Updated February 17, 2009
FICAP ASSOCIATES
Fellow,
Department of Emergency Medicine
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Mary M. Cavanaugh is an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Welfare at UC, Berkeley. She is also a Research Criminologist at the Institute of Human Development at UC, Berkeley. Her primary research focuses on examining the origins of violent behavior in male and female offenders, and in designing and testing preventative interventions that may decrease the potential risk for violence in intimate relationships. She has been a practitioner in the field of family violence facilitating batterers' intervention programs in cooperation with Adult Probation and Parole Departments and victim service agencies.
Dr. Theodore J. Corbin, Jr. is a Clinical Instructor in the Emergency Department of the Jefferson University Hospital and faculty member of Jefferson Medical College. He also serves as Medical Director of the Jefferson Community Violence Prevention Program, an emergency department based violence intervention program that identified young victims of intentional injury.
Dr. Peter Cronholm is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health (DFMCH) at the University of Pennsylvania. He recently completed a Faculty Development Fellowship and a Master of Science in Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Cronholm's research interests have focused on health services with a particular focus regarding the primary care management of intimate partner violence perpetration.
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Dennis Culhane is a social psychologist and Professor of Social Welfare Policy at the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently directing several collaborative efforts between the University and the City of Philadelphia to make administrative records more readily analyzable and sharable for policy analysis and planning purposes. His research interests include studies of the housing and neighborhood factors associated with health, and the neighborhood factors associated with housing distress and homelessness.
Dr. Elizabeth M. Datner is an assistant professor of Emergency Medicine at The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and an attending physician in the Emergency Department at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Her areas of interest include violence prevention and women's health, with focuses on youth violence, domestic violence and trauma during pregnancy. Dr. Datner is the co-director of the Violence Intervention Project at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and The University of Pennsylvania Medical Center. She has published several original research papers on the topic of violence prevention for both youth and domestic violence.
Emergency Medicine Attending
Physician
Associate Trauma Director, Emergency Medicine
Director of Research, Center for Injury Research and Prevention
Kristen A. Feemster is a pediatrician at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia whose research interests focus upon the social and environmental factors affecting the prevalence, prevention and control of communicable disease; the application of spatial analysis techniques to better understand these factors; and the development of vaccine policy.
Dr. Joel A. Fein is an associate professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and an attending physician in the Emergency Department at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. His areas of interest include violence prevention and pain management in children and adolescents. Dr. Fein is the co-director of the Emergency Department Violence Intervention Project at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and The University of Pennsylvania Medical Center. He has published several review articles and original research papers on the topic of violence prevention and the evaluation of post-traumatic stress disorder.
Dr. Gadsden was a research analyst at Policy Studies Associates in Washington, D.C. In 1988, she joined Penn GSE's Literacy Research Center and became associate director in 1989. in 1994, she became the director of the newly founded National Center on Fathers and Families, an interdisciplinary policy research center focusing on child and family well-being. She is currently the William T. Carter Professor in Child Development and Education at Penn.
Pediatric Generalist Research
Fellow
Division of General Pediatrics
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Alice Hausman is a faculty member of the Department of Public Health (formerly Health Studies), Temple University. Her duties include undergraduate and graduate teaching, program administration, chairing dissertation committees. She is an active Member of the PCVPC: Philadelphia Collaborative Violence Prevention Center as well as an Advisory Board Member for PIRIS: Philadelphia Injury Reporting and Intervention System.
Professor Joe's current research, funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, focuses on developing father focused family-based interventions to prevent urban African-American adolescent males from engaging in multiple forms of self-destructive behaviors, including suicidal behavior. Dr. Joe has published in the areas of suicide, violence, and firearm-related violence. Dr. Joe co-chairs the Emerging Scholars Interdisciplinary Network's Research Study Group on African-American Suicide. He also has a significant interest in theoretical and methodological issues related to community level intervention research to address disparities, community organizing, and positive youth development.
Psychologist
and Co-Director of the Center of Pediatric Trauma Stress
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Dr. Koper holds a Ph.D. in criminology and criminal justice from the University of Maryland and has worked for the Urban Institute, the Crime Control Institute, the University of Maryland, the Police Foundation, and the National Institute of Justice. Until April of 2007, he was a senior research associate with the Jerry Lee Center of Criminology at the University of Pennsylvania and a scholar-in-residence with the Firearm and Injury Center at Penn. He is currently a social scientist at RAND.
Jean Lemaire is Professor of Actuarial Science and Insurance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is the Chairperson of the School's Insurance and Risk Management Department. Jean Lemaire has published over 100 research papers and books in game theory and actuarial science. His research interests include evaluating the impact of firearm deaths on life expectancies in the United States.
Dr. Lindee is Professor of History and Sociology of Science at Penn. Her research focuses on twentieth-century biological and biomedical sciences, particularly radiation biology, human genetics and genomics. She teaches about science and gender, science and war, and the history of American science.
