November 13, 2007 - Researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee have found that the risk of radiation injury in normal tissue after exposure may be reduced by a drug in common use. Their study in press appears in the on line issue of the International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology and Physics.
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November 9, 2007 - Paula Traktman, Ph.D., chairman and Walter Schroeder Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at the Medical College of Wisconsin, is one of 471 members awarded the distinction of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) this year. Fellows are elevated because of their efforts toward advancing science applications that are deemed scientifically or socially distinguished.
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November 9, 2007 - James L. Sebastian, M.D., professor of medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin, received the Association of American Medical College's (AAMC) Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Award on Nov. 3, 2007. The award was established by the AOA medical honor society in 1988 to provide national recognition to faculty members who have distinguished themselves in medical student education. The award is named for long-time AOA executive secretary Robert J. Glaser, M.D.
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November 1, 2007 - Taking Control of Your Diabetes, a premier conference, luncheon and health fair will be held November 17th from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the Midwest Airlines Center, bringing national and local medical experts in diabetes care to people with all types of diabetes, those at risk for diabetes, and their loved ones for a day of highly informative and motivational programs.
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July 9, 2007 - Physicians in the division of sleep medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin are conducting a clinical research study at Froedtert Hospital to assess an innovative, minimally-invasive, implantable device as a treatment for sleep apnea.
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April 13, 2007 - Jon Gudeman, MD, professor of psychiatry and behavioral medicine, has been chosen to receive the Administrative Psychiatry Award from the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and the American Association of Psychiatric Administrators for his contributions to administrative psychiatry.
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April 13, 2007 - Two Medical College of Wisconsin faculty physicians practicing at Froedtert Hospital are among only 120 physicians in the nation chosen for Men's Health magazine's first annual list of "America's Top Doctors for Men"
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April 12, 2007 - he Medical College of Wisconsin has named Margie M. Spencer chief financial officer (CFO), and Tye V. Minckler vice president of operations. Both appointments were made by Douglas R. Campbell, senior vice president of finance and administration.
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April 12 - The Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee has received a three-year, $230K grant to study the brain mechanisms of selective hearing. The study, funded by the National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders, may also help those with dyslexia or schizophrenia.
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April 11 - If you suffer from migraine headaches, you may be eligible for a new research study by Medical College of Wisconsin physicians at Froedtert Hospital. They will evaluate the effectiveness of a new treatment option to correct a common heart defect (patent foramen ovale or PFO) in reducing the incidence of migraines.
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April 2 - Ann's Hope Foundation, Inc. has pledged a $65,000 two-year grant to the Medical College of Wisconsin for research to fight melanoma.
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March 28 - The National Cancer Institute has awarded a five-year $1.4 million renewal grant to the Medical College of Wisconsin. It will fund continued development of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast agent methods to study angiogenesis¯the rapid new growth of blood vessels-- in brain tumors.
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March 28 - The MACC Fund (Midwest Athletes against Childhood Cancer, Inc.) has announced a $1 million, three-year gift to the Cancer Center of the Medical College of Wisconsin to help develop a tumor vaccine. The gift will allow the College's MACC Fund-supported investigators to expand preclinical programs on tumor vaccine development and apply their findings to childhood cancers.
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March 26 - The appeal, by Rodney Willoughby, MD, associate professor of pediatrics, appears in the April 2007 issue of Scientific American. In it he chronicles the scientific rationale behind the survival of a 15-year-old Wisconsin girl, Jeanna Giese, in 2004 and the six subsequent attempts made elsewhere to replicate the treatment, now dubbed the Milwaukee protocol.
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March 26 - The National Eye Institute has awarded the Medical College of Wisconsin a five-year, $1.6 million renewal grant for a study of wound healing in the cornea. The study, initially funded in August 1999, may provide help for those patients, among the thousands having elective photorefractive surgery each year, who don't heal properly.
