Lisa M. Schwiebert received a BS degree in Chemistry from Bates College in 1986 and a PhD in Biochemistry from Dartmouth College in 1993. After completing her postdoctoral training in Clinical Immunology at Johns Hopkins University, she was appointed as an instructor in the Department of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Schwiebert joined the faculty of the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at UAB in 1997 as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure...
Serves as the UAB School of Public Health Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Education and Assistant Professor in Environmental Health Sciences
Dr. Bansal's research interest focuses on adaptive T-cell responses in HIV-1 transmission and pathogenesis. She's especially interested in understanding the role of HIV-1 specific CD8 and CD4 T-cells and their interplay with the host genetics in influencing the course of HIV-1 disease. This basic information is imperative for HIV-1 vaccine design as the correlates of immune protection are yet unknown. She is also interested in studying the role of T cell in HIV associated cancers.
Ashley Parish is an ABPTS Board Certified Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Clinical Specialist in Physical Therapy with over a decade of experience in the intensive care unit setting. She obtained both her Bachelors of Science in Respiratory Therapy and her Doctorate of Physical Therapy from UAB. She is currently enrolled in the PhD Health Behavior program in the School of Public Health at UAB, as well as the Certificate program in Applications of Mixed Methods Research. Her passion is intensive car...
Dr. Erin (Eun-Young) Ahn received her BS and MS from Seoul National University in South Korea, and then her Ph.D. from the Department of Pathology (Molecular & Cellular Pathology Graduate Program) at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) under the mentorship of Dr. Jay McDonald. After her graduate study, she moved to San Diego, California and completed her postdoctoral training in the laboratory of Dr. Dong-Er Zhang at the Scripps Research Institute and UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center....
Ian Hawkins studies the role of media in influencing inter/intragroup relations using social scientific methods. His research applies an interdisciplinary lens to study two questions. First, how far-right messaging on social media strengthens White identity and upholds structural racism. Second, how stereotypical representations of marginalized groups in American media cultivate negative attitudes and support for discriminatory policies. These two lines approach research from an intergroup persp...
Julienne L. Carstens, Ph.D., (Julie) is an investigator whose research is focused on understanding tumor biology with the goal of developing translational targets for pancreatic cancer. Her publications in top-tier journals highlight her work related to the fibrotic and immune tumor microenvironment and metastatic progression of cancer.
Dr. Carstens earned her PhD from Baylor College of Medicine in the laboratory of David Spencer, PhD in the Department of Pathology and Immunology, whe...
Patricia L. Perez, PT, DScPT is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Therapy at the university of Alabama at Birmingham. Dr. Perez earned as BS in physical Therapy form the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, a post-professional Master of Science in Physical therapy with a musculoskeletal concentration and a Doctor of Science in Physical Therapy from the University of Alabama in Birmingham. She has been certified as a Clinical Specialist in Orthopaedic Physical Therapy b...
Virendra Mishra, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor and leads Employing Neuroimaging for Diagnosing Dementia (EN4D2) laboratory in the Department of Radiology at The University of Alabama at Birmingham. The lab’s efforts are dedicated to developing and applying novel computational tools using machine learning and artificial intelligence to identify biomarkers predicting dementia or cognitive decline due to aging and repeated head impacts. The objective of the lab is to approach the identification o...
