Tag health/medicine, human

Susan Paskewitz
Professor, entomology
Expert on biology and control of insects that transmit human and animal diseases, including malaria, West Nile virus, Lyme disease


Patrick Remington
Professor Emeritus, Preventive Medicine Residency Program Director
Expert in public health, population surveillance and community health improvement

Bret Shaw
Associate Professor, Life Sciences Communication; Environmental Communicatoin Specialist, UW-Extension
Expert on social marketing and communication related to environmental campaigns, eHealth for disease management

Jon Odorico
Professor, surgery
Expert on beta cell replacement therapies for type 1 diabetes, including stem cell therapies and islet transplants

Edward Bersu
Professor, anatomy
Expert on gross human anatomy and anatomical variations, human embryology

Paul Smith
Associate professor, family medicine; director, Wisconsin Research and Education Network
Expert on literacy, health literacy and their impact on health and health care, and primary care practice-based research

Robert Streiffer
Professor, philosophy and bioethics
Expert on ethics and policy issues arising from agricultural and medical biotechnology

Diane Gooding
Professor, psychology and psychiatry
Expert on identification of risk factors for psychotic disorders, especially schizophrenia, as well as media and mental illness

Charles Snowdon
Professor emeritus, psychology
Expert on primate social, reproductive, cognitive and communication behavior

Roseanne Clark
Associate professor, psychiatry
Expertise in postpartum depression, parent-child relationships, and emotional and behavioral disturbances in infancy and early childhood

Barbara Wolfe
Professor, economics, population health sciences, public affairs
Expert on health economics with a focus on vulnerable populations

Warren Porter
Professor, zoology
Expert on climate change effects on animals, subtle biological effects of pesticides and early detection of infection

James Ntambi
Professor, biochemistry, nutritional sciences
Genetic regulation of metabolism and fat cell differentiation


Kristyn Masters
Assistant professor, biomedical engineering
Expert in cardiovascular biomaterials, tissue engineering and heart valve disease

Hannah Carey
Professor, comparative biosciences
Expert on gastrointestinal physiology; hibernation biology; translating hibernation biology to trauma care

Bruce Christensen
Professor, pathobiological sciences
Expert on mosquito-borne diseases and tropical parasitology

Thomas Friedrich
Professor, Pathobiological Sciences; Virology Services unit head, Wisconsin National Primate Research Center
Expert on evolution, immunity, and pathogenesis (disease processes) of pandemic viruses.

Sarita (Sara) Karon
Senior scientist, Center for Health Systems Research and Analysis
Expert on measuring and improving quality of life/quality of care for people receiving long-term care at home or in institutions

James Stein
Professor, cardiovascular medicine; director, preventive cardiology
Cardiologist with expertise in preventive cardiology and cardiovascular imaging. Research focus on atherosclerosis and arterial imaging

James (Jay) Ford
Director of research, industrial engineering, National Institute for Addiction Treatment (NIATx)
Expert on process improvement in behavioral health and data systems

Tracy Schroepfer
Associate professor, social work
Expert on end of life, aging, cancer health disparities, community-based participatory research, intervention with dementia-related behaviors,

Anita Bhattacharyya
Senior scientist, Waisman Center
Expert on neural stem cells and their use in modeling neurodevelopmental disorders.

Jeri Barak
Assistant professor, plant pathology
Expert on human bacterial pathogens in association with plants, Salmonella enterica lifestyle outside a warm-blooded host

Charles Czuprynski
Professor, pathobiological sciences; director, Food Research Institute
Expert on host defense against microbial infection and on foodborne disease



Justin Sattin
Assistant professor, neurology; Medical director, UW Health Comprehensive Stroke Program
Specialist in acute stroke treatment and stroke prevention

Matthew (Matt) Jensen
Assistant professor, neurology
Expert on stroke/cerebrovascular disease, stroke clinical research, cell therapy for stroke and medical education

Nigel Cook
Clinical associate professor, head of Food Animal Production Medicine
Expert in dairy cattle lameness, dairy facility design, dairy cow well-being, mastitis and milk quality

David Jarrard
Professor and vice chair, urology; director, urologic oncology
Expert on prostate and other genitourinary cancers, including testes, bladder and renal


Michael Culbertson
Professor, genetics and medical genetics; chair, Laboratory of Genetics
Expert on molecular genetics

David Gamm
Associate professor, ophthalmology and visual sciences
Expert in retinal stem cell biology, cell-based therapies, retinal degenerative disease, pediatric ophthalmology

Ricki Colman
Associate scientist, Wisconsin National Primate Research Center
Expert on primate aging, caloric restriction and primate models

Robert Dempsey
Chair and professor, neurological surgery; co-director, Stroke Program
Expert on neurosurgery of stroke, brain aneurysm, brain tumor, head injury

Wan-Ju Li
Associate professor, orthopedics and rehabilitation, biomedical engineering
Expert on musculoskeletal tissue regeneration, adult stem cell therapy, and nanotechnology for biomaterials

Richard Weindruch
Professor, medicine, geriatrics and gerontology
Expert on retarding the aging process by caloric restriction

James Sosman
Associate professor, medicine; associate director, HIV Care Program
Expert on HIV clinical care