Leadership

Elizabeth Burnside, MD, MPH, MS
Principal Investigator and Co-Research Director

Dr. Elizabeth Burnside is a Professor in the UW-Madison Department of Radiology, Deputy Director of the UW Institute for Clinical and Translational Research and Associate Dean for Interdisciplinary Research and Team Science in the School of Medicine and Public Health. As a women’s health investigator for the past two decades, she conducts research to improve personalized risk prediction and decision support for women navigating the complex landscape of breast cancer screening.

As one of the site PIs of the All of Us—Wisconsin initiative, she is also working to determine how imaging and genomics will pave the way to precision health. With over 18 years as a mentor, she has mentored fellows, PhD students, Postdocs, and early career faculty from multiple disciplines across several UW Schools/Colleges, leading to independent research careers. Many of her mentees have assumed leadership positions at UW, in the health sciences schools, and in the women’s health clinical enterprise.

Lisa Barroilhet, MD, MS
Principal Investigator and Co-Research Director

Dr. Lisa Barroilhet is an Associate Professor in the UW School of Medicine and Public Health, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology.  Her primary research interests focus on prevention and early detection of ovarian cancer in high-risk populations. Dr. Barroilhet has published in numerous peer-reviewed journals and has been active in presenting research at national conferences.  She has been recognized with multiple awards by her peers for exemplary teaching of residents as well as mentoring clinical fellows and early career faculty.

Linsey Steege, PhD
Principal Investigator and Program Director

Dr. Linsey Steege, is the Associate Dean for Research, Professor and Gulbrandsen Chair in Health Informatics & Systems Innovation in the UW School of Nursing. She also has an affiliate appointment with the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering in the UW College of Engineering. Her overall research goal is to improve health, safety and performance of health professionals in the context of their work system, and by doing so, to enhance healthcare quality. She has extensive experience using mixed methods to measure and model fatigue, stress, and burnout in healthcare professionals, particularly the nursing workforce, which is comprised of mostly women. Dr. Steege has over 10 years of experience mentoring doctoral students and early career researchers across multiple disciplines.

Key contributors

Angela Byars Winston, PhD
Career Development Consultant

Dr. Angela Byars-Winston is a tenured professor in the UW School of Medicine and Public Health, Department of Medicine. She is nationally recognized expert in career development and mentoring in the biomedical sciences.  She recently served as the Chair for the Committee on Effective Mentoring in STEMM, commissioned by the Board on Higher Education and Workforce for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

Dr. Byars Winston advances UW BIRCWH scholar career development by utilizing a career guidance model designed to facilitate scholar success and career self-efficacy.

Gillean Kitchen, MPP
Program Manager

Gillean Kitchen has broad experience in program and project management with a background in fiscal administration. She serves as the primary liaison between the UW BIRCWH scholars, faculty mentors, and the Principal Investigators. She is responsible for all day-to-day program-related activities, management of the program budget, coordination of the scholar recruitment and application process, and contributes to program evaluation activities.

Gillean also serves as liaison to the NIH/ORWH BIRCWH program personnel.