Affiliate Faculty

What does it mean to be an affiliate faculty member of the Institute for Women’s Health?

Faculty apply to be affiliate faculty of the Institute, and are selected based on their expertise, scholarly endeavors and history of, or potential for obtaining, external funding specific to women’s health.

Benefits of IWH affiliate faculty member status include:

  • Priority for attendance to IWH retreats
  • Priority access to any research equipment and data collected in IWH space (DEXA, RMR, VO2max data)
  • Priority for application of IWH funds (small grant, publication fund, travel funds)
  • Priority for student scholarships through endowment
  • Input for speaker series
  • Semester meetings / networking

Expectations during time as an IWH affiliate faculty member include:

  • Participate in IWH-related events (e.g., Women’s Wednesdays, attendance at speaker series, participation in retreats)

  • Submit and/or collaborate, with other faculty partner(s), a women’s health-oriented manuscript to refereed journal focusing on women’s health or specific analysis of women as participants in the study

  • Submit and/or collaborate, with other faculty partner(s), to present on women’s health research at one professional conference

  • Submit and/or collaborate, with other faculty partner(s), on an internal or external grant submission, or engage in quality improvement initiatives, related to women’s health

  • Include affiliate faculty member status on CV and all related publications/presentations

Affiliate Faculty - Denton Campus

College of Arts and Sciences 

College of Health Sciences

  • Christine Haines, PhD, OTR - Occupational Therapy 
  • Mark Mann, PhD - Health Promotion and Kinesiology 
  • Daniel Newmire, PhD  - Health Promotion and Kinesiology 
  • Noralyn Pickens, PhD, OT, FAOTA - Occupational Therapy 
  • Rhett Rigby, PhD  - Health Promotion and Kinesiology 
  • Ronna Robbins, PhD, RD - Nutrition & Food Sciences
  • Aya Yoshikawa, DrPH, PhD, CHES  - Health Promotion and Kinesiology 

College of Education

Affiliate Faculty - Dallas Campus

College of Nursing

College of Health Sciences

  • Lisa Griggs-Stapleton, PhD, OTR - Occupational Therapy
  • Jennifer Martin, OTD, OTR, CHT, CLT - Occupational Therapy

Affiliate Faculty - Houston Campus

College of Nursing

College of Health Sciences

Affiliate Faculty by College, School and Department

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Affiliate Faculty Denton Campus Dallas Campus

Houston 
Campus

Total
College of Nursing 3 4 4 11
Health Promotion & Kinesiology 4 - - 4
Nutrition & Food Sciences 1 - 3 4
College of Arts & Sciences 1 - - 1
Occupational Therapy 1 2 1 4
School of Human Sciences/Marriage & Family Therapy - - 1
Total 11 6 8 25

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