Dr. Campo is an expert on infectious diseases, with a clinical focus on resistance to antiretroviral therapy and management of treatment-experienced HIV-infected patients.  Department Bio / CV

An expert in HIV Medicine, STDs,Hospital acquired infections and tropical medicine, Dr. Castro works in the fields of HIV drug resistance, barrier methods to prevent HIV transmission, vaccines, HIV associated peripheral neuropathy, barriers to access to care to HIV and/or STD clinical services, prevention/treatment of HPV infections, and fungal infections in HIV infected individuals. Dr. Castro […]

Dr. Hooton has a 30-year history of clinical care and research in Infectious Diseases and especially UTI in women since 1981 when he started a fellowship in infectious diseases at the University of Washington.  He has a strong interest in antimicrobial stewardship and methods to reduce our dependence on antimicrobials in the treatment and prevention of infections, especially […]

Dr. Kirtman uses complex coupled ocean atmosphere general circulation models to investigate the predictability of the climate system on time scales from days-to-decades and to study the influence of tropical variability on mid-latitude predictability.

Dr. Zonouz is an expert in security and privacy, intrusion detection and tolerance , cyber physical systems, trustworthy power critical infrastructures and game/control theoretic system analysis. He can speak about computer viruses and other security breaches, as well as the security and other issues related to Bitcoin. Department Bio/CV 4N6: CyberSecurity and Forensics Research Group […]

Dr. Eberli is an expert on geology and geophysics of carbonates; geology of the Bahamas, Florida and Cuba; sea level changes in the modern and ancient; deep-water coral reefs in the Caribbean and especially in the Straits of Florida and petroleum geology and its dangers. He is  the director of the CSL – Center for Carbonate […]

Professor Copeland’s research interests are administrative law, federal courts and federalism, comparative constitutional law, and race and the law. His areas of expertise include: Healthcare: the Affordable Care Act, Medicaid Constitutional Law: Federalism, Separation of Powers (including Presidential Authority), Marriage Equality, Civil Rights Litigation Race and American Political Institutions Religion and American Politics Professor Copeland is […]

Kunal Parker is a Professor and Dean’s Distinguished Scholar with a PhD in History from Princeton University, a J.D. from Harvard Law School, and a B.A. from Harvard University. He is teaching a course on marriage equality at the School of Law. His first book, Common Law, History, and Democracy in America, 1790 – 1900: Legal […]

Dr. Schwartz is an expert on behavioral medicine, women’s health and office based procedures, as well as the impacts of the Affordable Care Act on patients and practitioners. UHealth Page Department Bio/CV  

Professor Jan Paulsson holds the Michael Klein Distinguished Scholar Chair at the University of Miami School of Law. He is also the Faculty Chair of the Specialization in International Arbitration and heads the newly-established International Arbitration Institute provides an enhanced curriculum, research facilities, training, and CLE courses in international arbitration at the Law School. Department […]

Professor Wagner’s scholarship and teaching focuses on international law and comparative law, namely in the areas of military contractors, modern technology in present-day conflicts, the interplay between law and science in the WTO, as well as the domestic impact of international law. Department Bio/CV 

Senior Research Associate Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science Brian is an expert on hurricanes and is knowledgeable about severe weather and tornadoes. He has blogged for the Washington Post since 2012 as their tropical weather expert, and has been a tornado chaser since 1998. Department Website/CV RSMAS Blog: Tornadoes vs. Hurricanes 

Associate Professor, Department of Meterology and Physical Oceanography Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science Dr. Nolan studies the fundamental mechanics of hurricanes – how they work, what causes the rapid changes in hurricane intensity, and how the frequency and intensity of hurricanes may (or may not) change with a changing climate. He also focuses on […]

Can speak about Latin America, Central America, drug trafficking and conflict in the region. Dr. Bagley can also speak about Bitcoin and international relationships and the implications for them if a “global currency” were to take hold.

Director of Comprehensive AIDS Program, Miller School of Medicine Also directing our pre-exposure prophylactic clinical trial, being done nationally in 3 cities

Treats adolescents with HIV/AIDS

Expert on GYN issues with HIV patients

Queen of AZT, helped pioneer first prescription cocktail, now working on a vaccine

Leads prevention program aimed at Hispanics

Collaborates nationwide on drug abuse and HIV prevention methods

Prevention program specifically aimed at the Haitian community

Alejandro Portes (Email | View CV) is Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder Beck Professor of Sociology and director of the Center for Migration and Development at Princeton University.  He has formerly taught at Johns Hopkins University, where he held the John Dewey Chair in Arts and Sciences; Duke University, and the University of Texas-Austin.  In […]

Dr. Suman’s work focuses on management of coastal areas, including mechanisms to increase institutional cooperation, capacity building, development of management plans, and reduction of conflicts between various resource users. Marine and coastal protected areas are an additional area of his work, much of which is focused in the Caribbean Basin and Latin America.

