Mr Pfister is Assistant Scientist/Epidemiologist, Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene; Dr Golubjatnikov is Emeritus Chief Immunologist, Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene and Emeritus Assistant Clinical Professor of Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Dr Arcari is Assistant Professor of Population Health Sciences, University of WisconsinMadison; Doctor Davis is Chi...

BACKGROUND The prevalence of morbid obesity is increasing throughout Wisconsin and the United States. In 2004, we published a study, "Trends in Bariatric Surgery for Morbid Obesity in Wisconsin." We determined that surgery rates were increasing but felt the demand exceeded the capacity of the surgeons. This is a 6-year follow-up. METHODS Data was gathered from 3 sources: the Centers for Disea...

The Wisconsin Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Surveillance Project (WFASSP) was funded through Cooperative Agreement Award # U50/CCU514563 awarded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to the Wisconsin Bureau of Health Information, Sandra Mahkorn, Principal Investigator. Dr Weiss is an associate professor at St Joseph Regional Medical Center and Sr Rosalie Klein Professor of Women’s Health a...

From the Pediatric Palliative Care Program, Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (B.P.H., A.M.B.); the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Hematology–Oncology (B.P.H., A.M.B.), and the Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Neoplastic Diseases and Related Disorders (D.W.), Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; the Department of Pediatric Hematology– Oncology, Pediatric Palliat...

Timothy B. Boykin,1 Gerhard Klimeck,2,5 Mark Friesen,3,4 S. N. Coppersmith,3 Paul von Allmen,2 Fabiano Oyafuso,2 and Seungwon Lee2 1Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, Alabama 35899, USA 2Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Road, MS 169-315, Pasadena, California 91109, USA 3Department o...

Daijiang Li, Anthony R. Ives, Donald M. Waller 3 4 Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin, 430 Lincoln Drive, Madison, Wisconsin, 5 53706 6 Department of Zoology, University of Wisconsin, 430 Lincoln Drive, Madison, Wisconsin, 7 53706 8 * Correspondence: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] 9 10 Authorship: DL and AI designed the study and performed the analyses. DL...

At the time of this study, Ms Erickson was a fourth year medical student at the University of Wisconsin Medical School. Doctor Remington is a professor in the Department of Population Health Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr Peppard is a senior epidemiologist with the Wisconsin Public Health and Health Policy Institute, University of Wisconsin Medical School. This work was con...

W. Chang, Y. Wu, K. Johnson, A. Wentland, S. Kecskemeti, C. Mistretta, and P. Turski Radiology/Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, United States, Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, United States, Physics/Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, M...

Blood Research Institute, BloodCenter of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; and Department of Pediatrics, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; Children’s Research Institute, Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; Indiana Hemophilia and Thrombosis Center, Indianapolis; Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans; University of Texas Medical School, Houston ; C...

Water Action Volunteers (WAV) is a statewide program for Wisconsin citizens who want to learn about and improve the quality of the state’s streams. It is part of the fi rst level of a three level Citizen–based Water Monitoring Network. Its focus is to introduce citizens to stream monitoring techniques and general stream ecology information. Goals include building both an informed advocacy group...