If you are interested in becoming a faculty advisor in the Clinical Investigation Graduate program, please complete the Clinical Investigation Trainer Application Form. Keep in mind that Graduate advisors must be on the tenure track. If you have any questions, please contact Deidre Vincevineus (vincevineus@wisc.edu) or Beth Bierman (bbierman@wisc.edu).
- Sanjay Asthana, MD
- Title/Dept: Professor, Medicine (Geriatrics); Associate Dean for Gerontology, Director ADRC; Head UW Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology
- Research: Alzheimer’s, aging
- Bruce Barrett, MD, PhD
- Title/Dept: Professor & Vice Chair for Research, Family Medicine & Community Health, Population Health, Anthropology
- Research: Primary care, clinical trials, evidence-based medicine, acute respiratory infection, mind-body health, behavioral eco-wellness, community engaged research
- Christian Capitini, MD
- Title/Dept: Professor, Pediatrics
- Research: Adoptive cell therapies (CAR T cells, NK cells) for treating childhood cancer
- Melisa Carrasco, MD, PhD
- Title/Dept: Assistant Professor, Neurology, Director Neonatal Neurology
- Research: Perinatal brain injuries, cognitive development
- Richard Chappell, PhD
- Title/Dept: Professor, Statistics & Biostatistics and Medical Informatics
- Research: Analysis and design of clinical trials, link estimation in generalized linear models, survival analysis, models in radiobiology
- Robert Dempsey, MD
- Title/Dept: Professor and Chair, Neurosurgery
- Research: Cerebral ischemia, injured brain repair
- Doerte Doepfer, DVM
- Title/Dept: Professor, Veterinary Medicine (Food Animal Production Medicine)
- Research: Veterinary epidemiology, food safety, global health
- Marina Emborg, MD, PhD
- Title/Dept: Professor, Medical Physics
- Research: Neurodegenerative disorders
- Amy Fowler, MD, PhD
- Title/Dept: Associate Professor, Radiology
- Research: Molecular imaging biomarkers to assess early therapeutic response for breast cancer in preclinical and translational clinical studies
- Ronald Gangnon, PhD
- Title/Dept: Professor, Biostatistics & Medical Informatics, Population Health Sciences
- Research: Applied biostatistician focusing on problems in clinical and epidemiologic research. Current methodologic areas of interest include (1) multi-state models for incidence, progression and regression of ocular (and other) diseases, (2) small area estimation problems, particularly ranking, (3) spatial and spatio-temporal modeling, particularly cluster detection and high-dimensional variable selection and (4) age-period-cohort modeling.
- James Gern, MD
- Title/Dept: Professor, Medicine & Pediatrics
- Research: Asthma, interaction between host and viral factors affecting respiratory illness severity
- Bernadette Gillick, PhD, MSPT, PT
- Title/Department: Professor, Pediatrics; Director, Waisman Pediatric Neuromodulation Laboratory; Director, ICTR Research Design
- Research: Infant Stroke and Brain Injury, Cerebral Palsy, Neuroimaging, Neuromodulation using Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation, Pediatric Rehabilitation
- Andrea Gilmore-Bykovskyi, PhD, RN
- Title/Dept: Associate Professor & Vice Chair for Research, Emergency Medicine; Deputy Director, UW Center for Health Disparities Research
- Research: Alzheimer’s disease and dementia, health services research, qualitative/mixed methods
- Jenny Gumperz, PhD
- Title/Dept: Professor, Medical Microbiology and Immunology
- Research: Immunology
- Bryan Heiderscheit, PT, PhD
