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Faculty Bios and Research at the Medical College of Wisconsin

MCW offers you the unique opportunity to earn your degree or certificate while training with nationally-recognized biomedical and health researchers and scientists. You’ll receive mentoring and support from our premiere faculty – listed below by department. We invite you to review their areas of research focus and profiles, be inspired by their experience and success, and encourage you to begin or continue your educational journey here.
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Biochemistry (PhD)

Blake Hill, PhD
Professor and Graduate Program Director
Research Focus: Druggability of Proteins Involved in Mitochondrial Homeostasis in Healthy and Diseases Cells to Identify Molecular Mechanism and Novel Therapeutic Routes
Previous Education: Yale University, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

John Corbett, PhD
Professor and Chair; Director, Interdisciplinary Program in Biomedical Sciences
Research Focus: Diabetes, Beta-Cell Biology, Inflammation Innate Immunity, Cell Signaling, Cell Fate Decisions
Previous Education: Utah State University, Washington University School of Medicine

Nancy Dahms, PhD
Professor
Research Focus: Molecular Mechanisms Underlying the Functioning of Mannose 6-Phosphate Receptors (MPRs) in Mammalian
Previous Education: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine 

Karin Hoffmeister, MD
Professor
Research Focus: Technical University of Aachen
Previous Education: Uncovering the structure and function of sugar molecules and their role in health and disease 

Adriano Marchese, PhD
Professor
Research Focus: Signal transduction mechanisms that control the function of cell surface receptors for hormones and drugs in normal health and disease.
Previous Education: University of Toronto

Ravi Misra, PhD
Professor; Associate Provost, Accreditation and Program Development, Graduate School
Research Focus: Understanding the Mechanism by Which the Serum Response Factor (SRF) Mediates Gene Expression During Early Cardiogenesis, Understanding Mechanisms Controlling the In Vivo Expression of the SRF Gene Itself During Early Development
Previous Education: New York University School of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Emma Morrison, PhD
Assistant Professor
Research Focus: Nucleosome structure, dynamics, and mechanisms of regulation using biophysical techniques including NMR spectroscopy.
Previous Education: Johns Hopkins University, Washington University

Stephanie Olivier-Van Stichelen, PhD
Assistant Professor
Research Focus: Understanding what happens when caloric and non-caloric sweeteners are metabolized
Previous Education:  Biochemistry, University of Lille 1, France

Jong-In Park, PhD
Professor
Research Focus: Proliferative Programs of Normal Mammalian Cells are Interfaced With a Variety of Innate Tumor-Suppressive Mechanisms That Can Trigger Apoptosis or Senescence in Response to Aberrant Cell Proliferation
Previous Education: University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, Johns Hopkins University

Brian Smith, PhD
Assistant Professor
Research Focus: Mechanistic Studies to Determine How Epigenetic Post-Translational Modifications Control Protein and Enzyme Function and Applying These Insights in the Design of Novel Drugs and Chemical Probes.
Previous Education: University of Wisconsin-Madison; University of California, Berkeley; Scripps Research Institute 

Brian Volkman, PhD
Professor
Research Focus: Understanding How Signaling and Adhesion Molecules Interact With Each Other to Direct the Migration and Activity of Cells Involved in Immune Responses
Previous Education: University of California at Berkeley, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Dawn Wenzel, PhD
Assistant Professor
Research Focus: Protein structure-function, cell division, phosphorylation, ubiquitination
Previous Education: University of Washington-Seattle

Secondary Faculty:

John Baker, PhD
Professor
Research Focus: Cardioprotection in Children Undergoing Surgery for Repair of Congenital Heart Defects, Genetic Basis of Resistance to Myocardial Ischemia
Previous Education: University of London, Medical College of Wisconsin

Benjamin Gantner, PhD
Assistant Professor
Research Focus: Studying different types of inflammatory responses to understand how they impact the decisions of innate immune cells (e.g. macrophages and neutrophils) to injure surrounding host tissue

Yan-Qing Ma, PhD
Associate Investigator
Research Focus: Thrombosis, Hemostasis and Vascular Biology
Previous Education: Shanhai Institutes for Biological Sciences

Jeffrey A. Medin, PhD
Professor
Research Focus: Hematology & Oncology
Previous Education: University of Wisconsin - Parkside, University of Kentucky

Daisy Sahoo, PhD
Professor
Research Focus: Mechanisms of High Density Lipoprotein (HDL)-Cholesterol Delivery; Structure-Function Studies of the HDL Receptor; HDL Function; Reverse of Cholesterol Transport; Role of Scavenger Receptors in Cardiovascular Disease
Previous Education: University of Alberta, Canada; SUNY Stony Brook

Raul Urrutia, MD
Professor
Previous Education: University of Cordoba

Gilbert White, II, MD
Professor, Associate Dean
Research Focus: Thrombosis, Hemostasis and Vascular Biology
Previous Education: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Jieqing Zhu, PhD
Assistant Professor
Research Focus: Thrombosis, Hemostasis and Vascular Biology
Previous Education: Chinese Academy of Sciences, Harvard Medical School

Bioethics (MA & Certificate)

Fabrice Jotterand, MA, PhD
Professor and Graduate Program Director, Graduate Program in Bioethics
Research Focus: Neuroethics, Ethical Issues in Psychiatry and Mental Health, Use of Neurotechnologies in Psychiatry, Medical
Previous Education: Rice University and McGill University

Arthur R. Derse, MD, JD
Director, Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities, Julia and David Uihlein Professor of Medical Humanities, Professor of Bioethics and Emergency Medicine
Research Focus: Emergency Medicine and Ethics, Confidentiality, Informed Consent, End-of-Life Decision Making, the Doctor-Patient Relationship, Use of the Internet in Academic Bioethics and Medicine
Previous Education: University of Wisconsin Medical School and the University of Wisconsin Law School

Cynthiane J. Morgenweck, MD, MA
Associate Clinical Professor of Bioethics and Medical Humanities
Research Focus: Ethical Issues Related to the Surgical Experience, Informed Consent, Clinical Trials and Placebo Surgery, Do Not Resuscitate Orders, Use of Scarce Resources, Errors in Medicine, Pain Management and Palliative Care, Professionalism, Ethics and Mental Health Care

Ryan Spellecy, PhD
Professor and Ursula von der Ruhr Chair in Bioethics
Research Focus: Ethical Issues in Mental Illness and Mental Health, Death and Dying, Bioethics, Research Ethics and Integrity
Previous Education: University of Utah

Bioinformatics (MS)

Primary Faculty:

Anne Clough, PhD
Professor, Co-Director
Research Focus: Medical Imaging, Mathematical Modeling, Integral Equations

Daniel Rowe, PhD
Professor
Research Focus:  Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Computational Sciences
Previous Education: University of California, Riverside; California Institute of Technology, Pasadena

Serdar Bozdag, PhD
Assistant Professor
Research Focus: Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Machine Learning, Cancer Genomics

Mehdi Maadooliat, PhD
Assistant Professor
Research Focus: Bioinformatics, Machine Learning, Proteomics, Functional Data Analysis and Skewed Distributions
Previous Education: Texas A&M
 

Associated Faculty (MU):

Stephen Merrill, PhD
Professor & Graduate Chair
Research Focus: Mathematical Models in Immunology Utilizing a Variety of Methods Including Differential Equations and Stochastic Techniques, The Role of Randomness in Dynamical Systems, Creativity and Dreaming

Elaine Spiller, PhD
Associate Professor & Assistant Department Chair
Research Focus: Mathematical Geoscience, Probabilistic Hazard Mapping, Uncertainty Quantification, Stochastic Processes and Simulations, Data Assimilation

Allison Abbott, PhD
Associate Professor
Research Focus: Functional Analysis of MicroRNA Genes During C. elegans Development
Previous Education: Tufts University, Dartmouth Medical School

James Anderson, PhD
Associate Professor
Research Focus: Genetics and Biochemistry of RNA Surveillance
Previous Education: University of Florida, National Institutes of Health

Naveen Bansal, PhD
Professor
Research Focus: Liner Hypothesis in Errors in Variables Model, Slope Parameters in Errors in Variables Models, Bayesian Statistics, Normal Distribution, Invariance Minimaxity

 

Associated Faculty (MCW):

Mingyu Liang, MB, PhD
Professor, Director of the Center of Systems Molecular Medicine
Research Focus: Renal Physiology, Genetics & Genomics, Molecular & Cellular Physiology
Previous Education: Mayo Graduate School, Mayo Clinic and Foundation, Medical College of Wisconsin

Biomedical Engineering (PhD & MS)

Ranjan Dash, PhD
Associate Professor and Graduate Program Co-Director
Research Focus: Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Previous Education: Indian Institute of Technology, Utkal University

Said Audi, PhD
Associate Professor and Graduate Program Co-Director
Research Focus: Cardiovascular and Pulmonary
Previous Education: Marquette University 

Scott Beardsley, PhD
Associate Professor
Research Focus: Neurosystem and Neurorehabilitation
Previous Education: Boston University, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater

Joseph Carroll, PhD
Professor
Research Focus: Applying high-resolution imaging tools (adaptive optics and optical coherence tomography) to the study of the human retina.
Previous Education: University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Medical College of Wisconsin

Robert Cooper, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Previous Education: Marquette University

Ibrahim El-Sayed, PhD
Associate Professor

Guilherme Garcia, PhD
Assistant Professor
Research Focus: Respiratory Fluid Mechanics
Previous Education: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Taly Gilat-Schmidt, PhD
Associate Professor
Research Focus: Imaging and Instrumentation
Previous Education: University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Stanford University

Jay Goldberg, PHD, PE
Clinical Professor
Research Focus: Healthcare Technologies Management
Previous Education: University of Illinois, Northwestern University

Adam S. Greenberg, PhD
Associate Professor
Research Focus: Neuroscience and Neuroimaging
Previous Education:  Case Western Reserve University, Johns Hopkins University

