Meet Our Alumni

Godfrey Fuji Noe (PhD 2002) is Director of the Office of Institutional Research and Planning at Georgia Perimeter College in Decatur, Georgia.

Gabriela Oates (PhD 2015) is an Associate Professor in the UAB Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine.

LaToya J. O’Neal (PhD 2014) is an Assistant Professor and Health and Wellness Extension Specialist in the Department of Family, Youth, and Community Sciences at the University of Florida.

Kirsten Ostergren Clark (PhD 2021) is an assistant professor of Sociology and Social Work at Wilberforce University in Ohio.

Caroline O. Pardo (PhD 2007) serves as President, Continuing Professional Development, at Clinical Education Alliance, as well as holds industry recognitions such as the Fellow Award, Alliance for Continuing Education in the Health Professions, and is a Certified Healthcare CPD Professional.

Clifford Ross (PhD) is a postdoctoral fellow at Vanderbilt University.

Sarah B. Rutland (PhD 2019) is a Scientist I, in the Division of Pediatric Pulmonary & Sleep Medicine at UAB.

Brie Scrivner (PhD 2021) (pronouns: they/them) is a Disability Analyst in the Office of Equity and Human Rights at the City of Portland, Oregon.

Zack Simoni (PhD 2015) is an Associate Professor of Sociology with the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

Margaret Christine Snead (PhD 2005) is a Health Scientist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the Division of Reproductive Health.

Kristi Stringer (PhD 2017)  is a Postdoctoral Research Scientist at Columbia University in the City of New York

Mercedes Tarasovich (PhD 2024) focused her research on barriers to mental health care for people who have survived suicide attempts.

Jalal Uddin (PhD 2019) is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Department of Community Health and Epidemiology at Dalhousie University.

Carey Usher (PhD 2001) is Associate Provost and Dean of Mary Baldwin College for Women, of Mary Baldwin University in Staunton, Virginia.

Jessica Valles (PhD 2021) is an Assistant Teaching Professor in Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Southern Mississippi.

Jason Adam Wasserman, PhD, HEC-C is Professor in the Department of Health Humanities and Bioethics at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, where he also serves as Director of Education and Director of the Master’s Program in Health Humanities and Bioethics and as a clinical ethics consultant for University of Rochester Medical Center. His scholarly work centers on the problems that arise when ethical theories encounter the complicating realities of clinical practice.

Beverly R. Williams (PhD 2002) is an Associate Professor in the Division of Gerontology, Geriatrics and Palliative Care in the UAB Heersink School of Medicine.