Dr. Peterson works in reconstruction of past oceans and climates from marine sediments; abrupt climate change; deep sea sedimentation processes; stable isotope geochemistry of foraminifera.

Dr. Clement’s research interests focuses on some fundamental questions about the behavior of the climate system. How sensitive is the Earth’s climate to external forcing? Is abrupt change a characteristic of the climate? What are the mechanisms of climate change? Several of these questions arise out of the paleoclimate record. In addition to observed major […]

Terri A. Scandura, Ph.D., is a professor of Management at the University of Miami School of Business Administration and also serves as the dean of Graduate Education at the University of Miami. Her specialty areas include organizational behavior and leadership and motivation. Her research focuses on work relationships—enhancing personal and organizational performance, including supervisor-subordinate relationships, mentoring, […]

Shimon Wdowinski, Ph.D., research associate professor, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science. Dr. Wdowinski’s research has focused on the development and usage of space geodetic techniques that can detect very precisely small movements of the Earth’s surface. He successfully applied these technologies to study natural hazards and environmental phenomena, such as earthquakes, landslides, and […]

Can talk about Cuban Adjustment Act and Cuban migration to the United States. Immigration Policy, History of Presidency/Campaigns, Middle Eastern Politics (speaks German, Hebrew, some French)

Health Care Issues – High Cost of Health Care, Neuroscience

Religion and Bioethics, Migrant Health, HIV/AIDS

Copeland’s expertise includes administrative law, federal courts and federalism, comparative constitutional law, and race and the law.  Copeland joined the faculty as an associate professor in the fall of 2007. He received an A.B. from Amherst College in 1996, a M.A.R. (Master of Arts in Religion) from Yale Divinity School in 2002, and a J.D. […]

Professor Hill, Dean’s Distinguished Scholar for the Profession, teaches and writes in the areas of federal income tax, constitutional law, and election law.

Professor Gudridge’s teaching interests have included courses in federal jurisdiction, U.S. and Florida constitutional law, jurisprudence, business associations, torts, and agency.

Associate Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine Miller School of Medicine Dr. Carrasquillo’s research focuses in the areas of minority health, health disparities, health services research, and health policy. He is available for interviews in Spanish and to speak about the impacts of the Affordable Care Act on individual […]

Dr. Gardner is the Executive Dean for Education & Policy at the UM Miller School of Medicine.  His clinical areas of practice include general medicine care, health maintenance, medical consultation and primary care medicine. UHealth Page Video of Dr. Gardner, speaking about the Miller School’s social mission

An expert on biomedical and other ethical issues, Kenneth W. Goodman is founder and director of the University of Miami Bioethics Program and its Pan American Bioethics Initiative and co-director of the university’s Ethics Programs, including its Business Ethics Program. Dr. Goodman is also a Professor of Medicine at the University of Miami with appointments in […]

Can speak to all clinical topics and comorbidity.

Can speak to infant sibling research and early signs of autism.

Can speak to high functioning autism research.

Dr. Ehrenreich-May is an expert on anxiety and stress in children, including coping after trauma.  She researches novel treatment approaches for anxiety disorders and related conditions in youth, etiology of child anxiety, clinician training and dissemination of evidence based treatments for children and adolescents. Department of Psychology College of Arts and Sciences [email protected] Office: 305-284-9852 Department […]

Her clinical specialty is midwifery and her expertise includes maternal and child health. She teaches and conducts research in women’s health, health disparities, and international health. Dr. Cianelli also studies HIV prevention and was the recipient of a Fogarty AIDS International Training and Research traineeship at the University of Illinois, Chicago. She speaks Spanish.

Dr. Gonzalez-Guarda graduated from Georgetown University with a Bachelor in the Science of Nursing (BSN), from Johns Hopkins University with a Master in Nursing and Public Health (MPH), and from the University of Miami with an Interdepartmental Doctorate in Nursing, Epidemiology and Psychology (PhD). In the past she has worked on community health nursing projects, […]

Dr. Schiavenato’s research interests lie in the application of technology to assess pain in vulnerable groups such as premature infants and other pediatric and non-verbal patient populations such as geriatrics. Dr. Schiavenato’s laboratory applies novel tools to interpret physiologic and behavioral signals including facial expressions, in an attempt to decipher the presence and intensity of […]

Dr. Kirtman uses state-of-the-art global climate prediction systems to exam the predictability of short term (weeks to several months) climate. This includes predictions of El Nino and how El Nino might influence the short-term climate around the globe and the South East US in particular. Currently, Dr. Kirtman is leading an effort for NOAA to […]

