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 …
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 …
Dr. Elizabeth Cox Re-Appointed to PCORI Panel on Improving Healthcare Systems
Elizabeth Cox, MD, PhD, Associate Professor in the Departments of Pediatrics and Population Health Sciences, has been re-appointed by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to serve on their Advisory Panel on Improving Healthcare Systems …
PROKids Hires Two Research Specialists
Two new Research Specialists have joined the PROKids research group. They will be working primarily to implement the three-year Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute-funded project, “Family-Centered Tailoring of Pediatric Diabetes Self-Management Resources”, under the direction …
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.” …