Overview

The Washington University Medical School (WUMS) and the Saint Louis University School of Public Health (SLU-SPH) have combined their resources and expertise in organizing the DRTC Prevention and Control Core (WUMS-P&C).

The goal of the WUMS-P&C Core, consistent with the charge of NIDDK, is

• to support research that translates diabetes knowledge and advances established in controlled settings, to ‘real world’ clinical or community settings, and
• to overcome barriers in disseminating innovations to the population at large.

The WUMS-P&C Core is uniquely positioned to address this challenge through an extensive consortium of complimentary scientific and community resources, services, and expertise, the product of a longstanding partnership between WUMS and SLU-SPH. Translational researchers have access to expertise from WUMS, internationally recognized for its history of diabetes translational research advances, and SLU, home to the only accredited school of public health in the region and nationally recognized for its stated mission to promote translation and dissemination science with underserved populations.

The WUMS-P&C Core provides the organizational framework for bringing together the distinctive but complimentary scientific expertise necessary to understand the interacting factors and test innovative strategies that will result in significant improvements in the prevention and control of diabetes in diverse populations.

The result is a dynamic environment that fosters transdisciplinary collaborations, catalyzes new ideas, and ensures support for researchers in addressing the complex, multilevel, and translational challenges which exist with real-world patients, health systems, and communities.

Wendy Auslander, PhD Brown School of Social Work 314-935-6634 Research Interest: Health care & health Behaviors wendyaus@wustl.edu Sarah E. Barlow, MD, MPH SLU/Pediatrics/Gastroenterology & Hepatology 314-577-5647 Research Interest: Childhood obesity barlowse@slu.edu Ellen F. Binder, MD, PhD Medicine/Nutritional Science 314-286-2707 Research Interest: focus on preventing physical frailty in older adults, improving outcomes after a hip fracture, and improving nursing home care ebinder@wustl.edu Ross C. Brownson, PhD SLU/Community Health/Epidemiology 314-977-8110 Research Interest: Prevention of chronic diseases and elimination of health disparities browson@slu.edu Thomas E. Burroughs, PhD SLU/Center for Biomedical & Healthcare Research 314-977-9300 Research Interest: diabetes, transplant, quality of care burroute@slu.edu Brian D. Carpenter, PhD Psychology 314-935-8212 Research Interest: Clinical geropsychology bcarpenter@wustl.edu Michael Elliot, PhD SLU/Community Health/Division of Biostatictics 314-977-4022 Research Interest: include data management using GIS and internet surveying methodologies, and the measurement of physical activity elliotmb@slu.edu Debra Haire-Joshu, PhD SLU/Community Health/Behavioral Science & Health Education 314-977-3280 Research Interest: Obesity prevention interventions among underserved populations in early childhood and youth joshud@slu.edu Mary Kent Hastings PT, DPT, ATC Program in Physical Therapy 314-286-1433 Research Interest: The biomechanical factors that influence the stresses on the foot and ankle hastingsmk@wustl.edu Matthew Kreuter, PhD, MPH SLU/Community Health/Behavioral Science & Health Education 314-977-8132 Research Interest: seeks to enhance the effectiveness of health communication for diverse populations to help eliminate health disparities kreuter@slu.edu Santosh Krishna, PhD, EdS SLU/Community Health/Behavioral Science & Health Education 314-977-8280 Research Interest: Informatics, the technology for health education and improving care krishnas@slu.edu Krista L. Lentine, MD, MPH SLU/Center for Biomedical & Healthcare Research 314-977-9477 Research Interest: transplant, renal, and cardiology lentinek@slu.edu Joan Luby, PhD Psychiatry/Epidemiology & Prevention Research Group 314-286-2730 Research Interest: focuses on all areas of infant/preschool psychopathology and nosology and the social/emotional development of young children lubyj@wustl.edu Patrick Lustman, PhD Psychiatry 314-362-2441 Research Interest: Psychiatric disorder in adults with diabetes mellitus lustmanp@wustl.edu Timothy D. McBride, PhD SLU/Department of Health Management & Policy 314-977-4094 Research Interest: Health economics and health policy mcbridet@slu.edu Janet McGill, MD Medicine/Endocrinology 314-362-8681 Research Interest: Clinical Research & Genetics jmcgill@wustl.edu Michael J. Mueller, PT, PhD FAPTA Program in Physicial Therapy 314-286-1428 Research Interest: Director of the Applied Biomechanics Laboratoy which studies the biomechanical factors that contribute to injury and adaptation in patients with chronic disabilities muellerm@wustl.edu Margaret A. Perkinson, PhD Anthropology 314-935-6221 Research Interest: Caregiving Processes and the Elderly maperkin@wustl.edu Mark Schnitzler, PhD SLU/Center for Biomedical & Healthcare Research 314-977-9476 Research Interest: transplant, economic policy, outcomes analysis schnitm@slu.edu Mario Schootman, PhD Medicine/Health Behavior Research 314-286-1956 Research Interest: Investigating disparities in breast cancer, including income and geographic disparities across the cancer care continuum ranging from prevention through quality of life and mortality mschootm@wustl.edu Clay F. Semenkovich, MD Medicine/Endocrinology 314-362-4454 Research Interest: Lipid metabolism and how it promotes atherosclerosis in people with diabetes csemenko@wustl.edu David R. Sinacore, PT, PhD FAPTA Program in Physicial Therapy 314-286-1423 Research Interest: Director of the Applied Kinesiology Laboratory; Diabetic foot disease and prevention of LEA sinacored@wustl.edu Richard Stein, PhD Medicine/Geriatrics & Nutritional Sciences 314-286-0077 Research Interest: developing and conducting treatments for obesity and eating disorders rstein@wustl.edu Walton Sumner II, MD Medicine/General Medical Sciences 314-454-8164 Research Interest: A patient simulation program being developed by the American Board of Family Medicine, an Electronic Student Encounter Log implemented on Palm computers, and tobacco policy sumner@wustl.edu Steven Takemoto, PhD SLU/Center for Biomedical & Healthcare Research 314-977-9458 Research Interest: immunology, transplant, outcomes analysis takemoto@slu.edu Garry S. Tobin, MD Medicine/Endocrinology/Diabetes Center 314-747-8737 Research Interest: Diabetes and related complications gtobin@wustl.edu Denise E. Wilfley, PhD Psychiatry 314-286-2079 Research Interest: Causes, nature, prevention and treatment of eating disorders and obesity wilfleyd.edu Lisa Willoughby, PhD, SLU/Center for Biomedical & Healthcare Research 314-977-9452 Research Interest: geriatrics, psychiatry, and transplant willoulm@slu.edu Yan Yan, PhD Surgery & The Division of Biostatistics 314-362-9290 Research Interest: The clinical/epidemiological studies of urological malignancies and estimation of operating characteristics of screening modalities yany@wustl.edu