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Todd Newman

Todd Newman

Assistant Professor, Department of Life Sciences Communication

Expert on the intersection between science and society

Sarah  Endicott

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

Cortland Dahl

Research Scientist, Center for Healthy Minds

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

Melissa Rosenkranz

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

James Li

Associate Professor; Department of Psychology; Waisman Center

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

Simon Goldberg

Simon Goldberg

Assistant Professor, counseling psychology

Expert on mindfulness- and meditation-based interventions, psychotherapy, meta-analysis

Thomas Tobin

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nathan Seltzer

PhD Candidate, Sociology, Center for Demography and Ecology

Expert on the Demographic Consequences of U.S. Manufacturing Decline

Daniel Grupe

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

Chad McGehee

Director of Meditation Training at UW Athletics

Expert on training mindfulness and meditation in a range of audiences.

Jason Horowitz

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.

Stephanie Steinman

Clinical Psychologist, Psychiatry Department

Clinical psychologist

Brooke Kwiecinski

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

Psychiatry, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship Program Director

Corrine Voils

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.