个人简介

I was born in Los Angeles, California, USA and grew up in Detroit, Michigan, USA, returning to California to complete a BA degree in Latin American Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara, including a year at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City. My graduate training consisted of degree work in Epidemiology (MPH, PhD) and Latin American Studies (MA) at the University of California at Los Angeles, with fieldwork in Colombia. In 1994, I initiated a postdoctoral fellowship in preventive oncology at the University of Southern California. In 1995, I became an assistant professor of epidemiology at the University of Texas School of Public Health in Houston, where I was promoted to associate professor with tenure in 2003. In 2005, I was appointed associate professor with tenure in the Division of Gastroenterology of the Department of Medicine at the University of Alberta, where I currently hold the position of professor, with an adjunct appointment in the University of Alberta School of Public Health.