Matthew Fox is an associate professor Nursing, where he has been a faculty member since 2014. He holds a Master of Science in Nursing Administration from Norwich University. Fox is a two-time graduate of Ohio University in 2009 and 2011.  Fox’s research focuses on simulation in nursing education, mindfulness meditation, and innovative instruction techniques.  

James Montgomery, Ph.D., is a Professor in Hearing, Speech, and Language Sciences. His area of expertise is language and cognitive sciences with application to childhood language impairment and reading comprehension disabilities. He was a practicing speech-language pathologist for many years in various interdisciplinary clinical settings and focused on the diagnosis and treatment of language impairment in school-age children. 

Dr. Wenhan Guo is an assistant professor in the Health Services Administration in College of Health Sciences and Professions. He earned his Ph.D. in Health Services Research and Policy from the University of Rochester and holds a Master of Science degree in Biostatistics from Columbia University.

As a health communication scholar, Rebekah Perkins Crawford uses feminist, narrative, gender, and queer theories to focus on building equity, inclusion, and engagement for health at the community level. Her early work illuminated the role faith-based organizations play in providing alternate, community contexts of mental health care. 

Rick Hodges is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the College of Health Sciences and Professions at Ohio University. He is also Director of the Ohio Alliance for Population Health, Executive Director of the Ohio University Health Collaborative, and Fellow at the George Voinovich School for Leadership and Public Service.

Dr. Karayánnis’ s  mission as a physiotherapist-scientist is to provide precise patient-treatment matching of adaptive mind-body interventions for people living with spinal pain. Ultimately, we intend to refine the content and delivery of somatically focused, psychologically informed, and neuroscientific-based mind-body training practices to promote valued activity engagement and cultivate eudaimonic wellbeing.

Mao as an assistant clinical professor in the Department of Specialty Medicine and the Diabetes Institute at Ohio University. He also works with OhioHealth as an endocrinologist in the Castrop Center and at O’Bleness Hospital. He has significant clinical and research experience in human health and diseases, specializing in diabetes, thyroid diseases, osteoporosis, and other endocrine disorders. He has practiced as physician for over 20 years and has numerous publications on highly ranked journals.

Shaw, MSW, LISW-S, CHW is the Community Health Worker Lead for the Ohio University Alliance for Population Health. She has twenty years of practice experience in southeast Ohio as a school social worker, counselor, program developer, and educator.

Perez Sheldon is an associate professor jointly appointed in Classics and Religious Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, as well as executive director of the Cutler Scholar’s Program at Ohio University. She is a historian of evolutionary theory, a feminist and critical -race theorist, and a scholar of religion. She earned her Ph.D. from the History of Science Department at Harvard University and has previously held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Rice University.

Forney is dedicated to alleviating the burden associated with eating disorders and disordered eating. Her research focuses on social (peers), psychological (body image concerns, anxiety), and biological (weight loss, gastrointestinal symptoms) factors that increase the risk for eating disorders and maintain symptoms over time. By identifying which factors are responsible for eating disorders, prevention and treatment efforts can be tailored to improve outcomes.