John W Beasley MD - Professor of Family Medicine

John Beasley graduated from Harvard College in 1964 and received his MD from the University of Minnesota in 1969. Following a rotating internship, he practiced for three years, including experience in the Peace Corps in the Caroline Islands. In 1973 he came to the University of Wisconsin, where he completed two years of family practice residency before becoming a faculty member. He is Medical Director of the UWSMPH Physicians Assistant Program. His special clinical interests include ECG reading and aviation medicine. He was one of the co-developers, along with Jim Damos, MD, of the Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics (ALSO) course. He Developed and directed the Wisconsin Research Network (WReN) and is past-President of the WAFP. He served on the Board of Directors of the Wisconsin Medical Society and chaired the Society's Council on Medical Education. He was the founding chair of the International Federation of Primary Care Research Networks and a member of WONCA's Working Party on Research. His research interests include quality of work life, medical errors, and complexity in primary care practice. Since 2010 he has been an Honorary Associate in the UW Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering and starting in 2012 is the Coordinator for I-PrACTISE, a formal collaboration between Industrial and Systems Engineering and the primary care specialties.