Eryn K Matich obtained a BA in chemistry from the Alfred University in 2013 and a PhD in chemistry from the University at Buffalo in 2018. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the UAMS Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health, Environmental Health Sciences. She currently works as an instructor at the Department of Environmental Health Sciences in the Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health at UAMS. She has teaching course in COPH 5003: Intro to Public Health. Her research interests mainly focus on metabolomics, environmental and behavioral exposures, cancer, health disparities.
Jonathan Laryea completed his medical training at the University of Ghana Medical School in 1998. Later on, he finished his internal medicine internship at St. Raphael’s Hospital (a Yale Affiliate) in New Haven, Connecticut, and, afterward, completed a Colon and Rectal Surgery Fellowship at Georgia Colon and Rectal Surgery Clinic in Atlanta. He is now working as a professor of surgery and chief of the Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery at the Department of Surgery, University of Arkansas. He is a board certified in General Surgery, Colorectal Surgery, and Clinical Informatics, and has been served as an Executive Council of the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons, a Medical Director of the Cancer Service Line at the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute at UAMS, and the Arkansas State Chair for the Commission on Cancer for the American College of Surgeons. His research interests include racial disparities in cancer care and using machine learning and artificial intelligence to predict cancer outcomes.
Ping-Ching Hsu received her BS in nutrition and Health and MS in medical science from the Taipei Medical College in 1998 and 2000, respectively. After that, she obtained another MS and PhD in tumor biology from Georgetown University in 2008 and 2012, respectively. In 2016, she received postdoctoral training in molecular epidemiology from the Ohio State University. She currently serves as an associate professor of environmental health sciences at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health (COPH). Her laboratory uses population-based omics approach to address the factors that are contributing to the cancer health disparities. She is the Principal Investigator of the Arkansas Rural Community Health (ARCH) Study of 26,375 women representing every county in Arkansas. In addition, she is a member of UAMS Cancer Institute Cancer Prevention and Population Science Program. She was a project leader for the P20 COBRE Center for Studies on Host Response to Cancer Therapy at UAMS, which aims to understand early prediction markers for chemotherapy-induced cardiotoxicity in breast cancer patients. She is currently a PI and a co-I for two Prostate Cancer Research Program Health Disparity Research Awards from the United States Department of Defense to address the racial disparity of lethal prostate cancer among African American men.
L. Joseph Su has a PhD in nutritional epidemiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and M.P.H. in public health nutrition at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. He is now working as a professor of epidemiology and an associate dean for academic affairs at the Peter O'Donnell Jr. School of Public Health. Prior to that, he was a branch chief at the Division of Epidemiologic Research of the Center for Medical Devices and Radiological Health, and a Program Director at the Epidemiology and Genomic Research Program, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute (NCI). He also serves as a member of American Association for Cancer Research. His research interests include biomarker analyses: carotenoids and tocopherols (HPLC), biomarker analyses: heavy metals (ICP-MS), cancer epidemiology, dietary assessment, environmental epidemiology, interdisciplinary aging research, nutritional epidemiology.
