VOLUME 17 • NUMBER 4 • 2015 FOR ALUMNI, FRIENDS, FACULTY AND STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH Quarterly

A Badger Welcome FOR NEW MEDICAL STUDENTS CURRICULUM TRANSFORMATION p. 6

HOMECOMING AND REUNIONS p. 10

CELEBRATION AT LAMBEAU FIELD p. 22

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QUARTERLY The Magazine for Alumni, Friends, JANUARY 2016 Faculty and Students of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health Wednesday, January 13 Operation Education CONTENTS Health Sciences Learning Center EDITOR QUARTERLY • VOLUME 17 • NUMBER 4 Kris Whitman ART DIRECTOR Christine Klann FEBRUARY 2016 Friday, February 12 WMAA Winter Event PRINCIPAL PHOTOGRAPHER John Maniaci Fluno Center, Madison PRODUCTION Michael Lemberger MARCH 2016 WISCONSIN MEDICAL Friday, March 18 Match Day ALUMNI ASSOCIATION (WMAA) EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Karen S. Peterson APRIL 2016 EDITORIAL BOARD Christopher L. Larson, MD ’75, chair Friday, April 22 Scholarship Reception and Jacquelynn Arbuckle, MD ’95 WMAA Awards Banquet Kathryn S. Budzak, MD ’69 (details to be announced) Robert Lemanske, Jr., MD ’75 Patrick McBride, MD ’80, MPH

Gwen McIntosh, MD ’96, MPH CALENDAR Sandra L. Osborn, MD ’70 MAY 2016 Patrick Remington, MD ’81, MPH Friday, May 13 UW-Madison Commencement Joslyn Strebe, medical student

EX OFFICIO MEMBERS Robert N. Golden, MD, Andrea Larson, JUNE 2016 Karen S. Peterson, Jill Watson, Kris Whitman Thursday, June 2, Medical Alumni Weekend BOARD OF DIRECTORS through (details to be announced) 2015–2016 Saturday, June 4 OFFICERS Steve Merkow, MD ’80, president Susan Isensee, MD ’83, president-elect Ann Ruscher, MD ’91, treasurer Donn Fuhrmann, MD ’76, past president TODD BROWN/MEDIA SOLUTIONS John Kryger, MD ’92, past president Patrick McBride, MD ’80, MPH, past president Alumni Notebook BOARD MEMBERS A Badger Forward 10 Karen Adler-Fischer, MD ’80 Welcome Curriculum Mathew Aschbrenner, MD ’06 4 6 21 Connections Members of the new Following years of planning, Mark Fenlon, MD ’84, MBA class of medical students education leaders are Dirk Fisher, MD ’79 24 Alumni Profile Kent Haselow, MD ’92 have entered the next moving forward with a Daniel Jackson, MD ’03 phase on their journey transformed curriculum. 26 Awards Christopher L. Larson, MD ’75 to become physicians. Kyla Lee, MD ’98 28 Spotlight Meghan Lubner, MD ’03 Gwen McIntosh, MD ’96 On the Cover 30 Giving Back Kathryn E. Nixdorf, MD ’06 (national) Left to right: First-year medical student Jessica Chung (class president), Bucky Badger Leon E. Rosenberg, MD ’57 (national) Celebration of Campus Scene (above) 34 Research Advances John Siebert, MD ’81 and first‑year medical student Adam Pfaller pose for a selfie at the Wisconsin Medical Alumni Kicking off UW-Madison’s capital campaign, Alex Tucker, MD ’75 Association-sponsored cookout to welcome the entering class. It was one of many events Teamwork at 22 “For the Next 167 Years,” members of the 36 Perspectives Steven Wiesner, MD ’85 (national) during the students’ orientation week at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine Lambeau Field Michael Witcik, MD ’07 and Public Health. Photo by Todd Brown/Media Solutions. Wisconsin Medical Alumni Association Board of The school applauded the Directors and other alumni visited Bascom Hill BOARD ADVISORY COUNCIL work of physician mentors on Homecoming Weekend. Left to right: Jill Watson; Kathryn S. Budzak, MD ’69 who train SMPH students Karen Peterson; Charles Ihle, MD ’65; Christopher Philip Farrell, MD, PhD in the Green Bay area. Kay Gruling, MD ’88 QUARTERLY is published four times a year by the Wisconsin Medical Alumni Association (WMAA) Larson, MD ’75; Patrick McBride, MD ’80, MPH; Charles V. Ihle, MD ’65 and the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH) Susan Isensee, MD ’83; Dirk Fisher, MD ’79; Stephen Thomas Jackson, MD ’67 For editorial information, call (608) 263-4613 Damiani, DO (PG ’90); Steven Wiesner, MD ’85; Robert Jaeger, MD ’71 Ann Ruscher, MD ’91; Steve Merkow, MD ’80. For address corrections and to reach the WMAA, call (608) 263-4915 Ann Liebeskind, MD ’98 Sandra L. Osborn, MD ’70 E-mail us at [email protected] Anne Schierl, MD ’57 Visit us on the web at med.wisc.edu/quarterly QUARTERLY 1 MESSAGES

ROBERT N. GOLDEN, MD STEVE MERKOW, MD ’80 now have a similar opportunity through the reetings, fellow medical alumni! leads to an average debt of $156,000 for Nicholas scholarship match program. At the As I write this, I am in northern each student by the time he or she graduates Middleton Society event, we were thrilled to GWisconsin, aka “Up North,” enjoying from medical school. I believe the door hear one of our prominent alumae, Dr. Susan incredible fall weather and listening to to our wonderful career should never be Behrens, share the immense satisfaction Badger football. Can you say “priceless”? closed because of financial inability. While she and her husband, David Look, have I am also reflecting on Homecoming I am not the first to bring attention to this enjoyed through the creation of an endowed Weekend, which was filled with many topic, I want to reinforce the importance professorship for Dr. Carla Pugh. One of our milestone class reunions and other fun of helping to ease students’ indebtedness. talented stars, Pugh specializes in using gatherings. It was a huge success, including During this winter’s annual WMAA fund drive, new simulation technology in education great weather, the Wisconsin Medical please consider making a gift to support our and training. Alumni Association (WMAA) Friday evening medical students. We also celebrated another reception, Saturday tailgate party and Badger Also, as I have appealed to you in the transformational gift from J.P. Cullen’s family, football victory. We enjoyed a great turnout past, please consider joining the Middleton who expressed their deep appreciation for by alumni and medical students. It was my Society with a cumulative gift or pledge of Dr. Robert Dempsey’s work as a clinician, 35-year class reunion, and it was so good $10,000 over 10 years. My class has been investigator and chair of the SMPH to reconnect with my classmates, some of challenged to create a $1 million endowment Department of Neurological Surgery. whom traveled from as far as Los Angeles to support our students, and I am confident As you enjoy this latest Quarterly, and Boston. Thank you! Our class dinner was we will achieve that goal in time. We are I predict we also will be experiencing another at the phenomenal, new Edgewater Hotel giving because the SMPH gave us our TODD BROWN/MEDIA SOLUTIONS type of annual transformation as snow overlooking Lake Mendota and beautiful fall incredible education and opportunities. casual and relaxing evening to connect with blankets our campus and Madison’s lakes colors. Surreal! The recent state funding cuts have had medical students, faculty and fellow alumni. n this issue of Quarterly, we focus on the cohort of bright, accomplished students freeze, ushering in the seasons for skiing, We held the WMAA fall board meeting a huge negative impact on the school’s incredibly important and exciting theme of who have completed their metamorphosis In closing, thanks to all of you who snowboarding and ice fishing. Wherever you on Friday of Homecoming Weekend. Dr. Kurt budget, and the SMPH relies increasingly engage in any way with our wonderful SMPH. I“transformation.” from pre‑med students into bonafide are, we hope you enjoy the opportunities Hansen—the University of Wisconsin School on private donations. In 1975, state support Whether you attend functions or give your The work our school has done for members of the entering MD class. This year, of your winter season and consider visiting of Medicine and Public Health’s (SMPH) (general purpose) represented 34 percent more than a decade to meld medicine the first‑year medical students heard an time or money, it makes a difference. We UW-Madison as we embrace not only the assistant dean for admissions—reported of UW-Madison’s budget. Today, it is about appreciate your support and encourage and public health—creating a dual focus inspirational welcome address by Dr. Stephen challenges of winter but also the hope and on demographics of our new first-year 10 percent. Our donations are a lifeline to on the diagnosis and treatment of health Nakada, chair of our Department of Urology. giving at any level. You are important to our promise of a new year. medical students. His presentation spurred support the school’s important missions of extended SMPH and WMAA family! conditions in individual patients alongside Describing the transformation of another many thoughts for me. Acceptance to the education, research and community service. disease prevention and health promotion fundamental SMPH mission, Dr. Rick Moss, Robert N. Golden, MD SMPH remains extremely competitive, On a lighter note, please mark your for populations—affects all missions of Steve Merkow, MD ’80 senior associate dean for basic research, Dean, University of Wisconsin School of and we admitted another diverse, talented calendars for Friday, February 12, 2016, our University of Wisconsin School of President, Wisconsin Medical biotechnology and graduate studies, outlines Medicine and Public Health class. That said, the cost to each student is to attend the WMAA Winter Event at the Medicine and Public Health (SMPH). Now our Alumni Association on page 36 the recent launch of our basic Vice Chancellor for Medical Affairs, daunting. Compared to the in-state tuition Fluno Center in Madison. Last year’s educational enterprise takes center stage sciences strategic plan that will help shape UW-Madison of $2,118 I paid for my first year of medical event—“A Taste of Wisconsin,” featuring as it transforms its curriculum to further research and discovery for years to come. school, each student now pays $27,259 tasty foods, craft beers and wines of the revolutionary synthesis of these two UW-Madison’s comprehensive per year—and it’s higher for students from Wisconsin—was a huge hit, so we decided powerful disciplines throughout all years of campaign already has stimulated a out of state. Even given inflation, this is an to have an encore. Please join us for this fun, medical education. On pages 6 through 9, series of transformational gifts. Starting astounding increase. The escalating cost we highlight some special features of the on page 32, we document the amazing new Forward Curriculum that will further our impact of the Morgridge match, which has school’s long tradition as national innovators dramatically increased the scope and scale in medical student education. of endowed professorships for our school’s Once again, we witnessed an annual most outstanding faculty members. We “transformation” as we welcomed the are delighted that the campus and school

2 VOLUME 17 • NUMBER 4 QUARTERLY 3 PHOTO FEATURE PHOTOS BY TODD BROWN A Badger Welcome FOR NEW MEDICAL STUDENTS

Clockwise from upper left (left to right): New MD students, front row: Samuel Bauer, Jeanette Comstock, Brianne Caoyonan, Cassidy Bommer, Maria Schletzbaum, Jessica Chung, Bucky, Elizabeth Hebda, Jessica Kuxhause, Trang Tran; second row: Leo Dreyfuss, Kevin Beene, Kofi Fosu, Brian Kroll, Ashok Bhattarai, Andrew Lowell, Adam Pfaller, Jenny Christl; third row: Eric Moffet, Christopher Scott, Arian Frost, Cang Dang. Bucky prepares to hug Kimberly Aut while Jodi Bruss- Sherman, Casey Schmoeger and Rachael Lyenla look on. Nicholas Thomson, Randi Timerman, Melissa Toeller-Desimone, Khanh-Hein Tran, Trang Tran and Michael Turek read a pledge. Donna Ugboaja gets help with her white coat from Elizabeth Petty, MD ’86; M2 Lawrence Moore helps Spencer Klein don his coat.

ucky was among many “Badgers” who About 80 percent of the class members Collectively, these students have provided welcomed 176 new MD students to hail from Wisconsin. Among the balance, volunteer service across the United States Bthe University of Wisconsin School of students came from many states and 11 and in countries around the globe, including Medicine and Public Health (SMPH). countries, including a small village in Nepal Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Honduras In fall 2015, members of the school’s and Kabul, Afghanistan. Half attended and Peru. And a vast majority have been faculty and Wisconsin Medical Alumni college in Wisconsin; others graduated from involved in research. Association (WMAA)—as well as students in outstanding schools across the United States. As they progress through the next four or upper classes—helped orient the students Ten class members hold master of public more years of medical school, Bucky Badger, to their new environment. Events included a health degrees, and more than 14 hold other SMPH faculty and staff, and WMAA members WMAA-sponsored cookout, the white coat master’s degrees. Nine members of this class will continue cheering them along. fitting and ceremony, and classroom sessions. served in the U.S. military. Left to right: M2 Michael Rigby helps M1 Thuy-Linh Nguyen put on her new white coat.

