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Staff

Curriculum

Amy Becker

aebecker@wisc.edu
IME Curriculum Manager – Year 1
4218B Health Science Learning Center
UW School of Medicine and Public Health
750 Highland Avenue
Madison, WI 53705

Work: 608.265.2927
Fax: 608.262.6556

Dan Muller

dmuller@wisc.edu
IME Curriculum Director – Year 1
4218C Health Science Learning Center
UW School of Medicine and Public Health
750 Highland Avenue
Madison, WI 53705

Work: 608.265.6606
Fax: 608.262.6556

Renie Schapiro

rschapir@wisc.edu
IME Curriculum Manager – Year 2
4218D Health Science Learning Center
UW School of Medicine and Public Health
750 Highland Avenue
Madison, WI 53705

Work: 608.265.3472
Fax: 608.262.6556

Steve Weiler

sjweiler@wisc.edu
IME Curriculum Director – Year 2
4218E Health Science Learning Center
UW School of Medicine and Public Health
750 Highland Avenue
Madison, WI 53705

Work: 608.265.9965
Fax: 608.262.6556

Roberta Rusch

rrusch@wisc.edu
IME Curriculum Manager – Years 3 and 4
4287C Health Science Learning Center
UW School of Medicine and Public Health
750 Highland Avenue
Madison, WI 53705

Work: 608.263.8428
Fax: 608.262.6556

Yolanda Becker

yolanda@surgery.wisc.edu
IME Curriculum Co-Director – Years 3 and 4
4287D Health Science Learning Center
UW School of Medicine and Public Health
750 Highland Avenue
Madison, WI 53705

Work: 608.263.0483 Fax: 608.262.6280

Ann Ruscher

aruscher@wisc.edu
IME Curriculum Co-Director – Years 3 and 4
4287D Health Science Learning Center
UW School of Medicine and Public Health
750 Highland Avenue
Madison, WI 53705

Work: 608.263.0483
Fax: 608.262.6556

Tim Jensen

timjensen@wisc.edu
IME Program Support
4280F Health Science Learning Center
UW School of Medicine and Public Health
750 Highland Avenue
Madison, WI 53705

Work: 608.263.4713
Fax: 608.262.6556

Julie Foertsch

foertsch@wisc.edu
IME Evaluator
4287A Health Science Learning Center
UW School of Medicine and Public Health
750 Highland Avenue
Madison, WI 53705

Work: 608.265.6368
Fax: 608.262.2327

Cultural Competence collaborators

Shobhina Chheda

sgc@medicine.wisc.edu
Director of Diversity Curriculum
4285 Health Science Learning Center
UW School of Medicine and Public Health
750 Highland Avenue
Madison, WI 53705

Work: 608.263.0828

Gail Coover

gcoover@wisc.edu
Associate Faculty Associate for
Intercultural Communication and Healthcare
4280B Health Science Learning Center
UW School of Medicine and Public Health
750 Highland Avenue
Madison, WI 53705

Work: 608.265.5730

Mary Bumann

mbumann@wisc.edu
Senior Outreach Specialist, Wisconsin AHEC
4286 Health Science Learning Center
UW School of Medicine and Public Health
750 Highland Avenue
Madison, WI 53705

Work: 608.262.7237

Harold Gates

hgates@matcmadison.edu
IME Consultant
4280A Health Science Learning Center
UW School of Medicine and Public Health
750 Highland Avenue
Madison, WI 53705

Distance Education/New Technologies

Matt Merrill

mmerrill@wisc.edu
Information Architect
4281 Health Science Learning Center
UW School of Medicine and Public Health
750 Highland Avenue
Madison, WI 53705

Work: 608.263.2915
Fax: 608.262.6556

Michelle Ostmoe

ostmoe@wisc.edu
Distance Education Technology Consultant
3372 Health Science Learning Center
UW School of Medicine and Public Health
750 Highland Avenue
Madison, WI 53705

Clinical Teaching and Assessment Center

Jane Banning

jbanning@wisc.edu
Director, Clinical Teaching and Assessment Center
1180 Health Sciences Learning Center
UW School of Medicine and Public Health
750 Highland Avenue
Madison, WI 53705

