Madison Faculty

Brian Arndt, MD (Verona) completed his undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering, medical degree, and family medicine residency training at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He joined the Madison Campus faculty in 2008, where he provides the full spectrum of family medicine care at the Verona Clinic. His primary areas of professional interest include the new model of care and chronic disease management, improving electronic resources for individual and population-based care, practice management, and quality improvement. Dr. Arndt is a true Badger at heart and enjoys spending time with his wife Kimberly, who is also a UW Health physician in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.

Bruce Barrett, MD, PhD (Verona) received M.D. and Ph.D. (Anthropology) degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1992, then did an international health fellowship with Johns Hopkins University at a World Health Organization research institute in Guatemala. A 1997 graduate of the Eau Claire residency program, Dr. Barrett completed the Madison-based primary care research fellowship in 1999. Over the past several years, Dr. Barrett has been supported by grants from the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine at the National Institutes of Health, and the Generalist Physician Faculty Scholars Program from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Bruce is a steering committee member of the Madison chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility, working for universal health care and against environmental pollution, war, landmines, and nuclear weapons. When not busy with clinical care, community service, research or teaching, Bruce can be found playing with his children and/or running, biking, swimming, skiing, hiking, climbing, canoeing or sailing.

John Beasley, MD (Verona) 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. His special clinical interests include EEG reading (one book authored), 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 founded the Wisconsin Research Network (WReN) and was the founding chair of the International Federation of Primary Care Research Networks. He lectures nationally and internationally on primary care and primary care research and is the author or co-author of over 40 published articles. His current research work is with the UW Department of Industrial Engineering and focuses on the complexity of primary care and patient safety.

Madonna Binkowski, MS, MSSW (Belleville) graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1979 with a dual Master's degree in Behavioral Disabilities and Social Work and interned with the UW Ambulatory Pediatric Service. She completed a post graduate externship in Structural Family Therapy. Madonna is particularly interested in children's learning, behavioral and mood disorders. In the fall of 1994, after 15 years at Northeast Clinic, Madonna joined the faculty at Belleville Family Medicine Center as an Assistant Clinical Professor one day a week in order to continue her career while parenting her six children. She provides short term cognitive behavioral therapy for a variety of presenting problems, particularly anxiety, depression and panic in adults. In addition she teaches residents about the psychosocial aspects of family practice.

Randy Brown, MD 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 achieved Board Certification in Addiction Medicine and a PhD in Population Health Sciences (UW Madison). Additional training experiences have included 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 is a licensed provider of office-based treatment for opioid dependence and substance use disorders are an area of special interest clinically. Dr. Brown speaks fluent Spanish and enjoys serving the local Latino population at the Wingra Clinic. He is the Director of the Center for Addictive Disorders at University of Wisconsin Hospital 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 has served as the President of the Wisconsin Society of Addiction Medicine for the past 3 years (2007-2009).

Dr. Carr completed her undergraduate (Exercise Physiology) and medical degrees at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, residency training at the University of Michigan, and a two-year fellowship in sports medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2002. She joined the Madison Campus faculty in July 2002. Dr. Carr is also the Associate Director of the Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship, and serves as a team physician for the University of Wisconsin Badger athletes. She provides Sports Medicine services for UW students at the University Health Service. Her current research projects include investigation of depression and anxiety among female college athletes, and long-term outcomes of knee injuries in adolescent and young adult females. She also leads a statewide curriculum group in the development of a web-based musculoskeletal medicine curriculum and competency-based assessment for the Family Medicine residencies.

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.

Byron Crouse, MD (Belleville) has been at 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.

David Deci, MD 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 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. 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.

Lee Dresang, MD (Wingra) graduated from the Indiana School of Medicine and completed his family medicine residency at the New Mexico Family Practice Residency. He then completed the Tacoma Rural Health Fellowship before coming to Wisconsin. His special interests include women’s health, Latino and international health and violence prevention. He is currently the OB Coordinator for the Madison Family Medicine Residency Program. Former Member and Chair of the ALSO Advisory Board.

