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Dual JD-MPH Degree to be Offered Starting This Fall
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will offer a dual degree, a combined juris doctor and master of public health, starting this fall.
The dual degree, a cooperative effort between the Law School and the School of Medicine and Public Health, will offer students substantive training in both law and public health.
"This program will enable students interested in the intersection of law and health care to prepare themselves to address a complex and growing field," says Margaret Raymond, dean of the Law School. "It also allows us to leverage the university; this dual degree calls upon the extraordinary resources of UW-Madison to help our students build unique portfolios equipping them to solve some of our society's most pressing concerns."
Law and public health have a fundamental link; many public health initiatives depend on law, and legal policy in turn affects public health.
Only a few schools nationwide offer such a dual degree program. Past graduates who have completed both JD and MPH programs on their own have had prestigious internships as students and gone on to find jobs that combine their interest in law and health.
"Students are really excited," says Barbara Duerst, associate director for the master of public health program at UW-Madison. "A lot of them have a great desire to make a change in the health care system. This really gives them a leg up."
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Jocelyn DeWitt Named UW Health Vice President, Chief Information Officer
We are very pleased to announce the appointment of Jocelyn DeWitt, PhD, as UW Health's Vice President, Chief Information Officer. This appointment comes after an extensive national search led by a UW Health Search Committee working with an international search firm.
Members of the Committee represented a cross-section of UW Health's information technology services, informatics, physician and administrative leadership. Approximately 72 UW Health staff participated in second-round interviews and provided valuable feedback on the candidates.
Jocelyn currently serves as Chief Information Officer for the University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers (UMHHC), which is the inpatient and ambulatory care clinical component of the University of Michigan Health System (UMHS). UMHS includes the university's medical school and three hospitals: University Hospital, C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, and Von Voigtlander Women's Hospital with more than 900 beds. Other members of UMHS are 30 primary and specialty community health centers, the A. Alfred Taubman Health Care Center and its 120 outpatient clinics. The healthcare system also has affiliations with other hospitals and healthcare networks in southeastern Michigan.
Jocelyn received her undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison; her Master of Science degree from Boston University; and her doctorate from the University of Illinois.
Jocelyn will assume her new role at UW Health on April 30, 2012, with a tripartite reporting relationship to the Chief Operating Officers of UWHC and UWMF and the Senior Associate Dean of UWSMPH. We know her background and experience will be a superb addition to our UW Health leadership teams.
Conference Celebrating the Career of David DeMets, May 31-June 1
David L. DeMets is the Max Halperin Professor of Biostatistics and chair emeritus of the Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
In 1982, he joined the University of Wisconsin and was instrumental in establishing the Biostatistics Center. He transformed the center into the Department of Biostatistics in 1992, and in 1994 the department took on a new medical informatics initiative.
The current Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics was established in 1997. He continues to make substantial contributions in clinical biostatistics and clinical trials methodology.
The conference will feature invited speakers who have collaborated with DeMets during his career and former faculty members and students he has influenced.
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