Jane Zanutto Crone, NP, MEd, MS

Jane Crone has earned the respect of School of Medicine and Public Health students and faculty for her extraordinary teaching skills and the positive influence she has on preclinical medical students and internal medicine residents.

As director of the gynecology-genitourinary training program, she offers students timely feedback and makes sure they leave these sessions confident in their abilities. Crone has also developed "Faces of Patients," a segment for new student orientation that dramatically introduces the class to patients who discuss how they deal with their illnesses.

Kimberly M. Lansing, MD, PhD

An instructor in the Department of Family Medicine's Primary Care Clerkship at the school's Western Academic Campus in La Crosse, Lansing is noted for her original and inventive educational strategies, enthusiasm and commitment to students.

She developed the problem-based learning cases that have become a cornerstone of the clerkship. She also has been instrumental in shaping the Wisconsin Academy for Rural Medicine (WARM). Her experience with case-based teaching and her creative ideas have also been an asset in developing new integrative cases for first-year students.

F. Javier Nieto, MD, MPH, PhD

Nieto's accomplishments as a teacher, mentor and internationally recognized author have had a significant impact on the School of Medicine and Public Health and the Department of Population Health Sciences, which he chairs.

He has played a critical role in creating and shaping a new public health curriculum for medical and public health students. He developed the course Population Medicine and Epidemiology, which is required for all first-year medical students, and champions the need for more epidemiology throughout the curriculum.

Katharina S. Stewart, MD

Stewart's enthusiasm and drive to teach the complexities of obstetrics and gynecology make her a well-respected instructor and positive role model. Stewart led a departmental task force that made several improvements in the clerkship program.

Under her leadership, the clerkship has also received significantly higher marks from students for learning environment, faculty interest and accessibility. Student approval of the clerkship's learning objectives, individual observation and feedback from faculty, and teaching effectiveness have also been high in comparison to the national mean.

Stephen J. Weiler, MD

In nearly three decades at the School of Medicine and Public Health, Weiler has consistently been a leader in educational programs and innovations both within his own Department of Psychiatry and more broadly across the undergraduate medical curriculum.

He has served as psychiatry residency program director, course director for the preclinical psychiatry courses, associate chair in psychiatry for education and year two faculty leader of the medical school curriculum transformation. He has chaired the Curriculum Architecture Task Force and the Area Oversight Committee on Neuroscience.