuropsychology
Nursing
Obesity
Parenting and Early Relationships
Sports Medicine
Substance Abuse
Technology

Abuse/Violence

Name: Du-Pont-Morales, Toni
Department: Criminology
Email:
Description: Victimology, family violence, stalking, child abuse, sexual assault

Name: Edmonson, Christine
Department: Psychology
Email: christine_edmonson@csufresno.edu
Description: Expertise in diagnosis of intermittent explosive disorder, mood disorders, and anxiety disorders in adults. Interested in prevention and early intervention for these disorders in early adulthood. Very interested in applied projects examining mental health issues in perpetrators of family violence.

Name: Miller, Kevin
Department: Chemistry
Email: kemiller@csufresno.edu
Description: Human phenotypic and genotypic variation

Name: Thatcher, Greg
Department: Public Health
Email:
Description: Adolescent Health Risk, Sexuality

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Aging

Name: Trueblood, Peggy
Department: Physical Therapy
Email: peggyt@csufresno.edu
Description:

Name: Vungkhanching, Martha
Department: Social Work Education
Email: marthavu@csufresno.edu
Description:

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AIDS/HIV

Name: Calvarese, Michelle
Title: Associate Professor
Department: Geography
Email: mcalvare@csufresno.edu
Description:

Name: Clarke, Kris
Department: Social Work Education
Email: kclarke@csufresno.edu
Description: I am currently working on a qualitative project with opiate users at the local needle exchange

Name: Huda, Amir
Title: Associate Professor
Department: Physics
Email: ahuda@csufresno.edu
Description: My research is primarily clinical human research in the areas of neuroimaging and neurospectroscopy involvong MRI/MRS and nuclear medicine. Also interested in radiation health physics and projects related to that.

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Antioxidants

Name: Goto, Joy
Department: Chemistry
Email:
Description: Antioxidants, Neurochemistry

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Biomedical Infomatics

Name: Cao, Yu
Department: Computer Science
Email:
Description: Data mining, Pattern recognition

Name: Miller, Kevin
Department: Chemistry
Email: kemiller@csufresno.edu
Description: Human phenotypic and genotypic variation

Name: Wu, Ke
Department: Mathematics
Email: kewu@csufresno.edu
Description: Applied statistics, survival analysis, linear regression, statistical inference, statistical and mathematical computation

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Children's Issues

Name: Joubert, Cassandra
Title: Director, Children's Institute
Department: Public Health
Email: cjoubert@csufresno.edu
Description: Parenting self-efficacy; awareness of the importance of parent-child relationships in promoting social, emotional and behavioral health in children

Name: Pinzon-Perez, Helda
Title: Professor
Department: Public Health
Email: hpinzonp@csufresno.edu
Description: Childhood Obesity

Name: Rondero Hernandez, Virginia
Title: PhD, LCSW
Department: Social Work Education
Email: virginiarh@csufresno.edu
Description: Substance abuse and mental health. I am interested in partnering with a neuropsychologist on the topic of addictions.

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Chronic Disease

Name: Calvarese, Michelle
Title: Associate Professor
Department: Geography
Email: mcalvare@csufresno.edu
Description:

Name: Trueblood, Peggy
Department: Physical Therapy
Email: peggyt@csufresno.edu
Description:

Name: Zografos, Kara
Title: Assistant Professor
Department: Public Health
Email: kzografos@csufresno.edu
Description: Asthma

 

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Cultural Issues

Name: Calvarese, Michelle
Title: Associate Professor
Department: Geography
Email: mcalvare@csufresno.edu
Description:

Name: Clarke, Kris
Department: Social Work Education
Email: kclarke@csufresno.edu
Description: I am currently working on a qualitative project with opiate users at the local needle exchange

Name: Dangi, Mohan
Department: Geography
Email: mdangi@csufresno.edu
Description: My research interest encompasses across municipal solid waste management, urban-rural interface issues in developing countries, water/wastewater, and environmental change in mountain ecosystems.

Name: Vungkhanching, Martha
Department: Social Work Education
Email: marthavu@csufresno.edu
Description:

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Dementia

Name: Huda, Amir
Title: Associate Professor
Department: Physics
Email: ahuda@csufresno.edu
Description: My research is primarily clinical human research in the areas of neuroimaging and neurospectroscopy involvong MRI/MRS and nuclear medicine. Also interested in radiation health physics and projects related to that.