4 VOLUME 17 • NUMBER 4 QUARTERLY 5 FEATURE STORY BY IAN CLARK AND KRIS WHITMAN

Forward MOVING MEDICAL EDUCATION FORWARD

s revolutionary changes in health care student education and services at the the biggest goals of the new curriculum is and public health demand a SMPH. “We recognized that separating basic the marrying of basic and clinical sciences. A different kind of physician, the sciences from clinical training was flawed In the end, graduates will be able to call University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and that we needed to look at the whole.” upon functional knowledge to incorporate and Public Health (SMPH) community The 2x2 medical school curriculum scientific principles at the patient’s bedside. has reimagined what medical education model—two years of basic sciences followed “Nationally, expectations are evolving for needs to be. by two years of clinical experiences—was medical education, with the ultimate goal But first, a bit of history. In 2005, the first imagined by the American Medical of better equipping physicians to improve school changed its name to include medicine Association in 1904 and later promoted health outcomes and address health equity and public health, which better reflects within the Flexner Report in 1910. issues,” says Elizabeth Petty, MD ’86, senior its vision and endeavors. This signaled Curriculums across the nation have evolved associate dean for academic affairs at the development of a bold model that unites since then, but most still rely on that model. SMPH. “Professional organizations and population health promotion and disease “We realized that we could choose to accrediting bodies are challenging us to be prevention with the diagnosis and treatment do some of this and some of that in our innovative as we develop more meaningful, of health conditions for individuals. current curriculum—much like you can fix interdisciplinary ways to integrate basic As the SMPH began crafting its plan to a room in your house with paint and window and clinical sciences, and to create robust, integrate the two disciplines, it created a dressings—but we really needed a bigger team-based learning that improves health committee to examine the MD curriculum renovation. It was time to start moving some care delivery and public health practices.” and integrate public health into the walls in the whole curriculum,” explains Petty continues, “Given the vast amount education of all medical students. That Shobhina Chheda, MD, MPH, the SMPH’s of biomedical and public health information group significantly revised the first two years assistant dean for medical education. and the fact that discoveries are made of medical education and made smaller Chheda adds, “A curriculum must daily that may impact health, we cannot Christine Seibert, MD (left), and Shobhina changes to years three and four. reinforce what you want students to possibly teach students everything they Chheda, MD, MPH, coordinated efforts among “When our committee reconvened to carry with them after graduation. We are will need to know in their future practices. more than 200 individuals who shared their time look harder at the third and fourth years, committed to doing exactly that, especially Instead, we must focus on teaching them and knowledge to plan the Forward Curriculum. we realized we were thinking about the with the basic sciences.” the core knowledge and skills they need curriculum as two halves,” recalls Christine By focusing on end results for students, for the next steps in their professional Seibert, MD, associate dean for medical the group began shaping its vision. One of development. We also must teach them to

6 VOLUME 17 • NUMBER 4 QUARTERLY 7 become self-directed, life-long learners; Seibert explains that the new Forward many opportunities for students to learn how relationships with patients in the context of critical thinkers who can collaboratively solve Curriculum will establish a foundation of to address problems in acute settings. real-world health system experiences,” says Keeping the Best tough problems; and—most importantly— knowledge for all MD students in 18 months, In the Care Across the Lifecycle block, Lee, who has been actively engaged in the from the Past compassionate, socially responsible thus getting them into clinical experiences students will work with a broad spectrum SMPH curriculum transformation process. physicians who care about the health of a semester earlier than before and allowing of patients and specialists to explore the Lee credits the SMPH statewide campus A lot is changing with the new curriculum. A diverse individuals and communities.” them more time to explore careers. continuum of children’s health, women’s with bringing diversity to training. new calendar. New kinds of teachers. New goals This new curriculum will allow the In Phase 1, rather than separate anatomy, health and geriatrics with themes like “Each campus brings new challenges SMPH the flexibility to meet professional physiology, biochemistry, pharmacology caregivers and vulnerable populations. and different populations, and this allows for students to acquire better skill sets. But there expectations and future needs of patients or pathology courses, content will be The Chronic and Preventive Care block students to pursue special interests, such are a few commitments to which the University of and populations while preparing all connected in six thematic blocks, such as will co-mingle myriad reasons why people as practicing in urban or rural settings. The Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health students to excel in their residency training, Mind in Motion; Invaders and Defenders; and visit outpatient physicians: to stay healthy collaborative statewide effort allows for best (SMPH) is adhering loyally. explains Petty. Body in Balance. and manage chronic diseases. It also will practices, successful programs and novel Students will have experiences in the clinic Given the school’s goals for students, focus on behavioral and community health. mentoring ideas to be shared and improved from Day 1 of medical school. residency deadline pressures and students’ “Our MD graduates are The Surgical and Procedural Care block in building the new curriculum,” Lee says. Getting students into the surrounding requests to have time to explore career wonderful now, but people will address how physicians think about Kyla Lee, MD ’98, accepts her SMPH Dean's First-year students who enter the SMPH Teaching Award at the 2014 Medical Education communities to learn how to work with patients choices earlier in the curriculum, planners comprehensive patient care surrounding in fall 2016 will be the first to experience are very excited about seeing Day, which brings together educators from has been the SMPH’s longstanding commitment. felt that the traditional medical school surgical issues and procedures. Internal Phase 1 of the Forward Curriculum. throughout the school’s statewide campus. Lee New to the Forward Curriculum, however, is an calendar would need to be completely what the next generation medicine, radiology and other areas include “This is an important and exciting step has been the internal medicine clerkship director added focus on the “systems” piece of health revised. of learners—trained with procedural specialties, and this block will in our school’s transformation into a fully at Gundersen Health System in La Crosse, Wisconsin, since 2002. She recently was “As a fourth-year medical student, I feel integrate common themes related to working integrated school of medicine and public care delivery, enhancing students’ abilities to the Forward Curriculum— appointed director of Gundersen’s Traditional the pressure of the ever-earlier residency with teams and addressing patient safety in work in complex systems. Compared to those health, as health care goes through an era Medical Students Program. application deadlines, particularly related will be able to do when these types of settings. of unprecedented change,” says Robert N. who trained in the old curriculum, students to required letters of recommendation and, they graduate from the Phase 3 will look different for various Golden, MD, dean of the SMPH. “Those by the number of people who’ve stepped up will be better able to explore how physicians in some cases, the need to complete away groups of students. After students declare changes not only affect how doctors work to the plate, mostly as volunteers. work in teams with nurses, medical assistants, UW School of Medicine and rotations before the start of the residency their intended specialty, they’ll be given with other health care providers to care for “It’s fun to see people—ranging from pharmacists and other health care professionals. application cycle,” says Betsy Huffman. a learning plan that includes specialty- emeritus faculty members to those who’ve Public Health.” patients and populations, but how we train The SMPH remains deeply committed to “Earlier exposure to clinical work and the recommended basic sciences and clinical been here for only a short time—all fired future generations of physicians.” continuing its public health integration. incorporation of basic sciences concepts “A major accomplishment for the experiences from which they will pick to best He continues, “We recognize that up about the curriculum redesign,” exclaims The new curriculum was spurred by the will allow students to better integrate their curricular integration will be to better match fit their specific goals and objectives. a new curriculum is an immense and Chheda. “A department chair serves on transformational plan established shortly after learning to improve their clinical reasoning.” the basic sciences concepts with related Chheda adds, “There’s room for students complex undertaking for our school and for a design team. Some new residents are the SMPH became a school of medicine and As planners considered the path through clinical applications,” says James Keck, PhD, to make meaningful choices in Phase 3, but those who teach our students throughout participating, and students are engaged at medical education, three distinct phases professor in the SMPH Department of there also is a high degree of accountability Wisconsin. To be successful, this requires every level.” public health. The new curriculum will reinforce emerged. Phase 1, lasting 18 months, will Biomolecular Chemistry and a member to meet goals and objectives.” enormous interdisciplinary effort and Huffman shares, “The various work the school’s ability to integrate foundational basic focus on basic sciences and fully integrate of the Food, Fasting and Fitness course Kyla Lee, MD ’98, who serves as a thoughtful collective expertise.” groups have regarded student input very sciences and clinical experiences with public clinical science and public health. Phase design team. “By coupling these pieces, we preceptor for SMPH medical students in To build this complicated curriculum, highly at every stage of the process. health across all phases. Students from each year are serving on 2 will emphasize clinical applications with hope our medical students will establish her practice at Gundersen Health System more than 200 people have played a role. The school will spend even more time the Curriculum Transformation Steering longitudinal themes of basic sciences and foundational links between the basic and in La Crosse, Wisconsin, believes the new Sixteen working groups and 10 design building lifelong learners. public health. Phase 3 will be dedicated to clinical worlds and have a solid grounding in curriculum’s integrated clinical blocks Committee, and many are serving on groups included clinicians, scientists and “Nobody wants me to be his or her doctor specialty-specific competency development both as they transition into their professional will allow students to gain more powerful subcommittees. Our school’s faculty does a other representatives from the SMPH’s based solely on content I learned in medical and internship preparation with opportunities lives.” clerkship experiences in communities statewide campuses, and medical students. wonderful job recognizing that students are school or residency, because those were too long for individualized electives and projects. The same philosophy extends to statewide. Medical students say they “The inherent uncertainties associated at the heart of medical education and are ago,” says Shobhina Chheda, MD, MPH, assistant “Some people ask, ‘If it takes two years clerkships. In the newly coined “integrated appreciate Lee’s interactive teaching with change—as we move into new delivery integral to the transformation process.” dean for medical education at the SMPH. “To be to teach the basic sciences now, how will the clinical blocks” of Phase 2, students sessions that focus on building skills and models for education—may cause some Seibert comments, “The amazing new curriculum do it in 18 months?’” shares will spend 12 weeks in thematic clinical on cooperative group work, and these are anxiety, but with all of our support, I am support of our departments, individual the best doctor I can be, I need to continuously Seibert. “We take a lot of deep dives in the clerkships that emphasize integration and the types of activities that can expand in the confident that the new model will engage faculty, statewide partners and students has learn and use new information.” first two years of our current curriculum. collaboration among disciplines, moving new curriculum. our outstanding teachers and will set our contributed to the curriculum’s success.” She concludes, “It’s one thing to learn Everyone is taught to the same depth no away from single-department clerkships. “The new curriculum’s integrated model school apart as a national leader in medical “Our MD graduates are wonderful material, but it’s entirely different to learn how matter what type of doctor he or she wants For instance, students in the Acute Care will help students learn medical facts and education,” Golden says. “Importantly, it will now, but people are very excited about to continually integrate new information into the to become. We’ve realized that some deep block will learn within disciplines like internal concepts in the context of a wider, more provide all of the fundamental knowledge seeing what the next generation of way you practice. The SMPH is doubling down by dives are more critical for certain students medicine, emergency medicine, intensive relational view of medicine and public health. and skills that future physicians need to be learners—trained with the Forward having students train using a toolset so they can Curriculum—will be able to do when they and less meaningful for others.” care, acute neurology and acute psychiatry. It will allow for powerful, transformative successful in residency and beyond.” continuously improve how they learn and care for Connecting the experiences will provide learning through deeper and longer graduate from the UW School of Medicine Seibert notes that all along the way, she patients in medical school and after graduation.” and Chheda have been humbled and awed and Public Health,” she concludes.

