Lesa Hoffman has been appointed the Eugene T. Moore Distinguished Professor in the College of Education at Clemson University in South Carolina. She was a professor in the psychological and quantitative foundations department at the University of Iowa. An interdisciplinary scholar, Dr. Hoffman examines links between psychology and education by using statistical models to understand data relating to human behavior.
Dr. Hoffman received her bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She earned her master’s degree and Ph.D. in cognitive and quantitative psychology from the University of Kansas.
Aiyin Chen was named the Fred P. and Joan Thompson Family Endowed Professor at Oregon Health & Science University. An associate professor of ophthalmology, Dr. Chen currently serves as head of glaucoma service at the university’s Casey Eye Institute. Her current research focuses on how optical coherence tomography and machine learning can advance glaucoma diagnosis, risk assessment, and treatment.
Dr. Chen is a graduate of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. She earned her medical degree from the University of California, San Francisco, where she also completed a residency in ophthalmology and a fellowship in glaucoma.
Carmen Alvarez is the Afaf I. Meleis Director of the Center for Global Women’s Health at the University of Pennsylvania. She has also been named the inaugural associate dean for global engagement for Penn Nursing. As both a nurse practitioner and nurse-midwife, Dr. Alvarez focuses her work on designing interventions for those disproportionately affected by trauma—specifically immigrant Latina women navigating the long-term mental and physical health impacts of adverse childhood experiences and intimate partner violence.
A graduate of Iowa State University, Dr. Alvarez received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in nursing from Emory University in Atlanta. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.
Danielle E. Luciano was named the Health Net, Inc. Chair in Maternal-Fetal Medicine at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, where she serves as a professor and chair of the department of obstetrics and gynecology. A physician-researcher, Dr. Luciano has made significant contributions to minimally invasive gynecologic surgery and endometriosis research. She currently co-leads EndoRISE, a state-supported initiative to improve research, patient outcomes, and education for endometriosis.
Dr. Luciano earned her bachelor’s degree in biology from Boston College and her medical degree from the University of Connecticut.