Medical Alumni Distinguished Teaching Awards
The University of Wisconsin Medical Alumni Association Distinguished Teaching Awards is a University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health medical student elected award given to teachers in recognition of their outstanding qualities.
2011 Distinguished Award for Basic Sciences Teaching
This award recognizes the most distinguished basic science teacher in the first two years of medical school as identified by second-year medical students.
John Harting, PhD
Dr. Harting is no stranger to teaching awards. He has been awarded more of them – 30 and still counting – than any other faculty member at the School of Medicine and Public Health.
Harting has been teaching UW medical, nursing and physical therapy students for some 38 years. In addition to teaching, he has directed a basic science research program for decades. His interests are comparative neuroanatomy and experimental studies of the visual system. He served as chair of the Department of Anatomy for 29 years.
He earned his MS and PhD, both in anatomy, from the Ohio State University. He completed post-doctoral fellowships at Columbia University and Duke University and a National Institutes of Health post-doctoral fellowship at UW-Madison.
2011 Outstanding Resident Teaching Award
This award recognizes outstanding teaching efforts of a resident teacher.
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Ancil K. Philip, MD
Dr. Philip is a fifth-year resident, and chief resident, in general surgery at UW-Madison. He spent the first two years of his general surgery residency at Mayo Clinic Arizona, and earned his medical degree at the Medical College of Wisconsin.
He has an interest in computer tomographic colonography and techniques of abdominal access. He has contributed many hours to community service in clinics for the underserved and underinsured in Madison, Milwaukee and Kerala, India. This is his first teaching award. |
2011 Distinguished Award for Clinical Science Teaching
These awards recognize clinical teachers from each major teaching location (La Crosse, Marshfield, Milwaukee and Madison) who are highly regarded by students for outstanding teaching efforts.
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Jonathan A. Zlabek, MD '97 (La Crosse)
Dr. Zlabek is director of vascular medicine and associate medical director of information systems at Gundersen Lutheran Health System. He has been deeply involved in medical education-Gundersen Lutheran residents voted him Teacher of the Year in 2004.
Among other things, he has served as associate program director of the Internal Medicine Residency, director of the Vascular Medicine Resident Rotation and preceptor to third-year SMPH students. A 1997 graduate of the School of Medicine and Public Health, he was chief resident in internal medicine at Gundersen Lutheran.
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Robert J. Dempsey, MD (Madison)
He has been recognized with the UW Neurosurgery Department’s Citation for Medical Student Teaching and its Resident Teaching Award, and was given the Master Teacher Award at Kentucky. He was named to "Who's Who in Medical Sciences Education" in 2005. He has been a long-time volunteer teacher in rural Ecuador and, more recently, in Africa. He earned his MD at the University of Chicago and completed his neurosurgery residency at University of Michigan Hospitals.
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Alfonso L. Velasco, MD (Marshfield)
A general and colorectal surgeon, he is an SMPH clinical assistant professor of surgery. Dr. Velasco earned his medical degree at Anahuac University School of Medicine in Mexico and completed his residency and two research fellowships at the University of Minnesota
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Paul M. Maes, DO (Milwaukee)
Dr. Maes is the medical director of Aurora Wiselives Clinic. A School of Medicine and Public Health associate professor of family medicine, he is director of the geriatrics curriculum at Aurora St Luke's Family Practice Residency.
He has a passion for sharing experiences related to his large urban practice, and especially his interest in caring for elder populations, with students. The UW Family Practice Residency honored himwith its Resident Clinical Teaching Award. He earned his DO degree at New York College of Osteopathic Medicine and completed his family medicine residency at UW.
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