About
Christine A. Sorkness, RPh, PharmD, is ICTR Senior Associate Executive Director and contributes to ICTR’s workforce development and mentorship training initiatives. She is the faculty director of ICTR’s 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 trial network.
Dr. Sorkness is affiliated with the UW Allergy, Pulmonary, and Critical Care Division of the UW–Madison SMPH Department of Medicine, and funded by NHLBI, NIAID, and NIGMS as a Principal Investigator or co- investigator. She serves as an assistant director with 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. She is a JCTS Editorial Board Member.
Today, Dr. Sorkness holds distinguished professorships in both the School of Pharmacy and the School of Medicine and Public Health.