Tag health/medicine, human

Sarah Endicott

Clinical Professor

Gero-psych nurse practitioner practicing in rural Wisconsin; developed advance care plans for nursing home residents, educates paid and non-paid caregivers of people with dementia.

Cortland Dahl

Research Scientist, Center for Healthy Minds

Expert on mindfulness, meditation, and the cultivation of well-being.

Jessica LeClair

Clinical Assistant Professor

Public health nurse with expertise in the health effects of climate change, climate justice, public health, public health nursing

Paul Lambert

Professor and Chair, Oncology; Director, McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research

Expert on cancer biology, cancer causing viruses

Melissa Rosenkranz

Associate Scientist, Center for Healthy Minds

Expert on mind-brain-body science, with a focus on the interactions among stress, emotion, and physical disease; impact of meditation practices on these interactions

James Li

Associate Professor; Department of Psychology; Waisman Center

ADHD, antisocial behaviors, child development, genetics, parental and social influences, gene-environment interplay

Julia Lubsen

Assistant professor, family medicine

Expert on geriatrics, advance care planning, Balint groups in residency education

Sarah Short

Assistant professor and Dorothy King Chair in Educational Psychology, Center for Healthy Minds

Expert in neuroscience and early childhood brain development studying the role of stress and adversity on mental and physical well-being.

Sami Schalk

Associate Professor, Department of Gender & Women's Studies

Expert on disability, blackness, and gender in contemporary American literature, media and culture

Dan (Danny) Willis

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs & Associate Professor

Nurse scientist focusing on boys' and men's mental health (in the aftermath of trauma and abuse) child maltreatment, bullying, caring and healing, wellness

Sathish Kumar

Associate Professor, Comparative Biosciences

Expert on hormonal regulation of cardiovascular and placental function

Ophelia Venturelli

Biochemistry

Expert on microbial engineering, microbial metabolism and microbial interactions in the human gut microbiome

Cassie Voge

Clinical associate professor, School of Nursing

Expert on oncology nursing and nursing education.

Cody Wenthur

Assistant Professor, Divisions of Pharmacy Practice and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Expert on addiction, abused drugs, opioids, naloxone, psychoactive substances, psilocybin, psychedelics, stress and reward learning, vaccine design, drug development, glutamate

David Upton, MD, FACS

Clinical assistant professor, Department of Surgery, Division of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery

Clinical practice comprises all aspects of pediatric and adult general otolaryngology including sinonasal disorders, ear surgery, sleep surgery, pediatrics, laryngology, and head and neck surgery.

Christian Franck

Grainger Institute for Engineering Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Expert on mechanics of materials, biological cells and tissues, traumatic brain injury, concussions

Art Walaszek

Professor, Psychiatry

Expert in the mental health of older adults, behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD), and graduate medical education.

Girma Tefera, MD, FACS

Professor, Division of Vascular Surgery

Open and minimally invasive Endovascular Surgery

Joseph Roche, MD

Assistant professor, section of Otology/Neurotology

Specializes in otolaryngology, otology, neurotology, and lateral skull base surgery.

Beth Burnside, MD, MPH

Deputy executive director of the Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, professor of radiology

Researches use of computational methods to improve decision-making in breast imaging to improve population-based screening and diagnosis of breast cancer.