Tag health/medicine, human

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.

Ben Zarzaur, MD, MPH, FACS
Chief, Division of Acute Care and Regional General Surgery, Department of Surgery
Expert in management of injured patients and long-term, patient-centered outcomes of those who have suffered injury or an acute surgical illness.

Stephanie Savage, MD, MS
Professor, Department of Surgery; Director of Emergency General Surgery
Expert in trauma and emergency general surgery. Dr. Savage serves as the Director of Emergency General Surgery for the UW Department of Surgery.

Daniel Grupe
Research Assistant Professor, Center for Healthy Minds
Expert on mindfulness practices and related well-being interventions in the criminal legal system