OFFICE OF THE DEAN

SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

MAR./APR. 2018

DEAN’S NEWSLETTER

School of Medicine Strategic Update:

Demonstrating and Sustaining the Value of Academic Medicine

Members of the MCW Family have a commitment to academic medicine. It is one of the intrinsic aspects of our PRACTICES and culture that makes this such a spe-cial place. However, just over 50 years ago, the promise of academic medicine and medical education in Milwau-kee and eastern Wisconsin was almost extinguished! Fortunately, community leaders at the time viewed this prospect as an existential crisis for our community and the health and well-being of our state and beyond. In 1967, the Greater Milwaukee Committee (GMC) com-missioned the Heil Report to assess the value of a medi-cal school and comprehensive medical center to the region and state. The Heil Report reaffirmed the value of academic medicine, and its posi-tive reception helped generate a groundswell of support for the medi-cal school and what would become the Mil-waukee Regional Medi-cal Center campus. On April 9, 2018, the Wis-consin Policy Forum presented a new report to current GMC mem-bers that demonstrates how MCW has exceed-ed the expectations set forth five decades ago in the Heil Report.

Like the authors of the original Heil Report in 1967, I believe in the strongest possible fashion that MCW and our colleagues in academic medicine deliver tremendous value in our respective communities. As an MCW alum-nus, I take great pride in the Wisconsin Policy Forum’s new report and the affirming reaction of the GMC. MCW and all of academic medicine are essential engines to building a healthier world. My belief in this essentiality has led me to dedicate my professional blood, sweat and tears in order to help lead MCW and our partners along our remarkable upward trajectory as one the nation‘s truly special academic medical centers. Further, my belief in this essentiality also has driven me to help

carry this message on a national level as I have assumed several national leadership roles to help sustain and grow the singular position of academic medicine. One opportunity to lead in this conversation occurred recently as I, and a group of deans from other academic medical centers, collaborated on a manuscript published in Academic Medicine, titled, “Recommendations to Sustain the Academic Mission Ecosystem at U.S. Medical Schools.”

The Perspective details three major challenges to the academic pursuits of teaching and research. The first

is declining clinical reve-nue, due largely to chang-es in reimbursement and fee models. The second is the mostly stagnant funding climate for feder-ally-funded research over the past decade, which has led to an erosion of financial support for sci-ence. The third challenge is caused by changes in the overall medical edu-cation ecosystem with increasing costs related to medical education. Much like the Heil Report from more than 50 years ago, this Perspective provides

substantial evidence of the continued importance of research and medical education to the academic medi-cal environment, the economy and the overall advancement of health.

We proposed a number of recommendations in the Perspective, including creating strategic biomedical research plans and more cost-effective curricula. Our primary objective was, and is, to spark further conver-sations and creativity regarding how best to solve these challenges. The future of MCW and our academic medicine colleagues will be built upon the results of these conversations, and I am optimistic that the future of academic medicine can be even brighter than our distinguished past.

Joseph E. Kerschner, MD Dean, School of Medicine

Provost & EVP

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Marc A. de Moya, MD, Awarded the Milton and Lidy Lunda/

Charles Aprahamian Professorship of Trauma Surgery

Marc A. de Moya, MD, Asso-ciate Professor, Department of Surgery, Chief, Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, was awarded the Milton and Lidy Lunda/Charles Aprahamian Professorship of Trauma Surgery at the Medical College of Wisconsin.

Dr. de Moya joined MCW’s faculty in 2017. Prior to that time, he served as Associate Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and Medical Director of the Surgical Intensive Care Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He held many administrative appointments at Massachusetts General Hospital. At MCW, Dr. de Moya serves on the Hospital Advisory Committee, Inpatient Leadership Council Committee, Medical College Physicians Compensation Committee, Capital Budget Committee and Capital Management Workgroup.

In addition to being an expert surgeon, Dr. de Moya has published more than 190 articles, original papers, book chapters and reviews. He presents and lectures regularly regarding his research, clinical advances and medical and graduate medical educa-tion at local, regional, national and international meetings and workshops. Above and beyond his

administrative oversight of numerous education pro-grams at Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. de Moya was recognized for his teaching talents with multiple awards honoring educational excellence, including being named Best Clinical Instructor in 2010.