Jennifer Edgoose, MD, MPH joins the UW medical faculty from the Pacific Northwest, where she worked for more than a decade in a community health clinic. After graduating from Wellesley College with a B.A. in biological chemistry, she spent a year doing research at the National Institutes of Health before attending Columbia University where she received her M.D. and M.P.H in 1996. There she developed a strong interest in primary care and patient advocacy which led her to enter a family medicine residency at the University of Washington where she piloted a new track that focused on the urban underserved. She followed this by joining a community health clinic providing full spectrum family medicine including obstetrical care to the uninsured and underserved of greater Tacoma, WA. Her interests lie in providing ongoing work with the underserved and medically disadvantaged in the context of the patient centered medical home; health literacy and cross-cultural care; the patient-doctor relationship; and end-of-life issues. She wants to explore the complex challenges of providing high quality, evidence-based health care for all and to help residents and medical students experience the rewards of work in community medicine and community health clinics.

Ann Evensen, MD completed her undergraduate and medical degrees at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She had residency training at the University of Washington-affiliated program in Renton, WA. Since residency she has practiced part-time but full-scope family medicine in rural and private practices in Covington, WA, Platteville, WI, and Monona, WI. She was named a Master Teacher by the UW Department of Family Medicine and joined the Verona faculty in 2007. Her professional interests are low-risk obstetrics, women's health, office-based procedures, and practice improvement. She loves to explore the ethnic food riches of Madison and lives in Verona with her husband and three children.

Luke Fortney, MD (Odana Atrium) completed his medical school training and family medicine residency at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In 2004, he became board certified in Holistic Medicine through the AHMA/ABHM. He is involved in projects related to the education and healing application of meditation and spirituality in medicine. His experience includes mindfulness meditation, AMSA LIGHT (HEART) and Global Medicine education at the Institute of Noetic Sciences in California, Centering Prayer at St. Benedict's Monastery in Colorado, Kriya Yoga through SRF in California, GWish program for spirituality in medicine, and Prolotherapy through the Hackett-Hemwall Foundation. Luke's particular areas of interest include various meditation retreats every year, travel, playing the didgeridoo, environmental sustainability, and social justice and responsibility.

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. He is currently an Associate Editor of the the Annals of Family Medicine and Medical Editor of the Wisconsin Medical Journal. His current interests/activities are community health programs, community based clinical research, medical humanities and medical journalism.

David Gaus, MD, MPH&TM (Other) was educated at the University of Notre Dame and Tulane University School of Medicine and Public Health where he also earned a Master’s Degree in Public Health and Tropical Medicine. He completed his UW Family Practice Residency at the St. Luke's Hospital in Milwaukee in 1995. After working 2 years as full time teaching faculty at St. Luke’s, he moved to Ecuador in 1997 where he founded and has run Andean Health & Development, a non-governmental organization that builds sustainable rural healthcare infrastructure. He also founded a Family Practice Residency in Ecuador at Hospital Pedro Vicente Maldonado jointly with the Catholic University of Ecuador. He has published in the area of healthcare policy for developing countries, and has served as a Temporary Expert for WHO in their expanded vision of Primary Health Care strategy. He worked part time at St. Luke’s from 1997-2009. Starting in 2010, his clinical responsibility is teaching hospitalist at the UW and St. Mary’s Hospitals.

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.

Kenneth Kushner, PhD (Wingra) received his BA from the University of Wisconsin in 1971. He attended graduate school in clinical psychology at the University of Michigan, where he received his MA in 1974 and his PhD in 1976. He was an assistant professor, with a joint appointment in psychiatry at the Medical College of Ohio from 1977-80. After a brief appointment as lecturer in the University of Maryland's Far East Division in Japan, he moved to Madison in 1981, where he joined the Madison Family Practice Residency Program and is currently a professor. His responsibilities include teaching the psychosocial aspects of family practice to the residents and the delivery of psychological services at Wingra Family Medical Center. Dr. Kushner is Coordinator of Behavioral Science for the Madison Residency and is Chair of the Promotions and Mentoring Committee for the Department of Family Medicine. In recent yea

Ildi Martonffy, MD learned she was no longer a "flat-lander" when she came to Madison for her residency after completing medical school at the University of Illinois at Chicago following her undergraduate degree in biology from the University of Chicago. She finished residency in 2005 and then worked at the Beloit Area Community Health Center in Beloit, Wisconsin for almost five years before returning to Wingra Clinic as faculty. She practices full-scope family medicine and has a particular interest in working with the underserved as well as in helping patients with breastfeeding. She enjoys spending time with her husband and her daughter, Makeda, who occupies most of her "free time."

