Scholarly work in GPAM focuses on work to advance child health. This work includes traditional research, with specific areas of focus around health services, digital health as well as medical education. Our scholarly work also includes a focus on QI, leveraging the opportunity that our Electronic Health Record and patient registries offers for this work. We have a strong teaching focus in our division, with several faculty doing medical education research as well as providing innovative teaching opportunities in advocacy and global health.
Research
Elizabeth Cox, MD, PhD
Launched in 2007, the Program of Research on Outcomes for Kids (PROKids) is a health services research team whose major goal is to improve the children’s outcomes by implementing family-centered interventions and evaluating these interventions from the perspectives of children and families. Under the leadership of Dr. Elizabeth Cox, PROKids not only conducts original research (over $4.6 million in federal and non-federal research funding since 2009) but also serves as a key collaborator or consultant for other investigators at UW and beyond.
Megan Moreno, MD, MSEd, MPH
The mission of the Social Media & Adolescent Health Research Team is to advance society’s understanding of the relationships between media and adolescent health towards educating adolescents, providing better care, and developing innovations in adolescent healthcare.
Education
![]() Jess Babal, MD is a general pediatrician at the 20 South Park Clinic in Madison, Wisconsin. Her academic work examines the culture of medicine, the healthcare professions, and seeks to understand workplace and policy contributors to well-being. She also aims to advance the medical humanities in the educational and professional setting (e.g. narrative medicine, reflective and creative writing, the creative arts, history and philosophy) as a way of shifting medical culture away from relying purely on mechanistic thinking. Her publications have addressed the impact of a storytelling event on resident wellness; factors that contribute to pediatrician wellness; factors that contribute to student pharmacist wellness; associations of gender or race with learning and teaching evaluations and the residency application process. Along with her colleagues, she is currently editing a textbook, “Understanding and Cultivating Well-being for Pediatricians in the Digital Age,” and she teaches the 2-week medical student elective: Introduction to the Medical Humanities. |
![]() As a program director for the past 20 years, I have to say that what I love most about this role is my ability to get to know and mentor residents over their time in the program (and beyond!). I have always been impressed by the commitment that our department chair and faculty have to resident education; everyone truly values the work of the residents and works hard to make sure we graduate the best pediatricians possible. As director, I am not content with the status quo – I want this program to continue to evolve and find innovative ways to teach residents. The UW Pediatric Residency Program provides training in general pediatrics and all pediatric subspecialties. Program aims
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![]() Ande Jones joined the GPAM division in 2017, after serving as chief resident here in Madison. After a few years working as a general pediatrician to Madison’s east side at UW Health Union Corners Clinic, Ande was delighted to rejoin the residency education group in 2020 in becoming the Continuity Clinic Director. She is passionate about teaching medical students and residents in her clinic, and is looking forward to continuing to work on strengthening residents’ outpatient education experience. She will continue projects working on:
Additionally, Ande assists in teaching wellness session as part of the Practice and Orientation to Wellness, Empowerment, and Resiliency (POWER) study: Evaluation of a resiliency skills curriculum for early medical students. |
GPAM Faculty TOP 25 teachers 2019-20
Each year our pediatric department asks trainees to vote on top teachers and the top 25 teachers are named. We are proud of the GPAM faculty who were voted as top teachers for the 2019-2020 academic year!
- Brittany Allen, MD
- Tim Chybowski, MD
- Paula Cody, MD, MPH
- Laura Holt, MD
- Laura Houser, MD
- Lalitha Iyer, MD
- Sanjeev Jain, MD
- Ande Jones, MD
- Troy Kleist, MD
- Katherine Lemon, MD
- Megan Neuman, MD
- Amy Plumb, MD
Quality Improvement
![]() Dr. Mathur’s interest in quality improvement includes a population health based approach to address gaps in care between evidence based guidelines and current ambulatory pediatric practice. Over the years, she has worked on quality improvement projects including: implementing routine developmental screening within the medical home, addressing health literacy within ambulatory care clinics, creating workflows during well child checks for transition of youth from pediatric to adult health care, developing workflows and EMR changes to implement chlamydia screening, and promoting care coordination for youth with ADHD through Shared Plans of Care. She has also served as faculty for three statewide/regional quality improvement collaborative projects to increase HPV vaccination rates through the Wisconsin Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Dr. Mathur has presented her work at the Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting, the American Academy of Pediatrics National Conference and Exhibition and the Wisconsin Collaborative for Health Care Quality Assembly Meeting. Recent and current projects include:
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![]() Dr Karen Pletta’s primary academic interest is in pediatric asthma. She is working with the GPAM Asthma quality team on work flows to increase Asthma Action Plans to patients during well child visits and to improve asthma outreach. She has presented posters related to pediatric asthma quality at the AAP NCE conference in 2016, local and statewide conferences, the Pediatric Academic Society 2018 and will be presenting at the AAP NCE conference 2018. Recent and current projects include:
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Recent Publications
Brittney Allen, MD – view all publications
Jessica Babal, MD – view all publications
David Bernhardt, MD – view all publications
Deirdre Burns, MD – view all publications
Timothy Chybowski, MD
Paula Cody, MD, MPH
Elizabeth Cox, MD, PhD – view all publications
Patricia Deffner-Valley, MD – view all publications
Cristina Delgadillo, MD
Kathleen DeSantes, MD – view all publications
Theresa Dulski, MD, MPH
M. Bruce Edmonson, MD, MPH – view all publications
John Frohna, MD, MPH – view all publications
Anthony Garcia-Prats, MD, MSc – view all publications
Julie Gocey – view all publications
Karen Hillery, MD
Laura Holt, MD – view all publications
Laura Houser, MD – view all publications
Lalitha Iyer, MD
Sanjeev Jain, MD – view all publications
Andrea Jones, MD – view all publications
Mollie Kane, MD
Catherine Kelley, MD – view all publications
Troy Kleist, MD
Steven Koslov, MD
Katherine Lemon, MD
Allison Lindell, MD
Kristen Marten, DO
Mala Mathur, MD, MPH – view all publications
Gwen McIntosh, MD, MPH
Megan Moreno, MD, MSEd, MPH – view all publications
Jennifer Naidu, MD
Dipesh Navsaria, MPH, MSLIS, MD – view all publications
Megan Neuman, MD – view all publications
Karen Pletta, MD – view all publications
Amy Plumb, MD – view all publications
Prasanna Raman, MD – view all publications
Meriel Rongstad, MD
M. Regina Rosa, MD, MPH, FAAP
Emily Ruedinger, MD, MEd – view all publications
Alexandra Schultz, MD
Jeffrey Sleeth, MD – view all publications
Amy Stockhausen, MD – view all publications
Barbara Strand, MD, FAAP
Jessica Vaughan, MD
Robin Wright, MD
Megan Yanny, MD
Christine Zimmerman, MD – view all publications
Research Groups
Current Grant Support
Wisconsin Rural Physician Residency Assistance Program (WRPRAP), “Resident learning objectives for a rotation in a rural community pediatric practice” (ongoing). DeSantes, PI