Faculty Mentors
CCEP faculty mentors represent departments in the UNC-Chapel Hill Schools of Public Health, Medicine, and Nursing, and the College of Arts. Mentors are predominantly senior faculty. Four are practicing clinicians, and one is a nurse. For more information about UNC Lineberger faculty mentors see our faculty research profiles.
| Primary Preceptors | Department | |||
| Alice Ammerman, DrPH |
Nutrition | |||
| Victoria Bae-Jump, MD, PhD |
Medicine | |||
| Noel T. Brewer, PhD |
Health Behavior | |||
| Larry Engel, PhD |
Epidemiology | |||
| Kelly Evenson, PhD |
Epidemiology | |||
| Adam O. Goldstein, MD, MPH |
Health Behavior | |||
| Laura Hanson, MD, MPH |
Medicine | |||
| Louise M. Henderson, PhD, MSPH |
Radiology | |||
| Stephen Hursting, PhD, MPH |
Nutrition | |||
| Jennifer Leeman, MPH, DrPH, MDiv |
Nursing | |||
| Mike Love, PhD |
Biostatistics | |||
| Hazel Nichols, PhD | Epidemiology | |||
| Seth M. Noar, PhD | Health Behavior | |||
| Sarah Nyante, PhD, MSPH |
Radiology | |||
| Andrew Olshan, PhD | Epidemiology | |||
| Katherine Reeder-Hayes, MD, MBA, MSc |
Medicine | |||
| Daniels S. Reuland, MD, MPH |
Medicine | |||
| Kurt M. Ribisl, PhD |
Health Behavior | |||
| David Richardson, PhD, MSPH |
Epidemiology | |||
| Deborah F. Tate, PhD |
Health Behavior, Nutrition | |||
| Melissa Troester, PhD, MPH |
Epidemiology | |||
| Til Stürmer, MD, PhD |
Epidemiology | |||
| Affiliated Preceptors | Department |
| Claudio Battaglini, PhD |
Exercise & Sport Science |
| Ashley Leak Bryant, PhD, RN, OCN, FAAN |
Nursing |
| Melissa Gilkey, PhD |
Health Behavior |
| Marissa Hall, PhD |
Health Behavior |
| Laura Linnan, ScD |
Health Behavior |
| Jennifer Lund, PhD |
Epidemiology |
| Sarah Mills, PhD, MPH |
Health Behavior |
| Barry M. Popkin, PhD |
Nutrition |
| Barbara Rimer, DrPH, MPH |
Health Behavior |
| Donald Rosenstein, MD |
Psychiatry |
| Hanna Sanoff, MD, MPH |
Medicine |
| Paschal Sheeran, PhD |
Psychology |
| Carmina Valle, PhD, MPH |
Nutrition |
| William Wood, MD, MPH |
Medicine |
Considered as a group, the faculty mentors provide multidisciplinary training opportunities. Discipline expertise includes health behavior, health communication, epidemiology, general medicine, oncology, health policy, nursing and nutrition. Specific areas of interest include but are not limited to: behavior change (diet, physical activity, smoking), diet and cancer cause/prevention, chemoprevention, tobacco control (youth, adolescents, adults), sun protection, social science measurement, psychosocial issues (peri-treatment and survivorship), cancer screening (breast, cervical, colon, prostate), community interventions, physical activity, cancer control policy, outcomes research, workplace interventions, physician practice interventions, racial disparities, and genetics.