Ronald L Sorkness

Professor (CHS) of Pharmacy, Medicine and Pediatri
Professor Pharmacy Practice Division
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - MADISON
United States of America

Professor Pulmonology
Biography

2001-present Professor (CHS) of Pharmacy, Medicine, and Pediatrics; Pharmacy Practice Division, School of Pharmacy, and Allergy, Pulmonary & Critical Care Division, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison. 2000-present Investigator in the Morris Institute for Respiratory Research, University of Wisconsin, Madison. 2003-2007 Chair, Pharmacy Practice Division, School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin, Madison. 1994- 2001 Associate Professor (CHS) of Pharmacy, Medicine, and Pediatrics; Pharmacy Practice Division, School of Pharmacy, and Allergy Division, School of Medicine, University of Wisconsin, Madison. 1989-1994 Associate Scientist, Dept. of Medicine, Allergy Division, University of Wisconsin Clinical Science Center 1981-1994 Clinical Associate Professor of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin School of Pharmacy 1988-1989 Research Associate, Dept. of Medicine, Allergy Division, Univ. of Wisconsin Clinical Science Center 1986-1988 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Medicine, Allergy Division, Univ. of Wisconsin Clinical Science Center 1982-1986 Research Assistant, The John Rankin Laboratory of Pulmonary Medicine, Dept. of Preventive Medicine, University of Wisconsin 1977-1981 Clinical Assistant Professor of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin School of Pharmacy, and Center for Trauma and Life Support, University of Wisconsin Hospitals, Madison, Wisconsin 1974-1977 Assistant Professor of Pharmacy, State University of New York at Buffalo and E.J. Meyer Memorial Hospital, Buffalo, New York 1972-1974 Pharmacy Resident, University of Wisconsin Hospitals, Madison, Wisconsin.

Research Intrest

Mechanisms of obstructive airway disease; Virus-induced airway dysfunction; Severe asthma; Airway physiology and structure/function correlates

List of Publications
Bel EH, ten Brinke A, Sorkness RL. Fixed airway obstruction in severe asthma, in Chung KF, Bel EH, Wenzel SE (eds), Difficult-to-Treat Severe Asthma, European Respiratory Monograph Number 51, European Respiratory Society, 2011; pp 147-159.
Horvath I, Sorkness RL, Sterk PJ. Airway physiology and pathophysiology in severe asthma, in Chung KF, Bel EH, Wenzel SE (eds), Difficult-to-Treat Severe Asthma, European Respiratory Monograph Number 51, European Respiratory Society, 2011; pp 182-188.
Fain SB, Mummy DG, Sorkness RL. Hyperpolarized gas MRI of the lung in asthma, in Albert MS and Hane FT (eds), Hyperpolarized and Inert Gas MRI. From Technology to Application in Research and Medicine. Academic Press, Elsevier, London, 2017, pp 223-238.