URBAN ARCH Directory
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Admin Core | BDM Core | Uganda Cohort | Russia Cohort | Boston Cohort | NIAAA | Collaborators/Junior Investigators | Advisory Panel | Past Collaborators
Administrative Coordinating Core
Principal Investigator
Jeffrey Samet, MD, MA, MPH
Chief, Section of General Internal Medicine, Boston Medical Center
John Noble, M.D. Professor in General Internal Medicine and Professor of Community Health Science
Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health
801 Massachusetts Ave
Crosstown, 2nd Floor
Boston, MA 02118
Phone: (617)-414-7288
Fax: (617) 414-4676
jsamet@bu.edu
Investigators and Staff
Natalia Gnatienko, MPH
Administrative Director
Boston Medical Center
801 Massachusetts Ave
Crosstown, 2nd Floor
Boston, MA 02118
Phone: (617) 414-3843
Fax: (617) 414-4676
natalia.gnatienko@bmc.org
Casy Calver, PhD
Managing Editor
Boston Medical Center
801 Massachusetts Ave
Crosstown, 2nd Floor
Boston, MA 02118
Phone: (617) 414-6921
Fax: (617) 414-4676
katherine.calver@bmc.org
Jules Canfield, MPH
Program Manager
Boston Medical Center
801 Massachusetts Ave
Crosstown, 2nd Floor
Boston, MA 02118
Phone: (617) 414-6905
Fax: (617) 414-4676
jules.canfield@bmc.org
Sarah Koberna, MA
Project Management Specialist
Boston Medical Center
801 Massachusetts Ave
Crosstown, 2nd Floor
Boston, MA 02118
Phone: (617)-414-6703
sarah.koberna@bmc.org
Biostatistics and Data Management Core
Principal Investigator
Debbie Cheng, ScD
Biostatistician for Uganda and Russia Cohorts
Professor of Biostatistics
Boston University School of Public Health
801 Massachusetts Ave
Crosstown, 3rd Floor
Boston, MA 02118
Phone: (617) 638-5989
dmcheng@bu.edu
Investigators and Staff
Timothy Heeren, PhD
Professor of Biostatistics
Boston University School of Public Health
801 Massachusetts Ave
Crosstown, 3rd Floor
Boston, MA 02118
Phone: (617) 638-5177
tch@bu.edu
Biostatistician for Boston Cohort
Christine Lloyd-Travaglini, SPH
Statistical Programmer
Boston University School of Public Health
85 E. Newton Stree, Fuller 339D
Boston, MA 02118
Phone: (617) 358-7895
clloyd@bu.edu
Sara Lodi, MSc, PhD
Assistant Professor
Boston University School of Public Health
Department of Biostatistics
801 Massachusetts Ave
Crosstown, 3rd Floor
Boston, MA 02118
Phone: (617) 638 5115
slodi@bu.edu
Biostatistician for Boston Cohort
Amanda Norton, SPH
Statistical Programmer
Boston University School of Public Health
85 E. Newton Street, Fuller M-957E
Boston, MA 02118
Phone: (617) 358-9450
aenorton@bu.edu
Margaret Shea, BA
Statistical Programmer I
Biostatistics and Epidemiology Data Analytics Center (BEDAC)
Boston University School of Public Health
85 East Newton Street, M921
Boston, MA 02118
Phone: (617) 358-0636
mgshea@bu.edu
Michael Winter, MPH
Associate Director, Statistical Programming
Boston University School of Public Health
801 Massachusetts Ave
Crosstown, 3rd Floor
Boston, MA 02118
Phone: (617) 638-5015
mwinter@bu.edu
Ahmad Yassine, SPH
Statistical Programmer
Boston University School of Public Health
85 E. Newton Street, Fuller M-910
Boston, MA 02118
Phone: (617) 358-4033
ayassine@bu.edu
Uganda Cohort
Principal Investigator
Judith Hahn, PhD, MA
Professor in Residence
Univ. of California, San Francisco Mission Bay
550 16th St., 3rd floor
San Francisco, CA 94158-2549
Phone: (415) 576-5815
judy.hahn@ucsf.edu
Website
Investigators and Staffi
Nneka Emenyonu, DrPH, MPH
Project Director, Infectious Diseases, San Francisco General Hospital
University of California, San Francisco
Box 0886
San Francisco, CA 94143-0886
Phone: (415) 597-9346
Fax: (415) 597-9213
nneka.emenyonu@ucsf.edu
Robin Fatch, MPH
Statistician/Data Manager, Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco
Box 0886
San Francisco, CA 94143-0886
Phone: (415) 597-4976
Fax: (415) 597-9213
robin.fatch@ucsf.edu
Monica Gandhi MD, MPH 
Professor of Medicine, UCSF School of Medicine
