Faculty & Staff
Faculty
Paul Scheet, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Executive Assistant: Michelle Acosta
Research Interests: statistical genomics, genetic epidemiology and computational methods for genetic phenomena
Arjun Bhattacharya, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Assistant: Hannah Philip
Research Interests: computational multi-omics, genetic/molecular epidemiology, genetic risk of breast cancer, gene-environment interactions and perinatal epidemiology
Elizabeth Chiao, M.D., M.P.H.
Professor
713-792-1860
Assistant: Khushi Dave
Research Interests: virally mediated cancers and HIV-related cancers (including Kaposi sarcoma), squamous HPV-related cancers and clinical trials for cancer prevention and treatment (AIDS Malignancy Consortium Solid Tumor Working Group chair)
Carrie Daniel-MacDougall, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
713-563-5783
Assistant: Margie Stembridge
Research Interests: nutritional epidemiology, biomarker-driven dietary interventions, diet-microbiome interactions and cancer outcomes
Veronika Fedirko, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Assistant: Margie Stembridge
Research Interests: cancer prevention, cancer survival and outcomes, microbiome and biomarkers of cancer risk
Jian Gu, Ph.D.
Professor
713-792-8016
Assistant: Margie Stembridge
Research Interests: population epigenetics, environmental epigenetics and circulating DNA methylation biomarkers
Manal Hassan, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D.
Professor
Assistant: Hannah Philip
Research Interests: molecular epidemiology of rare cancers, epidemiology of primary liver cancers including hepatocellular carcinoma and cholangiocarcinoma, and early detection and prognostic markers of primary liver cancers
Chad Huff, Ph.D.
Professor
Assistant: Hannah Philip
Research Interests: genetic basis of human disease through statistical, computational and population genomics
Kevin Nead, M.D., M.Phil.
Assistant Professor
713-563-5155
Assistant: Khushi Dave
Research Interests: breast cancer, cardio-oncology, clonal hematopoiesis, radiation oncology, radiation toxicity and health services research
Weiva Sieh, M.D., Ph.D., M.S.
Professor
Assistant: Margie Stembridge
Research Interests: genetic epidemiology, cancer epidemiology, mammographic breast density and cancers of the breast, ovary and prostate
Research Faculty
Robert Chamberlain, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
Yao Yu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Joint Faculty
Jaffer Ajani, M.D.
Professor, GI Medical Oncology
Abenaa Brewster, M.D., MHS
Professor, Clinical Cancer Prevention
Sanjay Shete, Ph.D.
Professor, Biostatistics
Xin Shelley Wang, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Symptom Research
Adjunct Faculty
Thomas Kosten, M.D.
Baylor College of Medicine
Staff
Michelle Acosta
Executive Assistant
713-745-2919
Khushi Dave
Administrative Assistant
Hannah Philip
Administrative Assistant
713-745-4456
Margie Stembridge
Senior Administrative Assistant
713-563-0919