The Department of Human Science includes faculty members with expertise in diverse scientific disciplines who have won major awards for excellence in teaching and research.
Faculty members advance and disseminate scientific knowledge through research, teaching, and scholarship. Departmental areas of interest include cancer, cell biology, environmental health, genetics, health promotion, occupational health, physiology, microbiology, virology, and behavioral and social science.
Departmental faculty members regularly involve undergraduate students in their innovative academic activities. Many work with students in the Discovery Center, which is a state-of-the-art teaching laboratory, and often will encourage undergraduates to author or co-author peer-reviewed manuscripts.
To see more information about each faculty member, please click the following links.
Department Chair
Professor
Research Interests: Occupational Health and Safety
Our Faculty
Robert and Kathleen Scanlon Chair in Values Based Health Care
Research Interests: Environmental Epidemiology, Environmental Justice, Children's Environmental Health, Public Health
Associate Professor Emeritus/Interim Associate Dean of Academic Affairs
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Smooth Muscle Physiology, Pelvic Floor, Chronic Pain, Women’s Health
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Research Design, Quantitative Analysis, Social Network Analysis
Adjunct Assistant Professor
(Director, Health Education Services)
Research Interests: Emotional Intelligence and College Health, Community-Based Learning, Assessment
David Goldsmith
Adjunct Associate Professor
Research Interests: Environmental Health, Occupational Health
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Health Impacts of the Environment
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Exercise Physiology, Skeletal Muscle, Physiological Simulation
Associate Chair and Associate Professor
Research Interests: Cell Signaling, Respiratory Viruses, Cell Cycle, Aging
Director, Center for Personal Development
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Genome Instability, DNA Damage Response
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Environmental Pollution and Impact, Environmental Management, Environmental Health and Safety, Environmental Modeling
Associate Professor
(Director of the Research Division, Department of Family Medicine, Georgetown University Hospital)
Research Interests: Clinical Trials, Probiotics, Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Primary Care Medicine
Assistant Professor
Leslie Nickels
Adjunct Assistant Professor
(Team Lead-Office of Health Communication, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health)
Research Interest: Work and Workplaces as Social Determinants of Health
Adjunct Assistant Professor
(Vice President of Student Affairs, Georgetown University)
Research Interests: Health Promotion, College Student Development, Team Dynamics, Group Dynamics, College Health, Community Development
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Health Promotion, Well Being, College Student Development, Curriculum Infusion
Adjunct Assistant Professor
(Assistant Director for Science Programs, CNDLS)
Professor
Research Interests: Regulatory Science and Medicine, Public Policy (Health, Education), Experimental Therapeutics and Neuropharmacology, Neurodegenerative Disorders (Parkinson's and Huntington diseases)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Cell Biology; Lysosome-Related Organelle Biogenesis
Associate Professor
(Chair of the Department of Family Medicine, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Breast Cancer, Genetics, DNA Damage Response, Cell Cycle
Our Staff
Lab Coordinator, Discovery Center
