When Department of Pediatrics Chief Resident Halie Anderson, MD, traveled to Ethiopia last year for a global health rotation, she encountered the challenges of caring for patients in a developing country: unfamiliar diseases, limited physical …
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Pediatric Faculty Promotions
The UW School of Medicine and Public Health (UWSMPH) CHS Appointments and Promotions Committee, and Dean Robert Golden, have approved the promotion to Associate Professor (CHS) for Sabrina Butteris, MD, Pelin Cengiz, MD, Shannon Dean, …
MEDic Program and Leaders Receive Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Grant Support
Project leaders Madeline Duffy, MPH, and Dipesh Navsaria, MPH, MSLIS, MD, were recently awarded a 3-year, $38,427 grant from the Ira and Ineva Reilly Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment, to support the MEDiC and Center for …
Paul Sondel, MD, PhD, Awarded St. Baldrick’s Research Grant
Congratulations to Paul Sondel, MD, PhD, who was awarded a Research Grant from St. Baldrick’s Foundation in the amount of $105,773. In this 1-year project, entitled “Finding the Target of Beneficial Pre-existing Anti-Therapeutic Antibodies,” investigators …
Pelin Cengiz, MD, Awarded Career Development Grant from NIH
Congratulations to Pelin Cengiz, MD, who received a 5-year, K08 grant from the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NIH/NINDS), for her project entitled, “Estrogen receptors and TrkB mediated neuroprotection …
Ei Terasawa, PhD, Awarded ICTR Translational Research Grant
Ei Terasawa, PhD, was recently awarded a 1-yr, $50,000 Basic & Clinical Translational Research Pilot award for her grant entitled, “Generation of GnRH neurons from stem cells”. This grant from the UW Institute for Clinical …
Paul Sondel, MD, PhD, Awarded ICTR Novel Methods Pilot Grant
Paul Sondel, MD, PhD, was recently awarded a 1-yr, $50,000 Novel Methods Pilot award for his grant entitled, “Murine cancer models for testing in situ vaccination strategies”. This grant from the UW Institute for Clinical …
Judy Smith, MD, PhD, Awarded ICTR Novel Therapeutics Pilot Grant
Congratulations to Judy Smith, MD, PhD, who was awarded a Novel Therapeutics Discovery & Development Pilot award from the UW Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR) for her proposal entitled “Development of IL-17 Targeting …
Brittany Allen, MD and Jennifer Rehm, MD, Awarded Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Grant
Congratulations to Brittany Allen, MD, Principal Investigator, and Jennifer Rehm, MD, Co-Principal Investigator, on funding of their grant entitled, “An Integrated PATH for Transgender Youth.” This $80,000, 2-year award, funded by the Ira and Ineva …
David Wargowski, MD, Receives Living Our Mission Award From St. Vincent
David Wargowski, MD, has been given the Living Our Mission award by St. Vincent Hospital. The Living Our Mission award is given to colleagues who demonstrate the core values of Respect, Care, Competence and Joy. …