Indigenous Health and Wellness Day
With a focus on blending elements of indigenous culture and college culture, the Native American Center for Health Professions welcomed 83 Native American middle and high school students from throughout Wisconsin to UW–Madison in late April 2017.
Kathleen Shannon Provides Hope for Patients With Movement Disorders
In her first year as chair of the Department of Neurology, Kathleen Shannon, MD — a movement disorders specialist — has led efforts to earn center of excellence designation from the Huntington’s Disease Society of America for the UW Health Neurology Clinic.
Scholarships Support Next Generation of Physicians
To honor their 50th medical school anniversary, members of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH) Class of 1967 created a Great People Scholarship Fund aimed at easing the debt burden for future physicians.
Two Pediatricians Share Non-Traditional Paths to Success
In 1996, Quarterly magazine profiled two University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health alumni who, in their quests to balance career and family, took an unconventional step: they shared a pediatrics residency at UW Children’s Hospital (now called the American Family Children’s Hospital).
Tobacco Addiction: Tracking America’s Deadliest Killer
Mike Eheler didn’t want to die and leave his wife and four kids without him. Like most smokers, he became addicted as a kid. He had smoked for 23 years, his grandmother had died from lung cancer, and now he could feel the toll on his health — and on his ability to support his family in the way he’d dreamed. It was slipping away, one $7 pack of carcinogens at a time.
New Line of Research Takes Guts
“You know, if you’re going to poop anyway, you might as well get paid for it!”
SPORE Grant Bolsters Cancer Treatment Research
In recent years, a light often burned late in a Department of Human Oncology office at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. There, you’d find Department Chair Paul Harari, MD, toiling over a project that resembled Sisyphus’s mythical task: rolling a boulder up a hill, only to have it come crashing down.
Interprofessional Health Education
When University of Wisconsin Madison leaders asked Jeanette Roberts, PhD, MPH, in 2013, to devote another year to her role as dean of the School of Pharmacy, her affirmative response brought with it a deeply held condition: creation of a center that would foster coordination among health care related programs throughout UW-Madison.
A Career Dedicated to Patient- Centered Care
Ask John Drawbert, MD ’80, what accounts for OakLeaf Surgical Hospital’s extraordinary patient satisfaction rankings, and he’ll tell you it’s about being present.