Sally Mountcastle, PhD

Adjunct Faculty, Preventive Medicine & Public Health

As an epidemiologist, Sally has used her expertise to investigate everything from sexually transmitted diseases to cancer and sports-related orthopaedic injuries.  Regardless of the topic, the vast majority of Sally’s research has been conducted in military populations.  Some of Sally’s most recent research has focused on the epidemiology of ACL injuries and risk factors for shoulder instability in an active military population.  In addition, she has collaborated on the investigation of combat-related injuries during Operation Iraqi Freedom/Operation Enduring Freedom.  She has served as an investigator for two randomized clinical trials investigating surgical treatment for shoulder instability and anterior cruciate ligament tears.   She also serves as an epidemiologist and statistician on a variety of other military-related projects.  Sally completed her PhD in infectious disease epidemiology and previously worked as the Research Director for the West Point Sports Medicine Fellowship.  Additionally, she taught the core Epidemiology course in the MPH program at the University of Texas – El Paso in addition to Research Methods and Biostatistics for Public Health.  Finally, Sally works with the North Carolina Center for Public Health Preparedness developing curriculum for a Central American Field Epidemiology Training Program.

BS	Miami University, Oxford OH	Microbiology
MSPH	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC	Epidemiology
PhD	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC	Infectious Disease Epidemiology