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Melissa Tabbarah, Ph.D., M.P.H. Research Associate Melissa Tabbarah, Ph.D., M.P.H. is a Visiting Research Associate with the Department of Family Medicine. Afer receiving her B.S. in Biology (Ecology) at the University of California-Riverside, she trained at the UCLA School of Public Health where she received her M.P.H., and subsequently trained as a gerontologist, receiving a Ph.D. in Gerontology from the University of Southern California in 2000. Although her professional success is largely attributed to the training she received at these academic institutions, she received additional statistical training and expertise while employed at the RAND Corporation and the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. As a Pre-Doctoral Fellow of the National Institute on Aging, she focused her research on housing and disability issues specific to older Americans and successfully authored papers on these topics. This success was recognized in 2001 when she was awarded the Heinz Osterburg Prize from the University of Southern California. As a Post-Doctoral Fellow of the Agency for Healthcare Research Quality (at the UCLA School of Public Health), she explored the relationship between self-reported and performance-based measures of physical functioning among a cohort of high functioning older Americans. Dr. Tabbarah works with Dr. Richard Zimmerman's Immunization Research Group. |
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Melissa Tabbarah, Ph.D., M.P.H. |
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