Expert Directory
David Souleles, MPH
Director, COVID-19 Response Team for the UCI Campus
University of California, IrvineCOVID -19
David Souleles, MPH, is the Director of the COVID-19 Response Team at the University of California, Irvine. He is also the Director of the Masters in Public Health (MPH) Program and Practice for the UCI Program in Public Health. He has over 25 years of experience leading public health agencies at local, regional and state levels.
David Duncan, M.D.
Director, MS Center at Jersey Shore University Medical Center
Hackensack Meridian HealthMultiple Sclerosis (MS), Neurosccience, Academic Medical Center, New Jersey
MS Certified Specialist David Duncan, M.D., is director of Hackensack Meridian Jersey Shore University Medical Center's Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Center. The MS Center’s integrated and multidisciplinary clinical team, part of Hackensack Meridian’s Neuroscience Institute, provides patients with comprehensive care to improve symptoms, optimizing their ability to function in their professional and personal lives, reduce pain and improve quality of life. Dr. Duncan has been providing MS patients with evidence-based, compassionate care for over 20 years. He completed his Neurology training at the University of Kentucky where he was awarded an honorary scholarship to the Max Planck Institute for Neurological Research in Cologne, Germany. He then completed a Functional Neuro-Imaging/Nuclear Medicine fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania. After beginning his career at the NYU Langone Multiple Sclerosis Comprehensive Care Center in New York, he led the premier CareMount Medical MS specialty practice (formerly Mount Kisco Medical Group) in New York, and was most recently treating patients at Holy Name Medical Center’s MS Center in Teaneck, NJ. The center’s specialists provide a wide variety of services and treatments, such as physical, occupational, swallowing and speech therapies as well as addressing other problems frequently associated with MS including headaches, sleep disorders, vision problems, bladder and bowel issues, sexual problems, spasticity, pain, psychological well-being, and more.
Daniel Rothenberg
Professor of Practice in the School of Politics and Global Studies, Co-Director of the Center on the Future of War and Senior Fellow at New America
Arizona State University (ASU)Terrorism, Human Rights, Violence
Daniel Rothenberg is an expert in terrorism, violence and human rights. Rothenberg has designed and managed human rights projects in Afghanistan, Iraq, Central Africa and throughout Latin America, including programs to train human rights NGOs, aid indigenous peoples in using international legal remedies, support gender justice, and collect and analyze thousands of first-person narratives from victims of atrocities. He is a professor of practice in the School of Politics and Global Studies, co-director of the Center on the Future of War and a senior fellow at New America. His books include With These Hands, Memory of Silence: The Guatemalan Truth Commission Report and Drone Wars: Transforming Conflict, Law, and Policy."
Joseph Chow, Civil Engineering
Associate Professor in Civil & Urban Engineering
NYU Tandon School of Engineering---
Joseph Chow is an Assistant Professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering’s Civil and Urban Engineering Department with affiliations at Center for Urban Science & Progress and Rudin Center for Transportation Policy & Management. Chow is an NSF CAREER award recipient, a former Canada Research Chair, and the co-founding Deputy Director of the C2SMART transportation center at NYU. He is the 2020 Cluster Chair for Transportation Science & Logistics (TSL) Society at INFORMS, a former elected Chair of Urban Transportation Special Interest Group at TSL, a nominated member of Freight Transportation Planning & Logistics and Network Modeling committees and Chair of the Subcommittee on Route Choice & Spatiotemporal Behavior at the Transportation Research Board. He has published about 70 journal articles since 2010 with over $2.5M grant funding as PI/co-PI and another $14M center/program funding as a co-PI, holds Associate Editor positions for two transportation journals, and received the CUTC New Faculty Award in 2018. Dr. Chow received his PhD (’10) at UC Irvine and his MEng (’01) and BS (’00) at Cornell University.
