Dr. Richard Dhyanchand is a faculty member and chair of the Department of Biology at UW-Platteville, as well as an anatomy lecturer with the UW School of Medicine and Public Health’s Physician Assistant program on the Platteville campus. For over a decade, he has been teaching undergraduate students and mentoring them as they pursue careers in health care.
A native of Rockford, IL, Dhyanchard lives in Lancaster, WI and has developed a passion for rural health care in Wisconsin. He serves on the boards of the Scenic Rivers Area Health Education Center, Grant Regional Health Center, Grant County Health and Human Services Board and the UW Carbone Cancer Center Community Advisory Board.
Dhyanchard has worked for Pfizer, Inc. and conducted vision research at UW–Madison. He earned his MD from the American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine in 2001, completed graduate-level course work in public health and epidemiology at the University of Illinois at Chicago and received a bachelor of science degree in mathematics from Wheaton College in 1993.