The Core Faculty comprises 23 faculty from UT Austin School of Nursing and other UT academic departments with expertise in research related to the training program.
Richard A. Brown, PhD: (Preceptor) Research Professor, UT Austin School of Nursing, whose research focuses on health behavior change, including the development of efficacious tobacco cessation treatments for diverse populations.
Joshua B. Barbour, PhD: (Preceptor) Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at UT Austin and is a faculty affiliate of the Center for Health Communication and Health Information Technology, McCombs School of Business.
Heather Becker, PhD: (Preceptor, Evaluation) Research Scientist, UT Austin School of Nursing with expertise in evaluation of health programs.
Molly Bray, PhD: (Preceptor, ELT) Chair and Professor in the Department of Nutritional Sciences, and the Susan T. Jastrow Chair for Excellence in Nutritional Sciences at UT Austin.
Catherine Cubbin, PhD: (Preceptor, ELT) Social epidemiologist, Professor and Associate Dean for research in the Steve Hicks School of Social Work at UT Austin.
Erin Donovan, PhD: (Preceptor) Associate Professor in the Moody College of Communication at UT Austin. Dr. Donovan specializes in interpersonal and health communication.
Alex Garcia, PhD, RN: (Preceptor, ELT) Director of the Division of Community Engagement and Health Equity in Population Health and an Associate Professor in the Family and Public Health Nursing and Nursing Administration Division, UT School of Nursing.
Joydeep Ghosh, PhD: (Preceptor) Professor and the Schlumberger Centennial Chair in Electrical Engineering, as well as the founder-director of IDEAL (the Intelligent Data Exploration and Analysis Lab).
Elizabeth Heitkemper, PhD, RN: Assistant Professor at UT Austin, School of Nursing.
Ashley Henneghan, PhD, RN, FAAN: Assistant Professor at UT Austin School of Nursing, Holistic Adult Health Division.
Christine Julien, D. Sc.: (Preceptor) Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UT Austin.
Shelli Kesler, PhD: (Preceptor) Associate Professor Director of Statistical Services, Cain Center for Nursing Research at UT Austin School of Nursing.
Mike Mackert, PhD: (Preceptor) Professor in the Stan Richards School of Advertising & Public Relations.
Elizabeth Matsui, MD, MHS: (Preceptor) Director of Clinical Translation and Professor in Population Health and Pediatrics.
Lauren Ancel Meyers, PhD: (Preceptor) Cooley Centennial Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, where she was the founding chair of the Department of Statistics and Data Sciences and recently established the UT COVID-19 Modeling Consortium.
Deborah Parra-Medina, PhD, MPH: (Preceptor) Inaugural Director of the Latino Research Initiative. She holds an appointment as Professor in the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at UT Austin.
Kavita Radhakrishnan, PhD, MSEE, RN: (Preceptor) Associate Professor , UT Austin School of Nursing, whose research applies current and emerging technologies such as telemonitoring, connected sensors, and digital gaming to solve clinical nursing problems, such as heart failure self-management.
Paul Rathouz, PhD: (Preceptor) Professor in Population Health and founding Director of the Biomedical Data Science Hub at Dell Medical School at UT Austin.
Hyekyun Rhee, PhD, RN, FAAN: Her research centers on developing innovative approaches to asthma self-management using technologies and peer dynamics.
Lynn Rew, EdD, RN, AHN-BC, FAAN: (Preceptor, ELT) Denton and Louise Cooley and Family Centennial Professor in Nursing at UT Austin and is Director of the PhD Program. Her research focuses on adolescent health behaviors, with a particular focus on those who are homeless and disadvantaged.
Kathy Richards, PhD, RN, FAAN: (Preceptor) Research Professor in Nursing at UT Austin. Dr. Richards' experience in multi-disciplinary translational sleep and aging research spans more than 25 years and the results of her research are disseminated in more than 100 publications.
William Tierney, MD: (Preceptor, ELT) Professor and Chair of the Department of Population Health at Dell Medical School at UT Austin.
Gayle Timmerman, PhD, RN: (Preceptor) Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Associate Professor at UT Austin School of Nursing. Her research focuses on health promotion, eating patterns and weight, with particular emphasis on designing individualized interventions to achieve long-term weight loss and prevent weight gain.
Paul Toprac, PhD, MBA: (Preceptor) Associate Professor in Computer Science and Associate Director of Game Development in Moody College of Communications, UT Austin.
Michelle Wright, PhD, RN: (Preceptor) Assistant Professor and holds joint appointments in School of Nursing and Dell Medical School (Women’s Health).
Bo Xie, PhD: (Preceptor) Professor at UT Austin and has a joint appointment with School of Nursing, and School of Information.