May 2 - Fox 6 news profiled the ”Survivors Teaching Students” program, in which patients share their stories with medical students at the Medical College of Wisconsin. WITI-TV
Apr 18 - The annual Eleanor Delfs, MD Lectureship for Pioneers will be held Wednesday, May 8, from 8:30-9:30 a.m. in the MCW Health Research Center Auditorium. The event is sponsored by the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and will feature Linda B. Cottler, PhD, MPH, Founding Chair of the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Florida College of Public Health and Health Professions. Dr. Cottler will give a presentation titled, Community Engaged Research: The New Frontier.
Apri 19 - The 15th annual Women’s Health Conference will be held on Friday, April 26, from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Sheraton Milwaukee Brookfield Hotel, 375 S Moorland Rd, Brookfield. This activity is intended for practitioners who provide care for women. This would include obstetricians, gynecologists, internists, family practitioners, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, certified nurse midwives and registered nurses.
Sept. 26 - The Department of Radiology’s Division of Vascular & Interventional Radiology was awarded the Magna Cum Laude for its electronic poster presentation, Percutaneous in Utero Thoracoamniotic Shunt Creation for Congenital Lung Malformations: A Novel Technique, presented at the 2012 Cardiovascular & Interventional Radiology Society of Europe (CIRSE) annual meeting in Lisbon, Portugal. The poster was a collaborative effort with the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology’s Maternal Fetal Medicine.
As Dr. Steven Bergin’s term as President of the Wisconsin Medical Society ended, his term as the new President of the Medical College of Wisconsin/Marquette Medical Alumni Association began. Other new alumni officers and directors were also elected this spring.
The Senior Awards Dinner for the Medical School Class of 2011 was held May 19, 2011, at the Italian Community Center in Milwaukee. The night was an opportunity to celebrate four years of accomplishment with friends and family.
Commencement was held for graduates of The Medical College of Wisconsin on May 20, 2011, at the Milwaukee Theatre. A total of 275 degrees were awarded to students of the Medical School and the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, consisting of 206 MD, 21 PhD, 25 MS, 12 MA, and 11 MPH degrees.
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.
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.
Graduating medical students were matched to their residency positions via the National Residency Matching Program on March 16. Of the 202 fourth-year medical students at the Medical College, 196 students obtained first-year residency positions on Match Day.