FACULTY PROFILES
The Clinical Research Methods certificate program is an accredited educational program of the highly ranked UIC School of Public Health. The faculty’s experience in conducting funded clinical research and in working with clinicians has provided them with an in depth understanding of the knowledge and skills needed to conduct high quality clinical research.
Learn more about our program director, faculty and instructors.
Elizabeth Calhoun
Young-Ku Choi
Deborah Dobrez
Ross Mullner
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Elizabeth Calhoun |
Elizabeth Calhoun, PhD is an associate professor in the Division of Health Policy and Administration of the UIC School of Public Health. She is an experienced health services researcher with expertise in clinical outcomes for areas such as urologic diseases, cancer, psychiatric and substance abuse disorders (funded by the National Cancer Institute, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases and Avon Foundation). Dr. Calhoun has a long history of working in Chicago communities, for seven years she was the principal investigator of a CDC-funded REACH 2010 initiative to increase breast and cervical cancer screening in minority women of color. She is currently principal investigator of an NCI-funded study to test the efficacy of a patient navigation program on improving compliance with cancer care in the largest network of federally qualified health centers in the country. Dr. Calhoun has published the results of her research in a wide variety of scholarly journals, including Archives of Internal Medicine, Journal of Quality Health Care, Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, Health Education and Behavior, Journal of Healthcare for the Poor and Underserved, Journal of Urology, Cancer, Supportive Care in Cancer, Health Promotion Practice, and Pharmacoeconomics.
Dr. Calhoun earned her PhD in health administration from the University of South Carolina, Columbia.
Young-Ku Choi, PhD is a senior research specialist at the Institute for Policy Research and a clinical assistant professor in the Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics of UIC's School of Public Health. Dr. Choi has recently taught Biostatistics II and Biostatistics Methods I at UIC. His research interests include longitudinal/functional and temporal/spatial data modeling, biostatistical and epidemiological modeling and application, Bayesian nonparametric and semiparametric regression modeling and predictive inference, diagnostic test assignment and evaluation methodology, and survival analysis. He has recently authored research reports in Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics, Statistics in Medicine as well as theJournal of Urology.
Dr. Choi earned his PhD in biostatistics from the University of California, Davis.
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Deborah Dobrez |
Deborah Dobrez, PhD is a clinical assistant professor in the Division of Health Policy and Administration of UIC's School of Public Health. Focusing on health services and outcomes research, Dr. Dobrez has worked extensively on developing approaches to measuring health-related quality of life with funding from the American Cancer Society and the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research. With funding from the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, the National Cancer Institute and the Department of Veterans Affairs, she has also conducted cost-effectiveness analyses in several clinical areas and evaluated the effects of Medicare reimbursement methodology for rehabilitative services. She has recently taught courses in Managerial Health Economics, Analysis of Secondary Data and Health Economics. Her research interest is health economics. Dr. Dobrez has published her research in Archives of Internal Medicine, Value in Health, Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, Quality of Life Research, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pharmacoeconomics, and Oncology among others.
Dr. Dobrez earned her PhD in economics from Indiana University.
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Ross Mullner |
Ross Mullner, PhD, MPH is an associate professor in the Division of Health Policy and Administration of UIC's School of Public Health. Formerly, he was director of research of the Hospital Research and Educational Trust of the American Hospital Association. Dr. Mullner has written extensively on various aspects of health services research including hospital financial management, hospital closure, health data sources and the outcomes of medical care. Dr. Mullner is currently the editor in chief of the Encyclopedia of Health Services Research. His research interests include health services research, healthcare marketing, and the history of public health, and his work as been reported in journals such as Journal of Public Health Policy, Inquiry, Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, Quality Management in Health Care, Journal of Healthcare Management, Journal of Consumer Marketing, Journal of Medical Systems, and Journal of Health Information Management.
Dr. Mullner earned his PhD in geography from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
