Tag psychology/human behavior

Todd Newman
Assistant Professor, Department of Life Sciences Communication
Expert on the intersection between science and society

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.

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

Simon Goldberg
Assistant Professor, counseling psychology
Expert on mindfulness- and meditation-based interventions, psychotherapy, meta-analysis

Thomas Tobin
Senior Teaching & Learning Developer, Center for Teaching, Learning, & Mentoring
An internationally-recognized speaker and author on quality in technology-enhanced education, especially copyright, evaluation of teaching practice, academic integrity, and accessibility/universal design for learning.

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.

Katie Eklund
Associate Professor, Educational Psychology; Co-Director of the School Mental Health Collaborative
Expert on school mental health, behavior screening, social emotional learning, and school safety in preK-12 schools.

Pelin Kesebir
Center for Healthy Minds
Expert on well-being and happiness, character strengths and virtues (e.g., humility), and existential psychology

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

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

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

Nathan Seltzer
PhD Candidate, Sociology, Center for Demography and Ecology
Expert on the Demographic Consequences of U.S. Manufacturing Decline

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

Chad McGehee
Director of Meditation Training at UW Athletics
Expert on training mindfulness and meditation in a range of audiences.

Jason Horowitz
Clinical Assistant Professor, Director of Child Track, Psychology Internship
Expert in clinical child psychology, including treatment of mood, anxiety, OCD, tics, and behavior disorders.


Brooke Kwiecinski
Associate Professor, Psychiatry; Program Director, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship
Psychiatry, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship Program Director

Corrine Voils
WARF Professor of Surgery
Expert on how we lose weight and keep it off; use genomic information to improve healthcare delivery; measure and improve medication adherence.