Faculty Recognized for Research

By Priyam Patel

On January 29, 2020, Rollins held a faculty research recognition reception to honor Rollins faculty’s extraordinary research achievements. During the reception, faculty were recognized for profound scholarship, exceptional grant proposals, and innovative projects, as well as for their contributions to the overall research environment at Rollins. The award recipients ranged across all departments at Rollins, including junior faculty and Rollins faculty with joint appointments.

2019 Millipub Club

Millipub club honors and recognizes current Emory faculty who have published one or more individual papers throughout their careers that have each garnered more than 1,000 citations. Such a paper is commonly considered a “citation classic” and represents high-impact scholarship.

Dr. Yan Sun. 2011 Nature. Genetic variants in novel pathways influence blood pressure and cardiovascular disease risk.

Dr. Michele Marcus. 2007 Reproductive Toxicology. Human exposure to bisphenol A (BPA).

Dr. Aryeh Stein. 2016 Lancet. Trends in adult body-mass index in 200 countries from 1975 to 2014: a pooled analysis of 1698 population-based measurement studies with 19.2 million participants

Dr. Carmen Marsit. 2012 BMC Bioinformatics. DNA Methylation Arrays as Surrogate Measures of Cell Mixture Distribution.

Dr. K.M. Venkat Narayan. 2001 Diabetes Care. Effectiveness of self management training in type 2 diabetes-a systematic review of randomized controlled trials.

2015 Lancet. Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 301 acute and chronic diseases and injuries in 188 countries, 1990 – 2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

Dr. Reynaldo Martorell. 2008 Lancet. Maternal and child undernutrition 2 – Maternal and child undernutrition: consequences for adult health and human capital

2016 Lancet. Trends in adult body-mass index in 200 countries from 1975 to 2014: a pooled analysis of 1698 population-based measurement studies with 19.2 million participants

2019 Emory 1% Award

The Emory 1% Award honors and recognizes investigators who have received study section review scores in the top one percentile on a grant proposal.

Dr. Todd Everson. Project Title: Epigenetic Markers, Trajectories and Predictors of Neurodevelopment in Childhood among infants Born Very Preterm.

2019 Hubert Department of Global Health Research Excellence Award

This award recognizes a single article of importance to the field. The award was presented to Monique Hennink, PhD, associate professor of global health, for her article which examined sample sizes in qualitative research, published in Qualitative Health Research. Read more about this award.

2019 Rollins Research Service Award

The Rollins Research Service Award is meant to honor and thank the Rollins investigator who has gone above and beyond to improve the research environment at Rollins and to assist in the development of new research projects and programs.

Dr. Dana Barr. Recognized for her leadership of the inaugural Dean’s Pilot review committee.

2019 Dean Pilot Awards

The Dean Pilot Awards, first awarded in March of 2019, were designed to create opportunities for Rollins junior faculty (assistant professors in all tracks) to obtain preliminary data and to build collaborations that could be rapidly leveraged toward the development of new funded extramural research projects. The projects proposed had to be new, highly innovative, and as of yet unfunded and unpublished. The awards ranged from $20,000-$50,000 for 1 year.

During the reception, the pilot awardees presented a poster detailing the big idea of their project, the proposed impact, and their progress thus far.

Dr. Benjamin Risk, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics. Improving estimates of functional connectivity in the human brain.

Dr. Allison Chamberlain, Department of Epidemiology. Characterizing PrEP promotion activities and needs among primary care providers in Fulton County, GA.

Dr. Donghai Liang, Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health. The Saliva Metabolome in Traffic-Related Health (SMITH) Study.

Dr. Melissa Young, Hubert Department of Global Health. Pilot testing of an innovative imaging technology for assessing child body composition.

Dr. Dayna Johnson, Department of Epidemiology. The Urban Environment and Circadian Disruptions: Implications for Cardiovascular Health among African Americans

Rollins faculty with joint appointments in the Emory School of Medicine who received awards for research during the School of Medicine Awards Ceremony in the fall were also recognized during the reception.

Millipub Club

Dr. Carlos del Rio, Hubert Department of Global Health

Dr. Scott Fridkin, Department of Epidemiology and Hubert Department of Global Health

Dr. Neel Gandhi, Department of Epidemiology and Hubert Department of Global Health

Dr. S. Sam Lim, Department of Epidemiology

Emory 1% Club

Dr. Henry Blumberg, Hubert Department of Global Health and Department of Epidemiology