Steve Olcott, MD joined the Department of Family Medicine in 2007. He attended medical school at the University of Buffalo School of Medicine, and completed his residency at the University of California School of Medicine – Davis. He began a solo family practice in Grass Valley California, and practiced there for 18 years. He then joined a community hospital group family practice in Corvallis, Oregon, and practiced there for 11 years. Dr. Olcott’s practice interests include cardiovascular disease and preventive medicine. He became Medical Director of the Belleville Clinic in July, 2010.

Kathy Oriel, MD, MS, 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 served in a consultative role on physician satisfaction for the UW School of Medicine and Public Health’s multispecialty faculty group practice. Outside of work, Kathy enjoys playing with her two children, being outside and active, and drinking coffee.

Nancy Pandhi, MD, MPH (Research) received her B.A. in Political Science from the University of Chicago and her M.D. from Medical College of Virginia. While 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 a research fellowship along with a MPH degree. She joined the faculty in 2009. Her research focuses on effective primary care practice redesign with an emphasis on improving care for vulnerable populations. Her clinical practice is with Access Community Health Center. She also assists with the Community Health Rotation.

Jeffrey J. Patterson, DO (Northeast) graduated from Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine in 1972. He completed his family practice residency in the Madison Family Practice Residency Program in 1975. He subsequently joined the faculty at the Northeast Family Medical Center in early 1976, and he is now a professor. He served as center medical director from 1988 to 1991. He is an active family practitioner with special interests in the areas of chronic back pain and human sexuality. Jeff is a founder of the Madison Chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR), and has been active in work internationally with the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. A major interest is in chronic myofascial pain treated with prolotherapy. Jeff heads the Hackett Hemwell Foundation which promotes research and teaching in prolotherapy and does charitable work in Honduras. He leads medical groups in Honduras each year, and residents may participate in this as part of their orthopaedic elective.

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.

David Rabago, MD (Northeast) After graduating medical school at UW Madison in 1997, David pursued a one-year post-graduate research year in epidemiology at the UW Department of Population Health. David completed residency in Family Medicine in 2001, graduating from the UW Department of Family Medicine in Madison (Verona Clinic). During his residency David served as Chief Resident and also developed a passion for clinical research, completing a randomized controlled trial of nasal irrigation for chronic sinus symptoms. David continued his training after residency, completing a National Institutes of Health-sponsored fellowship in clinical research, and then receiving a 5-year National Institutes of Health K-23 Career Development Award. David now splits his professional time, maintaining an active continuity and teaching practice at Northeast Family Medical Center while also conducting research. His research focuses on assessing injection therapies for chronic musculoskeletal pain and on nasal saline irrigation for upper respiratory conditions.

David Rakel, MD 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 associate 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.

Adam Rindfleisch, MD (Odana Atrium) was born and raised in rural Idaho. He graduated from Albertson College of Idaho in Caldwell, Idaho, in 1993 with an Honors BA in chemistry, zoology, and religion. A Rhodes Scholar, he completed a Masters of Philosophy at Oxford in Comparative Social Research, focusing on how the healing systems of India and Great Britain have influenced one another. He completed his medical training at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and his family medicine residency at the University of Wisconsin Madison, where he was a Chief Resident. He was the first graduate of the UW DFM’s Academic Integrative Medicine fellowship, and now serves as its director. He sees patients at the Odana Atrium Family Medicine Clinic and the UW Center for Integrative Medicine. He enjoys travel, reading, writing, time with family, and anything that involves the outdoors. He and Dr. Luke Fortney recently received a grant from the GWish Foundation to create a spirituality curriculum for family medicine residents in the Madison program. Adam's particular areas of interest in Integrative Medicine include dietary supplements, spirituality, and energy medicine.

Kirsten Rindfleisch, MD received her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College, her M.D. from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and completed her family medicine residency training and an academic fellowship at UW Madison. She practices at Wingra Family Medical Center and is currently collaborating with other health care providers to develop an improved health care safety net for South Madison's diverse communities. Her other academic interests include health disparities, chronic disease management, and clinical quality improvement. Outside of work, Kirsten enjoys spending time with her husband and sons, traveling, reading, and gardening.

Richard G. Roberts, MD, JD is a family physician and attorney and has practiced in Belleville since 1987. At the international level Dr. Roberts is President of the World Organization of Family Doctors (Wonca). Dr. 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 Vice President of the American Academy of Family Physicians Foundation and Vice Chair of the Interstate Postgraduate Medical Association. Dr. Roberts is a past president of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) and the Wisconsin Medical Society. Professor Roberts has focused on quality improvement, guidelines, and practice redesign as his areas of scholarship. He has served on nearly 3 dozen national and international guidelines panels. He has served as a consultant to several software companies such as Google, as well as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the World Health Organization, and the Wisconsin Medical Examining Board.

