When the Department of Pediatrics embarked on its strategic planning process in the summer of 2018, faculty and staff agreed that creating a culture where people and ideas thrived was a top priority. This process …
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Ellen Wald earns Folkert Belzer award
Now in her sixteenth year as a professor and chair of the Department of Pediatrics and the Alfred Dorrance Daniels Professor on Diseases of Children at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public …
Judy Smith awarded R21 from NIAID
Congratulations to Judy Smith, MD, PhD, associate professor, Allergy, Immunology, and Rheumatology, on her recently awarded R21 from the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for her project, “Unfolded protein response (UPR) determinants …
Megan Moreno to study social media discussions of alcohol use and norms
Megan Moreno, MD, MSEd, MPH, vice chair of Academic Affairs and professor, General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, was recently awarded a two-year, $419,734 R21 grant from the National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism …
Olachi Mezu-Ndubuisi receives Career Development Award from National Eye Institute
Olachi Mezu-Ndubuisi, MD, OD, assistant professor, Neonatology and Newborn Nursery, was recently awarded a five-year K08 Career Development Award from the National Institutes of Health/National Eye Institute in the amount of $1,221,730. The award will provide …
Kelsey Lewis receives ICTR AHEAD grant
Kelsey Lewis, PhD, honorary fellow in the Department of Pediatrics and Wittig Postdoctoral Fellow in Feminist Biology at the Center for Research on Gender and Women, along with mentor, Jennifer Rehm, MD, assistant professor, Endocrinology and Diabetes, and …
Olachi Mezu-Ndubuisi receives McPherson Eye Research Institute professorship
Congratulations to Olachi Mezu-Ndubuisi, MD, assistant professor, Neonatology and Newborn Nursery, on being named the McPherson Eye Research Institute’s Retina Research Foundation Edwin and Dorothy Gamewell Professor. The professorship is for a three-year term beginning …
Anna Huttenlocher receives $3.3M NIH award to further cell migration research
Anna Huttenlocher, MD, professor, Allergy, Immunology, and Rheumatology, is the recipient of an over $3.3 million Maximizing Investigator Research Award, or MIRA, from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) / National Institute of General Medical …
Bernadette Gillick selected for American Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine award
Bernadette Gillick, PhD, MSPT, PT, has been chosen for the 2021 Mentorship Award from the American Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine’s (AACPDM). The award recognizes an individual who has demonstrated outstanding leadership mentoring trainees …
Jasmine Zapata named chief medical officer, state epidemiologist
Congratulations to Jasmine Zapata, MD, MPH, assistant professor, Neonatology and Newborn Nursery, on being named chief medical officer and state epidemiologist for community health at the Wisconsin Department of Health Services. In this position, Zapata will …