Preceptorship Awards
The Max Fox Preceptorship Award and the Sigurd Sivertson Medical Student Education Award recognize Wisconsin physicians for their critical role in educating medical students. Recipients are chosen by faculty selection committees.
The Max Fox Preceptorship Award
In 1969, Dr. Herman H. Shapiro, a preceptee of Dr. Fox, founded this preceptorship award in honor of his mentor. During his 46 years of practicing medicine, Dr. Max J. Fox greatly influenced the careers of some 4,000 physicians. It was his love of teaching that made Dr. Fox such an effective preceptor for University of Wisconsin medical students for over 25 years.
Each year the Max Fox Award honors one of the unheralded Wisconsin physicians whose dedicated service as a medical student preceptor has played such an important part in developing this outstanding University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
2025 Max Fox Award
Drs. Anna Svircev and Jessica Schmid are family medicine physicians at Southwest Health in Platteville, where they serve as dedicated preceptors for the UW School of Medicine and Public Health. Since 2018, they have collectively mentored 25 medical students through the Ambulatory Acting Internship, providing hands-on clinical training grounded in trust, autonomy and patient-centered care.
All Max Fox Preceptorship Award Recipients
| Recipient | Year Awarded |
|---|---|
| Dr. Merritt Jones | 1970 |
| Dr. Peter Midelfort | 1971 |
| Dr. Leslie Kindschi | 1972 |
| Dr. Warner S. Bump | 1973 |
| Dr. Einar Daniels | 1973 |
| Dr. Paul Mason | 1973 |
| Dr. Maurice L. Whalen | 1974 |
| Dr. Bruce C. Prentice | 1974 |
| Dr. George E. Magnin | 1975 |
| Dr. Robert M. Senty | 1975 |
| Dr. Mischa J. Lustok | 1977 |
| Dr. Phillips Bland | 1977 |
| Dr. Herbert M. Snodgrass | 1977 |
| Dr. Henry S. Ashe | 1978 |
| Dr. Roy B. Larsen | 1978 |
| Dr. Robert Gilbert | 1979 |
| Dr. Thomas J. Rice | 1979 |
| Dr. Donald Griffith | 1981 |
| Dr. Ben Lawton | 1981 |
| Dr. Thomas M. Haug | 1982 |
| Dr. Roger Bender | 1985 |
| Dr. Donald A. Jeffries | 1987 |
| Dr. James W. Merritt | 1987 |
| Dr. James D. Michael | 1988 |
| Dr. Sigurd E. Sivertson | 1989 |
| Dr. Richard L. Hartzell | 1990 |
| Dr. Robert T. Obma | 1990 |
| Dr. Bernard J. Haza | 1991 |
| Dr. Thomas F. Nikolai | 1991 |
| Dr. Eugene Krohn | 1992 |
| Dr. Thomas C. Jackson | 1994 |
| Dr. D.J. Freeman | 1996 |
| Dr. Donald C. Burandt | 1997 |
| Dr. Lynn Eggman | 1998 |
| Dr. A. A. Koeller | 2000 |
| Dr. Phillips Bland | 2002 |
| Dr. John Henningsen | 2002 |
| Dr. Sharon Haase | 2003 |
| Dr. John DeGiovanni | 2004 |
| Dr. Robert Mortimore | 2005 |
| Dr. John Frost | 2006 |
| Dr. Jeffrey Polzin | 2007 |
| Dr. Kenneth Gold | 2008 |
| Dr. William Nietert | 2009 |
| Dr. Jeffrey Menn | 2010 |
| Dr. Timothy Meyer | 2011 |
| Dr. Daniel Jarzemsky | 2012 |
| Dr. Sabrina Dunlap | 2013 |
| Dr. Yu-Chin Fang | 2014 |
| Dr. Michael Netzel | 2015 |
| Dr. Ann Hoffmann | 2016 |
| Dr. Deanna Benish | 2017 |
| Dr. William C. Calkins | 2018 |
| Dr. George A. Fall | 2019 |
| Dr. Michelle L. Buelow | 2020 |
| Dr. James T. Jerzak | 2021 |
| Dr. David J. Henningsen | 2022 |
| Dr. Michelle Clark-Forsting | 2023 |
| Dr. Robert Macnack | 2024 |
| Dr. Jessica Schmid | 2025 |
| Dr. Anna Svircev | 2025 |
Sigurd Sivertson Medical Student Education Award
This award is no longer offered. WMAA continues to honor the vital role community physicians play in medical education through the Max Fox Award.
All Sigurd Sivertson Award Recipients
| Recipient, Graduation Year | Affiliation | Year Awarded |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. Deanna Benish | Reedsburg Area Medical Center, Reedsburg, WI | 2025 |
| Dr. Nathaniel L. Stepp | Gundersen Health System, La Crosse, WI | 2024 |
| Dr. Trent D. Thompson, 1994 | SSM Health, Dean Medical Group, Waunakee, WI | 2023 |
| Dr. Paul M. Maes, PG 1996 | Aurora Healthcare Medical Group, Green Bay, WI | 2022 |
| Dr. Alison L. Craig-Shashko, 1998 | Group Health Cooperative of South Central Wisconsin, Madison, WI | 2021 |
| Dr. David J. Henningsen, 1991 | Marshfield Clinic Health System, Rice Lake, WI | 2020 |
| Dr. John R. Brill | Aurora St. Luke’s Family Practice Center, Milwaukee, WI | 2019 |
| Dr. Barbara A. Horner-Ibler, 1998 | Bread of Healing Clinic, Milwaukee, WI | 2018 |
| Dr. Stephen T. Holthaus | Marshfield Clinic Health System, Rice Lake, WI | 2017 |
| Dr. Kelly Hodgson Kline, 1997 | Gundersen Health System, Tomah, WI | 2016 |
| Dr. Steven M. Murphy, 2000 | Sixteenth Street Community Health Center, Milwaukee, WI | 2015 |
| Dr. Lori J. Remeika | Marshfield Clinic Health System, Marshfield, WI | 2014 |
| Dr. Kyla Lee, 1998 | Gundersen Health System, La Crosse, WI | 2013 |
| Dr. Kim L. Lansing | Gundersen Health System, La Crosse, WI | 2013 |
| Dr. Jeff Polzin | 2012 | |
| Dr. James T. Jerzak, 1983 | 2011 | |
| Dr. Joanne A. Selkurt, 1968 | 2010 | |
| Dr. Sharon Haase, 1985 | 2009 | |
| Dr. David A Manke | 2008 | |
| Dr. A. A. Koeller, 1961 | 2007 | |
| Dr. Kenneth Gold | 2006 | |
| Dr. Stanley G. Cupery | 2005 |