Elizabeth Petty, MD
epetty@wisc.edu
UW School of Medicine and Public Health
4121 Health Sciences Learning Center
750 Highland Avenue
Madison, WI 53705-2221
Executive assistant
Susan Jeannette
608-263-2480
jeannette@wisc.edu
Elizabeth Petty is senior associate dean of academic affairs, as well as medical director of the genetic counselor training program, co-director of the American Medical Association’s inaugural LGBTQ+ Fellowship program (launched at UW with funding from the American Medical Association Foundation), and professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
She oversees multiple health professional degree programs and guides the academic missions of the Graduate Medical Education and Continuing Medical Education programs, as well as the global health and learner diversity programs. As an ACMGG board certified geneticist, she cares for people with genetic conditions. Over the last three decades, Petty has championed the development and implementation of innovative curricula, enhanced admissions and student support programs, helped build equity and inclusion initiatives, and conducted innovative basic science, social science, and education research. She has been an Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) fellow and an Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Council of Deans fellow, as well as a founding member of the Kern National Network for Flourishing in Academic Medicine. In addition to publishing numerous manuscripts and book chapters, she was a senior editor of The Equal Curriculum: The Student and Educator Guide to LGBTQ Health. Petty enjoys strengthening academic-community partnerships to optimize health, building diversity and inclusion programs that promote health equity, driving strategic improvement processes to improve academic outcomes, and enhancing interprofessional institutional initiatives to promote respect, professionalism, and well-being.
Prior to joining the UW School of Medicine and Public Health faculty, Petty was a professor of internal medicine and human genetics at the University of Michigan Medical School. She received a B.A. in art history and human biology at Clarke University, Dubuque, Iowa, completed her medical degree at UW School of Medicine and Public Health and her pediatric residency training at UW Health, and conducted clinical and molecular genetics postdoctoral training at Yale University.