Dr. de Moya has developed a long-term relationship with leaders of trauma surgery education in Cuba in an effort to share knowledge and improve surgical out-comes, including conducting the fourth annual Trauma/Acute Care Surgery Symposium at the Calixto-Garcia Hospital in Havana. Dr. de Moya has conducted a longitudinal study of trauma outcomes at that hospital since 2012 and has demonstrated a 50 percent reduc-tion in trauma mortality over the last four years. His Cuban colleagues attribute the improvement to the positive changes in educational programming.

Dr. de Moya is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and is actively involved in a number of national and international societies. Dr. de Moya serves as an ad hoc reviewer for nine scientific journals of surgery, injury and trauma care.

He also serves on the editorial board of World Journal of Emergency Surgery, World Journal of Critical Care and Journal of Trauma/Acute Care Surgery. Dr. de Moya is a grant reviewer for the Intramural War Supplemental Program and the American Institute of Biological Sciences.

Manpreet (Meena) Bedi, MD, Awarded the Sharon K. Wadina

Chair in Sarcoma Research

Manpreet (Meena) Bedi, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncol-ogy, was awarded the Sharon K. Wadina Chair in Sarcoma Research at the Medical College of Wisconsin.

Dr. Bedi joined the MCW faculty in 2013 as Instructor in the Department of Radia-tion Oncology and was promoted to Assis-tant Professor in 2014. In 2017, she began a secondary appointment in the Depart-ment of Surgery.

Dr. Bedi, a board-certified radiation oncologist, is the leader of the Froedtert & MCW Sarcoma Program and holds clinical privileges at Froedtert & MCW Froedtert Hospital, the Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center, Froedtert & MCW Community Memorial Hospital and Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin. While completing MCW’s radiation oncology residency program, she chose to focus her research on sarcoma.

Dr. Bedi’s scientific focus is on the role of radia-tion therapy in soft tissue sarcoma. She has demonstrated her passion and commitment as a physician-scientist by bringing together a group of faculty members from across the nation to collaboratively create a new sarcoma research database.

Dr. Bedi has published nearly 30 articles, original papers, book chapters and reviews. She presents and lectures regularly at local,

regional, national and international meetings and workshops. Dr. Bedi serves as a journal reviewer for Practical Radiation Oncology, British Medical Journal and Brachytherapy Journal.

She served as chair of the first two annual Musculo-skeletal Oncology and Sarcoma Symposia in 2016 and 2017 and was appointed in 2016 to the Education Committee of the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology. Also in 2016, she was recognized with the Best Paper Award by the Musculoskeletal Tumor Society.

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Leadership Transition in the Advancing a Healthier

Wisconsin Endowment

Cheryl A. Maurana, PhD, Senior Vice President for Strategic Academic Partnerships, Stephen and Shelagh Roell Endowed Chair, Professor and Founding Director, Robert D. and Patricia E. Kern Institute for the Transformation of Medical Education; and Senior Associate Dean and Founding Director, Advancing a Healthier

Wisconsin (AHW) Endowment, will step down from her position as Senior Associate Dean and Founding Director of the AHW Endowment, effective July 1, 2018.

Terry Brandenburg, MBA, MPH, will serve as the Interim AHW Director during the national search for Dr. Maurana’s successor. He currently is Director of the Master of Public Health degree program in the Institute for Health and Equity in the MCW School of Medicine.

Mr. Brandenburg was a founding member of the AHW Consortium, and the State of Wisconsin Insurance Commissioner’s representative on the Consortium for its first eight years. He also served as Consortium Chair from 2006-2008 and as West Allis Health Commissioner for more than 20 years.

Under Dr. Maurana’s leadership, AHW has invested approximately $240 million in more than 360 initia-tives to improve health across Wisconsin. These initiatives have been weaving health through the fabric of communities, transforming health profes-sions’ education and translating research from lab to bedside to community and back, as well as garner-ing new resources and conserving existing ones.

