Faculty Mentors
Foremost in the BIRCWH support system is the Scholars’ mentors. Mentors provide trainees with the fundamental training and the inter-professional, intellectual and technical research base necessary to produce high caliber Women’s Health researchers. The Lead Mentor has the main responsibility for guiding the Scholar toward research independence, while each mentor of the team is involved in helping the Scholar to develop both hypotheses and research protocols. The Lead Mentor and Scholar develop a written Career Development Plan and timeline that establishes a planned curriculum, the goals of the mentored research experience and milestones to help mark progress.
The pool of faculty mentors at Tulane includes:
Lydia Bazzano, MD, PhD
Lynda and H. Leighton Steward
Professor in Nutrition
Associate Professor of Epidemiology
Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine
Department of Epidemiology
Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
BIRCWH 1 Alumna
Pierre Buekens, MD, PhD
Professor
Department of Epidemiology
Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
YiPing Chen, PhD
Professor of Cell and Molecular Biology
Tulane Cancer Center Associate Member
Tulane School of Medicine
Jill Daniel, PhD
Professor
Director of Neuroscience Program
Department of Psychology
Tulane School of Science and Engineering
Samir El Dahr, MD
Professor and Chair
Department of Pediatrics
Tulane School of Medicine
Keith C. Ferdinand, MD
Professor of Medicine
Tulane Heart and Vascular Institute
Tulane School of Medicine
Vivian Fonseca, MD
Tullis-Tulane Alumni Chair in Diabetes
Professor of Medicine
Chief, Section of Endocrinology
Tulane School of Medicine
Robert F. Garry, PhD
Professor of Microbiology & Immunology
Director of MCB Program
Tulane Cancer Center Associate Member
Tulane School of Medicine
L. Lee Hamm, MD, FACP
Senior Vice President & Dean
James R. Doty Distinguished Professor and Chair
Department of Medicine
Tulane School of Medicine
Emily Harville, PhD
Professor
Department of Epidemiology
Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
BIRCWH 2 Alumna
S. Michal Jazwinski, PhD
John W. Deming, MD Regents Chair in Aging
Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry
Director, Tulane Center for Aging
Tulane School of Medicine
Tonette Krousel-Wood, MD, MSPH
Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology
Associate Provost for the Health Sciences
BIRCWH Principal Investigator and Research Director and COBRE SPM MPI
Franck Mauvais-Jarvis, MD, PhD
Professor
Director of the Tulane Diabetes Research Program and COBRE SPM MPI
Department of Medicine
Tulane School of Medicine
David Mushatt, MD, MPH & TM
Professor
Department of Medicine
Chief, Section of Infectious Diseases
Director, Section of Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program
Tulane University School of Medicine
Gabriel Navar, PhD
Professor and Chair
Department of Physiology
Co-Director, Renal & Hypertension Center
Tulane School of Medicine
Gabriella Pridjian, MD
Professor and Chair
Department of Obstetrics
Gynecology
Adjunct Professor of Pediatrics
Tulane School of Medicine
Minolfa C. Prieto, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Physiology
Tulane School of Medicine
BIRCWH 2 Alumna
Katherine Theall, PhD
Professor
Cecile Usdin Professorship in Women's Health
Director, Mary Amelia Women's Center
Department of Social, Behavioral, and Population Sciences
Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
Andrea Zsombok, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Physiology
Tulane School of Medicine
BIRCWH 2 Alumna
