Course Faculty

Co-Directors

Julie Armin, PhD

Assistant Professor, Research – Family and Community Medicine
Assistant Professor of Practice, Health Promotion Sciences
Co-Director – Resident Scholarly Project Program (FCM)

Mona Arora, PhD, MsPH

Assistant Research Professor, Public Health
Principal Research Specialist & Course Instructor, Mel & Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health

Christian Bime, MD, MSc

Associate Professor, Medicine
Associate Professor, Clinical Translational Sciences (CTS) Graduate Program

B. Jason Brotherton, MD, MS

Departments of Pediatrics & Internal Medicine, Kijabe Hospital, Kijabe, Kenya
Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh

Kevin Burns, MD, MPH

Relief Physician, Correctional Health, Los Angeles County Department of Health Services
Associate, Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Tracy Carroll, PT, MPH

Lecturer, Family and Community Medicine - (Educator Series Track)
Alumnus of Global Health course: 1995

Sean Elliott, MD

Pediatric Infectious Diseases – TMCOne
Director of Research, Scholarship and Quality Improvement for THMEP
Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics, University of Arizona College of Medicine

Lori Fantry, MD, MPH

Associate Professor of Medicine
Infectious Diseases Associate Clinical Division Chief
Medical Director Arizona AIDS Education and Training Center
HIV Translational Research Program Director
Banner Tucson Refugee Screening Clinic Medical Director

Lawrence Gernon, MD, MPH&TM, FACP

Adjunct Professor Global Health Security, Global and National Security Policy Institute
Attending Physician Department of Emergency Medicine, Raymond G. Murphy Medical Center
Associate Professor Clinical Medicine, Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine
Senior Foreign Service Officer (Minister Counselor) US Department of State (RETD)
Deputy Health Commissioner Eastern Region, Virginia Department of Health

Esther Johnston, MD, MPH, FAAFP

Residency Faculty, The Wright Center National Family Medicine Residency at HealthPoint
Adjunct Clinical Professor, A.T. Still University School of Osteopathic Medicine
Clinical & Academic Advisor, Seed Global Health

Ramesh Karra, MD

Clinical Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine - (Clinical Series Track)
Alumnus of Global Health course: 1999

Purnima Madhivanan, MBBS, MPH, PhD

Associate Professor, Public Health (Tenured)
Associate Professor, Medicine
Associate Professor, Family and Community Medicine
Associate Professor, BIO5 Institute
Associate Professor, Psychology

Obiageli Nnodu, MBMCH, FWACP (MD), FNAMed

Professor of Haematology and Blood Transfusion
Director, Centre of Excellence for Sickle Cell Disease, Research and Training, University of Abuja
Vice Chair, Sickle Cell Support Society of Nigeria
Director, Centre for Sponsored Projects, University of Abuja
National Coordinator, American Society for Hematology Consortium for Newborn Screening in Africa

Carlos Perez-Velez, MD, DTM&H

Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Director of Hospital Epidemiology & Infection Control and Infectious Diseases Physician, VA Medical Center, Albuquerque, NM

Jeffrey Rein, MD

Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, University of Arizona COM
Adult Medicine and Pediatric Hospitalist: Banner UMC, Carondelet St Mary's, other Tucson hospitals

Claudia Roya-Pabon, M.D.

Pediatric Pulmonologist
Volunteer, TB Clinic, Pima County Health Department
Global Health Course Alumnus (Class of 2016).

Berndt Schmit, MD, MBOE

Associate Professor of Radiology, George Washington University
Director of Operations & Business Development, George Washington University