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Emeritus Faculty Awards - WMAA
 Gordon Tuffli, M.S., M.D.
Clinician Scientist
Gordon Tuffli attended Beloit College for two years before enlisting in the U.S. Coast Guard and attaining the rank of Hospital Corpsman, 1st Class. Following his military service, Dr. Tuffli attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison to finish his undergraduate degree in Zoology. He then completed an M.D. and a master’s degree in anatomy simultaneously at the UW. He started his pediatric residency in Maricopa County Hospital in Phoenix, Arizona, later completing it at the UW.
Dr. Tuffli was offered an opportunity to work part time as a private practicing pediatrician and the rest in an academic pediatric endocrine position, which gave him the opportunity to practice and teach. Years later he became the mentor of the UW School of Medicine and Public Health Class of 2001 and took a position in the division of pediatric endocrinology. He retired from pediatric endocrinology in 2003 when he was awarded emeritus status by the school.
 Emeritus faculty awards are bestowed each year. These awards are given in recognition of long and effective service to the Medical School in the areas of widely recognized teaching and/or research or noteworthy administration, including program development.
Gerald C. Mueller, M.D., Ph.D.
Basic Scientist
Gerald Mueller earned both his undergraduate degree and M.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and completed an internship at the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond, Virginia. He returned to UW to complete a Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Oncology. He was a Schering Scholar at the Max Planck Institut in Tubingen, Germany.
Dr. Mueller has been based at the McArdle Laboratory for cancer research on the University of Wisconsin campus his entire career. His research has focused on the mechanism of action of hormones and special nutrients in growth and differentiation of animal cells. He has participated extensively in activities with the American Association for Cancer Research and the American Cancer Society. He has also been a scientific advisor to the National Cancer Institute, the National Institute of Environmental Health Services and the Gordon Research Conferences.
Roswell K. Boutwell, Ph.D.
Basic Scientist
Roswell Boutwell received his undergraduate degree in Chemistry from Beloit College. He then received a master’s and Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and worked as a post-doctoral fellow. Dr. Boutwell has been a professor in the Department of Oncology at the UW-Madison for over 50 years. He spent two years in Hiroshima, Japan studying radiation effects with the Radiation Effects Research Foundation.
He has also been involved with a number of committees at the National Research Council, including the Food Protection Committee, the Committee on Non-Nutritive Sweeteners and the Subcommittee on Arsenic of the Committee on Medical and Biological Effects of Environmental Pollution. Dr. Boutwell has been a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for Cancer Research, an Associate Editor for Nutrition and Cancer and on the National Cancer Advisory Board.
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