Please join us in sending well-deserved congratulations to Al Wilson, MD, for receiving this year’s UW Health Outreach Excellence Award. Each year UW Health honors its most outstanding physicians with these awards. Thank you so …
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Allison Redpath, MD, Chosen to Attend AAMC Early Career Women Faculty Professional Development Seminar
Congratulations to Dr. Allison Redpath, who has been chosen at the funded candidate for the AAMC Early Career Women Faculty Professional Development Seminar by the Dean for Faculty Development and Faculty Affairs. Designed for women …
UW Bioethics Symposium Features Pediatric Speakers
The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health will host its 6th annual Bioethics Symposium on Thursday, April 10. Titled “Sex, Drugs and Sports: ethical controversies in athletics,” the symposium will cover three …
Study Seeks to Improve Asthma Therapy for African-Americans
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and Aurora Health Care in Milwaukee are collaborating on a new clinical study to determine what combination and dosage of medications work best …
Christian Capitini, MD, Earns Early Career Faculty Travel Grant from the American Association of Immunologists
Christian Capitini, MD, recently earned a $1250 Early Career Faculty Travel Grant from the American Association of Immunologists for his abstract entitled “19F-MRI for tracking NK Cells after adoptive transfer” at their 2014 annual meeting. …
Balancing Acts
At first glance, life after residency looks quite different for Department of Pediatrics graduates Daniel Schumacher, MD, MEd, and Megan Lederer, MD. On the East Coast, Dr. Schumacher is a pediatric emergency medicine physician at …
Tasha Scott to Present at Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting
Tasha Scott, PROKids student researcher, will present “Predictors of Family Engagement in Family-Centered Rounds,” as a podium presentation at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) meeting in Vancouver, BC this May. As part of Elizabeth Cox’s …
Drs. Allen and Carrel Awarded Grant for Fellowship-Training Program
Aaron Carrel, MD, and David Allen, MD, were recently awarded a $100,000, 2-year grant from Genentech for their project, “A systematic evaluation of the effect of adiposity on growth in a statewide cohort of children.” …
Research Assistant Receives Predoctoral Fellowship Award From the AHA
Congratulations to Stephanie Lawry (Klein Lab) on her Predoctoral Fellowship Award from the American Heart Association of $52,000 over 2 years. For her project, “Group III Hybrid Histidine Kinases: A Novel Drug Target for the …
PROKids Team Recruits Parent and Youth Advisory Boards
Elizabeth Cox, MD, PhD, and her PROKids team have recruited Parent and Youth Advisory Boards as part of their ICTR-funded work, “Family-Centered Tailoring of Pediatric Diabetes Self-Management Resources.” In collaboration with the UW School of …