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Dr. Han Jo Kim is an attending spine surgeon at Hospital for Special Surgery and a professor of orthopedic surgery specializing in cervical spine and scoliosis surgery. Currently serving as the Director of the Spine Fellowship and Chair of the Fellowship Committee at HSS, he is also the lead investigator for numerous research studies and has won multiple awards in the national and international arena. He is actively involved in the education of residents, fellows, and physician assistants.

Dr. Kim believes in a comprehensive approach to patient care. Working with internists, anesthesiologists, neurologists, radiologists, physiatrists and pediatricians, all avenues for alternatives to surgery are explored before surgery is considered. With individual patient goals in mind, if surgery is necessary, he will perform spine surgery utilizing the most effective and safe techniques tailored for each patient in an effort to minimize complications and recovery time, and optimize outcomes. He has a particular interest in surgery relating to adult and pediatric spinal deformity and scoliosis. With regard to the cervical spine, he specializes in cervical deformities and motion preserving (disc replacement, laminoplasty) procedures.

Dr. Kim has dedicated his time as a volunteer surgeon at the FOCOS hospital in Ghana, West Africa where he has treated some of the most rare and complex spinal deformities in pediatric and adult patients, performing hundreds of successful operations.

Dr. Kim has written more than 200 peer-reviewed scientific articles and more than 35 book chapters, including his own textbook which he co-authored with Dr. K. Daniel Riew on cervical spine surgery titled "The Riew-Kim Manual for Cervical Spine Surgery." Through the AO Spine Foundation, he has been invited by international leaders in spine surgery to author surgical reference guides that teach other spine surgeons performing scoliosis surgery. He was  selected by the Scoliosis Research Society for the prestigious Edgar G. Dawson Fellowship in 2013 and subsequently was selected for the Scoliosis Research Society Traveling Fellowship in 2017 and has also served as the IMAST Chair in 2020. He is also an active member of the Cervical Spine Research Society.

Tim has 35 years experience directing and managing conservation programs with organizations such as the Wildlife Conservation Society, The Nature Conservancy, and the Frankfurt Zoological Society. He joined Biodiversity Research Institute in July 2020 as the International Senior Scientist, overseeing international research and policy priorities with a focus on BRIs Tropical Program, and an emphasis on expanding projects in Africa. Now, the director of BRI's Center for Climate Change and Conservation, Tim will continue to focus on work in Africa and the tropics, and is developing the Climate Change Program, including the development of soil carbon projects in African rangelands. He is also working on mercury contamination as it relates to ASGM activities, biomonitoring, and the Minamata Convention on Mercury.

Dr. Demetracopoulos, an orthopedic surgeon specializing in foot and ankle surgery, is director of the Total Ankle Replacement Center at Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS). He has special expertise in ankle arthritis, total ankle replacement, foot and ankle trauma/fractures, ankle instability, sports injuries of the foot and ankle, reconstruction of foot deformities, and foot arthritis.   

He completed his orthopedic training at Hospital for Special Surgery. As a resident, he was awarded the Joseph M. Lane Research Grant for his work in the biomechanics laboratory. In addition, he was selected as a Resident Scholar for the American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society Annual Meeting in 2010. Following his residency, he completed a fellowship in foot and ankle surgery at the Duke University Medical Center where his clinical and research interests focused on the outcomes of total ankle replacement. 

Dr. Demetracopoulos has published more than 50 original manuscripts, predominantly on topics related to ankle arthritis and total ankle replacement.  His work has been recognized with research awards from the American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society, as well as the International Federation of Foot and Ankle Societies.   

He received his medical degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore. While a medical student, he was awarded the U.S. Albert Schweitzer Fellowship and the David E. Rogers Fellowship from the New York Acade

Dr. Scott Ellis is an orthopedic surgeon at Hospital for Special Surgery, where he serves as director of research for the Foot and Ankle Service. He is an expert in reconstructive surgery of the foot and ankle and treats a wide range of problems and injuries in patients, from active seniors to professional athletes.

Dr. Ellis specializes in Achilles disorders including acute tears and more chronic degeneration (also called tendinosis). He treats a vast array of patients with ankle fractures and has performed hundreds of total ankle replacements for severe ankle arthritis. Additionally, Dr. Ellis specializes in the surgical correction of bunions in both men and women, flatfoot deformity, sports injuries related to ankle instability, cartilage injuries, foot fractures, dislocations, and big toe arthritis (hallux rigidus).

