Congratulations to Frank Greer, who has been nominated to be an American Society for Nutrition fellow. This honor acknowledges a lifetime of accomplishment in research and service. The award will be given in Washington D.C. …
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Margaret Boyden, MD, Appointed Post-doctoral Trainee
We are pleased to announce the appointment of Margaret Boyden, MD, as a post-doctoral trainee on the National Institutes of Health-National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute Hematology training grant (Principal Investigator: John Sheehan, MD) beginning …
Dr. Dipesh Navsaria Receives Young Physician Leadership Award from Wisconsin Medical Society
Congratulations to Dipesh Navsaria, MPH, MSLIS, MD, for being named by the Wisconsin Medical Society as the Kenneth Viste, Jr., MD, Young Physician Leadership Award recipient. This award was established in 2006 to recognize a …
Lifecourse Initiative Improves Birth Outcomes in Wisconsin
Last year, Department of Pediatrics Professor Philip Farrell, MD, PhD, became steering committee co-chair of the Lifecourse Initiative for Healthy Families (LIHF), a $10 million initiative to improve birth outcomes in Wisconsin. Why? Because the …
Cathy Lee-Miller, MD, Named Pediatrics Resident Teaching Award Recipient
Congratulations to Cathy Lee-Miller, MD, for being awarded the Pediatrics Resident Teaching Award by the UWSMPH Class of 2011. This annual award recognizes those individuals who have made significant contributions to medical student education. Dr. …
Jennifer Rehm, MD, Earns 2011 Fellow Clinical Research Award from the Society of Pediatric Research
Congratulations to Jennifer Rehm, MD, who has been chosen to receive the 2011 Fellow Clinical Research Award from the Society for Pediatric Research, for her abstract entitled “Fatty Liver Disease in Overweight Adolescent Girls Measured …
Immunotherapy for Children with High-Risk Neuroblastoma
Research from the laboratory of Professor Paul Sondel, MD, PhD, has played a key role in the development and testing of an effective new treatment for some children with high-risk neuroblastoma. Neuroblastoma is a cancer …
Dr. Anna Huttenlocher, MD, Earns WARF Kellett Mid-Career Award
Congratulations to Anna Huttenlocher, MD, on her recent WARF Kellett Mid-Career Award. This award is intended to recognize and support mid-career faculty, five to twenty years past their first promotion to a tenured position. The …
A Year in the Life of Rylee
Rylee’s story began on January 8, 2009, at the emergency department at American Family Children’s Hospital (AFCH). She was brought there with bloody diarrhea and dehydration, which was found to be caused by two types …
Scott Hagen, MD, Leads Advanced Airway Management Workshop for Ethiopian Health Professionals
The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health is a partner in a National Institutes of Health-funded initiative to improve medical education while building the health care workforce in Ethiopia. Four Ethiopian health …