The Drexel University School of Public Health welcomed seven new faculty members to the school during the 2007 - 2008 academic year, and two more will be starting in the fall. The new members of the faculty bring significant teaching experience and a wide variety of research expertise to the students of the school. The increasing number of experts joining the School of Public Health is another indicator of its growth and success.
The new faculty members include:
Amy Auchincloss
Asst. Professor (Fall 2008)
Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
Dr. Auchincloss received her PhD in Epidemiology from the University of Michigan and her MPH degree from Columbia University. Previously an assistant research scientist at the University of Michigan, her research expertise includes environmental determinants of health and the health effects of air pollution. She also focuses on the contribution of resources in residential environments to health behaviors, obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. In addition, Dr. Auchincloss is an expert in the use of spatial analysis methods and agent-based models.
Darryl Brown
Assistant Professor (Fall 2008)
Department of Health Management and Policy
Dr. Brown received his PhD in Health Services and Outcomes Research from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and an MPA degree in Health Policy and Management from The Wagner School at New York University. Dr. Brown’s background is in health care research and planning, having worked with the Center for Health Statistics of the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services, Temple University Health System and University of Pennsylvania Health System. His work has also included Drug/Alcohol patient outcomes research, and consulting in Medicaid HMO quality of care research. He has taught at UMDNJ/Rutgers University, Arcadia University and Drexel's LeBow On-line MBA Program.
Carla Campbell
Associate Professor
Department of Environmental and Occupational Health
Dr. Campbell received a masters degree at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine and a masters degree at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. She has done residencies in community and environmental medicine as well as pediatrics. Prior to joining Drexel University, she was a clinical associate professor of pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania, where she specialized in lead poisoning. She also co-directed the hospital’s lead and toxicology clinic, and has served on numerous national and state societies to address the disease.
Carol Ann Gross-Davis, MS
Assistant Professor
Department of Environmental and Occupational Health
Ms. Gross-Davis joined Drexel University through an intergovernmental agreement with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). She is a trained environmental scientist who has acquired more than 15 years of on-the-ground EPA experience.
David Barton Smith, PhD
Professor
Center for Health Equality, Department of Health Management and Policy
Dr. Smith received his PhD in Medical Care Organization from the University of Michigan and previously served at the Fox School of Business at Temple University. He is a renowned expert in community health assessment, and has worked on health improvement projects with hospital systems and community coalitions across the nation. Dr. Smith has authored well over 50 papers and reports and is currently working on his 11th book, entitled the Forensic Case Files: Diagnosing the Pathologies of the American Health Care System.
Jennifer A. Taylor, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Department of Environmental and Occupational Health
Dr. Taylor received her PhD in Health Policy and Management at The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and her Masters in Public Health with a concentration in health services at the Boston University School of Public Health. Her research expertise includes occupational safety, patient quality improvement, healthcare workforce culture and injury epidemiology. Dr. Taylor has gained more than 15 years of experience in state government, hospital management and basic sciences.
Renee Turchi, MD
Associate Professor
Department of Community Health and Prevention
Dr. Turchi received her MD from the Medical College of Philadelphia and a Masters of Public Health degree from The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Turchi is boarded in pediatrics and has participated in The Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program. She currently also serves as the director of the Center for Children with Special Health Care Needs at St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children. Dr. Turchi’s research and clinical interests focus on children with special health care needs and their health care delivery system.
Seth Welles, PhD, ScD
Associate Professor
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Dr. Welles received a PhD in Cellular Biology from Boston University and a ScD in Epidemiology from Harvard University. Dr. Welles has more than 12 years of experience researching HIV drug resistance, as well as an expanding research base focused on the epidemiology of HIV transmission among gay and bisexual men.
Issa Zakeri, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Dr. Zakeri received a PhD in Biostatistics and an MS in Mathematics from the University of Illinois. He previously served at the Department of Pediatrics at the Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Zakeri has published extensively on biostatistics, as well as in papers focused on children’s nutrition studies. His primary area of applied research has more recently been in the application of biostatistics to behavioral, biological and medical sciences -- particularly as it relates to nutrition.