Gerald F. Harris, PhD, PE
Professor
Research Focus: Orthopedics and Rehabilitation
Previous Education: U.S. Naval Academy, Marquette University  

James Hokanson, PhD
Assistant Professor
Previous Education: University of Pittsburgh

Amit Joshi, PhD
Professor
Research Focus: Imaging

Kevin Koch, PhD
Professor
Research Focus: Advanced Neuroimaging and Orthopaedic Imaging
Previous Education: Truman State University, Yale University

Anne Kwitek, PhD
Professor
Research Focus: Understanding the genetic susceptibility to complex human diseases, with a focus on obesity, hypertension, and cardiometabolic disease
Previous Education: University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, University of Iowa

John LaDisa, Jr., PhD
Associate Professor
Research Focus: Cardiovascular and Pulmonary
Previous Education: Marquette University

Frank Pintar, PhD
Professor
Research Focus: Biomechanics of brain and spinal cord injury
Previous Education: Marquette University

Kristina M. Ropella, PhD
Professor
Research Focus: Imaging and Instrumentation
Previous Education: Marquette University, Northwestern University

Robert A. Scheidt, PhD
Professor
Research Focus: Neurosystems and Neurorehabilitation
Previous Education: Marquette University, Northwestern University

Brian D. Schmit, PhD
Professor
Research Focus: Neurosystems and Neurorehabilitation
Previous Education: Marquette University, Case Western Reserve

Brandon Tefft, PhD
Assistant Professor
Research Focus: Cardiovascular regenerative engineering and device design
Previous Education: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Northwestern University

Bo Wang, PhD
Assistant Professor

Bing Yu, PhD
Assistant Professor
Research Focus: Optical Imaging
Previous Education: University of Electronic Science and Technology, Virginia Tech

Biophysics (PhD)

Candice Klug, PhD
James S. Hyde Professor of Biophysics and Graduate Program Director
Research Focus: Protein structure and dynamics using site-directed spin labeling (SDSL) EPR spectroscopy to study functional dynamics of bacterial membrane and retinal proteins.
Previous Education: Medical College of Wisconsin, UCLA School of Medicine – Jules Stein Eye Institute

Francesca Marassi, PhD
Professor and Chair of Biophysics
Research Focus: Structure and function of protein-lipid assemblies
Previous Education: University of Pennsylvania, University of Toronto

Jeffrey R. Binder, MD
Professor; Director, Language Imaging Laboratory
Research Focus: Functional magnetic resonance imaging of the brain language systems
Previous Education: University of Nebraska College of Medicine

Matthew D. Budde, PhD
Associate Professor
Research Focus: Development and application of magnetic resonance imaging techniques to diagnose and monitor injuries and diseases of the central nervous system 
Previous Education: University of Wisconsin Madison, Washington University, National Institute of Health

Joseph Carroll, PhD
Richard O. Schultz, MD / Ruth Works Professor of Ophthalmology; Director, Advanced Ocular Imaging Program
Research Focus: Relationship between structure and function in visual systems in both health and disease.
Previous Education: Medical College of Wisconsin, University of Rochester 

Jimmy B. Feix, PhD
Professor
Research Focus: Utilizing site-directed spin labeling (SDSL) EPR spectroscopy and other biophysical and biochemical techniques to work on problems related to the membrane interactions of peptides and proteins and the structure and dynamics of membrane proteins.
Previous Education: University of Kentucky 

Leonardo Fernandino, PhD
Assistant Professor
Research Focus: Cognitive Neuroscience
Previous Education: University of California, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Adam S. Greenberg, PhD
Associate Professor
Research Focus: Biotechnology and Bioengineering
Previous Education: Syracuse University, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

William Gross, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology
Research Focus: Understanding the neural underpinnings of our language system and developing translational applications to patients.
Previous Education: Medical College of Wisconsin

Neil Hogg, PhD
Professor; Associate Dean of Academic Affairs
Research Focus: Nitric oxide signaling, sickle cell disease, and nitrite as a source of nitric oxide.
Previous Education: University of Essex, Medical College of Wisconsin

Kevin Koch, PhD
Professor; Director, Center for Imaging Research
Research Focus: Metal artifact reduction methods for MRI and application development at 7T.
Previous Education: Yale University

Peter LaViolette, PhD
Professor; Director, Quantitative Imaging Laboratory
Research Focus: Creating and validating imaging techniques that improve both patient outcome and treatment efficacy.
Previous Education: St. Norbert College, University of Massachusetts, Medical College of Wisconsin

Michael Lerch, PhD
Assistant Professor
Research Focus: Exploring the molecular mechanisms of membrane protein function
Previous Education: University of California-Los Angeles, University of San Francisco 

Timothy B. Meier, PhD
Associate Professor
Research Focus: Characterization of the acute and chronic effects of mild traumatic brain injury using advanced neuroimaging and blood biomarkers.
Previous Education: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Medical College of Wisconsin

L. Tugan Muftuler, PhD
Professor
Research Focus: Fast imaging techniques using non-Cartesian sampling methods
Previous Education: Orta Dogu Technical University, University of California

Andrew S. Nencka, PhD
Associate Professor, Radiology; Associate Director, Center for Imaging Research
Research Focus: Leveraging the phase of acquired images, along with varying received coil sensitivities, to further spatially encode acquired data.
Previous Education: Medical College of Wisconsin

Christopher Pawela, PhD
Associate Professor
Research Focus: Identifying reorganizational changes in brain associated with injury and disease.
Previous Education: University of Wisconsin, Medical College of Wisconsin

Eric Paulson, PhD
Professor
Research Focus: Development and application of advanced MRI imaging technologies for MRI-guided radiation treatment planning
Previous Education: Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee School of Engineering 

Kathleen Schmainda, PhD
Professor
Research Focus: Development of MRI methods to assess brain tumor angiogenesis and invasion.
Previous Education: Harvard-MIT, Massachusetts General Hospital

Jason W. Sidabras, PhD
Assistant Professor
Research Focus: Magnetic resonance technology and method development to study the function/structure relationship of enzymes
Previous Education: Technical University Dortmund, Marquette University, Milwaukee School of Engineering

W. Karol Subczynski,
Professor
Research Focus: Investigating the physical properties of lipid bilayer membranes and studying the formation of raft domains in model and biological membranes.
Previous Education: Lomonosov Moscow State University, Jagiellonian University

Jeannette Vasquez-Vivar, PhD
Professor; Associate Director, Redox Biology Program
Research Focus: Cell-specific redox mechanisms disrupting normal cellular homeostasis, with emphasis on the fetal brain, heart, and endothelial cells.
Previous Education: Universidade de São Paulo, Medical College of Wisconsin

Jacek Zielonka, PhD, DSc
Assistant Professor
Research Focus: The development of new, rapid methods of detection of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species.
Previous Education: Lodz University of Technology

Biostatistics (PhD)

Kwang Woo Ahn, PhD 
Professor; Graduate Program Director
Research Focus:Nonlinear Time Series Analysis, Survival Analysis, Bayesian Statistics
Previous Education: University of Iowa

Brent Logan, PhD 
Professor; Division Director
Research Focus:Multiple Comparison Procedures, Clinical Trial Design, Survival Analysis
Previous Education: Northwestern University

Anjishnu Banerjee, PhD 
Associate Professor
Previous Education: Duke University

Ruta Brazauskas, PhD 
Associate Professor
Research Focus:Survival Analysis, Competing Risks
Previous Education: Medical College of Wisconsin

Raphael Fraser, PhD 
Assistant Professor
Research Focus:Survival analysis, clinical trials, Bayesian biostatistics, survey methods and empirical process theory
Previous Education:Florida State University

Noorie Hyun, PhD
Assistant Professor
Research Focus: Address time-to-event data (particularly interval censored data) and complex probability samples in health science.

Soyoung Kim, PhD
Associate Professor
Research Focus: Survival analysis, casual inference, biomarker evaluation, missing data, case-cohort studies, and multivariate Previous Education: University of North Carolina

Prakash Laud, PhD
Professor
Research Focus: Bayesian Statistics
Previous Education: University of Missouri

Chien-Wei (Masaki) Lin, PhD 
Associate Professor
Research Focus: Statistical data analysis using different types of omics data, including single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), copy number variation (CNV), DNA methylation, gene expression, proteomics (peptide), and metabolomics. 

Rodney Sparapani, PhD
Assistant Professor
Previous Education: Medical College of Wisconsin

Aniko Szabo, PhD
Professor & Director of the Biostatistics Consulting Service
Research Focus: Statistical Modeling of Biomedical Data
Previous Education: The University of Memphis

Sergey Tarima, PhD
Associate Professor
Research Focus: Methods on Using Additional Information in Statistical Estimation; Estimation on Missing, Censored and Partially Grouped Data; Survey Data Analysis
Previous Education: University of Kentucky

Tao Wang, PhD
Associate Professor
Research Focus: Statistical Genetics With an Emphasis on Statistical Modeling of Quantitative Trait Loci and Association Analysis of SNPs and Haplotypes
Previous Education: North Carolina State University

Mei-Jie Zhang, PhD
Professor
Research Focus: Survival Analysis, Inference From Stochastic Processes, Non-Linear Models, Direct Modeling the Competing Risks Data and Multi-State Data
Previous Education: Florida State University 

Cell & Developmental Biology (PhD)

Brian A. Link, PhD
Graduate Program Director, Professor, Cell Biology, Neurobiology & Anatomy
Research Focus: Cell Signaling Underlying Development and Disease
Previous Education: Oregon Health Sciences University, Harvard University

Jonathan S. Marchant, MA, PhD
Marcus Professor; Chair, Cell Biology, Neurobiology & Anatomy
Research Focus: Calcium signaling & human disease
Previous Education: Cambridge University

Xiaowen Bai, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Research Focus: Stem cell-mediated tissue regeneration, human stem cell-based disease modeling, non-coding RNA and mitochondrial mechanisms in neurodegeneration
Previous Education: MD, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China, PhD, Stem Cell Center, Beijing University, Beijing, China

