• Medical Education
• Aviation 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. He returned in 1973 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 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 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. His research interests include quality of work life, medical errors, and complexity in primary care practice.

• Substance Abuse
• Underserved
• Research
• Health Services
• Criminal justice diversion programs
• Activism
• Urban Health

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; the UW Primary Care Research Fellowship; the UW Clinical Investigator Preparatory Program; and the Alcohol Medical Scholars Faculty Development Program. Special interests include substance use disorders (particularly in criminal justice populations), population health and health issues in marginalized populations. Dr. Brown speaks fluent Spanish and enjoys serving the local Latino population at the Wingra Clinic.

• Women's Health
• 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 Health
• Underserved
• Medical Education
• 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. Then Don returned to Indiana for medical school at Indiana University. After an excellent training program during the 3 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 4 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, and assisting in the Pre-Doc division. The other half of his job is caring for patients at the Access Community Health Center, a federally-funded community health center. Present clinic involvement: Resident teaching - Verona Family Medical Clinic, 100 N. Ninemound Road, Verona, WI 53593. Patient care - Access Community Health Center, 2202 S. Park St., Madison, WI 53713.

• International/Cross-Cultural Health
• Medical Humanities
• Rural Health
• Underserved

Bill Cayley Jr. practices at the Augusta Family Medicine Clinic, teaches at the Eau Claire Family Medicine Residency, and is an Associate Professor in the University of Wisconsin Department of Family Medicine.

Professional interests include Medical Missions & Global Health, Care for the Underserved, Evidence-Based Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease, and Diabetes. He is a 1990 graduate of Fuller Theological Seminary (M Div), a 1996 graduate of the Medical College of Wisconsin (MD), and a 1999 graduate of the Eau Claire Family Medicine Residency.

Bill is an active member of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, the Wisconsin Academy of Family Physicians, and the Christian Medical and Dental Association. Personal interests include bicycling and running, boating, travel, reading, music, and writing.

• Sports Medicine
• Rural Health
• Preventive Medicine

Dr. Crouse has been at the 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.

• Activism
• Medical Education
• Practice Management/Quality
• Rural Health
• Underserved

Dave grew up in warm and sunny Jensen Beach, Florida. He earned his undergraduate degree in Biology and Chemistry at Florida State University and was one of the first students in the innovative Program in Medical Sciences. He received his Medical Degree from the University of Florida, College of Medicine and then completed his residency in Family Medicine at the University of North Carolina Mountain Area Health Education Center in Asheville, NC where he served as Chief Resident.

After two years of practice in Mars Hill, NC (population 600), he relocated to Strasburg, VA (population 3,500) where he practiced inpatient, outpatient, and community oriented Family Medicine for 15 years. In November 2000, he entered academic Family Medicine at West Virginia University in Morgantown, WV. His roles there included Family Medicine Clerkship Director, Director of the WVU Department of Family Medicine Rural Scholars Program, FMIG Faculty Advisor, and Faculty Advisor to MUSHROOM (Multidisciplinary UnSheltered Homeless Relief Outreach Of Morgantown).

Dave joined the UW DFM faculty in March 2009 in the role of Director of Medical Student Education. His clinical practice is based at Belleville where he has a particular interest in wellness promotion, health screening, adolescent health, men's health, and care of rural communities. .

His educational research interests include student engagement in underserved care, role modeling and its power within the curriculum, community-based curriculum development, transdisciplinary collaborative teaching, and provision of health care to unsheltered homeless.

Dave lives in Fitchburg with his wife Diane. They have two grown sons. Dave enjoys gardening, travel, the performing arts, and hiking.

• Women's Health
• Medical Education

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 recently established osteopathic residency program. Her main clinical interest is women's health, along with pre and pos-natal care as well as pediatrics.

