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• Dr. Staci Young Named Among 2023 Women of Influence by Milwaukee Business Journal

  May 3, 2023

  Staci Young, PhD, professor of family and community medicine and director of the Center for Healthy Communities and Research at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW), has been named one of the Milwaukee Business Journal’s 2023 Women of Influence.

• Avalon Action Alliance Donates $12.5 Million to Create Traumatic Brain Injury Program in Partnership with the Neuroscience Institute

  Apr 27, 2023

  Milwaukee will be home to the Midwest’s first program designed specifically to treat mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI or concussions) in veterans and first responders.

• Dr. Julie Owen Named Inaugural Chief Medical Officer for Milwaukee’s Mental Health Emergency Center

  Apr 13, 2023

  Julie Owen, MD, MBA, assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral medicine and emergency medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW), has been named the inaugural chief medical officer for Milwaukee’s new Mental Health Emergency Center (MHEC).

• Dr. Caitlin Patten Honored in Annual ‘40 Under 40’ List

  Mar 16, 2023

  Dr. Patten is a breast surgical oncologist whose clinical focus consists of caring for patients with breast cancer, benign breast diseases, and those who are at high risk for developing breast cancer.

• Four MCW-Central Wisconsin Students Receive Scholarship Awards Through 2023 Aspirus Program

  Mar 13, 2023

  The Aspirus Health Foundation awarded four Medical College of Wisconsin-Central Wisconsin medical students $450,000 in scholarships through its Aspirus Scholars Program.

• Milwaukee Landmarks Go Blue for Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month as Cancer Incidence Increases Among Younger Adults

  Mar 2, 2023

  March is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. This year, the observance is receiving increased recognition at the city, county, and state levels through proclamations from Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson, County Executive David Crowley, and Governor Tony Evers.

• Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin Name Matthew Cooper, MD, Chief of Transplantation, Director of Joint Solid Organ Transplantation Program

  Mar 1, 2023

  Matthew Cooper, MD, has been appointed Chief of the Division of Transplantation in the Department of Surgery at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW), Director of the Joint Solid Organ Transplantation Program at Froedtert Health and Children’s Wisconsin, and the Mark B. Adams Chair in Transplant...

• Medical College of Wisconsin Cancer Center Announces New Training Program to Boost Diversity in Cancer Research

  Feb 27, 2023

  The Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) Cancer Center today announced a new two-year training program to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion in cancer research.

• First Teaching Health Center in Wisconsin Coming to Milwaukee Health Services, Inc.

  Feb 16, 2023

  More family physicians to practice on Milwaukee's Northwest side through North Side Milwaukee Health Centers Family Medicine Residency.

• MCW Student Awarded 2023 STFM Foundation Student Scholarship

  Feb 8, 2023

  Neil Dixit, medical student at the Medical College of Wisconsin, has been awarded a 2023 STFM Foundation Student Scholarship.

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