- Title/Dept: Professor and Vice Chair for Research, Orthopedics and Rehabilitation
- Research: muscle-tendon injuries; sports medicine
- Hrissanthi (Chris) Ikonomidou, MD, PhD
- Title/Dept: Professor, Pediatric Neurology, Section Chief
- Research: Brain development, Brain injuries
- Bermans Iskandar, MD
- Title/Dept:Professor, Neurosurgery and Pediatrics; Director, Pediatric Neurosurgery Program
- Research: Hydrocephalus, CSF shunt function, CNS Regeneration, Epigenetics, Folate biology
- Daniel Jackson, MD
- Title/Dept: Professor, Pediatrics
- Research: Pediatric allergy, asthma, immunology
- Nizar N. Jarjour, MD
- Title/Dept: Professor, Medicine (Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Pulmonary and Critical Care Division Head)
- Research: Airway inflammation in asthma: respiratory and systemic effects ( e.g. Brain, heart, lungs & muscles)
- Robert Jeraj, PhD
- Title/Dept: Professor, Medical Physics and Human Oncology
- Research: Disease heterogeneity, treatment response assessment, imaging biomarkers
- Sterling Johnson, PhD
- Title/Dept: Professor, Department of Medicine, Geriatrics and Gerontology
- Research: brain function in Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders
- Kyungmann Kim, PhD
- Title/Dept: Professor, Biostatistics and Medical Informatics
- Research: Clinical trials methodology
- Randall J. Kimple, MD, PhD, MBA, FASTRO
- Title/Dept: Professor, Human Oncology
- Research: Translational research focused on combination anti-cancer therapies and cancer biology using patient-derived cancer models and preclinical and clinical studies of novel cellular therapies to treat cancer treatment side effects such as salivary dysfunction.
- Amy Kind, MD, PhD
- Title/Dept: Associate Dean, Social Health Sciences and Programs; Professor, Medicine (Geriatrics)
- Research: Health disparities, geoanalytics, Alzheimer’s Disease
- Mehreen Kisat, MBBS, MS
- Title/Dept: Assistant Professor, Division of Acute Care and Regional General Surgery, Department of Surgery
- Research: In the Kisat lab, our goal is to develop biomarkers to improve diagnostics, clinical management, and outcomes for sepsis in trauma patients using sequencing analysis of circulating microbial DNA in plasma.
- Keith Knurr, DPT, PhD, SCS
- Title/Dept: Assistant Professor, Department of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation; Faculty, Doctor of Physical Therapy Program; Research Scientist, Badger Athletic Performance Program; Board Certified Specialist in Sports Physical Therapy
- Research: human movement and osteoarthritis
- Robert Kotloski, MD, PhD
- Title/Dept: Assistant Professor, Neurology
- Research: Epilepsy, Epileptogenesis, Post-traumatic epilepsy
- Lingjun Li, PhD
- Title/Dept: Professor, Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences and Chemistry
- Research: Peptide hormones, neurotransmitters, proteomics, systems biology, mass spectrometry-based biomarker discovery in neurodegenerative diseases and cancer
- Wan Ju Li, PhD
- Title/Dept: Associate Professor, Orthopedics and Rehabilitation
- Research: Musculoskeletal tissue engineering, stem cell-based regenerative medicine, nanostructural biomaterial
- Glenn Liu, MD
- Title/Dept: Professor of Medicine (oncology) and Medical Physics
- Research: Genitourinary oncology, experimental therapeutics, imaging biomarkers
- Michael Lucey, MD
- Title/Dept: Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology,
- Research: Liver diseases, Alcohol-associated liver disease, Liver Transplantation.