Traumatic grief, Mental Health, Compassion, Mindfulness, Community Development, Psychology
Joanne Cacciatore is an expert in community development, traumatic grief, psychology and mental health. Cacciatore is an associate professor at the School of Social Work. Her research is focused in traumatic death and grief including: etiology, epidemiology, culturally-appropriate interventions, social support, coping, meditation and mindfulness-based approaches. Cacciatore started The Selah Carefarm, the first carefarm for the traumatically bereaved in the U.S. and it's just outside of Sedona, Arizona. It’s a 10 acres of farmland where bereaved family members can come to both give and receive connection, compassion, and understanding. All the animals on the carefarm have been rescued from abuse, neglect, and torture. Her work was featured on Oprah Winfrey and Prince Harry's Apple TV docuseries The Me You Can't See that explores the current state of the world’s mental health and emotional well-being through storytelling. Cacciatore's best selling book, Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief, is a national award winning best seller that has helped revolutionize the way our culture thinks, and feels, about grief. She works with and counsels families from all around the world who have experienced catastrophic deaths.
Lindy Elkins-Tanton
Foundation Professor of School of Earth and Space Exploration, Managing Director of the Interplanetary Initiative, and the Principal Investigator of the Psyche Mission
Arizona State University (ASU)Planetary Science, Higher Education
Lindy Elkins-Tanton studies planetary sciences, from formation to interaction with other planets and their atmosphere. She directs education initiatives, promoting education and skill-development for scientists and engineers. Elkins-Tanton is the principal investigator of the Psyche Mission. She is a foundation professor of the School of Earth and Space Exploration. She is the Managing Director of the Interplanetary Initiative, and a Distinguished Sustainability Scientist. Professor Elkins-Tanton received the Arthur L. Day prize from the National Academy of Sciences. She is on the Standing Review Board for the Europa mission, and was on the panel for the Mars 202 Rover Science Definition Team. Professor Elkins-Tanton is a two-time National Academy of Sciences Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow and served on the National Academy of Sciences Decadal Survey Mars panel.
OB GYN, Reproductive And Developmental Health, abortion access
Emily M. Godfrey, M.D., M.P.H. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Division of Family Planning. Dr. Godfrey shares her clinical expertise at two clinical sites: UWNC Northgate Family Medicine Clinic and the UW Women's Health Care Clinic (WHCC) at Roosevelt. Dr. Godfrey's clinical interests include adolescent health, women's health, men's sexual health, preventive care, outpatient, procedural care and obstetrics. She is board certified in Family Medicine. She competed a fellowship in Family Planning and a Master of Public Health degree at the University of Rochester in 2003.
Andrew Maynard
Director of the ASU Risk Innovation Lab, Chair of the ASU Master of Science and Technology Policy program, and Professor in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society
Arizona State University (ASU)Communication, technology policy, Science law, Emerging Technologies, Nanotechnologies, Public Health, Science Policy, technology and society
Andrew Maynard is a leading expert in the socially responsible development of emerging and converging technologies. For over twenty years he has worked closely with experts and thought leaders from around the world on the challenges and opportunities presented by technologies ranging from nanotechnology and synthetic biology to geoengineering and artificial intelligence. Maynard is a former physicist, a professor in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society. He directs of the ASU Risk Innovation Lab, and chairs the ASU Master of Science and Technology Policy program. He writes the blog 2020 Science, and produces the YouTube channel Risk Bites. He is widely published in the academic literature, including in leading journals such as Nature, and is internationally recognized for his work on the risks and benefits of nanotechnology.
Higher Education, Training, Online Technology, Edtech
Melvin grew up in the small town of Albany in south Georgia. His incoming freshman high school class contained over 250 students. By the time he graduated, there were only 68 students remaining. This ignited his passion for finding a way to empower students to take their futures into their own hands through higher education. He is the CEO of Upswing which provides a solution to reach, relate to, and retain today’s non-traditional learners by scaling student services, supporting 24/7 online tutoring, optimizing engagement, and utilizing insightful data to identify and support at-risk students. After graduating from the University of Georgia, Melvin received a JD/MBA from Duke University where he started a law forum for social and educational equality. Afterward, he became a law professor at North Carolina Central University.
