Diabetes Institute Staff and Membership Directory
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Sarah Adkins, PharmD, BCACP
Associate Clinical Professor
Diabetes Institute
Athens
Parks Hall
Jessica Arquette, MS, RDN, LD
Assistant Professor of Instruction, College of Health Sciences and Professions; Diabetes Certificate Coordinator
Diabetes Institute
Athens
Grover Center E175
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Reetobrata Basu, PhD
Assistant Investigator, EBI
Diabetes Institute
Konneker Research Center
Fabian Benencia, PhD
Associate Professor, Immunology
Biomedical Sciences
Diabetes Institute
Athens
Academic & Research Center
Associate Dean, Research and Innovation; Interim Director, Edison Biotechnology Institute; Professor, Biomedical Sciences
Diabetes Institute
Executive Dean's Office
Research and Grants
Athens
Expertise: Obesity, Nutrition, Growth hormone, Adipose tissue, Diabetes, Endocrinology
Osteopathic Heritage Foundation Ralph S. Licklider, D.O., Endowed Professor; ORG Special Assistant for Research Partnerships
Diabetes Institute
Primary Care
Athens
Expertise: Behavioral diabetes, Psychosocial issues, Qualitative research methods, Medical education
Associate Professor, Chair
Diabetes Institute
Athens
Heritage Hall
Expertise: Trauma, adversity, and health, Trauma-informed care, Behavioral Health in Primary Care
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Director, Education and Research; Clinical Adjunct Assistant Professor, Family Medicine
Diabetes Institute
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Primary Care
Rural and Underserved Programs
Athens
Heritage Hall
Expertise: Education, Educational research, Health literacy, Asset-based community development, Place-based learning, Qualitative r
Amy E. Chadwick, PhD
Associate Professor, School of Communication Studies
Diabetes Institute
Athens
Schoonover Center 411
Expertise: Persuasion, message design, health communication and environmental communication.
Xiaozhuo Chen, PhD
Associate Professor, Transgenic Systems
Biomedical Sciences
Diabetes Institute
Athens
Konneker Research Center
Professor, Associate Director of Nursing Research and Scholarship, College of Health Sciences and Professions
Diabetes Institute
Athens
Grover Center E365, Athens Campus
Expertise: Maternal-infant health, lactation, women's health, culture and health
Rachel Clift, DNP, MSN, RN
Director, Experiential Learning
Diabetes Institute
Medical Education Office
Athens
Heritage Hall
Robert A. Colvin, PhD
Professor & Chair, Biology, Molecular Cellular Biology
Diabetes Institute
Athens
Irvine 112
Expertise: Neuronal mechanisms of zinc homeostasis.
Associate Professor, Microanatomy; Osteopathic Heritage Foundation Ralph S. Licklider, D.O.; Endowed Faculty Fellow in Enhanced Metabolic Aging
Biomedical Sciences
Diabetes Institute
Ohio Musculoskeletal and Neurological Institute
Athens
Academic and Research Center
Expertise: Metabolism, Aging Systems, Muscle Physiology
Karie Cook, BSN
Director of Operations, Diabetes Institute
Diabetes Institute
Athens
Karen Coschigano, PhD
Associate Professor, Molecular/Cellular Biology
Biomedical Sciences
Diabetes Institute
Athens
Academic and Research Center
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Associate Professor, Lifestyle Medicine
Diabetes Institute
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Specialty Medicine
Athens
Expertise: Lifestyle medicine
Glenn Dutcher, PhD
Associate Professor, Dept. of Economics, College of Arts and Sciences
Diabetes Institute
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Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology
Diabetes Institute
Athens
Porter 225
Expertise: Risk and maintenance factors for eating disorders across psychological, social and physiological domains.
Professor; Osteopathic Heritage Foundation Ralph S. Licklider, DO, Endowed Faculty Fellow in Behavioral Health; Co-Director, Institute to Advance Health Equity (ADVANCE)
Diabetes Institute
Social Medicine
Athens
Irvine Hall
Expertise: Medical Sociology, Health Disparities, Racism and Health, Addiction, Opioid Use Disorder, Religion and Health
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Jody Gerome-Zuchowski, DO
Senior Associate Dean for Medical Education; Associate Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology
Diabetes Institute
Executive Dean's Office
Medical Education Office
Specialty Medicine
Athens
Heritage Hall
Douglas Goetz, PhD
Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Diabetes Institute
Hollie Goodell, RN
Diabetes Nurse Navigator
Diabetes Institute
Primary Care
Athens
Alexander O. Govorov, PhD
Distinguished Professor, Ohio University, Department of Physics and Astronomy; Fellow of the American Physical Society
Diabetes Institute
Athens
Clippinger Research Labs 251
Expertise: Theoretical condensed-matter physics.
