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Kathleen Blee, PhD

Distinguished Professor of Sociology
Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research
kblee@pitt.edu
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Topics: social movements, activism, race and racism, racial violence, gender, global feminism

Donald S. Burke, MD

Dean, Graduate School of Public Health
Director, Center for Vaccine Research
Associate Vice Chancellor for Global Health, Health Sciences
UPMC–Jonas Salk Professor of Global Health
donburke@pitt.edu
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Topics: prevention, diagnosis, and control of infectious diseases of global concern, including HIV/AIDS, hepatitis A, avian influenza, dengue, and emerging infectious diseases; vaccine development, infectious disease pandemic modeling and simulation, medical and public health history

Dr. Burke leads the MIDAS (Models of Infectious Disease Agent Study) Center of Excellence, which is part of a nationwide consortium funded by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences to investigate the development and use of computational models than can help the nation to prepare for and respond to outbreaks of infectious diseases like H1N1 swine flu.

Yuan Chang, MD

Distinguished Professor of Pathology
American Cancer Society Research Professor of Pathology
Codirector, Tumor Virology Laboratory, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute
yc70@pitt.edu
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Topics: skin cancer, anatomic pathology/neuropathology, viral oncology, molecular biology of infectious diseases.

Dr. Chang and her husband, Patrick S. Moore, MD, MPH, are co-discoverers of two of the seven known cancer-causing viruses, Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (also known as human herpesvirus 8), and Merkel cell polyomavirus.

Louise Comfort, PhD

Professor of Public and International Affairs Director, Pitt's Center for Disaster Management
lkc@pitt.edu
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Topics: disaster response management, policy analysis.

Professor Comfort has studied government responses to more than 19 earthquakes worldwide.

Larry E. Davis, PhD

Dean, Donald M. Henderson Professor, and Director, Center on Race and Social Problems
ledavis@pitt.edu
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Topics: interracial group dynamics, the impact of race, gender, and class on interpersonal interactions, African American family formation, and youth

Nathan Davis, PhD

Professor of Music
Director of Jazz Studies
ndavis@pitt.edu
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Topics: jazz, African American music

Professor Davis directs the University of Pittsburgh Jazz Ensemble and is the founder of the Annual Pitt Jazz Seminar and Concert, which marked its 42nd year in 2012.

William Harbert, PhD

Chair and Professor, Department of Geology and Planetary Science
harbert@pitt.edu
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Topics: seismology, carbon sequestration, rock physics, geospatial analysis applied to geohazards, environmental geophysics, paleomagnetism and plate tectonics

David A. Harris, JD, LLM

Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Research
daharris@pitt.edu
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Topics: criminal law, police behavior and regulation, racial profiling, national security issues and the law.

Professor Harris is the leading national authority on racial profiling.

Cecilia Lo, PhD

F. Sargent Cheever Professor and Chair of Developmental Biology
cel36@pitt.edu
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Topics: genetic causes and developmental mechanisms of congenital heart disease

Patrick S. Moore, MD, MPH

Distinguished Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
Codirector, Tumor Virology Laboratory, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute
psm9@pitt.edu
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Topics: skin cancer, links between viruses and cancer, basic molecular virology of malignant transformation, developing assays to detect tumor virus infection

Dr. Moore and his wife, Yuan Chang, MD, are co-discoverers of two of the seven known cancer-causing viruses, Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (also known as human herpesvirus 8), and Merkel cell polyomavirus.

Audrey J. Murrell, PhD

Associate Professor of Business Administration, Psychology, and Public and International Affairs
Director, Pitt’s David Berg Center for Ethics and Leadership
amurrell@katz.pitt.edu
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412-648-1693

Topics: mentoring, breaking the “glass ceiling,” diversity, workplace discrimination

Gregory Reed, PhD

Director of the Electric Power Initiative, Associate Director of Pitt’s Center for Energy,
Associate Professor of Electric Power Engineering, Pitt’s Swanson School of Engineering
gfr3@pitt.edu
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412-389-7503

Topics: power grid, power electronics (FACTS, HVDC), renewable energy systems, smart grid technologies, direct current (DC) technology, energy efficiency and storage systems, power quality

Andrew B. Schwartz, PhD

Professor of Neurobiology
abs21@pitt.edu
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412-383-7021

Topics: neuroscience, neural prostheses, neural decoding of volitional arm movement, neural basis of perception to action, brain-computer interface technology

D. Lansing Taylor, PhD

Professor of Computational and Systems Biology
Director, University of Pittsburgh Drug Discovery Institute
dtaylor@pitt.edu
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412-648-9200

Topics: drug discovery and development, temporal-spatial dynamics of signaling molecules and proteins in living cells, mechanisms of fundamental cell functions, protein-protein interactions, quantitative systems pharmacology, personalized medicine

Rocky S. Tuan, PhD

Arthur J. Rooney Sr. Professor of Sports Medicine
Executive Vice Chair for Research, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
Director, Center for Military Medicine Research
Associate Director, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine
rst13@pitt.edu
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412-624-3962

Topics: regenerative medicine, tissue engineering, musculoskeletal cartilage development and repair, cell signaling and matrix biochemistry, stem cell biology, nanotechnology

William R. Wagner, PhD

Director, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine
wagner@pitt.edu
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Topics: tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, stem cell research, cardiovascular engineering, medical device biocompatibility and design, targeted imaging; using engineering principles to develop technologies that improve cardiovascular disease diagnosis and treatment