Our People

Faculty

Susanne Barnett

Susanne Barnett, Professor (CHS) and Vice Chair

Research Interests: Dr. Barnett's scholarship is motivated by identified areas of improvement in the classroom and within her clinical practice site. Her research relies on quality improvement and assurance processes to guide antimicrobial stewardship and teaching practices.

Betty Chewning

Betty Chewning, Professor

Research Interests: Stakeholder engagement; patient provider partnership communication; health outcome medication self-management; Dissemination & implementation studies.

John Dopp

John Dopp, Associate Professor (CHS)

Clinical practice: Treatment of sleep disorders and management of hypertension and cardiovascular disease.  Identification and management of sleep problems in college athletes.

Research Interests: Mechanisms for cardiovascular disease in patients with obstructive sleep apnea and identification of interventions and therapies to minimize and prevent cardiovascular complications.

James Ford II

Research Interests: include dissemination, implementation and sustainment of organizational change; implementing quality improvement interventions to improve processes of care in multiple healthcare environments including behavioral health, nursing homes and assisted living communities and examining the pharmacist role in addressing the opioid crisis.

Casey Gallimore

Casey Gallimore, Professor

Clinical Practice: Tellurian Behavioral Health, focusing on substance use and mental health disorders.

Research Interests: Type 2 translational research in real-world clinical and educational settings; interprofessional
education; behavioral health; pharmacy collaboration in integrated care.

Barry Gidal

Barry Gidal, Professor (CHS)

Clinical Practice:  Neurology

Research Interests:  Pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, and the metabolic effects of anticonvulsant medications.

Mary Hayney

Mary Hayney, Professor (CHS) | Hayney Lab

Clinical Practice: Lung transplantation.

Research Interests: Host response to vaccination and protective effects, especially as they relate to immunosuppressed individuals.

Lisa Holle

Lisa Holle, Professor (CHS)

Clinical Practice: UW Carbone Cancer Center: adult ambulatory oncology care

Research Interests: Patient-decision making, roles/value of oncology pharmacist, cannabis

Mara Kieser

Mara Kieser, Professor (CHS)

Clinical Practice: Long Term Care. 

Research Interests: Health Outcomes in long term care; Benefits of student clerkships.

Karen Kopacek

Karen Kopacek, Associate Professor (CHS)

Clinical Practice:  Cardiac Rehabilitation; Rural Health (acute care)

Sin Yin Lim

Sin Yin Lim, Associate Professor (CHS) | Lim Research Group website

Research Interests: Improving pediatric pharmacotherapy through PK/PD modeling and simulation.

Marina Maes

Marina Maes, Associate Professor (CHS)

Clinical Practice:  Family Medicine/Ambulatory Care Clinic

Research Interests: Scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), evaluation of pharmacist services on clinical outcomes, expansion of reproductive health services and education

Amanda Margolis

Amanda Margolis, Associate Professor (CHS)

Research Interests: Centralized Specialty Medication Management, Service implementation, Teaching and learning of evidence-based medicine

Beth Martin

Beth Martin, Professor (CHS)

Clinical Interests: Community pharmacy practice.  Older adult medicines and reducing falls risk.

Research Interests: Evaluate the effectiveness of educational methodologies to enhance pharmacist, student or patient learning and confidence, and the degree to which performance-based abilities are transferred from the learning environment to the real world setting. 

David Mott

David Mott, Professor

Research Interests: The pharmacy labor market and economic factors associated with drug utilization.

Andrea Porter

Andrea Porter, Professor (CHS) and Chair

Clinical Practice:  Anticoagulation

Research Interests:  Educational-based scholarship, particularly educational innovation and teaching methods, as well as clinical research involving anticoagulation

Edward Portillo

Edward Portillo, Associate Professor (CHS)

Clinical Practice: Primary Care/Ambulatory Care Clinic Practice

Research Interests: Evaluation and expansion of interprofessional service models using dissemination science to incorporate pharmacists as patient care providers. Education-based research involving evaluation of thematic curricular pathways to best position students for success post-graduation.

Lucas Richert

Research interests rest in the North American history of intoxicants, pharmaceuticals, and mental health. Current projects include historical studies of cannabis and psychedelic science in North America.

Warren Rose

Warren Rose, Professor (Drug Discovery) | Rose Lab website

Research Interests: • Antimicrobial resistance and pharmacodynamics  • Antimicrobial effects on host-pathogen interactions

Trisha Seys Ranola

Trisha Seys Ranola, Clinical Assistant Professor

Clinical practice: Interdisciplinary team geriatric medicine; diabetes; cardiac: hypertension, lipids, heart failure; anticoagulation; anemia; polypharmacy reduction

Christine Sorkness

Christine Sorkness, Professor (CHS)

Research Interests: Evaluating the efficacy and safety of therapeutic agents for asthma and allergic diseases.

Cecilia Volk

Cecilia Volk, Assistant Professor (CHS) | Volk Lab

Research Interests: The lab is developing a zebrafish model of infection to help investigate the interactions between the host immune response, infecting pathogen, and antibiotics in order to optimize antibiotic use.

Paula Voorheis

Paula Voorheis, Assistant Professor | BUILD Lab

Research Interests: Integrating behavioural science and human-centred design to develop and evaluate digital health innovations that support patient self-management and healthcare system usability.

Denise Walbrandt Pigarelli

Denise Walbrandt Pigarelli, Associate Professor (CHS)

Clinical Practice: Diabetes.

Research Interests: Clinical and quality of life outcomes of drug therapy and pharmaceutical care.  Academic research interests include outcomes related to instructional design and assessment

Cody Wenthur

Research Interests:  Synaptic plasticity in substance use and major depressive disorders; Development of antibodies against cannabinoids, opioids, sedative-hypnotics, and classical psychedelics; Immunologic biomarkers of drug use; Implementation of novel psychiatric treatments, including vaccine-based approaches and medication-assisted psychotherapy


Affiliate Faculty

David Andes

David Andes, Affiliate Professor, School of Pharmacy

Clinical Interests: General infectious diseases; transplant infectious diseases, mycology, antimicrobial pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics

Research Interests: Advancing our understanding of antibacterial and antifungal activity and drug resistance; identifying new antimicrobial drug treatment strategies and drug targets

Michelle Chui

Michelle Chui, Affiliate Professor, School of Pharmacy | Chui SAMS Lab website

Research Interests: Harnessing human factors engineering applications and a systems approach to improve medication safety in the outpatient setting

Jennifer Dykema

Jennifer Dykema, Affiliate Professor, School of Pharmacy

Research interests: Survey research methodology

Steven Ebert

Clinical Practice and Research Interests: Antimicrobial resistance, antimicrobial pharmacokinetics/ pharmacodynamics, and appropriate utilization of healthcare resources.

Amy Kind

Amy Kind, Affiliate Professor, School of Pharmacy

Clinical and Research Interests: Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias; geriatric transitional care

Robert Kotloski

Robert Kotloski, Affiliate Associate Professor, School of Pharmacy

Clinical and Research Interests: Epilepsy, Epileptogenesis, Post-traumatic epilepsy

Charles Raison

Charles Raison, Affiliate Professor, School of Pharmacy

Clinical Practice and Research Interests: The role of consciousness and neuroplasticity in the therapeutic effects of psychedelics

Enno Siemsen

Research Interests: Understanding how human judgment and analytics combine in operational decisions, spanning behavioral operations, demand forecasting, and operations strategy