Ivor J. Benjamin, MD
Director, Cardiovascular Center, Professor, Department of Medicine
Research Focus: General Cardiology, Inheritable Cardiac Failure and Myocardial Infarction
Previous Education: Johns Hopkins University

Joseph Carroll, PhD
Richard O. Schultz / Ruth Works Professor in Ophthalmology, Biophysics, Cell Biology, Neurobiology, & Biomedical Engineering
Research Focus: High-Resolution Retinal Imaging and Structure-Function Relationships in the Human Retina
Previous Education: Medical College of Wisconsin 

Shyam S. Chaurasia, MSc, PhD
Associate Professor, Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences
Research Focus: Diabetic Retinopathy, AMD & Retinopathy of Prematurity
Previous Education: Devi Ahilya University

Lisa Ann Cirillo, PhD
Associate Professor, Cell Biology, Neurobiology & Anatomy
Research Focus: Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Liver Development and Function, With a Particular Focus on the Role Played Chromatin Structure in the Transcriptional Regulation of Liver Genes
Previous Education: University of Illinois at Chicago, Brown University and Fox Chase Cancer Center

Ross Collery, PhD
Assistant Professor, Cell Biology, Neurobiology & Anatomy
Research Focus: Retinoids, Ocular Signaling, Bone Morphogenic Proteins
Previous Education: Trinity College, University College Dublin

Lezi E, PhD
Assistant Professor, Cell Biology, Neurobiology & Anatomy
Research Focus: In vivo studies of molecular mechanisms underlying neurodegeneration, with a focus on the upstream, non-neuronal signals that trigger the onset of neurodegeneration in aging.
Previous Education: University of Kansas Medical Center

Allison D. Ebert, PhD
Assistant Professor, Cell Biology, Neurobiology & Anatomy
Research Focus: Neurodegenerative Diseases, Both Understanding the Molecular Basis for the Disease Progression and Finding Effective Experimental Therapies
Previous Education: Northwestern University

Carol A. Everson, PhD
Professor, Department of Medicine; Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy
Research Focus: The Physical Health Effects of Sleep Deprivation with a Focus on Neuroendocrine and Immune Systems
Previous Education: University of Chicago, National Institutes of Health

Herve Falet, PhD
Investigator, Versiti Blood Research Institute, Assistant Professor, Cell Biology, Neurobiology & Anatomy
Research Focus: Deciphering the cellular mechanisms and proteins regulating normal and abnormal blood platelet production and function.
Previous Education: Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Paris Descartes University

Melanie Gartz, PhD
Assistant Professor, Cell Biology, Neurobiology & Anatomy
Research Focus: I have interests in utilizing induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) to model genetic neuromuscular diseases such as Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy and Nemaline Myopathy.
Previous Education: Medical College of Wisconsin

Nashaat Gerges, PhD
Chair, Associate Professor, School of Pharmacy
Research Focus: Cellular and molecular mechanisms of learning and memory
Previous Education: University of Houston 

Kunal Gupta, MD, PhD, FAANS
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery; Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy
Research Focus: Epilepsy and Functional Neurosurgery
Previous Education: University of Cambridge

Lu Han, PhD
Assistant Professor, Cell Biology, Neurobiology & Anatomy
Research Focus: Heart disease is the leading cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide.
Previous Education: Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences - Beijing China

Quinn Hogan, MD
Vice Chair of Research, Professor of Anesthesiology
Research Focus: Identifying disrupted function of sensory neurons following injury and exploring novel therapies for pain.
Previous Education: Harvard Medical School, Medical College of Wisconsin 

Victor Jin, Ph.D
Linda T. and John A. Mellowes Endowed Chair of Bioinformatics and Data Analytics; Professor, Institute for Health & Equity/Biostatistics; Director, Bioinformatics Shared Resources
Research Focus: Epigenetics, Computational & Systems Biology, Cancer
Previous Education: Queen’s University

Penny Lam, PhD
Assistant Professor, Cell Biology, Neurobiology & Anatomy
Research Focus: Optogenetic/chemo-optogenetic tools accelerate basic research by providing the necessary means for manipulating cell activities using light with high temporal and spatial specificity.
Previous Education: University of Wisconsin-Madison

Brian Lin, PhD
Assistant Professor, Cell Biology, Neurobiology & Anatomy
Research Focus: The overarching goal of my research is to investigate mechanosensitive ion channel signaling in cardiac and skeletal muscle diseases.
Previous Education: Loyola University

Joy Lincoln, PhD
Professor, Cell Biology, Neurobiology & Anatomy
Research Focus: Understanding the molecular mechanisms that regulate normal heart formation in the embryo, and how disturbances in this process lead to congenital valve disease at birth or acquired phenotypes later in life.
Previous Education: University of Durham, England

Daniel Lipinski, MSc, DPhil
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy
Research Focus: Ocular Gene Therapy
Previous Education: Imperial College, University of Oxford

Xuelin Lou, PhD
Professor, Cell Biology, Neurobiology & Anatomy
Research Focus: Synaptopathy, Diabetes, Super-Resolution Imaging
Previous Education: Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Max-Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Yale Medical School.

John Lough, PhD
Professor, Cell Biology, Neurobiology & Anatomy
Research Focus: Efficiency & Maturation of Cardiomyocytes derived from Pluripotent Stem Cells
Previous Education: Washington University

Akiko Mammoto, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Research Focus: The role of angiogenesis and aging in organ development, regeneration, and pathology. 
Previous Education: Osaka City University

Alan Mast, MD, PhD
Medical Director, Transfusion Medicine Senior Investigator, Associate Professor, Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy
Research Focus: Tissue Factor Pathway Inhibitor
Previous Education: Duke University

John D. McCorvy, PhD
Assistant Professor, Cell Biology, Neurobiology & Anatomy
Research Focus: G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) recognition and signaling involved in various psychoactive and physiological effects present in human disease
Previous Education: University of NC-Chapel Hill, Purdue University, Texas Tech University

Joel Miesfeld, PhD
Assistant Professor, Cell Biology, Neurobiology & Anatomy
Research Focus: Understanding the gene regulatory networks associated with development and disease of the neural retina, with a focus on retinal ganglion cells (RGCs), the pathogenic target in glaucoma.
Previous Education: Medical College of Wisconsin

Peter J. Newman, PhD
Vice President for Research, Versiti Blood Center of Wisconsin; Associate Director, Versiti Blood Research Institute Professor, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Cell Biology, Neurobiology, and Anatomy
Research Focus: Cell and Molecular Biology of Adhesion Receptors, Vascular Biology, and Signal Transduction
Previous Education: St. Louis University

Bin Pan, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology
Research Focus: Mechanisms of neuropathic pain and chronic pain induced depression
Previous Education: Xi’an Jiaotong University – China, University of California – Berkeley

Teresa Patitucci, PhD
Associate Professor
Research Focus: Human anatomy, regenerative medicine, and neuroscience
Previous Education: Medical College of Wisconsin

Michaela Patterson, PhD
Associate Professor
Research Focus: Stem Cells and Development
Previous Education: University of Southern California, University of California, Bates College

Frank A. Pintar, PhD
Professor of Neurosurgery, Director, VA Neurosciences Labs
Research Focus: The Biomechanics of Brain and Spinal Cord Injury, Mechanics of Spine Surgical Techniques, Military and Motor Vehicle Crash Trauma
Previous Education: Marquette University

John Pulikkan, PhD
Assistant Professor
Research Focus: The interplay between transcription factors and chromatin dynamics in normal and malignant hematopoietic stem cells.
Previous Education: Ludwig Maximilian University

Ramani Ramchandran, PhD
Professor
Research Focus: Blood Vessel Patterning in Vertebrates and its Application to Human Disease
Previous Education: Medical College of Georgia, Harvard Medical School

Sridhar Rao, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Versiti Blood Research Institute, Cell Biology, Neurobiology & Anatomy  
Research Focus: Transcription of Regulation of Stem Cells
Previous Education: Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Children’s Hospital, Boston

Miranda Scalabrino, PhD
Assistant Professor, Cell Biology, Neurobiology & Anatomy
Research Focus: Distinguish between the positive and negative changes the retina undergoes as a reaction to inherited disease impacting vision.
Previous Education: University of Florida

Elena Semina, PhD
Professor & Chair, Division of Developmental Biology, Department of Pediatrics
Research Focus: Discovery of Genes Underlying Complex Developmental Disorders With an Emphasis on Developmental Glaucoma
Previous Education: National Center for Medical Genetics, Moscow, Russia; Research Centre for Medical Genetics of Russian Academy of Sciences; University of Iowa

Qizhen Shi, MD, PhD
 Associate Professor, Hematology and Oncology - Pediatrics
Research Focus: Hemophilia, the association between VWF and FVIII, gene therapy, immune response in hemophilia gene therapy
Previous Education: Fujian Medical University, Medical College of Wisconsin

Roy L. Silverstein, MD
Professor and Chair, Department of Medicine
Research Focus: Molecular and Cellular Pathogenesis of Thrombosis, Atherosclerosis and Angiogenesis with Focus on the Role of the Type 2 Scavenger Receptor CD36
Previous Education: Emory University School of Medicine

Rashmi Sood, PhD
Associate Professor of Pathology
Research Focus: Vascular Bed of the Placenta and the Mechanism of Pregnancy-Related Cardiovascular Disorders
Previous Education: Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, University of Bombay, India; Versiti Blood Research Institute, Blood Center of Wisconsin 

Andrew Spearman, MD
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics
Research Focus: Vascular remodeling, Endothelial cell biology, heart disease
Previous Education: New York University School of Medicine

Cheryl L. Stucky, PhD
Marvin Wagner Endowed Professor, Cell Biology, Neurobiology & Anatomy; Director, Neuroscience Doctoral Program
Research Focus: Touch and Pain: Transduction mechanisms under normal and disease states
Previous Education: University of Minnesota; University of Wurzburg, Wurzburg, Germany

