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 Brewer, PhD |
Health Behavior | |||
| Larry Engel, PhD |
Epidemiology | |||
| Kelly Evenson, PhD |
Epidemiology | |||
| Adam Goldstein, MD, MPH |
Health Behavior | |||
| Marissa Hall, PhD |
Health Behavior | |||
| Laura Hanson, MD, MPH |
Medicine | |||
| Louise Henderson, PhD, MSPH |
Radiology | |||
| Stephen Hursting, PhD, MPH |
Nutrition | |||
| Jennifer Leeman, MPH, DrPH, MDiv |
Nursing | |||
| Mike Love, PhD |
Biostatistics | |||
| Sarah Mills, PhD, MPH | Health Behavior | |||
| 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 | |||
| Daniel Reuland, MD, MPH |
Medicine | |||
| Kurt Ribisl, PhD |
Health Behavior | |||
| David Richardson, PhD, MSPH |
Epidemiology | |||
| Deborah 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 |
| Laura Linnan, ScD |
Health Behavior |
| Jennifer Lund, PhD |
Epidemiology |
| Barry 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.