Department of Pediatrics Welcomes Class of 2023
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Above, a collage of portraits of the Class of 2023 Pediatric Residency Program interns.
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The University of Wisconsin Department of Pediatrics welcomes seventeen new interns to its Pediatric Residency Program this month. Ellen Wald, MD (Department Chair and Professor) will introduce the residents to faculty and staff during Pediatric Grand Rounds on Thursday, July 16. The virtual, live-streamed presentation will begin at 7:30am.
Chief Residents Sarah MacKay, MD, and Brandon Tomlin, MD, did a virtual Q&A with each resident to learn more about their backgrounds, medical interests, and what makes them unique. Learn more about each individual by clicking their names below.
- Aisha Ansar, MD (Pediatrics)
- David Bergstrand, MD (Pediatrics)
- Megan Berry, DO (Child Neurology)
- Samantha Cordum, MD (Pediatrics)
- Laura Dos Reis, MD (Pediatrics)
- Christiana Ekezie, MD (Pediatrics)
- Emily Lai, MD (Pediatrics)
- Mariana Montero Jaques, MD (Pediatrics)
- Allison Nackers, MD (Preliminary Pediatrics)
- Olawale Oduru, MD (Pediatrics)
- Brenna Redemann, MD (Pediatrics)
- Kelsi Rogers, DO (Pediatrics)
- Hannah Schumacher, MD (Pediatrics)
- Tyler Sternhagen, MD (Pediatrics)
- Samantha Tyler, DO (Pediatrics)
- Anna Uhing, MD (Pediatrics)
- Therese Woodring, MD (Pediatrics)
On behalf of all faculty and staff, welcome Class of 2023!
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Ten Department of Pediatrics Faculty Receive Promotions
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Above, portraits of the ten Department of Pediatrics faculty members who received promotions in 2020.
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Congratulations to the ten Department of Pediatrics faculty who were approved for promotion this year:
- Christian Capitini, MD (Hematology, Oncology & Bone Marrow Transplant) - Promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure
- Paula Cody, MD, MPH (General Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine) - Promoted to Associate Professor (CHS)
- Istvan Danko, MD, PhD (Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition) - Promoted to Professor (CHS)
- Peter Ferrazzano, MD (Critical Care Medicine) - Promoted to Professor (CHS)
- Patrice Held, PhD (Genetics & Metabolism) - Promoted to Associate Professor (CHS)
- Sheryl Henderson, MD, PhD (Infectious Diseases) - Promoted to Associate Professor (CHS)
- Janet Legare, MD (Developmental Pediatrics & Rehabilitation Medicine) - Promoted to Clinical Professor
- Sushant Srinivasan, MD, MSc, MHPE (Critical Care Medicine) - Promoted to Associate Professor (CHS)
- Maria Stanley, MD (Developmental Pediatrics & Rehabilitation Medicine) - Promoted to Clinical Professor
- Michael Wilhelm, MD (Critical Care Medicine) - Promoted to Associate Professor (CHS)
Their new ranks took effect July 1, 2020.
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2019 Annual Report Now Available
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Above, a portion of the 2019 Annual Report's cover art.
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The University of Wisconsin Department of Pediatrics' 2019 Annual Report is now available. The digital publication highlights the extraordinary clinical care, research activities, and educational milestones that took place in 2019. We welcome you to view and share the report with colleagues and collaborators. The report can also be downloaded from the Department of Pediatrics intranet.
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Honors & Awards
Christian Capitini, MD, Elected to SITC Board of Advisors
 Christian Capitini, MD (Associate Professor, Hematology, Oncology & Bone Marrow Transplant) has been elected as a member of the Board of Advisors for the International Society for the Therapy of Cancer (SITC). Dr. Capitini has been an active member of SITC since 2010 and first served as co-chair of the Early Career Scientist Committee from 2011-2013. He has also served as a representative on the Annual Program Committee (2012-13), the By-laws Committee (2016-17) and most recently the Awards Committee (2018-present). Dr. Capitini created the first SITC online CME course, now in its 3rd edition, on Immunology 101 for the non-Immunologist as a pre-requisite to the Advances for Cancer Immunotherapy (ACI) seminar series, and continues to serve on the ACI subcommittee. Dr. Capitini’s three-year term on the Board of Advisors will begin in January 2021.
Faculty and Residents Receive Teaching and Patient Care Awards
Congratulations to the following faculty and residents who received teaching and patient care excellence awards during the 2020 residency program awards presentation. Award winners were announced during Grand Rounds on June 18, 2020:
- Charles C. Lobeck Medical Education Award: Troy Kleist, MD (Clinical Assistant Professor, General Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine)
- Clerkship Teaching Award: Luke Addesso, MD (Resident)
- Varness Outstanding Clinical Teacher Award: Derek Hoyme, MD (Assistant Professor, Cardiology)
- Outstanding General Pediatrician Award: Mala Mathur, MD, MPH (Clinical Associate Professor, General Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine)
- Outstanding Senior Resident Award: Natalie Tedford, MD (Graduating Resident)
- Outstanding Intern Award: Samantha Williams Al-Kharusy, MD (Resident)
- Outstanding Resident Research Award: Natalie Tedford, MD (Graduating Resident)
- Patient and Family-Centered Care Award: Allie Heizelman, MD (Graduating Resident)
- Outstanding Second-Year Resident Award (Jan Brady Award): Arij Beshish, MD (Resident)
John Frohna, MD, Elected as Inaugural UWMF President and CoF Chair
 John Frohna, MD, MPH (Vice Chair of Education, Professor and Residency Program Director), was elected to serve as the inaugural University of Wisconsin Medical Foundation (UWMF) president and chair of the UW Health Council of Faculty (CoF). The combined role will regularly interface with faculty and will be invited to the UW Health Senior Leadership Council and UW Health Council of Chairs to carry the faculty voice forward to senior decision-making groups. This dual position will also serve as the Vice Chair of the UWMF Board of Directors and serve in an ex-officio position on UWMF governing committees. Dr. Frohna was elected to the Chair role by the CoF and will serve through June 30, 2022.
