Meet Our President
Donn Fuhrmann, MD '76, became the 47th president of the Wisconsin Medical Alumni Association (WMAA) on July 1, 2010.
Fuhrmann has served as a member of the Wisconsin Medical Alumni Association board of directors for six years and has been a class representative "forever," as he says.
Volunteering to be class rep was a logical move, because he was president of his class for three of his four years of medical school. Before that, as a pre-medicine undergraduate at UW-Madison, he was president of his senior class.
During those college and medical school years, he took time to feed his passion for travel. For example, he lived with exchange students in South America, stayed with a UW School of Medicine and Public Health graduate in Thailand, visited Australia and shadowed a physician in a Scottish fishing village. But he ultimately ended up in New London, Wisconsin, the town where he was born and raised.
Fuhrmann has been a family practice physician there for 30 years.