Karen Marcdante, MD

Titles
President, Medical Dental Staff, program director, Transport, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin; professor, Pediatrics, vice chair, Education, Medical College of Wisconsin.

Division
Critical Care, Medical Education

Research interests
Health services

Study interests
Curriculum innovation, evaluation and measurement, faculty development, medical education, quality improvement.

Education
Medical degree, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 1980; residency, Medical College of Wisconsin Affiliated Hospitals, Milwaukee, 1980-1983; fellowship, University of California-San Francisco, 1985-1987.

Certifications
Pediatrics, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine.

Honors
Society of Teaching Scholars, 1995; Alpha Omega Alpha Society, 1996; Learning Resources Innovative Educational Project Award, Medical College of Wisconsin, 1996 and 1997; Presidential Citation: Quality Indicator Development Task Force, Society of Critical Care Medicine, 1996 and 1997; Central Group on Educational Affairs Laureate, CGEA of the Association of American Medical Colleges, 2004.

Representative publications

• Wendelberger KJ, Simpson DE, Biernat KA. Problem-based Learning in a Third Year Pediatric Clerkship. Teaching and Learning in Medicine. 1996; 8(1):28-32.
• Wendelberger Marcdante K, Simpson D. How Pediatric Educators Know What to Teach: The Use of Teaching Scripts. Pediatrics. 1999; 104(1 Pt 2):148-50.
• Simpson DE, Wendelberger Marcdante K, Duthie E, Sheehan K, Holloway RL, Towne J. Valuing Educational Scholarship at the Medical College of Wisconsin, Academic Medicine. 2000; 75(9):930-934.
• Marcdante K, Kliegman R. Promoting Clerkship Directors: The Importance of Evidence. Journal of Pediatrics. 2002; 141:1-2.
• McCurdy FA, Marcdante K. Setting a Personal Career Direction. Journal of Cardiovascular Management. 2003; 14(2):18021.
• Duthie E, Simpson DE, Marcdante K, Kerwin D, Denson K, Cohan M. A Collaborative Strategy for Reciprocal Integration of Basic and Clinical Sciences, Journal of the International Association of Medical Science Educators. 2004; 14(1): 34-38.

Grants

• Multi-dimensional Community Education Program for Pediatric Residents, Dyson Foundation, co-author and evaluation coordinator.
• Faculty Development General Pediatrics/General Internal Medicine, Department of Health and Human Services, Bureau of Health Professions, co-director, Pediatrics.

Contact
Children's Research Institute
8701 Watertown Plank Road
MS 681
Wauwatosa, WI 53226
Phone: (414) 266-3360
Fax: (414) 266-3563
E-mail: kwendel@mcw.edu