Team
Dr. Marie Krousel-Wood, Professor, mawood@tulane.edu
“Tonette” Krousel-Wood, MD, MSPH, FACPM, FAHA
Professor and the Jack Aron Chair in Primary Care Medicine
Associate Provost for the Health Sciences
Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs-SOM
Associate Dean for Public Health & Medical Education- SPHTM and SOM
The Center for Health Outcomes, Implementation & Community Engaged Sciences (CHOICES) is supported in part by the Jack Aron Chair in Primary Care Medicine and under the direction of Dr. M. The Center’s vision is to improve health outcomes, achieve health equity, and increase access and quality of primary and preventive care in Louisiana, the Gulf South, and beyond. CHOICES is accomplishing its goals by conducting community-engaged, interdisciplinary, investing Louisiana, the Gulf South, and beyond. CHOICES is accomplishing its goals by conducting community-engaged, interdisciplinary, investigator-initiated, extramurally funded clinical, translational, and population-based research; broadly disseminating researching findings; and fostering the career development of the next generation of research scholars. Out work supports our communities in Louisiana and neighboring Gulf South areas through community-engaged research addressing pressing clinical and public health problems to support health equity, fostering the career development of students/ residents/faculty pursuing academic and research careers, and increasing knowledge and awareness of primary care and preventive medicine research.
Dr. Erin Peacock, Assistant Professor, BIRCWH Scholar, epeacoc@tulane.edu
Dr. Erin Peacock is an Assistant Professor in the Center for Health Outcomes, Implementation, and Community Engaged Science (CHOICES) at the Tulane University School of Medicine. Dr. Peacock received her PhD in Global Health Systems and Development from the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. Her research focuses on implementation of evidence-based interventions that account for sex-specific barriers and preferences to promote cardiovascular health in primary care settings. Dr. Peacock is Co-Investigator on NIH- funded research studies, including the Implementation of Multi-faceted patient- centered treatment strategies for intensive blood pressure control (IMPACTS) study, which aims to improve blood pressure control among low income and rural patients of federally qualified health centers in the Gulf South, and the Louisiana Community Engagement Research Alliance (LA-CEAL), which supports academic- community- public health-practice partnerships to address health disparities in Louisiana.
Dr. Laura Perry, Assistant Professor, lperry5@tulane.edu
Dr. Perry is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and joined the newly established Center for Health Outcomes, Implementation, and Community-Engaged Science in July 2023. She conducts psychosocial research and behavioral interventions to improve chronic disease prevention and management. Her work emphasizes personality and motivation, patient- reported outcomes, digital health, and implementation science. Dr. Perry received a PhD in Health Psychology from Tulane University in 2021 and she recently completed an NIH-funded postdoctoral fellowship at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Behavioral and Psychospical Research for Cancer Prevention and Control.
Katie Fabian, MPH kfabian@tulane.edu
Katie received her master’s degree in public health, community health education, in 2020 from the University of Lynchburg in Virginia. She moved down south in 2020, working in health promotion at Tulane University and Curriculum Development in Self-care and Mental Health with the School of Nursing at the University of Mississippi. Since joining the CHOICES team, she has been responsible for the implementation and day-to-day management of research and evaluation activities for various projects. In her free time, she listens to health- related podcasts, enjoying the outdoors, and exploring the city of New Orleans.
Lily Fitzgerald, BS efitzgerald@tulane.edu
Lily received her Bachelors of Science in Public Health in December 2023 from Tulane University. She currently works as one of the Clinical Research Coordinator for the STARMAP study with CHOICES in New Orleans and Metairie. Lily conducts visits with participants and helps with recruitment. She enjoys walking and exploring New Orleans, playing games, and doing crafts.
