Dr. Denic-Roberts joined NINR in 2022 as a targeted Presidential Management Fellow (PMF). At NINR, she hopes to use her fellowship to bridge nursing research with environmental health. Prior to joining NINR, Dr. Denic-Roberts worked as a research associate at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS). There, she worked on various environmental and occupational epidemiology studies focusing on persistent organic pollutant exposures and cancer.
Dr. Denic-Roberts holds a PhD in epidemiology from the School of Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh. Her doctoral research focused on crude oil and oil dispersant exposures and longer-term neurological, endocrine, and metabolic health outcomes among the U.S. Coast Guard responders to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
In 2014, Dr. Denic-Roberts completed an MSc in epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh, where her research focused on complications among individuals with childhood-onset type 1 diabetes. Dr. Denic-Roberts also holds a BSN from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and has clinical experience as a nurse.