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Dr. Choi is an Assistant Professor at the University of Kentucky College of Social Work. Recently she has completed her two-year postdoctoral training in the Department of Epidemiology and Community Health at VCU Medical School. She has received her Ph.D. in Social Welfare Policy with concentration on Gerontology at Case Western Reserve University. Previously, she interned at the United Nations Secretariat in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Her research focuses on examining the dynamic relations between individuals and environment in terms of mobility over the life course, with focus on gender and ethnic disparities. Dr. Choi is increasingly interested in creative uses of digital media as a means to convey information to the general public, and won awards from Hartford Geriatric Social Work Initiative and the Gerontological Society of America for her YouTube videos on aging (YouTube on This is Social Work and Aging and YouTube on Global65). |
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Dr. Mezuk is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Community Health and a fellow of Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health (BIRCWH) at VCU Medical School. She has her fellowship in the Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health at University of Michigan through the Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholars Program. She has received her Ph.D. in Mental Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and has the expertise in geriatrics with focuses on psychiatric epidemiology, depressive and anxiety disorders, metabolic disorders, stress and health over the life course, social disparities in health, and suicide. She has published over 30 peer-reviewed manuscripts, 5 edited chapters, and 9 reports and commentaries and has received the Junior Investigator Award from International College of Geriatric Psycho-neuropharmacology. |
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Dr. Lapane is the Associate Dean for clinical and population health research (CPHR) and Director of the CPHR training program in the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, and as Professor of quantitative health sciences in the Department of Quantitative Health Sciences’ Division of Epidemiology of Chronic Diseases and Vulnerable Populations at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Before joining the faculty at UMMS, she was the Charles and Evelyn Thomas Professor of Epidemiology and Chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Community Health at VCU Medical School. Prior to her appointment at VCU, she was a tenured faculty member at Brown University, Department of Community Health. At Brown University, she received the Harriet Sheridan Award for Distinguished Teaching and Mentoring. She has also served on national panels and committees to develop competencies for doctoral training in health services research. In any capacity, she has been committed to increasing diversity at all levels and has served on committees to advancing the careers of minority students and fellows. Her primary research interests falls under the umbrella of medication issues in elderly populations, and she has conducted large scale intervention trials to improve medication related issues in marginalized populations. She has a long history of serving on NIH and AHRQ review groups, including serving on the AHRQ Healthcare Research and Training Study Group and numerous special emphasis panels focusing on training. |