Daochun Sun, PhD
Assistant Professor, Cell Biology, Neurobiology & Anatomy
Research Focus: Tumor heterogeneity is a challenge from benchside to bedside.
Previous Education: School of Medicine, Wayne State University BS, Yantai University

Ken Taniguchi, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, Division of Pediatric Surgery
Research Focus:  Stem cell-based tools to investigate molecular and cellular mechanisms of early human embryogenesis
Previous Education: University of Michigan Medical School

Aoy Tomita-Mitchell, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, Division of Pediatric Surgery
Research Focus:  Genetics of Congenital Heart Diseases
Previous Education:  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Matthew B. Veldman, PhD
Assistant Professor
Research Focus: I am leading my research group to actively work at the interface of cancer and stem cell biology
Previous Education: UCLA, University of Michigan, University of Minnesota 

Dorothee Weihrauch, DVM, PhD
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
Research Focus: Coronary Collateral Growth and Impaired Angiogenesis in Diabetes
Previous Education: National Taiwan Normal University; Ohio State University

Nan Zhu, PhD
 Assistant Professor
Research Focus: Epigenetic Regulation of Stem Cells and How Dysregulation of Pathways Contributes to Cancer Development
Previous Education: Boston University

Clinical & Translational Science (PhD, MS & Certificate)

Laurens Holmes, PhD
Professor and Graduate Program Director
Research Focus:
Previous Education: Catholic University of Rome, University of Texas at Houston, University of Amsterdam

John Baker, PhD
Research Focus: Cardioprotection in Children Undergoing Surgery for Repair of Congenital Heart Defects, Genetic Basis of Resistance to Myocardial Ischemia
Previous Education: University of London, Medical College of Wisconsin

Peter Bartz, MDAssociate Professor
Internal Medicine, Pediatric Cardiology, Pediatrics
Previous Education: Mayo Clinic, Michigan State University, University of Minnesota

Mir Abdul Basir, MD
Professor
Neonatology, Pediatrics
Previous Education: Child’s Hospital Albany, Medical College of Georgia, Nishtar Medical College, State University of New York at Stony Brook

D. Woodrow Benson, MD, PhD
Cardiology
Previous Education: Duke University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Amanda Brandow, DOAssociate Professor
Pediatric Hematology
Previous Education: Midwestern University, Medical College of Wisconsin

Ruta Brazauskas, PhD
Assistant Professor
Research Focus: Survival Analysis, Competing Risks
Previous Education: Medical College of Wisconsin

David Brousseau, MD, MS
Emergency Room
Previous Education: University of Virginia, University of Colorado, Brown University

Michael Burke, MDAssociate Professor
Pediatric Hematology, Pediatric Oncology, Pediatrics
Previous Education: Ross University School of Medicine, Medical College of Virginia, Northwestern University

Bruce Camitta, MD
Pediatric Hematology
Previous Education: Princeton University, Duke University, University of Pennsylvania

Laura Cassidy, MS, PhD
Professor, Institute for Health & Society; Director, Epidemiology Division; Director, PhD Program in Public and Community Health; Director, Clinical Outcomes Registries and Research, Department of Surgery, Epidemiology
Research Focus: Pediatric Surgical Outcomes, Trauma, Registry Development, Identification and Evaluation of Risk Factors and Treatment of Pediatric Patients
Previous Education: University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public Health

John Charlson, MD
Associate Professor
Oncology
Previous Education: Medical College of Wisconsin, University of Iowa 

Byung-il Choi, MD
Cardiology, Nuclear Cardiology
Previous Education: Yonsei University, Long Island College Hospital, Philadelphia General Hospital, Yale Hospital

April Dawson, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine 

Kulwinder Dua, MD, DMSc, FACP, FRCP, FASGE
Gastroenterology
Previous Education: Nagpur University, Royal College of Physicians, University of Amsterdam, Showa University

Bruce Dunn, MD
Professor, Pathology

Amy Drendel, MS, DO
Associate Professor
Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Previous Education: Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, Rush Children’s Hospital, St. Joseph Community Hospital

Mary Eapen, MD, MS
Hematology, Oncology
Previous Education: Ahmadu Bello University, University of Minnesota Minneapolis

John Fangman, MDAssociate Professor
Infectious Disease
Previous Education: University of Minnesota, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital

Joshua Field, MD
Assistant Professor
Hematology
Previous Education: University of Iowa, Washington University

Kathlyn Fletcher, MDAssociate Professor
Internal Medicine
Previous Education: University Wisconsin Madison, University of Chicago Medical Center

Nunzio Gaglianello, MD
Assistant Professor, Medicine
Previous Education: Medical College of Wisconsin

Aron Geurts, PhD
Professor
Research Focus: Developing Genetic Approaches Toward Understanding Human Health and Disease
Previous Education: University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN

Marc Gorelick, MD, MSCE
Previous Education: Johns Hopkins University, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Harvard Medical School

Joseph Goveas, MD
Professor
Geriatric Psychiatry, Psychiatry
Previous Education: Kasturba Medical College, University of Chicago Hospitals, University of Pennsylvania

Praveen Goday, MBBS
Pediatric Gastroenterology
Previous Education: Madras Medical College, University of Connecticut

Jon Gould, MD
Bariatric Surgery, General Surgery
Previous Education: University of Wisconsin Madison, Ohio State University Medical Center

Mehdi Hamadani, MD
Associate Professor
Hematology, Oncology
Previous Education: King Edward Medical College, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Research Institute

Stephen Hargarten, MD, MPH 
Professor and Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine; Director, Injury Research Center; Associate Dean, Global Health Program
Research Focus: Injury Prevention and Health Policy to Address the Burden of Injuries
Previous Education: Medical College of Wisconsin

Paul Harker-Murray, MD
Professor
Pediatric Hematology, Pediatric Oncology
Previous Education: Mayo Graduate School, Children’s Hospital

Amy Heffelfinger, PhD
Associate Professor
Neuropsychology, Pediatric Neuropsychology
Previous Education: Washington University

Peter Havens, MD, MS
Pediatrics, Pediatric Infectious Disease
Previous Education: Children’s Hospital Boston, Harvard University, University of Missouri Kansas City

Joseph O. Hill, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology  & Immunology, Medical College of Wisconsin; Adjunct Associate Professor, Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Adjunct Associate Professor; Department of Biomedical Engineering, Marquette University; Co-Director, Healthcare Technologies Management Program, MCW/Marquette University
Research Focus: Technology Transfer, Drug/Medical Device Development, Regulatory Affairs

George Hoffman, MDPediatric Hematology
Previous Education: Children’s Hospital Boston, University of Pennsylvania

Jeffrey Jackson, MD, MPH
Professor, General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine 
Research Focus: Depression, Somatoform Disorders, Meta-Analysis, Qualitative Methods, Health Services Research, Patient Doctor Communication
Previous Education: Washington University, St. Louis 

LylProfessor, Cardiothoracic Surgery
Previous Education: Children’s Hospital Boston, University of Pennsylvania

Srividya Kidambi, MD
Professor, Department of Medicine 
Research Focus: Endocrinology
Previous Education: University of Wisconsin-Madison, State University of New York, Medical College of Wisconsin 

Joanne Lagatta, MDProfessor, Neonatology
Previous Education: University of Chicago

Michael Levas, MD
Professor, Pediatrics
Previous Education: Medical College of Wisconsin

John Lough, PhD
Professor
Research Focus: Heart Regeneration
Previous Education: Washington University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Kirkwood Ludwig, MDColorectal Surgery
Previous Education: Medical College of Wisconsin, South Warwickshire Hospital, Cleveland Clinic

Timothy McAuliffe, PhD
Psychiatry & Behavioral Medicine
Previous Education: University of California Los Angeles, Southern Illinois University, Bellarmine College

Marlene Melzer-Lange, MD
Emergency Medicine, Maternal and Child Health, Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Previous Education: Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, Medical College of Wisconsin 

Asim Mohammed, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
Research Focus: Use of cardiac biomarkers such as NT-proBNP and highly sensitive troponins in the risk stratification and management of heart failure.
Previous Education: Deccan College of Medical Sciences, Christ Medical Center

Seema Menon, MD

Associate Professor
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Previous Education: Wayne State University, University of Pennsylvania

Smitha Menon, MD
Assistant Professor
Research Focus: Treatment of thoracic malignancies which includes lung cancers, thymomas, carcinoids and mesothelioma
Previous Education: Stanley Medical College, University of Connecticut – Farmington, Mayo Clinic

John Meurer, MD, MBA
Professor; Director, Institute for Health & Society
Research Focus: General Pediatric Clinician Education, Population Health Management, Childhood Asthma, Obesity Coalition Models to Chronic Disease Control
Previous Education: University of Wisconsin Medical School 

Linda Meurer, MD, MPH
Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine
Research Focus: Community Based Participatory Research, Aging and Injury Research
Previous Education: Wayne State University, Detroit

Michael Meyer, MDAssociate Professor
Pediatric Critical and Intensive Care, Pediatrics
Previous Education: University of Wisconsin Madison, Wright-Patterson Medical Center, Medical College of Wisconsin

Adrian Miranda, MDPediatric Gastroenterology
Previous Education: Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, Medical College of Wisconsin

Ann Nattinger, MD, MPH, MACP
Professor
Previous Education: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois College of Medicine, University of Rochester

Joan Neuner, MD, MPHAssociate Professor
Internal Medicine
Previous Education: Harvard Medical School, University of Wisconsin Madison

Alan Nyitray, PhD
Associate Professor, Center for AIDS Intervention Research, Clinical Cancer Center
Research Focus: Epidemiology and natural history of HPV infection including both genital and anal HPV infection among heterosexual men, gay and bisexual men, and heterosexual couples. Current focus: developing methods for early detection of anal cancer and implementation of anal cancer screening interventions.
Previous Education: University of Arizona, Tucson

Jennifer Koop Olsta, PhD
Professor
Neuropsychology
Previous Education: Medical College of Wisconsin, Purdue University, Texas Children’s Hospital

Professor, Department of Surgery
Research Focus: Colorectal Surgery
Previous Education: Medical College of Wisconsin

