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Roberta McKean-Cowdin

Roberta McKean-Cowdin

Epidemiologist/Professor/Vice Chair

Healthcare

Pasadena, Los Angeles

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About Roberta McKean-Cowdin:

An epidemiologist focused on causes of cancer and disparities in eye disease, vision loss and blindness.  A specialist in cohort design and methodology.  An educator teaching undergraduate, graduate and medical students.  An experienced program director, mentor, and administrator with pedagogical training.  Leadership excellence in programming and department administration.

Experience

Vice Chair for Education (current), Director of PhD Program in Epidemiology (12 years),

Professor of Epidemiology

Professor (educator) for undergraduate (Health Promotion and Disease Prevention), Graduate (Principles of Epidemiology, Research Methods I and II), Medical Students (Year 1 and 2 students, Principles of Epidemiology)

Research and Grant funding areas:  Genetics and hormones of breast cancer, Risk factors for pediatric brain cancer, genetic environmental interactions, smoking as risk factors for brain cancer and cleft palate, genome wide association studies, adult glioma and glioblastoma, obesity, breast cancer survivorship, vision loss, blindness, diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma, treatment of diabetic macular edema, real world data, electronic medical records, quality of life.

Education

PhD Epidemiology (UCLA)

Master of Public Health (University of Alabama at Birmingham)

Bachelor of Science Biology (University of Michigan)

Fellow, USC Center for Excellence in Teaching

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