Michael Scullin, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience · Baylor University

Professor Scullin’s research investigates how sleep physiology impacts memory, education, health, and aging.

Neuroscience Sleep Physiology Cognitive Neuroscience Sleep Neuroscience and Cognition Psychology

Sabas Whittaker

Poet, Historian, Mariner, Artist, Composer · Author

A discussion of mental health - numerous aspects of treatment from various perspectives, seeking a unified approach that could benefit all.

Alan Franck

Collections Manager · University of Florida

Alan Franck manages the Herbarium at the Florida Museum, which has around 500,000 specimens of plants, lichens and algae from worldwide.

Herbarium Medical Botany Nomenclature Plants Plant Diversity

George Loewenstein

University Professor · Carnegie Mellon University

Business/Economics

Robert Rovetti

Associate Professor of Mathematics · Loyola Marymount University

Seaver College of Science and Engineering

Stochastic Processes Nonlinear Dynamics Statistics Molecular Biology Bioinformatics

Piyush Jain

Assistant Professor · University of Florida

Piyush Jain researches the molecular basis of DNA and ways to improve technologies such as CRISPR and Cas.

CRISPR/Cas systems Nanomaterials Nucleic Acids Gene Editing Bioengineering

Penny Gordon-Larsen, Ph.D.

Professor of Nutrition, Gillings School of Global Public Health · UNC at Chapel Hill

Penny Gordon-Larsen’s NIH-funded research portfolio focuses on individual-, household-, and community-level susceptibility to obesity.

Public Health Obesity Epidemiology Statistics Program Evaluation

Tyan Parker Dominguez

Clinical Professor of Social Work · USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work

Health care systems expert, focusing on persistent racial/ethnic disparities in infant mortality, pre-term delivery, and low birthweight

Inpatient and outpatient medical settings Community mental health clinics

Jeremy Shere

Instructor · Indiana University School of Journalism

Author/Writer/Producer

Editing Podcast Production Production Renewable Energy

Jaime King

Associate Dean and Professor of Law, Bion M. Gregory Chair in Business Law · UC Hastings College of the Law

Contacts: kingja@uchastings.edu / 415-581-8834 / Office 394-200

Health Law and Policy The U.S. Healthcare System Genetics and the Law Healthcare Antitrust Health Policy & Reform

Jorge Cortes, MD

Director, Georgia Cancer Center · Augusta University

Jorge Cortes is a clinical investigator who has helped research and develop multiple treatment options for chronic myeloid leukemia.

Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Acute Myeloid Leukemia Blood and Bone Marrow Transplants Cancer Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia

J. Aaron Johnson, PhD

Director of the Institute of Public and Preventive Health and Professor of Psychology · Augusta University

For two decades, J. Aaron Johnson's research has focused on evidence-based practices, primarily in substance use prevention.

Alcohol Screening Brief Interventions Treatment of Substance Use Disorders Opioid Epidemic

Keith Gary

Director of Program Development · Kansas City Area Life Sciences Institute

Trained neuroscientist that moved from academia to leveraging regional life sciences assets for economic development.

Biotechnology and Economic Development Science Education and Workforce Development Neuropeptides

Sarah Mercer

Owner · Serenity Reiki Clinic

Reiki Master Teacher

Reiki Natural Healing Holistic Healing

Sarah Mitchell

Assistant Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry · Loyola Marymount University

Seaver College of Science and Engineering

Biochemistry Biophysics Molecular Biology Nucleic Acids Gene Expression

Ravi Hadimani

Associate Professor and Director of Biomagnetics Laboratory · Virginia Commonwealth University

Professor Hadimani specializes in non-invasive brain stimulation, biomagnetics, magnetocalorics and energy harvesting research.

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (Tms) Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting Magnetic Nanoparticles Magnetocaloric Effect Rare-Earth Magnetic Materials

Jennifer Gardy

Canada Research Chair in Public Health Genomics | Science Television Host · University of British Columbia | BC Centre for Disease Control | CBC Television

Sequencing DNA to track infectious diseases, and occasionally appearing on your favourite science TV shows

Genomics Bioinformatics Public Health Tuberculosis Science Communication

Andrew Noymer

Associate Professor of Public Health · UC Irvine

Andrew Noymer is an epidemiologist and demographer with an expertise in pandemics and post-pandemic social recovery.

Mathematical Sociology 1918 Influenza Pandemic Pandemic response Health and Mortality Demography

Jeffery Becker

Periodontist · The Dental Specialty Group

Founder of The Dental Specialty Group

Periodontics Embryology Tooth Morphology

Marina Eremeeva

Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Environmental Health Sciences · Georgia Southern University

Expert in health sciences

Public Heath Laboratories Zoonotic and Emerging Diseases Epidemiology Biostatistics Environmental Health Sciences