Dr. Mark Beamsley Named 2022 WAFP Family Medicine Educator of the Year
The Wisconsin Academy of Family Physicians (WAFP) has selected Mark Beamsley, MD, as its 2022 Family Medicine Educator of the Year. The award honors [...]
Melissa Stiles, MD: Excellence in Mentorship Award Highlights Career of Leadership and Service
Melissa Stiles, MD, recently received the Excellence in Mentorship Award from the UW School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH) Group on Women in [...]
DFMCH Pioneers Self-Rooming in Primary Care Clinics
Patients arriving to UW Health primary care clinics are now directed straight to an exam room and skipping the waiting room. Around 2009, Dr. [...]
DFMCH Official Home of New Osher Center for Integrative Health at UW
The Osher Center for Integrative Health at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, housed in the UW Department of Family Medicine and Community Health (DFMCH), received formal [...]
Human Flourishing and the Mind-Body Connection
Maintaining a healthy mind can be just as powerful as pharmaceuticals when treating and preventing many diseases, according to Dr. Richard J. Davidson, neuroscientist [...]
Substance Use Disorders Boot Camp Offers Support to Clinicians Treating Addiction
The Substance Use Disorders Management Boot Camp is one of the latest offerings by the Program for Research, Outreach, Therapeutics and Education in the [...]
Farley Lecturer Arthur Kaufman, MD, Discusses the Social Mission of Academic Health; Chair and Frey Writing Awards Presented
UW Department of Family Medicine and Community Health colleagues gathered at the Pyle Center on November 1, 2022, to listen to a special lecture [...]
WRPRAP Provides New Grants to Support Emergency Medicine and Hospitalist Fellowships
The Wisconsin Rural Physician Residency Assistance Program (WRPRAP) provided new grants to support development of an emergency medicine fellowship in Ashland and a hospitalist [...]
Wisconsin EATS Healthy: A Growing Effort to Improve Health and Hope
Tomatillos harvested from one of the Madison Area Food Pantry Gardens. Fruits and vegetables have a significant impact on overall health and [...]
Rachel Grob, MA, PhD, Heads New Qualitative and Health Experiences Research Lab at DFMCH
A new diagnosis or complicated chronic illness can leave patients and families feeling anxious, worried, and confused when navigating the health care system, insurance [...]