Dr. Ellis is a professor of orthopedic surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College, where he teaches and conducts research focused on improving surgical outcomes. He is currently treasurer of the American Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society and previously served as president of the Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Foundation. Dr. Ellis has writtien numerous papers that have appeared in peer-reviewed journals, including on the surgical correction of flatfoot deformity.

Dr. Frank Cammisa, chief emeritus of HSS Spine at Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS), specializes in the surgical treatment of spinal disorders. His areas of expertise include minimally invasive spinal surgery, computer-assisted spinal surgery, microsurgery, athletic spinal injuries and motion-preserving procedures, including artificial disc replacement.

In addition to treating patients at HSS, Dr. Cammisa is a professor of clinical orthopedic surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College. He has long been active in working with professional, scholastic and recreational athletes. Many professional athletes, including members of the Giants and Jets football teams and Knicks basketball team, have consulted with Dr. Cammisa for expert diagnosis and treatment, including surgery, if necessary. He is also the spine consultant for the National Hockey League Player Association.

Dr. Cammisa conducts research to advance the diagnosis and treatment of complex spine conditions. Recognized as a pioneer in the use of new surgical techniques, procedures and modalities, he often participates as the principal investigator in major research studies. His areas of investigation include computer-assisted image guidance, demineralized bone matrix, minimally invasive spinal surgery, and the artificial disc as an alternative to spinal fusion for debilitating back pain.

He has received a number of prestigious research grants. He was one of the lead investigators of a seven-year, multi-center national study funded by a $21 million dollar grant by the National Institutes of Health. The study was one of the first to directly compare the effectiveness of surgical versus nonsurgical approaches to treat herniated discs, spinal stenosis and degenerative spondylolisthesis.

Dr. Cammisa has published over 130 research articles and manuscripts in dozens of prestigious medical journals. One such study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, was a multi-center trial to compare treatments for degenerative spondylolisthesis, which is caused when a vertebra slips out of alignment. The study followed 601 patients in 11 states over two years to compare surgical and nonsurgical treatments. Dr. Cammisa and his colleagues around the country found that surgery was twice as effective as nonsurgical approaches in reducing pain and restoring function.

As a co-author of more than 30 chapters in medical textbooks, Dr. Cammisa has held numerous editorial appointments, and is a reviewer for several respected medical journals. He is the recipient of many awards and honors, and has lectured both nationally and internationally. He created The National Spinal Research Foundation and has been affiliated with the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis. 

Dr. Bell鈥檚 research interests include examining the association of environmental exposures and adverse birth and child health outcomes, including neurodevelopment. She is particularly interested in the relationship between social factors and environmental exposures and their combined impact on child development. Dr. Bell most recently served as co-Principal Investigator of the Upstate KIDS study, a cohort study of over 6000 infants designed to examine risk factors for development differences, Autism and additional growth and developmental outcomes.

Currently, she is the co-Principal Investigator with the New York State Department of Health, of a cohort study to recruit and enroll participants into a prospective cohort of adults and children to examine the long-term health effects associated with consumption of drinking water contaminated with per and poly alkyl substances (PFAS).  She previously led the investigations of adverse reproductive outcomes by levels of air pollutants in the New York State Department of Health鈥檚 Environmental Health Tracking Program and previously served as a co-PI of the New York Center for the National Birth Defects Prevention Study/BD-STEPS multi-center studies funded by the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC).

Given the strong correlation between excess exposure to environmental contaminants, poverty and racial inequalities, her research and community service have more recently expanded into exploring the health outcomes related to these disparities. She currently serves on the executive committee of the Center for Social and Demographic Analysis and as a member of the Community Advisory Board for the Ezra Prentice neighborhood, an Environmental Justice Community in Albany, NY. She has previously served as a member on three of the Institute of Medicine Committees on Review of the Health Effects in Vietnam Veterans of Exposure to Herbicides. Currently, she is a member of the National Academy of Medicine's Committee on Guidance on PFAS Testing and Health Outcomes.

Dr. Bozlak is an associate professor in the Department of Health Policy, Management, and Behavior at the University at Albany School of Public Health. She also co-directs the HRSA-funded Maternal and Child Health Program at the School of Public Health. She will serve as the co-faculty director of the Maternal and Child Health certificate program at the University at Albany, once approved. Her expertise is in the area of maternal and child health. Dr. Bozlak previously co-chaired the American Public Health Association MCH Section鈥檚 Adolescent and Young Adult Health Committee, and she is a member of the New York State Youth Development Team. She is also a member of the National MCH Workforce Development Center鈥檚 Pipeline Team.  

