All Experts
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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
Letters & Science Nancy Obin Sukenik Professor; Associate Professor, Communication Arts
Expert on U.S. presidential rhetoric, political communication, and foreign policy

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
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
Assistant professor, Engineering Professional Development
Expert on soil, foundation, and geotechnical engineering.

Shanan Peters
Associate professor, geoscience
Expert on geological sciences and evolutionary biology

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

Samuel Gubbels
Assistant professor, otolaryngology, Department of Surgery
Expertise in cochlear implantation, hearing loss, ear surgery and regenerative therapies for hearing loss.

John Surdyk
Director, Initiative for Studies in Transformational Entrepreneurship
Expert on entrepreneurship/social entrepreneurship in U.S.

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


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
Evaluation Outreach Specialist, College of Engineering
Expert in environmental program evaluation, social network analysis, and how interdisciplinarity works

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
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
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
Assistant professor, forestry and environmental Studies
Expert on processing satellite images for environmental information in forested and agricultural landscapes

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