Feb 28 - The Wheaton Franciscan-St. Joseph Family Care Center has been recertified as a Level 3 (top) Patient-Centered Medical Home by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA). The Family Care Center is staffed by physicians from The Medical College of Wisconsin Department of Family and Community Medicine.
Feb 27 - U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin and members of her staff visited the Injury Research Center (IRC) at the Medical College of Wisconsin on Thursday, Feb. 21. The Senator toured the Froedtert Hospital Emergency Department and learned about the campus’s two Level 1 Trauma Centers— Froedtert and Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin. She then participated in a discussion about injury and violence prevention with IRC faculty and staff.
Feb 27 - A young girl with a rare genetic condition is alive and thriving today because of a new treatment plan developed by Medical College of Wisconsin physicians at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin.
Feb 27 - In honor of Black History Month, the Medical College of Wisconsin has created a series of video vignettes and stories that will be posted on InfoScope during the month of February. The vignettes highlight some of our African-American and Black faculty, staff and students and the contributions they have made. The stories highlight MCW programs that improve the health of underserved populations (including African-American and Black), offer these populations improved access to health care and education, and reduce health disparities.
Feb 27 - E. Brooke Lerner, PhD, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, received the Keith Neely Outstanding Contribution to EMS Award from the National Association of EMS Physicians (NAEMSP). She was presented the award at the association’s annual meeting last month in Florida.
Feb 26 - A new era of exciting research is developing under enthused leadership at the Medical College of Wisconsin’s TOPS Obesity and Metabolic Research Center.
Feb 26 - Rebekah Gundry, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, has been awarded the 2013 Robert J. Cotter Young Investigator Award by the U.S. Human Proteome Organization (US HUPO).
Feb 26 - The Medical College of Wisconsin’s (MCW) Center for AIDS Intervention Research (CAIR) has received a one year, $50,000 grant to study the tensions the criminalization of HIV exposure creates in public health, and the resulting impact on clients.
Feb 26 - The Medical College of Wisconsin Cancer Center Clinical Trials Office and Office of Research are hosting the upcoming Society of Clinical Research Associates (SoCRA) Certification Preparation and Review Course and Certification Exam.
Feb 25 - Below is a list of lane closures around campus the week of Feb. 25, 2013. All road work is subject to change because of weather and other unforeseen circumstances.
Feb 25 - Congratulations to all Froedtert Hospital and Medical College of Wisconsin staff, physicians and providers. Today, Truven Health Analytics, formerly the health care business of Thomson Reuters, is announcing that we are among the top 15 Major Teaching Hospitals in its 2013 analysis of Top Hospitals. The list compares peers in these categories: Major Teaching Hospitals, Teaching Hospitals and Large, Medium and Small Community Hospitals.
Feb 25 - In honor of Black History Month, the Medical College of Wisconsin has created a series of video vignettes and stories that will be posted on InfoScope during the month of February. The vignettes highlight a number of our African-American and Black faculty, staff and students, their experiences at MCW and the contributions they have made.
Feb 25 - Anthony Caples, Community Outreach Coordinator in the Institute for Health and Society’s Violence Prevention Initiative (VPI), received the Black Excellence Award for Community Leadership from the Milwaukee Times weekly newspaper. Caples will receive the award at the publication’s award ceremony on Feb. 22.
Feb 22 - Beginning Monday, Feb. 25, and continuing through Mid-December, construction work will be conducted on Mayfair Road/Hwy 100. The Mayfair Road/Hwy 100 project is part of the larger Zoo Interchange Reconstruction project.
Feb 22 - In honor of Black History Month, the Medical College of Wisconsin has created a series of video vignettes and stories that will be posted on InfoScope during the month of February. The vignettes highlight a number of our African-American and Black faculty, staff and students, their experiences at MCW and the contributions they have made.
Feb 21 - “What did you wish for, Bella?” Sebastian Raclaw asked his daughter as her coin broke the water’s surface and came to rest on the bottom of the wishing well. Just a few months earlier, the 35-year-old Milwaukee Police sergeant had been diagnosed with stage 4 abdominal cancer, initially deemed incurable. As he sat with his wife and two young children in the warmth and whimsy of Disney World, Raclaw thought about the difficult surgical procedure that awaited him upon their return from vacation and the glimmer of hope it offered.
Feb 21 - A new understanding of cancer as a genetic disease, in which individual gene mutations drive cancer cell growth, is giving rise to a new type of treatment that holds great promise for cancer care.
Feb 21 - The national dialogue on traumatic brain injury has reached significant amplitude with the public platform of professional sports raising awareness, the experiences of soldiers over a decade of war reinforcing the implications, and the medical community rising with innovative efforts to improve diagnosis and care.
Feb 21 - The Froedtert & The Medical College of Wisconsin Reproductive Medicine Center is on the move. The center which is currently located currently located on the 5th floor of the Pavilion building will be moving to the Community Memorial Medical Commons (CMMC) in Menomonee Falls.
Feb 20 - In honor of Black History Month, the Medical College of Wisconsin has created a series of video vignettes and stories that will be posted on InfoScope during the month of February. The vignettes highlight some of our African-American and Black faculty, staff and students and the contributions they have made. The stories highlight MCW programs that improve the health of underserved populations (including African-American and Black), offer these populations improved access to health care and education, and reduce health disparities.
