Faculty
Primary Faculty
Areas of Interests
- Circadian Rhythms
- Sleep
- Synaptic Transmission
- Suprachiasmatic Nucleus
- Neural Network Activity
Areas of Interest
- Total Worker Health
- Violence Prevention
- Workforce Retention
- Pesticide Exposures
![Nicole Bowles, PhD](/sites/default/files/2022-06/Nicole%20Bowles162.jpg)
Nicole Bowles, PhD
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest
- Stress
- Health Disparities
- Neuroendocrinology
- Circadian Rhythms
- Sleep Behavior
- Cannabinoids
![Matthew P. Butler, PhD, Associate Professor, Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences, OHSU](/sites/default/files/2022-07/Matt%20Butler162.jpg)
Matthew P. Butler, PhD,
Associate Professor
Areas of interest
- Biological rhythms and health
- Neuroendocrinology of sex differences
- Sleep epidemiology
![Leslie Hammer](/sites/default/files/2024-04/Hammer%20headshot%20to%20use.jpg)
Leslie B. Hammer, PhD,
Professor,
Associate Director for Applied
Research
Areas of interest
- Work-Family Conflict and Stress
- Occupational Stress
- Occupational Safety and Health
- Supervisor Supportive Training
- Workplace Interventions
![Emily (Yueng-hsiang) Huang, PhD, Associate Professor, Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences, OHSU](/sites/default/files/2022-07/Emily%20Huang162.jpg)
Emily (Yueng-hsiang) Huang, PhD,
Professor
Areas of Interest
- Safety Climate
- Total Worker Health
- Safety Culture
- COVID-19 Safety Climate
- Tradeswomen Safety, Health, and Well-being
![David A. Hurtado, ScD, Assistant Professor, Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences, OHSU](/sites/default/files/2022-07/David%20Hurtado162.jpg)
David A. Hurtado, ScD
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest
- Total Worker Health
- musculoskeletal disorders
- occupational injuries
- work stress
- social determinants of health
![Doris E. Kretzschmar, PhD, Professor, Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences, OHSU](/sites/default/files/2022-07/Doris%20Kretzschmar162.jpg)
Doris E. Kretzschmar, PhD,
Professor
Areas of Interest
- Neurodegeneration
- Alzheimer's diseases
- Drosophila
![R. Stephen Lloyd, PhD, Professor Assoc. Director, Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences, OHSU](/sites/default/files/2022-07/RStephen%20Lloyd162.jpg)
R. Stephen Lloyd, PhD,
Professor,
Associate Director for Basic Research
Areas of Interest
- Environmental mutagenesis
- DNA repair
- Drug discovery
![Amanda K. McCullough, PhD, Professor, Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences, OHSU](/sites/default/files/2022-07/Amanda%20McCullough162.jpg)
Amanda K. McCullough, PhD,
Professor
Areas of interest
- Genome Instability and Cancer
- DNA Repair
- Environmental Exposures and Human Disease
- DNA Damage Response Pathways and Cancer Therapeutics
- Ultraviolet light-induced carcinogenesis
![Ryan Olson, PhD, Professor an Co-Director OHWC, Pregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences, OHSU](/sites/default/files/2022-07/Ryan%20Olson162.jpg)
Ryan Olson, PhD,
Investigator, Oregon Healthy Workforce Center
Areas of interest
- Occupational safety and health interventions
- Total Worker Health®
- Lone workers
- Obesity
- Sleep and shift work
- Diet and exercise
Areas of interest
- Sleep
- Circadian Rhythms
- Adverse health effects of shift work
![Saurabh S. Thosar, PhD, MS, OTR/L, Assistant Professor Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences, OHSU](/sites/default/files/2022-07/Saurabh%20Thosar162.jpg)
Saurabh S. Thosar, PhD, MS, OTR/L,
Associate Professor
Areas of interest
- Inactivity and exercise physiology
- vascular function assessment
- circadian rhythms
- cardiovascular disease research
- occupational and public health
- chronotherapeutics
![Mitchell Turker, PhD, Emeritus Professor, Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences, OHSU](/sites/default/files/2022-07/Mitch%20Turker162.jpg)
Mitchell Turker, PhD,
Emeritus Professor
- Biological effects of ionizing radiation
- Space radiation
- Mutagenesis
- Environmental epigenetics
- Circadian rhythm epigenetics
![Caren Weinhouse, PhD, Assistant Professor, Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences, OHSU](/sites/default/files/2022-07/Caren%20Weinhouse162.jpg)
Caren Weinhouse, PhD,
Assistant Professor
Bio
Weinhouse lab (coming soon)
Areas of interest
- Chromatin features of inducible genes
- Transcriptional memory
- Gene x environment interactions in epigenetic patterning
Affiliate Faculty
![Jennifer Dimoff, PhD, Assistant Professor, Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa](/sites/default/files/2022-07/Jen%20Dimoff162.jpg)
Jennifer Dimoff, PhD,
Associate Professor, Telfer School of Management,
University of Ottawa
![Jonathan S. Emens MD, FABSM, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Oregon Health & Science University](/sites/default/files/2022-07/Jon%20Emens162.jpg)
Jonathan S. Emens MD, FABSM,
Associate Professor of Psychiatry,
Oregon Health & Science University
![Miranda Lim, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Neurology, Oregon Health & Science University VA Portland Health Care System](/sites/default/files/2022-07/Mirandas%20Lim162.jpg)
Miranda Lim, MD, PhD,
Associate Professor of Neurology,
Oregon Health & Science University
VA Portland Health Care System
![Andrew McHill, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, Oregon Health & Science University](/sites/default/files/2022-07/Andrew%20McHill162.jpg)
Andrew McHill, PhD,
Assistant Professor, School of Nursing,
Oregon Health & Science University
![Suzanne Mitchell, PhD, Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience, Oregon Health & Science University](/sites/default/files/2022-07/Suzanne%20Mitchell162.jpg)
Suzanne Mitchell, PhD,
Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience,
Oregon Health & Science University
![Peter S. Spencer, PhD, FRCPath, FANA, Professor of Neurology, School of Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University](/sites/default/files/2022-07/PeterSpencer162.jpg)
Peter S. Spencer, PhD, FRCPath, FANA,
Professor of Neurology, SOM
Oregon Health & Science University
![Brad Wipfli, Assistant Professor, OHSU-PSU School of Public Health](/sites/default/files/2022-09/BradWipflinew2162.jpg)
Brad Wipfli, PhD,
Assistant Professor,
OHSU-PSU School of Public Health