About
Christine A. Sorkness, RPh, PharmD, is ICTR Senior Associate Executive Director and provides leadership for ICTR’s workforce development and mentorship training initiatives, as well as the Pilot Awards program. She has a special interest in improving the therapeutic management of asthma in children and adolescents residing in urban settings and serves as a co-investigator with the NIAID-funded Childhood Asthma in Urban Settings (CAUSE) multisite intervention trials.
Dr. Sorkness is affiliated with the UW Allergy, Pulmonary, and Critical Care Division of the UW-Madison SMPH Department of Medicine, with consistent NHLBI, NIAID, and NIGMS funding as either a co-investigator or co-principal investigator. She serves as a faculty member for the NIAID T32 training grant and is a Principal Facilitator for Research Mentor Training with the UW Center for the Improvement of Mentored Experiences in Research. Dr. Sorkness is a long-standing member of the UW Health Sciences IRB and has served on Data and Safety Monitoring Boards for large multi-center national trials.
Today, Dr. Sorkness holds distinguished professorships in both the School of Pharmacy and the School of Medicine and Public Health. She guided the UW campus approvals for the ICTR graduate programs in clinical investigation and has taught graduate courses in the fundamentals of clinical trials and the responsible conduct of research.