Michael and Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living

Center for Healthy Living Faculty

• Deanna Hoelscher, PhD, RDN, LD, CNS, FISBNPA
  Regional Dean, UTHealth School of Public Health in Austin
  Director, Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living, Distinguished Teaching Professor at The University of Texas System
• Dennis Andrulis, PhD
  Associate Professor, Management, Policy & Community Health
• Courtney Byrd-Williams, PhD
  Assistant Professor, Health Promotion & Behavioral Sciences
• Ru-Jye (Lindi) Chuang, DrPH, MS
  Faculty Associate, Epidemiology, Human Genetics & Environmental Sciences
• Casey Durand, PhD
  Assistant Professor, Health Promotion & Behavioral Sciences
• Melissa Blythe Harrell, PhD
  Professor, Epidemiology, Human Genetics & Environmental Sciences
• Steven Kelder, PhD, MPH
  Beth Toby Grossman Distinguished Professor in Spirituality and Healing
  Coordinator of External Affairs, Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living
• Harold W. (Bill) Kohl, III, PhD
  Professor, Epidemiology, Human Genetics and Environmental Sciences
  Associate Regional Dean of Academic Affairs, UTHealth School of Public Health in Austin
• Wesley McWhorter, DrPH, MS, RDN, LD, CSCS
  Assistant Professor, Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences
  Director of Culinary Nutrition, Nourish Program
• Brianna Moore, PhD, MS
  Assistant Professor, Epidemiology
• Marcia Otto, PhD
  Assistant Professor, Epidemiology, Human Genetics & Environmental Sciences
• Adriana Pérez, PhD
  Professor, Biostatistics and Data Science
• Belinda Reininger, DrPH
  Professor, Health Promotion & Behavioral Sciences
• Andrew Springer, DrPH
  Associate Professor, Health Promotion & Behavioral Sciences
• Timothy Walker, PhD
  Assistant Professor of Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences
• Anna Wilkinson, PhD
  Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Human Genetics & Environmental Sciences

• Alexandra (Sandra) van den Berg, MPH, PhD
  Associate Director, Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living
  Professor, Health Promotion & Behavioral Sciences
• Henry (Shelton) Brown, III, PhD
  Associate Professor, Management, Policy & Community Health
• Baojiang Chen, PhD
  Associate Professor, Biostatistics
• R. Sue Day, PhD
  Professor, Epidemiology, Human Genetics & Environmental Sciences
• Augusto César F. De Moraes, PhD, MSc, BS
  Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics and Environmental Science
• Emily T. Hebert, DrPH
  Assistant Professor, Health Promotion & Behavioral Sciences
• Gregory Knell, PhD
  Assistant Professor, UTHealth Center for Pediatric Population Health
  Research Faculty, Andrews Institute for Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine
• Kevin Lanza, PhD, MCRP
  Assistant Professor, Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences
• Sarah E. Messiah, PhD, MPH
  Professor of Epidemiology, Human Genetics & Environmental Sciences
  Director, Center for Pediatric Population Health
• Laura Moore, M.Ed., RD, LD
  Dietetic Specialist, Health Promotion & Behavioral Sciences
  Director, Dietetic Internship Program
• Jeanne Piga-Plunkett, MS, RDN, LD
  Director, Dietetic Internship Program
  Dietetic Specialist
• Nalini Ranjit, PhD
  Associate Professor, Health Promotion & Behavioral Sciences
• Shreela V. Sharma, PhD, RD, LD
  Professor, Epidemiology, Human Genetics & Environmental Sciences
  Co-Director, Dietetic Internship Program
• Irene Tami-Maury, DrPH, MSc, DMD
  Assistant Professor, Epidemiology, Human Genetics & Environmental Sciences
• Leah Whigham, PhD, FTOS
  Associate Professor, Health Promotion & Behavioral Sciences
  Director, Center for Community Health Impact