Dr. Maurana has provided leadership for a major shift in focus for AHW’s third Five-Year Plan (2014-

2018), entitled Moving from Grantmaker to Change-maker. This innovative focus, which has received na-tional attention, leverages resources to build capacity, to innovate and to catalyze change for health improve-ment across Wisconsin. Changemaker roles include that of high-impact investor, learner, convener and influ-encer. Two new major statewide initiatives are $20 million for the improvement of behavioral health and $20 million for the reduction of cancer disparities. Dr. Maurana currently is leading the development of the 2019-2023 Five-Year Plan; entitled Advancing Wiscon-sin to be the Healthiest State in the Nation, it builds on the changemaking work of the past five years.

Dr. Maurana will continue to serve on the AHW Consor-tium (currently as Chair), as well as on the Research and Education Advisory Committee (REAC), working to develop generative leadership bodies to guide AHW’s bold vision and to tell AHW’s story.

As Senior Vice President for Strategic Academic Part-nerships, Dr. Maurana also will serve as Director of the National Transformation Network (NTN), leading new initiatives that leverage and expand the collaborative energy of the network. Additionally, she will work to advance women’s leadership.

Dr. Maurana, through her tireless leadership, team building, community advocacy and concern for the health of Wisconsin, has become synonymous with the Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment. She will be missed at the helm, but will continue her connec-tion to AHW – and has set the groundwork for AHW’s next leader to continue the enormously positive trajec-tory of AHW.

Please join me in expressing our sincere gratitude and deep appreciation to Dr. Maurana for her important contributions to the founding and leadership of the AHW Endowment.

The student-run Student Leadership Development Initiative was founded in 2017 to serve MCW students interested in becoming effective leaders in the medical field. The group invites physicians with a wide variety of leadership experience, including within health systems, public health and academic administration, to present on a wide range of leader-ship topics. Participating students have the oppor-tunity to develop enhanced interpersonal communi-cation skills and network with physician mentors and role models. Through these interactions, students begin to better understand their own journeys to becoming leaders.

I recently had an outstanding experience sharing my own path of leadership development with these students.

MCW faculty members who have an interest in present-ing are welcome to contact the group’s leaders, Alexan-der Chartier, Allison Linehan and Michael Sobin. These enterprising students shared with me their desire to expand the group so that more students can enjoy the excellent conversations and professional development opportunities that they have experienced. The group’s leaders welcome expansion ideas and input from faculty members to help continue growing the Student Leader-ship Development Initiative.

Student Leadership Development Initiative Seeks

Faculty Speakers, Input

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Jorge Saucedo, MD, MBA, was named Chief of the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine in the Department of Medicine, and Director of the Froedtert & Medical College of Wisconsin Heart and Vascular Service Line, effective August 15, 2018. Dr. Saucedo also will serve as Professor of Medicine and pending MCW Board of Trustees approval, receive MCW’s Eminent Scholar designation.

Dr. Saucedo holds the Allstate Foundation Judson B Branch Chair of Cardiology and is

Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. He also has served since 2013 as the leader of the Division of Cardiology and Co-Director of the Cardiovascular Institute at NorthShore Univer-sity HealthSystem in northern Illinois.

During his tenure, he has led an exceptional period of growth including the development of 13 new programs such as advanced heart failure, transcatheter mitral valve replacement

and vascular medicine, as well as the creation of a cardiology fellowship training program.

Jorge Saucedo, MD, MBA, Appointed Chief of the Division

of Cardiovascular Medicine

Ravit Boger, MD, Named Section Chief of Pediatric

Infectious Diseases

Ravit Boger, MD, has been ap-pointed Section Chief of Pediatric Infectious Diseases in the Depart-ment of Pediatrics, and Medical Director of Infectious Disease for Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin. She also will hold a secondary appointment in the Department of Microbiology and Immunolo-gy. Dr. Boger currently serves as Professor of Pediatrics at The

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her anticipated start date at MCW and Children’s is August 6, 2018.

Dr. Boger’s track record as a clinician scientist is impres-sive. Her research career has culminated in a focus upon understanding the biology of human cytomegalo-virus (CMV) infection so that we can treat the infection more effectively. CMV is among the most common and insidious infections known to mankind; 90 percent of adults in the US have antibodies to CMV. Dr. Boger has participated in several NIH study sections, and she holds multiple US patents.