Name: Rios, Conrad
Department: Nursing
Email: crios@csufresno.edu
Description: Alzheimer's patients in the emergency room

Name: Trueblood, Peggy
Department: Physical Therapy
Email: peggyt@csufresno.edu
Description:

 

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Disabilities

Name: Trueblood, Peggy
Department: Physical Therapy
Email: peggyt@csufresno.edu
Description:

Name: Vungkhanching, Martha
Department: Social Work Education
Email: marthavu@csufresno.edu
Description:

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Disease/Disorders

Name: Bush, Jason
Title: Assistant Professor
Department: Biology
Email: jbush@csufresno.edu
Description: Cancer, health disparities

Name: Huda, Amir
Title: Associate Professor
Department: Physics
Email: ahuda@csufresno.edu
Description: My research is primarily clinical human research in the areas of neuroimaging and neurospectroscopy involvong MRI/MRS and nuclear medicine. Also interested in radiation health physics and projects related to that.

Name: Miller, Kevin
Department: Chemistry
Email: kemiller@csufresno.edu
Description: Human phenotypic and genotypic variation

Name: Trueblood, Peggy
Department: Physical Therapy
Email: peggyt@csufresno.edu
Description:

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Endocrinology

Name:
Title:
Department:
Email:
Description:

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Environmental Pollution

Name: Dangi, Mohan
Department: Geography
Email: mdangi@csufresno.edu
Description: My research interest encompasses across municipal solid waste management, urban-rural interface issues in developing countries, water/wastewater, and environmental change in mountain ecosystems.

Name: Donohue, Sandi
Title: Associate Professor
Department: Public Health
Email:
Description: Drinking water contamination

Name: Wu, Ke
Department: Mathematics
Email: kewu@csufresno.edu
Description: Applied statistics, survival analysis, linear regression, statistical inference, statistical and mathematical computation

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Gastroenterology

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Department
Email:
Description:

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Health Policy

Name: Bengiamin, Marlene
Title: Senior Research Associate
Department: Central Valley Health Policy Institute (CVHPI)
Email:
Description: Health disparity

Name: Calvarese, Michelle
Title: Associate Professor
Department: Geography
Email: mcalvare@csufresno.edu
Description:

Name: DenBeste, Michelle
Department: History
Email: mdenbest@csufresno.edu
Description: Working on a history of women physicans in 19th century Russia. I study their memoirs, medical writings, and activities. Also interested in working on a history of public health in tsarist Russia.

Name: Kotkin-Jaszi, Suzanne
Department: Public Health
Email:
Description: Health care disparities

Name: Trueblood, Peggy
Department: Physical Therapy
Email: peggyt@csufresno.edu
Description:

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Incarceration Issues

Name: Rondero Hernandez, Virginia
Title: PhD, LCSW
Department: Social Work Education
Email: virginiarh@csufresno.edu
Description: Substance abuse and mental health. I am interested in partnering with a neuropsychologist on the topic of addictions.

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Injury Prevention

Name:  
Department:
Email:
Description:

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International Social Work

Name: Dangi, Mohan
Department: Geography
Email: mdangi@csufresno.edu
Description: My research interest encompasses across municipal solid waste management, urban-rural interface issues in developing countries, water/wastewater, and environmental change in mountain ecosystems.

Name: Vungkhanching, Martha
Department: Social Work Education
Email: marthavu@csufresno.edu
Description:

Medical Imaging

Name: Miller, Kevin
Department: Chemistry
Email: kemiller@csufresno.edu
Description: Human phenotypic and genotypic variation

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Medicine

Name: DenBeste, Michelle
Department: History
Email: mdenbest@csufresno.edu
Description: Working on a history of women physicans in 19th century Russia. I study their memoirs, medical writings, and activities. Also interested in working on a history of public health in tsarist Russia.

Name: Huda, Amir
Title: Associate Professor
Department: Physics
Email: ahuda@csufresno.edu
Description: My research is primarily clinical human research in the areas of neuroimaging and neurospectroscopy involvong MRI/MRS and nuclear medicine. Also interested in radiation health physics and projects related to that.

