Wyatt Peter Bensken, PhD
Program: Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Advisor: Siran Koroukian, PhD
Dissertation: Disparities and Inequities in Health, HealthCare, and Outcomes for People Living with Epilepsy
: Research Investigator at OCHIN, Inc. and Adjunct Faculty here in PQHS. Link to Dr. Bensken's website .
Benjamin Booker, PhD
Program: Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Advisor: Jennifer Cullen, PhD, MPH
Dissertation: The Impact of Insomnia among Men with Advanced Prostate Cancer
PhD conferred May 2024
Zuxi Cui, PhD
Program: Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Advisor: Fredrick R. Schumacher, PhD, MPH
Dissertation: Assessing Genetic Imputation Quality and its Application in Rare Variant Analysis for Genome-Wide Association Studies: A Simulation-Powered Approach
PhD conferred 08/16/2024
Gwendolyn Ann Roberdeau Donley, PhD
Program: Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Dissertation: The Role of Perception and Crisis in Food Environments, Vaccine Acceptance, and Financial Stress
: Postdoctoral National Poverty Fellow with the Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Shuo Fang, PhD
Program: Epidemiology and Biostatistics
PhD conferred 01/15/2021
India Jarita Gill, PhD, MPH
Program: Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Dissertation: Investigating the Neighborhood Context of Racial Inequities in Child Ashtm Emergency Healthcare
: Postdoctoral Fellow, Social Interventions Research and Evaluation Network, University of California San Francisco
Jesus Gutierrez, PhD
Program: Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Advisor: Catherine M. Stein, PhD
Dissertation: Epidemiological Factors Associated with Acute Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Infection and Active Disease
PhD conferred 08/16/2024
Emily Hannon, PhD
Program: Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Advisors: Diane Dowd, PhD, Alex Yee-Chen Huang, MD, PHD, James Kazura, MD, and Scott Williams, PhD
Dissertatiion: Assessing Heterogneity in the Immune Response Against Malaria in African Children
: Emily is working on the MD component of the Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) - an MD/PhD combined degree program.
Karen Yingyi He, PhD
Program: Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Degree conferred 01/17/2020
Kakul Joshi, PhD, MPH
Program: Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Advisor: Erika Trapl, PhD
Dissertation: Food Banking during COVID-19: Understanding Food Sourcing, Quality, and Factors Influencing Healthier Food Inventory
: Senior Evaluator, Professional Data Analysts
Youjun Li, PhD
Program: Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Advisor: Jeffrey M. Albert, PhD
Dissertation: Semiparametric and Nonparametric Model Approaches to Causal Mediation Analysis for Longitudinal Data
PhD conferred 01/19/2024
: Postdoctoral Scholar. Case Western Reserve University, Department of Population & Quantitative Health Sciences
Shiying Liu
Program: Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Advisor: Dana Crawford, PhD
PhD conferred 05/16/2025
Noah Jeffery Lorincz-Comi, PhD
Program: Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Advisor: Xiaofeng Zhu, PhD
Dissertation: Developing and Applying New Tools to Study Complex Disease Risk
PhD conferred May 2024
Michael Lyon McHenry, PhD
Program: Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Dissertation: Genomic and Co-Evolutionary Determinants of Clinical Severity in Active Tuberculosis Patients
: Housestaff, Division of Medicine Administration, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Leslie (Guanqun) Meng
Program: Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Advisor: Harry Hao Feng, PhD and Scott Matthew Williams, PhD
PhD conferred 01/17/2025
Elina Misicka, PhD
Program: Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Dissertation: Understanding Genetic Drivers of Age at Onset and Risk Conferred by Obesity in Multiple Sclerosis
: Postdoctoral Fellow, Neuroimmunological Disorders Gene-Environment Epidemiology Lab, Department of Population & Quantitative Health Sciences, CWRU.
Daniel Ontaneda, PhD
Program: Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Michael David Osterman, PhD
Program: Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Advisor: Jonathan L. Haines, PhD
Dissertation: Refining the Use of Polygenic Risk Scoresfor Alzheimer Disease in Diverse and Founder Populations
: Assistant Director of Epidemiology at Epividian, Inc.
Stephanie Pike Moore, PhD, MPH
Program: Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Currently: Assistant Professor in the Department of Population & Quantitative Health Sciences at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Abigail Currie Lenore Roche, PhD
Program: Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Advisors: Darcy Ann Freeman, PhD, MPH and Scott Matthew Williams, PhD
Dissertation: Exploring Nutrition Security through Systems Science and Data-Driven Approaches
PhD conferred January 2024
Han Sun
Program: Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Advisor: Xiaofeng Zhu, PhD and Scott Matthew Williams, PhD
PhD conferred 01/17/2025
Jing Zhang, PhD
Program: Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Advisor: Scott Matthew Williams, PhD and Xiaofeng Zhu, PhD
PhD conferred 08/16/2024
Ju Zhang, PhD
Program: Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Degree conferred 05/30/2021
Xueyi (Julia) Zhang, PhD
Program: Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Advisor: William S. Bush, PhD
Dissertation: Identifying Alzheimer鈥檚 Related Variants that Influence Transcriptional Regulation
PhD conferred May 2024
Mengshi Zhou
Program: Epidemiology & Biostatistics
PhD conferred 08/14/2020