Faculty and staff

Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology Faculty

Professor & Chairman
Richard S. Cooper, MD (708) 327-9010 rcooper@lumc.edu

Epidemiology
• Lara Dugas, PhD (708) 327-9029 ldugas@lumc.edu
• Holly Kramer, MD, MPH (708) 327-9039 hkramer@lumc.edu
• Amy Luke, PhD (708) 327-9011 aluke@lumc.edu
• David Shoham, PhD, MSPH (708) 327-9006 DSHOHAM@lumc.edu
• Jun Zhang, PhD (708) 709-327-9070 junzhang1@lumc.edu

Biostatistics
• Ramon Durazo-Arvizu, PhD (708) 327-9007 rdurazo@lumc.edu
• Guichan Cao, MS (708) 327-9040 gcao@lumc.edu
• James Sinacore, PhD (708)327-9127 jsinacore@lumc.edu
• Bamidele Tayo, PhD (708) 327-9013 btayo@lumc.edu
• Liping Tong, PhD (708)327-9022 ltong@luc.edu

Health Policy
• Dhrubajyoti (Dru) Bhattacharya, J.D., M.P.H., LL.M. (708) 327-9017 dhbhattacharya@lumc.edu

Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology Staff

Director of Administration
Cinthia Leman, MS (708) 327-9012 cleman@lumc.edu

Administrative Secretary
Nanci Tanney (708) 327-9018 ntanney@lumc.edu
Departmental Fax: (708) 327-9009

Local Area Network (LAN) Administrator
Glenn Paveza (708) 327-9030 gpaveza@lumc.edu

Program Data Analyst
Regina Harders (708) 327-9122 rharder@lumc.edu

Lab Manager
Ilze Berzin: 708-327-9224 iberzin@lumc.edu

Research assistant-Modeling the Epidemiologic Transition study
RuthVerner 708-327-9014, rarmstrong@lumc.edu

Research assistant-SPRINT trial
Corliss Taylor: 708-327-9001 COTAYLOR@lumc.edu