8 VOLUME 17 • NUMBER 4 QUARTERLY 9 ALUMNI NOTEBOOK

U-Rah-Rah! Wisconsin! ALUMNI FLOCK TO MADISON Homecoming FOR HOMECOMING! TODD BROWN/MEDIA SOLUTIONS (2), ARIEL ARNESON (3) ARIEL TODD BROWN/MEDIA SOLUTIONS (2),

Clockwise from upper left (left to right): Student ambassadors M2 Maureen Riegert, M2 Saira Khanna, M2 Ashley Soppe and M2 Kestrel Reopelle with Bucky Badger. Daniel Ripp, MD ’85, Clockwise from upper left (left to right): Daniel Mary Goodset, MD ’85, and Ripp, MD ’85, David Larsen, MD ’85, M1 Matthew Dave McCarthy, MD ’85. Jennifer Folstad. M1 Donna Ugboaja, Bucky Badger, a Karnowski, MD ’10, Sarah Yanke, MD ’10, guest, Zelda Okia, MD ’95. M3 Vy Dinh, M3 Andre and Lisa Shen, MD ’10. Lynn Budzak, Enowtaku, M3 Dennis Ea, M3 DeMarco Bowen. MD ’90, Ann Budzak-Garza, MD ’86, Manuel Santiago (standing) visits with students Kathryn Budzak, MD ’69, Archie Budzak. and alumni at the multicultural reception. Tracy Downs, MD, poses with Alex Tucker, MD ’75.

tarting on Friday, October 16, 2015, second-year medical students showed reception at nearby Dejope Residence The alumni association also hosted a WMAA President Steve Merkow, pulling together so many opportunities for alumni and guests began flocking to alumni around the anatomy lab—where Hall. The latter included reunions for the spirited tailgate brunch on Saturday. More MD ’80, shares that the class’s 35-year alumni to connect. SMadison sporting their finest Badger many medical school friendships began— Classes of 1970, ’80, ’85, ’90, ’95, 2000, than 400 alumni, students, family and reunion was spectacular in many ways. “I was awed and amazed! The students apparel—including some vintage choices and discussed the required first-year ’05 and ’10. friends reminisced as they dined before He says he enjoyed reconnecting with were outstanding. The “167” program from their days on campus. That afternoon, course, which will evolve along with the Nearly 200 guests attended the they headed to Camp Randall Stadium. classmates and appreciated the effort [kick-off event for the UW-Madison capital

TODD BROWN/MEDIA SOLUTIONS (4) the Wisconsin Medical Alumni Association new curriculum being launched in 2016 WMAA event, and nearly a quarter of Spirits continued to soar as the people took to travel to Madison, including campaign] was incredible. I never imagined (WMAA) Board of Directors held one of (see page 6). them were able to meet the first-year Wisconsin Badgers bested the Purdue some who came from the east and west that I would meet such outstanding its two annual meetings. Several alumni That evening, the Office of Multicultural medical student for whom they sponsored Boilermakers in football. coasts (see page 3). faculty and benefactors at the Thursday also toured the Health Sciences Learning Affairs—led by Tracy Downs, MD, and a stethoscope. Now in its third year, the The Class of 1980 chose Saturday Steve Damiani, DO (PG ’90), traveled program. But, most of all, I just really had Center (HSLC) and the anatomy suite at Manuel Santiago—held its second-annual WMAA Stethoscope Program has been evening for its reunion dinner at the newly from California to attend the Homecoming fun with the students and was impressed the Medical Sciences Center. Ed Bersu, multicultural alumni reception at the very successful, notes Karen Peterson, the renovated Edgewater Hotel. festivities. He thanked the WMAA staff for by their great inquisitiveness, vigor and PhD ’76, Karen Krabbenhoft, PhD ’92, and HSLC, and the WMAA held a Homecoming association’s executive director. endless brightness!”

10 VOLUME 17 • NUMBER 4 QUARTERLY 11 ALUMNI NOTEBOOK

CLASS OF 1980 Front row (left to right): Peter Rothe, Steve Schopler, Jeff Winston, Dave Kloehn, ClassR e uni ons Gail Amundson, Lori Neuman, Julie Jagemann. Back row: Pat McBride, John Herman, Chris Peterson, John Drawbert, Paul Caskey, Bruce Wilson, Tom Mahn, Steve Merkow.

CLASS OF 1990 CLASS OF Front row (left to right): Michael 1970 Milz, Laura Zakowski, Lynn Budzak, Beth Trost, Pam Heilman, John Daley. Above (left to right): Front row: Marcia Richards, Back row: Robert Wilke, Jon Hokanson, Ann Selzer, Sandra Osborn, Kay Haggestad. Back row: Kurt Rongstad, Jeff Thompson, Tuenis Zondag, Richard Lipsky, Ken Feldman, Shirley Roy, Bill McIvor, Tom Knickelbine. Paul Wertsch.

TODD BROWN/MEDIA SOLUTIONS (4) At right: Steve Dudley, Sandra Osborn, Bill Swift.

12 VOLUME 17 • NUMBER 4 QUARTERLY 13 CLASS OF CLASS OF 1995 2005 Front row (left to right): Amy Servais, Front row (left to right): Elizabeth Sarah Naik, Michelle Puent Gigot, Woods, Sabrina Guse, Mike Woods, Donna Hoffman. Back row: Rajiv Naik, Megan Kehoe, Kimberly Arndt. Timothy LeSage, Wade Woelfle, Jeffrey Back row: Doug Salm, Eric Dvorak, Jones, Barry Seltz, Christopher Hugo. Brian Arndt, Samip Kothari, Brad Erickson, Chris Dillon, Tim Enright.

CLASS OF 2010 Front row (left to right): Jennifer Karnowski, Lisa Shen, Sarah Yanke, Ann Zellner, Jessica Schrieber,

TODD BROWN/MEDIA SOLUTIONS (4) Lyndsey Runaas. Back row: Stephanie CLASS OF Place, Kim Breidenbach, Jensena Carlson, Sean Fullan, Ben Zellner, 2000 Anjali Tannan. Front row (left to right): Sara (Henry) Dovichi, Antoinette (Toni) Peters, Deanna (Johnson) Plant, Shannon (Geroso) Gritzenbach. Back row: Brandon Mines, Charles Leys, Neal Janquart, Chris Taylor, Mark Rydlewicz.

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MARK HANSEN, MD ’78

y practice at the Mayo who, similarly, arose from his Graduate School of Medicine Clinic in Rochester, bed and began chatting—as in Rochester. MMinnesota, focuses well as eating everything in I am a member of local and on sleep medicine. Previously, sight—once he was treated; state medical societies, as well I practiced psychiatry in many and many patients who wage as a fellow of the American settings. I also have been quiet, heroic battles against the Academy of Sleep Medicine the director of a psychiatry illnesses that afflict them. and the American Psychiatric residency training program and I chose to specialize in Association. “On Call” the chair of the adult psychiatry psychiatry because I was For medical students who division at our institution. fascinated by the breadth and are considering psychiatry, Three psychiatrists health “system” will challenge Over my nearly 35 years complexity of human behavior I recommend that they reflect tell Quarterly what those who enter this profession of practice, I’ve had many and because the field seemed carefully on their goals. This is in coming years. they’ve been up to memorable patient cases. to combine the art and science an extraordinarily interesting Among these are a narcoleptic of medicine in ways that were occupation, and it often is very patient, once institutionalized, humane and meaningful. personally rewarding. However, who awakened from decades Following graduation from the limits of our knowledge of slumber when her condition the UW School of Medicine and require us to be comfortable was finally diagnosed; an Public Health, I completed my with ambiguity, and the emaciated, catatonic man residency training at the Mayo dismantling of our mental

CARISSA GUNDERSON, MD ’09 (PG ’14) JERRY HALVERSON, MD ’99

am the medical director at of Wisconsin (MCW), I teach screening and treatment/ s a clinical assistant was affecting all areas of his In medical school, I enjoyed Rogers Memorial Hospital psychiatric residents. prevention. professor in child and life. He had been removed my third-year psychiatry IOconomowoc, a private, I care for patients who are Psychiatry always has A adolescent psychiatry from classmates and taught rotation. The next year, not-for-profit psychiatric very ill at the beginning of been a good fit for me, but I at the University of Iowa individually, and he spent I worked with the psychiatry health system with campuses their treatment. Many have did not realize that in medical Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa most of his time performing consult-liaison service under throughout Wisconsin, as had multiple hospitalizations, school. After earning my City, I primarily work with rigid routines. His former Dr. Burr Eichelman. well as in Tennessee, Florida attempted suicide and harmed medical degree, I completed outpatients from ages 3 mental health providers were I completed my general and other states. I care for themselves. It is immensely a rotating internship and through 21. I see a variety of considering intensive inpatient psychiatry residency and patients at the residential gratifying to see them improve one year of anesthesiology psychiatric disorders, including treatment. I started the boy child psychiatry fellowship received the Klingenstein and partial-hospital levels their coping ability and be able residency at Mayo Clinic; I autism spectrum, mood, on medication and introduced at UW Hospital and Clinics. Third-Generation Foundation in leadership roles at the of care. My programs to re-enter school and work. then completed a psychiatric anxiety, disruptive behavior him to a psychologist who There, I was greatly impressed grant. We will be part of the Dane County Medical Society, are for adults who have This is a great time to be residency at MCW and earned and psychotic disorders. worked with him and his by Dr. Peggy Scallon, who foundation’s Medical Student Madison and Dane County primary mood disorders and a psychiatrist. Recognition of a subspecialty certification in I collaborate with psychologists family. A year later, the boy was adept at identifying and National Conference in 2016. Board of Health, Wisconsin complexly comorbid anxiety, the prominence of psychiatric psychosomatic medicine. and educational specialists to has successfully re-integrated communicating methods I find my field personally Psychiatric Association as well as personality and disorders and the demand As the 164th president of provide in-depth assessments. into the classroom, is thriving to help families adjust their fulfilling and intellectually and American Psychiatric addictive disorders. Through for psychiatrists has never the Wisconsin Medical Society, I also dedicate some time to academically and making parenting in healthy ways. fascinating. I enjoy improving Association, for which I am voluntary appointments at been higher. The future holds I have been able to highlight intensive inpatient care. friends, and he no longer Dr. Hanna Stevens and the lives of children and their the delegate to the American the University of Wisconsin great promise for discoveries psychiatric issues in the I recall treating a young boy performs repetitive routines. I started and co-direct a child families, and I am grateful to Medical Association House School of Medicine and Public related to the primary issues state; I am among a handful who had severe obsessive- Having a role in his success is and adolescent psychiatry UW-Madison for my education of Delegates. Health and Medical College underlying psychiatric of psychiatrists to have held compulsive disorder that incredibly gratifying. interest group, for which we and training experiences. disorders, as well as effective that role. I also have served There’s More Online! Visit med.wisc.edu/47332 16 VOLUME 17 • NUMBER 4 QUARTERLY 17 ALUMNI NOTEBOOK

