Research & Clinical Practice by Faculty Member

Susanne Barnett, Clinical Assistant Professor

Clinical Practice: Critical care and infectious disease
Research Interests:  Educational based scholarship and improving the health literacy of patients through adequate training and awareness of healthcare professionals.

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 and Chair

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, 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.

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.

Jill Kolesar, Professor

Research Interests: Molecular markers to predict response and monitor efficacy of drug and gene therapy, population genotyping for cancer.

Karen Kopacek, Clinical Associate 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.

Andrea Porter, Clinical Assistant Professor

Clinical Practice: Cardiology

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.

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, Associate Professor

Research Interests: Heart failure.

Lee Vermeulen, Clinical 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.