Clinical Scientist Training Program Faculty

Ethics

Kenneth W. Goodman, Ph.D., is founder and director of the University of Miami’s Bioethics Program and co-director of the University’s Program in Business, Government, and Professional Ethics.  These initiatives are devoted to education, research, and community service.  He holds appointments at the University of Miami’s Department of Medicine, Department of Philosophy, School of Nursing, and Department of Epidemiology and Public Health.  He serves on a variety of hospital ethics committees, institutional review boards, animal studies committees, and a number of other institutional and community panels. He has written extensively about science, medicine, and science policy.  He has published a book on ethics and evidence-based medicine, co-authored one on ethics in public health and edited a volume on ethics and medical computing; published and presented numerous articles in bioethics, the philosophy of science, and computing; and collaborated on ethics training programs with organizations ranging from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to Florida’s Departments of Health and Elder Affairs.

 

Behavioral Issues in Clinical Research; Critical Reading/Scientific Writing

Raymond L. Ownby, MD, PhD, MBA, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.  Dr. Ownby is board certified in psychiatry and in clinical neuropsychology.  Dr. Ownby has coordinated the Research Seminar and Journal Club for the Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship since 1996 and for the Geriatric Medicine and Addiction Psychiatry Fellowships since 1998.  Since 2001, Dr. Ownby has been Director of the Center for Evidence-Based Clinical Practice and recently authored a monograph on medical errors prevention to be used throughout the medical school for continuing medical education. Dr. Ownby has an extensive background in clinical research, with more than 50 peer-reviewed publications in the areas of empirical approaches to psychopathology and cognitive functioning in neuropsychiatric disorders. He is currently section editor for geriatric disorders of Current Psychiatry Reports and is a Consulting Editor for Professional Psychology.  In addition to facilitating didactic research training for the fellowship programs, Dr. Ownby has served as research advisor and mentor to residents, fellows, and faculty in the departments of the medical and graduate schools.  He has served on several master’s thesis and doctoral dissertation committees.  He has served as site principal investigator on several multicenter clinical trials and currently is involved in clinical trials of medication adherence in the elderly and serves as research design and statistical consultant on observational studies of the progression of HIV infection in several populations.

 

Research in Multicultural Populations; Grant Writing

J. Bryan Page, Ph.D. is Chairperson of the Department of Anthropology and Professor of Anthropology, Psychiatry, and Behavioral Science.  He has 27 years of experience in conducting research funded by the NIH.  He has been principal investigator in seven funded projects and has participated as co-principal and co-investigator in a dozen more, including three center grants.  His clinical research has included natural history studies of HIV infection, interventions using trace elements to improve survival of HIV patients, consequences of marijuana smoking, patterns of polydrug use, and the effects of cognitive behavioral stress management on HIV progression.  He has conducted studies funded by the NIH that have required him to negotiate scientific presence in the Seminole Tribe of Florida, Little Havana, Little Haiti, the inner cities of Liberty City and Overtown, and in Kendall.  He has collaborated with both clinicians and basic scientists and he has played a major role in helping investigators conduct transdisciplinary research designs and to build appropriate relationships with relevant communities.  These studies have led to numerous peer-reviewed publications, in journals ranging from Medical Anthropology to Lancet.

 

Molecular/Cellular Biology/Genetics

Lisa Baumbach, Ph.D. is an Associate Research Professor of Pediatrics who is certified in Biochemical and Molecular Genetics by the American Board of Medical Genetics (ABMG).  She has built a diverse and active molecular genetics research program at the University, and serves as the geneticist for the institution’s Muscular Dystrophy Association and Huntington’s Disease clinics.  She is the co-director of the newly established DNA diagnostic laboratory at the University.  Dr. Baumbach received extensive molecular biology training under the supervision of two nationally recognized scientists, Dr. Thomas Caskey of Baylor College of Medicine and Dr. Stephen Goodman of University of Colorado Health Science Center.  She has published numerous articles in the field of human molecular genetics, currently serves as an ad-hoc reviewer for a number of scientific journals and grant review study sections, and is a recipient of several Young Investigator Awards.  In addition to her research, Dr. Baumbach is committed to the training and education of young scientists, ranging from high school students through junior faculty members.  She currently teaches human genetics in several graduate and post-graduate classes and seminars at the local, regional, and national levels.  In addition, she serves as co-director of the Pediatric Endocrinology Fellowship training program, and as faculty for the Genetics Residency and Fellowship training programs at the University of Miami.  

 

Biostatistics I & II

Orlando Gomez-Marin, M.Sc., Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology & Public Health.  He is a biostatistician with extensive experience in Epidemiology and Clinical Trials and a long-standing interest in minority health issues.  Dr. Gomez has been teaching for over 20 years to graduate and postgraduate students in graduate school programs, at the local as well as national and international level, and to Fellows and Faculty in clinic departments.  His mentoring of these individuals has resulted in numerous successful MPH projects, Ph.D. theses, abstracts presented at national and international scientific meetings, peer reviewed publications, grant proposals, and funded research projects.  He has taught many courses including Mathematics, Biostatistics, Survey, Study Design, and Clinical Trials.  For the past 20 years he has worked in longitudinal population studies of change in incidence and prevalence of coronary heart disease and its risk factors in general population samples.  Dr. Gomez has designed several large, NIH funded, population-based studies, and numerous animal studies and clinical trials.  He has been Principal Investigator, Co-Principal Investigator, Co-Investigator, Biostatistician, Core Program Faculty, Data Management Director, Data Analysis Director, and Consultant of past and ongoing projects.