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.
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
- Genetics.
For more information about UNC Lineberger faculty mentors, please see our faculty research profiles.
Primary Preceptors by Department
Biostatistics
- Mike Love, PhD
Epidemiology
- Larry Engel, PhD
- Kelly Evenson, PhD
- Hazel Nichols, PhD
- Andrew Olshan, PhD
- David Richardson, PhD, MSPH
- Til Stürmer, MD, PhD
- Melissa Troester, PhD, MPH
Health Behavior
- Noel Brewer, PhD
- Adam Goldstein, MD, MPH
- Marissa Hall, PhD
- Sarah Mills, PhD, MPH
- Seth M. Noar, PhD
- Deborah Tate, PhD
- Kurt Ribisl, PhD
Medicine
- Victoria Bae-Jump, MD, PhD
- Laura Hanson, MD, MPH
- Katherine Reeder-Hayes, MD, MBA, MSc
- Daniel Reuland, MD, MPH
Nursing
- Jennifer Leeman, MPH, DrPH, MDiv
Nutrition
- Alice Ammerman, DrPH
- Stephen Hursting, PhD, MPH
- Deborah Tate, PhD
Radiology
- Louise Henderson, PhD, MSPH
- Sarah Nyante, PhD, MSPH
Affiliated Preceptors by Department
Epidemiology
- Jennifer Lund, PhD
Exercise & Sport Science
- Claudio Battaglini, PhD
Health Behavior
- Melissa Gilkey, PhD
- Laura Linnan, ScD
- Barbara Rimer, DrPH, MPH
Medicine
- Hanna Sanoff, MD, MPH
- William Wood, MD, MPH
Nursing
- Ashley Leak Bryant, PhD, RN, OCN, FAAN
Nutrition
- Barry Popkin, PhD
- Carmina Valle, PhD, MPH
Psychology and Psychiatry
- Donald Rosenstein, MD
- Paschal Sheeran, PhD