During Patient Safety Awareness Week, March 10–14, the UW Health Patient Safety leadership team honored providers who were nominated by their peers because they go above and beyond to improve patient safety in their work …
Honors & Awards
Wisconsin Medical Alumni Association honors providers with department connections
The Wisconsin Medical Alumni Association (WMAA) will honor its 2025 Distinguished Medical Alumni Award recipients during a banquet on May 2 at Union South on the UW–Madison campus. Among the awardees will be two physicians …
Bikash Pattnaik receives global fellowship to investigate new therapies for rare inherited blindness
India’s Ministry of Science and Technology recently awarded a VAIshwikBHArtiyaVaigyanik (VAIBHAV) fellowship to Bikash Pattnaik, PhD, associate professor in the Division of Neonatology and Newborn Nursery, leader of the Pattnaik Research Group, and an affiliate …
Prestigious Gerard B. Odell Research Award and Ellen R. Wald Research Awards will be presented during Pediatrics Research Week in May
The Department of Pediatrics will present its important annual research awards, the Gerard B. Odell Research Award and two Ellen R. Wald Research Awards during Pediatrics Research Week, which will be held May 12–15, 2025.
Marcos Isidoro-Ayza receives international research award from the Wildlife Disease Association
Marcos Isidoro-Ayza, DVM, postdoctoral fellow in the Division of Infectious Diseases, member of the Klein Research Group, was awarded $5,000 for the “Graduate Student Research Recognition Award (SRRA)” by the Wildlife Disease Association (WDA) Conference in Canberra, …
Jami Simpson selected for Excellence in Fellowship Program Administration Award
Jami Simpson, graduate medical education (GME) program manager with the Allergy and Immunology Fellowship, was recently selected for an Excellence in Fellowship Program Administration Award from the Association for Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Program …
Jonathon Wong wins international GI award
Jonathon Wong, DO, assistant professor, Divisions of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, and of Global Pediatrics, was a recipient of the “First World Congress Therapeutic Endoscopy Video Award” at the World Congress of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition …
Courtney Gaberino wins first place at 20th Annual Respiratory Disease Young Investigators’ Forum
Courtney Gaberino, MD, clinical instructor in the Division of Allergy, Immunology, and Rheumatology and a member of the Jackson Research Group, recently attended the 20th Annual Respiratory Disease Young Investigators’ Forum in Denver, Colorado, where she received first place for …
2024 Shapiro Summer Research Program student Kayla Sifre wins Excellence in Student Research
Second-year medical student Kayla Sifre won the Excellence in Student Research award at the School of Medicine and Public Health’s 23rd Annual Medical Student Research Forum in November. Forty students were selected through a competitive …
Brittany Loughman awarded Executive Education Grant
Brittany Loughman, the department’s residency program manager, is one of five of this year’s Executive Education Grant recipients. Sponsored by the Professional Development and Recognition Committee of the University of Wisconsin–Madison Academic Staff Assembly in …