Robert Campbell, Jr., Ph.D., MS, is Assistant Professor in the Graduate Programs in Public Health at EVMS. Dr. Campbell is a retired Air Force officer with over 26 years of distinguished military service, including two tours of service in Afghanistan and retiring out of the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force-Inspector General. Dr. Campbell completed NIH pre-doctoral and postdoctoral fellowships in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the Medical University of South Carolina, respectively. In 2019 he was one of eight national applicants selected as a NIH-NHLBI PRIDE AGOLD scholar (inaugural cohort) and is currently investigating how genetic risk scores can predict the most serious pulmonary outcomes (i.e., pulmonary hypertension and interstitial pulmonary fibrosis) amongst SLE patients of the unique Gullah population, other African Americans SLE and Caucasian patients, and various controls.
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As a clinical research epidemiologist, Dr. Campbell has extensive experiences in health services and outcomes research in academic, federal government, military and regulatory settings. In addition to lupus outcomes research, Dr. Campbell's expertise and research interest includes PTSD, racial and sexual minorities (LGBT) health disparities, pharmacoepidemiology (gastrointestinal, dental, and dermatologic therapeutic areas), and large database analyses.
