Department Information

Steven Barczi, MDDr. Steven Barczi joined the UW Department of Medicine in 1996. He presently directs educational programs within the Madison VA GRECC, UW Section of Geriatrics and UW Center for Sleep Medicine and Sleep Research. In this capacity, he helps adapt and implement curriculum, and oversee educational experiences for medical students, residents and fellows. He serves as Fellowship Director for UW training programs in geriatric medicine and sleep medicine.

Dr. Barczi attended medical school at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago. He completed his Residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Minnesota Affiliated Hospitals. He worked as a general internist in the USAF before completing fellowships in geriatric medicine and sleep medicine at the University of Wisconsin Hospital & Clinics, and Madison VA GRECC.

Besides medical education, Dr. Barczi remains active as a clinician, an investigator and a physician-leader. He has participated in a number of Departmental, VA and UW Hospital committees. He enjoys collaborating with community partners such as Oakwood Village Retirement site, and SAIL to develop initiatives that promote healthy aging. He volunteers in area free clinics and regularly participates in medical mission trips abroad.

New Domestic Partner Benefits Available

New State of Wisconsin provisions that allow State and UW employees to add a domestic partner (of the same or opposite sex), a partner's child, and/or an adult child to your benefit programs, including health insurance, are effective January 1, 2010. In order to qualify, domestic partners must meet the certain conditions, must submit an Affidavit of Domestic Partnership to ETF and your payroll representative, and complete applications for the benefit programs in which you would like to enroll your domestic partner. Click here for more information.


Purchasing Card Guidelines

The Department of Medicine Accounting staff has worked with DoM and SMPH Administration to document DoM Purchasing card guidelines for cardholders and site managers.  The guidelines have been reviewed and approved by SMPH and are now ready for formal release.  The guidelines are located here.  Please take care to bookmark this site for use and let all staff working with these UW-Purchasing cards know that these guidelines are available for review.

Research Highlights

CONGRATULATIONS!

Congratulations to William Busse, MD, Professor and Chair for the Department of Medicine for the renewal of his NIH contract entitled: "Inner City Asthma Consortium (ICAC)."

Congratulations to Robert Lemanske, MD, Professor and Head of the Division of Pediatric Allergy, Immunology, and Rheumatology for the renewal of his NIH grant entitled "AsthmaNet: UW-Madison Clinical and Translational Research Center."

Congratulations to Nian-Qing Shi, PhD, Assistant Scientist in Cardiology for her recently funded R21 entitled: "Mechanisms underlie inverse gender discrepancy in ischemic protection."

Congratulations to Christopher Crnich, MD, assistant Professor in Infectious Disease on being awarded an ICTR Type 2 pilot award for his proposal entitled "Pilot Study of the Veterans Administration MRSA Initiative in a Milwaukee Community Living Center."