Congratulations to Cathy Lee-Miller, MD, for being awarded the Pediatrics Resident Teaching Award by the UWSMPH Class of 2011. This annual award recognizes those individuals who have made significant contributions to medical student education. Dr. …
Jennifer Rehm, MD, Earns 2011 Fellow Clinical Research Award from the Society of Pediatric Research
Congratulations to Jennifer Rehm, MD, who has been chosen to receive the 2011 Fellow Clinical Research Award from the Society for Pediatric Research, for her abstract entitled “Fatty Liver Disease in Overweight Adolescent Girls Measured …
Immunotherapy for Children with High-Risk Neuroblastoma
Research from the laboratory of Professor Paul Sondel, MD, PhD, has played a key role in the development and testing of an effective new treatment for some children with high-risk neuroblastoma. Neuroblastoma is a cancer …
Dr. Anna Huttenlocher, MD, Earns WARF Kellett Mid-Career Award
Congratulations to Anna Huttenlocher, MD, on her recent WARF Kellett Mid-Career Award. This award is intended to recognize and support mid-career faculty, five to twenty years past their first promotion to a tenured position. The …
A Year in the Life of Rylee
Rylee’s story began on January 8, 2009, at the emergency department at American Family Children’s Hospital (AFCH). She was brought there with bloody diarrhea and dehydration, which was found to be caused by two types …
Scott Hagen, MD, Leads Advanced Airway Management Workshop for Ethiopian Health Professionals
The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health is a partner in a National Institutes of Health-funded initiative to improve medical education while building the health care workforce in Ethiopia. Four Ethiopian health …
Georgia Ditzenberger, NNP, RNC, PhD, Awarded Meriter Foundation Funding
Georgia Ditzenberger, NNP, RNC, PhD, recently received a grant of $47,478 from the Meriter Foundation for core equipment in the Meriter Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) Simulation Center. This equipment will provide simulation education for …
Theresa Guilbert, MD, Receives Wisconsin Partnership Program Grant
Congratulations to Theresa Guilbert, MD, on receiving a New Investigator award from the Wisconsin Partnership Program – Medical Education and Research Committee. She was awarded $100,000 for her two-year project, “Clinical and Public Health Data …
Dr. Aaron Carrel and DPI’s Project ‘WI Partnership for Childhood Fitness’ Receives Phase 2 Funding Pledge
An extension of the work started with a 2007 implementation grant, this grant aims to reduce disparities in fitness levels among children and adolescents statewide. This funding will support: Testing the validity of school-based fitness …
Resident/Fellow Scholarship Flourishes
UW Department of Pediatrics Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Education John Frohna, MD, MPH, believes that residency education programs must prepare physicians for whatever career path they want—whether it be academic medicine or general …