Celebrating Dean Golden's Legacy
A psychiatrist, a dean and a vice chancellor walk into a bar … This sounds like a set-up for a classic joke, but in this case, it is reality, referencing a leader who has made wise use of humor. As a holder of all three roles, Robert N. Golden, MD, has shared witty remarks throughout his more than 18 years as dean of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH) and vice chancellor for medical affairs at UW–Madison.
Harari, Bailey and Grist Receive Belzer Award
The Folkert O. Belzer Award is the highest honor the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH) bestows upon its faculty members for their lifetime achievements.
Emergency Medicine Program Celebrates 10th Anniversary
In 2024, the BerbeeWalsh Department of Emergency Medicine (DEM) marked a decade of outstanding patient care, education, and research as an academic department at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH).
In Memoriam: Murray L. Katcher
Three Faculty Receive Lifetime Achievement Award
The Folkert O. Belzer Award is the highest honor the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH) bestows upon its faculty members for their lifetime achievements.
Helping a Patient Live with Rare Dysplasia
In Memoriam: Paul M. DeLuca
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.
Improving Babies’ Quality of Life
When the Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment Center opened, Lobeck expected a slow, steady stream of new patients — but demand far outpaced anyone’s predictions.
The Science of Mentorship: Angela Byars-Winston
When Angela Byars-Winston, PhD, addressed a group of medical students and their mentors recently, she encouraged them to “grow where you are planted. We have to create the space we want to flourish in, that we want to thrive in.”
In Memoriam: Hans W. Sollinger, Guillermo de Venecia, Merle A. Evenson
Goodbye dear friends: Hans W. Sollinger, Guillermo de Venecia, Merle A. Evenson
Ed Chapman’s Tenacious Approach to the “Most Important” Problems in Biology
Ed Chapman concentrates on research questions that are big, bad, and basic. Many of them concern the release of neurotransmitters at the synapse — the tiny gap between two neurons.