Feb 18 - In honor of Black History Month, the Medical College of Wisconsin has created a series of video vignettes and stories that will be posted on InfoScope during the month of February. The vignettes highlight a number of our African-American and Black faculty, staff and students, their experiences at MCW and the contributions they have made.
Feb 18 - Bonnie Freudinger and Brian Laning, members of the Biotechnology and Bioengineering Center’s Engineering Team, recently took 3rd place out of 211 submissions in an international competition focused on innovation.
Feb 15 - In honor of Black History Month, the Medical College of Wisconsin has created a series of video vignettes and stories that will be posted on InfoScope during the month of February. The vignettes highlight a number of our African-American and Black faculty, staff and students, their experiences at MCW and the contributions they have made.
Feb 14 - The Research Park will be impacted by lane closures over the Feb. 15 weekend.
Feb 13 - In honor of Black History Month, the Medical College of Wisconsin has created a series of video vignettes and stories that will be posted on InfoScope during the month of February. The vignettes highlight some of our African-American and black faculty and staff and the contributions they have made. The stories highlight MCW programs that improve the health of underserved populations (including African-American and black), offer these populations improved access to health care and education, and reduce health disparities.
Feb 13 - The Healthier Wisconsin Partnership Program (HWPP) recently released its 9th funding cycle request for proposal (RFP). As in prior funding cycles, HWPP will continue to support Development and Impact projects that address health improvement through community - MCW academic partnerships.
Feb 12 - The Medical College of Wisconsin has received a two year, $420,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to study proteins associated with tuberculosis immunity.
Feb 12 - The Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) applauds Governor Scott Walker for his leadership to address the state’s impending physician shortage. As part of his executive budget proposal, the Governor announced he will invest $7.4 million in MCW’s Community Medical Education Program (CMEP) to train new physicians in central and northeast Wisconsin.
Feb 11 - Gretchen Mandel, PhD, a 29-year member of the MCW Department of Medicine faculty, died Sunday, Feb. 10, at the age of 66.
Feb. 11 - In honor of Black History Month, the Medical College of Wisconsin has created a series of video vignettes and stories that will be posted on InfoScope during the month of February. The vignettes highlight a number of our African-American and Black faculty, staff and students, their experiences at MCW and the contributions they have made.
Feb 08 - In honor of Black History Month, the Medical College of Wisconsin has created a series of video vignettes and stories that will be posted on InfoScope during the month of February. The vignettes highlight a number of our African-American and Black faculty, staff and students, their experiences at MCW and the contributions they have made.
Feb 08 - Jay Sandlow, MD, Vice Chairman and Professor of Urology at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW), has been elected President-Elect of the American Society of Andrology. He begins this new position on April 16, and will become the society’s President in April 2014.
Feb 06 - All work east of Innovation along Watertown Plank will be completed by the end of next week. There will be lane closures WB along Watertown Plank west of Innovation for the next three weeks.
Feb 07 - The Medical College of Wisconsin’s (MCW) Center for AIDS Intervention Research (CAIR) has received a five-year, $919,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Mental Health to support its post-doctoral fellowship program. The training program has been continually supported since its inception in 1996.
Feb 06 - In honor of Black History Month, the Medical College of Wisconsin has created a series of video vignettes and stories that will be posted on InfoScope during the month of February. The vignettes highlight some of our African-American and black faculty and staff and the contributions they have made. The stories highlight MCW programs that improve the health of underserved populations (including African-American and black), offer these populations improved access to health care and education, and reduce health disparities.
Feb 06 - The first Keel’s Casino Night will be held Saturday, Feb. 23, at the Sheraton Hotel in Brookfield. Proceeds from the event benefit Ann’s Hope Foundation, which supports cancer research at the Medical College of Wisconsin.
Feb 05 - Isaac D. Pierre, MD, Assistant Professor of Family and Community Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin and Associate Program Director and Director of Predoctoral Education in the Columbia St. Mary’s Family Medicine Residency Program, has received the 2012 Family Medicine Educator of the Year award from the Wisconsin Academy of Family Physicians.
Feb 04 - The 17th Annual Steve Cullen Healthy Heart Club Run & Walk will be held on Saturday, Feb. 16, at 10 a.m. at Wil-O-Way Recreation Center, 10602 Underwood Parkway, in Wauwatosa. The event supports heart research at the internationally recognized Cardiovascular Center at the Medical College of Wisconsin, in which more than 170 faculty physicians and research scientists study the causes, prevention and treatment of heart disease.
Feb 04 - In honor of Black History Month, the Medical College of Wisconsin has created a series of video vignettes and stories that will be posted on InfoScope during the month of February. The vignettes highlight a number of our African-American and Black faculty, staff and students, their experiences at MCW and the contributions they have made.
Feb 04 - Parents magazine today revealed the exclusive findings from its 10 Best Children’s Hospitals survey, ranking Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin No. 4 in the nation. In addition, six specialty programs were ranked in the top 10, including preemie and newborn care No. 1, emergency care No. 3, orthopedic care No. 6, heart care No. 7, pulmonary care No. 8 and cancer care No. 9.