• Suburban
• Research

Dr. 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. He returned in 1973 to the University of Wisconsin, where he completed two years of family practice residency before becoming a faculty member. His special clinical interests include EEG reading (one book authored), stress electrocardiography 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 founded the Wisconsin Research Network (WReN) and is head of the International Federation of Primary Care Research Networks.

• Women's Health

Dr. Lisa Brinn practices at UW Health Immediate Care and is a clinical preceptor for medical students. She graduated from Alma College and received her M.D. at Michigan State University. While in medical school, she did a preceptorship through East Tennessee State University in rural Appalachia. Dr. Brinn completed a Family Practice residency at UW Department of Family Medicine. Her clinical specialty and interests are Family Medicine, obstetrics, preventative medicine and medical Spanish.

• MPH
• Research
• Substance Abuse

Dr. Brown attended medical school at the University of Washington, Seattle. He completed his family practice residency at the University of California Davis-affiliated Stanislaus County Family Practice Residency Program. He also completed the University of California San Francisco's Faculty Development Fellowship. Special interests include substance use disorders, population health and health issues in marginalized populations. Dr. Brown speaks fluent Spanish and enjoys serving the local Latino population at the Wingra Clinic. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Population Health Sciences program at UW Madison.

• Sports Medicine

Dr. Carr is a native Madisonian. She received her undergraduate (kinesiology) and medical degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She then completed her family medicine residency at the University of Michigan, and returned to Madison in 2000 for a two-year fellowship in sports medicine at UW. She holds a certificate of added qualification in sports medicine. She is the Associate Director of the Madison Residency Program and the Associate Director of the Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship. She practices family medicine at the Verona Clinic, sports medicine at the Research Park clinic and the University Health Service, and is the first female team physician for the University of Wisconsin. Her clinical interests are in the care of female athletes of all ages, and women's health. Her current research focuses on mental health issues of female athletes and the development of an integrated musculoskeletal medicine residency curriculum for the UW family medicine statewide residency programs. She enjoys being active outdoors and traveling with her husband and children.

• Urban
• Underserved
• International/Cross-Cultural Health

Don Carufel-Wert is a Madison residency graduate and trained at the Verona Family Medical Clinic. Prior to college at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, VA, he lived in Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C., Kansas, West Virginia and Indiana. Between college and med school, Don spent a year at an inner city clinic in Washington, D.C. as a volunteer. He then returned to Indiana for medical school at Indiana University. After an excellent training program during the three years of residency, Don spent a year splitting time between the Madison Community Health Center, and teaching and doing urgent care at the Northeast clinic. Don and his family then moved to Milwaukee where he worked for Family Health Plan. Next, he returned to academics joining the St. Luke's residency program and seeing patients at the Clarke Square Family Health Center. After four years in Milwaukee, Don and his family couldn't resist the urge to return to Madison and all it has to offer. Presently, he works half-time in the DFM teaching residents in Verona, overseeing the Community Medicine curriculum, providing leadership to the LOCUS program and serving as medical director to the MEDiC program in the medical school. The other half of his job is caring for patients at the Access Community Health Center, a federally-funded community health center. His present clinic involvement is Resident teaching - Verona Family Medical Clinic, 100 N. Ninemound Road, Verona, WI 53593 and Patient care - Access Community Health Center, 2202 S. Park St., Madison, WI 53713.

Dr. Counts received her undergraduate degree from Bowdoin College and attended medical school at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. She completed her family practice residency at the University of Wisconsin in 2001 and a clinical teaching fellowship in pediatrics through the UW Department of Family Medicine. Her clinical interests include pediatrics, teaching family medicine residents, diabetes, preventive health care, women's health, mental health and teaching clinical skills to medical students. Dr. Counts also is a musician (guitar/vocals); she produced her own original music CD. She enjoys being with friends/family and her dog, who is a busy mother of identical twin girls. Dr. Counts now works part-time at UW Health's McFarland Clinic and does low-risk obstetrics care.

