Hospitals and Facilities – Home Page:
The Medical College of Wisconsin Affiliated Hospitals represents a comprehensive group of facilities
which have established ties and a close affiliation with MCW and form part of our academic partners in
the fulfillment of our mission. The majority of the facilities is located in the Milwaukee Medical Center,
a 250 acre campus in the suburbs of Milwaukee. These include Froedtert Hospital (the main adult
hospital facility and principal teaching hospital), Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, the various outpatient
clinics, and the Blood Center of Wisconsin. Additional affiliated hospitals include Community Memorial
Hospital in Mennomone Falls, Saint Joe’s Community Hospital in West Bend, the Zablocki V.A. Medical
Center, and the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner’s Office in downtown Milwaukee.
Froedtert Hospital – Home Page (introductory paragraph – please modify):
The main teaching hospital of the Medical College of Wisconsin, FH attracts patients from Wisconsin,
Northern Illinois and Upper Michigan. This tertiary care hospital has the only Level I Trauma Center in
Eastern Wisconsin. It is a major solid organ and bone marrow transplant referral center. The hospital is
consistently ranked among the nation’s top 50 academic hospitals in various categories by U.S. News
and World Report.
Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin - Home Page:
Community Memorial Hospital – Front Page:
Blood Center of Wisconsin – front page:
St. Joe’s West Ben – first page:
Faculty:
Faculty – Specialty:
Education – introduction:
Education is one of the main missions of the Pathology Department at the Medical College of Wisconsin.
The department plays a significant role in the educational efforts of the College at all levels, including
undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate level, as well as in the education of our peers. The
department actively participates in the Medical School curriculum and contributes to the efforts of the
MCW Graduate School. Additionally, one of our most significant roles is in the teaching of the next
generation of pathologists. The department has a healthy residency program that is accredited for 16
positions. We also offer several clinical fellowships in various subspecialties, and maintain an active
International Observership and Fellowship Program for qualified candidates from overseas who wish to
spend a period of observation in our department to gain increased or advanced knowledge in various
disciplines.
Fellowship Programs: Please eliminate “(non-accredited)” from the description. Simply state:
International Fellowship and Observeship Program:
The Department offers and International Fellowship and Observeship Program for qualified international
candidates who have completed or are about to complete residency training in pathology at their home
countries outside of the Unites States. The program can be customized to the candidate’s needs and
areas of interest, and can be spent in a general category, such as general surgical pathology, or in a more
focused area, such as hematopathology, dermatopathology or molecular pathology. Observers are able
to spend from a period of a few months to a full year participating in all the routine service and teaching
activities of the department. Participation in research projects is encouraged. The candidate will have
no clinical service duties, but will be welcome to observe the routine signout of cases, gross room and
autopsy activities, and the activities of the other specialized labs. Candidates will be welcome to
participate in the daily Peer Review Conference at the multi-headed scope, and to attend all the lectures
and interdisciplinary conferences throughout the hospital and affiliates. A stipend is not available for
this position and the candidate must commit in writing to assume responsibility for funding their travel
and living expenses during the duration of the rotation. The successful candidate must obtain a letter of
support from their home institution/hospital and comply with all the requirements of the department
and of our institution for such an activity.
Contact persons:
Saul Suster, M.D.
Director of International Fellowship Program
ssuster@mcw.edu
Erich Stabsfeldt
Program Coordinator (provide e-mail)
Under this entry we also need to create links for:
1. List of past fellows (table with names, dates, affiliations, etc).
2. Current Fellows (get pictures and a short statement of what they’re currently doing here and
areas of interest).
3. Previous International Observers (we’ll need to contact them and ask them to write a paragraph
relating their experience here)
Other Teaching Activities:
I’ll need the help of the faculty to identify what these are:
1. Medical School students
2. Any other teaching: Marquette students, dental students, nursing students, graduate program,
fellows in other departments, etc…
Continuing Medical Education – Front page:
The Department of Pathology is heavily involved in continuing medical education activities for its faculty
and for all community physicians who wish to participate in our programs through a variety of
educational activities. The department organizes a monthly Pathology Grand Rounds session which
includes a mixture of lectures by members of our own faculty as well as distinguished visiting professors
from other academic institutions throughout the country and from reputable centers abroad. The
department also counts with various visiting professors throughout the year who partake of their
knowledge with our staff by providing lectures and slide seminars. In addition, the department offers a
daily Peer Review Conference at an 18-headed scope which serves as a working and teaching conference
for the faculty and house staff, where the interesting or problems cases of the day are reviewed and
discussed.
The department also offers an annual 3-day continuing medical education program for community
pathologists in the State of Wisconsin and surrounding states, “The Midwestern Conference”, which
provides an average of 19 AMA accredited CME hours to participants. The conference is held at a hotel
in downtown Milwaukee and counts with the attendance yearly of more than 100 pathologists from the
community and from various academic medical centers. The department also sponsors several
international meetings for pathologists in various countries outside of the United States, in particular
through collaboration with the Arkadi M. Rywlin International Pathology Slide Seminar Club and various
other organizations abroad.