Dr. Boger’s research expertise also extends to her men-torships, which have included pre-doctoral students, clinician scientists and postdoctoral fellows.

On Saturday, April 7, the Medical College of Wisconsin Hoops for Hunger Committee, comprising medical students Emily Navarette, Michael Gehring, Bryce Toburen and Devashish Joshi, hosted a basketball tournament at the Froedtert & MCW Sports Science Center in downtown Milwaukee. The event was held in collaboration with the Milwaukee Bucks and raised more than 500 pounds of non-perishable food items and monetary donations from spectators and players, all of which was donated to this year’s selected food pantry, Feeding America of Eastern Wisconsin.

The tournament featured eight teams of MCW students, residents, fellows and faculty members. My hat is off to the organizing committee and every-one who participated in the planning and the games. I hope this tradition of generosity, fun and good-natured competition continues in 2019 and for many years to come.

Students Host Inaugural

“Hoops for Hunger” Event

Jorge Saucedo, MD, MBA

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Rounding in the Department of Surgery

Last fall I rounded in the Department of Surgery with Douglas B. Evans, MD, Chair and Donald C. Ausman Family Foundation Professor of Surgery. Dr. Evans arranged for presentations in Froedtert Hospital’s Helfaer Auditorium on clinical advances and research in the areas of surgical weight loss interventions, vascular surgery and breast cancer and reconstructive surgery.

Jon Gould, MD, Professor and Chief of Surgery (General Surgery), and Srividya Kidambi, MD, Asso-ciate Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology), opened the rounding with an overview of the Froedtert and the Medical College of Wisconsin Bariatric Surgery Program and Comprehensive Weight Loss Center.

Gary Seabrook, MD, Professor and Chief of Surgery (Vascular Surgery), followed Drs. Gould and Kidambi with a discussion of recent advances in vascular surgery. Amanda Kong, MD, MS, Associ-ate Professor of Surgery (Surgical Oncology), Chief of the Section of Breast Surgery, closed the rounding with a presentation on F&MCW’s Breast Surgery Program.

My sincere thanks go to Dr. Evans and all of the

faculty members for sharing with me the astounding accomplishments in surgical and medically-supervised weight loss interventions, vascular surgery and breast cancer and reconstructive surgery.

Read more online about my visit to the Department of Surgery.

Two Faculty Members Receive 2018 Faculty Vitality Awards

David Friedland, MD, PhD, and Dawn Siegel, MD, have received 2018 Faculty Vitality Awards.

Dr. Friedland serves as Professor and Vice Chair of Otolaryngology and Communication Sciences, and Chief of the Divisions of Research and Otology and Neuro-Otologic Skull Base Surgery.

Dr. Friedland will use the Vitality Award to further support and enrich his efforts over the last several years to reestablish a research program in vestibular disorders, which negatively affect the ability to balance through symptoms such as dizziness or vertigo. This includes developing an en-hanced clinical infrastructure to sustain his ability to split time between scientific dis-covery and the comprehensive clinical care needed by patients with vestibular disorders, as Dr. Friedland will narrow his clinical fo-cus to vestibular disorders to better align with growth in his research program.

Dr. Siegel serves as Associate Professor of Derma-tology. She identified the opportunity to expand her research program’s scope to include epigenetics. Dr. Siegel has focused on discovering genetic under-pinnings of infantile hemangioma and vascular anomalies, and through the Vitality Award she will

spend two days per week working with epige-netics experts in the Genomic Sciences and Precision Medicine Center on a pilot study using infantile hemangioma and vascular anomaly tissue samples from the Siegel lab. She also intends to provide mentorship to other clinicians interested in epigenetics research.

The Faculty Vitality Award was designed to support formal scholarly endeavors undertaken on a concentrated but less intensive basis than a traditional sabbatical, allowing for the continua-tion of other professional responsibilities concur-rent with the period of the Award. Faculty mem-bers with six or more years of service to MCW are eligible to apply, and the projects conducted over the course of the Award must directly relate to one or more of MCW’s core missions.

