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Jeannette Munro: A Woman Who Broke Boundaries
At a time when female physicians were rare and when many general practitioners questioned the necessity of specialists, Jeannette Munro, MD ’27, who earned her medical degree in the University of Wisconsin Medical School [now the UW School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH)] Class of 1927, became the first pediatrician and first female physician in Princeton, New Jersey.[1]
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Class Notes and Alumni Updates From Pediatric Oncologists
![Grace Bandow looks at a patient's eye with an illuminated magnifier](https://wmaa.med.wisc.edu/wp-content/uploads/fly-images/8811/Grace-Vaseline-Healing-Mission-Jordan-2015-_42A06900-jpg-800x505-c.webp)
International Perspective
A decade ago, Grace Bandow, MD ’01, had established a thriving dermatology practice in Rhode Island, but she was feeling a little restless — in search of a “fresh perspective,” as she puts it now. Like many Americans, she watched as a protest movement in Syria metastasized into a civil war. Television images, while horrifying, were little more than snapshots of a catastrophe that seemed to grow more brutal by the day.
![Susan Cowles and her dog on a beach](https://wmaa.med.wisc.edu/wp-content/uploads/fly-images/8708/Susan-Cowles-feature-jpg-800x505-c.webp)
Helping a Patient Live with Rare Dysplasia
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Class Notes & Alumni Updates From Orthopedic Surgeons
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Far and Wide with Physical Therapy
Jeff Hartman, PT, DPT, MPH ’06, says he made the best professional decision of his career when he was a physical therapist practicing in Sierra Leone in 2004. He was one of only four licensed physical therapists there immediately after a brutal, 11-year civil war. The traumatized nation was under the control of United Nations peacekeepers at the time.
![Elizabeth Salisbury-Afshar](https://wmaa.med.wisc.edu/wp-content/uploads/fly-images/8431/salisbury-afshar-feature-25-3-800x505-c.png)
Preventive Medicine Residency: Training to Improve Wellness
While much has changed in the world of public health since the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH) launched its Preventive Medicine Residency Program nearly a decade ago, the program’s commitment to training Wisconsin’s next generation of physicians has not wavered.
![Almasi, Cramer, Laurence, and Hansen smiling in front of a painting.](https://wmaa.med.wisc.edu/wp-content/uploads/fly-images/8498/Foursome-with-painting-25-3-800x505-c.png)
Supported by Soulmates: Medical School Friends Share Lifelong Connection
When four members of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH) Class of 2010 — Stephen Almasi, MD ’10 (PG ’13); Joseph Hansen, MD ’10; Vincent Laurence, MD ’10; and Rebecca Cramer, MD ’10, MPH — began their medical school journeys, they had amassed years of unique life experiences. An unassuming brick house on Kendall Avenue brought them together as lifelong friends.
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Class Notes & Alumni Updates From Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists
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In Memoriam: Ronald L, Numbers, Sandra L. Osborn, Lincoln F. Ramirez
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Family of Badgers Creates Scholarship
With nine University of Wisconsin–Madison degrees in their family, Linda and Thomas Kloosterboer, MD ’82 (PG ’86), are grateful for their education and that of their adult children, who earned undergraduate degrees as Badgers.
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