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PRE-DOCTORAL
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Peterson Haak has worked,
since his graduation
from Grand Valley State University, as a research
associate in the microarray laboratory at the Van
Andel Research Institute in Grand Rapids. He
enrolled in the MSc and PhD program in epidemiology
in August 2007. He participates in the development
of a case-control study of cerebral palsy, in which
his particular interest is the study of differences
in gene expression at birth (as reflected in
archived newborn blood spots obtained for genetic
screening) in children with and without cerebral
palsy.(2007-2009)
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Crystal Pirtle MPH. A
graduate of Morehouse College, Crystal has an MPH
from the University of Michigan and joined the PhD
program in epidemiology at MSU in 2006.
Her research
interests are in health disparities. She has worked
with Professor Ellen Velie on the relationship of
social factors and neighborhoods on breast cancer
risk, and is currently embarking on an investigation
of the relationships among ethnicity, medical care
and perinatal mortality in Michigan.
POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWS
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Eric Kort MD is jointly
appointed as a research fellow with the Van Andel
Research Institute in Grand Rapids. He received the
MSc in epidemiology from MSU before enrolling for
the MD degree at MSU, which he completed in 2006.
His interest in molecular epidemiology was apparent
in his MS thesis, entitled: “Her2/Her3 Heterodimers:
Molecular Epidemiology Marker and Method of
Analysis”. His current research focuses on molecular
epidemiologic approaches to perinatal
carcinogenesis, with a special interest in E2F
signaling in the perinatal period, and its
relationship to normal development and to the
pathogenesis of childhood cancers. (2006-2008)
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Nazish Siddiqi MBBS, MPH
received her medical and public health training in
Pakistan where she worked in maternal mortality and
infant immunization projects. She is a member and
fellow, in Community Medicine, of the Pakistan
College of Physicians and Surgeons, She is currently
assessing the contribution of germinal matrix-intraventricular
hemorrhage to long-term outcome in premature infants
in the NBH database, and is developing a study of
Vitamin A supplementation in pregnancy and
post-partum in Pakistan. (2006-2008)
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Yona Keich Cloonan
will complete her PhD work in epidemiology at the
University of Washington, Seattle in July 2006. Her
doctoral work, conducted under the supervision of
Professor Jacqueline Starr, investigates
psychosocial outcomes in children with cranio-facial
malformations. In her post-doctoral work at MSU, she
will focus on the epidemiology of birth defects and
cerebral palsy, including their long-term
consequences. (2007-2009)
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Nicole Talge
will complete her
PhD work in child development at the University of
Minnesota in the summer of 2006. Her doctoral
thesis addressed the relationships among birthweight,
temperament, emotional difficulties and cortisol
responses to stress. In her post-doctoral work, she
will extend her work to use epidemiologic approaches
to study how the prenatal and post natal environment
interact to affect child social development.
(2007-2009)
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