Froedtert & The Medical College of Wisconsin Breast Center has been accredited by the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers, a program administered by the American College of Surgeons. Just 10 breast care programs in Wisconsin have received this accreditation.
Marcy Neuburg, MD, Professor of Dermatology, has been awarded the Thomas L. Smallwood Award for Patient Care Excellence by the Board of Directors of Froedtert Hospital.
The new Medical College faculty/staff telephone directories are being delivered to each department from now through June 26.
The Medical College of Wisconsin received a four-year, $1.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute to study the role of naturally produced hydrogen peroxide in controlling human blood flow. This process has considerable relevance for patients with coronary artery disease.
Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin is seeking nominations to fill a public member vacancy on the Medical College of Wisconsin’s Consortium on Public and Community Health in the category of health care advocate.
Businesses, communities and organizations around Wisconsin have pledged their support for the National Children’s Study’s Waukesha Vanguard Center.
Sidney Grossberg, MD, Walter Schroeder Professor Emeritus in Microbiology and Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, has been awarded honorary membership in the International Society for Interferon and Cytokine Research.
The Medical College of Wisconsin received a four-year, $1.5 million competitive grant renewal from the National Institutes of Health’s National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute to continue a study on how a common hormone affects blood flow in response to a high salt diet.
Eight pediatric specialties at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin have been ranked in "U.S. News" Media Group’s 2009 edition of "America’s Best Children’s Hospitals," published online and featured in the August issue of "U.S. News & World Report," available on newsstands starting July 21.
The Medical College’s animal research program received positive feedback during the exit review session for the accreditation site visit of the Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care International. Representatives of the association’s Council on Accreditation called the Medical College of Wisconsin’s animal research program “exemplary” and “one of the best we’ve ever seen.”
John R. Petersen, MD, Director of medical services for the Milwaukee County Medical Complex from 1966 to 1993 and Associate Dean of the medical school from 1980 to 1993, died June 4. He was 79.
The Primary Care Initiative (PCI) is hosting an employment open house on Wednesday, June 24, from 5 – 8 p.m. at the Springdale Health Center, 21700 Intertech Drive in Brookfield. The PCI will be recruiting for clinic managers, RNs, MAs and patient relations representatives to staff the new Westbrook Health Center primary care clinic, which opens in Waukesha on Sept. 1.
This story on Dr. Andrew Chan, Professor of Pediatrics and Director of Hematology Oncology and Bone Marrow Transplants, originally ran in the Spring 2009 issue of "MACC FUND TODAY," a publication of Midwest Athletes Against Childhood Cancer, Inc., and is being reprinted with permission.
Researchers at The Medical College of Wisconsin published the first initial paper describing the Milwaukee prevalence of the largest outbreak of novel swine origin influenza virus (S-OIV) in America in the June 11, 2009, online issue of "Viruses." This corresponded to the announcement by World Health Organization of the first influenza pandemic in 41 years.
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Medical College of Wisconsin radiation oncologists Mark Macedon, MD, and Roger Byhardt, MD, will provide radiation oncology services at the Alyce and Elmore Kraemer Cancer Care Center of St. Joseph’s Hospital in West Bend starting July 6.
Mara Pheister, MD, has been appointed Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine at The Medical College of Wisconsin and to the medical staff at Froedtert Hospital. A general psychiatrist, her clinical focus is on adult psychiatric care, including mood disorders, anxiety disorders, and women’s mental health.
Matthias L. Riess, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Physiology, was named the first recipient of the Roizen Anesthesia Research Foundation New Investigator grant. The two-year, $100,000 grant from the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists Foundation supports an early career investigator conducting research in the field of cardiovascular anesthesiology.
Laura Roberts, MD, MA, Chairman and Charles E. Kubly Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine and Professor of Population Health (Bioethics), and Jinger Hoop, MD, MFA, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, have co-edited Ethics in Psychiatry: A Review, a special issue of the journal Psychiatric Clinics of North America.