Health Technology – Badger Talks – UW–Madison

Christopher Brace

jnweaver — Thu, 04 May 2017 16:13:28 +0000

Christopher Brace is an Assistant Professor with the Departments of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering. He received his B.S. degree in physics and BSEE from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee in 2001, and his MSEE and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2003 and 2005, respectively. Dr. Brace’s research interests include image-guided interventional oncology, thermal therapies such as radiofrequency and microwave ablation, medical imaging, and applications of electromagnetics in medicine.

Daniel Buckland

mreinfeldt — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 16:21:51 +0000

Dr. Buckland is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Mechanical Engineering. He is an Emergency Physician for UW Health, conducting research in space medicine and the application of AI to provide hospital-level care, from the ER to Mars. He holds an MD from Harvard Medical School and a PhD in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT. He lives in Madison and before coming to Wisconsin he worked for NASA in human spaceflight planning for Lunar and Mars missions.

Richard Burgess

jnweaver — Tue, 02 May 2017 19:39:37 +0000

Richard prefers virtual talks.

Dr. Richard R. Burgess is James D. Watson Emeritus Prof. of Oncology at the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research at UW–Madison. He founded the UW Biotechnology Center in 1984 and was its Director until 1996. He obtained his B.S. in Chemistry at Caltech in 1964 and his PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology with James D. Watson at Harvard in 1969. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Geneva, Switzerland from 1969–71 and joined the faculty of the Dept. of Oncology at the UW–Madison in 1971. He was the recipient of the 1982 Pfizer Award and the 1999 Waksman Medal and was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology (2003), the AAAS in 2008, and the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters in 2020. He plays an active role in translating basic university research into a growing Wisconsin biotechnology business community and in educating the public about biotechnology and proteins.

Joshua Coon

jnweaver — Tue, 26 Nov 2019 19:39:18 +0000

Professor Coon develops and applies chemical instrumentation to measure proteins and metabolites in biological systems – including humans. His latest project is to embed such technology into a toilet to make real-time measurements of urine for preventative medicine.

John Curtin

mreinfeldt — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 19:46:34 +0000

John Curtin’s laboratory focuses on the development and implementation of digital therapeutics, which are software programs or “apps” that prevent, manage, or treat disease including substance use disorders and other mental illness. Digital therapeutics can provide empirically-supported interventions, illness and treatment management tools, and services to enhance peer support and communications with care providers. He primarily focuses on algorithm development for temporally precise psychiatric risk prediction (e.g., moment by moment relapse risk prediction; efficient and early psychiatric screening) and “just-in-time” personalized interventions that adapt to both characteristics of the patient and their moment in time. To this end, he combines analytic approaches from machine learning with novel, highly informative signals (e.g., geolocation ;cellular communications; social media activity; physiology via wearable biosensors) derived by passive personal sensing.

Kevin Eliceiri

jnweaver — Tue, 02 May 2017 19:42:35 +0000

Kevin Eliceiri is Director of the Laboratory for Optical and Computational Instrumentation (LOCI), and permanent principal investigator in the Laboratory for Cell and Molecular Biology (LCMB) in the Graduate School at UW–Madison. Eliceiri is also a member of the Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics, the UW Carbone Cancer Center (UWCCC) and the McPherson Eye Research Institute. He is also an affiliate investigator of the Morgridge Institute for Research focusing on the development of Medical Devices. Eliceiri’s research focuses on biophotonics, the use of light to investigate biological phenomena and bio-image informatics, the application of computational techniques to analyze and process bioimages. He collaborates with investigators around the world on the development and application of optical and computational methods to study a range of biological processes including cancer progression and stem cell differentiation. A major emphasis of current research is the developing of advanced imaging methods for the improved detection and characterization of cancer invasion and progression.

Jason Fletcher

jbedermann — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 17:44:56 +0000

Jason prefers in-person talks.

Jason Fletcher is a Romnes Professor of Public Affairs with appointments in Sociology, Agricultural and Applied Economics and Population Health Sciences as well as the Director of the Center for Demography on Health and Aging at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prior to coming to UW in 2013, he held appointments at Yale University and Columbia University. Fletcher has published over 125 academic articles and has received research funding from the National Institutes of Health, William T. Grant Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Russell Sage Foundation, among others. A health economist by training, he has worked to integrate genetics and social science over the past decade, culminating in his book The Genome Factor.

Ilia Guzei

fpuleo — Fri, 20 Oct 2017 21:58:07 +0000

Ilia Guzei obtained his Masters at Moscow State University in 1992, and his PhD in Chemistry at Wayne State University in 1996. He has worked as a crystallographer since and has authored or co-authored over 550 publications in peer-reviewed journals. I run the annual state-wide Wisconsin Crystal Growing Contest.

Jan Huisken

fpuleo — Fri, 08 Dec 2017 19:39:14 +0000

Jan Huisken received his PhD in Physics from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg. He was trained as a physicist but has worked in developmental biology using his expertise in microscopy. He has been a postdoc at UCSF in San Francisco before becoming a Max Planck Research Group Leader in Dresden. Since August 2016 he has been the Director of Medical Engineering at the Morgridge Institute for Research where his team develops custom light microscopes.

Joshua Hyman

jnweaver — Tue, 02 May 2017 19:24:10 +0000

Joshua Hyman’s current position is Director of the DNA Synthesis and Sequencing Facility at the UW–Madison Biotechnology Center. His formal training includes a doctorate in genetics (Penn State University), an MBA (University of Washington–Seattle), and a BS in mechanical engineering (University of Michigan). His work experience is varied, from designing bird strike resistant wind shields for fighter aircraft to plant breeding to owning and running a restaurant.