Health/medicine, human :: UW

Alyson Eith

Clinical Associate Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders

Expert in the field of Speech and Language Pathology

Larissa Duncan

Elizabeth C. Davies Chair in Child & Family Well-Being and Associate Professor of Human Development & Family Studies

Expert on bringing mindful parenting and mindfulness/compassion practices into evidence-based healthcare and education models to promote equity and well-being.

Jo Handelsman

Director, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery

Vilas Research Professor, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor, and Director, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, University of Wisconsin – Madison.

Lauren Bishop-Fitzpatrick

assistant professor, social work; investigator, Waisman Center

Expert on adults on the autism spectrum

Lyric Bartholomay

Professor

Director of the Midwest Center of Excellence for Vector-Borne Disease and expert in mosquitoes and mosquito-borne diseases.

Gina Bryan

Clinical Professor; Director, Post Graduate Psychiatry Program

Psychiatric advanced practice registered nurse; frequent state and national policy advisor on opioids, nursing scope of practice, and access to mental healthcare

Sterling Johnson

Professor, medicine, geriatrics and gerontology

Clinical neuropsychologist and expert in early identification of Alzheimer’s disease through advanced brain imaging

Cynthia Carlsson

Professor, medicine, geriatrics and gerontology

Expert in diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias as well as clinical trials examining the efficacy of medications to treat or prevent

Wendy Halm

Clinical Associate Professor, School of Nursing

Family Nurse Practitioner; Expert on retail and convenient care clinics.

Amy Kind

Associate professor, medicine, geriatrics and gerontology

Geriatrician and health care/health policy researcher with expertise in Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, with focus on research toward elimination of health disparities

Dr. Doug Jorenby

Director of Clinical Services for UW Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention, professor of medicine

Expert on tobacco and smoking cessation as well as vaping and e-cigarette use

Cara Westmark

Assistant Professor, Neurology

Expert on Alzheimer's disease, fragile X syndrome and the study of dietary interventions in preclinical models

Tracy Saladar

Clinical Associate Professor

DNP-prepared pediatric nurse practitioner also certified as pediatric primary mental health specialist practicing at a federally qualified health center

Adel Talaat

Professor of Microbiology; Department of Pathobiological Sciences

Infectious diseases expert with focus on tuberculosis in humans, bovine tuberculosis and Johne's disease in cattle. Expert in food animal vaccines.

Pamela McGranahan

Associate Clinical Professor / DNP Program Director

Three decades of nursing experience in public health, racial disparities, infant mortality, trauma-informed care, and the impact of childhood adversity and trauma on lifelong health

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

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

Chief, Division of Comprehensive Otolaryngology; Clinical Professor

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 and Medicine

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

Girma Tefera, MD, FACS

Professor, Division of Vascular Surgery

Open and minimally invasive Endovascular Surgery

Joseph Roche, MD

Chief and Associate Professor, Division of Otology and Neurotology, Department of Otolaryngology

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

Alex Nelson

Violence Prevention Specialist, Prevention, UHS

Expert on violence prevention, sexual assault, dating violence, consent, coercion, bystander intervention, primary prevention, PAVE, first-year programming, anti-oppression frameworks

Julie Stamm

Clinical Assistant Professor, Kinesiology

Expert on the consequences of repetitive head impacts and concussions in children through contact sports. Also CTE, concussion management and education, repetitive concussions, anatomy, neuroanatomy.

Robert Golden

Dean, School of Medicine and Public Health; Vice-Chancellor for Medical Affairs; Professor of Psychiatry

Expert on medical and health profession education; medical research; academic health systems; the integration of medicine and public health; mood disorders

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