On July 1, 2019, the Department of Pediatrics welcomed 15 interns and two new chiefs—Kristen Marten, DO, and Helen Waterman, DO—to its residency program.

Each intern brings outstanding accomplishments, a passion for pediatrics and remarkable leadership skills to their residency education.

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Lectures by the 2018 and 2019 Gerard B. Odell Research Award winners, along with rows of research posters filling the Health Sciences Learning Center (HSLC) were among the highlights of the Department of Pediatrics’ 2019 Spring Research Week, held May 28-31, 2019.

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Dr. Pelin Cengiz received her first NIH R01 award to investigate sex-specific biological mechanisms that may protect newborns from brain injury due to hypoxia and ischemia at birth. Read more

It’s a shocking disparity: in Wisconsin, the overall infant mortality rate is 5.92% (comparable with national averages), but the mortality rate of non-Hispanic African American infants is the highest in the nation, at 14.28%. Read more

With leadership from Anne Marie Singh, MD (Associate Professor, Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology), UW Health University Hospital has become one the newest centers of excellence in the Food Allergy Research & Education (FARE) Clinical Network, a food allergy research collaborative comprising 33 leading research and clinical care facilities nationwide. Read more