UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health
Jessica Cao is a co-PI on the Opportunity to Reach Individuals with Genetic Dyslipidemia as Infants and Newborns in Wisconsin (ORIGIN-WI) project. Familial hypercholesterolemia is an inherited form of high cholesterol that can cause early heart attacks and strokes, yet only about two percent of affected children in the United States know they have the …
Amy Schultz, PhD, Senior Scientist in the Department of Population Health Sciences, has received an R01 research grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences for the project, Examining pathways of PFAS exposure and their impacts on hyperlipidemia in a rural community impacted by land spreading. The study will examine per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) …
ADSI is a landmark research effort using large-scale data and innovative methods to understand autism. Amy Cochran leads the study: Understanding causes of autism, its heterogeneity and rising prevalence with emerging methods in causal inference, a project that examines factors contributing to autism risk, variation in presentation, and increasing prevalence.
The study is led by Dr. Michael Pulia, associate professor and director of the Emergency Care for Infectious Diseases research program in the BerbeeWalsh Department of Emergency Medicine will examine underrecognized factors that may contribute to pneumonia in older adults — including changes in oral health and impaired swallowing due to aging and bacteria that normally live in …
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Dr. Phung was awarded a pilot grant from the American Cancer Society Institutional Research Grant Pilot Award competition at University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center (UWCCC). The project, Frailty Trajectories and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Survival among Older Ovarian Cancer Patients, will start in the coming months. Ovarian cancer is the deadliest gynecologic cancer, with survival rates …
Ajay K. Sethi, PhD, MHS, professor of population health sciences, was elected a Distinguished Scholar Fellow in the inaugural class of the Public Health Academy of the National Academies of Practice (NAP): Membership in the NAP is an honor extended to those who have excelled in their profession and who are dedicated to advancing interprofessional education, scholarship, research, …
The recent issue of the Wisconsin Medical Journal features several PHS faculty with research related to Maternal and Child Health. Ron Gangnon, Tiffany L. Green, Maria Kamenetsky, Marina C. Jenkins, Christine Piette Durrance, Deborah B. Ehrenthal, Josh Hoffner and Patrick Remington. Read the issue here.