Anna Palatnik, MD
Associate Professor, Obstetrics & Gynecology
Previous Education: University of Tel-Aviv School of Medicine 

Julie Panepinto, MD, MSPH, FAAP
Pediatric Anesthesiology
Previous Education: Southern Illinois University, University of Wisconsin Madison, Children’s Hospital Denver, University of Colorado

Andrew Petroll, MS, MD
Professor, Infectious Disease
Previous Education: University of Wisconsin Madison, Medical College of Wisconsin

Hillary Petska, MD, MPH
Associate Professor, Pediatrics
Previous Education: University of Wisconsin Madison

Angela Rabbitt, DO
Professor, Pediatrics
Previous Education: Des Moines University

Ramani Ramchandran, PhD
Professor, Development Vascular Biology Program and Zebrafish Drug Screening Core
Research Focus: Blood Vessel Patterning in Vertebrates and its Application to Human Disease
Previous Education: Medical College of Georgia, Harvard Medical School

Kevin Regner, MD
Chief, Associate Professor of Nephrology, Department of Medicine
Research Focus: Renal Physiology, Acute Kidney Injury, Biomarkers
Previous Education: Medical College of Wisconsin, Mayo Graduate School

Wael Saber, MD, MS
Professor
Hematology, Inpatient Medicine, Oncology
Previous Education: Ain Shams University, Cleveland Clinic, University of Wisconsin Madison

J. Douglas Rizzo, MD
Hematology, Inpatient Medicine, Oncology
Previous Education: John’s Hopkins University, University of Pennsylvania

Kia Saeian, MS, MD, FACG
Gastroenterology, Transplant Hepatology
Previous Education: University of California San Diego, Medical College of Wisconsin, University of Miami

Matthew Scanlon, MD
 Professor, Pediatric Critical Care, Quantitative Health Sciences
Research Focus: Critical Care, Delivery of Health Care, Medical Informatics, Patient Safety, Medical Errors
Previous Education: Loyola Stritch School of Medicine

Kenneth Schellhase, MD, MPH 
Family Medicine
Previous Education: University of Pennsylvania, University of Washington

Reza Shaker, MD
Gastroenterology
Previous Education: Tehran University, Sinai University Hospital, The London Hospital, Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center, Medical College of Wisconsin

Lynn Sheets, MD
Professor, Pediatrics
Previous Education: University of Kansas School of Medicine

Siddharta Singh, MD
Assistant Professor
Hospitalist, Internal Medicine
Previous Education: All-India Institute of Medical Sciences, St. Francis Hospital of Evanston

Manu Sood, MBBS
Pediatric Gastroenterology
Previous Education: Birmingham Children’s Hospital, Children’s Hospital of Orange County, Indira Gandhi Medical College, Princess Margaret Hospital, Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital, Southampton University Hospital

Julie-An Talano, MDAssociate Professor
Hematology, Oncology
Previous Education: Northwestern University, Medical College of Wisconsin

Grzegorz Telega, MDPediatric Gastroenterology
Previous Education: Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Jagiellonian University, Schneider Children’s Hospital

Danny Thomas, MD, MPH
Professor
Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Previous Education: Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Northwestern University

James Thomas, MD, PhD
Hematology, Oncology
Previous Education: Medical College of Wisconsin

Susan Tsai, MD, MHS
Professor, Pediatric Critical Care, Quantitative Health Sciences
Research Focus: Biomarker development for treatment monitoring.
Previous Education: Michigan Medical Center

Michael Uhing, MD

Neonatology
Previous Education: University of Illinois, University of Iowa

Jerome Van Ruiswyk, MD
Internal Medicine
Previous Education: Medical College of Wisconsin

James Verbsky, MD, PhD
Professor of Pediatrics (Rheumatology), Secondary Appointment Microbiology & Immunology
Research Focus: Immune Regulation, T Regulatory Cells, Role of IL-2 and IL-10 in Immune Regulation, Mechanisms of Suppression of Immune Responses by T Regulatory Cells
Previous Education: Washington University

Rebekah Walker, PhD
Associate Professor, PCOR
Research Focus: Focus on racial and social determinants of health, in an effort to eliminate disparities in patients with chronic disease, with a special emphasis on diabetes.
Previous Education: 

Gilbert White, II, MD
Professor
Research Focus: Thrombosis, Hemostasis and Vascular Biology
Previous Education: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 

 Jeffrey Whittle, MD, MPH

Internal Medicine
Previous Education: Johns Hopkins University, University of Alabama, Medical College of Wisconsin

Ke Yan, PhD
Associate Professor
Specialties: Pediatrics 

Tina Yen, MD, MS
Endocrine Surgery, General Surgery, Surgical Oncology
Previous Education: Harvard Medical School, University of Washington, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Medical College of Wisconsin

Genetic Counseling

Jenny Geurts, MS, CGC
Assistant Professor; Program Director
Morgan Depas, MS, CGC
Part-time Assistant Professor
Amy Donahue, MLIS, MGCS, CGC
Part-time Assistant Professor
Alison LaPean Kirschner, MS, CGC
Part-time Assistant Professor

Theresa Schuck, MS, MA, CGC
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Erin Syverson, MGC, CGC
 Part-time Assistant Professor

Global Health Equity

John Mantsch, PhD
Florence J. Williams Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology & Chair
Research Focus: Neuroscience research, health equity

Kirsten M. M. Beyer, PhD, MPH, MS
Professor
Research Focus: Health Impacts of Neighborhood Environmental Characteristics Such as Green Space and Residential Racial Segregation, Development of Community-Based Interventions to Improve Health and Reduce Health Disparities With a Focus on Cancer Late-Stage Diagnosis and Survival, Attention Restoration and Stress Reduction, Violence Prevention
Previous Education: University of Iowa, Iowa City

Rebekah Walker, PhD
Associate Professor
Research Focus: Focus on racial and social determinants of health, in an effort to eliminate disparities in patients with chronic disease, with a special emphasis on diabetes.

Nathan Fleming, MD
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Fabrice Jotterand, MA, PhD
Associate Professor
Research Focus: Neuroethics, Ethical Issues in Psychiatry and Mental Health, Use of Neurotechnologies in Psychiatry, Medical
Previous Education: Rice University and McGill University

Stephen Hargarten, MD, MPH
Professor and Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine; Director, Injury Research Center; Associate Dean, Global Health Program
Research Focus: Injury Prevention and Health Policy to Address the Burden of Injuries
Previous Education: Medical College of Wisconsin

Laura Cassidy, MS, PhD
Professor, Division Director
Research Focus: Pediatric Surgical Outcomes, Trauma, Registry Development, Identification and Evaluation of Risk Factors and Treatment of Pediatric Patients
Previous Education: University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public Health

Julia Dickson-Gomez, PhD
Professor, Institute for Health & Equity
Research Focus: HIV Prevention Among Drug Users in the United States and El Salvador, the Influence of Structural Factors on HIV Risk
Previous Education: University of California - Los Angeles

Matthew Dellinger, PhD
Assistant Professor
Research Focus: Environmental Health, Toxicology, Risk Assessment, and Epidemiology Environmental Health, Toxicology, Risk Assessment, and Epidemiology
Previous Education: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, University of Illinois

Leonard Egede, MD, MS
Professor
Research Focus: Developing and testing innovative interventions to reduce and/or eliminate health disparities related to race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and geographic location for chronic medical and mental health conditions.
Previous Education: University of Benin

Alan Nyitray, PhD
Associate Professor, Center for AIDS Intervention Research, Clinical Cancer Center
Research Focus: Epidemiology and natural history of HPV infection including both genital and anal HPV infection among heterosexual men, gay and bisexual men, and heterosexual couples. Current focus: developing methods for early detection of anal cancer and implementation of anal cancer screening interventions.
Previous Education: University of Arizona, Tucson

Leah Rouse, PhD
Adjunct Associate Professor

Wangmo Tenzin, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor

German Gonzalez, MD, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Harriet Babikako, PhD2, MPH
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Roy Mayega, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Simon Kasasa, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Tiffany Fraser
Adjunct Instructor

Bryan Johnston, MD
Assistant Professor
Previous Education: Medical College of Wisconsin

Craig Fleisher, PhD
Adjunct Professor

Jared Olson, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor

 Sebastian Ssempijja, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Lolia Abibo, MD
Assistant Professor

Melek Somai, MD
Assistant Professor

Laurieann Klockow, PhD
Adjunct Associate Professor

Healthcare Technologies Management (MS)

Yu Liu, PhD
Chief Medical Physicist, Associate Professor of Radiology, Medical College of Wisconsin
Research Focus: Pediatric Imaging, Advanced Applications of CT and MRI in Radiology and Radiation Oncology, CT and Nuclear Medicine Imaging Using Animal Models, Diagnostic Imaging Radiation Dose Reduction and Management
Previous Education: Duke University

Yonggang Lu, PhD
Assistant Professor

Medical Physiology (MMP)

Melinda R. Dwinell, PhD
Associate Professor
Research Focus: Respiratory Physiology, Physiological Genomics, Bioinformatics
Previous Education: University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of California-San Diego

Hubert V. Forster, PhD
Professor
Research Focus:Respiratory Physiology, Neurophysiology, Genetics & Genomics
Previous Education:University of Wisconsin-Madison

Matthew R. Hodges, PhD
Professor and Graduate Program Director
Research Focus: Respiratory Physiology, Neurophysiology, Genetics & Genomics
Previous Education: Medical College of Wisconsin, Yale University School of Medicine

Alison Kriegel, PhD
Associate Professor and Graduate Program Co-Director
Research Focus: Cardiovascular Physiology, Genetics and Genomics, Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Renal Physiology
Previous Education: Medical College of Wisconsin

Caitlin O'Meara, PhD
Associate Professor and Graduate Program Co-Director
Research Focus: Understanding the cell biology of heart regeneration and cardiomyocyte cell cycle activity.
Previous Education: Medical College of Wisconsin

Microbiology & Immunology (PhD)