Richard Smith, PhD
Professor of Practice and Vice Dean for Education and Partnerships
Johns Hopkins University Carey Business Schoolmanagement communication, Organizations, Management Education, human resources management, Leadership, strategic management
Rick Smith is the vice dean for education and partnerships as well as a professor of practice. Prior to joining Johns Hopkins University, he served as the deputy dean of education programs at Singapore Management University, where he was also a professor of strategic management. Prior to joining academia on a full-time basis, Rick spent more than 30 years in business, primarily in the consulting industry as a senior partner with Accenture, where he held a variety of leadership roles across industries, geographies, and services. During his business career, Rick has had the opportunity to live and work in Asia, Europe, and America with more than 15 years in the growth markets of China, Singapore, India, and Indonesia. In addition to his work with global firms, he also served as the CEO of a start-up in China and has supported several entrepreneurial ventures. Underpinning Rick’s research and teaching interests is the focus on human capital as a strategic resource for competitive advantage. He teaches graduate courses on Strategic Management and Human Capital Leadership. As a frequent guest speaker and executive education instructor Rick is the proud recipient of numerous teaching awards. Rick’s work on cross-border leadership provided significant media attention in Asia where he was featured as a guest on CNBC’s ‘Squawk box’ and ‘Talk Asia.’ Recently, he turned his attention to management education and co-authored the book, Rethinking the Business Models of Business Schools.
Operations Management, Supply Chain, Logistics, Organ Transplant, artifcial intelligence, Health Care Management, Vaccine delivery stystems
Tinglong Dai is Professor of Operations Management and Business Analytics at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, with joint faculty appointments at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and Institute for Data-Intensive Engineering and Science. He is on the core faculty and leadership team of the Hopkins Business of Health Initiative. He joined Carey in 2013 after receiving a PhD in Operations Management/Robotics from Carnegie Mellon. His research interests span healthcare, marketing-operations interfaces, and human-AI interaction. Professor Dai has been quoted hundreds of times in the media, including Associated Press, Bloomberg, CNN, Fortune, New York Times, NPR, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post, and has appeared in national and international TV such as CNBC, PBS NewsHour, and Sky News. In 2021, he was named as one of the World's Best 40 Under 40 Business School Professors by Poets & Quants. Professor Dai's work has been published in leading journals such as Management Science, M&SOM, Marketing Science, and Operations Research, and has been recognized by Johns Hopkins Discovery Award, INFORMS Public Sector Operations Research Best Paper Award, POMS Best Healthcare Paper Award, and Wickham Skinner Early Career Award (Runner-Up). He is an Associate Editor of M&SOM and Naval Research Logistics and a Senior Editor of Production and Operations Management. He co-chairs the Johns Hopkins Symposium on Healthcare Operations and co-edits the Handbook of Healthcare Analytics: Theoretical Minimum for Conducting 21st Century Research on Healthcare Operations, published by John Wiley & Sons in 2018.
Business Communication, Financial Crisis, Governance, Regulation, Corporate Governance, Government Regulation, Campaign Finance, Business Ethics, crisis communications
Kathleen Day joined the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School in 2013. A business author and journalist, she is a full-time lecturer with a specialty in financial crises and how they spread; in corporate governance; and in business communication, particularly during crises. Ms. Day previously taught at Georgetown University's graduate program in real estate, where she created an ethics course based on the series of financial crises in the United States over the last several decades, from the Great Recession through the 1980s banking crisis and the mortgage meltdown of 2007. In addition to financial crises, her interests include the related topics of corporate governance, particularly the history of the corporate form; government regulation and oversight; lobbying and campaign finance; ethics; crisis communication; and the application of artificial intelligence in finance. She recently joined an initiative of a non-profit group and several major corporations to raise the profile in the media and among policymakers of women, especially minority women, who are experts in business and technology. Day is the author of the books Broken Bargain: Banks, Bailouts, and the Struggle to Tame Wall Street (Yale University Press, January 2019) and S&L Hell: the people and politics behind the $1 trillion savings-and-loan crisis (New York: W.W. Norton, 1993).