and sustained mixed groups, painting in watercolor and CLASS NOTEScompiled by Andrea Larson scientific contributions acrylics, and writing. He authored the book IN MEMORIAM to ultrasound. A Doctor’s Path: Lessons I’ve Learned on My We want to hear from you! CLASS OF CLASS OF Charboneau is an Journey through Practicing Medicine. He also William B. Hayden, MD ’49 med.wisc.edu/shareyournews 1998 1978 emeritus professor was a prolific writer of letters to the editor of Fresno, California of radiology at Mayo local and national publications. January 7, 2015 CLASS OF Kyla R. Lee was appointed director of Robert Blink, who resides in Clinic in Rochester, POST-GRADUATE the Traditional Medical Students Program San Francisco, was appointed to the Minnesota. John A. Arkins, MD ’52 2010 John Scott (PG ’84) and his wife, at Gundersen Health System in La Crosse, California Occupational Safety and Phoenix, Arizona Candy, have been running to help raise funds Logan Dance recently began fellowship Wisconsin. She has directed Gundersen’s Health Standards Board. He has been an CLASS OF and awareness for worthwhile causes since July 31, 2015 training in pediatric interventional radiology Internal Medicine Clerkship since 2002 and occupational medicine physician at Vista 1967 2001, when they helped start the Bridge at Phoenix Children’s Hospital in Arizona. directs the Acting-Internship Experiences Oaks Occupational Medicine since 2010 the Gap to Health Race in their hometown Benton C. Taylor, MD (PG ’54) He will be uniquely trained to provide at her site. Lee is a staff physician and and chief executive officer and medical William Gee was of Quincy, Illinois. In January 2016, they will Madison, Wisconsin novel, minimally invasive, image-guided preceptor at an internal medicine clinic director at the Worksite Partners Medical elected the 2015‑ travel to Myanmar with the Fellowship of August 18, 2015 approaches to diagnose and treat pediatric and the cardiac stress lab, and an inpatient Group since 1988. He was vice president 2016 president of the Associates of Medical Evangelism’s (FAME) conditions that were previously inaccessible attending physician on the palliative care and medical director at WorkCare from American Urological Note: Taylor’s family chose medical team. There, they will participate in or had to be managed surgically. Whether team. In her new role, she will provide 2004 to 2009, and he served as medical Association. He is to direct memorial gifts to a the Yoma Yangon International Marathon at he focuses on routine vascular access, oversight for Gundersen clerkship site director and emergency physician at several a clinical professor Great People Scholarship at an indoor stadium (half marathon and 5K, life-saving embolization of splenic trauma directors who oversee traditional-track locations before that. of surgery (urology), the UW School of Medicine respectively) to raise awareness of FAME. or percutaneous tumor ablation, he looks student experiences. She will facilitate Cassandra Wanzo, a psychiatrist in voluntary faculty, at and Public Health. The medical team will conduct medical forward to joining this rapidly growing field. connections among clerkship site directors Atlanta, Georgia, hosts a weekly radio show the University of Kentucky College of camps and community health training, hold Dance and his wife, Heather, reside in for Gundersen and the UW School of on mental health issues, “Mind Matters.” Medicine in Lexington and an emeritus Philip A. Hoffman, MD ’57 a pastor training summit, and meet with and Phoenix. They have four children: Brennan, Medicine and Public Health. For details, please see wcegtalkradio.com. urologist at Commonwealth Urology, Madison, Wisconsin Trevor, Hazel and Peter. encourage Christians in Myanmar. Wayne Kubal completed a term Lexington, Kentucky. August 12, 2015 CLASS OF as president of the American Society of LETTER TO THE EDITOR CLASS OF Emergency Radiology, an organization of CLASS OF In regard Ernie Pellegrino, MD ’64 1986 more than 1,000 members dedicated to the 2006 1964 to the Alumni Madison, Wisconsin David Cassidy was promoted in 2012 advancement of that field. He is a professor Profile about Michael Stadler November 25, 2015 to Colonel in the of medical imaging at the University of Carol Rumack, was among five U.S. Army Reserve Arizona in Tucson. MD ’69, and physicians chosen George A. Dahir, MD ’78 shortly before Bruce Haight has practiced Barry Rumack, by the American Madison, Wisconsin accepting a position ophthalmology in the San Diego area MD ’68, in Board of Medical for 33 years. His parents live in Beloit, August 22, 2015 as medical director Quarterly, Specialties Research of the Grafenwoehr Wisconsin, and he returns every summer volume 17, and Education Army Health Clinic to vacation in nearby Lake Mills. He started number 3, Sandra A. Herbage, MD ’89 Foundation to in Bavaria, Germany. constructing crossword puzzles in 2012 and Robert Lederer, MD ’67, wrote: “A story Lisbon, Wisconsin participate in its 2015-2016 Visiting During a deployment has had more than 30 puzzles accepted [the Rumacks] did not share involves their September 2, 2015 Scholars Program. The one-year, part-time to Camp Zama, Japan, he was a guest for publication in the New York Times and incredible generosity. Their children went to a program facilitates research projects instructor at the Nihon University Medical Los Angeles Times. The latter appear in the local camp, and Barry got involved first as a Andrew J. Brooks, MD ’94 designed to improve patient care and Wisconsin State Journal the same day. School Department of Medical English. camp doc and later as the board chair. While Mequon, Wisconsin exposes scholars to the fields of professional In 2015, he received the Commander’s Ernie Pellegrino (who passed away serving as a camp doctor, Barry noticed September 25, 2015 assessment and education, health policy CLASS OF Award for Civilian Service by providing the after he submitted this information) painted the rustic cabin we called a “health center.” and quality improvement. Stadler is an leadership that led Grafenwoehr Clinic to a larger-than-life image of Bucky Badger He and Carol built a modern, new Rumack assistant professor of otolaryngology and 1976 Emeritus Faculty Member its initial recognition as a Level 3 National on the garage door of his Vilas County, Health Center (pictured above) for the camp, communication sciences at the Medical Nasrollah Shahidi, MD Committee for Quality Assurance patient- Bill Charboneau received the Lawrence Wisconsin, cottage on Lake Manitowish which also serves as living quarters for the College of Wisconsin. His study will evaluate Bonita Springs, Florida centered medical home. A. Mack, MD, Lifetime Achievement as a lasting memory for his family, as he nurses who are at the camp all summer. It the use of care pathways to decrease November 30, 2015 Award from the Society of Radiologists in had stage 4 metastatic prostate cancer. was a wonderful gift and has completely readmissions of high-risk otolaryngology Ultrasound. This award is given annually to Pellegrino is a retired orthopedic surgeon. He changed the health care experience at surgical patients. an individual who has made outstanding and his wife, Barbara, have three children, Geneva Glen Camp in Indian Hills, Colorado. Mark, age 48, Ellen, 46, and Todd, 44. Pellegrino enjoyed singing with men and

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GOODBYE DEAR FRIEND: ARNOLD “BUD” BROWN, MD Infectious Diseases rnold Lanehart “Bud” Brown, Jr., Institutes of Health and National Cancer MINI MED SCHOOL EXPLORES SUPERBUGS AND LIFE-SAVING MEDICINE MD, dean of the University of Institute. Brown moved from Mayo to the A Wisconsin Medical School (now SMPH in 1978. the UW School of Medicine and Public As dean, Brown appointed several Health, or SMPH) from 1978 to 1991, influential faculty members and died on October 20, 2015, at his home in department chairs, including Philip Farrell, Rochester, Minnesota. He was 89. MD, PhD (PG ’72), and Paul DeLuca, Jr., When Brown became dean of the PhD. Farrell joined the SMPH Department infectious better SMPH, the newly built Clinical Science of Pediatrics faculty in 1977, became disease health Center (CSC)—which houses UW Hospital that department’s chair eight years later and Clinics—had just been completed on and served as the SMPH dean from megabugs for the west end of UW-Madison. An initial 1995 to 2006. DeLuca joined as chair of everybody priority of his tenure was to ensure the the Department of Medical Physics, then — uw mini med school 2015 — safe and effective transfer of patient care moved up as the school’s vice dean for Farrell describes Brown as an excellent activities from the old University Hospital at research and graduate studies before mentor for department chairs and credits 1300 University Avenue to the new facility. becoming the UW-Madison provost and him with being a “balanced dean” who

Brown provided exceptional leadership vice chancellor for academic affairs from UW ARCHIVES exhibited a high level of sensitivity for both Our dwindling supply of antibiotics and the rising during a period of shifting funding, 2009 to 2014. Both hold UW-Madison clinical and basic science departments. number of deadly infections with antibiotic-resistant dramatic evolution of the medical school emeritus positions. He noted that, whenever possible, Brown strains represent one of the 21st century’s most curriculum and expansion of the basic “Bud Brown brought to UW-Madison encouraged recruitment of physician- compelling problems. According to CDC, over 2 million sciences and clinical science facilities. the influence of an external force, Mayo scientists who could practice medicine and people in the U.S. contract drug-resistant infections SMPH Dean Robert N. Golden, MD, Clinic—a major player in the U.S. medical conduct research. each year. Over 70 percent of deaths associated with shares, “I did not have the great privilege environment, known for high-quality DeLuca agrees, noting that Brown hospital-acquired infections are caused by an antibiotic to meet Dean Brown, but I am grateful clinical services. He worked hard to elevate helped elevate the SMPH academic resistant bug. Patients with impaired immunity are for the honor of following in his deep and the status of our medical school and enterprise from focusing primarily on plagued by untreatable fungal infections that represent lasting footsteps. He was an outstanding faculty on campus during a challenging teaching medical students and residents the leading cause of infection-related deaths during dean and a deeply revered person.” era,” says DeLuca. to contributing robustly to the intellectual cancer and organ transplantation. infectious disease Known for his kindness and wry sense He adds that Brown also established knowledge of the university and nation of humor, Brown was born in Wooster, strong working relationships with through innovative research. megabugs ClockwiseA health from crisistop center is (leftimminent, to right): An and event a participant robust talksand with Dennis Maki, MD ’67. David Andes, MD, PhD (PG ’96), speaks. Alexander Lepak, Ohio, grew up in Battle Creek, Michigan, UW-Madison Chancellor Irving Shain, PhD, september 17, 2015 Deane Mosher, MD, former director of MD ’05sustainable (PG ’10), fieldsantimicrobial audience questions. pipeline Nasia of Safdar,discoveries MD (PG 2000, ’04), describes antibiotic-related health concerns. Participants converse. and graduated from high school in Elkhart, and chairs of numerous medical school the Medical Scientist Training Program by Robynand Perrin novel prevention strategies is needed“There is no class of drugs that has had “To recover, you must re-establish Indiana. The arc of his career took him and campus departments, and he placed (MSTP)—which grants MD/PhD degrees— to combat these lethal infections.a greater impact on human health than diversity of gut bacteria,” noted Safdar, to some of the nation’s most prestigious a high priority on building connections and a professor in the Department of very day, we see at least one Visit med.wisc.edu for more information about the antimicrobials,” said Maki, adding that the adding that fecal microbiome transplants can medical institutions. He earned his medical throughout the Madison community patient for whom we have no UW School of Medicine and Public Health. Biomolecular Chemistry, shares, “Dean MS-42888-15 danger of resistant superbugs looms large. halt the cycle. degree at the Medical College of Virginia and beyond. Brown, in his quiet and understated way, “Eeffective antibiotics,” said David UW-Madison researchers transformed Ultimately, the antimicrobial arsenal needs and completed an internship and residency Farrell and DeLuca note that Brown Andes, MD, PhD (PG ’96), professor, was behind the refounding of our MSTP MS-42888-15 Mini Med School invite- megabugs.indd 1 how hospital-acquired infections are to be restocked. Together with Cameron 7/10/15 3:04 PM Department of Medicine, University of at Rush Presbyterian Hospital in Chicago, worked well with the clinical and research in 1985. Given the long time between prevented through lifesaving advances like Currie, PhD—the Ira Baldwin Professor of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public following which he accepted a faculty programs that had moved into the new students’ matriculation and graduation barrier isolation and chlorhexidine. Bacteriology—Andes leads a team that’s

CLINT THAYER/DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE (5) THAYER/DEPARTMENT CLINT Health (SMPH). At the September 2015 Mini position in pathology at Rush. hospital, led by UW Hospital and Clinics with dual degrees, a decade passed before Maki described discoveries by the late identifying chemicals produced during Med School, UW-Madison’s preeminent In 1959, he joined Mayo Clinic, where superintendent (later CEO) Gordon Derzon. William Craig, MD (PG ’73), whose theories warfare between insects and microbes. the program hit its stride. It now has grown role in the discovery and use of antibiotics he became chair of the Department of Brown also bolstered the departments that inform antimicrobial stewardship. Lepak They’ve found 30 promising antimicrobials so to the size anticipated at the time of its took center stage in talks by Department of Pathology and Anatomy and helped form remained at the Medical Sciences Center shared how stewardship programs pioneered far and are moving forward quickly. refounding and is a great testimony to Medicine faculty members Andes; Dennis at UW-Madison extend drug lifespans. With good reason. These infectious the Mayo Medical School. There, he was and enhanced that facility. Dean Brown’s vision and support.” Maki, MD ’67, professor emeritus; Alexander Limiting inappropriate antibiotic use is disease specialists are physician-scholars active in cancer research and earned a “Dean Brown shepherded the school Lepak, MD ’05 (PG ’10), assistant professor critical for fighting , which who know that antibiotic resistance is a national reputation, serving on and chairing through an era of significant growth,” There’s More Online! (CHS); and Nasia Safdar, MD (PG 2000, ’04), Clostridium difficile Visit med.wisc.edu/46951 can proliferate in the gut of antibiotic-treated matter of life and death, and that solutions councils and committees at the National DeLuca recalls. associate professor. patients, causing debilitating diarrhea. require humility, creativity and tenacity.

