Meet our team!
The BRIDGE CRC team is made up of researchers, staff and students !
Investigators:
Dr. Marian Fitzgibbon and Dr. Lisa Tussing-Humphreys from UIC are the Primary Investigators of this study. Dr. Marian Fitzgibbon is a professor in the Department of Pediatrics in the UIC College of Medicine and the Division of Health Policy and Administration in the UIC School of Public Health. Her research focuses primarily on health risk reduction in minority and underserved populations. She has conducted obesity prevention trials with preschool children and their parents as well as obesity treatment interventions with women. Dr. Lisa Tussing-Humphreys is an Associate Professor in the Department of Kinesiology and Nutrition at UIC College of Applied Health Sciences. Her research applies epidemiological, clinical, social, behavioral, and molecular tools and assessments to understand complex diet-disease relationships.
They are conducting the study in collaboration with:
Dr. Lauren Williams, Clinical Physician and Site Medical Director at Miles Square Health Center
Dr. H. Rex Gaskins, Professor in the Department of Pathobiology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dr. Jason Ridlon, Assistant Professor in the Department of Animal Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dr. Michael Berbaum, Senior Biostatistician and Director of the Methodology Research Core at UIC's Institute for Health Research and Policy.
Dr. Beatrice Penalver Bernabe, Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioengineering at UIC's College of Medicine.
Dr. Robert Chapkin, Distinguished Professor and University Faculty Fellow at Texas A&M University.
Dr. Ivan Ivanov, Clinical Associate Professor of Bioinformatics at Texas A & M University.
Project Coordinator
Lara Blumstein
Research Coordinator
Alyshia Hamm
Data Manager
Mirjana Antonic
Interventionists
Kate Cares
Christina Watts
Antonia Mercer
Team Members
Mandy Alstead
Andrew McLeod
Manoela Olivera
Briana Keller
and many more who help make this project possible!