The Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living is host to multiple post-doctoral fellows throughout the year. These post-docs come from a variety of funding agencies to work on projects housed at the Center. Post-docs work with their project PIs and are also mentored by Dr. Kelder and Dr. Kohl as well as other Center and Austin Campus mentors.

Current Post-Doctoral Fellows

Stephanie Clendennen, DrPH, MPH, CHES

Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Project Director
UTHealth School of Public Health

Current Project: Texas Adolescent Tobacco and Marketing Surveillance Study (TATAMS)

Onyinye Omega-Njemnobi, MBBS, MPH

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
UTHealth School of Public Health

Current Projects: CATCH My Breath RO1: Middle School Cluster RCT to Evaluate E-Cigarette Prevention Program and CATCH Healthy Smiles; Texas CARES

Previous Post-Doctoral Fellows

Dale Mantey, PhD, MPH
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Health Promotion & Behavioral Science at UTHealth School of Public Health Austin Campus

Katie Janda, PhD, MPH
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Public Health at Baylor University

Leigh Ann Ganzar, DrPH, MPH
Current Position: Senior Evaluator at Professional Data Analysts

Christine Jovanovic, PhD, MPH
Current Position: Northwestern University’s Behavioral and Psychosocial Postdoctoral Research Training Program in Cancer Prevention and Control

Allison Winters Massie, DrPH
Current Position: Northwestern University’s Behavioral and Psychosocial Postdoctoral Research Training Program in Cancer Prevention and Control

Allison Marshall, PhD, MPH, MSSW
Current Position: UTHealth Cizik School of Nursing

Jacob Szeszulski, PhD
Current Position: Assistant Professor at The Texas A&M AgriLife Center at Dallas

Blanche Greene-Cramer, DrPH, MPH
Current Position: Epidemiologist, Health Emergency Information & Risk Assessment, World Health Organization

Maria Romo-Palafox, PhD, RD
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Nutrition and Dietetics, Doisy College of Health Sciences, Saint Louis University

Casey Durand, PhD, MPH

Courtney Byrd-Williams, PhD
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Health Promotion & Behavioral Sciences, UTHealth School of Public Health Austin Campus