For the School of Medicine and Public Health Community
A message from Elizabeth M. Petty, MD, Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. Dear colleagues, I am delighted to announce that Susan (Sue) Wenker, PT, PhD, GCS-Emeritus, has accepted our offer to become the next SMPH Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) program director effective May 8, 2022. She succeeds Dr. Lisa Steinkamp, who is retiring …
Guelay Bilen-Rosas, MD, assistant professor of anesthesiology, earned a top prize in the 2021 Equalize pitch competition hosted by Washington University in St. Louis and wants to encourage other female faculty to pursue entrepreneurship. She won the medical technology category for her pitch on a monitor that health care workers can use to identify respiratory …
The fall 2021 SMPH All-Staff Forum took place on Wednesday, October 27, 2021. Topics discussed included staff compensation and promotions, Title and Total Compensation (TTC), remote work and workplace flexibility, staff turnover and retention, and COVID-related policies. This event was co-hosted by the SMPH University Staff Issues Committee (USIC), SMPH Committee on Academic Staff Issues …
Two individuals from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and one from the School of Nursing have been named 2021 Champions of Humanistic Care by the Arnold P. Gold Foundation. They have been selected for their compassion and courage during the COVID-19 pandemic. The recipients are Jonathan T. Ketzler, MD, associate …