Jon Fliegel, MD, receives UW Family Medicine Residency Teaching Award
 Congratulations to Jon Fliegel, MD (Associate Professor, Division of Hospital Medicine), who received a UW Family Medicine Residency Clinical Teaching Award from the graduating residency class at their recent 2020 Graduation ceremony. The pediatric hospitalists work with residents in Family Medicine at St Mary’s Hospital and AFCH. Dr. Fliegel has previously received the pediatric departmental teaching awards, the Lobeck Medical Education Award (from medical students) and the Varness Outstanding Clinical Teaching Award (from pediatric residents).
Thuy Dan Tran Finalist for ISOQOL Outstanding Poster Award
 Thuy Dan Tran, PMP, research specialist in the PROKids research group, will present her National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases-funded work entitled, “Guidance for the Use of PROMIS Pediatric Measures in Ambulatory Clinics” at the International Society for Quality of Life's (ISOQOL) Annual Conference. The conference will be held virtually October 19-23, 2020. Her work was also selected as an ISOQOL 2020 Outstanding Poster Award finalist. Congratulations, Thuy Dan!
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New Grants
Childhood Diabetes and Adiposity Research Training Program Renewed by NIH
Congratulations to HuiChuan Lai, PhD, RD, who will serve as a Principal Investigator/Program Director along with co-Program Director Scott Reeder, MD, PhD, UW Department of Radiology, for renewal of a T32 Training grant from the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIH-NIDDK), renamed, “Childhood Diabetes and Adiposity Research Training Program (C-DART).” Under the additional leadership of four associate directors, David Allen, MD, Elizabeth Cox, MD, PhD, James Ntambi, PhD, and Ellen Wald, MD, this 5-year, $800,000 award, funding Years 11-15 of this ongoing training program administered by the Department of Pediatrics, will fund the stipends of two fellows annually. The mission of the C-DART program is to train post-doctoral MD physician-scientists for productive academic careers in clinical and basic research in prevention and treatment of insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes mellitus and other metabolic complications of obesity and excess visceral and hepatic fat deposition in children.
Drs. Matthew Harer and Joshua Coon Receive WPP Grant to Study Diagnosis of Acute Kidney Injury in Premature Infants
 Congratulations to Matthew Harer, MD, and collaborator Joshua Coon, PhD, of the College of Agricultural Life Sciences, Department of Chemistry, who were awarded a New Investigator Program grant through the Wisconsin Partnership Program at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health. The grant will be used to evaluate a new method of detecting kidney injury, with the goal of identifying injury before permanent damage. With early detection, the researchers will be positioned to design and test treatments that will result in healthier kidneys and lead to decreased chronic kidney disease and the opportunity for these infants to thrive throughout childhood and as adults.
Drs. Tonya Roberts and Elizabeth Cox Receive ICTR-CAP Stakeholder and Patient Engaged Research (SPER) Award to Improve Resident and Family Engagement in Nursing Homes
 Tonya Roberts, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor in the UW School of Nursing, and Elizabeth Cox, MD, PhD, Director of the Program of Research on Outcomes for Kids (PROKids) recently received an ICTR-CAP Stakeholder and Patient Engaged Research (SPER) Award for their project, “Engaging Residents and Families as Quality Partners in Nursing Homes.” This year-long, $100,000 award will develop a stakeholder-designed tool to support nursing home residents and their families as Quality Partners. The team will expand their existing WI Family Engagement Nursing Home Community Network to include residents and families from nursing home facilities in Wisconsin. This network will collaboratively identify outcomes that matter most to residents and families and then co-design a Quality Partner tool to address these priority outcomes. The work builds on their successful collaboration to adapt Dr. Cox’s Family Centered Rounding approach for use in nursing homes. Findings from this work have the potential to result in effective, broadly implementable, and sustainable interventions that will improve quality of care for nursing home residents.
Emma Mohr, MD, and Karla Ausderau Awarded R01 from NIH
 Emma Mohr, MD, and Co-Principal Investigator, Karla Ausderau, OTR/L, PhD in the UW Department of Kinesiology, were recently awarded a $3.8 million R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH/NIAID) for their five-year project, “Early neural predictors and neuropathogenesis of sensorimotor neurodevelopmental deficits in macaque infants exposed to Zika virus in utero.” Using an existing cohort of ZIKV-exposed infant macaques that were born during previous NIH-funded studies at the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center, infant neurodevelopment will be studied in a controlled setting. The goal of the project is to identify neural predictors in early infancy associated with the development of neurodevelopmental deficits in childhood. The central hypothesis is that the underlying neuropathology will be associated with early dysfunctional sensorimotor brain regions and networks, which will in turn predict sensorimotor deficits present in early childhood.
Graduate Student Monica Cho Receives Cancer Biology Training Grant Support
 Congratulations to Monica Cho, Graduate Research Assistant in the lab of Christian Capitini, MD, who was recently selected as a Trainee on the National Institutes of Health-funded T32 Cancer Biology Training Grant, directed by Bill Sugden, PhD. The goal of the Training in Cancer Biology Program at the University of Wisconsin is to train graduate students and postdoctoral Oncology Fellows to become committed cancer researchers who work to together as scholars, experimentalists, and physician-scientists to advance cancer research and treatment.
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