The 99th annual commencement took place on May 18 at the Milwaukee Theatre, at which the Medical College of Wisconsin and its Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences awarded 202 MD, 38 PhD, 27 MS, 4 MA, and 18 Master of Public Health degrees, as well as bestowed numerous honors.
May 20 - Dr. Mitchell Grayson has been inducted into the American Society for Clinical Investigation. WauwatosaNOW
May 1 - MCW’s Center for AIDS Intervention Research will present a one-day conference, “Fronteras Y Barreras/Borders and Barriers: Addressing Latino Immigrant Experiences with Health, Healthcare, and HIV in the United States,” on May 13. Windy City Media Group
May 1 - Yuri Amirkhanian, PhD, and Jeffrey Kelly, PhD, received a five-year, $2.8 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to engage social networks of persons living with HIV in the former Soviet Union to support other people who are HIV positive. HealthCanal
March 25 - Keith Horvath, PhD, received a three-year, $688,000 grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to develop a new smartphone application aimed at increasing medication adherence among HIV-positive patients. WauwatosaNOW
March 25 - Dr. Peter Havens (Pediatrics – Infectious Diseases) received a three-year, $2.5 million grant renewal from the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration to support the Wisconsin Primary Care Network. Milwaukee Business Journal
Mar 22 - The Medical College of Wisconsin’s Center for AIDS Intervention Research (CAIR) has received a three year, $688,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute on Drug Abuse to fund development of a new smartphone application aimed at increasing medication adherence among HIV-positive patients.
March 20 - Dr. Peter Havens received a three-year, $2.5 million renewal grant from the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration for continued funding for the Wisconsin Primary Care Support Network, a community-based HIV care system for women, infants and children. WauwatosaNOW
Mar 18 - The Medical College of Wisconsin and Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin Research Institute received a three-year, $2.5 million award from the United States Health Resources and Services Administration to continue funding a statewide, community-based HIV care system for women, infants, and children.
March 12 - The AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin is becoming a national model of integrated medical care and social services. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Feb 26 - The Medical College of Wisconsin’s (MCW) Center for AIDS Intervention Research (CAIR) has received a one year, $50,000 grant to study the tensions the criminalization of HIV exposure creates in public health, and the resulting impact on clients.
Feb. 12 - Steven Pinkerton, PhD, (Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine – Center for AIDS Intervention Research) received a $919,000 grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to support two-year stipends for research fellows. Fox6 News & Milwaukee Courier
The John M. Kohler Foundation has given $250,000 to the Medical College of Wisconsin Global Health Program in memory of Dr. Elaine Kohler, a former associate professor of pediatrics and fellow alumna.