Tanguy
Brachet, PhD, –
Tanguy
Brachet is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical
Care at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania
School of Medicine. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University
of California, Berkeley, in 2006, where his dissertation focused on estimating
the causal relationship between prenatal maternal smoking and early infant
health when information on maternal tobacco use is misreported or mismeasured.
Dr. Brachet’s research interests include the long term consequences
of prenatal maternal smoking, the relationship between education and health,
the intergenerational transmission of health, explaining trends in obesity,
and applied econometrics.
Eric
T. Bradlow, PhD
- Eric Bradlow is currently the K.P. Chao Professor, Professor of Marketing, Statistics
and Education, and Academic Director of the Wharton Small Business Development
Center, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He earned a Bachelor
of Science in Economics from The Wharton School in 1988, an A.M. in Mathematical
Statistics in 1990 and a Ph.D. in Mathematical Statistics in 1994 from Harvard
University. Dr. Bradlow received the MBA Core Curriculum teaching award
and Miller-Sherrerd MBA Core Teaching award in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, and
the 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 Excellence in Teaching Award. He was recently
named a fellow of the American Statistical Association, is past chair of
the American Statistical Association Section on Statistics in Marketing,
is a statistical fellow of Bell Labs, and was named DuPont Corporation’s
best young researcher in 1992. His research interests include Bayesian modeling,
statistical computing, and developing new methodology for unique data structures
with application to business problems and those in health-care outcomes
research.
Amy
E. Hillier, PhD, MSW - Amy
Hillier is Assistant Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning
in the School of Design and the faculty advisor for the Master of Urban
Spatial Analytics program. She holds a secondary appointment in the School
of Social Policy and Practice. Dr. Hillier teaches courses on the application
of GIS in city planning, urban studies, and social work. Her research has
focused on GIS applications in historical redlining and housing discrimination,
affordable housing, and public health, and she currently has a grant from
the National Endowment for Humanities to develop an online mapping system
for high school and college students reading W.E.B. Du Bois’ classic,
The Philadelphia Negro. Prior to joining the faculty at the School of Design,
Dr. Hillier was the research director at the University of Pennsylvania’s
Cartographic Modeling Lab (CML) where she worked with faculty across disciplines
to integrate GIS and spatial analysis into their projects relating to obesity,
gun violence, pre-term birth, drug use, HIV-AIDS, and injuries to children.
She also conducted studies of affordable housing, billboards, and the relationship
between diet-related deaths and supermarket access. Dr. Hillier received
her M.S.W. and Ph.D. in social welfare from the University of Pennsylvania
School of Social Work.
Karin
V. Rhodes, MD, MS
- Karin V. Rhodes is Assistant Professor and Director of Health Care Policy
Research in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
Her research focuses on use of the acute health care setting for screening
and intervention with intimate partner violence and other major psychosocial
health risks. Dr. Rhodes has received federal funding to evaluate the impact
of computer screening on doctor-patient communication. She is the recipient
of a NIMH-funded career development award to evaluate the psychological
profiles and design interventions for self-identified perpetrators of family
violence. She is also involved in a number of studies investigating the
quality of emergency services, access to follow up care and the intersection
between acute care and the mental health, social services, and criminal
justice systems. Dr. Rhodes is a former Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar.
She received her M.D. from the University of Illinois, Chicago, and her
M.S. in Health Studies from the University of Chicago.
Edmondo
Robinson, MD, MBA - Edmondo Robinson is currently a Robert Wood Johnson
Clinical Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Dr.
Robinson is an internist who completed residency at the Harbor-UCLA Medical
Center. He is a 2003 graduate and Dean’s Merit Scholarship recipient
of the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Medicine. While
at UCLA, Dr. Robinson participated in an AIDS Care Fellowship at the UCSF
AIDS Institute. He also served as National Vice President for the Student
National Medical Association and was an appointee to the National Board
of Medical Examiners. During a two-year leave of absence from medical school,
Dr. Robinson earned a master’s degree in business administration, with
an emphasis in healthcare management, from the Wharton School at the University
of Pennsylvania. While at Wharton, Dr. Robinson traveled with a team of
students and alumni to South Africa to assess state-sponsored, community
clinic operations for the Director of Health Services for the Cape Town
Metropolitan Region. Dr. Robinson graduated from Wharton with honors in
2002. He completed his undergraduate degree in Neuroscience at the University
of California, San Diego, in 1997. His research interest involves the development
of indicators to assess quality of health care delivery to special populations.
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