With these two new Awards, this year marks the first time we will have three concurrent and on-going Faculty Vitality Award projects.

I wish to extend my sincere thanks to Ken Gordon, MD, Thomas J. Russell Family/Milwaukee Community Dermatologists Chair of Dermatology and Professor of Dermatology, for adding financial support from the Department of Dermatology to enable MCW to fund two Faculty Vitality Awards to deserving candi-dates this year.

Amanda Kong, MD, MS

David Friedland, MD, PhD

Dawn Siegel, MD

Joan Bedinghaus, MD, retired in March after 22 years of dedicated service as a clinician and faculty member. Her academic focus was medical student education and she was a member of MCW’s Society of Teaching Schol-ars. She also served on multiple MCW committees, in-cluding the Curriculum and Evaluation Committee.

Julie Biller, MD, was appointed Chief of the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine in the Department of Medicine, effective April 1. Dr. Biller has served as Interim Division Chief for the past nine months and her permanent appointment follows an extensive national search.

Matthew Budde, PhD, and Antje Kroner-Milsch, PhD, received funding from the Craig H. Nielsen Foundation for advanced research into spinal cord injury. Dr. Budde’s project focuses on developing advanced diffusion MRI techniques to provide better biomarkers and prognostic tools for spinal cord injury. Dr. Antje Kroner-Milsch’s research seeks to define the inflammatory pathways that are activated after spinal cord injury, along with develop-ing imaging biomarker surrogates to track these inflam-matory processes and develop avenues for treatment.

Bruce M. Camitta, MD, will retire from MCW on June 30, 2018, after decades of service. Dr. Camitta is a mod-el scientist, leader and mentor who played a key role in the development of the partnership between MCW and the MACC Fund to improve outcomes for children diag-nosed with cancer and blood disorders.

Jenifer Coburn, PhD, was elected by peers to chair the 2018 Biology of Spirochetes Gordon Research Con-ference, which was held January 21-26, 2018, in Ventura, Calif.

Camille Garrison, MD, was appointed medical staff president of Columbia St. Mary’s Milwaukee. In this new role, she is responsible for medical staff credentialing and privileging, governance functions and quality assessment and improvement. Dr. Garrison will continue to serve on the MCW faculty and to direct the Columbia St. Mary’s Family Medicine Residency Program.

Peter J. Newman, PhD, received the Outstanding In-vestigator Award from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health. This highly competitive award provides Dr. Newman and the six members of his laboratory team $7 million over seven years to advance understanding of how proteins on the surface of human blood platelets become unintentional targets of the immune system, which can lead to devas-tating bleeding disorders.

Merle R. Orr, MD, was selected by The Milwaukee Times to receive the 2018 Black Excellence Award in the “Health” category. The Black Excellence Awards recog-nize groundbreaking African Americans from across the Milwaukee area who are serving communities, inspiring peers and transforming lives.

MCW FACULTY NEWS & UPDATES

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Search Update

Marquette and MCW Department of Biomedical Engineering

Evaluating two final candidates. Department of Emergency Medicine

Evaluating three final candidates. Department of Family and Community Medicine

Compiling votes from search committee ballot.

Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences

Scheduled in-person interviews with three candidates. Department of Physiology

Scheduled airport interviews in April and March. Kern Institute

Scheduled search committee kickoff and scoping meetings.

Cheryl Stucky, PhD, is one of 12 experts in pain science and care nationwide to be selected into the Mayday Pain and Society Fellowship program, which is focused on communications and advocacy for improved pain care. The 12 Fellows come from across the United States and Canada, with a wide range of pain expertise represented, including anes-thesiology, pediatric care, headache and orofacial pain, pain science and psychology.

Michael Uihlein, MD, served as team doctor for the US sled hockey team at the 2018 Paralympic Games in South Korea. The sled hockey team won its third consecutive gold medal at the Games in an overtime win over Canada. Dr. Uihlein has served as the team’s doctor for six years.

Jennifer L. Walsh, PhD, received an award of near-ly $1.2 million over three years from the National Insti-tute of Mental Health for her study, “Longitudinal Pre-dictors of PrEP Use and Adherence Among Young Black MSM.”