Thomas C. Zahrt, PhD
Professor, Director, Graduate Program, Microbiology & Immunology
Research Focus: Bacterial Pathogenesis and Host-Cell Interactions
Previous Education: University of Illinois, Urbana

John Kirby, PhD
Walter Schroeder Professor; Chair
Research Focus: Bacterial Signal Transduction, Microbial Communities, Predator-Prey Dynamics, Xenobiotic Disruption of Microbiomes
Previous Education: University of Illinois-Champaign

Joseph T. Barbieri, PhD
Professor; Associate Director, Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP)
Research Focus: Microbial Pathogenesis
Previous Education: University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Ravit Boger, PhD
Professor
Research Focus: Infectious Disease
Previous Education: Sackler School of Med

Kenneth Brockman, PhD
Assistant Professor
Research Focus: Microbial Pathogenesis, Bacterial Gene Regulation, Host-Microbe Interactions
Previous Education: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Yi-Guang Chen, PhD
Professor of Pediatrics (Endocrinology)
Research Focus: Immunogenetics of Type 1 Diabetes
Previous Education: University of Rochester

Jenifer Coburn, PhD
Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases)
Research Focus: Bacterial Pathogenesis
Previous Education: Tufts University 

Michael Deininger, MD, PhD
Professor, Director of the Versiti Blood Research Institute
Research Focus: Translational research in leukemia, the biology of myeloproliferative neoplasms, and the development of molecular targeted therapies

Bonnie N. Dittel, PhD
Professor
Research Focus: Immune Regulation and Homeostasis
Previous Education: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

William R. Drobyski, MD
Professor
Research Focus: Immunobiology of Bone Marrow and Transplantation
Previous Education: University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry

Michael B. Dwinell, PhD
Professor, Director, Center for Immunology
Research Focus: Cancer Metastasis, Tumor Microenvironment, Mucosal Inflammation
Previous Education: University of Wisconsin-Madison

Dara W. Frank, PhD
Professor
Research Focus: Genetic Regulation of Exotoxin Synthesis
Previous Education: University of Texas, Austin

Martin Hessner, PhD
Professor
Research Focus: Type 1 Diabetes / Innate Immunity
Previous Education: University of Wisconsin Milwaukee

Amy Hudson, PhD
Professor
Research Focus: Viral Immune Evasion
Previous Education: Harvard University

Anna Huppler, MD
Assistant Professor
Research Focus: Infectious Disease
Previous Education: Dartmouth Medical School

Bryon D. Johnson, PhD
Professor
Research Focus: Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy
Previous Education: University of Health Sciences/The Chicago Medical School

Dev Karan, PhD
Associate Professor
Research Focus: Tumor Immunology and Immunotherapy, Molecular Biology of Cancer
Previous Education: PhD, Population Genetics, Maharshi Dayanand University, India

Christopher J. Kristich, PhD>
Professor, Director, Center for Infectious Disease
Research Focus: Signal Transduction and Antibiotic Resistance in Gram-Positive Bacteria
Previous Education: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Antje Kroner-Milsch, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Research Focus: Therapeutic potential of modifying the inflammatory response after spinal cord injury.
Previous Education: Julius-Maximilian University, McGill University Health Center

Robert Lochhead, PhD
Assistant Professor
Research Focus: Lyme disease, inflammation and autoimmunity
Previous Education: University of Utah 

Subramaniam Malarkannan, PhD
Professor
Research Focus: NK Cell Development and Function
Previous Education: Madurai Kamaraj University 

Michelle Riehle, PhD
Assistant Professor
Research Focus: Molecular Evolution, Genetics, Microbiology
Previous Education: University of California 

Nita H. Salzman, MD, PhD
Professor, Director, Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP)
Research Focus: Antimicrobial Peptides, Host-Microbe Interactions in the GI Tract, Microbiota in Health and Disease
Previous Education: New York University School of Medicine

Andrey Sorokin, PhD
Professor
Research Focus: Cell Signaling as Related to Pathobiology of Kidney Diseases
Previous Education: Institute of Cytology Academy of Sciences of Russia

Vera Tarakanova, PhD
Professor
Research Focus: Virus-Associated Tumorigenesis and Virus-Host Interactions
Previous Education: Saint Louis University

Scott S. Terhune, PhD
Professor
Research Focus: Human Cytomegalovirus Host-Cell Protein Interactions During Infection
Previous Education: Northwestern University, Princeton University

James Verbsky, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Research Focus: Immune Regulation, T Regulatory Cells, Role of IL-2 and IL-10 in Immune Regulation, Mechanisms of Suppression of Immune Responses by T Regulatory Cells
Previous Education: Washington University

Demin Wang, PhD
Senior Investigator
Research Focus: Signal Regulation of B Lymphopoieses
Previous Education: University of Tennessee, Memphis 

Renren Wen, PhD
Associate Professor
Research Focus: T- and B-cell activation and the interplay between the immune system coagulation systems
Previous Education: University of Tennessee Medical School 

Anthony Zamora, PhD
Assistant Professor
Research Focus: Viral and cancer immunology, tumor antigens, and anti-tumor responses
Previous Education: University of California, Davis

Xue-Zhong Yu, MBA, MS, MD
Professor, Associate Director, Basic Sciences, Cancer Center
Research Focus: Tumor immunology and cancer immunotherapy

Pharmacology & Toxicology PhD

John A. Auchampach, PhD
Professor; Graduate Program Director
Research Focus: Cardiovascular Pharmacology
Previous Education: Medical College of Wisconsin

John Mantsch, PhD
Florence J. Williams Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Chair
Research Focus: Neuroscience research, health equity

Alan Bloom, PhD
Professor
Research Focus: Drugs of Abuse, Psychopharmacology and Public Policy, Functional Brain Imaging, Neuropsychopharmacology Education
Previous Education: University of Louisville

William B. Campbell, PhD
Professor
Research Focus: Regulation of Vascular Tone and Adrenal Steroidogenesis by Endothelial Factors
Previous Education: University of Texas Health Science Center

Guan Chen, MD, PhD
Professor
Research Focus: Cancer Research
Previous Education: University of Heidelberg, Germany

Cecilia J. Hillard, PhD
Professor; Director of Neuroscience Research Center
Research Focus: Neuroscience Research
Previous Education: Medical College of Wisconsin

John D. Imig, PhD
Professor
Research Focus: Cardiovascular, Obesity, Diabetes and Hypertension
Previous Education: University of Louisville

Sang H. Lee, PhD
Professor
Research Focus: Neuropharmacology
Previous Education: Gyeongsang National University, South Korea

Qing-Song Liu, PhD
Professor
Research Focus: Neuropharmacology
Previous Education: Beijing Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology

Debra Newman, PhD
Professor
Research Focus: Thrombosis, Hemostasis, Immunology and Vascular Biology
Previous Education: Marquette University

Peter J. Newman, PhD
Professor
Research Focus: Cell and Molecular Biology of Adhesion Receptors, Vascular Biology, and Signal Transduction
Previous Education: St. Louis University

Christopher M. Olsen, PhD
Associate Professor
Research Focus: Neuroscience, Addictive Behavior and Novelty Seeking
Previous Education: University of Texas, Austin

Sandra L. Pfister, PhD
Professor
Research Focus: Cardiovascular Pharmacology
Previous Education: University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio

Michael J. Thomas, PhD
Professor
Research Focus: Lipidomic Analysis of Lipoproteins
Previous Education: University of California, Los Angeles; Michigan State University, Louisiana State University 

Carol L. Williams, PhD
Professor
Research Focus: Cardiovascular and Cancer Research
Previous Education: University of Minnesota 

Secondary Faculty:

John Baker, PhD

Research Focus: Cardioprotection in Children Undergoing Surgery for Repair of Congenital Heart Defects, Genetic Basis of Resistance to Myocardial Ischemia
Previous Education: University of London, Medical College of Wisconsin

Ivor J. Benjamin, MD
Professor, Center Director
Research Focus: General Cardiology, Inheritable Cardiac Failure and Myocardial Infarction
Previous Education: Johns Hopkins University 

David D. Gutterman, MD
Professor and Senior Associate Director of the Cardiovascular Center
Previous Education: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine

Wai-Meng Kwok, PhD
Research Focus: The investigation of ion channel modulation in the heart
Previous Education: University of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign

Gwen Lomberk, PhD
Professor
Research Focus: Epigenomic-based pharmacology 
Previous Education: Boston College-Chestnut Hill, Mayo Graduate School-Rochester 

Kirkwood Pritchard, Jr., PhD
Research Focus: Cardiovascular Pharmacology
Previous Education: Ohio State University

Daisy Sahoo, PhD
Professor
Research Focus: Mechanisms of High Density Lipoprotein (HDL)-Cholesterol Delivery; Structure-Function Studies of the HDL Receptor; HDL Function; Reverse of Cholesterol Transport; Role of Scavenger Receptors in Cardiovascular Disease
Previous Education: University of Alberta, Canada; SUNY Stony Brook

Mary Sorci-Thomas, PhD

Research Focus: Elucidating the protective role that high density lipoproteins (HDL) play in preventing coronary heart disease in humans.
Previous Education: Wake Forest University School of Medicine

Gilbert White, II, MD
Professor, Associate Dean
Research Focus: Thrombosis, Hemostasis and Vascular Biology
Previous Education: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Michael Widlansky, MD, MPH
Professor
Research Focus: The role of disturbances in mitochondrial homeostasis in the modulation of vascular endothelial function in humans with Type II Diabetes
Previous Education: University of Michigan

David Zhang, PhD

Associate Professor
Research Focus: Signaling mechanisms by which the vascular endothelium regulates blood vessel reactivity under normal states as well as in diseases
Previous Education: Medical College of Wisconsin

Physiology (PhD)

Hubert V. Forster, PhD
Professor; Graduate Program Director
Research Focus: Respiratory Physiology, Neurophysiology, Genetics & Genomics
Previous Education: University of Wisconsin-Madison

Curt Sigmund, PhD 
Professor; Chair
Previous Education: State University of New York (SUNY)

