Barbara Bendlin is a professor of medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

She serves as the deputy director of the UW-Madison Center for Health Disparities Research, and the director of the Neuroscience and Public Policy Graduate programme at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Bendlin’s research programme is centred on understanding the factors that contribute to dementia risk, including the exposome and the gut microbiome. Her research is funded by the National Institute on Aging, foundation funding and philanthropy.

Photo: Clint Thayer, Dept of Medicine at UW-Madison