We bring scientific leaders in health research to Marshfield Clinic Research Institute for our Scientific Seminar series. These seminars allow us to highlight important health research being completed around the world. Below are recordings of the Scientific Seminars in 2020.

The Scientific Seminar series provides presenters with planning and travel support. If you are interested in inviting a speaker or presenting your research, contact Casper Bendixsen, Ph.D., chairman of the Scientific Seminar series or call 715-387-9410.  


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December 18, 2020 - Edward Belongia, MD
Director for Clinical Epidemiology and Population Health
“Covid-19 Vaccine Update: Safety, Efficacy and Emergency Use in a Public Health Crisis"

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October 28, 2020 - Noah Budi, PharmD
Infectious Disease Research Fellow, University of Wisconsin School of Pharmacy, Madison
“Can germinants combined with antibiotic therapy disrupt the Clostridioides difficile life cycle?"

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October 14, 2020 - Jeffrey L Ebersole, PhD
CProfessor and Associate Dean for Research, School of Dental Medicine, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
“Is more better? Viewpoint from Translational Periodontal Disease"

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September 23, 2020 - Reiko Shinkura, MD, PhD
Chief of the Laboratory of Immunology and Infection Control at the Institute of Quantitative Biosciences at the University of Tokyo, Japan
“IgA drug development as gut microbial regulators"

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September 9, 2020 - Valerie Olson, PhD
UCI Department of Anthropology University of California, Irvine
“Extreme Environmental Health: Aerospace Medical Culture”

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August 26, 2020 - Mark Louden, PhD
Alfred L. Shoemaker, J. William Frey, and Don Yoder Professor of Germanic Linguistics and Director of the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies at UW–Madison
“Health and Well-Being among the Amish”

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July 22, 2020 - Karthik Anantharaman, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin, Madison
“Systems Biology of Viruses in Human Gut Microbiota”

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July 8, 2020 - Azi Bashiri, Ph.D
Project Scientist, Center for Precision Medicine Research, MCRI
“Artificial Intelligence for Lung Nodule Diagnosis.”

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June 24, 2020 - Ed Miller, Ph.D
Professor of Political Science and Katz Distinguished Professor of Letters and Science, University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point; and, Co-Director, Center for the Small City; Emeritus end of June 2018
“The Physician Shortage in the U.S.”

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June 10, 2020 - Erika Scott, Ph.D
Deputy Director of the Northeast Center for Occupational Health and Safety in Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing New York Center for Agricultural Medicine and Health
“The Utility of Existing Administrative Databases for Agricultural Injury Surveillance”

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May 27, 2020 - Craig Lee, Pharm.D., Ph.D., FCCP, FAHA, Associate Research Scientist,
Tenured Associate Professor of Pharmacy and Vice Chair for Research and Graduate Education in the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy
“CYP2C19 Genotype-Guided Antiplatelet Therapy after PCI: Clinical Implications of Emerging Evidence”

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May 13, 2020 - Leila Deering, BA
Application Analyst, Senior, Marshfield Clinic Research Institute
“REDCap to the Rescue – Creative use cases on REDCap and COVID-19 Response”

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