Faculty and Staff
Denise A. Bisaillon
Director, Associate Professor
Linnell Hall
Phone: 207-221-4464
Email: dbisaillon@une.edu
Expertise
Human development and education: curriculum development and instructional design; faculty development; socio-moral education; distance education and new learning technologies; assessment strategies in education.
Research Interests/ Scholarship
Ongoing research/scholarship on (1) interdisciplinary approach to teaching and learning; (2) new learning technologies.
Ronald D. Deprez
Director, Center for Community and Public Health; Executive Director, Center for Health Policy, Planning and Research, Associate Professor of Public Health
Linnell Hall 204
Phone: 207-221-4560
Fax: 207-523-1914
Email: rdeprez@une.edu
Gail Dana-Sacco
Director, Maine AHEC Network™, Assistant Professor, GPPH
Linnell Hall 109
Phone: 207-221-4462
Fax: 207-523-1923
Email: gdanasacco@une.edu
Praphul Joshi
Assistant Professor
Linnell Hall 210
Phone: 207-221-4475
Fax: 207-523-1924
Email: pjoshi1@une.edu
Expertise
Program Planning/Evaluation,
Chronic Disease Prevention,
Adolescent Health,
Oral Health
Jennifer Lee Morton
Assistant Professor, BSN Coordinator
Blewett Science Center 228
Phone: 207-221-4438
Email: jmorton@une.edu
Expertise
Community Health & Public Health, Research Utilization & Translation,
Clinical Areas-School Health, Neonatal ICU, International Health-specifically Sub-saharan Africa
Michele Polacsek
Associate Professor
Linnell Hall 210
Phone: 207-221-4466
Fax: 207-523-1924
Email: mpolacsek@une.edu
Expertise
Childhood Obesity
Chronic Disease Prevention
Social and Behavioral Health
Robert H. Ross
Scientific Director of the Maine-Harvard Prevention Research Center, Research Associate Professor in the Graduate Programs in Public Health
Linnell Hall 208
Phone: 207-221-4569
Fax: 207-523-1914
Email: bross1@une.edu
Expertise
Health promotion/disease prevention intervention research: work, school, community settings
Clinical and translational sciences research: project and program development, Social-ecological method: Health impact assessment, Health professions and professional education: comparative, historical
Ellen Beaulieu
Associate Provost for Planning and Assessment, Professor of Dental Hygiene
Hersey Hall
Phone: 207-221-4383
Email: ebeaulieu@une.edu
Expertise
Oral health promotion, public health, community health.
Research Interests/ Scholarship
Improving oral health in community settings through program development and policy analysis.
Karin A. Gregory
Assistant Professor
Off-Campus
Phone: 207-282-1357
Fax: 207-282-2657
Email: gregory.karin@gmail.com
Amy E. Kinner
Adjunct Faculty, Public Health
Off-Campus
Phone: 207-430-0650
Email: akinner@mhic.org
Expertise
Epidemiology, health policy; survey research; evaluation of public health programs; management and analysis of health data.
Sabrina Kurtz-Rossi
Adjunct Faculty
Off-Campus
Phone: 207-221-4467
Email: sabrina_kurtz-rossi@comcast.net
David A. Line Denali
Assistant Professor
Off-Campus
Phone: 928-339-4465
Email: dlinedenali@mail.une.edu
Expertise
Financial management in public health.
Research Interests/ Scholarship
Climate change and public health.
Ivan G. Most
Associate Professor
Off-Campus
Phone: 207-934-2338
Fax: 207-934-2338
Email: fmost1@maine.rr.com
Expertise
Ivan's research interests focus on the effect of work organization and environment on occupational health. He has consulted for many area companies providing health hazard reviews, corporate training and environmental assessments. In addition, he has published journal articles on engineering and occupational health topics. He is a member of the National Occupational Research Agenda committee on Manufacturing and the Maine Occupational Research Agenda steering committee.
Research Interests/ Scholarship
Ivan's research interests focus on the effect of work organization and environment on occupational health
Lynne M. Rothney-Kozlak
Instructor
Off-Campus
Phone: 207-737-5630
Email: pklrk@hotmail.com
Expertise
Health informatics, managed health care, population health, environmental epidemiology.
Mark D. Ruggiero
Senior Advisor, Maine AHEC Network
Linnell Hall 107
Phone: 207-221-4461
Fax: 207-523-1923
Email: mruggiero@une.edu
Barbara Shaw
Assistant Professor
Phone: 207-780-4015
Email: shaw@maine.rr.com
Sue Stableford
Director, Health Literacy Institute
Linnell Hall 209
Phone: 207-221-4567
Email: sstableford@une.edu
Expertise
Health literacy, plain language, and clear health communication. The Health Literacy Institute provides plain language consulting, training, and materials development. We work in the public and private sectors, in academia, in public health and medicine, across many health topics and conditions. We publish in peer reviewed journals, contribute to policy, and train at a national level.
Research Interests/ Scholarship
We participate in research projects as plain language experts. We helped develop the first plain language decision aid (for men with early stage prostate cancer) and helped establish international criteria for patient decision support tools.
Gail Tudor
Professor
Off-Campus
Phone: 207-941-7039
Fax: 207-992-1971
Email: tudorg@husson.edu
Expertise
Categorical data analysis, research design, questionnaire design
Kathleen Jeanne Welch
Assistant Prof., HIV Prevention/Services Evaluator for the Louisiana Office of Public Health
750 Stevens Avenue
Phone: 504-301-1912
Email: kwelch_50@hotmail.com
Expertise
Global Health, HIV/AIDS, Evaluation
Research Interests/ Scholarship
International health partnerships between Russia and the U.S. which use distance learning and videoconferencing; avian influenza emergency preparedness; identifying indicators associated with adult obesity in rural Maine; identifying stressors associated with smoking among rural mothers in Maine; Eco-Theatre: integrating artistic and cultural expression with research and dissemination; population based nutritional risk surveys and research of the elderly, children under two and pregant women in the former Soviet Union; destigmatizing mental illness using an intervention which integrates the arts; correlates of alcohol and drug use among HIV-infected individuals; predictors of survival of older men with AIDS; the clinical profile of end-stage AIDS in the era of highly active antiretroviral therapy; health promotion of local foods using theatre and the arts; HIV/AIDS educational materials tailored for health facilities in Central Asia; HIV/AIDS, substance abuse, hepatitis C and mental illness among HIV-infected individuals.
Becky J. Whittemore
Assistant Professor
Phone: 207-602-2112
Email: bwhittemore@une.edu
Expertise
Public health emergency preparedness, pandemic influenza planning, public health administration, linking clinical and public health care, quality of distance education, (online), WebCT user/designer skills.
Janel Redman
Coordinator
Linnell Hall 213
Phone: 207-221-4463
Fax: 207-523-1924
Email: jredman1@une.edu
Collyn J. Baeder
Staff Assistant
Linnell Hall 113
Phone: 207-221-4467
Fax: 207-523-1924
Email: cbaeder@une.edu
