Sigurd Sivertson Medical Education Award

This Wisconsin Medical Alumni Association's Sigurd Sivertson Medical Education Award recognizes the contributions made by hundreds of physicians in communities throughout Wisconsin who provide quality healthcare while offering medical students rich educational opportunities in small communities.

2011 Sigurd Sivertson Medical Education Award

James J. Jerzak, MD ’83

Dr. Jerzak has been committed to the SMPH Preceptor Program for more than two decades. In addition to teaching and mentoring medical students, he regularly attends semi-annual meetings in Madison and meaningfully contributes to the curriculum and other on-going improvements in the preceptor program. He is very well-liked by students, consistently earning excellent evaluations from them.

Dr. Jerzak is a family medicine physician with Bellin Medical Group in Green Bay. The primary care group, which he co-founded, is affiliated with Bellin Health, which now includes 112 providers in 27 locations. He is also medical director of Bellin Health’s new and expanded education effort for medical students, nurses and physician assistants.

Dr. Jerzak completed his internship and family practice residency at St. Michael Hospital in Milwaukee. He is a member of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine. He has been a faculty member in the Wisconsin Academy of Family Physicians Externship Program for more than two decades.