On July 1, 2018, the Department of Pediatrics welcomed 15 interns and two new chiefs to its residency program. Each intern brings outstanding accomplishments and a deep commitment to children to their residency education. Two …
Month: July 2018
Six Department of Pediatrics Faculty Receive Promotions
Congratulations to the six Department of Pediatrics faculty who were approved for promotion this year. Their new ranks are effective July 1, 2018. Juan Boriosi, MD Division of Critical Care Medicine Promoted to Associate Professor …
Ryan Coller, MD, MPH, and Mary Ehlenbach, MD, Awarded Grant from Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin
Ryan Coller, MD, MPH, Principal Investigator, and Mary Ehlenbach, MD, Co-Principal Investigator, were recently awarded a 4-year grant of $226,521 from the Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, for their project, “Healthcare delivery system innovations for children …
Yury Bochkov, PhD Awarded Grant from Arctic Therapeutics
Congratulations to Yury Bochkov, PhD, Principal Investigator, for his $50,000, 1-year award from Arctic Therapeutics, LLC, for this grant entitled, “Testing RV-C inhibitors and receptor function of animal CDHR3 sequences in HeLa cells.” The main …
Michelle Kelly, MD, Awarded ICTR Pilot Grant
Michelle Kelly, MD, was recently awarded a Clinical & Community Outcomes Research award from the University of Wisconsin Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (UW ICTR) for her proposal, “Sharing doctors’ notes to improve parent …
Katie Beverley Receives Endocrinology & Reproductive Physiology Training Grant Support
Congratulations to Katie Beverley, Graduate Research Assistant in the lab of Bikash Pattnaik, PhD, who was recently selected as a Trainee on the National Institutes of Health-funded T32 Endocrinology & Reproductive Physiology (ERP) Training Grant, …
Stand Up to Cancer-St. Baldrick’s Pediatric Dream Team Award Renewed
Congratulations to Paul Sondel, MD, PhD, Principal Investigator, and the UW Pediatric Dream Team, for their renewal funding through the Stand Up to Cancer-St. Baldrick’s Pediatric Dream Team Translational Cancer Research Award, supported by the …
Dr. James Conway, UW Health Experts Discuss Importance of HPV Vaccination
University of Wisconsin Department of Pediatrics Professor (CHS) James Conway, MD, along with UW Carbone Cancer Director Howard Bailey, MD, and UW Department of Human Oncology Assistant Professor Randy Kimple, MD, was quoted in a …
Statewide Study Shows Lack of Access to Health Care for Transgender, Nonbinary and Gender Nonconforming Youth
A first-of-its-kind statewide survey of transgender, nonbinary and gender expansive/nonconforming (TNG) youth shows a lack of access to TNG-centered health care and insurance in Wisconsin. “The clear majority of youth surveyed say they can’t find …
Jasmine Zapata, MD, MPH, Named an SMPH Centennial Scholar
Jasmine Zapata, MD, MPH, an assistant professor (CHS), in the Division of Neonatology and Newborn Nursery, has been selected as a University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH) Centennial Scholar, effective July …