Work: 608.265.5387

Libbey Ortiz Meister

ejmeiste@wisc.edu
Standardized Patient Program Manager
1184 Health Sciences Learning Center
UW School of Medicine and Public Health
750 Highland Avenue
Madison, WI 53705

Work: 608.263.6018
Fax: 608.263.4928

Mark Johanneck

mdjohanneck@wisc.edu
Clinical Teaching & Assessment Center Technology Liaison
1173 Health Science Learning Center
UW School of Medicine and Public Health
750 Highland Ave
Madison, WI 53705

Work: 608.265.6723

Innovations in Medical Education Curriculum Management Team

We are pleased to have three "Curriculum Managers" in place to assist with medical student education initiatives. Amy Becker (year 1), Renie Schapiro (year 2) and Roberta Rusch (years 3/4) each bring rich experience and complementary skills. We hope they will be a valued resource to the faculty and staff as we continue to implement new curriculum recommendations. Please take a moment to review their bios and to get to know them. We encourage you to use their talents and expertise.


Amy Becker

Amy Becker has a Masters Degree in Educational Policy from the University of Wisconsin’s School of Education, where her research focused on professional development models to support effective teaching and learning strategies.

Her experience in curriculum review and development includes work on a recent National Science Foundation grant, System-wide Change for All Learners and Educators (SCALE). The SCALE project brought together mathematicians, scientists, social scientists, engineers, technologists, and education specialists to build a new approach to reforming math and science education. As part of that project, she worked with a team of science faculty, district administrators, teachers and students to develop, write and review science curriculum and instructional materials for the Los Angeles Unified School District and the Madison Metropolitan School District. She also organized, planned and facilitated professional development programs for science educators and administrators in these school districts.

She is a state certified teacher in secondary science education and has developed and taught science curriculum at multiple levels.

Contact: aebecker@wisc.edu 265-2927


Renie Schapiro

Renie Schapiro has a Masters Degree in Public Health from Yale University School of Epidemiology and Public Health where she also developed and taught a case-based course in health policy. Here at UWSMPH, she created the Senior-Student Partnership Program, which pairs medical and other health professions students with older adults in the community. It has become a required part of PDS2.

In addition to curriculum development, she has a strong health policymaking and medical writing/editing background. She is co-editor of three books. She was editor of The New Physician magazine and the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal (Georgetown University’s peer-reviewed international bioethics journal), medical reporter for Time magazine, and speechwriter and policy advisor to Dr. David Kessler when he was the FDA Commissioner. In addition to FDA, her policymaking experience includes work on a Presidential Commission on medical ethics and with the Institute of Medicine.

She currently writes "The Public’s Health", a monthly column in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

Contact: rschapiro@wisc.edu 265-3472


Roberta Rusch

Roberta Rusch holds a Masters Degree in Public Health from George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, with a specialty in maternal and child health. Prior to assuming her UWSMPH position, she spent almost 10 years as Director of the Women’s Healthcare Education Office of the Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics (APGO). Organizing multidisciplinary retreats and working with a team of experts in medical education and women’s health, she developed Women’s Health Care Competencies for Medical Students, a competency-based curriculum guide to ensure that medical students graduate with the knowledge and skill to competently care for women. She then secured funding from the Ford Foundation to support a pilot program integrating these competencies at five U.S. medical schools. At APGO, she collaborated with other national clerkship organizations under the umbrella of the Alliance for Clinical Education and the AAMC.

Previously, she worked at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) on a program educating physicians about public policy. She brings a strong administrative background as well as editorial, grant writing, and marketing experience.

Contact: rrusch@wisc.edu 263-8428


IME Program Evaluator

Julie Foertsch, Ph.D.

Dr. Foertsch is the evaluator for the Innovations in Medical Education and BASIC Training in Medicine programs. With a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from UW-Madison, she served for ten years as a senior researcher and three years as the director of UW’s Learning through Evaluation, Adaptation, and Dissemination (LEAD) Center in the colleges of Engineering and Letters and Science. Her evaluations with clients nationwide and her work as a consultant for the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation have provided her with a wealth of experience in evaluating the impacts of education, outreach, and training efforts in over 20 disciplines, with particular expertise in post-secondary education programs designed to expand participation and improve critical thinking skills in science, mathematics, engineering, and technology. Her work with the Medical School began with an evaluation of the LOCUS program in 2004.

Contact: foertsch@wisc.edu