Grow – Wisconsin's Magazine for the Life Sciences

When Meyer returned to Wisconsin in 2008 to become an assistant professor of pediatrics at the Medical College of Wisconsin, he brought a wealth of experience that has given him a unique perspective on his specialty of critical care. Serving 13 years in the U.S. Air Force, Meyer rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel and saw duty at Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan as a critical-care medical consultant. He then led a critical-care air transport team that assisted in the evacuation of critically ill patients from New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. These days he pursues research on transport medicine while treating patients in critical condition at the Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin.

Sinsky practices internal medicine at Medical Associates Clinic and Health Plans, Iowa’s oldest multi-specialty group-practice medical clinic. She has served on numerous professional panels and committees, including the Society of Internal Medicine’s Blue Ribbon Panel on the Future of General Internal Medicine, the American College of Physicians and the National Committee for Quality Assurance. She is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and a director on the American Board of Internal Medicine. She has also given regional and national workshops on improving office practice and has been a consultant to several academic medical centers regarding improving ambulatory practice.

After training in internal medicine and hematology/oncology, Selvaggi became interested in palliative care, which focuses on relieving the pain and stress of patients who suffer from serious illnesses. In 2006 she completed a fellowship in palliative medicine at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. She then became chief of palliative medicine for the West Penn Allegheny Health System, where she was voted one of Pittsburgh’s top doctors and won the American Cancer Society’s Lane Adams Award, honoring medical professionals who promote the quality of life for cancer patients and their families. Recently she accepted a position that will take her back to Boston as co-director of the inpatient palliative care unit at the prestigious Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center.

A physician in UW Health’s internal-medicine clinic, Schmidt has recently been named a fellow with the American College of Physicians for her scholarship, clinical practice, teaching and administrative work. She also serves as service chief for the Department of General Internal Medicine at the UW Medical Foundation and holds a faculty position in the UW School of Medicine and Public Health. Schmidt says her degree in nutritional sciences gives her a strong basis for talking to patients about the steps they can take to prevent heart disease and other chronic diseases, a subject she gives special attention in her clinical care.

Roman is an emergency-medicine physician and president of Suburban Emergency Associates, a physicians group that provides clinical services for hospitals in the Twin Cities area. When Roman began his residency, emergency medicine was a relatively new specialty. He helped establish the emergency medicine group for the St. Francis Regional Medical Center in Shakopee, Minnesota, which honored him with the hospital’s first-ever new physician leadership award. Roman also has headed emergency departments in Edina, Minnesota, and Palm Springs, California.