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FACULTY MEMBERSHIP 
IN THE NUTRITIONAL SCIENCES 
GRADUATE PROGRAM

DAVID S. ALBERTS, Professor, Medicine, Pharmacology and Public Health and Associate Dean for Research, College of Medicine. M.D., 1966, University of Virginia. Oncology; cancer prevention and nutrient drug development with emphasis on molecular targets; biologic markers of risk and response in cancer prevention studies, pharmacokinetics; cancer prevention, clinical trials with nutrients and/or chemicals. (Cancer Center 2964; 626-7685; )

RONALD E. ALLEN, Professor, Animal Sciences. Ph.D., 1976, Iowa State. Role of polypeptide hormones in the regulation of muscle cell proliferation and differentiation. (Shantz 623; P.O. Box 210038; 621-7626;

LANCE H. BAUMGARD, Assistant Professor, Animal Science. Ph.D., 2001, Cornell University. Nutritional Physiology. Role of dietary nutrients in regulating lipid metabolism during lactation and growth. How homeostatic and homeorhetic systems control nutrient partitioning to support different physiological states. (Shantz 228; P.O. Box 210038; 621-1487; )

CARLOS "KENT" CAMPBELL, Professor and Head, Arizona Prevention Center; Director, Arizona Graduate Program In Public Health, Arizona Health Sciences Center. M.D., 1970, Duke. M.P.H., 1978, Harvard School of Public Health. Prevention programs for maternal and child health, epidemiology and control of tropical diseases, and health policy and health promotion. (AHSC 4335; P.O. Box 245163; Tucson, AZ 85724-5163; 626-7083; )

JAMES FORREST COLLINS, Research Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Section of Gastroenterology/Nutrition, University of Arizona College of Medicine. Ph.D. 1994, in Molecular Physiology, Vanderbilt University College of Medicine, Nashville, TN. Research Interests-Molecular biology, genetics and biochemistry of intestinal and pulmonary epithelial transport proteins, including sodium-phosphate (NaPi) cotransporters and sodium-hydrogen exchangers (NHEs), and their relationships to human physiology and pathophysiology. Model systems include rodents, transgenic mice and cultured cells. (AHSC, Department of Pediatrics, 1501 N. Campbell Ave., Room 6341B, Tucson, AZ 85724; (520) 626-4040; )

DAVID L. EARNEST, Professor, Internal Medicine. M.D., 1963, Tennessee. Vitamin A liver Toxicity; vitamin K-activated clotting factors in the liver; oxalate metabolism; intestinal malabsorption. (AHSC 6406; P.O. Box 245028; Tucson, AZ; 626-6119; )

CHARLES P. GERBA, Professor, Soil, Water & Environmental Science. Ph.D., 1973, Miami. Development of methods for the detection of caliciviruses and other enteric pathogens in water. Occurrence of enteric pathogens on foods and application of quantitative microbial risk assessment to foodborne disease. (Vet. Sci.-Micro 211; 621-6906; )

FAYEZ GHISHAN, Professor, Pediatrics. M.D., London, 1966. Molecular cloning and gene regulation of transport proteins. (AHSC; 626-5170; )

ANNA A. GIULIANO, Research Assistant Professor, Family & Community Medicine, Director, Minority Cancer Prevention and Control Program, Arizona Cancer Center, Co-Director of Nutrition Core of Arizona Cancer Center. Ph.D., 1989, Tufts University. Nutrition and cancer; cervical cancer; minority populations. (AZ Cancer Center; 318-7064/7065; )

SCOTT GOING, Asst. Research Scientist, Physiology. Ph.D., 1985, Univ. of Illinois. Body Composition: development of methods; Changes in fat and fat-free composition with growth and maturation of children and aging in older adults; Effects of chronic exercise on bone and soft tissue composition; Osteoporosis; Obesity, fat patterning and disease and obesity prevention. Muscle function: age-related changes in force production, effects of physical training on force production; effects of physical training on force production. (Physiology/Gittings 12; P.O. Box 245051; 621-4705; )

DARREL GOLL, Professor, Departments of Nutritional Sciences and Biochemistry. Senior Research Scientist, University Heart Center, Ph.D., 1972, Univ. of Wisconsin. Muscle biochemistry. Biochemistry of contractile proteins and muscle growth; metabolic turnover of contractile proteins. (Shantz 624; P.O. Box 210038; 621-7236/7790; )

