Trainees and Scholars
Demography and Economics of Aging Training Program | Health Services Research Program | Burroughs Wellcome Fund Fellowship | MD-PhD Medicine, Social Sciences, & Humanities | Postdoctoral Program in Clinical Research Informatics (TL1)
CHeSS is proud to support over 30 trainees and scholars who are affiliated with the Center’s various training programs. Learn more about each of our trainees and scholars below.

Jennifer Caputo, PhD
Postdoctoral Affiliate, Sociology
caputoj@uchicago.edu
Degree(s): PhD, Sociology- Indiana University Bloomington; MS, Sociology- Florida State University; BA, English- University of Kansas
Research Interests: Intergenerational relationships; Aging; Families; Health Inequalities; Mental Health; Gender; The Life Course

Emily Ellis
Predoctoral Affiliate, Social Service Administration
emilyellis@uchicago.edu
Degree(s): BS, Economics- American University, Washington DC; BA, Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies- American University, Washington DC
Research Interests: Work-Family Policy; Family Caregiving; Poverty and Inequality; Social Safety Nets; Job Quality and Employment Policy

Jeehoon Han, PhD
Postdoctoral Affiliate, Public Policy
jeehoon@uchicago.edu
Degree(s): PhD, Economics – University of Notre Dame
Research Interests: Welfare and budgetary consequences of low-income individuals’ and families’ responses government generated incentives.

Jerry Kaufman
Predoctoral Affiliate, Sociology
jckaufman@uchicago.edu
Degree(s): MA, Sociology- University of Chicago; MA, Sociology- University of Central Florida; MDiv, Asbury Theological Seminary; BA, Educational Ministries- Huntington University
Research Interests: Race; Racialization; Health; Aging

Max Kellogg
Predoctoral Affiliate, Economics
mdkellogg@uchicago.edu
Degree(s): BS, Policy Analysis and Management, Cornell University- Ithaca, New York
Research Interests: Labor Economics; Disability Insurance

Grey Pierce
Predoctoral Affiliate, Sociology
greypierce@uchicago.edu
Degree(s): MA, University of Chicago; MS, University of Pennsylvania; BA, Oberlin College
Research Interests: Gender & Sexuality; Sociology of Health; Urban Studies; and Aging

Amelia Sancilio, PhD
Postdoctoral Affiliate
asancilio@uchicago.edu
Degree(s): PhD, Anthropology- Yale University; BA, Anthropology & Biology- Lawrence University
Research Interests: Senescence; Women’s Health; Reproduction; Human variation & adaption

Winnie Tong
Predoctoral Affiliate, Sociology
witong@uchicago.edu
Degree(s): MSc, Criminal Justice Policy- London School Economics; BS, Psychology- Yale University
Research Interests: Social Support and Health; Motivation and Happiness; Older Adult’s Health and Sexuality

Kevin Zheng
Predoctoral Affiliate, Comparative Human Development
cwzheng@uchicago.edu
Degree(s):
Research Interests:
Health Services Research Program (AHRQ T32)

Dani Adams
Predoctoral Fellow, School of Social Service Administration
daniadams@uchicago.edu
Degree(s): AM, Clinical Concentration, School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago; BA, Psychology (minor in Philosophy), Roosevelt University
Research Interests: Improving affordability, accessibility, and effectiveness of behavioral health services in low-income neighborhoods: Dissemination and implementation science; Child and adolescent mental health; Recovery-oriented system transformation; Trauma-informed practice and policy; Child welfare

Nicole Boyer, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
nboyer@medicine.bsd.uchicago.edu
Degree(s): PhD & MPH, University of Glasgow; BS, Unversity of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana
Research Interests: Health economics; Cost-effectiveness analysis; Economic evaluation in broader non-health settings such as the community or school; Decision analytic modeling
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Emily Claypool
Predoctoral Fellow, School of Social Service Administration
eclaypool@uchicago.edu
Degree(s): AM, University of Chicago; BA, University of Minnesota
Research Interests: Deinstitutionalization, clinical interventions, the social life and historical emergence of evidence-based practices and programs

Grant Gannaway
Predoctoral Fellow, Economics
gwg@uchicago.edu
Degree(s): BA, Economics and Math, Brigham Young University
Research Interests: Health economics

Rebecca Gorges
Predoctoral Fellow, Harris School of Public Policy
rjgorges@uchicago.edu
Degree(s): MA, Economics, Hunter College; BS, Chemical Engineering and Economics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Research Interests: Impacts of long-term care policy on families, health disparities

