Faculty
Ralph Corey, MD - HYC Director | Christopher Woods, MD - HYC Co-Director | John Hamilton, MD
John Bartlett, MD | Nathan
Thielman, MD | Vance Fowler, MD |
David Walmer, MD
Carol Dukes Hamilton,
MD | J. Brice Weinberg MD | Barth Reller MD | John Crump MD
Kathleen Clem, MD |
Truls Ostbye, MD, PhD | Kathryn Whetten, PhD | Dennis Clements, MD, PhD
Cheryl Baker, MD
Staff
Cynthia Binanay, RN, BSN, MA - HYC Program Director | Cecelia Pezdek - Global Health Residency Program Coordinator | Carlee Reimer - HYC Program Assistant
Truls Ostbye, MD, MPH, MBA, PHD, FFPH, Professor and Vice-Chair (Research), Department of Community and Family Medicine.
Professor Ostbye is a chronic disease epidemiologist and public health researcher with a special interest in obesity and diseases of the elderly. In New Zealand, he worked with the Tokelau Island migrant study, an epidemiological study documenting the increase in obesity, gout, diabetes and cardiovascular disease among Pacific Islanders who moved to New Zealand and adopted a "Western" diet and lifestyle. He was a center principal investigator of the Canadian Study of Health and Aging, a population based, longitudinal study of dementia and other diseases in the elderly, including over 10,000 Canadians followed for over a decade. He has authored or co-authored over 175 scientific articles in medical and public health journals.
He teaches outcomes research to family medicine residents. His current research includes studies of: obesity in the postpartum period (an R01 funded by the National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney diseases, Principal Investigator: Ostbye), appropriate use of clinical preventive services, genetic and environmental predictors of cognitive decline among elderly in Utah, caregiving in the elderly, doctor-patient communication, and occupational health surveillance among health care workers. He is an investigator in the proposed reseach and teaching linkage project with the medical faculty at Ruhuna University, Galle, Sri Lanka. Ruhuna University is a regional university for a region severely affected by the 2004 Tsunami.