Mentoring

CAPS Program Director
Russell V. Luepker, MD
luepker@epi.umn.edu

CAPS Co-Directors
James D. Neaton, PhD, MS
neato001@umn.edu

Elizabeth R. Seaquist, MD
seaqu001@umn.edu

CAPS Mentoring and Evaluation Director
Carole J. Bland, PhD
bland001@umn.edu

Below are the NIH-approved CAPS mentors:
The following are lists of senior and associate mentors who have been approved as CAPS mentors by the NIH. The list will be updated as each new group of CAPS scholars and their mentors is approved by the NIH.

Senior Mentors
Name	School
Russell Luepker, MD	Public Health
James Neaton, PhD	Public Health
Elizabeth Seaquist, MD	Medicine
David Anderson, MD	Medicine
Robert Bache, MD, MS	Medicine
Henry Balfour Jr., MD	Medicine
Gail Bernstein, MD	Medicine
Donna Bliss, PhD, RN	Nursing
Hanna Bloomfield, MD, MPH	Medicine
Paul Bohjanen, MD, PhD	Medicine
Linda Carson, MD	Medicine
Blanche Chavers, MD	Medicine
James Cloyd, PharmD	Pharmacy
John Connett, PhD, MS	Public Health
Scott Crow, MD	Medicine
Barbara Elliott, PhD	Medicine, Duluth
Kristine Ensrud, MD, MPH	Medicine
Aaron Folsom, MD, MPH	Public Health
Daniel Garry, MD, PhD	Medicine
Apostolos Georgopoulos, MD, PhD	Medicine
Jon Grant, MD, MPH	Medicine
Richard Grimm, MD, PhD, MPH	Medicine, Henn Medical Ctr
Cynthia Gross, PhD	Pharmacy
Dorothy Hatsukami, PhD	Medicine
Robert Hebbel, MD	Medicine
W. Keith Henry, MD	Medicine
Robert Jeffery, PhD	Public Health
Jeffrey Kahn, PhD, MPH	Medicine
Robert Kane, MD	Public Health
Frank Lederle, MD	Medicine
Kelvin Lim, MD	Medicine
Ruth Lindquist, PhD, MS	Nursing
S. Michael Mauer, MD	Medicine
Bryan Michalowicz, DDS, MS	Dentistry
Jeffrey Miller, MD	Medicine
Antoinette Moran, MD	Medicine
Joseph Neglia, MD, MPH	Medicine
Dennis Niewoehner, MD	Medicine
Mark Paller, MD, MS	Medicine
Anna Petryk, MD	Medicine
Nelson Rhodus, DMD, MPH	Dentistry
Leslie Robison, PhD, MPH	Medicine
David Rothenberger, MD	Medicine
Eric Schiffman, DDS, MS	Dentistry
S. Charles Schulz, MD	Medicine
Amy Skubitz, PhD	Medicine
Marc Swiontkowski, MD	Medicine
Tim Tracy, PhD	Pharmacy
Kamil Ugurbil, PhD	Medicine
Daniel Weisdorf, MD	Medicine
Timothy Wilt, MD, MPH	Medicine
Larry Wolff, PhD, DDS, MS	Dentistry
Associate Mentors
Name	School
Gerald August, PhD, MS	Medicine
John Bantle, MD	Medicine
Linda Bearinger, PhD, MS	Nursing
Gregory Beilman, MD	Medicine
David Bereiter, PhD	Dentistry
Tracy Bergemann, PhD	Public Health
Angela Birnbau, PhD	Pharmacy
Peter Bitterman, MD	Medicine
Henry Blackburn, MD, MS	Public Health
Richard Brundage, PhD, PharmD	Pharmacy
Linda Burns, MD	Medicine
Bradley Carlin, PhD, MS	Public Health
Pi-Nian Chang, PhD	Medicine
Edward Cheng, MD	Medicine
Linda Chlan, PhD, MS	Nursing
Timothy Church, PhD, MS	Public Health
Joycelyn Dorscher, MD	Medicine, Duluth
Daniel Duprez, MD, PhD	Medicine
Maurice Dysken, MD	Medicine (VAMC)
Lynn Eberly, PhD, MS	Public Health
Roger Feldman, PhD	Public Health
Ann Garwick, PhD, MS	Nursing
Michael Garwood, PhD	Medicine
Gregory Grandits, MS	Public Health
Michael Georgieff, MD	Medicine
Stephen Haines, MD	Medicine
Peter Hannan, Mstat	Public Health
Noam Harel, PhD	Medicine
Susan Henly, PhD, MS	Nursing
Marshall Hertz, MD	Medicine
Timothy Henry, MD	Medicine
John Himes, PhD	Public Health
Alan Hirsch, MD	Public Health
James Hodges, PhD, MA	Public Health
Mary Horowitz, MD	Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin
David Hunter, MD	Medicine
Hassan Ibrahim, MD, MS	Medicine
David Jacobs, Jr., PhD	Public Health
Pamala Jacobson, PharmD	Pharmacy
Edward Janoff, MD	Medicine, University of Colorado
James Johnson, MD	Medicine
Lois Kehl, PhD, DDS	Medicine
William Kennedy, MD, MS	Medicine
John Klein, PhD	Health Policy Institute, Medical College of Wisconsin
Robert Kratzke, MD	Medicine
Mary Jo Kreitzer, PhD, MA	Nursing
Robert LaPrade, MD, PhD	Medicine
Chap Le, PhD, MA	Public Health
Susanne Lee, PhD	Medicine
Arthur Leon, MD	Kinesiology
Barbara Leonard, PhD, MS	Nursing
Allen Levine, PhD	Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences
Kelvin Lim, MD	Medicine
Brent Logan, PhD	Health Policy Institute, Medical College of Wisconsin
Monica Luciana, PhD	Liberal Arts
Angus MacDonald III, PhD	Liberal Arts
Jeffrey McCullough, MD	Medicine
Edward McFalls, MD, PhD, MS	Medicine
Philip McGlave, MD	Medicine
Ann Mertens, PhD, MS	Medicine
Leslie Miller, MD	Medicine
Thomas Nevins, MD	Medicine
Wei Pan, PhD	Public Health
Jose Pardo, MD, PhD	Medicine
Gareth Parry, MD	Medicine
Mark Pereira, PhD	Public Health
Bruce Peterson, MD	Medicine
Kevin Peterson, MD, MPH, FRCS (Ed), FAAFP	Medicine
Phillip Peterson, MD	Medicine
Adnan Quereshi, MD	Medicine
Sundaram Ramakrishnan, PhD	Medicine
Jonathan Ravdin, MD	Medicine
Nancy Raymond, MD	Medicine
Cavan Reilly, PhD, MS	Public Health
Julie Ross, PhD	Medicine
John Rotschafer, PharmD	Pharmacy
James Swift, DDS	Dentistry
Timothy Schacker, MD	Medicine
Pamela Schreiner, PhD, MS	Public Health
Eric Schiffman, DDS, MS	Dentistry
Shalamar Sibley, MD, MPH	Medicine
Alan Sinaiko, MD	Medicine
Julia Steinberger, MD, MS	Medicine
Robert Straka, PharmD	Pharmacy
William Thomas, PhD, MS	Public Health
Paul Thuras, PhD	Medicine
Gregory Vercellotti, MD	Medicine
Beth Virnig, PhD, MPH	Public Health
John Wagner, MD	Medicine
Melanie Wall, PhD, MS	Public Health
Chester Whitley, MD, PhD	Medicine
Robert Wilson, MD	Medicine
Ken Winters, PhD	Medicine
Jean Wyman, PhD	Nursing
Mark Yeazel, MD, MPH	Medicine
Douglas Yee, MD	Medicine

