In August, three Department of Family Medicine (DFM) faculty—Valerie Gilchrist, MD; Sandra Kamnetz, MD; and Kenneth Kushner, PhD—traveled to China as part of an ongoing exchange program between the DFM, Columbia University, and Beijing's FuXing Hospital and its affiliated Yuetan Community Health Services Center.
The Department of Family Medicine (DFM) held its 2009 Renner/Hansen awards ceremony on September 23 at the Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center.
When Dr. Last learned last year that the Racine program was closing, he considered numerous other job opportunities, including hospitalist practice. But after visiting the Fox Valley residency and meeting the people there, he knew he had found the perfect fit.
After nearly two years of hard work, careful planning, and curricular redesign, the University of Wisconsin Physician Assistant (PA) Program is now formally a master’s degree program.
Department of Family Medicine Associate Professor Sarina Schrager, MD, is the co-author of a recently published clinical textbook, The ACP Handbook of Women's Health.
Since 1994, the Department of Family Medicine (DFM) has collaborated with the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene (WSLH) and the Wisconsin Division of Public Health (WDPH) to collect and report data on viral diseases.
The Department of Family Medicine (DFM) congratulates three faculty—Marlon Mundt, PhD; Nancy Pandhi, MD, MPH; and Aleksandra Zgierska, MD, PhD—who recently received a total of $2,415,725 in grant funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
The Department of Family Medicine (DFM) extends warm congratulations to the UW Health Monona Clinic, the winner of the 2009 James E. Davis Quality Improvement Award.
Clinic Manager Deb Sanftleben first got news of the flood from her facilities manager, who had been notified right away by Joanne Novak. "His words were, and I quote, 'Boss, this is bad,'" she laughed.
