Faculty experts at Touro University can respond to media queries and serve as resources on a wide variety of topics, ranging from health, medicine and psychology to ethics, education and AI. See our faculty profiles below or contact us at communications@touro.edu.

Business & Economics

Business Management, Entrepreneurial Process, Organizational Leadership: Corrado Amato

Personal Finance, Stock Market, World and U.S. Economy: Angelo DeCandia

Business Law: Meredith R. Miller

Business Strategy, Tax: Shulem Rosenbaum

Careers

Job Market Trends, Resume and Interview Preparation: Maksim Paliyev

Career Planning, Maximizing Use of LinkedIn: Chaim Shapiro

Career Counseling, College Career Services: Jodi Smolen

Dentistry

Pediatric Dentistry, Infection Prevention: Ronnie Myers

Periodontics, Dental Implantology, Gum Disease: Jay Rubin

Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, Dental Treatment of Patients in Underserved Rural Communities: Aaron Yancoskie

Orofacial Pain, Sleep Apnea: Lauren Levi

Education

Art Education: Timothy Bellavia

Learning Disabilities: Susan Courey

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Higher Education: Shlomo Engelson Argamon 

Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, First-Generation Students in Higher Education, Academic Self-Regulation: Pola Ham

Higher Education, Education Policy: Alan Kadish

Special Education: Jeff Lichtman, Susan Courey

Teacher Training, Jewish Education: Jeff Lichtman 

Early Childhood and Elementary Level Teaching, Educational Program Design: Lena Richardson

Health and Medicine

Health Policy, Emergency and Disaster Medicine, Disease Control and Prevention: Robert W. Amler

Pharmaceutical, Biomedical Sciences: Paramita Basu

Nutrition: Nathalie Bergeron, Harold Sirota, Niket Sonpal

Vaccination: Mary Flanagan, Stephen Jones 

Healthy Living/Disease Prevention: Harold Sirota, Niket Sonpal

Infectious Disease: Mary Flanagan, Allen Dozor, Kathleen DiCaprio, Niket Sonpal, Gary P. Wormser

Genetics, Stem Cell Biology: Mitchell Cairo

Biochemistry, Stem Cells, Science Education: Brian Chiswell

Public Health: Robert W. Amler, Kathleen DiCaprio

Pediatrics: Allen Dozor, Edward C. Halperin, Mitchell Cairo

Primary Care: Mary Flanagan, Kenneth Steier

Medical Ethics, Organ Transplantation: Edward C. Halperin

Immunodeficiency and Autoimmune Diseases, Gerontology: Stephen Jones 

DNA Testing, Medicine, Jewish Law: Zvi Loewy

Bioethics, Jewish Medical Ethics: John Loike

Vaccines and Preclinical Testing: Alison McCormick

Patient Safety/Medication Safety: Batoul Senhaji-Tomza

Depression: Harold Sirota

Osteopathic Medicine, Performance Enhancing Drugs: Kenneth Steier

Lyme Disease, Bio-Threats: Gary P. Wormser

Jewish Studies/Jewish Community

The Holocaust: Natalia Aleksiun, Karen Sutton, Anne Bayefsky

Eastern European Jews: Natalia Aleksiun

Modern Day Middle East, Human Rights: Anne Bayefsky

Jewish Law: Rabbi Moshe Krupka, Samuel Levine, Rabbi Yonason Sacks

Jewish Community: Rabbi Moshe Krupka

Bioethics, Jewish Medical Ethics: John Loike

Middle East, U.S. and Israeli Relations, Local and Israel Politics: David Luchins

Jewish History and Law, Universalism and Particularism in Judaism as Reflected in Classical Jewish Texts: Moshe Miller

Talmud and Bible Study: Rabbi Yonason Sacks

Contemporary Judaism: Israel Singer

Ethics, Jewish Studies: Rabbi Moshe Sokol

Sociology of Religion, Contemporary American and Israeli Jewry: Mervin Verbit

Ethics

Bioethics, Jewish Medical Ethics: John Loike

General Ethics: Rabbi Moshe Sokol

Legal Ethics: Samuel Levine

Government Ethics: Patricia E. Salkin

Medical Ethics: Edward C. Halperin

Law

Criminal Law, Criminal Justice, Human Rights: Richard Klein

Legal Ethics, Jewish Law, Law and Religion: Samuel Levine

Contract and Employment Law, Business Law: Meredith R. Miller

Constitutional Law, Public Administration, Political Theory: Tom Rozinski

Land Use, Government Ethics, Legal Education: Patricia E. Salkin

Mental Health

General Mental Health: Jeffrey Gardere, Naomi Klapper

Trauma, Clinical Mental Health Education: Kimberly Asner-Self

Geriatric Social Work: Susan Brot

Parenting: Nancy Gallina, Naomi Klapper, Faye Walkenfeld, Jeffrey Gardere

Anxiety: Jeffrey Gardere, Steven Pirutinsky

Relationships, Addiction: Naomi Klapper

Forensic Psychology: Alan Perry

Mental Health and Religion: Steven Pirutinsky

Depression, Suicidology, Cognitive Therapy, Veterans’ Mental Health: Yosef Sokol

Cognitive Development, Religious and Cultural Identity: Faye Walkenfeld

Politics

International Relations, Contemporary Issues in Global Politics, American History: Brooks Ishler

Middle East, U.S. and Israeli Relations, Local and Israel Politics: David Luchins

Presidential Power, Constitutional Law, Political Theory: Tom Rozinski

Government Ethics: Patricia E. Salkin

Political Theory: Israel Singer

Rehabilitation 

Exercise for Aging Adults, Oncology Physical Therapy Rehabilitation and Inpatient Rehabilitation: Mark Apostol

Motor Learning, Children with Disabilities: Bhavini Surana

Pediatric Physical Therapy: Yocheved Bensinger-Brody, Bhavini Surana

Rehabilitation for Patients with Cardiac and Pulmonary Disease: Ted Marks

Hand Therapy: Eileen Meehan, Rob Troiano

Cognitive Rehabilitation, Adult Rehabilitation: Rivka Molinsky

Transition to Adulthood for Students with Developmental Disabilities, School-Based Occupational Therapy: Meira Orentlicher

Women’s Health, Pelvic Rehabilitation, Incontinence: Reema Thakkar

Prosthetics: Rob Troiano

Technology

Artificial Intelligence (AI): Shlomo Engelson Argamon, Jeremy Rambarran

Machine Learning, Forensic Linguistics, Technology in Higher Education: Shlomo Engelson Argamon

Network and Cybersecurity, Software-as-a-Service: Behrooz Khorsandi, Jeremy Rambarran

Cloud Computing: Behrooz Khorsandi, Jeremy Rambarran

Visual Storytelling, User Experience, Web Design: Valerie Taylor

Educational Technology, Instructional Design, Online Learning: Holly Owens