Diabetes Institute Staff and Membership Directory
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Sarah Adkins, PharmD, BCACP
Associate Clinical Professor
email address
adkinss4@ohio.edu
phone number
740.566.0150
Diabetes Institute
location
Athens
building location
Parks Hall
Jessica Arquette, MS, RDN, LD
Assistant Professor of Instruction, College of Health Sciences and Professions; Diabetes Certificate Coordinator
email address
arquette@ohio.edu
phone number
740.593.0131
Diabetes Institute
location
Athens
building location
Grover Center E175
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Karen Bailey, MS
Diabetes Educator
email address
baileyk@ohio.edu
phone number
740.593-2027
Diabetes Institute
location
Athens
Fabian Benencia, PhD
Associate Professor, Immunology
email address
benencia@ohio.edu
phone number
740.597.2133
Biomedical Sciences
Diabetes Institute
location
Athens
building location
Academic & Research Center
Associate Dean, Research and Innovation; Interim Director, Edison Biotechnology Institute; Professor, Biomedical Sciences
email address
berrymad@ohio.edu
phone number
740.593.2375
Diabetes Institute
Executive Dean's Office
Research and Grants
location
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
email address
beverle1@ohio.edu
phone number
740.593.4616
Diabetes Institute
Primary Care
location
Athens
Expertise: Behavioral diabetes, Psychosocial issues, Qualitative research methods, Medical education
Associate Professor, Chair
email address
bianco@ohio.edu
phone number
740.593.2130
Diabetes Institute
location
Athens
building location
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
email address
casapull@ohio.edu
phone number
740.593.2257
Diabetes Institute
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Primary Care
Rural and Underserved Programs
location
Athens
building location
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
email address
chadwick@ohio.edu
phone number
740.593.4821
Diabetes Institute
location
Athens
building location
Schoonover Center 411
Expertise: Persuasion, message design, health communication and environmental communication.
Xiaozhuo Chen, PhD
Associate Professor, Transgenic Systems
email address
chenx@ohio.edu
phone number
740.593.9699
Biomedical Sciences
Diabetes Institute
location
Athens
building location
Konneker Research Center
Professor, Associate Director of Nursing Research and Scholarship, College of Health Sciences and Professions
email address
chertok@ohio.edu
phone number
740.593.4492
Diabetes Institute
location
Athens
building location
Grover Center E365, Athens Campus
Expertise: Maternal-infant health, lactation, women's health, culture and health
Rachel Clift, DNP, MSN, RN
Director, Experiential Learning
email address
cliftr@ohio.edu
phone number
740.593.2233
Diabetes Institute
Medical Education Office
location
Athens
building location
Heritage Hall
Robert A. Colvin, PhD
Professor & Chair, Biology, Molecular Cellular Biology
email address
colvin@ohio.edu
phone number
740.593.2401
Diabetes Institute
location
Athens
building location
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
email address
consitt@ohio.edu
phone number
740.593.2404
Biomedical Sciences
Diabetes Institute
Ohio Musculoskeletal and Neurological Institute
location
Athens
building location
Academic and Research Center
Expertise: Metabolism, Aging Systems, Muscle Physiology
Karie Cook, BSN
Director of Operations, Diabetes Institute
email address
cookk1@ohio.edu
phone number
740.593.2908
Diabetes Institute
location
Athens
Karen Coschigano, PhD
Associate Professor, Molecular/Cellular Biology
email address
coschigk@ohio.edu
phone number
740.593.2196
Biomedical Sciences
Diabetes Institute
location
Athens
building location
Academic and Research Center
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Associate Professor, Lifestyle Medicine
email address
drozek@ohio.edu
phone number
678.447.2509
Diabetes Institute
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Specialty Medicine
location
Athens
Expertise: Lifestyle medicine
Glenn Dutcher, PhD
Associate Professor, Dept. of Economics, College of Arts and Sciences
email address
dutcherg@ohio.edu
phone number
740.597.1261
Diabetes Institute
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Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology
email address
forney@ohio.edu
phone number
740.593.1085
Diabetes Institute
location
Athens
building location
Porter Hall
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)
email address
franzb@ohio.edu
phone number
740.593.2137
Diabetes Institute
Social Medicine
location
Athens
building location
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
email address
geromez@ohio.edu
phone number
740.593.2477
Diabetes Institute
Executive Dean's Office
Medical Education Office
Specialty Medicine
location
Athens
building location
Heritage Hall
Douglas Goetz, PhD
Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
email address
goetzd@ohio.edu
phone number
740.593.1494
Diabetes Institute
Hollie Goodell, RN
Diabetes Nurse Navigator
email address
goodellh@ohio.edu
Diabetes Institute
Primary Care
location
Athens
Distinguished Professor, Ohio University, Department of Physics and Astronomy; Fellow of the American Physical Society
email address
govorov@ohio.edu
phone number
740.593.9430
Diabetes Institute
location
Athens
building location
Clippinger
Expertise: Theoretical condensed-matter physics.
