State Sen. Alberta Darling to Receive the Hands of Humanity Award

State Senator Alberta Darling to Receive the Hands of Humanity Award at the Medical College of Wisconsin Convocation Ceremony

WHAT: The Medical College of Wisconsin’s (MCW) 2018 Faculty Awards and Honors Convocation Ceremony

WHEN: Monday, Sept. 24, 2018

WHERE: Medical College of Wisconsin

8701 Watertown Plank Road

Health Research Center Auditorium

WHO: Wisconsin State Senator Alberta Darling will receive the 2018 MCW Hands of Humanity award.

Allen W. Cowley, Jr., PhD, professor and chair of physiology at MCW, will deliver the keynote address.

WHY:

VISUAL: The MCW Board of Trustees selected Senator Darling for the Hands of Humanity award for her longtime visionary leadership in improving human health and well-being, and her long-standing commitment to advancing public policy that is impactful, transformative and innovative for the citizens of Wisconsin.

To name just a few examples of Senator Darling’s commitment to education, health and biomedical research, she championed a $7.4 million grant to assist MCW in the establishment of its two regional campuses in Wausau and Green Bay, authored the Wisconsin Child Psychiatry Consultation Program and helped expand MCW’s family medicine residency programs across Wisconsin.

This award is named after the iconic sculpture at the entrance of the MCW Milwaukee campus, “Hands of Humanity” by James Myford, recognizing that in every patient encounter, there are three hands at work: the hand of the physician, the hand of the patient and the hand of God. Senator Darling’s work embodies the compassion, care and collaboration that is represented by the Hands of Humanity sculpture.

A video highlighting Senator Darling’s committed partnership with MCW will be shown.

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About the Medical College of Wisconsin

With a history dating back to 1893, The Medical College of Wisconsin is dedicated to leadership and excellence in education, patient care, research and community engagement. More than 1,200 students are enrolled in MCW’s medical school and graduate school programs in Milwaukee, Green Bay, and Central Wisconsin. MCW’s School of Pharmacy opened in 2017. A major national research center, MCW is the largest research institution in the Milwaukee metro area and second largest in Wisconsin. In FY2016, faculty received more than $184 million in external support for research, teaching, training and related purposes. This total includes highly competitive research and training awards from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Annually, MCW faculty direct or collaborate on more than 3,100 research studies, including clinical trials. Additionally, more than 1,500 physicians provide care in virtually every specialty of medicine for more than 525,000 patients annually.