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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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