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Teamwork Extends Beyond Football at Lambeau Field SMPH EVENT HIGHLIGHTS STUDENTS AND PHYSICIAN MENTORS IN THE GREEN BAY AREA

Opposite page (left to right): M4 Hope Villiard spoke. Rolf Lulloff, MD ’67, Jen Erickson Foster, MD ’04, Dean Robert N. Golden, MD, Ann Liebeskind, MD ’98, and Karen Adler-Fisher, MD ’80 posed. Pat McBride, MD ’80, MPH, served as emcee. Above: Curly Lambeau stands tall. Guests converse.

teach us about how to be physicians. He professor of pediatrics, for their diligence in “I am continually reminded how treated us as equals and pushed me when fostering WARM’s success. wonderful it is to be a student in this he knew I could be pushed.” Golden also recognized Richard program, and I look forward to giving The Lambeau event particularly Ludgin, MD, and Paul Summerside, MD, back in the future as an alumnus,” shared showcased the WARM Program, created who helped develop and implement the Villiard, who said she also feels fortunate in 2004 through funding from the SMPH’s curriculum for SMPH students at Aurora to have received financial support for Wisconsin Partnership Program. BayCare. That system increased its number her medical education through the Great The four-year WARM Program falls of WARM students from five to six and will People Scholarship and WMAA Scholarship. within the school’s MD curriculum. Working expand to eight in 2016 due to demand. “I’ll never forget when Dr. Crouse called by Kris Whitman co-hosted the reception and dinner at Medical Leadership and UW-Madison vice directly with role models, students in their Event guests enjoyed a WARM-related about my acceptance into WARM,” she Lambeau. The event’s goal was to honor chancellor for medical affairs. he spectacular Lambeau Field in clinical years receive specialized training to video that was filmed in Howards Grove, said. “My third and fourth years in Green volunteer faculty members and students Like all good coaches, Golden cheered Green Bay, Wisconsin, hosted a practice in rural settings, which calls upon Wisconsin. “Stars” of the video—including Bay have been incredibly rewarding.” for their dedication to providing health care on the nearly 100 event participants, Tunique team in late November. unique skills. WARM admits 26 students Catherine Best, MD ’88, a family medicine Of the Green Bay site, which has no in rural areas, which face shortages of including students, alumni, donors, Like the stadium’s famed home per year who intend to establish their physician at the Aurora Sheboygan Clinic, medical residents, she noted, “Every primary care and specialty physicians. colleagues and friends from various health team—the Green Bay Packers—this future medical practices in rural areas, Howards Grove, and James Rindt and one of my mentors was excited to teach Partnering health care organizations in care organizations. team’s players and coaches have ultimately to help improve the health of Philip Mercier, third- and fourth-year WARM and made me feel like an integral part the region include Aurora BayCare Medical “Tonight is a chance for us to thank emotional ties to Titletown and collaborate Wisconsin’s small towns and agricultural students, respectively—drew applause. of the team. I got one-on-one time with Center, Aurora Health Care, BayCare Clinics, the remarkable teachers, advisors, role well in their field. Aiming to bolster health communities. Each student is assigned to In the video, Rindt said, “The School physicians, and I got a first-hand view in Bellin Health Care Systems, Door County models and heroes who make such a for the state’s residents and particularly one of three regional hubs—Green Bay, of Medicine and Public Health, by having each rotation of what life as a physician Memorial Hospital, Ministry North Shore difference in the lives of our students, for those in rural areas, the players are Marshfield or La Crosse—and also trains these types of small communities that are looks like in a community setting.” Medical Clinic, Oneida Community Health the next generation of doctors. These medical students enrolled in the Wisconsin in the surrounding rural communities. willing to have students, is really staying Villiard described how WARM students Center, Prevea Health, St. Mary’s Hospital, volunteers literally open their doors and Academy for Rural Medicine (WARM) at the Since the first WARM students true to its name and focusing on improving do eight-week primary care rotations in St. Vincent Hospital and ThedaCare Medical hearts to our school’s academic mission. University of Wisconsin School of Medicine graduated in 2011, a total of 76 have the health of every individual in the state, which they live, work and complete a Center-Shawano. More distant regional They are inspiring the best and brightest and Public Health (SMPH). Its coaches are graduated; 105 are now in the program. not just individuals close to the school.” community project in surrounding towns, sites are in Sheboygan, Fond du Lac, Berlin to follow in their footsteps by practicing in physicians who volunteer significant time “WARM’s success has far exceeded our And Best noted, “Everyone knows there including Sturgeon Bay, Howards Grove, and Wild Rose and a new site at Oneida rural Wisconsin,” shared Golden. “This is and energy to mentor SMPH students in expectation in terms of graduates pursuing is a primary care shortage. We need to get Two Rivers and Manitowoc. While the Community Health Center. a national example of the best features of the WARM Program and those completing practice in rural Wisconsin. Much of it has as many physicians as possible to practice strength of each rotation made it difficult to Emcee Patrick McBride, MD ’80, academic medicine.” required third-year clerkships and fourth- to do with what they learn from mentors— primary care, ideally in rural communities.” choose a specialty, she ultimately realized MPH—the SMPH director of alumni Golden also shared inspiring student year preceptorships. beyond medicine—in terms of the joys and Golden introduced another “star player,” her love for general surgery. Villiard relations and past president of the testimonials, anonymously, including: “We have a very close-knit medical importance of being a community leader,” fourth-year SMPH student Hope Villiard— would like to remain in Wisconsin for her WMAA—donned two different Packers’ “Green Bay provided an amazing community in Green Bay, and the UW noted Golden. “Its graduates are the kind of who grew up primarily in Bruce, Wisconsin, residency and practice as a rural general jerseys so he could “alternate between experience for inpatient internal medicine. School of Medicine and Public Health is doctors I would want for my family.” a Rusk County town of 700. Following her surgeon in the state. highlighting offense and defense” and Dr. Bhatia, the clerkship director at Aurora a key partner in our area,” shared Jen He credited SMPH colleagues Byron lifelong dream to become a doctor, she Thanking all participants, Golden thank the football team. He introduced the BayCare, is one of the best attendings I’ve Erickson Foster, MD ’04, who—along with Crouse, MD, associate dean for rural completed her undergraduate degree at noted, “Without you, we could not do the SMPH team’s “head coach,” Robert Golden, worked with this year. He not only taught Rolf Lulloff, MD ’67, and the Wisconsin and community health and director of UW-Madison and has spent two years in important work of improving the health of MD, dean, Robert Turell Professor in us above and beyond the facts we needed Medical Alumni Association (WMAA)— WARM, and Elizabeth Petty, MD ’86, senior the WARM Program in Green Bay. Wisconsin’s citizens.” to know, but he went out of his way to associate dean for academic affairs and There’s More Online! Visit med.wisc.edu/187 22 VOLUME 17 • NUMBER 4 QUARTERLY 23 ALUMNI PROFILE

Medicine. He also became the director highly respected in CDC circles—went a long at Fort McCoy. Shortly after Christmas, of the multidisciplinary Division of Public way toward my acceptance,” reflects Sienko. I left for Saudi Arabia,” he says, noting Health, which supports the university’s public He adds, “The Two Rivers investigation that his Gulf War experience was historical health education and research. He teaches demonstrated to Dr. Davis my potential to and personal. second-year medical students and mentors serve as a medical epidemiologist. I suspect “The sacrifices I saw in war made military scholarship recipients and students that he mentioned my work in the letter as an me realize that I wanted to do more as a interested in preventive medicine. example of my enthusiasm and potential to military officer, particularly by advancing my Sienko understands the importance be a successful EIS officer.” professional military education,” he shares. of mentors. In high school, despite his Sienko completed a transitional internship Sienko says virtually all future generals success in advanced science courses, a at Chicago’s Cook County Hospital and must complete War College, the highest level counselor discouraged him from pursuing entered the CDC’s EIS and Preventive of military education for Army officers and an medical school, saying it may be hard to Medicine Residency in Atlanta, Georgia. unusual endeavor for physicians at the time. overcome his inner-city background. But He became a medical epidemiologist at the While working full time, he completed it via Sienko persevered, and as a pre-med CDC and later at the Michigan Department distance learning and earned a master of student at UW-Milwaukee, he found a of Public Health. His career also included strategic studies in 2001. mentor in Leonardo Aponte, MD, a family service as the medical director and medical That year, his life took another turn when medicine physician. examiner at the Ingham County (Michigan) he was deployed to Kosovo. Sienko asked if he could shadow Aponte Health Department for 23 years and as the “The Balkans were a priority for the U.S. in his practice. Aponte agreed, and also county health officer for five years. military, and I was proud to serve. I was the “hooded” the young student upon graduation. As the county medical examiner, senior U.S. medical commander—the first “He helped shape me as a physician in Sienko participated in virtually every sort of time the position was given to a reservist,” many ways, including how to engage with death investigation—homicides, suicides, recalls Sienko, who was promoted to patients,” says Sienko. accidents and sudden deaths—other than a brigadier general before serving as the Then came another serendipitous mass casualty. command surgeon in Kuwait and Iraq in moment: On a Badger Bus returning to In the wings, the military was ready to 2003; he was further promoted to major Celebrated Champion of Public Health: Milwaukee from his medical school interview recruit Sienko, who had joined the Wisconsin general in 2008. in Madison, Sienko struck up a conversation Army National Guard during his third year of “I had an energetic military career, but my DEAN G. SIENKO, MD ’83 with a UW coed. Her parting words—“Come medical school. family is most important to me,” Sienko says. to Madison”—stuck with him. That young “I went to the ROTC building to take my He notes that his daughter, Carolyn, also woman, Mary Jean, was a bacteriology major oath of office. They swore me in immediately has a connection to UW-Madison, where she Top photo (left to right): Cadet Michael Sienko; Major General Dean G. Sienko, MD ’83, U.S. Army (retired); at UW-Madison and became a veterinarian. and said, ‘Congratulations, Lieutenant, played in the UW Marching Band at the 2011 Navy Lieutenant Carolyn Sienko; Army Second Lieutenant Peter Sienko; Mary Jean Sienko, DVM. She now is Sienko’s wife of 32 years. you have an assignment this weekend at Rose Bowl Parade during her senior year. His Bottom photo: Major General Dean G. Sienko, MD ’83, U.S. Army. Before Sienko entered medical school, his Fort McCoy,’ ” Sienko recalls. sons, Peter and Michael, were recruited by father passed away. UW-Madison took note. Upon completing his training at the CDC, universities to play Division I tennis. Twenty years from now, you by Sharyn Alden “I was incredibly grateful to receive a Sienko rejoined the Army in the Michigan All children have followed in their father’s will be more disappointed by ark Twain may have been describing scholarship from the university for medical National Guard. The Army needed physicians military footsteps. Carolyn is a lieutenant in Dean G. Sienko, MD ’83. students who didn’t have a father. It meant to complete training in aviation medicine to the U.S. Navy; Peter, a field artillary officer the things that you didn’t do MGrowing up in a working-class so much to me!” he exclaims. become flight surgeons, so Sienko completed in the U.S. Army, graduated from West Point neighborhood on the south side of Milwaukee, than by the ones you did do. In Sienko’s fourth year of medical the six-week course. in 2015; and Michael is a sophomore at the Wisconsin, Sienko realized early that he school, Jeff Davis, MD—a highly regarded “A flight surgeon’s primary role is to same school. So throw off the bowlines. Sail wanted to help people through the field of epidemiologist at the SMPH—also made a attend to the health needs of the flying Sienko wishes his parents could have medicine, but he had no physicians in his difference in his life. community,” explains Sienko. “You learn known their grandchildren. His mother lived away from the safe harbor. family to encourage him. In fact, he was the Fast forward to early 2015, when Sienko “We worked on an epidemiology study about the health challenges of flying and how through Sienko’s first military star, but he first in his family to attend college. Catch the trade winds in retired at the rank of major general following a involving a high-rate of Lou Gehrig’s disease to determine whether a candidate medically notes that both parents would have been Nevertheless, he threw off the bowlines distinguished 33-year career in the U.S. Army. in Two Rivers, Wisconsin,” recalls Sienko, qualifies for aviation training or duty.” proud to see that he and his children have your sails. Explore. Dream. and set sail. During his last military assignment, he was the adding that afterward, Davis asked if he was Shortly after Sienko earned his wings as had fulfilling military careers. Upon earning a bachelor’s degree from commanding general of the Army Public Health Discover.” —Mark Twain interested in public health. This led Sienko to a flight surgeon, Saddam Hussein invaded “The legacy you leave behind is really in the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Command. apply for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control Kuwait. At that time, Sienko’s unit—an your children,” Sienko concludes. a medical degree from the UW School of Twenty months later, he returned to and Prevention’s (CDC) Epidemic Intelligence evacuation hospital—was preparing to head Medicine and Public Health (SMPH), he his post as the founding associate dean Service (EIS) class that was starting in 1984. overseas—changing his life overnight. had no idea that his work would impact so for prevention and public health at the “I believe his letter of recommendation— “Just before Thanksgiving, I left my wife many people. Michigan State University College of Human as an alumnus of the EIS Program who was and 2-year-old daughter, Carolyn, for training