Corey Shdaimah, PhD
Daniel Thursz Distinguished Professor of Social Justice and Academic Coordinator for the MSW/JD and MSW/MPP dual degrees at the University of Maryland Baltimore School of Social Work
University of Maryland, BaltimoreChild care policy, Prostitution, Prostitution Policy, Prostitution Diversion, Dependency Court Reform, street-based sex work
Dr. Shdaimah’s research and writing focuses on how people respond, adapt to, and try to change policies that they perceive as ineffective or unjust across a number of substantive areas. She has ongoing projects exploring child care policy, dependency court reforms, and criminal justice responses to sex work. Dr. Shdaimah relies on a variety of primarily qualitative methods, including ethnographic methods and photovoice, which elicit the important insights that people have about improving the systems in which they work and interact. She is the author of several books including, with co-author Elizabeth Palley "In Our Hands: The Struggle for US Child Care" (New York University Press).
Martin Dresner, PhD
Professor of Logistics, Business and Public Policy
University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of BusinessLogistics, Supply Chain, Supply Chain Issues, air transportation, aviation industry, air transport policy
Martin Dresner has served on the faculty of the R.H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland since 1988, where he is Professor and Chair of the Logistics, Business and Public Policy Department. He received his Ph.D. in Policy Analysis from the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia. His research focuses on two broad areas, air transport policy and logistics management. Professionally, he is Chair of the Air Transport Research Society (ATRS) and a past president of the Transportation and Public Utilities Group (TPUG) of the Allied Social Sciences Association and of the Transportation Research Forum (TRF). Dresner is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Business Logistics. He has testified before the U.S. House Aviation Subcommittee and has worked on consulting projects for several organizations, including the Maryland Aviation Administration, the Federal Aviation Administration and the U.S. Department of Energy.
Kate Williams, MS
Director, Center for Research on Wind Power on the Environment
Biodiversity Research Institute (BRI)Wildlife, Ecology, avian migratory patterns, wind power development, offshore wind power, wind power and the environment
As the head of BRI’s Center for Research on Wind Power on the Environment, Kate oversees wide-ranging projects focused on renewable energy development and wildlife. Her particular focus is offshore wind energy studies conducted in coordination with state and federal agencies, academics, and other nonprofits. She obtains funding, designs and manages projects, analyzes data, authors technical reports and publications, delivers public presentations at scientific and technical conferences. In addition, she provides technical support for a range of stakeholder and policy initiatives. Her current projects include providing technical expertise to the New York State Environmental Technical Working Group (E-TWG) and developing guidance for implementing automated VHF telemetry studies at offshore wind energy projects.
Rajshree Agarwal, PhD
Rudolph Lamone Chair of Strategy and Entrepreneurship
University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Businessimmigrant entrepreneurship, strategic management , Innovation, Organization Science
Rajshree Agarwal is the Rudolph Lamone Chair of Strategy and Entrepreneurship and Director of the Ed Snider Center for Enterprise and Markets at the University of Maryland. Rajshree studies the evolution of industries, firms and individual careers, as fostered by the twin engines of innovation and enterprise. Her scholarship uses an interdisciplinary lens to provide insights on strategic innovation for new venture creation and for firm renewal. She routinely publishes in leading journals in strategy and entrepreneurship. An author of more than 60 studies, her research has been cited more than 10,000 times, received numerous best paper awards, and funded by grants from various foundations, including the Kauffman Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation and the National Science Foundation. She is currently the co-editor of the Strategic Management Journal and has previously served in co-editor and senior editor roles at Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal and Organization Science respectively. She is a senior contributor at Forbes, providing insights for leading purposeful lives, strategy and innovation. She has been featured in major media outlets including the Washington Post, USA Today, Time, and the Baltimore Sun. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from SUNY Buffalo in 1994 and has previously held faculty appointments at Universities of Illinois and Central Florida.
