Training in Urban Medicine and Public Health
New leadership and curriculum have bolstered the legacy of the School of Medicine and Health's specialized training program that prepares future doctors to practice in underserved urban areas.
New Center Taking Precision Medicine and Genomics to the Next Level
Stephen Meyn, MD, PhD, recently joined the School of Medicine and Public Health to lead the UW Center for Human Genomics and Precision Medicine. Meyn is developing a strategic vision for the center, guiding the formation of its clinical and academic programs and crafting its long-term mission to become an innovative global leader in genome-based precision medicine.
Supporting Epilepsy Research
Lily's Fund for Epilepsy Research has blossomed from one family's donation into an endowment that has awarded $450,000 in grants to support scientists and studies at UW–Madison. For researchers like Avtar Roopra, the funding has been a game changer.
Summit Explores the Black Experience in Academic Medicine
To encourage dialogue about race in health care systems, the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health offered an inaugural Diversity Summit in early 2018. The central topic surrounded concerns among academic medical centers nationwide, including the School of Medicine and Public Health and UW Health, which are grappling with recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce.
Healthy Classrooms Foundation Celebrates Decade of Helping Youth Stay Well
The foundation has flourished due to the efforts of volunteer student leaders and members from throughout UW–Madison. Today’s leaders are thrilled with the program’s longevity and the numerous grants it has shared.
Learning Opportunities Call Upon Patient Perspectives
The innovative Faces of Patients program has been a part of the School of Medicine and Public Health curriculum for more than 10 years, and it has existed as the first learning activity of the curriculum since the school transformed into the nation’s first integrated school of medicine and public health.
Fundus Focused on Art and Science of Eye’s Inner Landscape
The Fundus Photograph Reading Center specializes in reviewing super-high-resolution photos of the retina for clinical trials related to diabetic retinopathy, diabetic macular edema, macular degeneration, retinal vein occlusion, uveitis, inherited retinal diseases and drug safety trials.
Sleep Researchers Walking Conversations Help Foster Research Breakthroughs
Every morning, sleep researchers Chiara Cirelli, MD, PhD, and Giulio Tononi, MD, PhD, have a routine that is as Italian as they are, and as Wisconsin as their log home in southwestern Dane County.
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.