Assistant Professor
email address
gusemane@ohio.edu
phone number
740.593.2263
Diabetes Institute
Primary Care
location
Athens
building location
Irvine Hall
Expertise: Pediatric obesity, Physical activity & physical fitness, Metabolic syndrome, Childhood
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Zelalem Haile, PhD
Associate Professor, Epidemiology
email address
haile@ohio.edu
phone number
614.793.5591
Diabetes Institute
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Social Medicine
location
Dublin
building location
Medical Education Building 1
Amber Healy, DO
Associate Clinical Professor
email address
holdera@ohio.edu
phone number
740.593.2180
Diabetes Institute
Specialty Medicine
location
Athens
building location
Heritage Hall
Associate Professor, College of Health Sciences and Professions
email address
hillman@ohio.edu
phone number
740.593.0153
Diabetes Institute
location
Athens
building location
Grover Center
Expertise: Sports nutrition and nutraceuticals,
Associate Professor, College of Health Sciences and Professions
email address
howec@ohio.edu
phone number
740.593.2888
Diabetes Institute
location
Athens
building location
Grover Center
Expertise: Child activity and energy expenditure; prevention and treatment of pediatric obesity
Assistant Professor
email address
ashughes@ohio.edu
Diabetes Institute
Primary Care
location
Athens
building location
Irvine Hall
The Institute to Advance Health Equity (ADVANCE)
The Institute to Advance Health Equity (ADVANCE)
Expertise: Diabetes, Behavioral Medicine, Disability, Qualitative Methodology, Statistics
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Sharon Inman, PhD
Associate Professor, Renal Physiology
email address
inmans@ohio.edu
phone number
740.593.2936
Biomedical Sciences
Diabetes Institute
location
Athens
building location
Heritage Hall
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Goll-Ohio Eminent Scholar; Professor, Molecular Biology
email address
kopchick@ohio.edu
phone number
740.593.5434
Biomedical Sciences
Diabetes Institute
location
Athens
building location
Konneker Research Center
Sivarajan Kumarasamy, PhD
Research Assistant Professor
email address
kumarasamy@ohio.edu
phone number
740.593.2534
Biomedical Sciences
Diabetes Institute
location
Athens
building location
Academic Research Center
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Lori Lammert, MA
Associate Director, Diabetes Strategic Initiatives
email address
lammert@ohio.edu
phone number
740.593.4616
Diabetes Institute
Primary Care
location
Athens
Associate Professor
email address
leek2@ohio.edu
phone number
740.593.2327
Biomedical Sciences
Diabetes Institute
location
Athens
building location
Academic & Research Center
Expertise: Molecular biology, Adipose tissue, Obesity, Diabetes, Metabolism, and Physiology
Yang Li, PhD
Professor
email address
liy1@ohio.edu
phone number
740.593.2384
Biomedical Sciences
Diabetes Institute
location
Athens
building location
Irvine Hall
Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering
email address
liuj1@ohio.edu
phone number
740.593.1603
Diabetes Institute
Ohio Musculoskeletal and Neurological Institute
building location
Stocker Center
Expertise: Medical image analysis, machine learning, computer vision, human motion detection and classification and shape modeling.
