Three smiling women
Awards & Honors
January 17, 2024 VOL 25 NO 4

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.

Dean Golden presents Richard Moss with an award
Awards & Honors
January 13, 2023 VOL 24 NO 4

Richard Moss Receives Folkert Belzer Award for Lifetime Achievement

Looking back 43 years later, Moss uses the word “fortunate” to describe many aspects of his career.

Michelle Buelow
Awards & Honors
April 20, 2022 VOL 24 NO 1

Michelle Buelow Receives Max Fox Award

The annual award goes to a Wisconsin physician whose outstanding service as a preceptor has played an important role in the education of UW medical students.

Ellen Wald
Awards & Honors
October 27, 2021 VOL 23 NO 3

Ellen Wald Earns Folkert Belzer Award for Dedication to Patients, Faculty and Staff

The lifetime achievement award recognizes an outstanding individual who has had a pivotal impact on the school and the people and populations it serves.

Outstanding Women of Color award recipients
Awards & Honors
April 29, 2020 VOL 22 NO 1

Three UW School of Medicine and Public Health, UW Health Leaders Receive Outstanding Women of Color Awards

Shiva Bidar-Sielaff, Gina Green-Harris and Jasmine Zapata were three of the seven honorees for the annual awards from UW–Madison.

Dennis Maki with Bucky Badger
Awards & Honors
January 31, 2020 VOL 21 NO 4

Dennis Maki Earns Distinguished Alumni Award

As a physician, Dennis Maki is known for his insatiable thirst for knowledge, superhuman memory and tireless work ethic. But the self-described “farm kid” from northern Wisconsin also is deeply generous.

Amelia Haj
Awards & Honors
August 16, 2019 VOL 21 NO 2

Ethics and Pregnancy in Clinical Trials

Read Amelia Haj's winning entry in the fifth annual bioethics essay contest, which was held in conjunction with the 11th annual Bioethics Symposium.

Robert Golden presenting Patrick McBride with an award Patrick McBride with Dean Robert Golden
Awards & Honors
July 22, 2019 VOL 21 NO 2

Alumni Awards

Find out who was honored at the Wisconsin Medical Alumni Association Awards Banquet held in April.

Melissa Metoxen and Jennifer Edgoose
Awards & Honors
March 19, 2019 VOL 21 NO 1

Outstanding Women of Color

Melissa Metoxen (left) and Jennifer Edgoose were honored by UW–Madison in recognition of their efforts in advocacy, community building and scholarly research.

Patrick Remington
Awards & Honors
January 31, 2019 VOL 21 NO 4

Patrick Remington’s Dedication to Public Health Earns Him 2019 Folkert Belzer Award

Through his work on the County Health Rankings and countless other projects and advisory roles, Patrick Remington has helped connect the school to the communities it serves.

Dean Golden and Marc Drezner posing with a plaque
Awards & Honors
January 23, 2019 VOL 20 NO 4

Marc Drezner Earns Belzer Lifetime Achievement Award

During his research, teaching and patient care career — which began with 25 years on the faculty at Duke University followed by 18 years at UW–Madison — Drezner has been recognized as an expert in bone and mineral metabolism.

Deanna Benish
Awards & Honors
November 8, 2018 VOL 20 NO 3

Deanna Benish Wins Max Fox Preceptor Award

A family practice physician who also does obstetrics at Reedsburg Area Medical Center, Benish has been a preceptor to fourth-year medical students since 2006; she has worked at the medical center since 2001.