Louis Sanner, MD, MSPH (Northeast) received his MD degree from Stanford University in 1983. He completed a family practice residency at the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1986 and stayed on there as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Practice Fellow from 1986 to 1988, earning an MS degree in public health. He joined the DFM in July 1988 and was the Madison Program Director from 1996 through June 2002. He teaches and practices at Northeast Family Medical Center. His academic interests center around resident education, particularly training for underserved rural and urban practice. He serves as a national consultant to Family Practice residencies for the AAFP. Lou received the Baldwin E. Lloyd, MD Clinical Teaching Award from the residents in June 1993.

William Scheibel, MD (Verona) graduated from the University of Wisconsin Medical School in 1974. In 1977, he completed a family practice residency in the Madison program. Bill was a family physician in New Richmond, Wisconsin, for two years before returning to the DFM as a faculty member. He has served as the director of the Belleville center, and was promoted to professor of family medicine in 1991. Bill was the associate director of the Madison Residency Program in 1985-86 and became the Verona center director in 1987 after serving as associate director for several years. Bill received the "Baldwin E. Lloyd, MD, Clinical Teaching Award" from residents in 1989, and was chosen to be the 1990 recipient of the Family Practice Educator of the Year Award from the Wisconsin Academy of Family Physicians. His interests include practicing the full range of family medicine and teaching residents. He is also an instructor for Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS).

Sarina Schrager, MD (Northeast) joined the Northeast faculty in 1996. A graduate of Dartmouth College with a BA in French Literature, Sarina received her MD degree from the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago in 1992. She completed her residency in family medicine at the MacNeal Hospital program in Berwyn, Illinois in 1995 and then completed a one year self-designed fellowship in Women's Health at MacNeal that combined graduate work in Women's Studies with clinical care in family practice. She completed a MS in population health sciences at the University of Wisconsin in 2006. She is the director of faculty development for the DFM. Her teaching focus is on women's health education for residents. Her current research interests include osteoporosis prevention, vitamin D testing in primary care, work life balance, and dual physician families. She is also the director of the department’s academic fellowship.

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.

Douglas Smith, MD (Verona) graduated from the University of Illinois School of Medicine in 1979 and completed his residency at the Eau Claire Family Practice Residency Program in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. He practiced for three years in Mondovi, Wisconsin as part of the National Health Service Corps Private Practice Option. From 1985 through 1987 Doug was a Fellow in the Robert Wood Johnson Family Medicine Faculty Development Program at the University of Washington. Prior to joining the DFM in July 1990, he was a faculty member at the University of Colorado Department of Family Medicine. Doug's primary responsibilities are in predoctoral education. Doug and his wife, Barb, have four children.

Paul Smith, MD (Research) is an Associate Profession in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Smith graduated with his BA in chemistry from DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana in 1979. He received his MD degree from Wright State University School of Medicine in Dayton, Ohio in 1982 and completed his residency training at Maine-Dartmouth Family Practice Residency in Augusta, Maine, in 1985. After residency, he joined the Family Practice Department at Health Services Association, a staff model HMO, near Syracuse, New York where he practiced for almost ten years and participated in ASPN, a primary care research network, for nine years. He joined the DFM faculty in October 1995. He provides clinical care and teaches residents one day per week, and spends three days per week in a variety of service and research activities. He is the director of the Wisconsin Research and Education Network (WREN) and a volunteer on the Board of Directors for Wisconsin Literacy. He is currently the principal investigator for a focus group study of health literacy issues among low literate adults, and a project to train adult basic education students to be consultants assisting a hospital working to improve its health literacy environment. His interests also include health literacy, electronic medical records and computerized patient interviewing.

