Tag health/medicine, human

David Harris

Assistant professor, Division of Minimally Invasive Surgery

Specializes in minimally invasive surgery and bariatric surgery. Runs a basic science lab focused on the intersection of surgery, metabolism, and aging

Michal Engelman

Associate Professor, Sociology; Director, Wisconsin Longitudinal Study

Expert on social, economic, racial/ethnic, and geographic disparities in life expectancy and health at older ages.

Brittany Travers

Associate Professor, Occupational Therapy Program in Kinesiology Department

Expert on sensorimotor features, daily living skills, and neuroimaging in autism

Ryan Juza

Associate professor, Department of Surgery; Division of Minimally Invasive Surgery

Specializes in Robotics and specifically robotic abdominal wall reconstruction, minimally invasive surgery, and surgical endoscopy.

Christine Durrance

Associate Professor

Expert on health economics and policy, reproductive/maternal/infant health, risky behavior (e.g., substance use, opioid use), competition policy and antitrust in health care markets

Nicole Werner

Assistant professor, Department of Surgery; Division of Acute Care and Regional General Surgery

Trauma, critical care, emergency general surgery, surgical rescue, extracorporeal life support

Courtney Balentine

Associate professor, general surgery

Endocrine and general surgery.

Lindsay McCary

Scientist, Wisconsin Center for Education Research

Expert on autism spectrum disorder and neurodevelopmental disabilities. Passionate about education and training of pre-service professionals.

Morgan Jerald

Assistant Professor, Psychology

Expert on how people learn about gender and race stereotypes from the media and subsequent effects on health.

Laura Houser

Clinical Professor, Pediatrics

Primary Care Physician, Director of Advocacy for Department of Pediatrics

Joshua Ross

Chief medical officer, American Family Children’s Hospital and pediatric emergency medicine physician at UW Health Kids.

Expert on pediatric emergency medicine

Vivek Balasubramaniam

Associate Professor of Pediatrics

An expert in treatment and care of children with lung diseases including bronchopulmonary dysplasia, ILD, pulmonary hypertension, and complex lung disease

Shilagh Mirgain

Distinguished Psychologist, Department of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation

Clinical Psychologist specializing in Health and Sport Psychology who has expertise in mind-body skills to foster well-being, optimal health and peak performance.

Rebecca Richards

Assistant Professor, Pediatric Hematology, Oncology & Bone Marrow Transplant

Expert on laboratory research of childhood cancers and novel therapeutics, with a focus on CAR T cells and other immunotherapies.

Tawandra Rowell-Cunsolo

Assistant Professor/School of Social Work

Expert on substance use treatment among legal system-involved individuals; HIV infection among minoritized populations

Yonatan Mintz

Assistant Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering

Expert on application of machine learning in human sensitive settings, ethics of AI, AI in healthcare, how algorithms and humans interact in high stakes settings

Sarah Davis

Co-Director Center for Patient Partnerships/ Clinical Professor

Expert on health advocacy, patients' experiences with health care, and health and civil justice systems transformation

Gregory DeMuri

Professor, Pediatrics, Pediatric Infectious Diseases

Expert on Pediatric Infectious Diseases with particular focus on sinus infections, Upper respiratory infections, Strep infections, Lyme Disease in children, meningitis, school health.

Joseph McBride

Assistant professor, Department of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics

Expert on adult and pediatric infectious disease

Quanyin Hu

Assistant Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences Department; Department of Material Sciences & Engineering

Interested in developing new cell therapy approaches and new drug delivery systems for better disease treatments.

Sheri Johnson

Director, Population Health Institute; Professor (CHS) Department of Population Health Sciences

Expert on health equity, racism and health, children's mental health, population health

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.

Priya Mukherjee

Assistant Professor, Agricultural and Applied Economics

Expert in the economics of health, education, and governance in low income countries, with a focus on India, Bangladesh, Indonesia and Nepal.

Gavin Dehnert

Emerging Contaminants Scientist, Wisconsin Sea Grant, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education

Expert on emerging contaminants--such as PFAS--that could potentially have adverse health effects on humans and negative effects on the environment.

Michelle Chui

Professor/Chair, Pharmacy; Director, Sonderegger Research Center

Expert on improving medication safety for community dwelling patients by focusing on technology, pharmacist/technician workload, and collaboration between pharmacists, physicians, nurses, patients and their caregivers

Emma Mohr

Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics

Expert on congenital viral infections and utilizing macaque models, pediatric infectious diseases

Anna Beck, MD

Assistant professor, Department of Surgery; Division of Surgical Oncology

Specializes in breast surgical oncology with a focus in breast cancer, high risk breast lesions, and patients at high risk for developing breast cancer.

David Mott

Professor, Social and Administrative Sciences

Expert on the pharmacy workforce and the prescription drug channel of distribution

Jorge Osorio

Former director, UW–Madison Global Health Institute; professor, pathobiological sciences

Expert on emerging and infectious diseases, global health, One Health, GHI One Health Centers, vaccines and veterinary medicine.

Ranjana Mehta

Professor, Industrial & Systsems Engineering

Expert in user experience/interactions (UX/UI) when interacting with nascent technologies (e.g., AR/VR, robotics, AI), under vulnerable human conditions (e.g., fatigue, stress) in high-risk occupational domains.

Jaime Goldberg

Clinical assistant professor

Expert on end of life care, palliative care, hospice, grief, aging, caregiving, interprofessional education and practice

Adela Oliva Chavez

Assistant professor, Department of Entomology

Tick-borne diseases, obligate intracellular bacteria, tick-pathogen interactions, host-pathogen interactions, extracellular vesicles, tick feeding, pathogen transmission, vaccine development, tick biology, Anaplasmosis

Karola Kreitmair

Associate Professor, Medical History and Bioethics

Expert on clinical ethics, bioethics, and neuroethics, including ethics of AI in medicine and ethics of digital health.

Jane Seymour

Research Scientist, Collaborative for Reproductive Equity, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Expert on reproductive and sexual health

Tanja Dominko

Professor, Department of Surgery; Division of Transplantation

Turning the outcome of wound healing from scar formation to functional regeneration by modifying wound environment.

Lucas Richert

Professor

Jessica Calarco

Associate Professor, sociology

Expert on inequalities in family life, education, and health decision-making, with a focus on how institutions and policies amplify inequalities in these domains.

Allen Li

Associate Professor/Operations and Information Management

Steve Garlow

M.D., Ph.D., Professor, department of Psychiatry

Expert on depression, suicide and mental health

Ci Ji Lim

Assistant Professor, Biochemistry

Expert in eukaryotic genome maintenance, biophysics, biochemistry, and molecular biology