University of Wisconsin Department of Psychiatry

Research Faculty

Heather Abercrombie

Heather Abercrombie, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology

  • Graduate School: University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2001
  • Interests: Stress, cortisol and memory function; mindfulness in psychiatric practice
  • Abercrombie lab website
Ruth Benca

Ruth Benca, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor of Psychiatry

  • Medical School: University of Chicago - Pritzker School of Medicine, 1981
  • Interests: Sleep Medicine
Chiara Cirelli

Chiara Cirelli, M.D., Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Psychiatry

  • Medical School: M.D. - Magna cum laude Scoula Superiore S. Anna and University of Pisa, Italy, 1990
  • Interests: Research aims at understanding the function of sleep and clarifying the functional consequences of sleep loss
  • Cirelli lab website
Roseanne Clark

Roseanne Clark, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Psychiatry

  • Graduate School: Northwestern University, 1983
  • Fellowship: Clinical Services Research, UWSMPH
  • Interests: Treatment efficacy studies of postpartum depression and co-morbid disorders; validition of infant and early childhood mental health assessment and diagnostic measures; maternal depression and emotion, behavior and attention regulation capacities in infancy and early childhood.
Richie Davidson

Richie Davidson, Ph.D.

Vilas Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry; Director, Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior; Co-Director, HealthEmotions Research Institute

  • Medical School: Harvard University, 1976
  • Interests: Mind-body connections
  • Davidson lab website
Marilyn Essex

Marilyn Essex, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Psychiatry

  • Graduate School: University of Maryland, 1978
  • Interests: Developmental psychopathology and specifically the influences of stress exposure on the development of the HPA axis and their joint influences on anxiety and mood disorders of childhood and adolescence
  • Essex lab website
Robert N. Golden

Robert N. Golden, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor of Psychiatry; Dean and Vice Chancellor for Medical Affairs, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

  • Medical School: Boston University School of Medicine, 1979
  • Interest: Neurobiology and treatment of mood disorders; integration of medicine and public health
Tal Herbsman

Tal Herbsman, M.D., M.S.E.

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry

  • Medical School: University of Florida
  • Interests: Mood disorders; transcranial magnetic stimulation; neuroimaging.
Ned Kalin

Ned Kalin, M.D.

Chair and Hedberg Professor of Psychiatry; Co-Director, HealthEmotions Research Institute

  • Medical School: Jefferson Medical College, 1976
  • Interests: Research models of depression and anxiety; treatment of depressive and anxiety disorders
Marj Klein

Marj Klein, Ph.D.

Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology

  • Graduate School: Harvard University, 1964
  • Interests: Longitudinal studies of children and families with an emphasis on risk factors for maternal depression and child psychopathology; assessment of personality disorders; treatment of bulimia nervosa
Mike Koenigs

Mike Koenigs, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry

  • Graduate School: University of Iowa, 2006
  • Interests: emotion, social behavior, brain injury
Greg Kolden

Greg Kolden, Ph.D.

Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology

  • Graduate School: Northwestern University, 1988
  • Interests: Interpersonal psychotherapy; neuroimaging and psychotherapy
Jack Nitschke

Jack Nitschke, Ph.D

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology

  • Graduate School: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1998
  • Interests: Neuroimaging of anxiety disorders
  • Nitschke lab website
Michael Peterson

Michael Peterson, M.D., Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry

  • Medical School: Medical College of Wisconsin (Ph.D. Biochemistry, 1999) (M.D. 2001)
  • Interests: Sleep and psychiatric disorders particularly schizophrenia, major depression and bipolar disorder; use of high-density EEG sleep recordings as a diagnostic tool in psychiatric disorders
Brad Postle

Brad Postle, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

  • Graduate School: MIT, 1997
  • Interests: working memory, attention, fMRI, TMS, EEG
  • Postle lab website
Vivek Prabhakaran

Vivek Prabhakaran, M.D., Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Radiology and Psychiatry

  • Medical School: Stanford, 2001
  • Interests: working memory and reasoning, stroke, neuroimaging
Pat Roseboom

Pat Roseboom, Ph.D.

Lecturer and Associate Scientist

  • Graduate School: University of Michigan, 1989
Giulio Tononi

Giulio Tononi, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor of Psychiatry

  • Medical School: Pisa, Italy (M.D. / Ph.D.), 1985 / 1989
  • Interests: Biological basis of consciousness; sleep research
  • Tononi lab website