Louise-Anne McNutt, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University at Albany, State University of New York. She holds degrees in both Preventive Medicine (Epidemiology) and Biostatistics.  Dr. McNutt teaches courses in quantitative methods and intimate partner violence epidemiology at the University at Albany, in addition to courses in epidemiologic methods and infectious disease epidemiology.  For the past five years, Dr. McNutt had conducted research in the area of intimate partner violence.