People in the Prevention Research Center
Quick Directory—Spring 2012
Administration
- Mark T. Greenberg

- Director
- Edna Peterson Bennett Chair & Professor of Human Development & Psychology email
- Edward A. Smith

- Associate Director, & Director of Evaluation Research email
- Celene Domitrovich

- Assistant Director and Research Assistant Professor email
- Brian K. Bumbarger

- Director, EPISCenter; Policy Research & Outreach Coordinator email
Program Area Leaders
- Rob Turrisi

- Professor of Biobehavioral Health email

- Associate Professor of Human Development & Family Studies email

- Research Professor email
PEACE (Program on Empathy Awareness and Compassion in Education)

- Associate Professor of Human Development & Family Studies email

- Research Assistant Professor email
School-based Prevention Research
- Celene Domitrovich

- Assistant Director and Research Assistant Professor email
Translation, Dissemination, & Implementation
- Brian K. Bumbarger

- Director, EPISCenter; Policy Research & Outreach Coordinator email
- Edward A. Smith

- Associate Director, & Director of Evaluation Research email
Center Research Faculty
- Mark Feinberg

- Research Professor; Family Science & Intervention Program Area Co-Leader email
- Kimberly Mallett

- Research Associate Professor email
- Michael Cleveland

- Research Assistant Professor email
- Donna Coffman

- Research Assistant Professor email
- Patricia (Tish) Jennings

- Research Assistant Professor; PEACE Co-Leader email
- Damon Jones

- Research Assistant Professor email
- Janet Welsh

- Research Assistant Professor email
- Patricia Broderick

- Research Associate email

- Research Associate email
- Michael Cleveland

- Research Associate email
- Donna Coffman

- Research Associate email
- Jennifer Frank

- Research Associate email
- Michelle Hostetler

- Research Associate email
- Maureen Ittig
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- Research Associate email
- Robert Nix

- Research Associate email
- Brittany Rhoades

- Research Associate email
- Kari-Lyn Sakuma

- Research Associate email
- Meg Small

- Research Associate email
Affiliated Penn State Faculty
- Karen L. Bierman

- Director, Child Study Center, and Distinguished Professor of Psychology email
- Peter Bordi

- Associate Professor of Hospitality Management email

- Linda Caldwell
- Distinguished Professor of Recreation, Park & Tourism Management email

- H. Harrington "Bo" Cleveland
- Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Studies email
- J. Douglas Coatsworth

- Associate Professor of Human Development & Family Studies; Family Science & Intervention Program Area Co-Leader; PEACE Co-Leader email
- Linda Collins

- Professor of Human Development & Family Studies and Director, Penn State Methodology Center email
- David Conroy

- Professor of Kinesiology email
- Elizabeth Farmer

- Professor of Health Policy & Administration email
- Thomas Farmer

- Associate Professor of Education email
- Richard Fiene

- Professor of Human Development & Family Studies and Psychology, Penn State Harrisburg email
- Gregory M. Fosco

- Assistant Professor of Human Development & Family Studies email
- Lisa Gatzke-Kopp

- Assistant Professor of Human Development & Family Studies email
- Charles F. Geier

- Assistant Professor of Human Development email
- Scott D. Gest

- Associate Professor of Human Development & Family Studies email
- Sukhdeep Gill
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- Associate Professor of Human Development & Family Studies email
- John Graham

- Professor of Biobehavioral Health & Human Development & Family Studies email
- Michael Hecht

- Distinguished Professor of Communication Arts & Sciences, & Crime, Law, and Justice email
- John Hustad

- Assistant Professor of Public Health Sciences, Hershey Medical Center/Penn State College of Medicine email
- Kathryn Hynes

- Assistant Professor of Human Development & Family Studies & Demography email
- Patricia Barthalow Koch

- Professor of Biobehavioral Health email
- Stephanie Lanza

- Scientific Director and Senior Research Associate, Penn State Methodology Center email
- Eva Lefkowitz

- Associate Professor of Human Development & Family Studies email
- Jennifer Maggs

