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Kira Taylor

Assoc Professor

School of Public Health and Information Sciences

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  • Assoc Professor
    School of Public Health and Information Sciences
  • University of Louisville, Epidemiology and Population Health, 485 E Gray St, Louisville, KY, 40202, USA

BIO

B.A., Biology, Rice University

M.S., Biological Sciences, Stanford University 
Research focus: human and molecular genetics 

M.A.Ed., Science Education, Wake Forest University

Ph.D., Epidemiology, Emory University

Dissertation research: genetic and environmental influences on reproductive traits.

 
Postdoctoral Fellowship: UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Epidemiology
Research focus: genetic epidemiology as applied to cardiovascular disease-related traits.

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Assistant Professor
    University of Louisville, Epidemiology and Population Health, Louisville, United States1 Aug 2011 - 30 Jun 2017

NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Science Teacher
    TASIS - England, Thorpe, England1 Aug 2002 - 30 May 2004
  • Science Teacher
    The Westminster Schools, Atlanta, GA, USA1 Aug 2000 - 30 May 2002

DEGREES

  • PhD, Epidemiology
    Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA1 Aug 2004 - 30 Sep 2009
  • MAEd
    Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, USA1 Jun 1999 - 31 Jul 2000
  • MS
    Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA1 Sep 1997 - 30 May 1999
  • BA
    Rice University, Houston, TX, USA15 Aug 1993 - 15 May 1997

POSTGRADUATE TRAINING

  • Postdoctoral Fellow
    UNC-Chapel Hill, Epidemiology, Chapel Hill, NC, USA1 Oct 2009 - 31 Jul 2011
    Genetic EpidemiologyPostdoctoral FellowshipSupervised by North KN