Center for Health Disparities and Molecular Medicine

Faculty

Center for Health Disparities and Molecular Medicine faculty members represent a diverse collage of scientific disciplines that are critical in the fulfillment of our objective to eliminate health disparities.

Members and departments represented

Juan Carlos Belliard, PhD
Assistant Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health
School of Public Health
Email: jbelliard@llu.edu

Eileen Brantley, PhD
Assistant Professor, Physiology & Pharmacology
School of Medicine
Assistant Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences
School of Pharmacy
Email: ebrantley@llu.edu

Carlos Casiano, PhD
Associate Professor, Biochemistry and Microbiology
School of Medicine
Email: ccasiano@llu.edu

Zaida Cordero-MacIntyre, PhD
Assistant Professor, Nutrition
School of Public Health
Email: zcordero-macintyre@llu.edu

Daisy De León, PhD
Associate Professor, Physiology and Pharmacology
School of Medicine
Email: ddeleon@llu.edu

Marino De León, PhD
Associate Professor
Physiology and Pharmacology
School of Medicine
Email: madeleon@llu.edu

Penelope Duerksen-Hughes, PhD
Professor, Biochemistry and Microbiology
School of Medicine
Email: pdhughes@llu.edu

David Dyjack, DrPH
Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health
School of Public Health
Email: ddyjack@llu.edu

Bertha Escobar, MD
Associate Professor, Pathology and Human Anatomy
School of Medicine
Email: bescobar@llu.edu

Istvan Fodor, PhD
Professor, Biochemistry and Microbiology
School of Medicine
Email: ifodor@llu.edu

Susan Gardner, PhD
Professor, English
Director of Writing Center
Southwestern Adventist University
Keene, TX 76059
Email: gardners@swau.edu

Sandra Hilliker, PhD
Instructor, Biochemistry and Microbiology
School of Medicine
Email: shilliker@llu.edu

William Langridge, PhD
Professor, Biochemistry and Microbiology
School of Medicine
Email: blangridge@llu.edu

Susanne Montgomery, PhD
Professor, Health Promotion and Education
School of Public Health
Email: smontgomery@llu.edu

Kimberly Payne, PhD
Assistant Professor, Pathology and Human Anatomy
School of Medicine
Email: kpayne@llu.edu

Nathan Wall, PhD
Assistant Professor, Biochemistry and Microbiology
School of Medicine
Email: nrwall@llu.edu