IMAN HAKIM, Associate Professor, Health Promotion Sciences, College of Public Health, Cancer Prevention and Control Division; Arizona Cancer Center. Ph.D., 1988, Ain-Shams University, Egypt. MPH, 1994 University of Arizona. Development of accurate and validated nutritional assessment tools, epidemiological studies and clinical trials. (Arizona Cancer Center; P.O. Box 245024; Rm. 2964E; 626-5355; )

DAVID HARTSHORNE, Professor, Departments of Nutritional Sciences and Biochemistry. Ph.D., 1962, University of Birmingham, England. Muscle Biochemistry; Regulatory mechanisms in smooth muscle. Role of phosphorylation in assembly of cytoskeleton. (Shantz 626; P.O. Box 210038; 621-7239/1092; )

ERIK J. HENRIKSEN, Associate Professor, Physiology. Ph.D., 1987, University of Arizona. Adaptive responses of carbohydrate and protein metabolism in cardiac and skeletal muscle to acute and chronic alterations in muscle contractile activity and in insulin-resistant states.(Physiology/Gittings 111; P.O. Box 245051; 621-4104 )

LINDA HOUTKOOPER, Professor and Head, Nutrition Specialist, Cooperative Extension, R.D., Ph.D., 1986, Arizona. Effects of nutrition and exercise on health and sports performance; body composition assessment. (Shantz 328; 621-3404; )

WANDA H. HOWELL, R.D., Associate Professor, Nutritional Sciences. Ph.D., 1989, Pennsylvania. Metabolic monitoring; energy balance; body composition; plasma lipoprotein response to diet; diet and coronary heart disease. (Shantz 328; 621-1619; )

TIMOTHY G. LOHMAN, Professor, Exercise & Sport Sciences. Ph.D., 1967, University of Illinois. Body composition assessment, physical activity, obesity and osteoporosis. (Gittings 114; 621-2004; )

SCOTTIE L. MISNER, Associate Specialist, Food & Nutrition, Cooperative Extension Service. R.D., Ph.D., 1985, Nebraska. Nutrition education; especially in low income, minority youth and families. (Shantz 406; 621-7123; )

DONATO F. ROMAGNOLO, Assistant Professor, Nutritional Sciences; Ph.D. 1993, Virginia Tech, Nutrition and cancer; gene expression. (Shantz Bldg. 303, 626-9108;

SADRZADEH, HOSSEIN, Associate Professor, Pathology; Director, Clinical Chemistry and Toxicology. Ph.D., 1987, University of Minnesota, Pathobiology and microbiology. Biochemistry and biology of reactive oxygen species and the role of oxidative stress in tissue injury. Iron and oxidative stress in CNS injury and alcoholic liver disease. Fatty components in tobacco smoke in iron mobilization. (Life Sciences North, 549; 626-6284; ) or James Collins;

WILLIAM A. STINI, Professor, Anthropology. Ph.D., 1969, Wisconsin. Body composition; anthropometry; bone mineral loss in the aged and multivariate statistical analysis of data on body composition and bone mineral loss. (Anthropology 214; 621-8206; )

DOUGLAS TAREN, Associate Professor, Division of Health Promotion Sciences, College of Public Health. Ph.D., 1986, Cornell. Maternal and child nutrition including childhood diabetes and obesity; international nutrition; especially mother-to-child HIV transmission, and vitamin A deficiency; dietary methods, nutritional-related diseases in Hispanic and Native American Indian populations. (2231 E. Speedway; 321-7777 ext. 17; )

NICOLETTE TEUFEL-SHONE, Research Associate Professor, Division of Health Promotion Sciences, College of Public Health. Ph.D., 1989, University of Colorado at Boulder. Relationship between diet and activity patterns, cultural norms and chronic disease outcomes in minority populations, specifically Native American and Hispanic. (AHSC; P.O. Box 245158; 321-7777 ext. 16; )

CYNTHIA A. THOMSON, Assistant Professor, Nutritional Sciences. Ph.D., 1998, University of Arizona. Diet and cancer prevention; Diet and breast cancer; Dietary intervention trials; Diet methods/biomarkers. (Arizona Cancer Center 2964A; 626-9294; )

RONALD R. WATSON, Research Professor, Family & Community Medicine. Ph.D., 1971, Michigan State. Immunology and nutrition: AIDS, aging and cancer; vitamin and hormone replacement. (AHSC 4307; 626-6001; )

JOY WINZERLING, Assistant Professor, Nutritional Sciences. Ph.D., 1990, Arizona. Human nutrition and dietetics; comparative nutrition of minerals in invertebrates and mammals. (Shantz 410; 626-2285; )

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