CAARN facilitates academic collaboration with community organizations and healthcare agencies and providers that serve historically underrepresented groups to develop pilot, controlled trials, and dissemination healthy aging research studies. New interventions and innovations can be tested through connections to these agencies.
Steps to becoming an Academic Partner
Download and complete the Research Intake form here.
Contact a CAARN Community Research Associate (CRA) who will guide you through the process and work with our Network Partners and Multiple Primary Investigators to ensure our partners’ needs and interests align.
Thank you to our past and current Academic Partners
Last updated: December 2023
| Andrae, Susan, PhD, MPH | Kinesiology |
| Barrett, Bruce, MD, PhD | Family Medicine & Community Health |
| Basting, Anne, PhD | English (UW-Milwaukee) |
| Bouges, Shenikqua, MD | Medicine |
| Bowers, Barbara, PhD, RN | Nursing |
| Bratzke, Lisa, PhD, RN | Nursing |
| Breslow, Robert, BS, Pharm | Pharmacy |
| Brown, Heidi, MD, MAS | Medicine, Obstetrics & Gynecology |
| Buehring, Bjoern, MD | Medicine; Veterans Affairs |
| Carayon, Pascale, PhD | Engineering, Industrial and Systems |
| Chewning, Betty, PhD | Pharmacy |
| Columna, Luis, PhD | Kinesiology |
| Farrar-Edwards, Dorothy, PhD, OT | Medicine; Kinesiology, Occupational Therapy Program |
| Fernandes, Jayer, PhD | Engineering, Electrical and Computers |
| Fields, Beth, PhD, OT | Kinesiology, Occupational Therapy Program |
| Fischer, Barbara, MD | Neurology; Veterans Affairs |
| Flowers Benton, Susan, PhD, CRC | Family Medicine and Community Health; Rehabilitation and Disability Studies (Southern University) |
| Ford II, Jay, PhD | Pharmacy |
| Friedman, Elliot, PhD | Human Development & Family Studies (Purdue University) |
| Gleason, Carey, PhD | Medicine |
| Gretebeck, Kimberlee, PhD, RN | Nursing (Marquette University) |
| Gretebeck, Randall, PhD | Nursing (Marquette University) |
| Gustafson Sr., David, PhD | Engineering, Industrial and Systems |
| Hallisy, Kristine, PT, DSc | Orthopedics & Rehabilitation, Physical Therapy Program |
| Hamrick, Irene, MD | Family and Community Medicine (University of Cincinnati) |
| Hansmann, KJ, MD, PhD | Family Medicine and Community Health |
| Heiderscheit, Bryan, PhD, PT | Family Medicine and Community Health, Physical Therapy Program |
| Jacobs, Elizabeth A., MD | Medicine, Population Health Sciences |
| James, Taryn, PhD | Medicine |
| Jecklin, Robert, PhD | Gerontology (UW-La Crosse) |
| Johnson, Adrienne, PhD | Medicine |
| Johnson, Kim, PhD | Engineering |
| Jiang, Hongrui, PhD | Engineering, Electrical and Computers |
| King, Barbara, PhD, RN | Nursing |
| Kehl, Karen, PhD | Nursing |
| Koltyn, Kelli, PhD | Kinesiology |
| Krishnaswamy, Bhuvana, PhD | Engineering, Electrical and Computers |
| Kwarteng, Jamila, PhD | Community Health (Medical College of Wisconsin) |
| Lauver, Diane, PhD, RN | Nursing |
| Li, Jingshan, PhD | Engineering, Industrial and Systems |
| Liu, Yao, MD | Medicine, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences |
| Look, Kevin, PhD, PharmD | Pharmacy |
| Mahoney, Jane, MD | Medicine |
| Mares, Marie-Louise, PhD | Communication Arts |
| Martin, Beth, PhD | Pharmacy |
| Mora Pinzon, Maria, MD | Family Medicine and Community Health |
| Mott, David, PhD | Pharmacy |
| Passmore, Susan, PhD | Nursing |
| Pandhi, Nancy, MD, PhD | Family & Community Medicine (University of New Mexico) |
| Pickett, Kristen, PhD | Kinesiology, Occupational Therapy Program |
| Pop-Vicas, Aurora, MD | Medicine |
| Pulia, Nicole, PhD | Medicine |
| Okonkwo, Ozioma, PhD | Medicine |
| Quanbeck, Andrew, PhD | Family Medicine & Community Health |
| Radwin, Robert, PhD | Engineering, Industrial and Systems |
| Ryff, Carol, PhD | Psychology |
| Schwarze, Gretchen, MD | Surgery |
| Schafer, Stacey, PhD | Psychology |
| Shiyanbola, Olayinka, PhD, B.Pharm | Pharmacy |
| Smith, Paul, MD | Family Medicine and Community Health |
| Smith, Maureen, MD, PhD | Medicine; Population Health Sciences |
| Sprecher, Kate, PhD | Population Health Sciences |
| Vivian, Eva, PharmD | Pharmacy |
| Voils, Corinne, PhD | Surgery |
| Ward, Earlise, PhD | Family Medicine and Community Health |
| Wenker, Sue, PhD, PT | Family Medicine & Community Health, Physical Therapy Program |
| Werner, Nicole, PhD | Engineering (University of Indiana) |
| Wesson, Barbara, PhD | Public Health (UW-Milwaukee) |
| Wise, Meg, PhD | Pharmacy |
| Zimmerman, David R, PhD | Engineering, Industrial and Systems |