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Community Medicine Team
Nora Gimpel, M.D., Assistant Professor, Family Medicine, Chief of Division of Community Medicine
Tiffany Billmeier, M.P.H., Research Study Coordinator/CHFP Coordinator
Barbara Foster, Ph.D., Biostatistician
Jay Morrow, D.V.M., M.P.H., Faculty Associate
Jay Ohagi, M.P.H, Research Study Coordinator/ CARE Coordinator
Patti Pagels, MPAS, PA-C, Assistant Professor
Jason J. Wright, B.B.A, Training Specialist/CART Program Coordinator
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Nora Gimpel, M.D.,
Assistant Professor, Family Medicine- Chief of Division of Community Medicine
nora.gimpel@utsouthwestern.edu
Gimpel faculty directory page
Dr. Nora Gimpel is a family physician originally from Argentina with significant experience teaching evidence-based medicine, working with underserved communities, and performing community-based participatory research. Dr. Gimpel is a native Spanish language speaker and is very active in addressing minority health issues in underserved communities.
She teaches community-based research principles, health promotion and prevention, and is interested in global health. Dr. Gimpel facilitates the interface between the CART and the community, especially through the Community Service Core and activities related to the Alternative Community Medicine Research Training Experiences.
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Tiffany Billmeier, M.P.H., CHFP Coordinator/Research Study Coordinator
tiffany.billmeier@utsouthwestern.edu
Tiffany Billmeier has a BA in Psychology from UT Austin and her MPH, with a Global Health Concentration, from the UT School of Public Health Dallas Regional Campus. Her research interests include health promotion and chronic disease prevention, community-based participatory research, cancer screening & prevention, health disparities, immigrant health, health literacy and secondary analysis of national datasets.
She is the program coordinator co-mentor for the Community Health Fellowship Program (CHFP), which introduces first-year medical students to community-based participatory research, and emphasizes the importance of collaboration in addressing community health problems in underserved areas. She also collaborates on other research projects in community medicine.
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Barbara Foster, Ph.D., Biostatistician
barbara.foster@utsouthwestern.edu
Dr. Foster is a biostatistician with over 20 years experience participating in the full range of research studies undertaken at an academic health center. She has experience with database development related to data analysis, providing support for peer-reviewed presentations and publications, and providing technical guidance for all matters related to statistical analysis.
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Jay Morrow, D.V.M, M.P.H., Faculty Associate
Jay.morrow@utsouthwestern.edu
Dr. Jay Morrow is a research faculty member in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. His research focuses on cancer health care disparities (HPV vaccine uptake, colorectal cancer screening and genetic counseling), and using health IT to enhance doctor-patient communication and to help patients improve chronic disease self-management.
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Jay Ohagi, MS, MPH, CARE Coordinator/Research Study Coordinator
Jay.ohagi@utsouthwestern.edu
Jay Ohagi has a background in the social sciences (sociology/demography), as well as training in health management and informatics. His interests range from population health research and community development, to health information management. He is the coordinator of the Community Action Research Experience (CARE) program, which is designed to train family medicine residents in community action research and care for underserved populations.
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Patti Pagels, MPAS, PA-C, Assistant Professor
Patti.pagels@utsouthwestern.edu
Patti Pagels has been a physician assistant (PA) in academic medicine for 12 years. Besides her training as a PA she has a degree in anthropology. Her expertise lies in cultural competency education for health care providers. She has lectured nationally on topics related to pediatrics, including childhood obesity and its relationship to ethnicity and health care disparities. In addition, she is interested in health literacy from both the perspective of the health care provider and the patient.
Every year for the last 13 years she has traveled to Central America to provide health care and health education to rural communities in countries such as Guatemala, Honduras and, most recently, Nicaragua. Prior to that, she helped initiate community interest in domestic violence shelters and family planning clinics in the squatter communities outside of Lima, Peru. She currently serves as director-at-large for the national organization American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA), representing the interests of over 60,000 PAs across the nation.
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Jason J. Wright, BBA, CART Coordinator/Training Specialist
Jason.wright@utsouthwestern.edu
Jason has been working in public and community health for the past several years, implementing behavioral interventions for high-risk and underserved populations; developing individual, group and community-level programming; and participating in several community-based research projects. His expertise is in program development and management, with emphasis in assessment, implementation and evaluation. He also has experience developing health promotion collateral and activities, and a strong interest in social marketing for hard-to-reach populations and communities of color at risk for infectious and chronic diseases.
While in the New England area, he co-founded a community resource and wellness center aimed at providing prevention and support services to individuals at high risk for HIV/AIDS. Jason has a continued interest in working with those infected and affected by HIV/AIDS, and with individuals dealing with behavioral, substance use and social justice issues. He is a strong believer that overall health is more than just the absence of disease; it is a state of physical, emotional, mental and social well-being.
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