- External funding: Award ID 1R01AA030966-01; Title: 3/4-American Consortium of Early Liver Transplantation-Prospective Alcohol-associated liver disease Cohort Evaluation (ACCELERATE-PACE)
- Sameer Mathur, MD, PhD
- Title/Dept: Associate Professor, Medicine (Allergy & Clinical Immunology)
- Research: Human peripheral blood eosinophils and epithelial cells
- Freya Mowat, BVSc, PhD
- Title/Dept: Assistant Professor, Surgical Sciences (School of Veterinary Medicine), Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences (School of Medicine and Public Health)
- Research: Alzheimer’s disease, animal models, aging, sensory organs and brain, environmental risk factors
- Muhammed Murtaza, MBBS, PhD
- Title/Dept: Associate Professor, Surgery (Surgical Oncology); Associate Director, Center for Human Genomics and Precision Medicine
- Research: Cancer genomics, biomarker development, liquid biopsy
- David O’Connor, PhD
- Title/Dept: UW Medical Foundation Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine & Wisconsin National Primate Research Center
- Research: Genomics and pathogenesis of viral diseases
- Robert Pearce, MD, PhD
- Title/Dept: Professor, Anesthesiology
- Research: Anesthetics and other drugs’ control of memory and consciousness
- J. Carter Ralphe, MD
- Title/Dept: Professor, Pediatrics, Chief, Pediatric Cardiology
- Research: Pediatric cardiology, Cardiomyopathy
- Amish Raval, MD
- Title/Dept: Professor, Cardiovascular Medicine
- Research: Therapeutic Delivery of Stem cell and Other Biologic Agents for Cardiac Repair
- Scott Reeder, MD, PhD
- Title/Dept: Professor, Radiology
- Research: Liver diseases, new MRI methods
- Nasia Safdar, MD, PhD, MBA
- Title/Dept: Director, ICTR Investigator-Initiated & Multisite Research; Professor, Infectious Disease; Affiliate appointments, Population Health, Geriatrics, Industrial and Systems Engineering; Vice Chair for VA Research; Associate Dean, Clinical Trials
- Research: Healthcare Associated Infections
- Marina Sharifi, MD, PhD
- Title/Dept: Assistant Professor, Hematology
- Research: Leveraging liquid biopsies including circulating tumor cells and circulating tumor DNA to detect, understand and overcome mechanisms of targeted therapy resistance in breast and prostate cancer.
- Nader Sheibani, PhD
- Title/Dept: Professor, Ophthalmology & Cell and Regenerative Biology
- Research: Age-Related Macular Degeneration
- Paul Sondel, MD, PhD
- Title/Dept: Professor, Pediatrics
- Research: Graft-versus-leukemia reactions, activation of anti-tumor immune destruction
- Andrea M. Spiker, MD
- Title/Dept: Assistant Professor, Orthopedics and Rehabilitation; Director, UW Hip Preservation Program; Fellowship Director, UW Orthopedic Sport Medicine Fellowship; Associate Editor, American Journal of Sports Medicine
- Research: Femoroacetabular impingement, hip and knee sports medicine, musculoskeletal system, hip preservation, orthopaedic surgery, diversity, equity, inclusion in orthopaedic surgery
- M Suresh, DVM, PhD
- Title/Dept: Professor, Pathobiological Sciences
- Research: Systemic and resident T cell memory, regulation of CD8+ T cell responses to chronic viral infections and cancer
- Susan Thibeault, PhD
- Title/Dept: Diane Bless Endowed Professor, Surgery (Otolaryngology), Communication Sciences and Disorders, Biomedical Engineering
- Research: Mucosal biology, development and immunology of the larynx and vocal folds.
- Giulio Tononi, MD, PhD
- Title/Dept: Professor, Psychiatry
- Research: Sleep and consciousness, the synaptic homeostatis hypothesis, the integrated information theory
- Amy Trentham Dietz, PhD
- Title/Dept: Professor, Population Health Sciences
- Research: Breast cancer prevention, early detection, and outcomes
- Arnold Wald, MD
- Title/Dept: Professor, Medicine (Gastroenterology)
- Research: Constipation, incontinence
- Ryan Westergaard, MD, PhD, MPH
- Title/Dept: Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases
- Research: Communicable disease prevention and treatment, substance use disorders, public health
- Syed Nabeel Zafar, MD, MPH
- Title/Dept: Assistant Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgery; Director, Global Oncology program
- Research: Cancer outcomes, cancer disparities research, global oncology, health services research