Human Rights, Low Pay, Detention Centres, Detainees, Refugees, Migration Law, Migration, Asylum Seekers, Poverty, Social Mobility
Dr Katie Bales is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Bristol. She specialises in forced migration, work and the welfare state. She has been exploring the issues that impact the lives of asylum-seekers and refugees in the UK – including their working rights, access to employment and how the law regards immigrants. Katie has also examined low wages paid to detainees in immigration centres and access to education for asylum-seekers. She is currently working on a new study of international perspectives on detention centres. Katie has undertaken research for the Equality and Human Rights Commission and the Scottish Human Rights Commission, examining the State's compliance with human rights obligations (with a particular focus on welfare reform and the immigration detention of children). In addition to her research and teaching, Katie is co-editor for the Futures of Work blogsite with Bristol University Press. She is also a trustee for the Bristol City of Sanctuary Charity and a founding member of the Sanctuary Scholarships working group which helped to establish a scholarship scheme for asylum-seekers and refugees seeking access to Higher Education. Katie holds a PhD in Law from Northumbria University. Accomplishments: 2017 - Excellence Award for Sanctuary Scholarship Scheme 2019 - University of Sanctuary Award and Social Mobility Award Publications: 15/03/2018 - ‘Voice’ and ‘Choice’ in Modern Working Practices: Problems with the Taylor Review, Industrial Law Journal 04/07/2018 - Unfree labour in immigration detention: exploitation and coercion of a captive immigrant workforce, Economy and Society 27/11/2018 - The 'future' of work? A call for the recognition of continuities in challenges for conceptualising work and its regulation, University of Bristol Law School 18/08/2019 - Michael Adler: Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment? Benefit Sanctions in the UK, Journal of Law and Society 30/09/2019 - The Immigration Industrial Complex: A Global Perspective on 'Unfree Labour' in immigration detention, Futures of Work 01/04/2020 - COVID-19 and the Futures of Work, Futures of Work You can find out more about Katie on her University of Bristol staff profile at: https://www.bristol.ac.uk/people/person/Katie-Bales-a577005b-dfe6-4f5b-ae38-3f70573c6e2b/ Katie can be found on Twitter at KatieBales2.
Biomedicine, Diagnostics, Disease Spread, Medical Devices, Infectious Diseases, Coronavirus
Mara Aspinall is an expert in biomedical diagnostics, biomedicine and medical diagnostic devices. She is a professor of practice in the College of Health Solutions and the co-founder of the Biomedical Diagnostics program within the college. Throughout her career, Aspinall has spearheaded initiatives to educate payers and policymakers on genomics and personalized medicine. In addition to her position at ASU, Aspinall is the co-founder and managing director of BlueStone Venture Partners and the managing director of Health Catalysts Group.
Sarah Porter
Director, Kyl Center for Water Policy within the Morrison Institute for Public Policy
Arizona State University (ASU)Water, Sustainability, Natural Resources, water rights, Water resource management
Sarah Porter is an expert in natural resources, water policy and sustainability. She is the director of the Kyl Center for Water Policy within the Morrison Institute for Public Policy. Through her expertise in natural resources and her position within the Kyl Center, Porter helps lead research, analysis and work to build consensus on sound water stewardship for Arizona and the West.
Rebecca Erwin Wells, MD, MPH
Associate Professor, Department of Neurology
Atrium Health Wake Forest BaptistAtrium Health Wake Forest Baptist
Migraine, Mindfulness, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction, Headache
Rebecca Erwin Wells, MD, MPH, is an associate professor of neurology at Wake Forest School of Medicine. She is the founder and director of the Comprehensive Headache Program at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist and serves as associate director of clinical research for their Center for Integrative Medicine. As a practicing neurologist and board-certified headache specialist, Wells understands the real-world challenges and importance of finding effective migraine relief strategies for patients. Her research investigates the mechanisms and efficacy of mind/body treatments for headache. She presents to national and international audiences as an expert in headache, mind/body and integrative medicine. She has received funding from NIH, National Headache Foundation and American Pain Society for her research. As a trained mindfulness meditation instructor, she has led mindfulness sessions virtually with worldwide participants during the COVID-19 pandemic. Wells has been a “Best Doctor of America” since 2015. She is vice president of the Southern Headache Society and on the Board of Directors of the American Headache Society. She currently serves as co-chair of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Taskforce for the American Headache Society. In 2021, Wells received the American Headache Society Harold Wolff-John Graham Award in recognition of outstanding achievements in headache/facial pain research. She also won the 2021 American Headache Society Early Career Lecture award for the best paper on headache written by an “early career author.”
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