Faculty and Staff

Don Allensworth-Davies, PhD, MSc, CPH
Assistant Professor, School of Health Sciences, Cleveland State University

Elizabeth Benninger, PhD
Pilot Awardee, CHEEER
Postdoctoral Fellow, The Center for Urban Education, Cleveland State University
CEO Healthy Minds Healthy Communities Consulting LLC

Darcy A. Freedman, PhD, MPH
Director, Mary Ann Swetland Center for Environmental Health, School of Medicine
Mary Ann Swetland Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, School of Medicine
Core Faculty, Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods, School of Medicine

Aaron Goldenberg, PhD, MPH
Director of Research, Department of Bioethics, School of Medicine
Professor, Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, School of Medicine
Member, Population and Cancer Prevention Program, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center

Heather K. Hardin, PhD, RN
Pilot Awardee, CHEEER
Assistant Professor, Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing

Carolyn Harmon Still, PhD, RN, CNP, MSM, AGPCNP-BC, CCRP, FAAN
Pilot Awardee, CHEEER
Associate Professor, Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing

Sonja Harris-Haywood, MD, MA
Associate Dean for Curriculum Integration, NEOMED
Professor, Department of Family Medicine, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center

Elliane Irani, PhD, RN
Pilot Awardee, CHEEER
Assistant Professor, Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing

David Kaelber, MD, PhD, MPH
Chief Medical Informatics Office/Vice-President of Health Informatics, MetroHealth Medical System
Professor of Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, and Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, Case Western Reserve University

Erika Kelley, PhD
Pilot Awardee, CHEEER
Assistant Professor, Department of Reproductive Biology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

Cheryl M. Killion, PhD, RN, FAAN
Associate Professor, Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing
National Academy of Medicine’s 2022-2023 Distinguished Nurse Scholar-in-Residence

Simon P. Kim, MD, MPH
Associate Program Urology Residency Director Colorado Hospital
Associate Professor, Site Director (Urology), UCHealth Highlands Ranch Hospital, University of Colorado Hospital

James Lalumandier, DDS, MPH
Chair, Department of Community Dentistry, School of Dental Medicine
Professor Emeritus, Department of Community Dentistry, School of Dental Medicine

Maeve MacMurdo, MBChB
Pilot Awardee, CHEEER
Occupational Pulmonologist, Cleveland Clinic

Vanessa F. Maier, MD, MPH
Pilot Awardee, CHEEER
Assistant Professor, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine 

David Margolius, MD
Director of Public Health, City of Cleveland

Vanessa Marshall, PhD, MA
Research Health Scientist, Louis Stokes Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical

Brittany R. Myers, Ph.D
Pilot Awardee, CHEEER
Assistant Professor, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

Anita D. Misra-Hebert, MD, MPH
Director of the Healthcare Delivery & Implementation Science Center, Cleveland Clinic
Associate Professor of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine

Carol Musil, PhD, RN, FAAN
Dean, Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing
The Edward J. and Louise Mellen Professor of Nursing, Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing

Suchitra Nelson, MSc, MS, PhD
Professor and Associate Dean, Clinical and Translational Research Department of Community Dentistry School of Dental Medicine
Professor, Department of Population & Quantitative Health Sciences School of Medicine

Henry Ng, MD, FAAP, FACP
Director – Transgender Surgery & Medicine Program, Cleveland Clinic
Director – Center for LGBTQ+ Care, Cleveland Clinic
General Medicine/Pediatrics, Cleveland Clinic

Adam T. Perzynski, PhD
Director, Patient-Centered Media Lab, Center for Health Care Research and Policy, MetroHealth Medical Center
Faculty, Center for Health Care Research and Policy, CWRU at MetroHealth System
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology

Rachel Pope, MD, MPH
Pilot Awardee, CHEEER
Clinical Instructor, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

Dana Prince, PhD
Pilot Awardee, CHEEER
Associate Professor, Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences

Mahboob Rahman, MD
Division Chief, Nephrology and Hypertension, UH Cleveland Medical Center
Professor, CWRU School of Medicine

Dr. Johnie Rose, MD, PhD
Pilot Awardee, CHEEER
Program Director, Preventive Medicine Residency Program, School of Medicine
Assistant Professor, Center for Community Health Integration, School of Medicine
Member, Population and Cancer Prevention Program, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center
Assistant Professor, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, School of Medicine

Jesse Schold, PhD
Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Colorado School of Public Health

Eileen Seeholzer, MD
Medical Director, Adult Weight Loss Surgery & Weight Management Center, MetroHealth System
Medical Director, MetroHealthy Employee Wellness Initiative, MetroHealth System
Medical Director, SkyWell Employee Wellness Solutions
Faculty, Center for Health Care Research and Policy, CWRU at MetroHealth System
Associate Professor of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

Katherine Slain, DO
Pilot Awardee, CHEEER
Program Director, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, UH Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital
Assistant Professor, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

Kurt Stange, MD, PhD
Director, Center for Community Health Integration, School of Medicine
Distinguished University Professor
Dorothy Jones Weatherhead Professor of Medicine, School of Medicine
Professor, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, School of Medicine
Professor, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, School of Medicine
Member, Population and Cancer Prevention Program, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center

James Werner, PhD
Director, Practice-Based Research Network Shared Resource, School of Medicine
Associate Professor, Center for Community Health Integration, School of Medicine
Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, School of Medicine
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine
Secondary Faculty, Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences
Member, Population and Cancer Prevention Program, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center

Kristi K. Westphaln, PhD, RN, CPNP-PC
Pilot Awardee, CHEEER
Assistant Professor, University California Los Angeles School of Nursing
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles

Jackson Wright, Jr., MD, PhD, FACP
Program Director, William T Dahms Clinical Research Unit, UH Cleveland Medical Center
Director, Clinical Hypertension Program, UH Cleveland Medical Center
Professor Emeritus, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

Owusua Yamoah, PhD
Pilot Awardee, CHEEER
Research Scientist, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, Mary Ann Swetland Center for Environmental Health, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine 

Ruqaiijah Yearby, JD, MPH
Co-founder and executive director of the Institute for Healing Justice and Equity, Saint Louis University
Professor, Saint Louis University Law (SLU LAW)
Member, Center for Health Law Studies, SLU LAW