Arthur R. Derse, MD, JD, director of medical and legal affairs and associate director of the Center for the Study of Bioethics at the Medical College of Wisconsin, is this year’s recipient of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities’ (ASBH) Distinguished Service Award.
News Releases- Public and Community Health
Christopher Butson, Ph.D., has been appointed assistant professor of both neurology and neurosurgery at the Medical College of Wisconsin and to the medical staff or Froedtert Hospital. His research program is in neural engineering, which is the use of engineering methods and clinical studies to treat individuals with neurological impairments. His current projects include the use of deep brain stimulation to treat movement disorders such as Parkinson’s disease, and the use of cortical stimulation, a type of brain pacemaker, for treatment of epilepsy, tinnitus, pain and other disorders. The primary goal of his research program is to improve the lives of patients with neurostimulation technology.
In a landmark study, Medical College of Wisconsin researchers in Milwaukee report that drugs used to inhibit a specific fatty acid in rat brains with glioblastoma-like tumors not only reduced new blood vessel growth and tumor size dramatically, but also prolonged survival. The study is the featured cover story of the August, 2008 Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism.
August 8 - Medical College Awarded Three-year Continuing Grant
For its Academic Fellowship in Primary Care Program
The Medical College of Wisconsin has received a three-year, $1,182,851 competing continuation award from the Health Resources and Services Administration Bureau of Health Professions for its Academic Fellowship in Primary Care Research program.
August 7 - FOX News Managing Editor and Chief D.C. Correspondent Brit Hume
To Keynote Medical College of Wisconsin’s Healthcare Dinner, Oct. 20
Brit Hume, managing editor and chief Washington correspondent for FOX News will be the keynote speaker for the Medical College of Wisconsin's Healthcare 2008 dinner, Monday, Oct. 20, at the Pfister Hotel. Individual tickets and sponsored tables are now on sale. The event is hosted by the Medical College's Digestive Disease Center Advisory Board --community leaders who raise awareness of digestive disease and funds for research
August 7 - 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.
News Releases- Clinical Services
- Neuroscience
July 31 - Although the need to translate basic science discoveries into the clinical arena is widely acknowledged, a new study by researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin, in Milwaukee, and National Institutes of Health (NIH) identified reasons why clinical science grant applications receive less positive peer reviews than basic science grant applications to the NIH. The findings were published in the July issue of The American Journal of Medicine
News Releases- Basic Research
- Clinical Research
- Translational Research
July 31 - Piero Antuono, MD, professor of neurology at the Medical College of Wisconsin, is seeking healthy men and women, ages 45-65, without a family history of Alzheimer’s disease, to participate in the control group for the Children of Alzheimer’s Patients Study at Froedtert Hospital.
June 26 - The severity of retinal hemorrhaging for young children in motor vehicle crashes is closely correlated to the severity of the crash, according to a new study by researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. Retinal hemorrhages occur when the blood vessels lining the retina rupture, resulting in bleeding onto the surface of the retina.
News Releases- Clinical Research
- Ophthalmology
June 20 - Hospitals with higher annual volumes of patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) who undergo surgery have lower in-hospital mortality rates than hospitals with lower volumes of IBD patients, according to a new study by researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee.
News Releases- Clinical Research
- Digestive Diseases
June 3 - States that perform local-level background checks for firearms purchases are more effective in reducing firearm suicide and homicide rates than states that rely only on a federal-level background check, according to a new study by researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee.
News Releases- Emergency Medicine/Trauma
May 28 - Significant numbers of female high school athletes and non-athletes suffer from one or more components of the female athlete triad, a combination of three conditions that can lead to cardiovascular disease, according to a new study by Medical College of Wisconsin researchers in Milwaukee.
News Releases- Cardiovascular
- Clinical Research
- Women’s Health
May 16 - Medical College of Wisconsin researchers at Froedtert Hospital are leading one of approximately 15 sites enrolling patients in a nationwide study to compare the effectiveness of cryoablation, a rapid freezing technique, to that of radiation therapy, the established standard of care, for relief of pain from cancer that has spread to the bone. The study is funded in part by the National Institutes of Health’s National Cancer Institute.
May 9 - Medical College of Wisconsin researchers in Milwaukee have shown for the first time that thrombopoietin (TPO), a naturally occurring protein being developed as a pharmaceutical to increase platelet count in cancer patients during chemotherapy, can also protect the heart against injury during a heart attack.
May 5 - The Medical College of Wisconsin has received a one-year, $358,150 grant from the National Eye Institute to study genes that control how immature retinal cells differentiate and become mature nervous system cells. This study may lead to a better understanding of how stem cells regulate differentiation and how the genes that control this process contribute to disease.