• Sports Medicine
• Rural

Dr. Crouse has been at UW School of Medicine and Public Health since 2001. He serves as the Associate Dean of Rural and Community Health and serves in various leadership roles in the Department of Family Medicine. In addition to his educational and administrative duties, he sees patients at the Belleville Family Medicine Clinic. He did his pre-medical education at St. Olaf College and medical school at the Mayo Medical School in Rochester, MN. He finished his Family Medicine residency in Duluth, MN in 1980 and entered rural practice in Spooner, WI. After 7 years in private practice, he entered an academic practice serving as a residency director at the Duluth Family Practice Residency and the Chair of Family Medicine at the University of Minnesota, Duluth Medical School.

Dr. Crouse's practice interests include preventive medicine and sports medicine. He has been involved in developing programs for sigmoidoscopy and colposcopy. He is interested in issues affecting rural health care. His research interests are also focused on rural health and has been involved in the study of cancer care in rural areas and health care practice in rural regions.

• Urban
• Underserved
• Practice Management/Quality

Dr. Davis is the former Director of the Madison Campus of the UW Madison Department of Family Medicine and has research interests in studying interventions to improve the quality of health care, especially prevention services, in primary care practice. He received his BA from Lafayette College and graduated from George Washington University School of Medicine. He completed his residency training and fellowship here and joined the faculty in 1980. His clinical practice is at Wingra Family Medical Center.

• Women's Health

Marguerite attended medical school at Michigan State University and completed a Family Practice residency program at EW Sparrow Hospital in Lansing, MI. She practiced in Madison for three years before joining the UW Department of Family Medicine (DFM). Marguerite practices at the DFM's Verona Family Medical Clinic, where she also serves as the Medical Student Education Coordinator and is director of the newly established osteopathic internship and residency program. Her main clinical interest is women's health, along with OB and pediatrics.

• Urban
• Gender Issues
• Medical Humanities
• Underserved

Educated at the University of Notre Dame and Northwestern University Medical School. Internship at Cook County Hospital in Chicago. Active in student organizations during medical school, including Medical Committee for Human Rights, Free Clinic Organization, Literary Society and Student Health Action Committee. Residency in Family Medicine at the University of Miami. Taught 1973-1979 at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, worked at Family Health and Social Service Center, a neighborhood health center in Worcester. Served as assistant in General Practice and licensed by the National Health Service in Glyncorrwg, South Wales, UK. Taught at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Department of Family Medicine, and was director of the Faculty Development Program, acting chair for 18 months, and worked in student, resident and community based AHEC programs. President, Society of Teachers of Family Medicine 1998-99, Member, Board of Directors, 1997-2000, Professor and Chair at UW-Madison Department of Family Medicine since 1993.

• Rural
• International/Cross-Cultural Health

Dr. Haq completed her family medicine residency training at the University of Wisconsin and joined the faculty in 1989 after working at Dartmouth Medical School. She practices at the Belleville Family Medical Center and is Director of the University of Wisconsin Center for Global Health. She assisted students in establishing the South Side Medic Clinic and developed electives for fourth year medical students in underserved and international sites. Her interests are in preventive health care, health care in underserved areas, and cross cultural medicine. She is leading efforts to strengthen global health at the University of Wisconsin.

• Women's Health

Catherine James, M.D. earned her medical degree from the University of Washington-Seattle and completed her residency at the University of Wisconsin Family Medicine Residency Program-Madison. Her special interests include obstetrics, women’s health and preventive medicine. She works out of the UW Health Odana Atrium Clinic.

• Sports Medicine

Dr. Kunstman graduated from the UW Medical School and completed his residency at the Central City Site of St. Luke's Medical Center - Milwaukee. He has been practicing in UW Health since 1998, starting in Waunakee and is now at the Odana Atrium Clinic.