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March 20 - The National Institutes of Health, National Eye Institute has renewed the Medical College of Wisconsin's Core Grant for Vision Research which has been continuously funded for over 30 years. The five-year, $2.9 million grant supports five shared-use resource modules at the Froedtert & the Medical College Eye Institute under the direction of principal investigator Dr. Janice M. Burke, the Marjorie and Joseph Heil Professor of Ophthalmology at the Medical College
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March 19 - At its meeting on March 16, the Medical College of Wisconsin's Board of Trustees approved awards totaling $7,037,486 in support of 29 community/academic partnership projects statewide through the College's Healthier Wisconsin Partnership Program (HWPP).
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March 16 - Interested in learning more about bone health? Healthy women ages, 40 to 60, are being sought for the Healthy-bones Research Project, to evaluate an osteoporosis education program. Polly Ryan, PhD, RN, associate professor, University of Wisconsin College of Nursing, and adjunct associate professor at the Medical College of Wisconsin, is seeking 160 volunteers.
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March 16 - Roz Lasker, MD, director of the center for the advancement of collaborative strategies in health and the division of public health at The New York Academy of Medicine, is the keynote speaker for the Medical College of Wisconsin's ninth annual Robert and June Becker Lecture, Mon., April 23rd, from 4:00 to 5:00 pm.
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March 15 - Graduating medical students at the Medical College of Wisconsin, and their peers nationwide, found out today, March 15th, where they will be serving their post-graduate residency training.
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March 14 - Jeffrey Warner, MD, of New Berlin has been appointed assistant clinical professor of internal medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin and staff physician in the primary care initiative at Froedtert Hospital's North Mayfair Walk-in Clinic.
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March 9 - Evgenii Kovrigin, PhD, of Wauwatosa, has been appointed assistant professor of biochemistry at the Medical College of Wisconsin
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March 8 - Internist Corrado Ugolini, MD, MPH, has been appointed assistant professor of medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin and to the medical staff of Froedtert Hospital
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March 5 - According to a new report from the American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC), the Medical College of Wisconsin and the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and their hospital and clinic affiliates had a combined economic impact of $6.51 billion in Wisconsin.
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March 2 - The Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee has selected six schools to receive grants to develop educational programs in palliative care. The grants are funded through a two-year $513,000 award the College received from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to lead a national curriculum initiative to activate, build and sustain medical student education in palliative medicine.
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March 1 - The Medical College of Wisconsin is launching a new Women in Science subscription luncheon series to showcase the research accomplishments of its women faculty and encourage interest in and support of women scientists.
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March 1 - Achievements and accomplishments of Medical College of Wisconsin faculty and staff.
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Feb. 28 - The antibiotic vancomycin often used in intensive care units is considered the drug of choice for the treatment of staphylococci (staph) infections that are resistant to most other antibiotics. Researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee and the BloodCenter of Wisconsin's Blood Research Institute have linked vancomycin to an abnormal decrease in blood platelet count, a condition called thrombocytopenia.
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Feb. 28 - Husband and wife researchers, Victor Drover, PhD, and Daisy Sahoo, PhD, have been appointed assistant professors of medicine in the division of endocrinology at the Medical College of Wisconsin.
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Feb. 22 - Ramani Ramchandran, PhD, of Pewaukee has been appointed associate professor of pediatrics and genetics at the Medical College of Wisconsin, and a member of the Children's Research Institute
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Feb. 12 - West Allis public health commissioner Terry Brandenburg, MPA, MBA, has been elected chairperson of the Medical College of Wisconsin's Public and Community Health Oversight Advisory Committee.
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Feb. 21 - Sherri DuCharme-White has been named vice president for human resources at the Medical College of Wisconsin by Douglas R. Campbell, Sr. vice president for finance and administration. She comes to the Medical College from Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare (formerly Covenant Healthcare), where she was director of medical staff relations and northeast business development for St. Michael Hospital and the hospital system.
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Feb. 15 - Although Medicare coverage for colorectal cancer screening has increased, there are still significant disparities in screening practices by ethnicity, sex, age, education and income level, according to researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. The study was reported in the February 12, 2007, issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
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Feb. 15 - Medical College of Wisconsin Neurologists at Froedtert Hospital are seeking stroke victims to participate in a national research study of an investigational drug to prevent stroke or heart attack in patients who've had a stroke.
