Dr. Emma Mohr Receives Travel Grant
Congratulations to Emma Mohr, MD, PhD on her $1,000 travel award from the UW Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research & Graduate Education. This award will provide Dr. Mohr with travel funds to attend …
September 9, 2019
Global Health Division
Written by: Ann Grauvogl With its new Division of Global Pediatrics, the Department of Pediatrics in the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health provides a structure to support education, develop partnerships and …
September 5, 2019Two Faculty Awarded Pilot Grants from ICTR
Ryan Coller, MD, MPH, Principal Investigator, and Nicole Werner, PhD (Industrial & Systems Engineering), Co-PI, and Mary Ehlenbach, MD, Collaborator, were recently awarded a one-year, $75,000 grant from the UW Institute for Clinical and Translational …
September 3, 2019
Anne Marie Singh, MD Receives Grant from UW Food Research Institute
Congratulations to Anne Marie Singh, MD, Principal Investigator, who has been awarded a grant of $35,000 from the UW Food Research Institute for her project entitled, “Microbiome Influences on Pediatric Food Allergy.” As the incidence …
September 3, 2019
Dr. Elizabeth Cox Publishes Results of Family-Centered Approach to Improving Type 1 Diabetes Outcomes
Elizabeth Cox’s recent publication in Pediatric Diabetes highlights how a family-centered approach to diabetes self-management challenges can improve outcomes. In the study done in collaboration with diabetes teams at UW and Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, …
August 30, 2019Danièle Gusland, MD Receives ACGH 2019 Research Award
The American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene’s Committee on Global Health (ACGH) recently awarded Pediatric Infectious Diseases fellow, Danièle Gusland, MD, their 2019 Research Award. This is $2,000 award will be used to defray …
August 1, 2019Brian Williams, MD, Awarded New Investigator Grant from American Academy of Pediatrics
Brian Williams, MD, was recently awarded the 2019 Richmond Center New Investigator Award from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Julius B. Richmond Center of Excellence. This one-year, $12,000 grant, given to one awardee annually, …
July 31, 2019
Sheryl Henderson, MD, PhD Accepted Into Affiliate Centennial Scholars Program
Congratulations to Sheryl Henderson, MD, PhD, on being accepted into the UW-SMPH Affiliate Centennial Scholars Program (ACSP). This program offers faculty development aimed at increasing mentoring skills for diverse faculty scholars to offer effective mentorship …
July 30, 2019Elizabeth Cox, MD, PhD Joins ADA’s Research Grant Review Committee
Elizabeth Cox, MD PhD, Director of the Program of Research on Outcomes for Kids (PROKids) and Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, has been selected to join the American Diabetes Association’s Research Grant Review Committee, …
July 29, 2019Wellness Matters
Sarah Webber, MD, an assistant professor in the Division of Hospital Medicine, believes that physician well-being is integral to a thriving health care system. Having navigated her own journey through burnout, she now explores the …
July 29, 2019
Dr. Ellen Wald Awarded NIH/NIAID Grant
Congratulations to Ellen Wald, MD, and Co-PI Laura Cook, PhD (State University of New York, Binghamton) on their recent R21 grant from the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH/NIAID), …
July 24, 2019
Judy Smith Awarded American Lung Association Grant
Congratulations to Judith Smith, MD, PhD, who was recently awarded an Allergic Respiratory Diseases Award from the American Lung Association (ALA) for her project entitled, “Regulation of rhinovirus by the asthma-associated 17q21 locus gene ORMDL3.” …
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