Member Accomplishments

If you have any current news to share about yourself or a colleague that we can celebrate, please e-mail it to Kelly Lang.

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Chaper Masters

Kudos to Wisconsin's newest Master, Frank M. Graziano, MD, MACP, of Madison. Dr. Graziano will be formally recognized during Convocation at Internal Medicine 2008 in Washington, DC.

Other Wisconsin Masters include: Masood Akhtar, MBBS, MACP (Milwaukee), Michael J. Dunn, MD, MACP (Milwaukee), Donald R. Harkness, MD, MACP (Madison), Mahendr S. Kochar, MD, MACP (Milwaukee), Kesavan Kutty, MD, MACP (Menomonee Falls), Dennis G. Maki, MD, MACP (Madison), Joseph J. Mazza, MD, MACP (Marshfield), Daniel J. McCarty, Jr. MD, MACP (Hartland), and Richard E. Rieselbach, MD, MACP (Madison).

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New Fellows

The Chapter recognizes and congratulates these Wisconsin Chapter physicians who were elected to Fellowship in the College in October 2008:

  • S. Paramjith S. Chawla, MBBS, FACP - Menomonee Falls
  • Sheena Kandiah, MBBS, FACP - Milwaukee
  • Kia Saeian, MD, FACP - Milwaukee
  • Javed H. Tunio, MD, FACP - De Pere
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Chapter Awardees

Congratulations to all of the chapter members who won awards at the 2007 Wisconsin Chapter Meeting. Read the awards brochure for more details. We'd also like to give a special congratulations to G. Richard Olds, MD, FACP, who was presented with the 2007 Laureate Award.

For a complete list of past chapter awardees, click here.


The Wisconsin Chapter would like to thank the following member for recruiting colleagues as part of ACP's Recruit-a-Colleague program:

  • Kesavan Kutty, MD, MACP
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Internal Medicine 2008 Abstract Presenters

We were honored to have 10 Chapter Members represent our Chapter for the Associate and Medical Student Abstract Competition held during Internal Medicine 2008.

Special Kudos to Abhishek J. Deshmukh, MD, from the Medical College of Wisconsin Program, who was selected as a winner for his Clinical Vignette Poster called Is It An Myocardial Infarction, Or Something Even Worse?

Additional chapter presenters include:

  • Vijay Bandhakavi, MD , from the Gunderson Luthern Medical Center was selected in the Clinical Vignette category for the Poster Brain Drain
  • Hatem M. Dajani, MD , from the Medical College of Wisconsin Program was selected in the Clinical Vignette category for the Poster An Uncommon Differential Diagnosis For Ophthalmoplegia: Tolosa-Hunt Syndrome
  • Brian Kong , from the Medical College of Wisconsin was selected in the Clinical Vignette category for the Poster Foxglove And The Third Degree
  • Ravi K. Mareedu, MBBS , from the Marshfield Clinic-St. Joseph's Hospital Program was selected in the Research category for the Poster Atrial Flutter Versus Atrial Fibrillation In A General Population: Differences In Comorbidities Associated With Their Respective Onset
  • Payal S. Potnis , from the Medical College of Wisconsin was selected in the Clinical Vignette category for the Poster Rapid Renal Ruins
  • Bharat K. Puchakayala, MD , from the Gundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation Program was selected in the Clinical Vignette category for the Poster The Clot Is Just The Beginning Of The Plot !
  • Saket Saket Girotra, MBBS , from the Medical College of Wisconsin Program was selected in the Clinical Vignette category for the Oral Presentation An Unusual Cause Of Hepatic Tumors
  • Lisa M. Schmitz, DO , from the Aurora Health Care Program was selected in the Clinical Vignette category for the Poster Casting With Plastic
  • Asad Sheikh, MD , from the Medical College of Wisconsin Program was selected in the Research category for the Oral Presentation Hospitalists Can Be Rapidly Trained To Use Hand-Held Echocardiography To Avert Costly Repeat Echocardiograms


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