David E. Weissman, MD
Dr. Weissman is the founding Director of the Palliative Care Center and Professor of Medicine in the Division of Neoplastic Diseases & Related Disorders. He is nationally recognized for his pioneering work designing and implementing novel health professional education strategies for pain management and palliative care. Dr. Weissman is a consultant to the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) and numerous medical schools, helping to develop palliative care teaching resources for the next generation of physicians. He is currently funded by the Y.C. Ho/Helen Chiang Foundation to improve medical school eduction, the JEHT Foundation in support of the Palliative Care Leadership Center Project and CAPC, in support of education product development. Dr. Weissman is Co-Director of EPERC (End of Life Palliative Education Resource Center) - a national resource center for high quality, peer reviewed End of Life educational materials. Dr. Weissman was also the founding Editor-in-Chief of the medical journal, Journal of Palliative Medicine.
Linda Blust, MD
Dr. Blust, Medical College Internist, is committed to improving physician/patient communication and end-of-life care through resident and student education. Currently, she is the Director of Undergraduate Education in Palliative Care, Co-Director of the Medical Ethics and Palliative Care Course for M2s, and the Coordinator of the Communication Skills Curriculum for M3 Medicine Clerkship. Her practice is focused on general medical inpatients and palliative patients.
Drew Rosielle, MD
Drew completed his fellowship with the Palliative Care Center in 2006, after completing his Internal Medicine Residency at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. He has continued on as faculty since July 2006. He has an interest in palliative care education and evidence-based medicine. Drew is the current editor of Fast Facts and Concepts and blogs about palliative care research and news at Pallimed.
Nancy Havas, MD
Nancy Havas, MD is an Assistant Professor of Family Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin where she completed her medical school education. She is certified in both Family Medicine and Palliative Medicine specialties, and has roles in both departments at the Medical College of Wisconsin. She is the Associate Director of the Family Medicine student clerkship and is involved in teaching activities for medical students and residents. She is the Medical Director of Continuing Medical Education for the Department of Family Medicine and is grant funded for Geriatrics Education in primary care. She serves as a member of the Medical College of Wisconsin’s Academic Standing Committee, and as a member of the Wisconsin Academy of Family Physicians Foundation. Her clinical focus is in Palliative Medicine, Geriatrics, and Primary care.
Sean Marks, MD
Dr. Marks is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin in the Division of Neoplastic Diseases, specializing in palliative medicine. He graduated from the Medical College of Wisconsin in 2004 and then completed an internal medicine residency at University Hospitals Case Medical Center in 2007. After completing his fellowship in palliative medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin in 2008, he continued on as faculty. He is the course director of the palliative medicine medical school curriculum for the M3 and M4 students. He has an interest in mood disorders in the terminally ill and palliative medicine in HIV populations.
Jo Weis, PhD
Jo Weis is a licensed psychologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Medical College of Wisconsin. She is also Director of Behavioral Medicine for Palliative Medicine at Medical College of Wisconsin and Froedtert Hospital. She collaborates with a multi-disciplinary team of physicians and nurses who administer to palliative care patients in both inpatient and outpatient settings. She is one of the research clinicians pioneering the use of imagery rescripting and reprocessing therapy as a treatment modality for persons with posttraumatic stress disorder. Her research interests in addition to posttraumatic stress disorder include psychological issues and resilience at end-of-life, and supervision of oncology and palliative fellows.