His approach to health care is driven to a great extent by his own life experiences. Dr. Kunstman wants very much for his patients what he would want for himself. He has a special interest in sports medicine and his ultimate goal is to attain and reflect a healthy lifestyle.

Beyond patient care, Dr. Kunstman sees his other role as supporting providers in their transition to an EHR (Electronic Health Record). His goal is to serve as an advocate for providers as well as an advisor to them. Outside the clinic, his passions are nature and macro photography.

• Women's Health
• Substance Abuse

Kathy Oriel, MD, MS, Program Director, is originally from Michigan and attended the University of Missouri-Columbia for undergraduate and medical school. She completed residency training at St. Paul Ramsey Medical Center in Minnesota, and then participated in a research fellowship at the UW-Madison. Her primary focus is in teaching and practicing family medicine with particular interests in maternity care, physician professional development, and working with underserved communities, including LGBT persons. Professionally, Kathy has dabbled in research on domestic violence, motivational interviewing as a method to enhance behavioral change and the "impostor phenomenon" in family medicine residents. She recently served in a consultative role on physician satisfaction for the UW School of Medicine and Public Health’s multispecialty faculty group practice. Kathy is thrilled to be the Madison Residency Program Director and work even more closely with this bright, dynamic and motivated group of future family physicians. Outside of work, Kathy enjoys playing with her two children, being outside and active, and drinking coffee.

• Urban
• Underserved
• Activism

Dr. Patterson graduated from Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine in 1972 and completed his Family Medicine residency here in 1975. He joined the faculty in 1976 and practices at Northeast Family Medical Center. He has special interests in chronic back pain and human sexuality. He is the founder of the Madison Chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility and has been active in work internationally with the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War.

• Women's Health

Dr. Potter graduated from Rush Medical College in 1996. She received her undergraduate education at Knox College in Galesberg, IL, obtaining her BA in French Literature. During her undergraduate education, she spent a year at the Universite de Besancon in France. She completed her Family Medicine residency in Madison in 1999. Her interests are in the use of technology in medicine and care of the underserved. She serves as the medical student coordinator and practices at the Wingra Clinic.

• Sports Medicine

After medical school at Baylor College of Medicine, Dave completed a family practice residency in Greeley, Colorado. He spent the next five years in rural practice as one of two physicians staffing a 14 bed hospital in Driggs, Idaho. As medical director for Grand Targhee Ski resort, he developed an interest in sports medicine and received his CAQ in 1999. Dave completed a two year fellowship in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona from 1999-2001. He joined the UW Department of Family Medicine in 2001 where he teaches and practices in Verona and is the medical director for UW Health Integrative Medicine. Dave is board certified in family medicine, holistic medicine and sports medicine. He is also certified in Interactive Guided Imagery.

Dr. Elisabeth L. Righter is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine. She joined the faculty in September of 2007, after ten years of residency work in Ohio and five years of practice. She received her M.D. at Wright State University, Boonshoft School of Medicine in Dayton. Her work experiences included urgent care, emergency room, occupational medicine and family medicine practices in Maui, Hawaii and Cleveland, Ohio. She is proud to have mentored residents in research projects. She was named Family Medicine Attending of the Year in 2002. Dr. Righter was a member of the American Academy of Family Physicians Committee on Special Constituencies for three years. Dr. Righter served as President of the Ohio Academy of Family Physicians in 2005-2006. Her clinical interests are pregnancy care and procedures. Her research and teaching interests include clinical-decision making and cultural proficiency.

• Urban
• Practice Management/Quality
• Underserved

Dr. Sanner received his M.D. degree from Stanford University in 1983. He completed a family practice residency at the University of Missouri Columbia in 1986 and then, he earned an MS degree in public health after a two-year research and teaching fellowship at Missouri-Columbia. He was Director of the Madison Residency Program 1996-2002 and provides patient care at Northeast Family Medical Center. His academic interests center on innovations in practice systems which enhance quality of care and medical education.

