DFM Showcase

Lead Story

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   Federal Grant Supports DFM’s Transformation to a Department of Family Medicine and Community Health

   A recent five-year award from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is laying the foundation for the Department of Family Medicine’s (DFM) transformation into a Department of Family Medicine and Community Health.

Education

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   DFM Welcomes Hollis King as Statewide Osteopathic Program Director

   Hollis King, DO, PhD, the Department of Family Medicine (DFM)’s new statewide osteopathic program director, considers himself deeply fortunate.

   Not only does he train the DFM’s DO residents to perform osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT)— which he has practiced for nearly 30 years—he’s working to expand that knowledge for MD residents and faculty. He also has a research program focused on establishing an evidence base for OMT, and a half-day per week, he cares for patients at the UW Health Integrative Medicine clinic.

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   DFM Faculty Teach the First ALSO Courses in India

   Three Department of Family Medicine (DFM) faculty—Ann Evensen, MD; Julie Falleroni, MD; and Louis Sanner, MD, MSPH—were part of a group of family physicians who traveled to India last November to teach the first Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics (ALSO) Provider and Instructor courses in that country.

Research

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   Nancy Pandhi Investigates Patient Perspectives in Primary Care Redesign

   Patients whose primary care office is set up to easily allow access are more likely to receive certain preventive health care services, such as cholesterol tests, flu shots, and prostate exams, according to a recent paper by Department of Family Medicine (DFM) Assistant Professor Nancy Pandhi, MD, MPH.

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   DFM Launches CAM Research Fellowship, Welcomes First Fellow

   Madison native and UW School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH) graduate David Kiefer, MD, is fascinated by how traditional cultures have used plants for healing, and how that can influence modern medicine.

   Over the past 12 years, he’s been a fellow at the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine; taught ethnobotany field courses in Amazonian Ecuador; and practiced in family medicine and urgent care clinics in Seattle, where he completed his residency.

Patient Care

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   Patient Partnerships Improve Care at DFM Clinics

   For Department of Family Medicine (DFM) Professor and Vice Chair of Clinical Care Sandra Kamnetz, MD, patient feedback is a key component of practice improvement—not just at the Yahara clinic where she practices, but at other DFM clinics and throughout the UW Health system.

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   Physician-Pharmacist Collaboration Helps Patients Manage Medications

   Physicians and pharmacists at two Department of Family Medicine (DFM) clinics are collaborating to help patients with chronic diseases, such as hypertension and asthma, better manage their medications—and improve their health.