Faculty and Staff

The Division of Health Sciences’ faculty is comprised of individuals holding primary or secondary/joint appointments in the division. These individuals are committed to defining and executing the Division of Health Sciences’ educational, research and outreach missions. They play critical roles in training Division of Health Sciences students by directing and/or teaching courses, mentoring students or conducting research and outreach efforts in which our students are actively involved.

Get to Know Our Faculty

In addition to our faculty directory, click on the following links for brief faculty/research/student profiles that provide a sketch of some of the work of our faculty.

	Wei Yang While Nevada has raced along as the fastest growing state in the country for the better part of two decades, health professionals and health services have struggled to keep up. Wei Yang, a health informatics professor and director of the Nevada Center for Health Statistics and Informatics, is helping the state make a better and more thoughtful accounting of the state’s health behaviors. Read More
	Carol Scott Whether it is in the chaotic midst of a University of Nevada football game on a sunny afternoon at Mackay Stadium, or near the equally challenging, dusty chutes of the Reno Rodeo, Dr. Carol Scott is never far from the action of the northern Nevada sports scene. Read More
	John Whitehill and Nora Constantino Five days a week, through a variety of workouts and drills designed to measure the participants’ increases in such measures as lactate threshold, strength, balance and agility, John Whitehill is hoping to gather data that will help the wider world of human performance better understand the benefits of water-based fitness regimes. Whitehill’s adviser is Nora Constantino, an associate professor in the School of Public Health. In nearly 13 years at Nevada, Constantino’s research agenda has ranged from physical activity across one’s lifespan, the effects of hormones on bone density and childhood obesity. Read More
	Bernadette Longo Bernadette Longo can feel the frustration of doctors in Hawaii, who have for years have treated young asthmatics and individuals with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Doctors have long suspected that these problems were caused by the eruption of the islands’ numerous volcanoes, particularly for residents living downwind. But there has been on definitive study connecting the eruptions, volcanic air pollution and the health effects associated with them. Read more
	Mary Hylton Mary Hylton is a relationships person, admitting that relationships define practically everything she is involved with. “A key to my teaching, and to everything I do, is relationships,” says Hylton, an assistant professor of Social Work. “In Social Work, relationship is the backbone of everything we do.” Read More
	Greg Pari When he joined the faculty of the University of Nevada, Reno nearly 10 years ago, Greg Pari already had an excellent handle on the things that he thought would be most important in his role as a professor of microbiology and immunology. Little did he know what the future would hold. Read More
	Susan Chandler There are times when a photo tells only part of the story, and times when it says everything. For Susan Chandler, the photo that leads her faculty biography at the website for the University of Nevada, Reno’s School of Social Work seems to say it all. Read More