Associate Division Chief of the Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases, and Global Medicine
San Francisco General Hospital
1001 Potrero Ave
San Francisco CA 94110
Phone: (415) 476-4082
monica.gandhi@ucsf.edu
Co-Investigator
Karen Jacobson, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Boston University School of Medicine
850 Harrison Avenue
Dowling 3 North, 3112
Boston, MA 02118
Phone: (617) 414-5213
Fax: (617) 638-8070
karen.jacobson@bmc.org
Co-Investigator
Benjamin P. Linas, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, Boston University School of Medicine
Director, HIV Epidemiology and Outcomes Research Unit, Section of Infectious Diseases
Boston Medical Center
801 Massachusetts Ave
Crosstown, 2nd Floor
Boston, MA 02118
Phone: (617) 414-5238
benjamin.linas@bmc.org
Co-Investigator
Winnie Muyindike, MBChB, MMED
Director of Immune Suppression Syndrome Clinic
Mbarara University of Science and Technology
Department Of Internal Medicine
P.O Box 1410 Mbarara Uganda
Phone: 256 -772- 52-1619
wmuyindike@gmail.com
Co-Investigator
Christine Ngabirano BA(SS), MPH
Project Coordinator
Mbarara University of Science and Technology
Department Of Internal Medicine
P.O Box 1410 Mbarara Uganda
Phone: 256-776-418691
cngabirano@must.ac.ug
Russia Cohort
Matthew Freiberg, MD, MSc
Director, Vanderbilt Center for Clinical Cardiovascular outcomes REsearch And Trials Evaluation (V-C3REATE)
Professor of Medicine
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Cardiovascular Medicine Division
2525 West End, Suite 300-A
Nashville, TN 37203
Phone: (615) 875-9729
Fax: (615) 322-3837
matthew.s.freiberg@vumc.org
Jeffrey Samet, MD, MA, MPH
Chief, Section of General Internal Medicine, Boston Medical Center
John Noble, M.D. Professor in General Internal Medicine and Professor of Community Health Science
Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health
801 Massachusetts Ave
Crosstown, 2nd Floor
Boston, MA 02118
Phone: (617)-414-7288
Fax: (617) 414-4676
jsamet@bu.edu
Website
Hilary Tindle, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Medicine and the William Anderson Spickard, Jr., MD Chair in Medicine
Division of Internal Medicine & Public Health and Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center (VICC)
2525 West End Avenue, Suite 370
Nashville, TN 37203
Phone: (615) 875-7810
Fax: (615) 322-3837
hilary.tindle@vanderbilt.edu
Investigators and Staff
Lydia Carlson, MPH
Research Assistant II
Boston Medical Center
801 Massachusetts Ave
Crosstown, 2nd Floor
Boston, MA 02118
Phone: (617) 414-6674
lydia.carlson@bmc.org
Sally Bendiks, MPH
Research Project Manager
Boston Medical Center
801 Massachusetts Ave
Crosstown, 2nd Floor
Boston, MA 02118
Phone: (617) 414-3802
Fax: (617) 414-4676
sally.bendiks@bmc.org
Aga Bereznicka, MPH
Research Coordinator
Boston Medical Center
801 Massachusetts Ave
Crosstown, 2nd Floor
Boston, MA 02118
Phone: (617)-414-6702
agata.bereznicka@bmc.org
Elena A. Blokhina, MD, PhD
Deputy Director, Valdman Institute of Pharmacology
First St. Petersburg Pavlov State Medical University
197022 Lev Tolstoy St 6/8
St. Petersburg, Russia
Phone: 011-8-901-373-5396
blokhinaelena@gmail.com
Co-Investigator
Natalia Gnatienko, MPH
Associate Director of Research Operations
Boston Medical Center
801 Massachusetts Ave
Crosstown, 2nd Floor
Boston, MA 02118
Phone: (617) 414-3843
Fax: (617) 414-4676
natalia.gnatienko@bmc.org
Evgeny Krupitsky, MD, PhD, DMSci
Chief, Lab of Clinical Pharmacology of Addictions, Pavlov State Medical University
Chief, Department of Addictions,
St. Petersburg Bekhterev Psychoneurological Research Institute
Bekhtereva St, 3,
St. Petersburg 192019 Russia
Phone: 011-7-901-300-5811
Fax: 011-7-812-365-2217
kruenator@gmail.com
PI for Russia Cohort Subcontract
Dmitry Lioznov, MD, PhD
Deputy Director for Research, Research Institute of Influenza
Head, Department of Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology
Pavlov State Medical University
6/8 Lev Tolstoy St.
