Consultants and collaborators in current projects:
Andrés Calle, MS
CEO-Founder of AppLivio Company
1250 Ave Ponce de Leon, suite 400, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 00907
Email: info@applivio.com
Phone: 939-545-0097
Areas of interest: Industrial Engineering, Healthcare Management Systems, Business Development, Materials Science Research
Jerrold S. Meyer, PhD – Stress Biomarkers/Hair Cortisol Laboratory
Research Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Neuroscience & Behavior Program, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 441 Tobin Hall Amherst, MA 01003
Email: jmeyer@psych.umass.edu
Phone: 413-545-2168
Areas of interest: Accumulation of the stress hormone cortisol in growing hair and nails as a biomarker of long-term activity of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical (HPA) axis and its responsiveness to chronic stress both in adulthood and during early development.
Andrea Lopez-Cepero, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
Email: andrea.a.lopez-cepero@emory.edu
Areas of Interest: Behavior and Health, Cardiometabolic Diseases, Health Disparities, Nutrition, Social Determinants of Health
Mayra Estrella, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences at UTHealth Houston School of Public Health in Brownsville
Email: Mayra.L.Estrella@uth.tmc.edu
Areas of Interest: Psychosocial factors related to cognitive and brain health among Latinos living in the US and Puerto Rico; Resilience and cognitive reserve in Latinos; Social determinants of cardiovascular health.
Jose Ordovas
Senior Scientist, Nutrition and Genomics Team, Professor, Nutrition and Genetics, Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University
Email: jose.ordovas@tufts.edu
Areas of Interest: Molecular Biology, Nutrition, Genetics, Lipoproteins and Cardiovascular Disease Risk
Consultants and collaborators in former projects:
Charmaine Alfonso, RD, EdD– Nutritionist
College of Nutritionists and Dietitians of Puerto Rico. 1430 Portales de Altamesa 2303, San Alfonso Street, San Juan PR
Email: charmainealfonso70@gmail.com
Phone: 787-644-8210
Areas of interest: Nutrition, Data Analysis
Patrick Vinck, PhD – Natural Disaster Response
Research Director of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Assistant Professor, Global Health and Population, Harvard Chan School of Public Health; Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and Lead Investigator at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. 14 Story Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Email: pvinck@hsph.harvard.edu
Phone: 617-384-8368
Areas of interest: Resilience to Disasters, Conflict and Health, and Technology and the Ethics of Data