- Professor of Human Development & Family Studies email
- Claudia Mincemoyer

- Professor of 4-H Youth Curriculum Development email
- Dana Mitra

- Associate Professor of Education Policy Studies email
- Ian Paul

- Professor of Pediatrics, Penn State College of Medicine email
- Daniel Perkins

- Professor of Family & Youth Resiliency and Policy; Director, Penn State Clearinghouse for Military Family Readiness email
- Vittal Prabhu

- Professor of Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering email
- Emilie Phillips Smith

- Professor of Human Development & Family Studies email
- Shedra Amy Snipes

- Assistant Professor of Biobehavioral Health email
- Douglas Teti

- Associate Director, Social Science Research Institute, and Professor of Human Development, Psychology, & Pediatrics email
- Rob Turrisi

- Professor of Biobehavioral Health; Emerging Adulthood Program Area Leader email
Prevention Research Center Affiliates
Edward Bender emailPROSPER Extension Team Leader/4-H Educator, Adams County |
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Denise Hanner Continenza emailPROSPER Extension Team Leader/4-H Educator/Family & Consumer Sciences, Lehigh County |
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Donna Grey emailPROSPER Extension Team Leader/4-H & Dairy Educator, Luzerne County |
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Karen Thomas emailPROSPER Extension Team Leader/Family Living Educator, Lackawana County |
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Administrative Staff
- Elaine Berrena
- Senior Project Associate email
- Lee Carpenter
- Writer/Editor/Webmaster and Proposal & Award Generalist email
- Michael Coccia
- Research Assistant email
- Carly Comer
- Research Assistant email
- Kelly Confer
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- Administrative Director; Administrative Services email
- Gwen Davis
- Research Technologist email
- Mary Ann Demi
- Senior Project Associate email
- Sebrina Doyle
- Research Assistant email
- Barbi Jo Emel
- Research Technologist email
- Sarah Favero
- Research Assistant email
- Barbara Gummo
- Administrative Support Assistant email
- Angela Hall
- Research Technologist email
- Brandy Harpster
- Research Technologist email
- Alexia Hozella
- Research Technologist email
- Linda Jacobson
- Research Technologist email
- Catherine Jantzer
- Senior Research Coordinator email
- Carol Masullo
- Administrative Support Assistant email
- Devon McChesney
- Administrative Support Assistant email
- Nicole Morgan
- Senior Research Technologist email
- Liza Oakes
- Research Technologist email
- Diana Poorman
- Administrative Support Assistant email
- Aimee Read
- Research Assistant email
- Nichole Scaglione
- Research Assistant email
- Karin Snowberg
- Research Technologist email
- Renee Stewart
- Research Technologist email
- Sandy Stewart
- Research Technologist email
- Toni Stewart
- Research Technologist email
- Celina Stewart-Smith
- Research Technologist email
- Lisa Strouse
- Senior Financial Administrator; Administrative Services email
EPISCenter Staff
EPISCenter Website
- Brian K. Bumbarger

- Director, EPISCenter email
- Liz Kulling

- Administrative Support Assistant email
- Brittany Rhoades
- Lead Evaluator email

- Elizabeth Campbell
- Prevention Coordinator email
- Lee Ann Cook
- Prevention Coordinator email
- Sandra Hinkle

- CTC Coordinator email
- Phyllis Law

- CTC Coordinator email
- Kimberly McCarthy

- Prevention Coordinator email
- Kim Peters

- Prevention Coordinator email

- Prevention Coordinator email
Prevention and Methodology Training (PAMT) (NIH)
2011-2012 Postdoctoral Fellows
2011-2012 Predoctoral Fellows
- Brea Burger
Prevention Fellows
Jacqueline Cox email
Mary Geier email
Training Interdisciplinary Educational Scientists (ED/LA/HHD) (IES)
- Rachel Abenavoli
- Alexis Harris
- Deirdre Hon
- Rebecca Madill
- Cynthia Willner
- Kathleen Zadzora