197089
St. Petersburg, Russia
Phone: 011-7-(812) 499-7058
Fax: 011-7-(812) 499-7058
dlioznov@yandex.ru
Co-Investigator
Kaku So-Armah, PhD
Research Assistant Professor
Boston University School of Medicine
801 Massachusetts Ave, 2nd Floor
Boston, MA 02118
kaku@bu.edu
Michael Stein, MD
Professor and Chair of Health Law, Policy & Management
Boston University School of Public Health
715 Albany Street
Boston, MA 02118
Phone: (617) 638-5042
mdstein@bu.edu
Co-Investigator
Sarah Rossi
Research Coordinator
Boston Medical Center
801 Massachusetts Ave
Crosstown, 2nd Floor
Boston, MA 02118
Phone: (617)-414-6945
sarah.rossi@bmc.org
Samuel Mensah, MD, MPH
Research Coordinator
Boston Medical Center
801 Massachusetts Ave
Crosstown, 2nd Floor
Boston, MA 02118
samuel.mensah2@bmc.org
Tatiana Yaroslavtseva, MD
Site Project Manager
Scientific Secretary, Valdman Institute of Pharmacology
197022 Lev Tolstoy street 6/8
St.Petersburg, Russia
Phone: +7(952)097-81-73
Fax: +7(812)338-60-51
tatianayaroslavtseva@gmail.com
Edwin Zvartau, MD, PhD, DMSci
Head, Department of Clinical Pharmacology & Evidence-Based Med
Research Director, Valdman Institute of Pharmacology
Pavlov State Medical University
6/8 Lev Tolstoy St.
St. Petersburg 197022 Russia
Phone: 011-7-812-499 7023
Fax: 011-7-812-346 3414
zvartau@gmail.com
Project Director for Russia Cohort Subcontract
Boston Cohort
Principal Investigator
Richard Saitz, MD, MPH
Chair, Department of Community Health Sciences; Professor of Community Health Sciences and Medicine
Boston University Schools of Public Health and Medicine
801 Massachusetts Ave
Crosstown, 4th Floor
Boston, MA 02118
Phone: (617) 414-7744
Fax: (617) 414-4676
rsaitz@bu.edu
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Website
Investigators and Staff
Kristine M. Erlandson, MD
Associate Professor, Medicine-Infectious Disease
University of Colorado School of Medicine
12605 E 16th Avenue, Aurora, CO 80045
Phone: (303) 724-4941
kristine.erlandson@cuanschutz.edu
Co-Investigator
Simone Gill, PhD, OT, OTR
Associate Professor
Boston University Department of Occupational Therapy
635 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 501, Boston, MA 02215
Phone: 617-353-7513
simvgill@bu.edu
Christine Helfrich, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA PhD
Associate Professor of Occupational Therapy
American International College
1000 State St, 144 Lissa Building
Springfield, MA 01109
Phone: (413) 205-3038
christine.helfrich@aic.edu
Co-Investigator
Michael Holick, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Boston University School of Medicine
715 Albany Street, M-1013
Boston, MA 02118
Phone: (617) 638-4546
Fax: (617) 638-8882
mfholick@bu.edu
Co-Investigator
Theresa W. Kim, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Boston Medical Center
801 Massachusetts Ave
Crosstown, 2nd Floor
Boston, MA 02118
Phone: (617) 414-6932
theresa.kim@bmc.org
Kara Magane, MS
Director of Research Operations
Boston University School of Public Health
801 Massachusetts Ave
Crosstown, 4th Floor
Phone: (617) 358-1369
maganek@bu.edu
Research Study Assistant
Boston University School of Public Health
801 Massachusetts Avenue, Suite 431, Boston, MA 02118
617.358.1497
tjmason@bu.edu
Esperanza Romero Rodríguez, MD, MSc
Research Fellow, CARE Research Scholar
Boston University School of Public Health
801 Massachusetts Ave, 4th Floor
Boston, MA 02118
emromero@bu.edu
Danny Shin, MOT, OTR
Doctoral Student
Boston University College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences: Sargent College
635 Commonwealth Ave
Boston, MA 02215
Phone: (617) 353-7472
ddshin@bu.edu
Kaku So-Armah, PhD
Research Assistant Professor
Boston University School of Medicine
801 Massachusetts Ave, 2nd Floor
Boston, MA 02118
kaku@bu.edu
Alexander Walley, MD, MSc
Associate Professor of Medicine
Boston University School of Medicine
801 Massachusetts Ave
Crosstown, 2nd Floor
Boston, MA 02118
Phone: (617) 414-6975
Fax: (617) 414-4676
alexander.walley@bmc.org
Website
Co-Investigator
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
Kendall Bryant, PhD
Director, HIV/AIDS Research, NIAAA
Scientific Collaborator, Consortiums for HIV/AIDS and Alcohol Research Translation (CHAART) National Institutes on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism National Institutes of Health
5635 Fishers Lane
Bethesda MD 20892-7003
Phone: (301) 402-9389
kbryant@mail.nih.gov
Collaborators or Junior Investigators
Julian Adong, MBChB
Medical Officer
MUST Grants Office
Mbarara University
P.O. Box 1410
Mbarara, Uganda
Phone: +256-71-261-4770
adongjulian@gmail.com
Stephen B. Asiimwe, MMed, MBChB
Fellow, Epidemiology and Biostatistics
University of California San Francisco
Mission Hall: Global Health and Clinical Sciences Bldg.