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McPherson Honored Gold Humanism Honor Society WITH DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI AWARD RECOGNIZES HUMANISM, COMPASSION, INTEGRITY, RESPECT AND SERVICE

he Arnold P. Gold Foundation established the Gold Humanism Honor Society T(GHHS) to recognize rising fourth-year medical students who demonstrate exemplary attitudes and behaviors characteristic of the most humanistic physicians. The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH) inducted the following individuals in August 2015:

Medical Students Elizabeth Abbs Elise Larson Kathryn Berndtson Conor O’Halloran Sarah Brown Andrew Pace Olga Diaz Matthew Peller Above: Medical students were eager to meet Alice McPherson, MD ’51. Front row (left to right): Yi Ding Caitlin Regner Hailee Nelson, Melinda Beyer, Sue Yi, Joslyn Strebe, McPherson, Nicole Fennimore, Gabrielle Anna Drewry Danica Rockney Waclawik. Back row: Max Rusek, Andrew Van Pay, Sam Partington, Kevin Beene, Rebecca Sean Fling Hannah Roeder TODD BROWN/MEDIA SOLUTIONS Warwick, Lauren Shuda, Kayla Liebl, Abby Schuh, Felicity Harl, Adriana Chou, Saira Khanna, The students above (names in article) participated in the 10th-annual UW School of Medicine and Public Annemarie Guica, Preshita Date. Right: McPherson describes the signed brown derby, which Matthew Gevelinger Meenakshi Shivaram Paul Gill Michael Sookochoff Health’s GHHS induction ceremony. Each received a “Humanism in Medicine” pin and pledged to uphold the William Middleton, MD, used to inspire learning. ideals of the society in their future medical practices. Katharine Greenfield Laura Wittmann lice McPherson, MD ’51, received the of many major vision researchers in the McPherson, who continues to work nearly Emily Haas GHHS Faculty Inductees Leonard Tow Humanism Wisconsin Alumni Association’s (WAA) United States and abroad. full time, noted that her SMPH mentors, Elizabeth Huffman Charles Acher, MD ’12, resident, Department in Medicine Award Distinguished Alumni Award in fall Her vision, inspiration and support particularly William Middleton, MD, made a A Alonzo Jalan of Surgery, Section of General Surgery Laura Zakowski, MD ’90, associate professor, 2015. The highest honor bestowed by the were critical in the establishment of the big impression on her in regard to discipline, Evan Joyce Department of Medicine, and Alpha Omega Claudia Reardon, MD ’06, assistant WAA, the award honors the most prestigious McPherson Eye Research Institute at fairness and truth. She described Middleton’s Meagan Ladell Alpha councilor for the SMPH University of Wisconsin-Madison alumni for UW-Madison. She serves on the institute’s brown derby, which remains a symbol of the professor, Department of Psychiatry professional achievements, contributions to advisory board and has seen it gain former SMPH dean who went on to lead the society and support of the university. international prominence. Veterans Administration in Washington, D.C.

TODD BROWN/MEDIA SOLUTIONS (2) Since earning her undergraduate degree McPherson has made many other “When Dean Middleton asked a student a from UW-Madison in 1948 and medical impressive contributions to UW-Madison. question, and that student did not know the DeLuca Lauded FOR VISION TO SUPPORT WIMR degree from the UW School of Medicine and For instance, she served for 12 years on the answer, he would toss the hat to the student, nside the gleaming Wisconsin Institutes for $15 million to support construction of the Public Health (SMPH) in 1951, McPherson UW Foundation board of directors, was the who would have to sign and wear it. When Medical Research (WIMR), visitors will see first WIMR tower. Additional private gifts and has become one of the foremost retinal founding president of the UW Ophthalmology the class was finished, almost everybody’s a new honorary plaque featuring a smiling state and federal funding have supported specialists in the world. In 1960, she moved Alumni Association and has established signature was on it,” McPherson recalled. I Paul DeLuca, Jr., PhD. In person, he smiles construction of the two WIMR towers. to Houston, Texas, to begin practice as the endowed chairs and lectureships. Reflecting on another of his lessons, she as he describes the success of the complex UW-Madison Emeritus Professor DeLuca world’s first full-time woman vitreoretinal A bronze bust and portrait of McPherson said, “You have to make sure each patient he shepherded since its inception. was the SMPH vice dean for research specialist and established herself as a grace the SMPH. The school also named goes away feeling like you’ve really done On behalf of the University of Wisconsin and graduate studies before serving as pioneer in the field. one of its medical student Learning something for him or her. Learning to really School of Medicine and Public Health UW-Madison provost and vice chancellor for Also in 1960, she founded Baylor College Communities—or “houses” for study and listen to the patient is key because you want (SMPH) and Oscar Rennebohm Foundation, academic affairs from 2009 to 2014. of Medicine’s retina service in conjunction social programs—in her honor. your patient to walk out of your office feeling the plaque lauds DeLuca for establishing “Paul’s vision has helped accelerate with a private retina practice. She promoted On the day she received the WAA award, that he or she has seen a caring doctor.” WIMR and “nurturing a partnership with the the translation of research discoveries to several procedures that are now basic McPherson addressed SMPH students who According to first-year medical student Foundation that helped make the institutes clinical care and has engaged researchers TODD BROWN/MEDIA SOLUTIONS elements in successful retinal detachment are members of the McPherson House and/ Joslyn Strebe, she and other students felt a reality.” Rennebohm Foundation director from across the SMPH and UW-Madison,” Left to right: Mark Lefebvre, former senior vice president surgery and diabetic retinopathy treatment. or the Ophthalmology Interest Club. McPherson did something special by sharing of the UW Foundation; Paul DeLuca, Jr., PhD; Philip Farrell, Steve Skolaski organized the installation. says Richard Moss, PhD, the SMPH McPherson established the Retina “When I talk to medical students, it her pearls of wisdom during her visit. MD, PhD (PG ’72), emeritus professor and former SMPH The Oscar Rennebohm Foundation and senior associate dean for basic research, Research Foundation in Houston, and under makes me want to re-live my medical school dean; Richard Moss, PhD; Steve Skolaski. GE Healthcare-Milwaukee each provided biotechnology and graduate studies. her leadership, it has funded more than years. They were great fun!” she shared. 1,000 grants and helped launch the careers 26 VOLUME 17 • NUMBER 4 QUARTERLY 27 SPOTLIGHT

STUDYING EARLY PREDICTORS OF PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS SEEKING IMPROVED STROKE OUTCOMES

esearchers at the and part of the Human Placenta The clinical studies are a team of researchers in the technology known as SMART- University of Wisconsin Project will use ultrasound and collaborative effort between the University of Wisconsin RECON largely eliminates the RSchool of Medicine and magnetic resonance imaging SMPH Department of OBGYN A School of Medicine delays previously associated with Public Health (SMPH) received and blood/urine samples to and Meriter Hospital’s Center and Public Health’s (SMPH) multi-modality imaging. SMART- a four-year, $4 million grant measure early predictors of for Perinatal Care. In addition Departments of Medical Physics RECON also improves temporal to study and develop imaging pregnancy complications. to several faculty members and Radiology led by Guang- resolution and reduces radiation techniques to identify pregnancy “Previous studies have from the Department of Hong Chen, PhD, received dosage by a factor of 4. Thus, problems at a very early stage. focused largely on the placenta OBGYN, several from the SMPH a Quantum Grant from the physicians are able to obtain all The National Institute of Child after delivery, but to understand Departments of Radiology and National Institute of Biomedical SMART-RECON technology allows physicians to generate functional brain necessary data for patient triage Health and Human Development it fully, we need to study it Medical Physics will assist with Imaging and Bioengineering. perfusion images (left and center) and four-dimensional angiography (right) and may begin endovascular awarded the grant to Dinesh while it’s doing its job,” says developing imaging techniques The $3 million grant will support to locate the occlusion site of blood vessels and salvageable brain tissues treatment sooner. from a single image acquisition in the angiographic suite. Shah, MD, professor, Department Shah. “Modern imaging makes and biomarkers. The Wisconsin researchers’ efforts to drastically In addition to Chen, professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology it possible to study it from Institutes for Medical Research reduce the treatment time for By combining the diagnostic treatment is carried out via of medical physics and radiology, (OBGYN), and Oliver Wieben, outside of the body. Too often, and UW Institute for Clinical and ischemic stroke victims. and therapeutic phases of angiography. Stroke victims and several co-investigators, the PhD, associate professor, damage has already begun Translational Research also will “This is a wonderful treatment, the researchers lose up to 2 million neurons per lead clinical investigators on the Department of Radiology, who by the time a mother with a support the studies. interdisciplinary effort that hope to decrease patients’ minute until blood flow to the project are Charles Strother, MD, are the principal investigator (PI) problematic pregnancy appears will have a big impact on the time to treatment and improve brain is restored. professor emeritus of radiology, and co-PI, respectively. in clinic, limiting the health care treatment of stroke,” explains outcomes. Currently, diagnostic With techniques developed and Beverly Aagaard-Kienitz, MD, This first project of its kind to providers’ ability to correct the Thomas Grist, MD, chair imaging occurs in the computed by the researchers, diagnosis, associate professor of radiology. study the placenta in real time course of her pregnancy.” and professor in the SMPH tomography (CT) or magnetic triage and treatment all occur in Department of Radiology. resonance imaging suite, while the angiography suite. New CT

HUTTENLOCHER, KALIN ELECTED TO NATIONAL ACADEMY OF MEDICINE ARBUCKLE NAMED DIRECTOR OF NATIVE AMERICAN CENTER

niversity of Wisconsin of our faculty—creativity and Huttenlocher also directs the acquelynn Arbuckle, important leadership role,” that consists of tribal leadership School of Medicine innovation in science, dedication SMPH Medical Scientist Training MD ’95 (left photo), clinical says Robert N. Golden, MD, from five of Wisconsin’s Uand Public Health to teaching and mentoring, and Program, which combines associate professor in the dean of the SMPH. “Our Native tribal communities: Oneida (SMPH) faculty members Anna a deep-rooted commitment medical education and PhD-level J University of Wisconsin School American Health Center is a Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin, Huttenlocher, MD (left photo), to service.” research training. of Medicine and Public Health highly valued program, and Menominee Nation, Ho Chunk and Ned Kalin, MD (right photo), Huttenlocher, professor in Kalin’s pre-clinical and (SMPH) Department of Surgery, Dr. Arbuckle’s background, Nation, Stockbridge Munsee were elected to the National the Departments of Pediatrics clinical investigations focus on has been selected to serve as experience and leadership Band of Mohican Indians and Academy of Medicine (NAM). and Medical Microbiology and how brain activity, environmental medical degree at Thomas the new director of the school’s skills will help accelerate the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake White Earth Indian Reservation The researchers will provide Immunology, is recognized factors and genetics contribute Jefferson Medical College. He Native American Center for center’s progress.” Superior Chippewa Indians. in northwest Minnesota and is a expert scientific advice to help internationally for her pioneering to fear, anxiety and depression directs the HealthEmotions Health Professions (NACHP). The NACHP aims to recruit In 2012, Arbuckle received descendent of the White Earth shape policies, inform public studies of cell migration and its in children. His work has Research Institute. Arbuckle, a general surgeon more Native students and faculty a UW-Madison Outstanding Tribe of Ojibwe. She earned her opinion and advance the pursuit alterations in human diseases. been particularly valuable Additionally, Kalin recently who practices at multiple and improve their experience on Woman of Color Award, in part medical degree and completed of science, engineering and She earned her medical degree in uncovering the biology of received the Anna-Monika Prize UW Health locations, is a native campus; establish strong Native for her successful efforts to her residency at the University medicine in the United States. at Harvard Medical School and childhood anxiety, a contributing from the European College of of Spooner, Wisconsin, and grew health educational opportunities; diversify the general surgery of Minnesota. She is a clinical “Anna Huttenlocher and Ned takes care of children with factor to developing adolescent Neuropsychopharmacology for up on the St. Croix reservation. and grow the Native health faculty and surgery residency assistant professor in the SMPH Kalin are national leaders in their autoimmune diseases. Her and adulthood depression, his major scientific contributions She earned her medical degree academic programs. The program at the SMPH. That Department of Family Medicine respective fields, and this huge research group has pioneered substance abuse and to the understanding of from the SMPH and completed school recently added an year, she also received the and Community Health. honor and recognition are well- approaches using zebrafish anxiety disorders. neurobiological mechanisms her internship and residency elective for fourth-year students Outstanding Educator Award deserved,” shares SMPH Dean to image inflammation and Kalin, the Hedberg professor of depression. in surgery at the Lahey Clinic at the Oneida Community from UW System. Robert N. Golden, MD. “They identified a novel mechanism and chair of the Department in Massachusetts. Health Center. Christine Athmann, MD (right represent the finest qualities that resolves inflammation. of Psychiatry, earned his “We are delighted to have The NACHP recently photo), is the NACHP assistant Dr. Arbuckle fill this vitally developed an advisory council director. She grew up on the