Allen W. Cowley, Jr., PhD
Professor
Research Focus: Renal Physiology, Cardiovascular Physiology, Genetics & Genomics
Previous Education: Hahnemann Medical University

Ranjan K. Dash, PhD 
Associate Professor
Research Focus: Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Metabolism
Previous Education: Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India; Texas A&M University; University of Washington, Seattle; Case Western Reserve University

Melinda R. Dwinell, PhD
Associate Professor
Research Focus: Respiratory Physiology, Physiological Genomics, Bioinformatics
Previous Education: University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of California-San Diego 

Aron Geurts, PhD
Professor
Research Focus: Developing Genetic Approaches Toward Understanding Human Health and Disease
Previous Education: University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN 

Matthew R. Hodges, PhD 
Professor
Research Focus: Respiratory Physiology, Neurophysiology, Genetics & Genomics
Previous Education: Medical College of Wisconsin, Yale University School of Medicine

Alison Kriegel, PhD
Associate Professor
Research Focus: Cardiovascular Physiology, Genetics & Genomics, Molecular & Cellular Physiology, Renal Physiology
Previous Education: Medical College of Wisconsin

Caitlin O’Meara, PhD 
Associate Professor
Research Focus: Understanding the cell biology of heart regeneration and cardiomyocyte cell cycle activity.
Previous Education: Medical College of Wisconsin 

Hartmut Weiler, PhD
Associate Professor
Research Focus: Blood Coagulation Biology
Previous Education: Abitur Humanistisches Lessing Gymnasium, Frankfurt, Germany


Secondary Appointments:

Xiaowen Bai, MD, PhD 
Assistant Professor
Previous Education: Beijing University in China, University of Texas

Andreas Beyer, PhD
Associate Professor\
Robert Blank, MD, PhD 
Professor; Chief
Research Focus: The Genetics of Bone Biomechanical Performance and of Vertebral Development
Previous Education: New York University, Rockefeller University

Zeljko Bosnjak, PhD 
Professor; Vice Chair for Research
Research Focus: Cardioprotection and Regeneration; Human ESC, Organ-Derived, and iPSC Biology; Developmental Neuroapoptosis in ESC-Derived Human Neurons
Previous Education: Medical College of Wisconsin

Ranjan Dash, PhD
Professor
Research Focus: Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Previous Education: Indian Institute of Technology, Utkal University

David D. Gutterman, MD
Professor; Senior Associate Director of the Cardiovascular Center
Previous Education: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine

Elizabeth Jacobs, MD, MBA 
Professor
Previous Education: University of Kansas School of Medicine - Kansas City

Joy Lincoln, PhD
Professor
Research Focus: Understanding the molecular mechanisms that regulate normal heart formation in the embryo, and how disturbances in this process lead to congenital valve disease at birth or acquired phenotypes later in life.
Previous Education: University of Durham

Hershel Raff, PhD
Professor; Director, Endocrine Research Laboratory
Research Focus: The Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis Focuses on the Short and Long Term Consequences of Neonatal Hypoxia, The Role of Renin in Adrenal Steroidogenesis using the Renin Knock-Out Rat Developed at MCW
Previous Education: Johns Hopkins University, University of California-San Francisco

Roy L. Silverstein, MD
John and Linda Mellowes Professor; Chair, Department of Medicine
Research Focus: Molecular and Cellular Pathogenesis of Thrombosis, Atherosclerosis and Angiogenesis With Focus on the Role of the Type 2 Scavenger Receptor CD36
Previous Education: Emory University School of Medicine

David F. Stowe, MD, PhD
Professor; Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Marquette University
Research Focus: How to Protect the Heart Against Ischemia Reperfusion Injury
Previous Education: Michigan State University, Medical College of Wisconsin, University of California – San Francisco

Ze Zheng, MBBS, PhD
Assistant Professor
Research Focus: Interactions between metabolism and blood clot lysis
Previous Education: Jiamusi University, Wayne State University

Public Health (Doctor)

Jennifer Peterson, PhD
Adjunct Associate Professor
Research Focus: Public Health Communication, Public Speaking, Organizational Communication, Interpersonal Communication, HIV Prevention Communication Messaging
Previous Education: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Zeno Franco, PhD
Associate Professor

Kirsten M. M. Beyer, PhD, MPH, MS
Professor
Research Focus: Health Impacts of Neighborhood Environmental Characteristics Such as Green Space and Residential Racial Segregation, Development of Community-Based Interventions to Improve Health and Reduce Health Disparities With a Focus on Cancer Late-Stage Diagnosis and Survival, Attention Restoration and Stress Reduction, Violence Prevention
Previous Education: University of Iowa, Iowa City

Nathan Fleming, MD
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Jennifer Freiheit, PhD
Assistant Adjunct Professor

John Meurer, MD, MBA
Professor; Director, Institute for Health & Society
Research Focus: General Pediatric Clinician Education, Population Health Management, Childhood Asthma, Obesity Coalition Models to Chronic Disease Control
Previous Education: University of Wisconsin Medical School

Katherine Quinn, PhD
Associate Professor
Research Focus: Racial disparities in HIV/AIDS, including the structural and social drivers of these disparities. She has worked on the intersections and relationships among health and poverty, inequality, housing stability, and homelessness. Additionally, she conducts research with young, Black MSM and LGBT youth.
Previous Education: Marquette University; University of Chicago; Medical College of Wisconsin

Joni Williams, MD, MPH
Associate Professor
Previous Education: Drexel University; Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC)

Staci Young, PhD
Professor
Research Focus: Health Professions Advocacy for Vulnerable Patients and Populations, the Organization of Work Among Health Professionals in Traditional and Community-Based Clinical Settings, The Relationship Between The Urban Environment, Acute and Chronic Life Stressors, and Health Status
Previous Education: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

David Nelson, PhD, MS
Professor
Research Focus: Working With Community Partners to Increase Physical Activity, Improve Food Access, Increase Social Support and the Process of Community Engagement
Previous Education: University of Tennessee-Knoxville

Leslie Ruffalo, PhD
Associate Professor

Alan Nyitray, PhD
Associate Professor, Center for AIDS Intervention Research, Clinical Cancer Center
Research Focus: Epidemiology and natural history of HPV infection including both genital and anal HPV infection among heterosexual men, gay and bisexual men, and heterosexual couples. Current focus: developing methods for early detection of anal cancer and implementation of anal cancer screening interventions.
Previous Education: University of Arizona, Tucson

Public & Community Health (PhD)

Kirsten M. M. Beyer, PhD, MPH, MS
Professor, Graduate Program Director
Research Focus: Health Impacts of Neighborhood Environmental Characteristics Such as Green Space and Residential Racial Segregation, Development of Community-Based Interventions to Improve Health and Reduce Health Disparities With a Focus on Cancer Late-Stage Diagnosis and Survival, Attention Restoration and Stress Reduction, Violence Prevention
Previous Education: University of Iowa, Iowa City

John Meurer, MD, MBA
Professor, Institute Director and Graduate Program Director
Research Focus: General Pediatric Clinician Education, Population Health Management, Childhood Asthma, Obesity Coalition Models to Chronic Disease Control
Previous Education: University of Wisconsin Medical School

Ruta Brazauskas, PhD
Associate Professor, Institute for Health & Equity
Research Focus: Survival Analysis and Competing Risks Theory
Previous Education: Medical College of Wisconsin

Laura Cassidy, MS, PhD
Professor, Division Director
Research Focus: Pediatric Surgical Outcomes, Trauma, Registry Development, Identification and Evaluation of Risk Factors and Treatment of Pediatric Patients
Previous Education: University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public Health

Rachel Cusatis, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
Research Focus: intersection of patterns in time use, patient-centered outcomes, survey methods, and social determinants of health to understand individual and population health behaviors and outcomes
Previous Education: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Terri deRoon-Cassini, PhD
Professor, Department of Surgery, Division of Trauma and Critical Care
Research Focus: Biopsychosocial Aspects of Psychopathology and Resilience Following Trauma, Including Military and Civilian Injury
Previous Education: Marquette University

Matthew Dellinger, PhD
Assistant Professor
Research Focus: Environmental Health, Toxicology, Risk Assessment, and Epidemiology Environmental Health, Toxicology, Risk Assessment, and Epidemiology
Previous Education: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, University of Illinois

Shannon Denny, JD, MA
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Julia Dickson-Gomez, PhD
Professor, Institute for Health & Equity
Research Focus: HIV Prevention Among Drug Users in the United States and El Salvador, the Influence of Structural Factors on HIV Risk
Previous Education: University of California - Los Angeles

Leonard Egede, MD, MS
Professor
Research Focus: Developing and testing innovative interventions to reduce and/or eliminate health disparities related to race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and geographic location for chronic medical and mental health conditions.
Previous Education: University of Benin

Kathryn E. Flynn, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Center for Patient Care and Outcomes Research
Research Focus: The Development and Analysis of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures
Previous Education: University of Wisconsin-Madison

Carol Galletly, JD, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Center for AIDS Intervention Research
Research Focus: Empirical Methods to Guide the Development of Sound Law and Policy on Critical Issues at the Intersection of Individual Behavior and Public Health
Previous Education: Ohio State University

Stephen Hargarten, MD, MPH
Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine; Director, Injury Research Center; Associate Dean, Global Health Program
Research Focus: Injury Prevention and Health Policy to Address the Burden of Injuries
Previous Education: Medical College of Wisconsin 

Purushottam (Prakash) Laud, PhD
Professor, Institute for Health & Society
Research Focus: Bayesian Techniques for Parametric as Well as Nonparametric Inference for Generalized Liner and Mixed Effects Models, Models for Time-to-Event Data, Comparative Effectiveness Research Using Observational Data
Previous Education: University of Missouri 

Cheryl Maurana, PhD
Senior Vice President for Strategic Academic Partnerships; Professor of Population Health; Founding Director Kern National Network for Flourishing in Medicine
Research Focus: Public Health Research, Community Partnerships
Previous Education: Purdue University

