On February 5, 2021, educators and trainees logged on to the sixth annual, and first-ever virtual Department of Medicine Education Day. The half-day event brings together faculty leaders, learners, and staff focused on graduate medical education. This year’s virtual format brought a record number of attendees with nearly 70 participants...

Loren Denlinger, MD, PhD, the inaugural William W. and Judith H. Busse Professor of Allergy and Asthma Research, was named Vice Chair for Clinical and Translational Research; a new position in the Department of Medicine.

In his new role, Dr. Denlinger will promote and support the mission of discovery...

Joshua Lang, MD, MS, associate professor, Hematology, Medical Oncology and Palliative Care, was named Vice Chair for Biomedical Research; a new position in the Department of Medicine.

This newly created position will be responsible for promoting and supporting the mission of discovery and collaboration in the department, as well...

Local educator, entrepreneur and philanthropist Pleasant Rowland has donated $10 million toward the construction of a new transplant clinic at University Hospital.

Rowland lived with kidney failure for almost 20 years before receiving a kidney transplant with our team. Arjang Djamali, MD, professor and chief, Nephrology, and Dixon Kaufman...

As a third-year medical student, Maria Schletzbaum, an MD/PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, cared for a young woman with lupus who was around her own age. Through two hospitalizations, Schletzbaum connected with this young woman, learned about her life, and how...

David Andes, MD, professor, Infectious Disease, received an FDA BAA contract to update susceptibility guidelines for the common hospital acquired pathogen, Acinetobacter baumannii (A. baumannii). Antimicrobial resistance to A. baumannii is emerging, resulting in the CDC adding this pathogen to the urgent threat list in 2019.

A. baumannii can...