Christine Sorkness
RPh, PharmD
Professor School of Medicine and Public Health School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Christine Sorkness, RPh, PharmD, is Senior Associate Executive Director of the UW Institute of Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR) and oversees the translational endeavors efforts. She also serves as co-director of the ICTR Collaborative Center for Health Equity.
Sorkness has a special interest in health disparities in asthma, in which she has conducted both clinical efficacy and comparative effectiveness trials.
Sorkness is affiliated with the UW Allergy, Pulmonary, and Critical Care Division and has more than 25 years of NHLBI funding as either a co-investigator or co-principal investigator. She is a co-investigator with the NIAID Inner City Asthma Consortium.
A long-standing member of the UW Health Sciences IRB, she has also served on several NHLBI-appointed Data and Safety Monitoring Boards for multi-center national trials.
Sorkness holds professorships in both the UW School of Pharmacy and the UW School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH). She provided instrumental leadership in support of the UW Mentoring Trial and the development of a legacy web-based mentoring resource. The implementation and dissemination of the mentoring initiatives at UW ICTR have benefited from Sorkness’s extensive mentoring experience and long-standing dedication to training diverse clinical and translational researchers.
Sorkness is a past Lead Team Member with the CTSA Workforce Domain Task Force. She is an investigator with the NIGMS National Research Mentoring Network (NRMN) and is a master facilitator.