• Urban Health
• Underserved
• Research
• Medical Journalism
• Medical Humanities
• Gender Issues

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 1973-79 at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, worked at Family Health and Social Service Center - neighborhood health center in Worcester. Residency director at U Mass. Served as assistant in General Practice and licensed by the National Health Service in Glyncorrwg, South Wales, U.K. 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. Editor of FAMILY MEDICINE from 1984-91. Kellogg National Fellow from 1984-87, Lyndhurst Prize 1989-92, Center for Documentary Studies at Duke, steering committee 1990-93. President, Society of Teachers of Family Medicine 1998-99, Member, STFM Board of Directors 1997-2000, Co-organizer, Keystone III Conference 2000, Board of Curators, Archives for Family Medicine, 2002-2005, National Library of Medicine, Literature Selection Technical Review Committee, 2003-2007, Professor and Chair at University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Family Medicine 1993-2006. Editor, Wisconsin Medical Journal 2006 -

Current interests/activities are community health programs, community based clinical research, medical humanities and medical journalism.

• Urban Health
• Underserved
• Medical Education
• 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 practiced at the Belleville Family Medical Center for 19 years, and now provides health care for the uninsured in central Milwaukee. She has served as the Director of the University of Wisconsin Center for Global Health since 2005. Dr. Haq assisted students to establish the South Side Medic Clinic in 1992, the Leadership Opportunities with Communities, the Underserved and Special Populations (LOCUS) in 1998, and programs for medical and other health professional students in underserved and international sites. She has worked in Pakistan, Uganda, at the World Health Organization, and consulted in many other countries. Her interests are in improving access and quality of primary health care to disadvantaged populations. She is now leading the Training in Urban Medicine and Public Health (TRIUMPH) track in Milwaukee.

• Women's Health
• Preventive Medicine

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.

• Gender Issues
• Balancing family and medicine
• Academic Careers
• Medical Education
• Women's Health

Terri Kulie, MD followed a winding path leading ultimately to the Northeast Family Medical Center where she is a happy practicing family physician who also serves as the FMIG Faculty Advisor.

Terri graduated with a Biology degree from the University of Michigan. She then joined the national service organization, Teach for America. Terri next attended the University of Maryland Medical School, where she was active as president of AOA and graduated first in her class. During residency here at the UW, Terri continued to grow as a physician and teacher. She served as chief resident, earned a McGovern-Tracy award for community service, and was honored by her peers with the Residency Teaching Award. After a two-year Academic Fellowship focusing on resident portfolios and education, Terri joined the faculty full-time. She remains active in teaching both medical students and residents and serves in several leadership roles in the UWSMPH. Terri also enjoys reading mystery novels, running, eating homegrown tomatoes, and spending time with her family (though not necessarily all at the same time!).

• Sports Medicine
• Electronic Health Records

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.

• Medical Education

Stanley Livingston, MD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. He has been practicing family medicine in McFarland, WI for 25 years, and also teaches in the medical school and the UW Family Practice residency program. For more than 20 years, he has taught classes in the McFarland School District on puberty, the dangers of tobacco use (also hosting an annual anti-smoking poster contest), sexually transmitted diseases, and contraception. Dr. Livingston also serves as the faculty advisor to the Doctors Ought to Care (DOC) program at the medical school, through which medical students are trained to give public talks on a number of health-related issues. He is married with two grown children.

• Ethics
• End of life care
• Doctor-patient relationship
• Family systems
• Health professional well-being
• Integrative Medicine
• Medical Education
• Medical Humanities
• Research
• Spirituality