Name: Miller, Kevin
Department: Chemistry
Email: kemiller@csufresno.edu
Description: Human phenotypic and genotypic variation

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Mental Health

Name: Calvarese, Michelle
Title: Associate Professor
Department: Geography
Email: mcalvare@csufresno.edu
Description:

Name: Conlon, Bridget
Department: Sociology
Email:
Description: Mental health & stress, Neighborhoods & mental health, Mental illness

Name: Edmonson, Christine
Department: Psychology
Email: christine_edmonson@csufresno.edu
Description: Expertise in diagnosis of intermittent explosive disorder, mood disorders, and anxiety disorders in adults. Interested in prevention and early intervention for these disorders in early adulthood. Very interested in applied projects examining mental health issues in perpetrators of family violence.

Name: Huda, Amir
Title: Associate Professor
Department: Physics
Email: ahuda@csufresno.edu
Description: My research is primarily clinical human research in the areas of neuroimaging and neurospectroscopy involvong MRI/MRS and nuclear medicine. Also interested in radiation health physics and projects related to that.

Name: Joubert, Cassandra
Title: Director, Children's Institute
Department: Public Health
Email: cjoubert@csufresno.edu
Description: Parenting self-efficacy; awareness of the importance of parent-child relationships in promoting social, emotional and behavioral health in children

Name: Rondero Hernandez, Virginia
Title: PhD, LCSW
Department: Social Work Education
Email: virginiarh@csufresno.edu
Description: Substance abuse and mental health. I am interested in partnering with a neuropsychologist on the topic of addictions.

Name: Vungkhanching, Martha
Department: Social Work Education
Email: marthavu@csufresno.edu
Description:

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Neurochemistry

Name: Goto, Joy
Department: Chemistry
Email: jgoto@csufresno.edu
Description:
Neurochemistry

Name: Huda, Amir
Title: Associate Professor
Department: Physics
Email: ahuda@csufresno.edu
Description: My research is primarily clinical human research in the areas of neuroimaging and neurospectroscopy involvong MRI/MRS and nuclear medicine. Also interested in radiation health physics and projects related to that.

Name: Rondero Hernandez, Virginia
Title: PhD, LCSW
Department: Social Work Education
Email: virginiarh@csufresno.edu
Description: Substance abuse and mental health. I am interested in partnering with a neuropsychologist on the topic of addictions.

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Neuropsychology

Name:
Title:
Department:
Email:
Description:

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Nursing

Name: Miller, Kevin
Department: Chemistry
Email: kemiller@csufresno.edu
Description: Human phenotypic and genotypic variation

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Obesity

Name: Pinzon-Perez, Helda
Department: Public Health
Email:
Description: Childhood Obesity

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Parenting and Early Relationships

Name: Joubert, Cassandra
Title: Director, Children's Institute
Department: Public Health
Email: cjoubert@csufresno.edu
Description: Parenting self-efficacy; awareness of the importance of parent-child relationships in promoting social, emotional and behavioral health in children

Name: Trueblood, Peggy
Department: Physical Therapy
Email: peggyt@csufresno.edu
Description:

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Sports Medicine

Name: Trueblood, Peggy
Department: Physical Therapy
Email: peggyt@csufresno.edu
Description:

Name: Sailor, Scott
Title: Associate Professor
Department: Kinesiology
Email: Scott_Sailor@csufresno.edu
Description: Sports injuries, Knee injuries in adolescent females, Injury prevention

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Substance Abuse

Name: Clarke, Kris
Department: Social Work Education
Email: kclarke@csufresno.edu
Description: I am currently working on a qualitative project with opiate users at the local needle exchange

Name: Rondero Hernandez, Virginia
Title: PhD, LCSW
Department: Social Work Education
Email: virginiarh@csufresno.edu
Description: Substance abuse and mental health. I am interested in partnering with a neuropsychologist on the topic of addictions.

Name: Vungkhanching, Martha
Department: Social Work Education
Email: marthavu@csufresno.edu
Description:

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Technology

Name: Dangi, Mohan
Department: Geography
Email: mdangi@csufresno.edu
Description: My research interest encompasses across municipal solid waste management, urban-rural interface issues in developing countries, water/wastewater, and environmental change in mountain ecosystems.

Name: Miller, Kevin
Department: Chemistry
Email: kemiller@csufresno.edu
Description: Human phenotypic and genotypic variation

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