Marjorie Wang, MD, MPH, was selected as a direc-tor of the American Board of Neurological Surgery for a six-year term. Dr. Wang’s term commences in May 2018. The American Board of Neurological Surgery, established in 1940, defines the requirements for train-ing in neurological surgery. Dr. Wang is the first neu-rosurgeon from MCW to be elected to the American Board of Neurological Surgery’s board of directors.

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Lisa Grill Dodson MD

Founding Dean, MCW-Central Wisconsin

medical education, family medicine and rural health litera-ture, including a new publication, the Journal of Regional Medical Campuses – of which I serve on the editorial

board.”

Path to becoming a Founding Dean: “Before joining MCW, I served as Direc-tor of the Oregon Area Health Education Center (AHEC) and Professor of Family Medicine at OHSU. I have had a belief, since medical school, that there are some things we have to do differently to produce primary care for rural areas. And it was the opportunity to come to

MCW and create something from scratch toward that end that was the draw for me. The creation of the Founding Dean position showed me that MCW was serious about its commitment to rural medical education and rural medicine.”

Primary responsibilities as Founding Dean: “As Found-ing Dean, I was responsible for hiring staff and faculty and setting up the model for the Longitudinal Integrated Clerk-ship (LIC), which is a huge departure from the traditional clerkship model. I also have had to recruit and engage a large number of community faculty. My biggest role right now is keeping us on task and on mission, and supporting the faculty.”

Greatest accomplishments as Founding Dean: “ I am very proud that we have been able to attract such a high quality staff and faculty, who are very gifted educators and really care about our mission. Pulling off the LIC was diffi-cult, but it’s a really good approach. The community has been extraordinarily involved, especially in the admissions process, and each of our students has a primary mentor in the community who is not a physician. We are working to understand the effect that placing a medical school here has had on the community, especially on the educational pipeline. And I feel really good that several of our students would not have been able to go to medical school without us being located here.”

Greatest challenges as Founding Dean: “ The three-year curriculum is the hardest thing we are doing because there is no wiggle room. It’s hard on everyone because there are no breaks and limited planning time. We need to ensure that faculty and staff don’t burn out and that stu-dents don’t become cynical. But it’s worth working on a competency-based curriculum that is not time-dependent.”

Of note: “ My husband and I are new curlers, which we picked up since moving here. I’m also a big soccer fan and love gardening of all types.”

Born: Portland, Oregon

Childhood: Oregon and Montana

Undergraduate degree: BA (major in biology), Lewis and Clark College (Portland, Oregon)

Medical degree: The State Univer-sity of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook School of Medicine (now Stony Brook University)

Postgraduate training/fellowship: Family Medicine residency, Oregon Health & Science University (Portland); Faculty Development fellowship, University of Washington

Joined MCW: August 2014, as Founding Dean of MCW-Central Wisconsin

Family: Husband, Peter; sons, David, 31, & Jason, 27

Resides: Wausau, Wisconsin

Decision to go into the medical field: “I graduated from college thinking that I would be an ornithologist and probably teach, but we went to New York, where my husband was a graduate student in engineering at Columbia University. I ended up working in a pathology lab as a research technician where we were working on something that we really didn’t know about at the time – this was 1981 – which turned out to be AIDS. I became very captivated by the science, but more so by the human plight of the patients. I would go around and pick up specimens, and I was really struck by the terrible conditions in which those patients were being treated. People shunned them, even refusing to deliver trays of food to them. I be-came more interested in the human side and how we take care of people with terrible problems. My boss recognized my compassion and told me that I should go into medicine. So I entered medical school think-ing I would do family medicine, and I stuck with it.”

Research focus: “My research interests are in educating students and residents, as well as what it takes to get people to commit to primary care and to meet community workforce needs. I am interested in studying the elements that create a rural and primary care workforce. There’s only a small group in the US working in this area, including Dr. Matt Hunsaker; in fact, about 20 years ago we created a group called the Rural Medical Educators, which is a committee of the National Rural Health Association. We do a number of targeted presentations and publish in the

“If I could have succeeded

on any other career path,

I would have wanted

to be a college teacher in

ornithology and field biology

— or a rancher.”

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