Lu Marchand is a professor of family medicine at the UW School of Medicine. She received a BA in sociology from Brown University and did qualitative research. She subsequently obtained a BS in nursing from the Creighton University Accelerated Nursing Program in Omaha, Nebraska. During her seven years as a coronary care nurse and emergency department nurse, she completed pre-medical studies at the University of California-Berkeley. She received her MD degree from the University of California- San Francisco in 1987 and completed her family practice residency at the University of Connecticut in 1990. She also completed a fellowship in 1991 at the University of Connecticut in faculty development. Her fellowship included training in family therapy and qualitative research of infant feeding practices. Following fellowship, she joined the DFM in November 1991. She was a faculty at UW Health Belleville for 14 years, and now is the clinical director of integrative oncology at the UW Paul P Carbone Comprehensive Cancer Center and at UW Health Oncology both in Madison, and a physician consultant with the UW Integrative Medicine Program. She is the course director for the Healer's Art Medical Student elective. She is coordinator of the end of life curriculum and associate coordinator of the behavioral science curriculum, research on primary care and behavioral issues, and teaching residents and medical students. Her interests include family systems, the doctor-patient relationship, integrative medicine, end of life care, spirituality, ethics, health professional well-being, and humanities in medicine. She is board-certified in family medicine, palliative medicine and holistic medicine.

• Underserved
• Medical Education

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 multi-specialty faculty group practice. She additionally received a grant to decrease tobacco and substance use in the Wisconsin LGBT Community. 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.

• Public Health
• Medical Education

Nancy Pandhi received her B.A. in Political Science from the University of Chicago in 1995 and her M.D. from Medical College of Virginia in 2001. During her years at the Shenandoah Valley Family Practice Residency, she received a grant from the John Templeton Foundation to develop and implement a longitudinal spirituality and medicine curriculum. She was a recipient of the AAFP Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Excellence in Graduate Medical Education and the Resident Teaching Award. She was also active as the resident member of the Family Medicine Residency Review Committee and the resident representative to the board of the Association of Family Medicine Residency Directors.

Nancy recently completed the department's NRSA research fellowship and soon will be starting a BIRCWH K-12 position. She is medical director for the Southside MEDiC clinic. She completed her M.P.H degree while a fellow, and now is pursuing a PhD in Population Health Sciences.

• Urban Health
• 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
• Underserved
• Technology in Medicine
• Medical Education

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. Dr. Potter is the medical director at Wingra Clinic where she practices. She is involved in medical student and resident education at the clinic.

• Public Health
• Medical Education

Dr. Prunuske earned his undergraduate and medical degrees at the University of Wisconsin. He completed his residency training in Family Medicine, Faculty Development Fellowship, and Master of Science in Public Health at the University of Utah. Dr. Prunuske's clinical practice is at the UW Health - Monona clinic. He directs the Fourth-Year Medical Student Preceptorship and is a member of the DFM Office of Medical Student Education. Dr. Prunuske is dedicated to excellence in clinical medicine and the art and science of medical education.

• Sports Medicine
• Medical Education
• Integrative 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 medical students, residents and fellows. His primary care medical practice is at Odana Atrium in Madison and his Integrative Medicine consultative practice is at UW Research Park in Madison. He is the Medical Director for UW Health Integrative Medicine, Editor for the text, Integrative Medicine, and co-editor of the Textbook of Family Medicine. Dave is board certified in family medicine, integrative-holistic medicine and sports medicine. He is also certified in Interactive Guided Imagery.

• International/Cross-Cultural Health
• Medical Education

Rich Roberts received his undergradutate and law degrees from the University of Wisconsin. He graduated from the George Washington University School of Medicine and completed a family practice residency at UCLA-Santa Monica Hospital Medical Center. From 1983 to 1987, he was a rural family physician in Darlington, Wisconsin, while teaching part-time in the DFM. He joined the DFM full-time in January 1987 and was promoted to professor in 1994. He served as interim chair of the DFM from 1992 to 1993.

A family physician and attorney, Dr. Roberts has practiced in Belleville, a rural community of 1900, since 1987. He provides the full scope of family medicine services: he delivers babies, cares for patients of all ages, performs endoscopy and minor surgery, and attends patients in the hospital, including those in intensive care units.

