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Staff

Principal investigator

Flavia Andrade, PhD
Assistant Professor, Kinesiology and Community Health
+1 (217) 3333675
fandrade@illinois.edu

Postdoctoral Fellows

Pilar Eguez Guevara, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Conducting research on nutrition, health, and aging in Ecuador
Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Champaign IL 61820
peguez2@illinois.edu>

Up Amigos: Co-investigators at University of Illinois

Marcela Raffaelli, PhD
Professor, Human & Community Development, ACES
(217) 244-5017
mraffael@illinois.edu

Margarita Teran-Garcia, MD/PhD
Assistant Professor, Food Sciences & Human Nutrition, ACES
(217) 244 2025
teranmd@ad.uiuc.edu

Angela Wiley, PhD
Associate Professor, Human & Community Development, ACES
(217) 265 5279
awiley@illinois.edu

Graduate Students

Sarah Marrara (M.S., Expected 2012)
Conducting research on mental health disparities by race and sexual identity
Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Shondra Loggins (Ph.D., Expected 2013)
Conducting research on health disparities on birth outcomes by race in the United States
Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Michelle Jimenez (Ph.D., Expected 2014)
Conducting research on health disparities in chronic disease prevalence in Latin America
Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Tracy Flood (Ph.D., 2011)
"The UP Amigos Project: Testing the sensitivity and specificity of the 2007 Pediatric Expert Committee Recommendation in Latinos"
Now at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, UW Hospital

Undergraduate students

• Esther Ikoro
• Symon Schmukler
• Whi Yeon Cho
• Christopher Diaz
• Marielva Ayala
• Cecilia Ramirez
• Diana Arellano
• Ricardo Albarran
• Ivis Rodriguez

McNair students

Joanna Arellano (Summer/2009)
"Family history of diabetes and cardiovascular disease among adolescents and young adults in Mexico are associated with higher likelihood of having Metabolic Syndrome risk factors". Received the "Illinois for Illinois (I4I) Study Abroad Undergraduate Scholarship" award, has been accepted for internship at NIH through the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU).

Jay Jerman (Summer/2010)
"Body mass index and validity of self-reported body size among Mexican young adults". This work was published in Body Image: An International Journal of Research.

Visiting scholars

Fan Zhang (Visiting PhD student, expected 2014)
Conducting research on educational and career disparities among athletes in China
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Heloisa Claro (Visiting PhD student, expected 2014)
Conducting research on alcohol and drug use in Brazil
Sao Paulo University, Sao Paulo, Brazil