collaboratory.arizona.edu - Faculty

Julio C. Loya, PhD, RN

ksouders — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 20:10:32 +0000

Julio C. Loya, PhD, RN

Assistant Professor, College of Nursing I conduct research to improve the health of Hispanic/LatinX adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Currently, I am focusing on culturally-adapted behavioral change interventions with an emphasis on physical activity.

(520) 621-9112

jloya@arizona.edu

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Meghan Skiba, PhD, MS, MPH, RDN

ksouders — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 19:22:51 +0000

Meghan Skiba, PhD, MS, MPH, RDN

Assistant Professor, College of Nursing

Dr. Meghan Skiba is an Assistant Professor in the College of Nursing Biobehavioral Health Science Division at the University of Arizona. She received her doctorate in Health Behavior Health Promotion from the Mel & Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, has additional formal graduate training in epidemiology and nutritional sciences, and completed post-doctoral training at Oregon Health & Science University. Dr. Skiba has experience delivering remote diet and physical activity interventions as well as health coaching, accelerometry, mixed-methods, and data analysis. Her research has emphasis in biological aging, technology, and dyads. She is interested in addressing cancer health disparities by connecting cancer survivors and their caregivers to the skills and behaviors to live their healthiest and longest life.

520-621-9036

mbskiba@arizona.edu

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Beth Meyerson, PhD

ksouders — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 17:40:11 +0000

Beth Meyerson, PhD

Professor, Family and Community Medicine

In August 2019, Dr Meyerson joined the faculty of the Southwest Institute for Research on Women at the University of Arizona. Prior to that and since September 2011, she was an Associate Professor of Health Policy & Management at the Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington. Beth retains her role as the Co-Director of the Rural Center for AIDS/STD Prevention and as affiliate faculty at The Kinsey Institute at Indiana University. Dr. Meyerson has over two decades of public health practice and research experience, typified by roles as president of a policy research consultancy focused on HIV and sexually transmitted diseases, with an international portfolio (1998-2011), and as the state AIDS/STD Director for Missouri (1994-1998). Most of her research is interdisciplinary, combining policy and organizational science with behavioral and clinical outcomes research. Dr. Meyerson’s research interests include public health policy and systems to advance population health with focus on sexual health and harm reduction. Her research is oriented as translational to program and policy through the application of implementation science and community-based participatory research. Beth's systems research includes the identification of need and opportunities for system expansion to improve access to sexual health and harm reduction services. Examples are the study of alternative screening and follow-up venues for cervical cancer (STD clinics), HIV testing (pharmacies and community health centers), and PrEP, addictions screening, syringe and naloxone access for HIV, hepatitis C and overdose reduction (pharmacy practice expansion). Policy research includes policy behaviors and their measurement, particularly by public institutions including studies of state STD investment, local public health accreditation, reported policy behaviors of state STD programs and local health departments, country-level policy planning, and policy adoption for syringe access. A link to Dr. Meyerson's work is here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/beth.meyerson.1/bibliography/public/

(520) 626-7864

bmeyerson@arizona.edu

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Karen Lutrick, PhD

ksouders — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 18:15:38 +0000

Karen Lutrick, PhD

Assistant Professor, Family and Community Medicine (Research Scholar Track)

Research Interests: Latinx health, Health disparities, Precision medicine, Dissemination & Implementation Science, Research methodology, Research education

Degrees:

MS: Mexican American Studies, University of Arizona, 2006
PhD: Health Behavior Health Promotion, University of Arizona, 2019

Honors and Awards:

Research Award, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health Poster Forum - 2018
Honorable Mention, Human Subjects Research Project Competition for Students (HSRProj) - 2018
Silver Medallion, Academic Catalog, National Council for Marketing and Public Relations - 2010
Gold Medallion, Student Handbook National Council for Marketing and Public Relations - 2009

klutrick@email.arizona.edu

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Linnea Linde-Krieger, PhD, LCSW

ksouders — Fri, 08 Apr 2022 19:44:15 +0000

Linnea Linde-Krieger, PhD, LCSW

Assistant Professor, Family and Community Medicine (Research Scholar Track)

Linnea Linde-Krieger, PhD, LCSW, is an assistant professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Arizona. The goal of Dr. Linde-Krieger’s research program is to enhance the health and well-being of children and families through the identification and promotion of resilience factors. Her translational research examines caregiver risk (e.g., perinatal substance misuse, history of trauma), caregiver-child attachment, and child developmental outcomes. Dr. Linde-Krieger completed her PhD in developmental psychology at the University of California, Riverside and also holds and Master of Social Work from the University of Maryland, Baltimore.

Degrees

PhD, University of California - Riverside
MSW, University of Maryland - Baltimore
BA, Mills College

llkrieger@arizona.edu

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Vanessa da Silva, PhD, RD

kdickeson — Wed, 17 Oct 2018 18:17:01 +0000

Vanessa da Silva, PhD, RD

Assistant Specialist and Assistant Professor, Nutritional Sciences

My research interests broadly refer to public health nutrition: diabetes prevention culinary-based nutrition education nutritional influences on arsenic toxicity dietary assessment, health disparities sustainable implementation of community nutrition programs My role with Cooperative Extension allows for opportunities to engage with local communities in the implementation of health promotion programs.