550 16th Street
San Francisco, CA 94158
asiimwesteve@gmail.com
Sabrina Assoumou, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Boston University School of Medicine
850 Harrison Ave, Dowling 3N
Boston, MA 02118
Phone: (617) 414-2896
sabrina.assoumou@bmc.org
Joshua Barocas, MD
Instructor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Assistant in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
55 Fruit st, GrJ-504
Boston, MA 02114
joshua.barocas@bmc.org
Shirish Barve, PhD
Professor of Medicine
University of Louisville Department of Medicine
Phone: (502) 852-6991
shirish.barve@louisville.edu
Angela Robertson Bazzi, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Department of Community Health Sciences
Boston University School of Public Health
801 Massachusetts Avenue
Crosstown Center, Rm 442E
Boston, MA 02118
Phone: (617) 414-1355
abazzi@bu.edu
Nicolas Bertholet, MD, MSc
Associate Physician, Privat Docent, Senior Lecturer
Alcohol Treatment Center
Lausanne University Hospital, Switzerland
nicolas.bertholet@chuv.ch
Kathryn Eve Chavez, MA
Clinical Psychology Doctoral Student
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Boston University
900 Commonwealth Avenue, Second Floor
Boston, MA 02215
Phone: (323) 717-3311
kathryn.eve.chavez@gmail.com
Natalie Chichetto, PhD MSW
Research Instructor
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine
2525 West End Avenue (Office 315)
Nashville, TN 37203
Phone: (615) 875-9389
Fax: (615) 322-3837
natalie.chichetto@vumc.org
Amy Conroy, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
University of California San Francisco
School of Medicine
550 16th Street
San Francisco, CA 94158
Phone: (415) 476-6021
Daniel Fuster, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Attending Physician, Clinical Researcher
Addiction Unit-Internal Medicine Service
Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Ctra. Canyet s/n
Badalona (Barcelona) 08916
Spain
daniel.fuster@bmc.org
Margo Godersky
Research Fellow
Boston University School of Public Health
Department of Community Health Sciences
Phone: 617-414-6917
godersky@bu.edu
Bulat Idrisov, MD, MSc
Assistant Professor
Bashkir State Medical University
Phone: +7(917)7777304
bidrisov@gmail.com
Anastasia Kholodnaia, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
197022 Lev Tolstoy street 6/8
St.Petersburg, Russia
197022
Phone: +7-904-332-10-56
ancold@inbox.ru
Tetiana Kiriazova, PhD
Director
Ukrainian Institute on Public Health Policy.