28 VOLUME 17 • NUMBER 4 QUARTERLY 29 GIVING BACK

Opposite page: J.P. Cullen (left) dons an Irish walking cap that was a gift from Robert Dempsey, MD (right). Above (left to right): Front row: Carol Cullen, J.P. Cullen, Haley Cullen, Joyce Liau, Jeannie Cullen-Schultz. Middle row: Mary Cullen, Sarah Schlievert, Betty Ryan Douglas, David Cullen, Mark Cullen. Celebrating a Bond Between Clans Back row: Richard Cullen, George Cullen, Sean Cullen, Daniel Cullen, Kris Schultz. J.P. CULLEN GIFT WILL PROMOTE BRAIN-REPAIR RESEARCH to watch Badger football games with them at That concern for patients extends far Dempsey also gave a gift “from one Camp Randall Stadium. beyond the operating room, to places like Irishman to another.” He presented by Susan Lampert Smith and the old University Hospital, now called Mark Cullen, company chairman and In 20 years, Dempsey has expanded Green Lake, Wisconsin, where UW Health J.P. Cullen with an Irish walking cap the Medical Sciences Center. J.P. Cullen’s son, said the elder Cullen and he Health Sciences Learning Center the Department of Neurological Surgery to sponsors an annual camp for stroke survivors embroidered with the Department of The Department of Neurological Surgery Dempsey met 10 years ago, when J.P. Cullen recently hosted a gathering of two include 30 neurosurgeons and to pursue and their caregivers, Dempsey shared. Neurological Surgery logo, thus making the has built an international reputation for began seeing double and feeling dizzy. T“families” of different types of builders. research efforts in brain tumors, stroke, Spending time with patients and seeing the head of Clan Cullen an honorary member of surgical skill, research, teaching and A longtime friend of the Cullens, the late Clan Cullen—headed by J.P. Cullen, trauma, spinal disorders, pain and central tremendous burden stroke puts on the entire the “neurosurgery family.” international outreach under the leadership UW Regent George Steil, Sr., suggested that chairman emeritus of the Janesville, nervous system disorders. The department family “shows me that we have to do better,” Rounding out the Cullens’ visit to of Robert Dempsey, MD, noted SMPH Dean Cullen consult with Dempsey. Mark Cullen Wisconsin, construction company— also coordinates the National Institutes of Dempsey said. the SMPH, Dempsey guided a tour of Robert N. Golden, MD. said subsequent medical imaging showed celebrated his 90th birthday by presenting Health’s Stroke Network research in the This drive for improvement runs through the neurosurgery research laboratories “By providing this gift, the Cullen that his father had a large brain tumor, a $250,000 check from the J.P. Cullen upper midwest. all the department’s sub-specialties, and Neurological Intensive Care Unit, foundation is really providing the gift of which Dempsey removed during a long, Foundation to the Department of Neurological At the fall 2015 celebration of Clan he added. where survival statistics are double the life, not only to patients at UW Health, successful surgery. Surgery at the University of Wisconsin School Cullen’s gift to further support these “It’s the future we look for,’’ he concluded. national average. but to patients around the world who will “Dr. Dempsey really took my father under of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH). The efforts, Dempsey described a “family we “We do not just stop at disease. We protect benefit from leaders who have trained his wing and treated him with the respect gift will support research related to helping call neurosurgery.” The department was the developing brain and repair the ones that here, and discoveries that are made here,’’ that is due to a World War II combat veteran,’’ the brain recover from illness and injury. built by hard work, dedication to goals and have been injured. We’re thinking of the next Golden shared. Mark Cullen said. J.P. Cullen and Sons has built or hiring excellent people, he noted, and its generation, our children, the sixth generation The gift symbolizes a decade-long bond After that, their friendship grew, with the renovated many of UW-Madison’s most neurosurgeons are “worldwide leaders of the Cullens—and we want them to be between two remarkable Irishmen: J.P. Cullen Cullens inviting Dempsey and his wife, Diane, iconic buildings, including Camp Randall who give people hope for difficult, often healthy for a long time.” and Dempsey. Stadium, Bascom Hall, the Education Building impossible problems.”

30 VOLUME 17 • NUMBER 4 QUARTERLY 31 GIVING BACK

years—that create permanent endowments at the University of Michigan and a doctorate firsts. For instance, she was the first woman to be named by donors who make qualifying of education at Stanford University. Her many to complete a surgery residency in Wisconsin Matching Fund Campaigns gifts. For the SMPH, gifts of $200,000 to honors include the Presidential Early Career and to practice surgery in the state, the FOSTER SUCCESS FOR FACULTY MEMBERS AND STUDENTS $1 million are eligible for the match. Award for Scientists and Engineers. first woman to serve as the president of the The SMPH is celebrating the gifts A prolific researcher and inventor, Pugh Federation of State Medical Boards of the received through the Morgridge match as is training the next generation of doctors and United States, and the first woman to chair t a time when private support of it pursues the opportunities created by the surgeons using a new synthetic model that the Wisconsin Medical Examining Board. medical education is more important Nicholas gift. An example of a Morgridge brings together engineering and medicine. She credits mentors for inspiring her to than ever, two major matching A match at the SMPH is the substantial Behrens earned her bachelor’s degree at enter surgery, a “man’s field” at the time, and gift programs are helping tremendously. donation by Susan F. Behrens, MD ’75, FACS, UW-Madison and her MD from the SMPH. notes, “It is meaningful to me that the first University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and her husband, David Look, who funded She completed her surgery residency at person to hold this professorship is a woman and Public Health (SMPH) Dean Robert a professorship for Carla M. Pugh, MD, Gundersen Health System in La Crosse, who is blazing trails in surgical education.” Golden, MD, notes that several of the PhD, FACS. Wisconsin, and a fellowship in colon and Golden shares, “We are so grateful to school’s departments and faculty members Now the Susan Behrens Professor of rectal surgery at Ferguson Clinic in Grand Dr. Susan Behrens and David Look for their have received a major boost from private Surgery Education, Pugh also is the vice Rapids, Michigan. Now retired, she practiced generous gift, which inspires all of us at donors whose money was doubled through chair of education and patient safety in the general surgery in the Beloit Health System, the SMPH to fulfill our school’s missions in John and Tashia Morgridge’s historic SMPH Department of Surgery and the clinical in Beloit, Wisconsin. Look earned his innovative ways.” matching gift to UW-Madison. director of the UW Health Clinical Simulation bachelor’s degree in marine biology and an For more information, please contact Jill The Morgridges’s donation of Program. She earned her medical degree and MBA at the University of Oregon. Watson, UW Foundation, at (608) 262-4632 $100 million in matching funds is the largest completed a surgery residency at Howard Breaking through the gender stereotypes or [email protected]. individual gift in UW-Madison’s history. It University, an acute care surgery fellowship of her field, Behrens has experienced many aims to attract an equal amount of support for endowed chairs and professorships throughout the university. The couple has made numerous other significant gifts to UW-Madison—their alma mater. Susan Behrens, MD ’75, FACS (left), and her husband David Look (not pictured) donated—through the Middleton Society Event “This funding is critically important for Morgridge match—a professorship of surgery education, held by Carla Pugh, MD, PhD, FACS (right). MISTRETTA RECEIVES BELZER AWARD our ongoing recruitment and retention of top leaders in numerous areas. We are very He adds, “Our school was given the goal The SMPH exceeded its goal by raising grateful to our alumni, friends and faculty of attracting $15 million in new gifts. The more than $17 million. Together with the At the fall 2015 Middleton Society clinical director of the UW Health Clinical who contributed to this game-changing university achieved its $100 million goal in Morgridge match, this created $35 million dinner, University of Wisconsin School Simulation Program; and Susan F. Behrens, program, and we will be forever grateful for about seven months, and John and Tashia that funded 23 new professorships, chairs of Medicine and Public Health’s (SMPH) MD ’75, FACS, a retired surgeon from John and Tashia’s partnership in building this then lifted the cap, pledging to match every and distinguished chairs, and allowed for the leaders thanked the school’s most loyal Beloit, Wisconsin. legacy,” exclaims Golden. gift that was committed by mid-June 2015.” enhancement of several existing chairs. supporters for their role in sharing gifts Pugh’s talk highlighted her innovative Following the successful Morgridge TODD BROWN/MEDIA SOLUTIONS (2) during these challenging economic times. work that inspired Behrens and her medicine. His studies of dual energy X-ray match, in June 2015, Ab Nicholas and Nancy Dean Robert N. Golden, MD, explains, husband, David Look, to create Pugh’s imaging led to the development of a real- SMPH Units that Received Morgridge Match Johnson Nicholas made a $50 million gift “Our university and school have been hit professorship through the Morgridge match time digital image processor, which set to create one-to-one matches with donors with repeated, substantial cuts to our state (see opposite page). the stage for creation of digital subtraction Chairs and Professorships to create scholarships for undergraduate, budget, which for the SMPH has shrunk to Also that evening, Golden bestowed angiography. His technology, applied athletic and professional school students and the point where state support accounts for the school’s highest award, the annual worldwide, ranks second among inventions DEPARTMENTS Cardiovascular Medicine graduate fellowships. It’s the second-largest in UW-Madison’s history in terms of patent Emergency Medicine General Surgery household gift in the university’s history. only about 10 percent of our expenditures.” Belzer Award, on Charles Mistretta, PhD Medical Genetics Hematology and Medical Oncology “The University of Wisconsin holds a He adds, “But this also has been a (photo at right), professor, Departments of royalties brought to campus. Mistretta Medicine Infectious Disease special place for Nancy and me,” says remarkably exciting and productive year Radiology and Medical Physics. The award turned his attention to magnetic resonance Neurological Surgery Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Ab Nicholas. “It’s where we met and for the school, and our future has never honors distinguished faculty members for angiography in the 1980s. Obstetrics and Gynecology Pediatric Surgery where our three children and six of our been brighter as we continue to advance lifetime achievement of contributions to the Mistretta has mentored more than Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery grandchildren have gone to university. in all of the missions at your UW School of SMPH and beyond. It is named for Folkert 55 graduate students and postdoctoral I learned the lessons in the classroom and Medicine and Public Health.” Belzer, MD, the former chair of the SMPH fellows. Among his many honors, he has Pediatrics INSTITUTES AND CENTERS on the court that have fueled my career. And Guest speakers were Carla M. Pugh, Department of Surgery. been designated as “one of the 50 medical Surgery Carbone Cancer Center we made lasting friendships and continue to MD, PhD, FACS, the Susan Behrens Mistretta earned his doctorate in physicists with the most impact on the field Urology McPherson Eye Research Institute enjoy an amazing alumni experience.” Professor of Surgery Education, vice high-energy physics from Harvard. In 1971, in the last 50 years” by the International SECTIONS Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Institute The Nicholas gift matches new donations chair of education and patient safety in he joined the SMPH and has made seminal Congress of Medical Physics. Allergy, Pulmonary and and pledges—which may be paid over five the SMPH Department of Surgery, and discoveries that transformed the practice of Critical Care Medicine 32 VOLUME 17 • NUMBER 4 QUARTERLY 33 RESEARCH ADVANCES