Prior to joining the University at Albany in 2012, Dr. Bozlak was the Advocacy Program Manager for the Consortium to Lower Obesity in Chicago Children (CLOCC), a program of the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children鈥檚 Hospital of Chicago.  She holds her MPH in health policy and management, and she completed a fellowship in the Illinois Governor鈥檚 Office. She received her PhD in 2010 from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) School of Public Health Community Health Sciences Division. She also served as an instructor and program administrative coordinator for the UIC Center of Excellence in Maternal and Child Health (formerly the Maternal and Child Health Program).

Dr. Bozlak鈥檚 research is in the area of maternal and child health, and specifically childhood obesity prevention with a focus on policy, systems, and environmental change strategies. She has conducted community-engaged research with faith-based organizations, youth-serving organizations, and organizations dedicated to addressing food insecurity. Her current partnership with the Alliance of New York State YMCAs began in 2013 and has resulted in three studies focused on childhood obesity prevention. She is also a co-investigator on the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research-funded 鈥淓nvironmental and Nutritional Benefits of Food Recovery and Redistribution: A Pilot Assessment in New York鈥檚 Capital Region鈥� study. Along with colleagues, she co-edited the book, "Participatory Action Research" (Oxford University Press).

Before coming to UAlbany, he taught at Harvard College, the Zhejiang Institute of Science and Technology in Hangzhou, China, and worked as a researcher at the Joint Center for Bioethics at the University of Toronto. He writes on the topics of trust, promises, character, self-deception, and rationalization. He has also done work in bioethics (in particular, trust and consent) and the philosophy of art (in particular, fiction-directed emotion, imaginative resistance, and the autographic/allographic distinction). His recent work appears in academic journals such as Ethics, the Australasian Journal of Philosophy, and The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. See his website for forthcoming papers.

Research Interests
As part of the Boundary Layer Meteorology and Renewable Energy Groups at ASRC, my main research focus is on renewable energy and atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) processes. This includes work on improving wind and solar power production forecasting, outage prediction modeling applications, developing instrumentation and improving modeling approaches for offshore wind energy, and using ASRC modeling and observational assets to better understand weather and climate influences on our renewable energy resource. A principal tool for my observational work is a Leosphere Windcube 100S scanning LiDAR. Of great value for my research is continuing collaboration with colleagues at ASRC, the New York State Mesonet, the Center of Excellence for Weather and Climate Analytics, and working with a very talented group of graduate students.

My previous work in the private sector (with Atmospheric Information Services and Envirolaw, companies I founded, and AWS Truepower, as Lead Research Scientist) included serving as a lead Principal Investigator for the first Wind Forecasting Improvement Project (WFIP), a three-year Department of Energy (DOE)/National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) study to demonstrate the value of additional atmospheric observations and model enhancements on wind energy production forecasts, the development of the Solar Wind Integrated Forecast Tool (SWIFT), a state-of-the-art forecasting service for Hawaii麓s electric utilities, and a LiDAR-based study of the 3D wind field over Cranberry Lake in New York鈥檚 Adirondack Mountains, and developing an early roadmap for the legal and regulatory review of offshore wind energy projects in US coastal waters.

Beth J Feingold, PhD is an interdisciplinary environmental health scientist. Bridging geography, epidemiology and global health, her research addresses the dynamic relationship among the food system, environmental sustainability and population health.

Dr. Feingold earned her PhD in Public Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, her Master of Environmental Science from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, her Master of Public Health from Yale School of Public Health and her Bachelor of Arts in Geology from Vassar College. She was the Glenadore and Howard L Pim Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Johns Hopkins University and a Postdoctoral Associate at Duke University鈥檚 Nicholas School of the Environment and Global Health Institute. She joined the University at Albany as an Assistant Professor in 2014.

 

Research interests
Anthropogenic (human-induced) changes to the environment affect and are affected by food production and consumption; this, in turn, impacts nutrition and human health. Dr. Feingold addresses these relationships locally, nationally and internationally by utilizing novel assessment tools and engaging communities. Her three main themes of research are:

Assessing dietary and environmental drivers of disease risk in regions undergoing large-scale anthropogenic change 
Environmental, nutritional and health impacts of wasted food recovery & redistribution
Impacts of large-scale agriculture on human health.

