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

Randy Brown, MD (Wingra) 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. In 2009 he achieved Board Certification in Addiction Medicine and received a PhD in Population Health Sciences (UW Madison). Additional training experiences have included completion of University of California San Francisco's Faculty Development Fellowship (2001-2002), the UW HRSA Primary Care Research Fellowship (2001-2004), and the UC San Diego Alcohol Medical Scholars Program (2002-2004). Dr. Brown’s research focuses upon health services to addicted individuals in the criminal justice system. He lectures frequently, locally and beyond, on issues surrounding health services to individuals with substance use disorders. Dr. Brown speaks fluent Spanish and enjoys serving the local Latino population at the Wingra Clinic. He is the Co-Director of the Alcohol and Other Drugs of Abuse Consultation Service at Univeristy of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics and a Staff MD at the NewStart Addiction Consultation Service at Meriter Hospital. He is the Medical Director for Outreach with the AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin, LifePoint Program. He is faculty with the UW Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship. He has served as the President of the Wisconsin Society of Addiction Medicine for the past 2 years (2007-2009).

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

John J. Frey III, MD (Wingra) was educated at the University of Notre Dame and Northwestern University Medical School. He completed his internship at Cook County Hospital in Chicago. He was active in student organizations during medical school, including Medical Committee for Human Rights, Free Clinic organization, Literary Society, and Student Health Action Committee. Dr. Frey completed his residency in Family Medicine at the University of Miami. Dr. Frey taught at the University of Massachusetts Medical School from 1973-79 and worked at Family Health and Social Service Center – a neighborhood health center in Worcester. Dr. Frey’s professional experience include the following positions: family medicine residency director at U Mass; service in General Practice and licensed by the National Health Service in Glyncorrwg, South Wales, U.K; University of North Carolina Faculty Development Fellowship; service provider in several community-based AHEC (Area Health Education Centers). Dr. Frey was editor of FAMILY MEDICINE from 1984-91, was a Kellogg National Fellow from 1984-87, received the Lyndhurst Prize 1989-92, and was the President of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine. Dr. Frey served as chair of the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of medicine and Public Health from 1993-2006. His current interests/activities are community health programs, community based clinical research, medical humanities and medical journalism.

• 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.