Biomarkers Could Improve Breast Cancer Treatment Anti-Cancer Drugs Enhance Effectiveness of Radiation

ei Xu, PhD (photo drug resistance and develop will be sensitive or resistant iving cancer cells increase the effectiveness of at right), and other biomarkers for it so we can to a common breast cancer a double hit with radiation and thereby decrease Wresearchers at the predict which cancer patients chemotherapy treatment, they Gradiation and molecular the radiation required,” says University of Wisconsin School will benefit from certain found. targeting drugs could lead Paul Harari, MD, professor in of Medicine and Public Health treatments.” “This chemical modification to better patient outcomes the UW School of Medicine (SMPH) have identified how Xu, senior author of the of MED12 can sensitize the and possibly lower radiation and Public Health Department some breast cancers develop study published in Science cells to antimetabolite drugs, doses, according to two studies of Human Oncology and resistance to chemotherapy Advances, and her research including one commonly used by University of Wisconsin senior author. “These studies drugs that typically are team investigated CARM1, in breast cancer, Fluorouracil Carbone Cancer Center bring cutting-edge molecular Left to right: Shyh-Min Huang, PhD ’97; Fang Ma; Eric Armstrong; successful at killing cancerous a protein that chemically (5-FU),” Xu notes. “If MED12 This research identifies (UWCCC) scientists. inhibitors to the forefront, with Chunrong Li; Paul Harari, MD; Lauryn Werner; Zach Morris, MD; Gopal Lyer; David Francis. cells during initial treatment. modifies other proteins and is cannot be modified by the potential of using the During treatment, radiation the hope they can be used in “For anti-cancer drugs, even often overexpressed in breast CARM1, or if MED12 is not is directed at tumors with the combination with radiation to expression of MED12 and but is blocked in many cancer “Radiation is putting on those that have been in use for and some other cancers. expressed, then the cancer goal of lethally damaging the benefit cancer patients.” its ability to be modified by types. In a second paper, the gas, and inhibitor drugs a while, we don’t know how In the study, researchers cells are resistant to 5-FU and dividing cancer cells. Some Shyh-Min Huang, PhD ’97, CARM1 as a biomarker before they focused on a drug that are removing the brakes. They the drug resistance is caused,” identified a new CARM1 survive treatment.” cancer cells survive, however, and Harari lab colleagues and during treatment to help targets two crucial proteins synergize nicely,” says lead says Xu, professor of oncology target, a protein called MED12. Charles Heidelberger, PhD, and nearby healthy cells can be examined a promising new researchers determine whether of the epidermal growth author Lauryn Werner. at the UW Carbone Cancer In breast cancer cell lines, a former McArdle Laboratory affected, leading to unwanted drug that promotes activity to continue a treatment or factor receptor family that are Both studies were published Center and McArdle Laboratory the ability of MED12 to be faculty member, first side effects. of the anti-growth protein change course. A Department overactive in poor-prognosis as featured articles in the for Cancer Research. “We want chemically modified by CARM1 synthesized 5-FU in 1956. “The goal is to identify new p53, which normally signals of Defense Era of Hope Award head and neck cancers. September 2015 issue of to identify the mechanism of determines whether cells molecular targeting drugs that damaged cells to stop growing funded the research. Molecular Cancer Therapeutics.

Researchers Tackle Blinding Eye Disease New Technique Helps Explore Rhythm Of Genes

used drug might offer hope associate professor in to intervene if an effective and Public Health’s (SMPH) to uncover an oscillating a decade, the ability to see for treatment. the SMPH Department of treatment to slow the disease Department of Biostatistics and gene pattern. But with that genome-wide gene expression The study, “Pharmacological Ophthalmology and Visual can be identified. Medical Informatics. single-cell information, in individual cells is particularly Modulation of Photoreceptor Sciences and head of the lab “This research showed that To study these cycles researchers were able to exciting. Unfortunately, we have Outer Segment Degradations that worked on the study, the drug valproic acid was able using traditional technologies, “reorder” unsynchronized only a snapshot, and that’s the in a Human iPS Cell Model says there is no cure for Best to improve certain functions of researchers must synchronize cells and uncover a pattern of tricky part. We want to study of Inherited Macular disease. But the new study retinal cells affected by Best a whole population of expression. oscillatory gene expression, Degeneration,” was published showed that customized stem disease,” Gamm says about cells so they are at the The project melded but we don’t have time-course in Molecular Therapy. cells can help patients by the study, which was led by same state. Unfortunately, the statistical strengths of data,” explains Kendziorski. hristina Kendziorski, In 2012, the researchers testing the effects of drugs. Ruchira Singh, PhD, an SMPH such synchronization isn’t Kendziorski’s lab with the cell “So we developed a statistical esearchers at the PhD, led a team of for the first time took skin cells Gamm is the Emmett A. Humble postdoctoral associate at possible for many cell types biology expertise from the lab method that would allow us to McPherson Eye researchers who from patients with Best disease Distinguished Director and the the time. C and conditions. of James Thomson, PhD, stem look at oscillatory genes and RResearch Institute (MERI) developed a new statistical and used induced pluripotent Sandra Lemke Trout Chair in However, new RNA cell pioneer at UW-Madison reconstruct one cycle of their at the University of Wisconsin approach, called Oscope, to stem cells (iPSC) technology Eye Research of the MERI. sequencing technology and director of regenerative oscillation that doesn’t involve School of Medicine and Public identify and characterize the to turn them into retinal cells Best disease is an inherited allows scientists to probe the biology at the Morgridge time-course experiments or Health (SMPH) have used a rhythm of genes across the that mimicked the disease. This type of macular degeneration genome-wide expression of Institute for Research. Thomson synchronization.” custom stem cell model of a entire genome using single-cell second study showed the next that causes slow loss of central a single cell. When the cell is also is a John D. MacArthur The study was published in rare but blinding eye disease RNA sequencing. Kendziorski is steps in the research. vision. It often is diagnosed in harvested for sequencing, it Professor at the SMPH. Nature Methods. to test whether a commonly a professor in the University of David Gamm, MD, PhD childhood while vision is still is destroyed in the process so “After looking at average Wisconsin School of Medicine (PG ’02, ’03) (photo at left), good, so there is ample time it can’t be sequenced again gene expression for more than

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he basic sciences provide essential with these demands and developing  SUBJECT: FACTS AND FIGURES foundations for virtually all missions new strategies to sustain the school’s Each year, the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH) admits more than 300 Tof our academic medical center at the competitiveness for extramural funds are keys students to its health professions programs. Learn some fun facts about the new students by checking out an University of Wisconsin School of Medicine to our future success. infographic at med.wisc.edu/47103. and Public Health (SMPH). Research in To address these issues and promote biomedical, population and social sciences innovation and research productivity at  SUBJECT: VOCAL CORD BREAKTHROUGH generates fundamental knowledge that the school, more than 40 faculty and staff Nathan Welham, PhD, associate professor of surgery, and his colleagues from UW-Madison have become the leads to greater understanding of biological members participated in a planning process first in the world to grow functional vocal cord tissue in the laboratory, a major step toward restoring a voice to people who have lost their vocal cords to cancer surgery or injuries. How did they do it? Watch this video to see processes and social systems, and it from December 2013 through early 2015. a demonstration: med.wisc.edu/47135. establishes a framework for understanding The process identified opportunities for new the determinants of health and disease in directions in research and unmet needs for individuals and populations. administrative and scientific core resources to  SUBJECT: RURAL MEDICINE The Wisconsin Academy for Rural Medicine (WARM) seeks to increase the number of physicians practicing in the In the past decade, advances in support researchers. It also placed a greater state’s UNIVERSITYrural communities. WARM’s success is due OFin part to the WISCONSIN partners in the SMPH statewide campus who technology and research methodologies emphasis on “team science” as a means for provide valuable training to medical students. Learn more by watching a video at med.wisc.edu/warm. have given rise to exciting opportunities for increasing research funding and speeding the SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH pursuing basic and applied research problems pace of discovery. SUBJECT: E-NEWSLETTER in new and different ways. Advances in Our school has a rich history of  You can stay upStudents to date on the latest come happenings to atWisconsin’s the SMPH by signing #1 up for university the monthly SMPH e-newsletter.

genome editing, imaging and genomics are achievements in research, including notable TODD BROWN/MEDIA SOLUTIONS The newsletter contains the latest education news, research advances and more. Subscribe at driving entirely new areas of inquiry. Many of contributions to the understanding of complex to begin their world-class health professions pursue promising, innovative research and med.wisc.edu/enews. these approaches require cross-disciplinary, systems ranging from molecules to cells education at the School of Medicine and Public support our researchers in these endeavors. statistical or computational capabilities that and organs, as well as from individuals to One strategy—which is being initiated as Health. Here’s a breakdown of the new students. are strengths of our school and campus. communities and populations. Most often, a result of the recent schoolwide planning Leveraging our strengths—while building these achievements have relied on the vision process—is to involve faculty members in strategically in areas like human genetics and and efforts of a single faculty member leading the stats an implementation committee charged to precision medicine—is essential if we are to a small, focused research group of trainees advise Dean Robert N. Golden, MD, and the lead in priority areas such as healthy aging, and staff. Office of Basic Research, Biotechnology and average age: neurodegenerative diseases, cancer and Today’s reality is that research problems 41 Graduate Studies on issues related to the % metabolic diseases. are increasingly challenging due to the male 68% basic research enterprise. 59% STUDENTS Regrettably, in the years since the discovery of greater than expected complexity 3.68 Our remarkable faculty, staff and research female average FROM WI doubling of the National Institutes of of biological systems and compelling trainees share a passion for discovery, a gpa 25 Health (NIH) budget was completed in evidence that these systems are influenced commitment to innovation and collaboration, 2003, federal support for research has not by environmental and social factors. In the and a dedication to research training. Thus, kept pace with inflation, and grant funds face of such challenges, the search for new the future promises high-impact discoveries Students are from: have been reallocated by NIH institutes to understanding often can be accelerated by in fundamental research areas such as support targeted initiatives at the expense multi-investigator teams whose members organismal development and aging, cancer of basic science projects. Nationally, this bring different perspectives and approaches 30 biology, metabolism, neurobiology and tissue resulted in a systematic reduction in the to a problem. Assembling teams that regeneration—with downstream benefits to states funds awarded per grant and the number can apply cross-disciplinary expertise to science, medicine and public health! of funded investigators and an increase in a research problem can also enhance the average age at the time of researchers’ competitiveness for extramural funding. first NIH research grant award to 43. SMPH We are committed to developing new Richard L. Moss, PhD faculty members are spending more time processes and administrative platforms Rennebohm Research Professor in and... than before writing grants to support their to promote research success and Cell and Regenerative Biology research and drafting administrative reports collaborative science. There is pressing Senior Associate Dean for Basic Research, to fulfill the many regulatory requirements of need to continually assess our resources Biotechnology and Graduate Studies 5 Colombia - egypt - iraq federal funding agencies. Dealing effectively and engage in planning to ensure that we countries mexico - nepal

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new students by program

new students in the 349 health professions programs MD MD-PhD 9 6 5 Doctor of Medicine 10 Medical Scientist Training Program MPAS MD-MPH Master of Physician 40 Doctor of Medicine/ Assistant Studies Master of Public Health MPH 176 MGCS Master of 50 Master of Genetic Public Health Counselor Studies 53 DPT MPAS-MPH Doctor of Master of Physician Assistant Studies/ Physical Therapy Master of Public Health most common undergrad majors

biology biochemistry physiology psychology

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