Area of Excellence: Obesity
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Ashley Fenton
Dr. Fenton is an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins School of Nursing (JHUSON), practice owner, dual certified family nurse practitioner and psychiatric nurse practitioner as well as a licensed clinical social worker. Dr. Fenton takes a biopsychosocial approach to patient care and believes that our physical health and mental health are closely intertwined and influenced […]
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Ariana Chao
Ariana Chao joins the SON from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing where she was an assistant professor and also served as the medical director at the Center for Weight and Eating Disorders at the Perelman School of Medicine and director of enrichment programs at the Penn Center for Nutrition Science and Medicine. She […]
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Brenda Douglass
Brenda Douglass, a nursing leader with over 30 years of experience, began her career at the bedside specializing in emergency nursing. She brings forth a unique perspective as a faculty educator and clinician with a robust career trajectory assimilating academic, clinical, leadership, and administrative roles. Among her previous experience in academia, she launched administrative roles […]
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Eliana Perrin
Eliana Perrin, a nationally recognized leader in patient-oriented primary care, childhood obesity, and health disparities research, is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor with appointments at the Johns Hopkins Schools of Nursing and Medicine (Department of Pediatrics). Dr. Perrin has developed, tested, and disseminated many tools to help pediatricians prevent and treat obesity. Her research focuses on […]
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Lucine Francis
Lucine Francis is an assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and a steering committee faculty member of the Johns Hopkins Consortium for School-Based Health Solutions. Dr. Francis’ research focuses on health promotion and innovation in child-serving organizations, centering on childhood obesity prevention, childhood nutrition and active play, and school success. She uses […]
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Catherine Ling
Catherine Ling’s scholarship is focused on improving primary care for vulnerable populations. Her more than 25 years as a family nurse practitioner have centered on providing functional access to ambulatory care in community settings. As an educator, she provides innovative and rigorous curriculum and course design and delivery for quality learning and practice outcomes. Dr. […]
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Susan Renda
Susan Renda has been a nurse for over 40 years. Her career began at the bedside with acutely ill patients and then in advanced practice as a nurse practitioner, certified diabetes educator, and nursing faculty. In all settings, she has brought a passion for education, as every moment with patients and students can be a […]
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Yvonne Commodore-Mensah
Yvonne Commodore-Mensah is a cardiovascular nurse epidemiologist whose current program of research seeks to reduce the burden of cardiovascular disease risk among Africans locally (United States) and globally (sub-Saharan Africa) through community-engaged research. Her research expertise includes immigrant health, global health, cardiovascular disease epidemiology, and social determinants of health. She is the principal investigator of […]
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Kelly M. Bower
Kelly Bower’s research and her public health nursing practice focus on the elimination of racial disparities in women’s, maternal, and infant health. She aims to understand the structural and social determinants that underlie disparities and develop interventions to reverse them. In particular, her work leverages existing health care and public health services, such as maternal, […]
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Rexford Ahima
Rexford Ahima is an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians and a fellow of the American College of Physicians, the Obesity Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Ahima, who served as an instructor at Harvard Medical School and professor at the […]