Associate Professor of Neurophysiology, Obesity and Diabetes
email address
loc1@ohio.edu
phone number
740.593.2328
Biomedical Sciences
Diabetes Institute
location
Athens
building location
Academic & Research Center
Expertise: Obesity, Diabetes, Cardiovascular disease, Behavioral neuroscience, Energy/lipid/glucose homeostasis
Carrie Love, MA, MFA
Research Program Manager
email address
lovec1@ohio.edu
Diabetes Institute
location
Athens
Matt Love, MFA
Research Program Manager
email address
lovem1@ohio.edu
Diabetes Institute
location
Athens
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Ramiro Malgor, MD
Associate Professor, Pathology; Director, Histology Core Facility
email address
malgor@ohio.edu
phone number
740.593.2324
Biomedical Sciences
Diabetes Institute
location
Athens
building location
Academic and Research Center
Assistant Clinical Professor
email address
ymao@ohio.edu
phone number
740.593.2396
Diabetes Institute
Specialty Medicine
location
Athens
building location
Parks Hall
Expertise: Diabetes, Insulin Resistance, Obesity, Metabolic syndrome, Cardiovascular complications, Thyroid diseases
Professor; Associate Chair
email address
mccallk@ohio.edu
phone number
740.593.0926
Diabetes Institute
Specialty Medicine
location
Athens
building location
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
email address
mercklec@ohio.edu
phone number
740.597.1212
Community Health Programs
Diabetes Institute
location
Athens
building location
Grosvenor West
Nicholas Mezitis, MD
Clinical Professor
email address
mezitis@ohio.edu
phone number
740.593.0791
Diabetes Institute
Specialty Medicine
location
Athens
building location
Parks Hall
Professor, Biology
email address
morrism@ohio.edu
phone number
740.593.0337
Diabetes Institute
location
Athens
building location
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
email address
najjar@ohio.edu
phone number
740.593.2376
Biomedical Sciences
Diabetes Institute
location
Athens
building location
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
email address
newberry@ohio.edu
phone number
740.593.2272
Community Health Programs
Diabetes Institute
location
Athens
building location
Grosvenor West
Associate Professor; Osteopathic Heritage Foundation Ralph S. Licklider, DO, Endowed Faculty Fellow in Diabetes and Islet Biology
email address
nunemake@ohio.edu
phone number
740.593.2387
Biomedical Sciences
Diabetes Institute
location
Athens
building location
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
email address
okada@ohio.edu
phone number
740.593.9656
Diabetes Institute
Specialty Medicine
location
Athens
building location
Konneker Research Center
Sherri Oliver, MPA
Executive Director, Community Health Programs and Area Health Education Center
email address
olivers@ohio.edu
phone number
740.593.9364
Community Health Programs
Diabetes Institute
location
Athens
building location
Grosvenor West
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Lynn Petrik, BSN, RN
Senior Research Nurse
email address
petrikl@ohio.edu
phone number
740.593.2242
Clinical and Translational Research Unit
Diabetes Institute
Research and Grants
location
Athens
building location
Irvine Hall
Osteopathic Heritage Foundation Ralph S. Licklider, D.O., Endowed Professor; Executive Director, Diabetes Institute
email address
puri@ohio.edu
phone number
740.593.2326
Biomedical Sciences
Diabetes Institute
location
Athens
building location
Academic & Research Center
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Lauren Schmidtgesling, BS
Research Program Assistant
email address
schmidtgesling@ohio.edu
Diabetes Institute
location
Athens
Frank Schwartz, MD
Professor Emeritus of Specialty Medicine
email address
schwartf@ohio.edu
phone number
740.593.2180
Diabetes Institute
Specialty Medicine
location
Athens
building location
Academic & Research Center
Alexander Sergeev, MD, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor
email address
sergeev@ohio.edu
Diabetes Institute
Vishva Sharma, PhD
Assistant Research Professor
email address
sharmav@ohio.edu
phone number
740.593.2227
Biomedical Sciences
Diabetes Institute
location
Athens
building location
Academic & Research Center
Carol Schaumleffel, DNP, RN, LSN
Assistant Professor; Licensed School Nurse
College of Health Sciences and Professions
email address
schaumle@ohio.edu
phone number
740.593.4434
Diabetes Institute
location
Athens
building location
Grover Center E336
Yuriy Slyvka, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Instruction
email address
slyvka@ohio.edu
phone number
740.593.2226
Biomedical Sciences
Diabetes Institute
location
Athens
building location
Heritage Hall
Cammie Starner, MA, BSN, RN
Nursing, Director of Operations, College of Health Sciences and Professions
email address
starnerc@ohio.edu
phone number
740.593.4497
Diabetes Institute
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Stacy Wright, MSN, RN
Outcomes & Resources Manager
email address
wrights3@ohio.edu
phone number
740.593.2026
Diabetes Institute
location
Athens
Frances Wymbs, PhD
Associate Professor
email address
wymbsf@ohio.edu
phone number
740.593.2289
Diabetes Institute
Primary Care
location
Athens
building location
Irvine Hall
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Associate Professor, Osteopathic Heritage Foundation Ralph S. Licklider, D.O. Endowed Professor
email address
zhus1@ohio.edu
Biomedical Sciences
Diabetes Institute
Ohio Musculoskeletal and Neurological Institute
location
Athens
building location
Life Science Building 133
Expertise: Cartilage Biology, Aging and Metabolism, Osteoarthritis
Peggy Zoccola, PhD
Professor, Director of Experimental Training, Psychology
email address
zoccola@ohio.edu
phone number
740.597.3300
Diabetes Institute