Sharon L.R. Kardia, PhD
Millicent W. Higgins Collegiate Professor of Epidemiology, Associate Dean for Education
About Me
Dr. Sharon L.R. Kardia is the Associate Dean for Education and the Millicent W. Higgins Collegiate Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. She holds a master's degree in statistics and a doctoral degree in human genetics from the University of Michigan. Dr. Kardia's research primarily focuses on the genetic epidemiology of common chronic diseases, emphasizing gene-environment and gene-gene interactions. She aims to develop innovative analytical strategies to understand how genetic and environmental variations contribute to disease risk, utilizing various genomic measures from large epidemiological cohorts.