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• Faculty
• Donna Berardo
• David Brushwood
• Jessica DeLeon
• Abraham G. Hartzema
• Teresa Kauf
• Carole Kimberlin
• Earlene Lipowski
• Sooyeon Kwon
• L. Douglas Ried
• Richard Segal
• Almut Winterstein
• Emeritus Faculty
• Richard Angorn
• Charles Hepler
• Michael Schwartz
• Affiliate Faculty
• David Angaran
• Barbara Brice
• Judy Davis
• T.J. Grainger-Rousseau
• Robert E. Kamm
• Everett Kelly
• Robert Kilroy
• Frederick Lippman
• Susan Maue
• Lynda McKenzie
• Mary Kay Owens
• Peter M. Pevonka
• James Powers
• Katheryne Richardson
• Wayne Russell
• Michael Stamitoles
• Lowell T. Sterler
• Jodi Sullivan
• Art E. Wharton
• Debbie Wilson
• Jianwei Xuan
• Post Doctorate
• Sonya Snedecor
• Staff
• Shirley Johnson
• Martin Meder
• Kathryn St. Croix

Jessica De Leon, PhD

Coordinator, Research Programs and Services

• BS, Comparative Psychology, UF
• MA, Cultural/Medical Anthropology, UF
• PhD, Cultural/Medical Anthropology, UF

Jessica De Leon's research interests are concentrated on the sociocultural aspects of health and health care among women, under served populations and racial and ethnic groups. Her doctoral research in medical anthropology focused on the relationship between acculturation, household composition and diet and nutrition among Hispanic women and children. While conducting her doctoral research, Dr. De Leon also coordinated a research project to record precise dietary intake data in Puerto Rican preschoolers. To prepare her to work with the Latino community, Dr. De Leon studied

Spanish, cultural anthropology and archaeology at the Universidad Autonoma de Yucatán , in Mérida, Yucatan, Mexico. Current research projects include an exploration of health-related quality of life and health care transition among young adults with sickle cell disease, and the development of culturally appropriate treatment programs for African American, Caucasian and Hispanic women with panic/anxiety disorder. Dr. De Leon's interests also include visual media and visual anthropology. She co-authored a breast examination professional training video, and has had several exhibits of original photographs.  

Doctoral Dissertation :

• Household Composition, Acculturation and Diet among Puerto Rican Women and Children in Hartford, Connecticut.
  

Selected Publications :

• Terry L. Mills, Zenta Gomez-Smith and Jessica M. De Leon. Skipped Generation Families: Sources of Psychosocial Distress among Grandmothers of Grandchildren Who Live in Homes Where Neither Parent is Present. Marriage and Family Review (in press).
  
• Ronald J. Iannotti, Lila J. Finney, Alice Anne Sander, and Jessica M. De Leon. (2002). Effect of Clinical Breast Examination Training on Practitioner's Perceived Competence. Cancer Detection and Prevention 26(2).