Assistant Professor
Diabetes Institute
Primary Care
Athens
Irvine Hall
Expertise: Pediatric obesity, Physical activity & physical fitness, Metabolic syndrome, Childhood
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Zelalem Haile, PhD
Associate Professor, Epidemiology
Diabetes Institute
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Social Medicine
Dublin
Medical Education Building 1
Amber Healy, DO
Associate Clinical Professor
Diabetes Institute
Specialty Medicine
Athens
Heritage Hall
Assistant Professor, College of Health Sciences and Professions
Diabetes Institute
Athens
Grover Center E158, Athens Campus
Expertise: Sports nutrition and nutraceuticals,
Associate Professor, College of Health Sciences and Professions
Diabetes Institute
Athens
Grover Center E154, Athens Campus
Expertise: Child activity and energy expenditure; prevention and treatment of pediatric obesity
Assistant Professor
Diabetes Institute
Primary Care
Athens
Irvine Hall
Expertise: Diabetes, Behavioral Medicine, Disability, Qualitative Methodology, Statistics
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Sharon Inman, PhD
Associate Professor, Renal Physiology
Biomedical Sciences
Diabetes Institute
Athens
Heritage Hall
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Goll-Ohio Eminent Scholar; Professor, Molecular Biology
Biomedical Sciences
Diabetes Institute
Athens
Konneker Research Center
Sivarajan Kumarasamy, PhD
Research Assistant Professor
Biomedical Sciences
Diabetes Institute
Athens
Academic Research Center
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Lori Lammert, MA
Associate Director, Diabetes Strategic Initiatives
Diabetes Institute
Primary Care
Athens
Associate Professor
Biomedical Sciences
Diabetes Institute
Athens
Academic & Research Center
Expertise: Molecular biology, Adipose tissue, Obesity, Diabetes, Metabolism, and Physiology
Yang Li, PhD
Professor
Biomedical Sciences
Diabetes Institute
Athens
Irvine Hall
Edward List, PhD
Associate Investigator, Edison Biotechnology Institute
Diabetes Institute
Athens
Konneker Research Center 218B
Jundong Liu, PhD
Associate Professor, Boimedical Engineering
Diabetes Institute
Ohio Musculoskeletal and Neurological Institute
Stocker 321A
Expertise: Medical image analysis, machine learning, computer vision, human motion detection and classification and shape modeling.
Associate Professor of Neurophysiology, Obesity and Diabetes
Biomedical Sciences
Diabetes Institute
Athens
Academic & Research Center
Expertise: Obesity, Diabetes, Cardiovascular disease, Behavioral neuroscience, Energy/lipid/glucose homeostasis
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Ramiro Malgor, MD
Associate Professor, Pathology; Director, Histology Core Facility
Biomedical Sciences
Diabetes Institute
Athens
Academic and Research Center
Assistant Clinical Professor
Diabetes Institute
Specialty Medicine
Athens
Parks Hall
Expertise: Diabetes, Insulin Resistance, Obesity, Metabolic syndrome, Cardiovascular complications, Thyroid diseases
Professor; Associate Chair
Diabetes Institute
Specialty Medicine
Athens
Academic and Research Center
Expertise: Role of chronic inflammation in autoimmune and inflammatory diseases, and novel therapeutic development
Carole Merckle, MSN, RN, DTR, CDCES
Director of Clinical Operations
Community Health Programs
Diabetes Institute
Athens
Grosvenor West
Nicholas Mezitis, MD
Clinical Professor
Diabetes Institute
Specialty Medicine
Athens
Parks Hall
Professor, Biology
Diabetes Institute
Athens
Life Science Bldg 243
Expertise: Sexual selection, variation in female mate preferences and the evolution of alternative reproductive strategies.
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Professor; Osteopathic Heritage Foundation John J. Kopchick, Ph.D., Endowed Eminent Research Chair
Biomedical Sciences
Diabetes Institute
Athens
Academic & Research Center
Expertise: Insulin signaling, insulin clearance/metabolism, insulin resistance, lipid metabolism, obesity, Type 2 diabetes
Tobie Newberry, DNP, APRN, CNP
Certified Nurse Practitioner; Instructor
Community Health Programs
Diabetes Institute
Athens
Grosvenor West
Associate Professor
Biomedical Sciences
Diabetes Institute
Athens
Academic & Research Center
Expertise: Expertise: Diabetes, Islets, Low-grade inflammation, Beta-cell failure, Metabolism, Drug discovery
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Nick Okada, PhD
Associate Professor of Instruction
Diabetes Institute
Specialty Medicine
Athens
Konneker Research Center
Sherri Oliver, MPA
Executive Director, Community Health Programs and Area Health Education Center
Community Health Programs
Diabetes Institute
Athens
Grosvenor West
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Lynn Petrik, BSN, RN
Senior Research Nurse
Clinical and Translational Research Unit
Diabetes Institute
Research and Grants
Athens
Irvine Hall
Osteopathic Heritage Foundation Ralph S. Licklider, D.O., Endowed Professor; Executive Director, Diabetes Institute
Biomedical Sciences
Diabetes Institute
Athens
Academic & Research Center
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Lauren Schmidtgesling, BS
Research Program Assistant
Diabetes Institute
Athens
Frank Schwartz, MD
Professor Emeritus of Specialty Medicine
Diabetes Institute
Specialty Medicine
Athens
Academic & Research Center
Vishva Sharma, PhD
Assistant Research Professor
Biomedical Sciences
Diabetes Institute
Athens
Academic & Research Center
Carol Schaumleffel, DNP, RN, LSN
Assistant Professor; Licensed School Nurse
College of Health Sciences and Professions
Diabetes Institute
Athens
Grover Center E336
Yuriy Slyvka, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Instruction
Biomedical Sciences
Diabetes Institute
Athens
Heritage Hall
Cammie Starner, MA, BSN, RN
Nursing, Director of Operations, College of Health Sciences and Professions
Diabetes Institute
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Stacy Wright, MSN, RN
Outcomes & Resources Manager
Diabetes Institute
Athens
Frances Wymbs, PhD
Associate Professor
Diabetes Institute
Primary Care
Athens
Irvine Hall
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Associate Professor, Osteopathic Heritage Foundation Ralph S. Licklider, D.O. Endowed Professor
Biomedical Sciences
Diabetes Institute
Ohio Musculoskeletal and Neurological Institute
Athens
Life Science Building 133
Expertise: Cartilage Biology, Aging and Metabolism, Osteoarthritis
Peggy Zoccola, PhD
Professor, Director of Experimental Training, Psychology
Diabetes Institute