Mentor

Short-Term

Long-Term

Topics

1. Beyond High School
2. Effects of Scholarships and School Reform on the Transition from High School to College in Washington State (Beyond High School Project)
3. Windy City Project: Phase 3
   

Joel Berg, DDS, MS, Professor & Chair
Pediatric Dentistry

1. Friendship and Psychosocial Adjustment in Adolescence
2. Maternal Mental-State Talk and Attachment-Peer Linkages
3. NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development

1. Breast cancer surveillance
2. Quality of breast cancer care
3. Factors influencing prognosis after breast cancer diagnosis
4. Breast cancer survivorship
5. Mid-life women's health

Fred Zimmerman, PhD
Associate Professor
Pediatrics
School of Public Health/Health Services

1. Effects of media on young children's health and development
2. Effects of advertising and marketing on children's diet
3. Effects of early stress on children's health
4. Socio-economic determinants of population-level mental health outcomes

J. Randall Curtis, MD, MPH
Professor, School of Medicine

• End-of-life Care

Timothy A. DeRouen, PhD
Professor & Executive Associate Dean
School of Dentistry

• Development, Implementation, Conduct of a Clinical Study in PRECEDENT, a dental practice-based research network.

1. Designing interventions programs to aid in adjustment following sudden cardiac arrest and ICD implantation
2. Designing and testing exercise programs for CHF and ICD implantation
3. Interventions to reduce risk for CAD.

Mark Drangsholt, DDS, MPH, PhD
Assistant Professor,
Oral Medicine & Dental Public Health Sciences
School of Dentistry

1. Population-based research via secondary analysis of NHANES data. Several
   topics are being explored, including relationships among aerobic fitness,
   BMI, and major health outcomes (e.g., prediabetes, asthma, etc.) in
   adolescents, and relationships between inflammation and metabolic control in
   diabetic adults, among many other topics.
2. Secondary analysis of data from the University of Washington Twin
   Registry. This data offers a unique opportunity to explore gene -
   environment interactions on select health and demographic outcomes.
3. Developing and implementing new tools and technologies for measuring
   physical activity and dietary intake under free-living conditions to
   determine how people interact with their environment as they go about their
   daily lives, and how this in turn impacts health.

Mary Hebert, PharmD,
Professor, School of Pharmacy

1. A Nursing Study of Gut Function in Menstruating Women
2. Autonomic Nervous System and Visceral Hypersensitivity
3. Nursing Management of IBS: Improving Outcomes

1. Drug delivery strategies for treatment of Aids and cancer
2. Fundamental studies of physio- and biological processes for drug targeting to select target tissues or cells
3. Functional impacts of pharmacogenetics

Philippe Hujoel, MSD, PhD
Professor
Dental Public Health Sciences

Greg King, DMD, DMSc
Professor & Chair, Orthodontics
School of Dentistry

• Access to Orthodontic Care

Asuman Kiyak, Ph.D.
Professor, Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
School of Dentistry
Director, UW Institute on Aging

1. Epidemiologic and controlled lab studies of air pollution exposures and health
2. Relationships between traffic, air pollution, the built environment and health
3. Health effects of air pollution in subjects with asthma

1. Research program in sleep and pain: Current project is 'Sleep patterns in children with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis'.
2. Interdisciplinary RCT of valerian effects on sleep in adults with sleep disturbance.
3. Sleep disturbance and hot flashes during and after menopause.

Linda LeResche, ScD
Professor of Oral Medicine School of Dentistry

1. Intergenerational Transmission of Illness Behavior
2. Maintenance-Tailored Obesity Treatment (LIFE)
3. Psychophysiology of IBS

1. Multiple perspectives on battered mothers and their children fleeing to the US for safety: A study of Hague Convention cases.
2. Development and Evaluation of an Interprofessional Health Sciences Certification Examination
3. Evaluation of an In-shelter, Brief Therapy Intervention at the Domestic Abuse Women's Network
4. Mental Health, Domestic Violence and Economic Insecurity

Michael Martin, DMD, PhD,
Associate Professor, Oral Medicine
School of Dentistry

1. Cross reactivity/sensitivity for metals in patch testing of individuals with mucosal disease.
2. Histological characteristics of biopsy samples in relation to positive patch tests for dental materials in individuals with mucosal disease.

Peter Milgrom, DDS
Professor
Dental Public Health Sciences

1. Xylitol and other agents in the prevention of caries and otitis media
2. Short acting benzodiazepines and dental anesthesia and fear behavioral
3. Interventions with children to prevent/ameliorate fear behaviorial

1. Clinical "R&D" project to improve youth access to evidence-based mental health services through improved screening, and caregiver and
   youth self-advocacy.
2. Employment evaluation project with the U.S. Department of Labor and the Institute for Educational Leadership in five cities.
3. Studies of foster care alumni
4. State or county efforts to reduce racial disproportionality in the child welfare system.

1. Psychosocial/Behavioral Intervention in Post Stroke Depression (PSD)
2. Improving CPP Management: Information Feedback and Nursing
3. Recovery from brain injury

• Genetics factors affecting the safety and efficacy of warfarin anti-coagulation therapy

1. STDs
2. Oral Caries

Roger Roffman, Professor
School of Social Work
Director, Innovative Programs Research Group

1. Marijuana Dependence Treatment PRN
2. Motivating HIV Risk Reduction
3. Motivating Substance Abusing Batterers to Seek Treatment
4. Reaching and Motivating Change in Teen Marijuana Smokers
   

1. Mechanism and effectiveness of opioid therapy in pain control
2. Role of transporters in regulating brain uptake and effects of CNS active drugs

1. Participatory action research
2. Multicultural research

• Promoting Infant Mental Health in Foster Care

Reconnecting Youth Prevention Research Program: Elaine Thompson, PhD, RN Professor
Jerald Herting, Research Associate Professor, Psychosocial & Community Health
School of Nursing

1. Testing school-based models for preventing drug abuse, school dropout, depression, and suicide behaviors among high-risk youth
2. The effect of psychosocial risk and protective factors on adolescent development within family, friendship, and school contexts.
3. Developmental trajectories from adolescence to young adulthood—high-risk and non-risk adolescents.
4. Dissemination of school-based prevention programming using community-based participatory strategies
5. The role of environmental context and high-risk behavior among adolescents

1. Mechanism of renal toxicity following immunosuppression therapy during organ transplantation
2. Regulation of intestinal drug metabolism by a vitamin D3 signaling pathway

Rheem Totah, Assistant Professor
Medicinal Chemistry

1. Genetic factors affecting the safety of lipid lowering agents
2. Genetic factors affecting the safety and efficacy of methadone therapy

1. Mechanisms by which drug disposition is altered in pregnant women
2. Mechanism of drug-drug interactions that affect the safety and efficacy of ant-HIV drug therapy
3. Imaging drug transporter activity at the blood- brain and blood-placental barrier using positron emission tomography

• Geriatrics and Gerontology: Research of Psychosocial, health, physiological, and cognitive data on spouse caregivers of persons with Alzheimer's disease and
  demographically-similar comparison samples of persons who are not spending
  their entire day caring for their spouses
  • Biostatistics - Data Analysis
  • Grant Writing and Publications

1. Building on Strengths
2. Health Survey of Two-Spirited Native Americans
   

• Supplement use, diet and other lifestyle factors and cancer incidence and total mortality based on the VITAL cohort of 77,700 men and women in Washington State.

• Local Warming: Effects on Wounds Infection and Healing