The American College of Epidemiology (ACE) has named Greg Rhee, Ph.D., of UConn School of Medicine a Fellow of the College.<\/p>\n
Rhee serves as assistant professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences at UConn Health.<\/p>\n
His election as an ACE fellow is in high recognition of his significant and sustained contributions in epidemiology.<\/p>\n
\u201cCongratulations and welcome to the College,\u201d shared ACE President Jan Eberth with Rhee in the recognition letter received with a certificate in recognition of Rhee\u2019s election for his professional standing in the field of epidemiology.<\/p>\n
Rhee is an interdisciplinary pharmaco-epidemiologist and health services researcher in the fields of aging and mental health. His current research interests are interrelated and consist of mood disorders, dementias, and suicidality as well as cannabis and opioids. Methodologically, his expertise is grounded in population-based comparative effectiveness and cost-effectiveness research using large databases and also systematic reviews and meta-analyses of existing studies.\u00a0In particular, he has expertise in the use of national health and health care survey data (e.g., Health and Retirement Study and National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey), and federal or state-level administrative claims data (e.g., Medicare and Medicaid).<\/p>\n
He has over 130 peer-reviewed research articles in leading medical, psychiatric, and health policy journals, such as\u00a0American Journal of Psychiatry<\/em>,\u00a0JAMA Internal Medicine<\/em>,\u00a0and\u00a0JAMA Psychiatry<\/em>. His work has also appeared in\u00a0New York Times<\/em>,\u00a0Washington Post<\/em>, and\u00a0U.S. News<\/em>.<\/p>\n In addition, he is the founding director of the Mood Disorders and Aging-related Research Program (MDARP) housed in the Department of Public Health Sciences at UConn. He has been a successful principal investigator or co-investigator on multiple research projects funded by major federal agencies, including Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and National Institutes of Health (NIH). He is an alumnus of the University of Chicago and Yale University. He also holds an appointment in the Yale Department of Psychiatry.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Rhee’s ACE fellow election is in honor of his significant contributions to the field epidemiology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":98,"featured_media":192071,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2429,1868],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[1873],"class_list":["post-192029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards-scholarships","category-meds"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-29 05:22:43","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/98"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192029"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192070,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192029\/revisions\/192070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/192071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192029"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=192029"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=192029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}