• Urban Health
• Underserved
• Medical Education
• International/Cross-Cultural Health

Donald Carufel-Wert, MD (Verona) 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 volunteered at an inner city clinic in Washington, D.C. for a year. 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 the Northeast clinic. Don and his family then moved to Milwaukee where he worked for Family Health Plan. He returned to academics when he joined the St. Luke's residency program and saw 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 department. The other half of his job is caring for patients at the Access Community Health Center, a federally-funded community health center.

• 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 Elliott, DO, MS, Osteopathic Program Director (Verona) is a native of Illinois who completed a B.S. at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana and an M.S. at Indiana University, Bloomington. She spent 15 years working in the non-profit sector, then ran her own business setting up computer systems for small businesses. After spending some time on the patient side of health care, she decided to become a physician. She ultimately completed medical school at the Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine. While in medical school, she was one of the first two students to participate in a six-month Kellogg Foundation grant program which served as a model for providing ambulatory care clinical training in rural community settings of Northern Michigan. She completed her osteopathic internship and residency at E. W. Sparrow Hospital in Lansing, Michigan. She holds dual board certification in family medicine with both the ABFM and the AOBFP. After residency, Dr. Elliott practiced full-spectrum family medicine for three years before joining the DFM faculty in October, 2000. Dr. Elliott sees patients and supervises resident care at Verona clinic. Dr. Elliott is the Director of Osteopathic Medical Education as well as the residency program director for its statewide osteopathic family practice residency. Her role enables all UW Family Medicine Residencies to be dual accredited through the ACGME (which accredits allopathic graduates) as well as the AOA/ACOFP (which accredits osteopathic residency programs). She serves the American Osteopathic Association as a member of the House of Delegates. As a member of the American Association of Osteopathic Colleges of Medication, she sits on the steering committee of the Society of Osteopathic Medical Educators and has developed a osteopathic medical student career advising and mentoring website. The American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians has tapped her to serve on a number of committees as well as the planning group for program director workshop programs.

• 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
• Medical Education
• Gender Issues
• Balancing family and medicine
• Academic Careers

Teresa Kulie, MD (Northeast) followed a winding path leading ultimately to the Northeast Clinic where she is an active full-spectrum family physician. Terri graduated with a Biology degree from the University of Michigan, 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, 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, Terri joined the faculty full-time. She currently is busy teaching medical students and serves as the FMIG (Family Medicine Interest Group) faculty advisor. Her family keeps her grounded in reality! Katy is an amazing fourth grader who loves to read books while sitting in a tree. Alex loves Star Wars and hopes to find fellow fanatics in his kindergarten class. Terri's husband Mark is pursuing a PhD in Meteorology at the UW. He loves tornadoes (naturally) and gardening.

• 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, MD, MPH (Research) 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 to develop and implement a longitudinal spirituality and medicine curriculum. She then moved to Madison and completed the DFM’s NRSA research fellowship. Her research focuses on effective clinical practice redesign for vulnerable populations. Her clinical practice is with Access Community Health Center. She also serves as medical director for the MEDiC-Southside student-run clinic.

• Women's Health
• Underserved
• Technology in Medicine
• Medical Education

Beth Potter, MD (Wingra) Originally from Illinois, Beth completed her undergraduate degree at Knox College in French Literature. She then attended Rush Medical College in Chicago and completed her residency at UW-Madison in 1999. Since residency, she has been teaching at Wingra clinic and is currently the medical director there. Her teaching interest include technology in medicine, women’ s health and healthcare policy and working in underserved communities. She has been working on an affiliation between the ACHC community health center and Wingra Clinic. She speaks French and Spanish and enjoys using these languages during patient care. Outside of work, Beth is busy spending time with her husband and 3 children and enjoys running, soccer, skiing and biking. Whenever possible she likes to be outside.

• 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

David Rakel, MD (Odana Atrium) Dr. Rakel started his career near the Teton Mountains in Driggs, Idaho where he was in rural private practice for five years before completing a two-year residential fellowship in integrative medicine at the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center. He is the founder and director of the University of Wisconsin Integrative Medicine Program and assistant professor in the department on family medicine. He is editor of the text Integrative Medicine Now with the 3rd edition in progress. He is also co-editor for the 8th edition of the Textbook of Family Medicine. He has been involved in NIH funding to study the placebo effect and to incorporate healing modalities into medical school curricula. He is board certified in family and holistic medicine and sits on the board of the American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine and is on the executive committee for the Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine. He has a certificate of added qualification in sports medicine and is certified in interactive guided imagery. He enjoys the outdoors, biking, photography, guitar playing/building and college athletics. He is kept in line by his wife Denise and three children, Justin, Sarah, and Lucas.

• 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.

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

William E. Schwab, MD – Vice Chair of Education (Northeast) 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, a private, non-profit, community-run clinic in the coal fields of southern West Virginia. Bill joined the DFM faculty in 1985 and was director of the Madison Residency Program from 2002 until 2008. He currently serves as the DFM's Vice Chair for Education. Bill 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 a member of the Board of Directors of the Institute for Family-Centered Care in Bethesda, Maryland and, in conjunction with the UW Waisman Center, was principle investigator for the National Medical Home Autism Initiative, funded by the federal Maternal and Child Health Bureau from 2004-2008. He recently received a two year grant from the Centers for Disease Control to work on enhancing 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.