I am a Professor at the University at Albany School of Public Health. I am a health communication scholar who uses theories, concepts, and methods from the fields of public health and communication. My research focuses on health literacy as well as the effects of media on attitudes, behaviors, and policies that put young people (children, adolescents, young adults) at risk for negative health outcomes.

My main area of expertise is health communication. My work in this area has primarily focused on the effects of media and/or technology use on health attitudes, knowledge, and behavior, health information seeking among youth and parents, and identifying best practices for the dissemination of health information to the general public, including through news and social media. It has also involved a focus on health literacy. Much of my work focuses on children, adolescents, young adults and parents, and I often seek to include groups impacted by health disparities. I also examine the use of digital technology for health information and health interventions, also known as eHealth.

I have published my work in journals such as the Journal of Health Communication, Pediatrics, Public Health Management and Practice, Journal of Children and Media, and Public Health Nutrition.

鈥婤efore starting at UAlbany, I was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania. I earned my Ph.D. from the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

John Forsyth is a professor of psychology, a clinical psychologist, and director of the Anxiety Disorders Research Program at the University at Albany. He has been a guest on a number of local and national television, radio, and podcast segments. He also offers workshops for mental health professionals across the United States and abroad on the use and application of a newer mindfulness-based psychotherapy called Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (or ACT, said as one word), and is a member of the teaching faculty at the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies, The Esalen Institute, and the Cape Cod Institute. He has co-authored several popular books for mental health professionals and the general public, including The Mindfulness & Acceptance Workbook for Anxiety, 2nd ed., Anxiety Happens, and the Anxiety Happens Guided Journal.

His broad interests focus on processes that contribute to human suffering and its successful treatment. More specifically, he has expertise in mindfulness, psychological acceptance, self-compassion, ACT and mindfulness-based strategies. More broadly, he is deeply interested in finding ways to promote human thriving and well-being, especially when life is hard. He is also interested in how these interests can help people who are struggling with anxiety, stress, depression, anger, and other human uniquely human concerns.  

Learn more about him here: www.drjohnforsyth.com

Janell Hobson is Professor in the Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University at Albany. She is also Director of both Undergraduate Studies and the Honors Program. She joined the core faculty shortly after receiving her PhD in Women's Studies at Emory University. Hobson has since devoted her research, teaching, and service to multiracial and transnational feminist issues in the discipline with a focus on representations and histories of women in the African Diaspora.

Hobson is the author of When God Lost Her Tongue: Historical Consciousness and the Black Feminist Imagination (Routleldge, 2021), Venus in the Dark: Blackness and Beauty in Popular Culture (Routledge, 2005, second edition, 2018), and Body as Evidence: Mediating Race, Globalizing Gender (SUNY Press, 2012). She has also edited the volumes Are All the Women Still White? Rethinking Race, Expanding Feminisms (SUNY Press, 2016) and The Routledge Companion to Black Women鈥檚 Cultural Histories (Routledge, 2021). She is a contributing writer to Ms. Magazine, as well as various online platforms. She also guest edited special volumes on Harriet Tubman and slavery in popular culture. She was selected as a Community Fellow for 2021-2022 at the University at Albany鈥檚 Institute for History and Public Engagement, which supports her guest editing of the Harriet Tubman Bicentennial Project with Ms. Magazine for the Spring 2022 semester.

Hobson teaches diverse courses on intersections of race, class, gender, media, popular culture, and feminist theory.

Julia Hormesis is a clinical and health psychologist and direct the Health Behaviors Laboratory at the University at Albany. The primary areas of focus of research in the lab are as follows:

The psychology of human food choice behavior - pathological and non-pathological aspects of eating behavior, including eating disorders, obesity, food addiction, food cravings (in particular in pregnancy, the perimenstrum, and the migraine prodrome), and food avoidance (in particular of meat and other animal products). 
Interventions targeting diet, nutrition, and weight

Other health-promoting and health-compromising behaviors related to food intake and body weight (e.g., exercise)
Non-substance/ behavioral addictions (e.g., to the Internet, social media, video gaming)
The status of women in academia and ways to promote the successful retention of women in academic careers

Clinical interests include eating disorders and obesity, addiction, and psychosocial adjustment to living with chronic illness.