4 Malopidvalna Str., Office 6
Kyiv 01001 Ukraine
Phone: +38 044 278 3132
t.kiryazova@gmail.com
Karsten Lunze, DrPH, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Boston Medical Center
801 Massachusetts Ave
Crosstown, 2nd Floor
Boston, MA 02118
Phone: (617) 414-6933
Fax: (617) 414-4676
karsten.lunze@bmc.org
Sarah Puryear, MD, MPH
Infectious Diseases Fellow; Traineeship in AIDS Prevention Studies Fellow
University of California San Francisco
Division of HIV, ID, and Global Medicine
995 Potrero Avenue, Ward 84
San Francisco, CA 94143
Phone: 415-502-1765, ext 423
sarah.puryear@ucsf.edu
Tibor Palfai, PhD
Professor, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences
Clinical Program Director (Director of Clinical Training)
Boston University
648 Beacon st
Boston, MA 02215
Phone: (617) 353-9345
palfai@bu.edu
Samantha Rawlins-Pilgrim, MD
Resident
Boston Medical Center
801 Massachusetts Ave, 2nd Floor, Boston MA 02118
Phone: 617-414-6617
Samantha.Rawlins-Pilgrim@bmc.org
Karol Serafin Covington, BS
Medical Student
Boston University School of Medicine
72 E Concord St, Boston, MA 02118
Phone: (919) 753-4144
kserafin@bu.ed
Judith Tsui, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Medicine
University of Washington Department of Medicine
Harborview Medical Center
325 Ninth Ave
Campus Box 359780
Seattle WA, 98104
Tel: (415) 298-4528
tsuij@u.washington.edu
Jennifer A. Wagman, PhD, MHS
Assistant Professor
University of California, Los Angeles
Department of Community Health Services, School of Public Health
650 Charles E. Young Drive, 46-071B, Box 951772
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1772
Tel: (310) 825 5047
jennwagman@ucla.edu
Emily C. Williams, PhD, MPH
Core Investigator
Center of Innovation for Veteran Centered and Value-Driven Care
VA Puget Sound
Associate Professor and Associate Director of Doctoral Program
Department of Health Services
University of Washington
1660 S. Columbian Way (S-152)
Seattle, WA 98108
Phone: (206) 277-6133
emily.williams3@va.gov
Past Collaborators
Nadia Fairbairn, MD
Assistant Professor, Research Scientist
University of British Columbia, Department of Medicine
n.fairbairn@gmail.com
Stephen Ko, MD, MA, MPH, MDIV
Research Assistant Professor of Global Health
Center for Global Health and Development
Boston University School of Public Health
801 Massachusetts Avenue, Crosstown Center, 3rd Floor
Boston, MA 02118
Phone: (617) 414-1446
scko@bu.edu
Alan M. Jette, PT, PhD
Director of Health & Disabilities Research Institute
Boston University School of Public Health
715 Albany St.
Boston, MA 02218
Phone: (617) 638-1985
Fax: (617) 638-1999
ajette@bu.edu
Co-Investigator
Gabriel Lerner, MD MS
PGY1 Resident, Yale New Haven Hospital
Departments of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
P. O. Box 208070
New Haven, CT 06520-8070
gabriel.lerner@yale.edu
Phone: (617) 875-3112
Sara Lorkiewicz
Graduate Student
Master’s of Science in Medical Science
Boston University School of Medicine
Phone: (708) 989-8621
s.lorkiewicz1@gmail.com
Seonaid Nolan, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
University of British Columbia, Department of Medicine
Phone: (778) 387-7254
seonaidn@gmail.com
Kinna Thakarar, DO, MPH
Assistant Professor
Tufts University School of Medicine
Maine Medical Center
84 Marginal Way, Suite 800
Portland, ME 04101
kthakarar@intermed.com
Sarah Woolf-King, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Syracuse University
510 Huntington Hall
Syracuse, NY 13244
Phone: (315) 443-9917
sewoolf@syr.edu
Scientific Advisory Panel
Kenneth Freedberg, MD, MSc
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
50 Staniford St.
MGH, 9th Floor
Boston, MA 02114
Phone: (617) 724-3341
kfreedberg@mgh.harvard.edu
Victor Hesselbrock, PhD
Senior Associate Dean of Research, University of Connecticut School of Medicine
Univ. of Connecticut Health Center, MC1410
263 Farmington Avenue
Farmington, CT 06030
Phone: (860) 679-4282
hesselbrock@uchc.edu
Amy Justice, MD, MSc, PhD
Professor, Yale School of Medicine
Section Chief, West Haven VA Healthcare System
950 Campbell Avenue
West Haven, CT 06516
Phone: (203) 932-5711 x3541
amy.justice2@med.va.gov
Seth Kalichman, PhD
Professor of Psychology
University of Connecticut
406 Babbidge Road, Unit 1020
Storrs, CT 06269
Phone: (860) 486-4042
seth.k@uconn.edu
Mimi Kim, ScD
Professor, Epidemiology and Population Health
Albert Einstein School of Medicine
1300 Morris Park Avenue
Belfer Building, Room 1303B
Bronx, NY 10461
Phone: (718) 430-2017
mikim@aecom.yu.edu