UW-Madison School of Pharmacy - Pharmacy Practice Faculty Research Interests

Research & Clinical Practice by Faculty Member

• Robert Breslow, Clinical Associate Professor
  • Clinical practice: Medication Utilization/Appropriateness
  • Research interests: Cognitive screening, pharmaceutical care of the older adult.
  
  
• John Dopp, Assistant Professor
  
  
• Steven Ebert, Clinical Professor
  • Clinical practice and research interests: Antimicrobial resistance, antimicrobial pharmacokinetics/ pharmacodynamics, and appropriate utilization of healthcare resources.
  
  
• Mary Beth Elliott, Associate Professor and Vice Chair
  • Clinical practice and research interests: Osteoporosis, bone health in vulnerable populations.
  
  
• Casey Gallimore, Clinical Assistant Professor

 

• Barry Gidal, Professor
  • Clinical Practice: Provision of pharmaceutical care to patients with epilepsy.
  • Research Interests: Pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, and the metabolic effects of anticonvulsant medications.
  
  
• Richard Hammes, Clinical Professor
  • Clinical Practice: Nuclear pharmacy.
  • Research Interests: Drug absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion, and pharmacokinetic studies. Covance is a contract research company which does these studies on a contract basis for drug manufacturers.
    
  
  
• Mary Hayney, Associate Professor
  • Clinical Practice: Lung transplantation.
  • Research Interests: Host response to vaccination and protective effects, especially as they relate to immunosuppressed individuals.
  
  
• Paul Hutson, Associate Professor
  • Clinical Practice: Oncology / Hematology.
  • Research Interests: Palliative care; population pharmacokinetic modeling.
  
  
• Curtis Johnson, Professor Emeritus
  • Clinical Practice: Nephrology.
  • Research Interests: Pharmacotherapy of renal diseases.
  
  
• Mara Kieser, Clinical Associate Professor
  • Clinical Practice: Long Term Care. Research Interests: Cost implications and benefits of student clerkships.
  
  
• Glynis Kinney, Clinical Instructor
  • Research Interests: Infectious diseases and drug kinetics with continuous hemofiltration.
  
  
• Jill Kolesar, Associate Professor
  • Research Interests: Molecular markers to predict response and monitor efficacy of drug and gene therapy, population genotyping for cancer.
    
  
  
• Karen Kopacek, Clinical Assistant Professor
  • Clinical Practice: Trauma, cardiothoracic, and cardiac intensive care.
  
  
• Connie Kraus, Clinical Professor
  • Clinical Practice: Interprofessional health care.
  
  
• Beth Martin, Assistant Professor
  • Clinical Interests: Community pharmacy practice
    Research Interests: Pharmacy services implementation and the evaluation and assessment of educational programs
  
  
• Donald Michalski, Clinical Associate Professor
  • Clinical Practice: Director of Pharmacy at the School of Veterinary Medicine.
  • Research Interests: Companion animal antibiotic therapy, pain management, psychotherapy, and extra-label use of drugs.
  
  
• Denise Pigarelli, Clinical Associate Professor
  • Clinical Practice: Diabetes.
  • Research Interests: Clinical and quality of life outcomes of drug therapy and pharmaceutical care.
  
  
• Michael Pitterle, Associate Professor
  • Research Interests: Development and evaluation of computer applications in pharmacy student education and practice.
  
  
• Pamela Ploetz, Clinical Associate Professor
  • Research Interests: Pharmacy workload and productivity, quality improvement, medication error prevention monitoring, and drug usage evaluation.
  
  
• Warren Rose, Assistant Professor
  • Research Interests: Impact of antimicrobial exposures on virulence expression and resistance in bacteria.
  
  
• Gordon Sacks, Clinical Associate Professor and Chair
  
  
• Arthur Schuna, Clinical Professor
  • Clinical Practice: Primary care with emphasis in hypertension and rheumatology.
  • Research Interests: Clinical evaluation of hypertension and arthritis treatments.
  
  
• Christine Sorkness, Professor
  • Research Interests: Evaluating the efficacy and safety of therapeutic agents for asthma and allergic diseases.
  
  
• Ronald Sorkness, Professor
  • Research Interests: Mechanisms of obstructive airway disease and virus-induced airway dysfunction.
  
  
• Thomas Thielke, Clinical Professor
  • Clinical Practice: Director of Pharmacy at UW Hospitals & Clinics.
  • Research Interests: Robotics and the automation of the pharmacy services, managed care programs, cost accounting systems, pharmacy productivity systems and cost-effective clinical services.
  
  
• Judith Thompson, Clinical Associate Professor Emerita
  
  
• Orly Vardeny, Assistant Professor
  • Research Interests: Heart failture.
  
  
• Lee Vermeulen, Clinical Associate Professor
  • Research Interests: Drug policy development and clinical decision making.
  
  
• Eva Vivian, Clinical Associate Professor
  • Research Interests: Identifying disparities in the treatment of hypertension, diabetes, and other chronic diseases among ethnic minorities and developing and implementing strategies to reduce and eliminate them.