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Feb. 15 - Medical College of Wisconsin researchers at Froedtert Hospital are seeking families in which at least two siblings have had an ischemic stroke. These adult siblings are invited to participate in a research study to help find the genes that might increase one's risk of developing ischemic stroke.
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Feb. 12 - The Medical College of Wisconsin will host the 8th World Congress for Microcirculation, Aug. 15-19, at the Midwest Airlines Center in downtown Milwaukee. The Medical College is hosting the event in conjunction with the Microcirculatory Society. Julian H. Lombard, PhD, professor of physiology at the Medical College, is serving as chair of the planning committee.
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Feb. 9 - The Medical College of Wisconsin has been awarded a $248,000 National Institutes of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease Grant for basic research for the prevention and/or treatment of kidney stones.
The Medical College of Wisconsin has received a three-year, $829,000 grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to study the cost-effectiveness of preventing acute-phase HIV transmission.
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Feb. 1 - A new study by researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee and Johns Hopkins University has found that race, gender and insurance differences factor strongly in the evaluation of patients with chest pain seen in emergency departments.
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Jan. 23 - Mark A. Beilke, MD, has been appointed professor of medicine and chief of the division of infectious diseases at the Medical College of Wisconsin, and chief of the division of infectious diseases the VA Medical Center -Milwaukee. Board certified in infectious diseases and internal medicine, Dr. Beilke also practices Froedtert Hospital. Both are major teaching affiliates of the College.
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Jan. 23 - With the goal of raising funds to support life-saving heart research, the 11th annual Steve Cullen Healthy Heart Run & Walk, is set for Sat., Feb. 10, at Wil-O-Way Underwood Clubhouse, 10602 Underwood Parkway in Wauwatosa. Proceeds will benefit research at the Medical College of Wisconsin Cardiovascular Center.
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Jan. 18 - In response to the federal government's high priority for accelerated research to combat bird flu and bioterrorism, the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee has been awarded a five-year, $8.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health's Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to develop a rapid, miniaturized, automated diagnostic device to test for avian flu and the majority of potential bioterrorism agents. The device would be used in an outpatient setting.
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Jan. 18 - Milwaukee lawyer Cory L. Nettles, JD, a partner in the corporate services and government relations groups at Quarles & Brady LLP, has been appointed to the Medical College of Wisconsin Board of Trustees by Governor Jim Doyle.
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Jan. 15 - Medical College of Wisconsin and Children's Research Institute dedicated a new, $140 million biomedical and translational research facility. The research center, a collaborative project of the two organizations, is located on Watertown Plank Road in Wauwatosa, just north of the Medical College and Children's Hospital.
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Jan. 11 - Neurologist Brian-Fred M. Fitzsimmons, MD, has been appointed assistant professor of neurology and neurosurgery at the Medical College of Wisconsin, and to the medical staff of Froedtert Hospital, a major teaching affiliate.
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Jan. 10 - Rebecca L. Duke, MD, has been appointed assistant professor of otolaryngology and communication sciences at the Medical College of Wisconsin, and to the medical staffs of Froedert Hospital, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin and the V.A. Medical Center – Milwaukee, major teaching affiliates of the Medical College.
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Jan. 10 - Achievements and accomplishments of Medical College of Wisconsin faculty and staff.
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Jan. 9 - Five Medical College students to receive the grants this year which, at $2,000 to $2,500 each, came to a total of $12,000. The scholarships are allocated annually to Central Wisconsin students attending the Medical College. The Mead Witter scholarship program has been in place since 2003 and has funded $45,000 in scholarship awards since 2003.
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Jan. 9 - Jinger G. Hoop, MD, MFA, of New Berlin has been appointed assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral medicine and assistant director of the empirical ethics group at the Medical College of Wisconsin
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Jan. 9 - Michael J. Dunn, MD, executive vice president and dean of the Medical College of Wisconsin, announced today that he will step down from the position he has held for the past 12 years. Dr. Dunn, 70, will continue to serve as the dean until a successor is named. At that time, he will become a Distinguished Professor in the Medical College's Department of Medicine.
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Jan. 9 - The Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee has been awarded a four-year $1.16 million grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute to expand the work of a faculty research team who are leaders in the field of advancing our understanding of the medical implications of inadequate sleep.
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