• Urban
• Gender Issues
• Underserved
• Women's Health

Dr. Schrager is a graduate of Dartmouth College and received her M.D. degree from the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago in 1992. She completed her residency in family practice at the MacNeal Hospital program in Berwyn, Illinois in 1995 and then, she completed a self-designed fellowship in Women's Health at MacNeal that combined graduate work in Women's Studies with clinical care in family practice, with an emphasis on low risk obstetrics and gynecology. She practices at Northeast Clinic. Her current interests include women's health, gender issues in medicine, and osteoporosis prevention.

• Sports Medicine
• Practice Management/Quality

Dr. Shropshire loves being a family doc! He grew up in Monona, went to undergrad at Hamline University in St. Paul, MN, Medical School in Madison, and then back to St. Paul for Residency. He returned home to practice and has been here over ten years. He does a full range of family medicine, including hospital work, obstetrics, office surgeries and the usual family-centered primary care with special interest in Sports Medicine and prevention. He's fluent in Spanish. Dr. Shropshire's involved in a fair amount of medical student teaching, helping with the Generalists Partners Program, teaching a PDS small group, hosting occasional fourth-year students, and precepting in the WAFP summer externship program. He has a wife and two kids that keep him very busy outside the practice. He practices at the UW Health clinic in Monona.

• Suburban
• MPH

Dr. Skochelak joined the faculty in 1986 and practices at Verona Clinic. She serves as Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health. She was instrumental in the development of the Primary Care Clerkship and the Generalist Practice Partners Program. She earned her medical degree from the University of Michigan Medical School and completed her residency at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill where she also received a master’s degree in public health. Her special interests include medical education, preventive medicine and women’s health.

• Rural
• Practice Management/Quality

Paul Smith graduated with his B.A. in chemistry from DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana in 1979. He received his M.D. from Wright State University School of Medicine in Dayton, Ohio in 1982 and completed his residency training at Maine-Dartmouth Family Practice Residency in August, Maine, in 1985. After residency, he joined the Family Practice Department at Health Services Association, a staff model HMO, near Syracuse, New York where he practiced for almost ten years and participated in ASPN, a primary care research network, for nine years. He joined the DFM faculty in October 1995. He is at Belleville one day per week providing clinical care and teaching residents. He spends three days per week in a variety of service and research activities including director of the Wisconsin research and education Network (WREN). He presently serves on the Board of Directors for the Wisconsin Academy of Family Physicians and Wisconsin Literacy. He is currently the principal investigator for a focus group study of health literacy issues among low literate adults, and a physician survey about the use of Body Mass Index in the diagnosis and management of obesity. His interests include health literacy, electronic medical records, computerized patient interviewing, outpatient clinical care, resident education, outpatient minor surgery, including no-scalpel vasectomy.

• Activism

Raised in Mexico City, Dr. Tellez-Giron received her medical degree with honors, at the National University of Mexico (UNAM). She moved to the United States several years ago to be with her family and to continue her education, and ever since has been working very actively with the Latino/a community of Madison, WI.

Dr. Tellez-Giron has participated in multiple volunteer activities, at the Madison Community Health Center, Rape Crisis Center and La Clinica de los Campesinos, among others.

She completed the University of Wisconsin Family Medicine Residency program and, soon after graduation, joined the Faculty of same program as an assistant professor, and is currently working at the Wingra Clinic where more than 90% of her patients speak only Spanish.

• Urban
• Underserved
• Research

Dr. Temte is a 1993 graduate of the Madison Family Practice Residency Program and holds a Ph.D. in Zoology, also from the University of Wisconsin. He has had a variety of research and teaching experiences and serves as the Director of the Wisconsin Research Network. His current research interests include the timing of epidemics of influenza, the role of viral disease surveillance in primary care and methods to promote judicious use of antimicrobials. He practices at the Wingra Family Medical Center.