Faculty

Primary Faculty

Charles N Allen, PhD, Professor, Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences

Charles N. Allen, PhD
Professor

Bio
Allen Lab

Areas of Interests

  • Circadian Rhythms
  • Sleep
  • Synaptic Transmission
  • Suprachiasmatic Nucleus
  • Neural Network Activity
Kent Agner

W. Kent Anger, PhD
Professor Emeritus

Bio
Anger Lab

Areas of Interest

  • Total Worker Health
  • Violence Prevention
  • Workforce Retention
  • Pesticide Exposures
Nicole Bowles, PhD

Nicole Bowles, PhD
Assistant Professor

Bio
Bowles Lab

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

Matthew P. Butler, PhD,
Associate Professor

Bio
Butler Clock Physiology Lab

Areas of interest

  • Biological rhythms and health
  • Neuroendocrinology of sex differences
  • Sleep epidemiology
Leslie Hammer

Leslie B. Hammer, PhD,
Professor,
Associate Director for Applied
Research

Bio
Hammer Lab

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

Emily (Yueng-hsiang) Huang, PhD,
Professor

Bio
Safety Climate Lab

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

David A. Hurtado, ScD
Associate Professor

Bio
Hurtado Lab

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

Doris E. Kretzschmar, PhD,
Professor

Bio
Kretzschmar Lab

Areas of Interest

  • Neurodegeneration
  • Alzheimer's diseases
  • Drosophila
R. Stephen Lloyd, PhD, Professor Assoc. Director, Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences, OHSU

R. Stephen Lloyd, PhD,
Professor,
Associate Director for Basic Research

Bio
Lloyd-McCullough Lab

Areas of Interest

  • Environmental mutagenesis
  • DNA repair
  • Drug discovery
Amanda K. McCullough, PhD, Professor, Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences, OHSU

Amanda K. McCullough, PhD,
Professor

Bio
Lloyd-McCullough Lab

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

Ryan Olson, PhD,
Investigator, Oregon Healthy Workforce Center

Bio
Ryan Olson Lab

Areas of interest

  • Occupational safety and health interventions
  • Total Worker Health®
  • Lone workers
  • Obesity
  • Sleep and shift work
  • Diet and exercise
Steven A. Shea, PhD, Professor, Director Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences, OHSU

Steven A. Shea, PhD,
Professor and Director

Bio
Shea Lab

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

Saurabh S. Thosar, PhD, MS, OTR/L,
Associate Professor

Bio
Thosar Lab

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

Mitchell Turker, PhD,
Emeritus Professor

Bio

  • 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

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

Jennifer Dimoff, PhD,
Associate Professor, Telfer School of Management,
University of Ottawa

Bio

Jonathan S. Emens MD, FABSM, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Oregon Health & Science University

Jonathan S. Emens MD, FABSM,
Associate Professor of Psychiatry,
Oregon Health & Science University

Bio

Miranda Lim, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Neurology, Oregon Health & Science University VA Portland Health Care System

Miranda Lim, MD, PhD,
Associate Professor of Neurology,
Oregon Health & Science University
VA Portland Health Care System

Bio
Miranda Lim Lab

Andrew McHill, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, Oregon Health & Science University

Andrew McHill, PhD,
Assistant Professor, School of Nursing,
Oregon Health & Science University

Bio
McHill Lab

Suzanne Mitchell, PhD, Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience, Oregon Health & Science University

Suzanne Mitchell, PhD,
Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience,
Oregon Health & Science University

Bio
Translational Neuroeconomics Lab

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Amala Soumyanath, B. Pharm., Ph.D.
Professor of Neurobiology, School of Medicine
Oregon Health & Science University

Bio
BENFRA Botanical Dietary Supplements Research Center

Peter S. Spencer, PhD, FRCPath, FANA, Professor of Neurology, School of Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University

Peter S. Spencer, PhD, FRCPath, FANA,
Professor of Neurology, SOM
Oregon Health & Science University

Bio
Spencer Lab

Brad Wipfli, Assistant Professor, OHSU-PSU School of Public Health

Brad Wipfli, PhD,
Assistant Professor,
OHSU-PSU School of Public Health

Bio