Dean,
College of Education
Towson University
Dr. John MacDonald is a Jerry Lee assistant professor of criminology at the University of Pennsylvania. He works on a variety of issues in criminology, including understanding the dynamics of police-community relations, understanding police behavior (e.g. racial profiling, suspicion, use of deadly force), racial and ethnic disparities in the treatment of juvenile delinquents, predicting adult recidivism, the etiology of delinquent and adult offending including: the onset and desistence from crime and violence, and structural correlates of urban violence. He has also been actively involved in a range of projects evaluating the efficacy of public policy interventions at reducing crime, violence, and drunk driving.
Dr Maselko is a social and psychiatric epidemiologist whose research focuses on two areas: the socioeconomic determinants of mental health in the global context and the relationship between religious engagement/spirituality and health.
Dr. Deborah B. Nelson is a reproductive epidemiologist with work focusing on environmental, genetic and behavioral factors influencing several pregnancy outcomes including spontaneous abortion and preeclampsia, as well as studies exploring the role of various in-utero exposures and chronic health outcomes. Dr. Nelson is an Assistant Professor of Public Health and Obstetrics and Gynecology in the Department of Public Health, College of Health Professions and the Director of the Masters of Science in Epidemiology program at Temple University. Dr Nelson’s projects include a case-control study examining the association between inter-personal violence, psychosocial stress and spontaneous abortion.
Dr. Raine is the Richard Perry University Professor of Criminology & Psychiatry at Penn. His research focuses on the neurobiological and biosocial bases of antisocial and violent behavior in both children and adults. Other research interests include the neurobiology of violence, psychopathic and antisocial behavior, schizotypal personality, alcoholism, brain imaging, and behavioral and molecular genetics.
Dr. Karin Rhodes is an Assistant Professor and Director of Health Care Policy Research in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on use of the acute health care setting for screening and intervention with intimate partner violence and other major psychosocial health risks. She is also involved in a number of studies investigating the quality of emergency services, access to follow up care and the intersection between acute care and the mental health, social services, and criminal justice systems.
Dr. John Rich is the Director of the Center for Academic Public Health Policy and Chair of Health Management and Policy at the Drexel University School of Public Health. Previous to that he was the Medical Director for the Boston Public Health Commission, the Health Department for the City of Boston and served as Founder and Director of the Young Men’s Health Clinic at Boston City Hospital. Dr. Rich is also a recipient of a 2006 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.
Dr. Roth is associate director for research at the Jerry Lee Center of Criminology, University of Pennsylvania. He is currently principal investigator of one project to develop understanding of the juvenile crime drop that began in 1993 trends and another to help Philadelphia's Department of Human Services implement performance-based contracting for its foster care provider agencies. Previously, he directed the Congressionally mandated impact evaluation of the 1994 assault weapons ban, as well as studies of the Clinton Administration's COPS program to put 100,000 police officers on the street, Maryland's HotSpots Communities Program, Detroit's Handgun Intervention Program, youth violence in the District of Columbia, and Baltimore's Comprehensive Communities Program.
Dr. Sommers is the Lillian S. Brunner Professor of Medical-Surgical Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania. She received her bachelors degree in nursing at the University of Pennsylvania, her masters degree in nursing education from New York University, and her PhD in nursing science with a minor in human physiology at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. She received postdoctoral training as a Faculty Fellow through the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism from 1990-1994 at the University of Cincinnati. Prior to her academic career, Dr. Sommers had 15 years of experience as a staff nurse, clinical nurse specialist, and nurse administrator in the areas of critical care and trauma.
Dr. Sorenson recently joined the University of Pennsylvania as a professor of Social Policy. Previously, she was a professor at the School of Public Health at UCLA. She is a well-known public health researcher who focuses on policy and other population-based approaches to prevent violence. Key areas of her interests include violence in relationships, firearms from an injury prevention perspective, as well as how gender, ethnicity, and nativity relate to victimization.
Dr. Teitelman’s research focuses on HIV prevention among adolescents and in understanding intimate partner violence as an HIV risk factor. She is interested in developing interventions that involve youth, parents, schools and health care and other service providers, particularly for economically disadvantaged minority girls in the US. One of Dr. Teitelman’s current projects involves investigating health disparities as well as family protective factors (such as connectedness) of intimate partner violence among adolescents. She is also co-investigator for a CDC funded study examining precursors to youth violence, including intimate partner violence.
Dr. Thomas serves as one of the core faculty in the Applied Psychology and Human Development Division. He has a diverse professional background that includes providing a range of psychological services for children, youth, and families from diverse backgrounds and participating in large-scale community-based violence prevention research. Dr. Thomas joined University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education in the fall of 2005. His courses address topics such as professional development and sociocultural factors in the provision of applied psychology.
School of Social Policy and Practice
University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Wilkinson’s research explores the causes and consequences of adolescent aggression, how it varies across and depends upon contexts, and how it might be prevented. Most broadly, her work examines the ways in which community institutions and processes, as well as more micro-level and sometimes ephemeral dynamics shape violent behavior. Dr. Wilkinson’s long-term goal is to clarify how structural, cultural, and situational factors intersect to produce violence and America’s responses to this violence.