Leadership Roster

Chair:
Genevieve Fridlund Dunton, Ph.D, MPH
Assistant Professor
Department of Preventive Medicine
University of Southern California
Soto Street Building (SSB)

200 Soto N. Street, 3rd floor, MC 9239

Los Angeles, CA 90033-9045

Phone: (323) 442-8224

Email: dunton@usc.edu


Past-Chair:
Justin B. Moore, Ph.D., M.S., FACSM

Assistant Professor

Department of Health Promotion, Education, & Behavior

Arnold School of Public Health

University of South Carolina

800 Sumter Street - Room 216

Columbia, SC 29208

Phone: (803) 777-5887

Email: jmoore@mailbox.sc.edu


Chair-Elect:
Jay Maddock, Ph.D.

Professor & Director

Office of Public Health Studies

John A. Burns School of Medicine

University of Hawaii at Manoa

1960 East-West Road, Biomed D209

Honolulu, HI 96822

Phone: (808) 956-5779

Email: jmaddock@hawaii.edu


Secretary:
Tim Behrens, Ph.D., CHES, FACSM

Associate Professor

University of Colorado Colorado Springs

Beth-El College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Department of Health Sciences

1420 Austin Bluffs Parkway

Colorado Springs, CO 80918

Phone: (719) 255-4664

Email: tbehrens@uccs.edu

Secretary-Elect:

April Oh, PhD, MPH (Contractor)

Senior Behavioral Scientist

National Cancer Institute

Health Behaviors Research Branch

SAIC-Frederick, Inc

6130 Executive Blvd

Room 4039, MSC 7335

Rockville, MD 21702

Phone: (301) 496-8136

ohay@mail.nih.gov


Membership Committee Chair

James McClain, PhD MPH

Program Director

Risk Factor Monitoring and Methods Branch

Applied Research Program

Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, NCI

6130 Executive Blvd- MSC 7344

Bethesda, MD 20892-7344

Phone: (301) 451-4579

Email: mcclainjj@mail.nih.gov

Membership Committee Chair-Elect

Anthony Randles, MPH

Graduate Assistant

Health, Nutrition and Exercise Science

North Dakota State University

Fargo, ND 58105

Office: (701) 231-8513

Email: anthony.randles@ndsu.edu

Policy Committee Chair

Amy Eyler, Ph.D

Associate Research Professor

Washington University in St. Louis

Prevention Research Center

660 S. Euclid, Box 8109

St. Louis, MO 63110

Phone: (314) 362-9642

Email: aeyler@wustl.edu

Policy Committee Past-Chair

Jay Maddock, Ph.D.

Professor & Director

Office of Public Health Studies

John A. Burns School of Medicine

University of Hawaii at Manoa

1960 East-West Road, Biomed D209

Honolulu, HI 96822

Phone: (808) 956-5779

Email: jmaddock@hawaii.edu

Policy Committee Members

Steven P. Hooker, Ph.D., FACSM,

Professor

Exercise and Wellness Program

School of Nutrition and Health Promotion

Arizona State University

500 N. Third Street

Mail Code 3020

Phoenix, AZ 85004

Phone: (602) 827-2280

Email: Steven.Hooker@asu.edu

Alice Patty

ACHIEVE Project Consultant

National Association of Chronic Disease Directors

900 Army Navy Dr. #1317

Arlington, VA 22202

Phone: (904) 477-4494

Email: apatty@chronicdisease.org


Newsletter Committee Chair

Libby Richards, MSN, RN, CHES
Clinical Associate Professor

Purdue University School of Nursing

502 N. University Street

West Lafayette, IN 47907

Office: (765) 496-9463

Email: erichards@purdue.edu

Newsletter Committee Chair-Elect

Andrew Kaczynski, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Arnold School of Public Health
University of South Carolina
800 Sumter Street – Room 216
Columbia, SC, 29208

Phone: (803)-777-7063

Email: atatkaczyn@mailbox.sc.edu

Program Planning Committee Chair

Jenn Leiferman, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Department of Community and Behavioral Health

Colorado School of Public Health

13001 E 17th Ave C245

Aurora, CO 80045

Phone: (303) 724-4386

Email: Jenn.Leiferman@ucdenver.edu

Program Planning Committee Past-Chair

David Paul, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

University of Idaho

HPERD/Bioregional Planning

P.O. Box 442401

Moscow, ID 83844-2401

Phone: (208) 885-5537

Email: dpaul@uidaho.edu

Program Planning Committee Chair-Elect
Kathleen Poole, Ph.D., MCHES

Associate Professor

Department of Exercise, Sport, and Health Education

Radford University

P.O. Box 6957

Radford, VA 24142

Phone: (540) 831-5557

Email: kppoole@radford.edu

Program Planning Committee Members

Dori Rosenberg, Ph.D, MPH

Assistant Scientific Investigator

Group Health Research Institute

1730 Minor Ave. Suite 1600

Seattle, WA 98101

Phone: (206) 287-2532

Email: Rosenberg.d@ghc.org

Nancy Gell PT MPH

Doctoral Candidate

Auburn University

Department of Kinesiology

2050 Beard Eaves Coliseum

Auburn, AL 36849

Email: gellnan@auburn.edu

Awards Committee Chair

Melissa Bopp, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

The Pennsylvania State University

Department of Kinesiology

268R Recreation Building

University Park, PA 16802

Phone: (814) 863-3467

Email: mjb73@psu.edu

Awards Committee Chair-Elect

Charles D. Sands, PhD, MEd

Founding Dean, College of Allied Health

Professor, Health Science

California Baptist University

8432 Magnolia Avenue

Riverside, CA 92504

Phone: (951) 343-4619

Email: csands@calbaptist.edu

Social Activities Planning Committee Chair

Shelia Smith, Ph.D., RN
Assistant Professor

Medical University of South Carolina

College of Nursing MSC 160

Charleston, SC 29425-1600

Office: (843) 792-4649

Email: smitsa@musc.edu

Social Activities Planning Committee Chair-Elect

Tara Taylor

Program Director, We Run This City Youth Marathon

YMCA of Greater Cleveland

2200 Prospect, Suite 200

Cleveland, OH 44115

Phone: (216) 263-6298

Email: ttaylor@clevelandymca.org

Social Activities Committee Member

Sara Baral

Email: sarambaral@gmail.com

Student Committee Chair

Richard Christiana

Doctoral Candidate & Graduate Research Assistant
University of Georgia
College of Public Health
email: rchristi@uga.edu

Student Committee Members
Nancy Gell PT MPH

Doctoral Candidate

Auburn University

 

Benjamin L Webb, MS

The Pennsylvania State University

 

Gabrielle Parkinson

University of California, Los Angeles

 

Lan H. Nguyen

Wright State University

 

Corina Martinez

California State University Northridge

 

Heather A. (Whitcomb) Starnes
PhD Candidate
Purdue University