Wan-Zi Lu
Predoctoral Fellow, Sociology
wanzilu@uchicago.edu
Degree(s): MA, Sociology, University of Chicago; BA, Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University
Research Interests: Regulations and practices of organ transplants with a focus on comparative development of donations policies in a number of East Asian policies

Hannah MacDougall
Predoctoral Fellow, School of Social Service Administration
hmacdougall@uchicago.edu
Degree(s): MSW, Columbia University; BA, Saint Olaf College
Research Interests: Health services, social determinants of health, hospital community benefits

Tonie Sadler
Predoctoral Fellow, School of Social Service Administration
tonie@uchicago.edu
Degree(s): AM, School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago; BA, Anthropology, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana
Research Interests: Disability Policy; Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities; Poverty and Inequality

Bikki Smith
Predoctoral Fellow, School of Social Service Administration
bikki@uchicago.edu
Degree(s): MSW, Social Work & MA, Psychology, New York University; BS, Psychology, Virginia Tech
Research Interests: Intersections of race/ethnicity, place and health

Anase Asom
BWF Fellow, Pritzker School of Medicine
anase.asom@uchospitals.edu
Degree(s): BS in the Biological Sciences, University of Chicago
Research Interests: Hematopoietic malignancies

Paige-Ashley Campbell
BWF Fellow, Pritzker School of Medicine
paige-ashley.campbell@uchospitals.edu
Degree(s): BS in Behavioral Neurosciences, Quinnipiac U.
Research Interests: Regenerative engineering for repair for burns, scars, and nerve injuries; health disparities

Kavia Khosla
BWF Fellow, Pritzker School of Medicine
kavia.khosla@uchospitals.edu
Degree(s): BA in Public Health, Brown University
Research Interests: Pre-eclampsia, dysmenorrhea, adolescent gun violence prevention

Afia Khan
afia@uchicago.edu
PhD Program: Harris School of Public Policy
Research Interests: Health economics, antimicrobial resistance, social determinants of health and well-being

Joseph Krongold
jkrongold@uchicago.edu
PhD Program: Public Health Sciences- Health Services Research
Research Interests: Quality measurement, end of life care

Maya Lozinski
mayalozinski@uchicago.edu
PhD Program: Harris School of Public Policy
Research Interests: Risk adjustment, machine learning, provider decision making

Steven Server
sserver@uchicago.edu
PhD Program: Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science and History
Research Interests: Public Health & Social Medicine in 1930s Mexico

Justin Cirone, MD
Fellow, Surgery, University of Chicago Medicine
cironejm@uchicago.edu
Doctoral Degrees: MD, Rutgers University
Research Interests: Reducing instances of violent trauma

Michael Cui, MD
Fellow, Internal Medicine & Hospital Medicine, University of Chicago Medicine
michael.cui@uchospitals.edu
Doctoral Degree: MD, University of Chicago; BS, Biology & BA, Biochemistry, Indiana University
Research Interests: Leveraging technology to improve clinical workflow, mobile health, hospital medicine

Matthew Dapas, PhD
Fellow, Department of Human Genetics, Biological Sciences Division
mdapas@uchicago.edu
Doctoral Degree: PhD, Biomedical Informatics, Northwestern University
Research Interests: Genetics of childhood asthma in inner cities, Genetic heterogeneity of complex diseases

Pooja Gala, MD
Fellow, Hospital Medicine, University of Chicago Medicine
pgala@uchicago.edu
Doctoral Degree: MD, Weill Cornell Medical College; BS, Emory University
Research Interests: Strengthening health systems in low- and middle- income countries to better manage chronic diseases; quality improvement within primary care

Laura Magda, MD
Fellow, Hospital Medicine, University of Chicago Medicine
lmagda2@medicine.bsd.uchicago.edu
Doctoral Degree: MD, Medical University of Lublin
Research interests: Building clinical research infrastructures within community hospitals; Social determinants of health; Social connectedness in health; Mental health and chronic illness; Implementation science, software and workflow methodology designing in clinical and translational research databases

Vivian Lee, MD
Fellow, Hospital Medicine, University of Chicago Medicine
vlee1@medicine.bsd.uchicago.edu
Doctoral Degree: MD, Chicago Medical School
Research interests: Investigating the role of gut bacteriophages in the pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease

Alexandra Tate, PhD
Research Director, Section of Hospital Medicine
atate@uchicago.edu
Doctoral Degree: PhD in Sociology, UCLA
Research interests: Medical Sociology, end-of-life care, the doctor-patient relationship, health communication, health disparities, U.S. healthcare systems
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