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New assistant professors hail from Purdue University and Pardee RAND Graduate School
March 3, 2009
Two researchers with interests in health disparities and childhood language disorders are the latest tenure-track faculty members to join the Arnold School of Public Health.
Denise A. Finneran
D. Phuong "Phoenix" Do
Dr. Denise A. Finneran, who earned her doctorate from Purdue University in 2008, is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders.
Dr. D. Phuong "Phoenix" Do, who earned a doctorate from the Pardee RAND Graduate School in 2006, is an assistant professor in the Department of Health Services Policy and Management.
Finneran earned her bachelor’s degree (‘91) and her master’s degree (‘93) from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
A licensed speech-language pathologist, Finneran was an instructor, guest lecturer, undergraduate student research supervisor and clinical supervisor at Purdue.
At USC, she is a member of the Child Language Research Group, a team that evaluates the effects of services to young children with impaired communication systems. The team is one of several programs based at the USC Speech and Hearing Research Center.
Do earned her bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from UCLA in 1995 and her master’s from the Pardee RAND Graduate School in Santa Monica, CA in 2002.
After graduating from UCLA, she worked as a Peace Corps volunteer in Mali, West Africa and a stress analyst for Hughes Space and Communications Co.
Before joining the Arnold Faculty, she was a Kellogg Health Disparities Scholar at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research.
