This article first appeared in the ‘Quarterly,’ The Magazine for alumni, friends, faculty, and students of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. See the complete issue, along with the original layout …
100 Years
100 Years of Surgery: Heart Surgery Follow Up 50 Years Later
After experiencing an increase of cardiac arrhythmias in 1973, Gary R. Weisman, a PhD student in the Department of Chemistry, visited UW-Madison’s Student Health Services. As a child, Weisman had been diagnosed with a congenital …
100 Years of Surgery: 10 Achievements that Improved Lives and Moved Health Care Forward
Over the past 100 years, the Department of Surgery has made influential contributions to the field of medicine that have improved healthcare for people in Wisconsin and beyond. With contributions spanning from innovative treatments to …
100 Years of Surgery: Mohs Surgery
Dating back to the early years of the UW–Madison Department of Surgery, faculty and staff have made ground-breaking innovations in the field of surgery. One important innovation was Mohs Surgery, a micrographic surgery technique to …
100 Years of Surgery: UW Solution
The UW–Madison Department of Surgery has always been at the forefront of innovation, especially in the field of transplantation. Despite not becoming its own division until 1995, transplantation has been a part of the Department …