University of Wisconsin–Madison
Biography Catalina L. Toma (PhD, Cornell University) is Professor of Communication Science in the Department of Communication Arts, and Director of the Center for Communication Research at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Catalina’s research investigates how people understand and relate to one another when interacting through communication technologies. She has a particular interest in how psychosocial …
Biography My research focuses on judgment and decision making about performance. One stream of research examines the influence of our beliefs and narratives about achievement and resilience on evaluations about performance. Another stream of research examines the impact of visual information in judgment about performance. Both lines of work have intersected with the areas of …
Biography Dr. Walsh is a licensed clinical psychologist, Professor in the Psychology and Gender & Women’s Studies departments, and director of UW–Madison’s Sexual Violence Research Initiative. She earned her PhD from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in traumatic stress at the National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center at the Medical …
Biography Terry Warfield’s primary research interests concern financial accounting standards and disclosure policies, including the effects of accounting information and disclosures on securities markets. His work spans several financial reporting domains from accounting to auditing and the intersection between tax and financial reporting. An overarching theme for much of his work concerns how financial accounting …
Biography Dr. Warren Andersen is a cancer epidemiologist interested in how social determinants, modifiable risk factors, and molecular characteristics influence cancer risk and survivorship. Dr. Warren Andersen has received multiple NIH-awarded and institutional grants to support her research in evaluating the associations between social determinants, biomarkers and cancer outcomes using molecular epidemiologic methods. Research Areas …
Biography My research broadly examines the ways in which racial experiences and health communication interact to influence racial health inequalities. More specifically, much of my work investigates the effects and interactions of communication within and outside the clinical context and medical mistrust, particularly for Black Americans. I approach this work grounded in three principles: a) …
Biography Jiwei Zhao is a statistician who focuses on developing novel methods and empirically applying these methods in real studies. His recent work concentrates on health disparities and health equity. With collaborators, Prof. Zhao uses the All of Us program to figure out analytical challenges, to better understand mechanisms of health disparity, and to propose …