Another way in which the department contributes to continuing medical education is through
participation by its various faculty members in national and international meetings and update courses,
including the National Meeting of the College of American Pathologists, the National Meeting of the
American Society of Clinical Pathology, the United States and Cnadian Academy of Pathology national
Meeting, the International Academy of Pathology International Meetingh, the Ejuropean Society of
Pathology Meeting, the Latin American Society of Pathology Meeting, the International Society of
Dermatopathology Meeting, and various national and local societies both abroad and in the United
States.
Grand Rounds – Intro:
Pathology Grand Rounds are conducted in the department every month utilizing a lecture format. The
majority of our guest speakers are reputable pathologists from other institutions who are selected as
guest speakers for the innovative aspect of their research or clinical activities. Occasionally, members of
our own faculty will present their current research or other innovative clinical activities of interest to the
faculty. Pathology Grand Rounds are widely announced throughout campus and are generally very well
attended.
Annual Midwestern Conference – (Introduction):
As part of the department’s educational activities and to fulfill its commitment to provide the
community of physicians in Southeastern Wisconsin and surrounding areas credits in continuing medical
education in pathology, we have been offering an annual update course in surgical pathology, “The
Midwestern Conference”, since 2008. The course is intended for surgical pathologists in community
practice, as well as for trainees in pathology, and offers a broad overview of the most recent advances
and discoveries in the field of surgical pathology. The course takes place over 3 days during one
weekend in the month of September. Approximately 19 hours of AMA accredited Category 1 CME credit
hours are provided in each course. Five to six prominent pathologists from various prestigious academic
institutions throughout the United States serve as the guest faculty, and the remainder of lectures is
provided by MCW faculty members. The course is intended to be practical, informative and timely, and
covers a broad range of subjects in diagnostic pathology. Active participation of the audience is
encouraged through the use of remote access devices for anonymous feedback on the issues discussed.
The course has enjoyed high ratings by the audience and is well-attended, and continues to successfully
attract a diverse audience of pathologists from over 35 states and several countries abroad.
Arkadi M. Rywlin International Pathology Slide Seminars:
The Arkadi M. Rywlin International Pathology Slide Seminar is a not-for-profit organization that includes
approximately 45 international academic pathologists engaged in the exchange of interesting and
challenging cases. The Pathology Department at the Medical College of Wisconsin serves as the hub of
the organization, whose mission is to promote the exchange of information in a spirit of collegiality, with
the purpose of sharing ideas and opinions around the cases circulated to further our understanding of
the various disease processes under study. The organization launched to the public its first International
AMR Symposium in Anatomic Pathology in 199_ in San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy. Since then, more than 6
international events have taken place, the most recent one in Stockholm, Sweden. The 2 most recent
venues have sponsored AMA category I CME credits through the department of pathology and the MCW
Office of Continuing Medical Education.
Other Conferences – Introduction:
The department participates and sponsors CME credits and continuing medical education in a variety of
other venues, particularly overseas, by supporting and sponsoring various institutions and organizations
in the creation of CME activities for pathologists. These include: Update Courses in Surgical Pathology
for the Italian Lega Contra Cancer in La Spezia, Italy, and for various surgical pathology meetings in Latin
America.
Clinical Services:
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Please reverse the order of the icons and place Anatomic Pathology first and Clinical
Pathology next to it.
Under the introduction/description for Anatomic Pathology we will need to update the
numbers for the surgical pathology cases, cytology cases, etc.
We should have a picture of the director of each division in the front page.
Each one of the subspecialties in Anatomic Pathology should have links to its own page, with
a more detailed explanation of the specialty by its members/director, including pictures and
perhaps a short video clip.
The Clinical Pathology page should follow the same format, with Dr. Kroft’s picture plus a
detailed explanation of the various subdivisions, and links for each subdivision with a further
explanation in more detail by the faculty in charge (plus pictures, videos, etc to illustrate the
activities).
Consultation Services:
The Department of Pathology offers expert consultation services to colleagues in the community and at
other institutions for difficult or challenging cases in several areas of expertise, including thoracic
pathology (lung, mediastinum, pleura), soft tissue and musculoskeletal pathology, endocrine pathology,
hematopathology, dermatopathology, neuropathology, cytopathology and gastrointestinal and liver
pathology. Additionally, consultative services in molecular pathology are available through our Clinical
and Translational Research Core Lab. Consultation services are also available from the Clinical Pathology
division in coagulation, flow cytometry, microbiology and clinical chemistry and toxicology.
Funded Research (Intro):
A variety of funded research activities are carried out by the Department of Pathology at the Medical
College of Wisconsin, including research that is funded by Government Agencies (NIH, DOD, and others),
Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin (AHW) endowment, and various other private and commercial sources.
The department also actively collaborates with several of the other departments in campus and with
outside institutions in funded research. Active collaboration in funded projects is promoted through our
Clinical and Translational Research Core Lab, which houses the capability to support researchers
throughout campus with a variety of specialized molecular techniques on solid tissue samples. Funded
research is also supported by the department through the activities of our MCW Tissue bank, which is
housed and operated by the Department of Pathology.
MCW Tissue Bank: