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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