Melissa Stiles, MD (Belleville) received her MD degree from the University of Iowa College of Medicine in Iowa City and completed her residency at the Madison Family Practice Residency Program in 1991. She joined the Department in August, 1992 as the center director of the Belleville Family Medical Center and served as the center director until July, 1996. She completed a fellowship in Geriatric Medicine at UCLA in 2001 and has the CAQ in Geriatric Medicine. She is active in pre-doctoral education and participates in teaching first/second year medical students in the GPP program. Special interests include geriatrics, palliative care, and use of emerging technologies in medical education. She currently co-chairs the STFM Group on Geriatrics and is a medical director for Hospice of Madison. Dr. Stiles was the Associate Director of the Madison Campus Residency Program from June, 2002 to June, 2006. She currently is the UW-Madison liaison for the Family Practice Inquiries Network (FPIN). She was honored to receive the Marc Hansen Lectureship Award in 1997 and the Baldwin E Lloyd, MD Clinical Teacher Award in 2003.

Patricia Tellez-Giron, MD (Wingra) 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 14 years ago to be with her family and to continue her education. She completed the University of Wisconsin Family Medicine Residency program and soon after graduation joined the faculty at Wingra clinic. Dr. Tellez-Giron received the public health award for community advocacy for her work with the Latina community and the Wisconsin Well Women program in 2000. Other awards include the AIDS Network Executive Director’s Award for Outstanding Community HIV/AIDS Service in 2004 and the Faculty Excellence Award for Community Service also in 2004. Dr. Tellez-Giron teaches physicians and other health care professionals about cultural competency in working with Latino/communities. She is the chair of the Latino Health Council in Madison and under her leadership several community initiatives have been implemented including a monthly health prevention Spanish radio program, annual Latino Health fair, and a Latino Chronic disease summit among many others.

Jonathan Temte, MD, PhD (Wingra) joined the faculty of the DFM in September 1993. He received his BA from Luther College, Decorah, Iowa, in 1980. He received an MS in biological oceanography from Oregon State University in 1986 and a PhD in zoology (minor: epidemiology) from the University of Wisconsin in 1993. He has published widely in the area birth timing of seals and sea lions. Jon pursued his medical training at the UW-Madison Medical School receiving his MD in 1987. He is a 1993 graduate of the Madison Family Practice Residency. He has an extensive variety of research and teaching experience, and received the Resident Research Award in 1993 and the Baldwin Lloyd Clinical Teaching Award in 1996. He served as the director of the Wisconsin Research and Education Network (WREN) from 2000-2005 and currently co-directs the Department’s Clinical Data Warehouse Project. Jon chaired the American Acacemy of Family Physicians (AAFP) Comission on Science in 2008 and currently chairs the Wisconsin Council on Immunization Practices. He served as AAFP liaison to the Advisory Committee on Immunizatiuon Practices (ACIP) from 2004-2008, and has been appointed to a four-year term as a voting member of ACIP (2008-2011) where he has been named vice chair. Jon is also active on pandemic influenza and bioterrorism working groups for the state of Wisconsin. His current research interests include viral disease surveillance in primary care, seasonality and epidemiology of influenza, attitudes toward immunization, and assessment of workload in primary care settings.

Maureen Van Dinter, MSN, FNP-C, CPNP (Northeast) Maureen works as a pediatric and family nurse practitioner at Northeast Family Medical Center and also serves as the Center's associate director. Her past work experience includes eight years of rural hospital work, pediatrics, burn and adult intensive care unit experience. She has been very active in local emergency care activities, volunteers time with an emergency medical service and ski patrol, and has experience in dive medicine. She spent time in Kazachstan facilitating development of EMS systems. She has been active in state and localhealth care activities, including the Dane County Head Start Health Advisory Committee and Dane County Immunization Coalition. Maureen participates resident teaching and provides colposcopy precepting as part of the GYN elective.

Angela Vitcenda, PA-C (Wingra) is a certified Physician Assistant. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Physician Assistant Program, after earning undergraduate degrees in psychology and nursing. She earned a masters degree in Industrial Engineering and Human Factors from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her special interests include diabetes.

JoAnn Wagner Novak, MS, APNP (Northeast) received her BS in nursing from UW-Milwaukee in 1986 and MS degree in 1990 from UW-Madison in both the adult/aging and pediatric nurse practitioner programs. JoAnn has volunteered in a variety of community outreach/health education programs, often geared towards children and teens. She has served on both county and national pediatric obesity groups. JoAnn is active in the Geriatric NP Asociation, the Wisconsin Statewide Asthma Coalition, and a Board member of the WI Chapter of Pediatric NP’s. Within our Department, JoAnn provides education and leadership in geriatric and nursing home care for residents as well as sexually transmitted infections. She is active in quality improvement, patient education, and has advanced case management skills across the lifespan.