May 08 - Michael Kron, MD, MS, Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) has been selected as a Jefferson Science Fellow by the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Kron is only the third physician to be selected in the program’s history.
Apr 29 - The Medical College of Wisconsin’s (MCW) Center for AIDS Intervention Research (CAIR) has received a five-year, $2.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health 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.
Apr 24 - The Medical College of Wisconsin’s (MCW) Center for AIDS Intervention Research (CAIR) 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 Monday, May 13, at the Italian Community Center. Nationally-recognized experts will present recent research on issues facing Latino immigrants, and provide opportunities for attendees to discuss best practices for addressing these barriers.
April 16 - Dr. Rodney Willoughby provided expert comment in a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article on a UW Madison college student who died from bacterial meningitis. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
April 8 - MCW and Froedtert are working with the Wisconsin Division of Health on follow-up testing of patients and staff members who were in contact with a health care worker at Froedtert who tested positive for an active case of tuberculosis. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Apr 16 - Edsel Salvana, MD, Assistant Director and Assistant Professor of Research at the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology at the National Institutes of Health in the Philippines, will be visiting the Medical College of Wisconsin on April 22-23 to tour the facilities and share his expertise on infectious diseases with faculty, staff and students. Dr. Salvana completed his residency in internal medicine at MCW in 2005.
April 4 - An article on the Becky Werner Meningitis Foundation is featured in the Atlantic Highlands Herald in New Jersey. The foundation supports meningitis research at MCW. Atlantic Highlands Herald
March 25 - Amy Hudson, PhD, (Microbiology and Molecular Genetics) received a two-year, $476,000 grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease to study immune response to two forms of human herpesvirus. 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.
Feb. 19 - Richard T. Robinson, PhD, and Mark McNally, PhD, received a two-year, $420,000 NIH grant to study tuberculosis immunity. WauwatosaNOW
Jan. 22 - Dr. Jonathan Rubin (Emergency Medicine) discusses the volume of patients being treated for the flu in Froedtert’s Emergency Department and the value of getting a flu vaccination. Dr. Rubin also explains what it means when hospitals are on “divert.” WTMJ Newsradio & Fox 6 News
Jan. 14 - Five to eight of Milwaukee County’s 11 hospitals have been forced to go on divert over the past week because staff and patient bed availability were strained by the influx of patients with the flu. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Gaining access to appropriate medical care can be difficult for patients limited by geography, disability or specialist availability. Alumni are engaging telemedicine in a number of creative ways to serve patients in the U.S. and internationally through distance technologies that allow for video conferencing, remote exams, diagnostics and follow-up care.
Michael Chusid, MD, associate chair of pediatrics and section chief of infectious diseases, explains that the current vaccine for pertussis only provides protection for five to six years. WISN News
Sept. 26 - A study led by the Medical College of Wisconsin and published online in the American Journal of Public Health found that New Jersey law requiring individuals with HIV to disclose their HIV-positive status to their sexual partners does not appear to be an effective HIV prevention intervention.
Rodney Willoughby, MD, professor of pediatric infectious disease, and the physician who developed the treatment that cured a Wisconsin girl of rabies, comments on a new study in which researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found a small number of isolated people in Peru who appear to have a natural resistance to rabies, caused by repeated low levels of exposure to the virus. Live Science
July 25 - Sandra J. Johnson, Program Coordinator II in the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) Cancer Center Clinical Trials Office, co-authored a recently published "New England Journal of Medicine" article, "Antiretroviral Preexposure Prophylaxis for Heterosexual HIV Transmission in Botswana." The article was published online July 11.
July 25 - Sharath Subramanian, MD, cardiology fellow at the Medical College of Wisconsin, is first author on a paper published in the July 25 online issue of "JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association." The paper, "Arterial Inflammation in Patients with HIV," investigated the role of arterial inflammation leading to increased cardiovascular disease in patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
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.
Dr. Daniel McDermott has dedicated his career to the development of new drugs and study of their safety and efficacy in patient populations. His remarkable body of work led to his selection as the Medical College’s very first Graduate School Alumnus of the Year.
July 19 - The Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) has received a $2.3 million, four-year grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute on Drug Abuse to implement and evaluate evidence-based HIV prevention strategies in Ukraine.