520-621-1584

vdasilva@email.arizona.edu

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Jim Cunningham, PhD

giannaj — Mon, 05 Mar 2018 19:46:37 +0000

Jim Cunningham, PhD

Associate Professor, Family and Community Medicine (Research Scholar Track)

James Cunningham’s research interests include social epidemiologic methods, program and policy evaluation, health disparity determinants, and health services workforce quality. He introduced and helped develop the field of study that examines how essential/precursor chemical controls impact illicit drug production, use and morbidity. He is working to foster more population-based health research among indigenous peoples. And he is developing new measures/instruments to better assess the skill levels and identify the training needs of public health professionals.

(520) 615-5080

jkcunnin@email.arizona.edu

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Patricia Haynes, PhD, MS

giannaj — Wed, 20 Sep 2017 22:25:33 +0000

Patricia Haynes, PhD, MS

Associate Professor, Health Promotion Sciences

Mel & Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health

Areas of Interest: stress, sleep health, mental health, obesity, cognitive behavioral intervention, involuntary job loss, workplace wellness, public safety

Dr. Haynes’ research investigates how disruptions in social rhythms, or the regularity of an individual’s daily routine, may lead to the development of cardiometabolic or mental health risk in vulnerable individuals. Her research also explores the bidirectional relationship between stress exposure and sleep disturbances. She is interested in studying how sleep interventions may be adapted to increase effectiveness and uptake in at-risk populations. Dr. Haynes’ has led research projects funded by the National Institutes of Health (NHLBI, NIMH), Department of Defense, American Sleep Medicine Foundation, Arizona Institute for Mental Health Research, and Canyon Ranch Center for Prevention and Health Promotion.

Dr. Haynes is committed to the translation of research findings to clinical practice. She is a licensed clinical psychologist with a diplomate certification in behavioral sleep medicine. She has more than 20 years of experience providing evidence based intervention to patients in multiple settings including the VA, academic healthcare, and workplace. Therapeutic modalities include: CBT, DBT, ACT, and MI. She also provides Cognitive Behavioral Social Rhythm Therapy, a group intervention her team developed and tested to reduce stress symptoms and promote resiliency.

Selected, recent publications from her work at the Collaboratory:

Haynes, P.L., Apolinar, G.R., Mayer, C., Kobayashi, U., Silva, G.E., Glickenstein, D.A, Thomson, C.A, Quan, S.F. Inconsistent social rhythms are associated with abdominal adiposity after involuntary job loss: An observational study (2021). Obesity Science and Practice, 7(2), 208-216. doi: 10.1002/osp4.479.
Silva, G. E., Quan, S. F., McMorrow, T., Bautista, R., Bell, M. L., & Haynes, P. L.* (2021) Association between Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Multiple Involuntary Job Loss History Among Recently Unemployed Adults. Sleep Health, 7(1): 118-122. doi: 10.1016/j.sleh.2020.08.002
Batool-Anwar, S., Mayer, C., Haynes, P.L.*, Liu, Y., Thomson, C.A., & Quan, S.F.* (2021). Impact of recent job loss on sleep, energy consumption, and diet. Southwest Journal of Pulmonary & Critical Care, 23(5):129-137. DOI: 10.13175/swjpcc045-21.
Nair, U. S., Haynes, P., & Collins, B.N. (2019). Baseline sleep quality is a significant predictor of quit-day smoking self-efficacy among low-income treatment-seeking mothers. Journal of Health Psychology, 24 (11): 1484-1493. doi: 10.1177/1359105317740619.

(520) 626-1855

thaynes@arizona.edu

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Alicia Allen, PhD, MPH

giannaj — Wed, 20 Sep 2017 21:31:46 +0000

Alicia Allen, PhD, MPH

Associate Professor, Family and Community Medicine

AHSC, Rm. 4320

Alicia Allen, PhD, MPH began working in clinical research on substance use disorders in 2001 as an undergraduate student. This experience prompted her to obtain her masters in community health education, graduate certification in addiction studies and doctorate in social and behavioral epidemiology, all from the University of Minnesota. She also completed a fellowship at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the area of prenatal smoking. As an epidemiologist, Alicia is particularly interested in research study design and evaluating causality. She has conducted randomized clinical trials, controlled cross-over trials, and cross-sectional online surveys, as well as analyzed data from large epidemiological datasets. Her research interests are on the role of sex/gender and sex hormones within addictive behaviors, as well as healthy behavior changes. Currently she is exploring the role of hormonal contraceptives (e.g. birth control pills) in smoking cessation, as well as relapse to smoking, marijuana and opioids. Further work is investigating the protective effects of exercise on addictive behaviors. Alicia has received funding from the National Institutes of Health, ClearWay Minnesota, and University of Minnesota. She has published numerous manuscripts and is the editorial fellow for the Journal of Addiction Medicine.

(520) 626-8157

aliciaallen@email.arizona.edu

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Amit Algotar, MD, PhD, MPH

giannaj — Wed, 20 Sep 2017 21:25:18 +0000

Amit Algotar, MD, PhD, MPH

Clinical Assistant Professor, Family and Community Medicine (Clinical Series Track)

AHSC, Rm. 109

520-626-2761

algotar@email.arizona.edu

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