Prof. Huang鈥檚 research is devoted to understanding the impact of sociodemographic and economic transformations and government policies.  Her research focuses on three different but related areas: 1) housing, 2) migration and urbanization, and 3) health and wellbeing.   Her research has a regional focus on China, and recently the U.S.  She is the (co-)author/(co-)editor of ten books, including Chinese Cities in the 21st Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), Housing Inequality in Chinese Cities (Routledge 2014), China鈥檚 Geography: Globalization and the Dynamics of Political, Economic and Social Change (Roman & Littlefield Publishers, 2021).  She has also published many articles in some of the best journals in several fields, including Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), Annals of the Association of American Geographers, The China Quarterly, Urban Studies, Cities, Housing Studies, Housing Policy Debate, and Environmental and Planning A.  She has served both the profession and the community in many leadership positions, and she is the recipient of the Outstanding Service Award by the American Association of Geographers (AAG) China Geography Specialty Group (CGSG) in 2019, and 鈥淧resident鈥檚 Award for Exemplary Public Engagement鈥� by University at Albany in 2020.  

Research Areas:
Information Physics
      Foundations of Inference, Quantum Mechanics and Physics
      Inquiry, Relevance and Maximum Entropy
      High-Quality Bayesian Data Analysis

Honors and Awards:
Third Place in the Foundational Questions Institute (FQXi 2013) Essay Contest
Invited to Foundational Questions Institute (FQXi) Membership (2013)
Elected Senior Member of IEEE (2008)

Professor Kajal Lahiri鈥檚 interests include Econometrics, Forecasting, and Economics of Health. They have been supported by National Science Foundation, the World Bank, NY State Division of BudgSet, International Monetary Fund, Social Security Administration, US Department of Transportation, and the National Institutes of Health.

Lahiri teaches economic statistics, forecasting, econometrics, and applied econometrics.

Fields of Interest: Econometrics, Health Economics

Research Interests

Analytical Chemistry
Physical Chemistry
Biochemistry
Laser Spectroscopy

Research Interests
Solar Energy Resource assessment

Because the weather is the main driver of solar energy technologies, it is important to characterize and to quantify the influences of climate and weather on the solar resource. We have developed approaches to utilize the imagery from weather satellites to infer the amount of solar energy available at any point in time and space. We have used this capability to produce solar resource maps for the US and several other countries, and to provide operational data for solar system output quality control.

Evaluating the impact of solar energy systems on utility power grids

The resource information developed above can be used effectively to simulate the operation of solar power plants and to gauge their impact on utility grids' power flow. An important application of this is to detect, quantify and monitor the capability of dispersed photovoltaic systems to help utilities meet their peak demand requirements and to minimize the risks of power outages.

 

Introduction

My research interests are in past, current and future climate change in the tropics. I am particularly interested in trying to bridge the gap between modern climate dynamics studies and paleoclimatic interpretation of proxy data. Therefore my research is very interdisciplinary in nature and often forms part of larger international collaborative programs. In my research I tend to focus on two regions in particular: the tropical and subtropical Andes in South America and the mountains of East Africa. In both locations a wealth of paleoclimatic information is available from a large number of natural archives, but the understanding of their climatic sensitivity is often inadequate. Some of the most important natural archives are based on stable isotopic proxies (e.g. tropical ice cores, speleothems or biomarkers in lake sediments), but it is often not clear what these proxies really record and what their climatic sensitivities are in both the time- and space domain. I try to investigate how these sensitivities may change in time as boundary conditions change and if lessons learned from climate studies on interannual to interdecadal timescales can be used in the interpretation of centennial to millennial scale climate variability recorded in these proxies. To answer some of these questions I employ both observational data (in-situ measurements, reanalysis, radiosonde and satellite data) and models of varying complexity (GCMs, RCMs and isotopic models). In the past this research has been funded through grants from NSF (Earth System History, Paleoclimate and Climate Dynamics) and NOAA (Climate Change Data and Detection, CCDD).

I also maintain an active research program studying the causes, impacts and scenarios of future climate change in the tropical Andes, where the retreat of glaciers may soon pose a threat for the regional water supply. I employ regional climate models (RCMs) over the tropical Andes to study how glacier extent and runoff from glacierized catchments will change under different scenarios as predicted in the IPCC-SRES (Special Report on Emissions Scenarios). This research is funded through NSF (co-funded by Hydrology and Climate Dynamics Divisions) and the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI). I am also collaborating with the Latin America Division of the Word Bank, which has a particular interest in this kind of research and funding through the Global Environmental Fund (GEF) to implement adaptation measures in several Andean countries.

Research Interests

Climate variability and climate change in tropical South America and East Africa, tropical glacier-climate interactions, tropical paleoclimatology.