Potential Mentors
Name	School
Jasjit Ahluwalia, MD, MPH, MS	Executive Director, OCR, AHC
Sharon Allen, MD, PhD	Professor, Family Medicine and Community Health, Medicine
Walter Bockting, PhD	Associate Professor, Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies (Women’s Studies)
Tracie Collins, MD, MPH	Associate Professor, Medicine Investigator, Program in Health Disparities Research
Timothy Ebner, MD, PhD	Professor and Head, Neuroscience Department
Chandy John, MD, MS	Associate Professor, Pediatrics and Medicine Director, Global Pediatrics Program
Anne Joseph, MD, MPH	Professor, Medicine Director, Applied Clinical Research Program
Edward Kaplan, MD	Professor of Pediatrics, Divisions of Infectious Diseases and Cardiology, Medicine
DeAnn Lazovich, PhD, MPH	Associate Professor, Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, SPH
Dianne Neumark-Sztainer, PhD, MPH, RD	Professor, Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, SPH
Kolawole Okuyemi, MD, MPH	Associate Professor, Family Medicine and Community Health, Medicine Director, Program in Health Disparities Research, Center for Clinical Research
Harry Orr, PhD	Professor, Pathology, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology Professor, Biochemistry Director, Institute of Human Genetics Director, Institute of Translational Neuroscience
B. R. Simon Rosser, PhD, MPH, MA	Professor and Director, HIV/STI Intervention & Prevention Studies Program Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, SPH
George Wilcox, PhD, MS	Professor, Pharmacology; Neuroscience, Medicine Program Director, Center for Pain Research
Bevan Yueh, MD, MPH	Professor and Chair, Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, Medicine
Jianyi Zhang, MD, PhD, MS	Professor, Medicine, Cardiovascular Division