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Improving Healthcare from Milwaukee to Tanzania and Beyond
MD student Quamaine Bond knows why he chose the field he chose. He loves to help people.
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MCW Medical Students Share Public Health Messages on Coronavirus (COVID-19)
MCW students are passionate about helping the community stay healthy throughout the evolving coronavirus (COVID-19) global pandemic.
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Surgeon Gives Back Through Service to Military, Communities Around the Globe
Combining his talents in medicine with his service in the military, Dr. Jim Ninomiya has made his career as a doctor a true humanitarian effort.
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The Prime Minister Who Weekends as a Surgeon
Dr. Lotay Tshering, Prime Minister of Bhutan and MCW fellowship alumnus, has an unconventional definition for what it means to de-stress over the weekend.
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Clearing Hurdles
MCW clinical psychology intern has overcome many obstacles to reach her goals.
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Healing in the Pacific
MCW alumnus fulfills 30-year promise to himself.
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Alumna Bringing Health Care to Rural Haiti
Since completing her MCW residency in 1981, Dr. Catherine Wolf’s career in medicine has taken her well off the beaten path to where she is most needed.
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199 Years of Service: A Family's Legacy of Medical Work Continues
First-year resident Dr. Allie Taylor and her mother Dr. Susan Taylor are continuing their family’s legacy of mission work that has spanned more than four generations.
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First symposium in Nepal on Emergency Medicine and Education
On April 3, faculty representatives from the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) participated in an inaugural symposium at Dhulikhel Hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal. The theme of this one-day symposium was “Challenges and Opportunities in Emergency Medicine Training and Research in Nepal.”
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In Memoriam: Dr. Fredrik Broekhuizen
Fredrik ‘Frits’ Broekhuizen, MD, a 15-year member of the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) Obstetrics and Gynecology faculty, died Jan. 13 at age 72. Dr. Broekhuizen retired professor emeritus from MCW in 2016 and then continued teaching as a volunteer clinical faculty member.