Skip to main content

All Experts

Sedona Chinn

Sedona Chinn

Assistant Professor, Life Sciences Communication

Expert on social media influencers, science misinformation, and doing your own research about health & wellness, environment, and politics.

Allison Prasch

Allison Prasch

Letters & Science Nancy Obin Sukenik Professor; Associate Professor, Communication Arts

Expert on U.S. presidential rhetoric, political communication, and foreign policy

Ann Terlaak

Ann Terlaak

Associate professor, School of Business; director, Certificate in Business, Environment & Social Responsibility

Expert on sustainable business, corporate social responsibility and organizational learning

Sharon  Weber

Sharon Weber

Professor, surgery; vice chair, division of general surgery, academic affairs

Specializes in benign and malignant disorders of the liver, pancreas and bile duct, gastric cancer, melanoma, and sarcoma

James Tinjum

James Tinjum

Assistant professor, Engineering Professional Development

Expert on soil, foundation, and geotechnical engineering.

Shanan Peters

Shanan Peters

Associate professor, geoscience

Expert on geological sciences and evolutionary biology

Brad Singer

Brad Singer

Professor, Geoscience

Expert on geochronology, particularly the evolution of Earth's magnetic field and circum-Pacific volcanism

Samuel  Gubbels

Samuel Gubbels

Assistant professor, otolaryngology, Department of Surgery

Expertise in cochlear implantation, hearing loss, ear surgery and regenerative therapies for hearing loss.

John Surdyk

John Surdyk

Director, Initiative for Studies in Transformational Entrepreneurship

Expert on entrepreneurship/social entrepreneurship in U.S.

Ryan  Wubben

Ryan Wubben

Clinical associate professor, medicine; flight physician, UW Med Flight

Expert on prehospital and emergency medicine, helicopter emergency medical services, Global Health capacity development.

Charles Acher

Charles Acher

Professor of Surgery, Vascular Surgery

Expert in diagnosis and treatment of diseases of aorta and mesenteric arteries including aneurysm, occlusive, inflammatory and trauma related

Liad Weiss

Liad Weiss

Assistant professor, marketing

Expert on consumer psychology and branding

David Harris

Assistant professor, Division of Minimally Invasive Surgery

Specializes in minimally invasive and bariatric surgery. Runs WiSLiM lab which is focused on the intersection of surgery, metabolism, organ function, aging, and Alzheimer's Disease

Bill Rizzo

Local government specialist, UW Extension Local Government Center

Expert on civility in local government, and community dialogue and deliberation.

Bethany Laursen

Bethany Laursen

Evaluation Outreach Specialist, College of Engineering

Expert in environmental program evaluation, social network analysis, and how interdisciplinarity works

Michael Peterson

Michael Peterson

Assistant professor, psychiatry; medical director for hospital psychiatry, UWHC

Expert on hospital psychiatry, psychosomatic medicine, emergency psychiatry, law and psychiatry, sleep and psychiatric disorders

Melissa Stiles

Melissa Stiles

Professor emerit, family medicine

Expert on health care reform, geriatrics, palliative medicine, medical education, utilizing emerging technologies in higher education and violence prevention.

Lauren Papp

Lauren Papp

Professor, Human Development and Family Studies; Associate Dean for Research, School of Human Ecology

Expert on intimate relationships and their connections with child, adult, and family health and well-being; Health behaviors and risks (including substance use)

Mutlu Ozdogan

Mutlu Ozdogan

Assistant professor, forestry and environmental Studies

Expert on processing satellite images for environmental information in forested and agricultural landscapes

Leslie Eisenberg

Leslie Eisenberg

Honorary fellow, Anthropology; Archaeologist, WI Historical Society; Research Associate, Center for Healthy Minds

Expert on prehistoric archaeology, bioarchaeology, paleopathology, forensic anthropology, trauma reconstruction, mass disasters