At the international level, Dr. Roberts serves on the Executive (Board of Directors) and is President-Elect of the World Organization of Family Doctors (Wonca). He has led U.S. delegations to Brazil, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam. He has been a member of several U.S. delegations to WHO International Consultations on urinary health.

Professor Roberts is a member of the Board of Governors of the National Patient Safety Foundation and the National Advisory Council of the California Health Benefits Review Program. He is a member of the Boards of the American Academy of Family Physicians Foundation and the Interstate Postgraduate Medical Association. He is a delegate to the American Medical Association (AMA) from the Wisconsin Medical Society.

A past president of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) and the Wisconsin Medical Society, Dr. Roberts has worked closely with a wide range of physician groups, including service as a director on the boards of the American Medical Accreditation Program (AMAP) and the Commission on Laboratory Accreditation (COLA). He was a member of the Medical Advisory Panel to the Technology Evaluation Center of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association. He has been a member of guidelines panels of the American Academy of Family Physicians, American College of Cardiology, the American Urological Association (AUA), the United States Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR), and the World Health Organization (WHO). He has served as a consultant to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and the Wisconsin Medical Examining Board.

Professor Roberts' scholarship has focused on the development of decision support tools to improve clinical care, especially in the areas of pain, risk management, and reproductive and urinary health. He has authored over 130 publications and given more than 500 presentations to international, national, and regional audiences.

Dr. Roberts was a fellow of the Kellogg National Fellowship Program. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians and the American College of Legal Medicine.

• Urban Health
• Underserved
• Public Health
• Practice Management/Quality

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.

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

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.

• Disabilities
• Medical Education
• Patient- and Family-Centered Care

Bill Schwab is a native of Madison and attended the University of Wisconsin as an undergraduate. He graduated from the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in 1980 and went on to complete his family practice residency at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. After residency, he worked as a family physician at the New River Family Health Center in the coal fields of southern West Virginia.

Bill joined the DFM faculty in 1985 and is a professor in the department as well as Vice Chair for Education. In past years, he has been associate director of the Madison Residency Program (1986-88), director of the Northeast Family Medical Center (1988-89 and 1992-1999), director of clinical operations for the DFM's Madison campus (2000-2002), and director of the Madison Residency Program (2002-2008). He is a nationally respected clinician, educator and policy consultant about the care of children with special health care needs and adults with chronic illnesses and disabilities from a family-centered perspective. He is an officer on the Board of Directors of the Institute for Family-Centered Care in Bethesda, Maryland and is a senior member of the Institute's teaching faculty. He was principle investigator for the National Medical Home Autism Initiative from 2004-2008, which was funded by the federal Maternal and Child Health Bureau, and is currently the PI of a grant from the Centers for Disease Control to enhance developmental screening by family physicians. Bill was honored as Family Physician of the Year by the Wisconsin Academy of Family Physicians in 1999 and received the Baldwin Lloyd Teaching Award from Madison Program residents in 1987 and 2008.

• Sports Medicine
• Preventive Medicine
• Practice Management/Quality
• Medical Education

Dr. Shropshire is an Associate Clinical Professor in the UW Department of Family Medicine, and has been practicing at the UW Health-Monona clinic for over 15 years. He grew up in Monona, went to undergrad at Hamline University in St. Paul, MN, Medical School here at the UW, and then returned to St. Paul for Residency with the University of Minnesota. He practices a full range of family medicine, including hospital work, obstetrics, office surgeries and family-centered primary care with special interest in Sports Medicine and prevention. He is fluent in Spanish and coordinates an international health rotation in Belize. Dr. Shropshire also teaches medical students, acting as director of one semester of the Patient Doctor and Society (PDS) Course. He also works closely with medical students as a mentor in the Academic and Careers Advising Program (ACAP) in the Medical School. He loves music, playing guitar and saxophone in a local band, Leeding Zeros, and has a wife and two children that also keep him very busy outside the practice.

• International/Cross-Cultural Health
• 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.