Meet the Winners
Compassion in Action Community Health Leadership Award Recipients, from left: Jenna Krueger, Alice Wei, Sarah Elizabeth Weiss
Compassion in Action Tibetan Delek Hospital in India Award Recipients, from left: Kahoua Yang, Peter Ngo
Dr. Lester Brillman Scholarship Recipients, from left: Kevin Beene, Devin Walsh-Felz
Dr. Lester Brillman Leadership and Advocacy Award Recipient: Benjamin Beduhn
Dr. Lester Brillman Mentorship in Family Medicine Award Recipients, from left: Benjamin Abeyta, MD; Anne Getzin, MD
Founders Award (WAFP) Recipient: Brittany McAdams
Robert and Irma Korbitz Endowed Scholarship Recipients, from left: Garrett Donaldson, Collin Tyler Lash (not pictured: Brian Joseph Kroll, Joseph Wryas Pendleton)
Vogel Foundation Scholarship Recipient: Lawrence M. Moore
NAPCRG Student Family Medicine/Primary Care Research Award Recipient: Ninah Divine
Dr. Martin and Charlotte Gallagher Scholarship for Prolotherapy Recipients, from left: Parker Hoerz, MD; Joseph Vogelgesang, DO (not pictured: Jared Dubey, DO)
Jan Ashe Memorial Award for Excellence in Community Radiography Recipient: Audrey Dubey
McGovern-Tracy Student and Resident Scholars, from left: Xia Vang, MD; Caitlin Regner, MD; Kellia “KJ” Hansmann, MD; Scott Richard Reetz; Katherine “Yanzi” Jiang; John Matthew Ziegler; Nivedita Nair; DFMCH faculty member Jennifer Edgoose, MD, MPH (not pictured: David Glaubke)
The McGovern-Tracy and Student Scholars program is named for Isabel McGovern Kerr and Michele Tracy. McGovern Kerr endowed the DFMCH in 1998 to establish scholarships in memory of the McGovern family who pioneered in Wisconsin and were some of its first family physicians. Michele Tracy was a second-year UW medical student who was killed while participating in an educational service program in Malawi, Africa, in July 1999.
Award Program
The McGovern ‐ Tracy and Scholars Awards Ceremony took place on May 9, 2019 at Memorial Union’s Tripp Commons in Madison, WI.
The University of Wisconsin Department of Family Medicine and Community Health extends congratulations to all of the award recipients.