Linda Meurer, MD, MPH
Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine
Research Focus: Community Based Participatory Research, Aging and Injury Research
Previous Education: Wayne State University, Detroit 

David Nelson, PhD, MS
Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine
Research Focus: Working With Community Partners to Increase Physical Activity, Improve Food Access, Increase Social Support and the Process of Community Engagement
Previous Education: University of Tennessee-Knoxville

Alan Nyitray, PhD
Associate Professor, Center for AIDS Intervention Research, Clinical Cancer Center
Research Focus: Epidemiology and natural history of HPV infection including both genital and anal HPV infection among heterosexual men, gay and bisexual men, and heterosexual couples. Current focus: developing methods for early detection of anal cancer and implementation of anal cancer screening interventions.
Previous Education: University of Arizona, Tucson

Mallory O'Brien, PhD
Assistant Professor
Research Focus:Homicide and fatal shootings
Previous Education: University of Wisconsin-Madison

Katherine Quinn, PhD
Associate Professor
Research Focus: racial disparities in HIV/AIDS, including the structural and social drivers of these disparities. She has worked on the intersections and relationships among health and poverty, inequality, housing stability, and homelessness. Additionally, she conducts research with young, Black MSM and LGBT youth. 
Previous Education: Marquette University; University of Chicago; Medical College of Wisconsin

Melinda Stolley, PhD
Professor
Research Focus: Health Behavior

Aniko Szabo, PhD
Associate Professor & Director of the Biostatistics Consulting Service
Research Focus: Statistical Modeling of Biomedical Data
Previous Education: The University of Memphis

Rebekah Walker, PhD
Associate Professor, PCOR
Research Focus: Focus on racial and social determinants of health, in an effort to eliminate disparities in patients with chronic disease, with a special emphasis on diabetes.

Staci Young, PhD
Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Institute for Health & Society
Research Focus: Health Professions Advocacy for Vulnerable Patients and Populations, the Organization of Work Among Health Professionals in Traditional and Community-Based Clinical Settings, The Relationship Between The Urban Environment, Acute and Chronic Life Stressors, and Health Status
Previous Education: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

 

Public Health (MPH & Certificates)

John Meurer, MD, MBA
Professor, Institute Director and Graduate Program Director
Research Focus: General Pediatric Clinician Education, Population Health Management, Childhood Asthma, Obesity Coalition Models to Chronic Disease Control
Previous Education: University of Wisconsin Medical School

Kartikey Acharya, MD, MPH
Associate Professor
Research Focus: Quality Improvement in HIV patients, Infections in Immunocompromised patients
Previous Education:  Government Medical College 

Sol Del Mar Aldrete, MD
Assistant Professor
Research Focus: Survival Analysis and Competing Risks Theory
Previous Education: Emory University

Courtney Barry, PsyD 
Assistant Professor
Research Focus: Understanding the pharmaceutical, environmental, and cultural factors that contribute to health disparities in underserved populations.
Previous Education: Hampton University School of Pharmacy

Ruta Brazauskas, PhD
Associate Professor
Research Focus: Survival Analysis and Competing Risks Theory
Previous Education: Medical College of Wisconsin

Raphael Fraser, PhD
Assistant Professor
Research Focus: Survival analysis, clinical trials, Bayesian biostatistics, survey methods and empirical process theory
Previous Education: Florida State University

Jennifer Freiheit, PhD 
Assistant Adjunct Professor

Janvier Gasana, MD, MPH, PhD
Associate Adjunct Professor
Research Focus: Water, Sanitation, Hygiene, Health
Previous Education: University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health

Eric Gass, PhD
Assistant Adjunct Professor, Institute for Health & Equity
Research Focus: Community Collaboration, Population Health Measurement, Program Effectiveness, Future Workforce Development
Previous Education: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Robert Gatter, JD
Adjunct Professor, Institute for Health & Equity
Research Focus: Public health law, informed consent law, end-of-life decisions, conflicts of interest, and theoretical descriptions of health law.
Previous Education: University of Pennsylvania Law School

Kim Gearin, MS, PhD
Assistant Adjunct Professor, Institute for Health and Equity
Research Focus: Organization and Financing of Local Public Health Services
Previous Education: Texas Woman’s University

Nathan Gundacker, MD
Assistant Professor
Research Focus: Infectious Disease
Previous Education: University of Wisconsin-Madison

Mary Homan, MA, MSHCE, DrPH
Adjunct Professor
Previous Education: Saint Louis University; Aquinas Institute of Technology; Creighton University

Soyoung Kim, PhD
Assistant Professor
Research Focus: Survival analysis, casual inference, biomarker evaluation, missing data, case-cohort studies, and multivariate failure time
Previous Education: University of North Carolina

Nancy Kreuser, PhD, MSN
Assistant Adjunct Professor, Institute for Health & Equity
Research Focus: Access to Health Care for Vulnerable Populations, Public Health Policy (Tobacco Prevention/Cessation)
Previous Education: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 

Timothy N. Lynch, PhD
 Clinical Professor, Departments of Anesthesiology, Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and Neurosurgery-Spine Care; Associate Adjunct Professor, Institute for Health & Society
Research Focus: Psychogenic Illness, Advocagenic Disability
Previous Education: University of Wisconsin

George E. MacKinnon, III, PhD, MS, RPh
Founding Dean, Professor
Research Focus:
Previous Education: UW Marshfield Wood County, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Loyola University

Kusuma Madamala, PhD, MPH
Assistant Adjunct Professor, Institute for Health & Equity
Research Focus: Public Health Accreditation, Quality Improvement, Competencies, Structure and Function of Public Health Agencies
Previous Education: University of Illinois at Chicago

David McClure, PhD
Assistant Adjunct Professor, Institute for Health & Equity
Research Focus: Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Vaccination Rates
Previous Education: University of Colorado

Alan Nyitray, PhD
Associate Professor, Center for AIDS Intervention Research, Clinical Cancer Center
Research Focus: Epidemiology and natural history of HPV infection including both genital and anal HPV infection among heterosexual men, gay and bisexual men, and heterosexual couples. Current focus: developing methods for early detection of anal cancer and implementation of anal cancer screening interventions.
Previous Education: University of Arizona, Tucson

Jennifer Peterson, PhD
Assistant Adjunct Professor, Institute for Health & Society; Assistant Adjunct Professor, Mt. Mary University
Research Focus: Public Health Communication, Public Speaking, Organizational Communication, Interpersonal Communication, HIV Prevention Communication Messaging
Previous Education: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 

Leslie Ruffalo, PhD
Associate Professor, Family and Community Medicine 

Janaki Shah, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine; Instructor AIDS Resource Center for Wisconsin
Research Focus: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Infectious Diseases, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, HIV Care and Prevention
Previous Education: University of Medicine and Dentistry in New Jersey, Medical College of Wisconsin

Julie Willems Van Dijk, PhD, RN
Assistant Adjunct Professor, Institute for Health & Equity
Research Focus: Effectiveness of Public Health Programs, Prenatal Care Coordination, Public Health Financing
Previous Education: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

David Nelson, PhD, MS
Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine
Research Focus: Working With Community Partners to Increase Physical Activity, Improve Food Access, Increase Social Support and the Process of Community Engagement
Previous Education: University of Tennessee-Knoxville

Matthew Dellinger, PhD
Assistant Professor
Research Focus: Environmental Health, Toxicology, Risk Assessment, and Epidemiology and Environmental Health, Toxicology, Risk Assessment, and Epidemiology
Previous Education: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, University of Illinois

Kaija Zusevics, PhD
Assistant Adjunct Professor
Research Focus: Education as a social determinant of health, positive youth development, genomics and racism, community based participatory research education as a social determinant of health, positive youth development, genomics and racism, community based participatory research
Previous Education: Medical College of Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin-Lacrosse

Precision Medicine

John Meurer, MD, MBA
Professor; Director, Institute for Health & Society; Program Director
Research Focus: General Pediatric Clinician Education, Population Health Management, Childhood Asthma, Obesity Coalition Models to Chronic Disease Control
Previous Education: University of Wisconsin Medical School

Mafoud Assem, PharmD, PhD
Associate Professor
Research Focus: Genomics and Pharmacogenomics of Malignant Glioma
Previous Education: University of Burgundy

Donald Basel, MD
Professor

Ulrich Broeckel, MD
Professor
Research Interests: Left ventricular hypertrophy, myocardial infarction, coronary artery disease, end-stage renal disease, and hypertension with projects based on large epidemiological studies in clinical cohorts

Bradley Crotty, MD
Associate Professor
Research Focus: Health services research and medical informatics

Jeremy Garrett, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Ben George, MD
Professor

Jenny Geurts, MS, CGC
Assistant Professor

Fabrice Jotterand, MA, PhD
Associate Professor
Research Focus: Neuroethics, Ethical Issues in Psychiatry and Mental Health, Use of Neurotechnologies in Psychiatry, Medical
Previous Education: Rice University and McGill University

Gwen Lomberk, PhD
Professor
Research Focus: Epigenomic-based pharmacology
Previous Education: Boston College-Chestnut Hill, Mayo Graduate School-Rochester

George E. MacKinnon, III, PhD, MS, RPh
Founding Dean, School of Pharmacy; Professor
Previous Education: UW Marshfield Wood County, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Loyola University

Michael Muriello, MD
Assistant Professor

Carolyn Oxencis, PharmD
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Research Focus: Pharmacogenomics and precision medicine
Previous Education: University of Iowa

Honey Reddi, PhD
Professor

Melek Somai, MD
Assistant Professor
Research Focus: Health informatics and data engineering

Raul Urrutia, MD
Professor
Previous Education: University of Cordoba

James Verbsky, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Research Focus: Immune Regulation, T Regulatory Cells, Role of IL-2 and IL-10 in Immune Regulation, Mechanisms of Suppression of Immune Responses by T Regulatory Cells
Previous Education: Washington University

Michael Zimmermann, PhD
Assistant Professor
Previous Education: Harvard Medical School

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