UB experts available to discuss issues facing schools amid return during pandemic

BUFFALO, N.Y. — University at Buffalo experts are available to discuss various concerns facing students in grades K-12, parents and educators as children across the region have returned to classrooms in the midst of the delta surge of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Vaccination and COVID-19 in children

• Oscar Gómez-Duarte, MD, PhD, chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at UB.
• Mark Hicar, MD, PhD, associate professor of pediatrics in the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at UB.
• Dennis Kuo, MD, associate professor chief of the Division of General Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at UB.

Role of technology in pandemic and post-pandemic education

• Sam Abramovich, PhD, associate professor of learning and instruction, and information science in the UB Graduate School of Education.
• Chris Proctor, PhD, assistant professor of learning and instruction in the UB Graduate School of Education.
• Noemi Waight, PhD, associate professor of learning and instruction in the UB Graduate School of Education.

The job of teaching, including challenges and labor issues

• Julie Gorlewski, PhD, chair of the Department of Learning and Instruction in the UB Graduate School of Education.
• Thomas Ramming, EdD, clinical associate professor of educational leadership and policy in the UB Graduate School of Education.
• Sarah Robert, PhD, associate professor of learning and instruction in the UB Graduate School of Education.

Misinformation and digital literacy in schools

• Heidi Julien, PhD, professor of information science in the UB Graduate School of Education.
• Yotam Ophir, PhD, assistant professor of communication in the UB College of Arts and Sciences. 

Childhood development and learning

• Claire Cameron, PhD, associate professor of learning and instruction in the UB Graduate School of Education.
• X. Christine Wang, PhD, director of the Fisher-Price Endowed Early Childhood Research Center at UB.

Race, gender and diversity in education

• Kamontá Heidelburg, PhD, assistant professor of counseling, school and educational psychology in the UB Graduate School of Education.
• Sameer Honwad, PhD, assistant professor of learning and instruction, in the UB Graduate School of Education.
• Letitia Thomas, PhD, assistant dean for diversity in the UB School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Child mental health and school social support

• Annahita Ball, PhD, assistant professor of social work in the UB School of Social Work.
• Stephanie Fredrick, PhD, associate director of the UB Alberti Center for Bullying Abuse Prevention.
• David Kaye, MD, professor of psychiatry in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at UB.  
• Sourav Sengupta, MD, assistant professor of psychiatry in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at UB. 

Pregnant mothers and their school-age children

• Sarah L. Berga, MD, chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at UB.