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 Lisa Carey, M.D.
Medical Director, UNC Breast Center
Member, UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
Dr. Lisa Carey is board-certified in both Internal Medicine and Medical Oncology. Her clinical interest is in breast cancer, and she is the Medical Director of the UNC Breast Center. Dr. Carey's research interests also focus upon breast cancer, including examination of different subtypes of breast cancer, evaluation of new chemotherapy agents in early breast cancer, and examination of tumor characteristics that predict response to therapy. Dr. Carey's clinical research program investigates new drugs and combination of drugs in preoperative, or neoadjuvant, therapy. As part of her neoadjuvant chemotherapy program, she is also involved in several studies, including a multi-institutional trial sponsored by the National Cancer Institute, of genetic and molecular markers in breast cancer as predictors of response to chemotherapy. Dr. Carey is also the principal investigator of a highly collaborative study examining genes that might interact with other genes or with the environment to impact on a woman's risk of developing breast cancer. For her work, she was awarded a Doris Duke Clinical Scientist Award in 1999 and a career development award from the National Cancer Institute in 2000.
 Julius Mallette, M.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University
Julius Q. Mallette, M.D., practices Obstetrics and Gynecology and Maternal-Fetal Medicine at the Brody School of Medicine in Greenville, North Carolina. He lived his formative years in both Wilmington and Raleigh, North Carolina. He received his B.S. degree in biochemistry from North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina, and attended medical school at East Carolina University, graduating in 1982. He completed his internship and residency training at the George W. Hubbard Hospital at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee, and was Chief Resident of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at East Carolina University from 1984 to 1986. Dr. Mallette completed a subspecialty fellowship in Maternal-Fetal Medicine and Human Genetics at University of Maryland.
Dr. Mallette’s interests include developing programs to address healthcare disparities through medical education and community health. He has worked diligently over the past ten years on programs to decrease infant mortality especially in the region of Eastern North Carolina. He chaired the PIMPAC (Pitt Infant Mortality Prevention Advisory Council) in 1994 when it received special recognition from former Governor Jim Hunt. He also served as a Principle Investigator on the nationally recognized Tele-Homecare Project supported by a grant from the Healthy Start Foundation. The Tele-Homecare Project explored ways to utilize telemedicine as a means to reduce prematurity associated with pre-eclampsia, a potentially devastating condition associated with a high incidence of prematurity. Most recently, he has done extensive research on the role nutrition may play in preventing prematurity and infant mortality. After 10 years of medical education administration and over 20 years of delivering babies Dr. Mallette has returned to patient care and clinical research as Associate Clinical Professor of Maternal Fetal Medicine. His current research involves the role of micronutrients and aminocyte apoptosis (feto-placental cell death) in prematurity.
 Samantha Meltzer-Brody, M.D., M.P.H.
Co-Director, Women's Mental Health Program
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dr. Samantha Meltzer-Brody, M.D., M.P.H., is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill. She did her residency training at Duke University Medical Center and received post-residency training as a fellow in the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at UNC. Simultaneous to her fellowship, Dr. Meltzer-Brody completed an M.P.H. in Health Care and Prevention Program at the UNC School of Public Health.
Dr. Meltzer-Brody is an attending psychiatrist on the psychiatry consultation-liaison service, co-director of the Women's Mental Health Program and has a primary role as the Women's Hospital psychiatric consultant. She regularly sees and treats women who are suffering with postpartum depression. Her research interests are focused primarily on women's health issues including perinatal mood and anxiety disorders and chronic pelvic pain. She has recently collaborated on a systematic evidence based review of perinatal depression sponsored by the Safe Motherhood Group and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). She also collaborates with the UNC Gynecology Pelvic Pain Clinic to look at the relationship between a history of trauma/abuse and the development of chronic pelvic pain, as well as innovative treatment strategies.
 Anna Maria Siega-Riz, Ph.D, R.D., L.D.N.
Associate Professor, Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition
University of North Carolina - School of Public Health
Fellow, Carolina Population Center
Dr. Siega-Riz, PhD, RD is an Associate Professor of Maternal and Child Health at the University of North Carolina, School of Public Health. She has a joint appointment in the department of Nutrition and she is a fellow of the Carolina Population Center. She serves as the coordinator of the Nutrition Epidemiology Core of the Nutrition Department's Clinical Nutrition Research Center. She received her Doctorate degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1993 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in reproductive epidemiology at the Carolina Population Center.
Dr. Siega-Riz's research interests include maternal nutritional status and its relationship with birth outcomes, gestational weight gain and obesity development, diet methodology, reproductive epidemiology, child and adolescent dietary behaviors, and trends in dietary intakes among minority populations. She collaborates with Drs. David Savitz and John Thorp on the Pregnancy, Infection, and Nutrition (PIN) Study, a large epidemiological and prospective study investigating the role of infections, stress, physical activity, and nutrition on pre-term births among women receiving prenatal care from public institutions. She has received her own R01 that builds upon and extends the PIN study into the postpartum period to identify modifiable behaviors for pregnant women that are associated with gaining weight above the recommended ranges and that result in high postpartum weight retention. She is also a member of the team of investigators of the North Carolina Birth defects monitoring program, the Physical Activity in Youth--Preventing Type 2 Diabetes study with Joanne Harrell over in the School of Nursing, and the Norway 100,000 birth cohort investigating dietary and birth outcome differences among women with eating disorders with Cindy Bulik in the School of Medicine. She teaches classes in the area of maternal and child nutrition, women's health, and nutritional epidemiology.
- http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/womenshealth.html This comprehensive website is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health. It contains news, overviews and research.
- http://www.4woman.org/ The National Women's Health Information Center (NWHIC) is a health information resource and Federal publication referral service from the Department of Health and Human Services. The site provides a gateway to women's health information from other government agencies, public and private organizations, and consumer and health care professional groups.
- www.cwhr.unc.edu/index.pl: This Web site p rovides research information on women's health. Center for Women's Health Research.
- www.cwhr.unc.edu/pdf/2005_Womens_Health_Report_Card.pdf . This is the actual 2005 Women's Health Report Card.
- www.healthypeople.gov . This Web site provides national health objectives designed to identify the most significant preventable threats to health and to establish national goals to reduce these threats.
- www.webmd.com/: Use this site to find physicians, find out symptoms and treatments for specific illnesses, and learn more about specific issues, such as weight loss or fertility methods.
- www.bcsupport.org : This Web site provides a breast cancer support group.
- www.ovarian.org : This is a national ovarian cancer support group.
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