June 2021

Pediatric Rehab

By Dr. Kim Zvara

Peds Rehab NPs Host Children's Wisconsin Journal Club

Hannah Belknap, NP, and Julia Fishler, NP, presented at the Children’s Wisconsin APP Pharmacology Journal Club on Pediatric Spasticity Management. They are doing their part to educate our peers about the impact that appropriate spasticity management can make.

We extend our congratulations to our Residency and Fellowship graduates whom we will celebrate on June 17. We wish them the best in their fellowships and beyond and look forward to hearing about all their future accomplishments.

Our graduates will be spreading out across the country!

• Charlotte Ball, MD – Spinal Cord Injury Fellowship, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
• Nicholas Donohue, MD – Pain Fellowship, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
• Ahmed El-Sayed, DO – Sports Medicine Fellowship, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
• Michael Harper, MD – Sports Medicine Fellowship, NYP Hospital-Weil Cornell Medical Center, – New York, NY
• Jacob Kastner, DO – Sports Medicine Fellowship, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD
• Bindiya Shah, DO – Spasticity Fellowship, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
• Nicholas Wilcox, MD – Sports Medicine Fellowship, John Peter Smith Hospital, Fort Worth, TX.

Congratulations to Dr. Michael Harper for being selected to receive one of the 2021 MCWAH Research & Quality Awards for his research project entitled "Wheelchair Athlete Concussion Baseline Data: A Pilot Retrospective Analysis".

We are pleased to announce that the recipient of this year’s N. Muni Reddy, MD, Endowed Student Award in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation is Andrew Ernst. Andrew graduated from the Medical College of Wisconsin this May and will be completing his preliminary year at Gundersen Lutheran in Wisconsin and his residency in PM&R at Stanford University in California. We wish Andrew continued success throughout his career and hope to see him back in Milwaukee!

• Congratulations to Dr. Chris White for his recent case report publication with his medical student apprentice Danyon Anderson entitled "Charcot Spinal Arthropathy-Induced Progression From Upper to Lower Motor Neuron Bowel Syndrome" on Cureus - Pub Med. 
• Congratulations to Dr. Chris White, Dr. Bryan Lamb, and medical student student Andrew Ernst for their case report titled "Arterial Thoracic Outlet Syndrome in a Runner" published on Cureus - Pub Med.

Join us to celebrate the research accomplishments of our PM&R residents and fellows on Wednesday, June 2, 2021 from 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm (CST).

Dr. Braza and family are thrilled to welcome her first grandchild, Graeme Edward, born on May 12 to Matt and Alicia Braza. They reside in Grand Rapids, Michigan where Matt is a Plastic Surgery resident.   All are doing well!  

Congratulations to Dr. Judy Kosasih and her son, the new Dr. Matthew Kosasih. He graduated from MCW in May and Dr. Judy Kosasih was able to hood him officially! This is a wonderful accomplishment and deeply meaningful as Dr. Judy Kosasih is a MCW alumni. He is pursuing residency training in Pediatric Anesthesia at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Congratulations to the entire family and warm wishes for a fantastic career, Dr. Matthew Kosasih. 

We wish Dr. Erin Beddows success in her cancer fellowship for one year in DC through Medstar / Georgetown. She will be caring for cancer patients, addressing the cancer and cancer treatment related impairments.

Have news to share with your PM&R colleagues? We would love to hear from you for our next issue, so please email any recent publications, awards, presentations, shout-outs, pictures, etc. to Beatriz Envila at benvila@mcw.edu.

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