Dr. Ugarriza is a clinical specialist, adult psychiatric mental health nurse. Dr. Ugarriza’s research focuses on mental health with a special emphasis on issues pertaining to the mental health of women. She won a Fulbright Scholar award for a teaching grant project in Cyprus during 2003-2004. Dr. Ugarriza teaches community psychiatric-mental health nursing, death and […]

Dr. Graber operates an Atlantic hurricane monitoring program with numerous satellites. From the satellite radar data high-resolution wind and wave fields can be determined as well as more detail on the storm’s inner core and eye wall. He recently completed a large field program studying typhoons in the western Pacific. Dr. Graber’s research focuses on radar remote sensing of […]

His research focuses on improving analyses and predictions of hurricanes and typhoons, through ensemble forecasting and the intelligent use of satellite and aircraft observations in numerical weather prediction models. Dr. Majumdar is an expert on the state of hurricane forecasting and how researchers and their methods are helping to improve hurricane prediction.

Dr. Hall teaches and conducts research at the School of Nursing and Health Studies and has “touched” many people within the Miami-Dade community. She has created and implemented health care delivery models that serve the very poor, the homeless, immigrants, African Americans and the elderly within the State of Florida. Former Florida governor Lawton Chiles […]

Dr. Soden uses observations and computer models to study the effects of natural and human-caused climate change on hurricane activity. His collaborations with NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton, N.J. have delivered groundbreaking climatological models and information on wind shear and hurricane intensity.

Yunqui (Daniel) Wang, Ph.D., is a lecturer in the department of Biology in the College of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Wang studies the genetic structure of South Florida’s slash pine population using polymorphic microsatellite DNA markers. Slash pines are a keystone species of the Everglades pine and rockland community, one of the most endangered forest […]

Aristides J. Millas, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the School of Architecture.  He is co-author of Coral Gables, Miami Riviera: An Architectural Guide and Old Miami Beach: A Case Study in Historic Preservation, July 1976-July 1980. Dr. Millas is a specialist on Miami’s architectural history and is available to discuss how Miami’s buildings have […]

Kaufui Vincent Wong, Ph. D., is a professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in the College of Engineering. Dr. Wong is an expert on the energy sciences and the environment.  He can talk about the effect of strong hurricane winds and tidal surges on infrastructure like power lines.  He is active on several national committees […]

Peter Muller, Ph.D., is a professor of Geography in the College of Arts and Sciences.  Dr. Muller is an urban geographer with interests in the geography of suburbanization, urban structural transformation and the management of international urban problems. He is available to discuss where hurricanes occur, and how different cultures handle them, as well as […]

Alan Delamater, Ph.D., is a professor of Pediatrics and Psychology, and a Pediatric Psychologist at the UM Miller School of Medicine. Dr. Delamater is an expert on how to help children and their parents cope with stress, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and parenting issues.

He studies wave-current interactions, and shelf and estuary dynamics using primarily radar remote sensing techniques. Dr. Haus’ hurricane research involves studies of the air-sea coupling in very high winds. In particular using the Rosenstiel School’s Air-Sea Interaction Saltwater Tank (ASIST), to investigate the effects of wave breaking and spray on the air-sea interface. This work will be greatly expanded in the surge-structure atmosphere interaction facility […]

He has investigated issues related to natural hazards and the built environment since Hurricane Andrew in 1992.  He produced Hurricane Hazard Mitigation, edited with Beth Dunlop, in which he outlines a “Five-Point Disaster Plan” and participated in the Mississippi Renewal Forum charrette after Hurricane Katrina. He is available to discuss how buildings, bridges, and other […]

Harold R. Wanless, Ph.D., is chairman and a professor in the Department of Geological Sciences and Cooper Fellow in the College of Arts and Sciences. He is available to discuss effects of hurricanes on coastal environments, coastal erosion and post hurricane recovery processes.  He has an active research program documenting hurricane effects on coastal environments; […]

Larry Brand, Ph.D.,  professor of Marine Biology and Fisheries, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science. Dr. Brand studies the interaction of ecological and evolutionary processes in marine phytoplankton, how fast and to what extent phytoplankton populations and species are able to adapt to their local environments. Over a hundred species isolated from different areas […]

Dr. Shay studies hurricane intensity change and in particular rapid changes which usually occurs within 24 to 48 hours of landfall. Through the Upper Ocean Dynamics Laboratory at RSMAS, the focus of these efforts is on the impact of the upper ocean conditions, such as the Loop Current and the associated warm eddy field on heat transfer rates between the […]