Wisconsin Partnership Program Turns 20
Being the sole doctor in a physician-shortage, resource-limited area of central Wisconsin would not be everyone’s cup of tea, but for Jenna Sebranek, MD ’13, it’s a dream come true.
More than 55 years after surgeons performed the first kidney transplant at University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics (now University Hospital) in 1966, the UW Health Transplant Center became the first and only transplant program in the Midwest to surpass 20,000 transplanted organs, according to Dixon Kaufman, MD, PhD, FACS, medical director of the center.
The ambience of a playground feels natural for Peggy Scallon, MD ’92 (PG ’97), because she has championed physical activity and its mental health benefits to her children as well as her patients at Rogers Behavioral Health in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin.