Pediatrics Faculty Receive UW Health 2019 Patient Experience Awards
Congratulations to Lindsay Geier, MD, Catherine Kelly, MD, Megan Neuman, MD, and Ellen Connor, MD, who have all received the UW Health 2019 Patient Experience Award. Each year, UW Health honors the physicians, advanced practice …
November 12, 2019Department of Pediatrics Welcomes a New Faculty Member
The Department of Pediatrics is excited to welcome Tony Garcia-Prats, MD, MSC to the Divisions of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Health and Global Pediatrics. Dr. Garcia-Prats, from Stellenbosch University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is …
November 11, 2019
Drs. Vivek Balasubramaniam and Brian Williams Testify in Support of Tobacco 21 Legislation
Drs. Vivek Balasubramaniam and Brian Williams represented UW Health before the Assembly Committee on Substance Abuse and Prevention on November 6, 2019. Drs. Balasubramaniam and Williams testified in support of the Tobacco 21 legislation, answering …
November 11, 2019
Faculty and Staff Attend the AAP National Conference and Exhibition
The Department of Pediatrics had several faculty and staff attend the AAP National Conference and Exhibition (NCE), held October 25-29, 2019, in New Orleans. Ellen Wald, MD, FAAP (Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, and Chair, …
November 4, 2019Phil Farrell, MD, PhD, and HuiChuan Lai, PhD, RD, Receive Subaward from Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
Congratulations to Phil Farrell, MD, PhD, Co-Principal Investigator, along with Co-Investigators HuiChuan Lai, PhD, RD, and Andrew Braun, MD (Department of Medicine), who were recently awarded a subcontract from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation for nearly …
November 4, 2019
Travel Grant Awarded to Aicha Quamine
Congratulations to Hematology/Oncology & Bone Marrow Transplant Graduate Student, Aicha Quamine, for being selected as recipient of a Graduate Program in Cellular & Molecular Biology (CMB) Travel Award for Fall 2019. Aicha, a student in …
November 4, 2019Pediatrics Faculty Present at Annual Midwest Society for Pediatric Research Meeting
The Midwest Society for Pediatric Research (MSPR) held its annual meeting at Lurie Children’s Hospital last week and the UW-Madison Department of Pediatrics was well represented. Members from all levels of the UW-Madison Department of …
October 30, 2019
Dr. Pamela Kling Receives Midwest Society for Pediatric Research’s (MSPR) 2019 Founder’s Award for Outstanding Service to Pediatric Research
Congratulations to Pamela Kling, MD, on being the recipient of the Midwest Society for Pediatric Research’s (MSPR) 2019 Founder’s Award for Outstanding Service to Pediatric Research. The award recognizes her contributions in fostering advances in …
October 28, 2019
Measles Outbreaks Are Preventable, But Immunization Rates Are Spotty in Milwaukee
Dr. James Conway was quoted in a recent article regarding vaccination rates and anti-vaccine misinformation in the Shepherd Express.
October 23, 2019Department of Pediatrics’ Faculty and Staff Collaborate to Test and Treat Rare Genetic Conditions among Amish and Mennonite Communities
In 2015, Dr. James DeLine founded the Center for Special Children to care for Amish and Old Order Mennonite people in the state of Wisconsin. Throughout his practice, Dr. DeLine had encountered many rare genetic …
October 21, 2019
Dr. Christian Capitini Receives NIH/NCI Grant
Congratulations to Christian Capitini, MD, on his recent one-year supplement of $500,000 to the UW Carbone Cancer Center grant from the National Institutes of Health – National Cancer Institute (NIH/NCI). His project, “Image‐guided CAR T …
October 15, 2019
Dr. Elizabeth Cox Published in Quality of Life Research
Elizabeth Cox’s recent publication in Quality of Life Research advances the utility of novel PROMIS measures of family relationships among chronically ill children. In the study done in collaboration with investigators at UW and Children’s …
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