Pamela Kling, MD, is a recent recipient of a Medical Education and Research Committee (MERC) Collaborative Health Sciences Program award. This grant is for $500,000 over two years and was awarded for Dr. Kling’s submission …
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Dr. Sinisa Dovat Receives St. Baldrick’s Career Development Award
Sinisa (Sunny) Dovat, MD, is a recent recipient of a St. Baldrick’s Career Development Award that will provide $110,000 in support for three years with eligibility for additional funding for years four and five. St. …
Athletes Give Childhood Cancer Research Big Bounce
Midwest Athletes Against Childhood Cancer, Inc. (MACC Fund) will extend their long tradition of helping children with cancer, by presenting part one of a two part pledge to support pediatric oncology research. The Milwaukee-based organization, …
Dr. Norm Fost Receives Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Human Research Protection
Norm Fost, MD, MPH, recently received the Award for Excellence in Human Research Protection from the Health Improvement Institute, that organization’s lifetime achievement award that recognizes excellence in promotion the well being of people who …
Gordon Tuffli, MD, Honored by Wisconsin Medical Alumni Association
Gordon Tuffli, MD, professor emeritus, was recently awarded the Wisconsin Medical Alumni Association’s Emeritus Faculty Award for his contributions to medical student mentoring and education. Congratulations to Dr. Tuffli for this honor.
Dr. Norm Fost Receives University of Oklahoma Biomedical Ethics Prize
Norm Fost, MD, MPH, professor of pediatrics and bioethics and director of the Program in Bioethics, has received the 2007 Patricia Price Browne Prize in Biomedical Ethics from the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine. …
Summertime Equals Fitness Loss for Middle-Schoolers; University of Wisconsin Research Shows Activity Drops Off
Children get in shape during the summer, spending their time biking, running, playing T-ball and tennis. Or do they? In a finding that surprised the researchers, pediatricians and sports medicine experts at UW Health found …
Dr. Anna Huttenlocher Awarded Graduate School’s H.I. Romnes Fellowship Award
Anna Huttenlocher, MD has been awarded $50,000 as the recipient of the Graduate School’s H.I. Romnes Fellowship award. This program, funded by WARF in recognition of the leadership of the late WARF Trustee President H. …
Dr. David Bernhardt & UW Health Sports Medicine Team Up to Offer Free Physicals to Uninsured High School Athletes
Dozens of high school athletes may not be allowed to step onto the field or join the huddle this year because many families do not have health insurance to pay for medical physical exams, which …
Dr. David Allen Receives Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education’s Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Award
Dave Allen, MD, received the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education’s (ACGME) Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Award for 2007. Parker J. Palmer is the author of the book “The Courage to Teach” and …