Faculty and Staff
![Maria Duarte-Gardea, PhD, RD, LD Maria Duarte-Gardea, PhD, RD, LD](../_Files/images/IMGS/Health-Sciences-Duarte-Gardea-M.png)
Maria Duarte-Gardea, PhD, RD, LD
Department Chair
Research Interests: Nutrition and chronic diseases prevention; women's health; environmental health.
moduarte@utep.edu
Faculty Profile
![Ximena Burgos, MS in Health Promotion, PhD Ximena Burgos, MS in Health Promotion, PhD](../_Files/images/IMGS/Ximena-Burgos.jpg)
Ximena Burgos, MS in Health Promotion, PhD
Assistant Professor of Instruction
Research Interests: Nutrition through the life cycle and chronic disease prevention; nutritional epidemiology.
xburgos@utep.edu
Curriculum Vitae
![Jeannie Concha, MPH, PhD Jeannie Concha, MPH, PhD](../../ihs/_Files/images/faculty/Dr.-Jeannie-Concha.jpg)
Jeannie Concha, MPH, PhD
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Hispanic disparities in diabetes; mental health and coping; cultural health beliefs; community health.
jeannie@utep.edu
Faculty Profile
![Gabriel Ibarra-Mejia, MD, PhD Gabriel Ibarra-Mejia, MD, PhD](../../_Files/staff-faculty-image/Ibarra-Mejia-G.png)
Gabriel Ibarra-Mejia, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Research interests: Occupational and environmental health; ergonomics.
gabmejiia@utep.edu
Faculty Profile
Dolores Licerio, BS, MA
Business Coordinator
dlicerio@utep.edu
![Oralia Loza, PhD Oralia Loza, PhD](../../ihs/_Files/images/faculty/Dr.-Oralia-Loza.jpg)
Oralia Loza, PhD
Associate Professor
Research interests: Ethnic and gender health disparities; U.S.-Mexico border health; LGBT health; transgender care; HIV, Hepatitis C Virus (HCV), and sexually-transmitted infections (STIs); sexual risk behaviors; substance use.
oloza@utep.edu
Faculty Profile
![Thenral Mangadu, MPH, PhD Thenral Mangadu, MPH, PhD](../../_Files/staff-faculty-image/Thenral-D.-Mangadu.png)
Thenral Mangadu, MPH, PhD
Peter de Wetter Endowed Professor in Health Sciences
Research Interests: Minority health disparities related to HIV, substance abuse and HCV prevention; nutrition in special populations; violence prevention; program evaluation; global health disparities.
tdmangadu@utep.edu
Faculty Profile
![Teresa Reyes, MPH, PhD Teresa Reyes, MPH, PhD](../../_Files/staff-faculty-image/Teresa-Reyes.png)
Teresa Reyes, MPH, PhD
Visiting Assistant Professor
MPH Program Administrator
tmreyes2@utep.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Emre Umucu, PhD, MPH
Associate Dean for Research and Scholarship
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Health, wellbeing, and rehabilitation outcomes among individuals with chronic conditions and disabilities (including veterans); combat exposure and traumatic experiences among veterans; community participation outcomes in individuals with chronic conditions and disabilities (including veterans); interdisciplinary mental health, substance use, and addiction research and policy implications; employment and education outcomes in individuals with chronic conditions and disabilities (including veterans); positive psychology approaches in health, counseling, and psychology; aging and geriatric health outcomes; self-determined, strengths-based, and socially-just health research, health policy, and administration; disability in public health systems; rural and frontier health policy and administration.
eumucu@utep.edu
Faculty Profile
![Amy Wagler, PhD Amy Wagler, PhD](../_Files/images/awagler2_copy.jpg)
Amy Wagler, PhD
Professor of Public Health
Research Interests: Causal inference methods; graph theory modeling; categorical data with a focus on application to EHR data; understanding interventions in research training and health.
awagler2@utep.edu
Curriculum Vitae
![Cynthia I. Wittenburg, MS, DrPH Cynthia I. Wittenburg, MS, DrPH](../_Files/images/Cynthia Wittenburg.jpg)
Cynthia I. Wittenburg, MS, DrPH
Assistant Professor of Instruction
Research Interests: Pediatric and adult cancer survivorship; exercise regimes during and after treatment; exercise and neuropathy; quality of life in cancer survivors.
cwittenburg@utep.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Delfina Dominguez, PhD
Professor Emerita
delfina@utep.edu
![Christina Sobin, PhD Christina Sobin, PhD](../_Files/images/IMGS/Christina-Sobin-130x195.jpg)
Christina Sobin, PhD
Professor Emerita
casobin@utep.edu