Senior Fellow Sightings

Senior Fellows meet the LDI Senior Fellow criteria and have a primary appointment at the University of Pennsylvania. Adjunct Senior Fellows meet the LDI Senior Fellow criteria but do not have a primary appointment at the University of Pennsylvania. Information on LDI Senior Fellows is compiled alphabetically. You may search them by Name, Research Interest and Department / School. LDI Senior Fellow Sightings: Fellows in the news.

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Senior Fellow	Research Interests
Virginia W. Chang, MD, PhD Standing Faculty Assistant Professor General Internal Medicine School of Medicine Assistant Professor Sociology School of Arts and Sciences vwchang@mail.med.upenn.edu	health disparities, medical sociology, social epidemiology, stratification, obesity, [Medline Search][Posters]
Amy E. Hillier, PhD, MSW Standing Faculty Assistant Professor City and Regional Planning School of Design Faculty Advisor Master in Urban Spatial Analytics Program School of Design ahillier@design.upenn.edu	health disparities, childhood obesity, spatial analysis, geographic information systems (GIS), [Medline Search][Posters]
Francis E. Johnston, PhD Emeritus Faculty Emeritus Professor Anthropology School of Arts and Sciences fjohnsto@sas.upenn.edu	nutrition, obesity and poverty, child growth and development, community-based action research, health promotion, program evaluation, [Medline Search][Posters]
Robert D. Karch, MD, MPH Research Faculty Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar General Internal Medicine School of Medicine karch@mail.med.upenn.edu	nutrition, medical morbidities associated with childhood obesity, pediatric weight management, nutritional health policy, [Medline Search][Posters]
Shiriki K. Kumanyika, PhD, MPH Standing Faculty Professor Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics School of Medicine skumanyi@mail.med.upenn.edu	prevention of obesity and related health disparities, nutritional epidemiology, lifestyle interventions for chronic disease risk reduction, minority health, [Medline Search][Posters]
Stella L. Volpe, PhD Standing Faculty Associate Professor School of Nursing svolpe@nursing.upenn.edu	obesity prevention, osteoporosis prevention, mineral metabolism and exercise, [Medline Search][Posters]