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2008 Early Career Professional Service Awardee
Diane H.
Munzenmaier, Ph.D.
Medical College of Wisconsin
The APS Trainee Advisory Committee is pleased to
announce that Diane H. Munzenmaier, Assistant Professor of Physiology at the
Medical College of Wisconsin, has been selected as the first recipient of
the APS Early Career Professional Service Award. The Committee was extremely
impressed with her outstanding service contributions at all levels, from
K-12 to undergraduate to graduate/medical education. Dr. Munzenmaier has
been very active in her community, department, and institution. In addition,
she has served nationally with NIH and APS and internationally with the
World Congress of Microcirculation.
Locally and regionally, Dr. Munzenmaier has served as judge and chair of
various K-12 science fairs throughout Wisconsin and the southeastern region
of the state. Because of her strong commitment to K-12 through medical
school education, she was appointed to the APS Education Committee. As a
Committee member, she urged greater interaction between physiology faculty
members and K-12 teachers and students. To stimulate that interaction, she
proposed, developed and helped pilot test the K-12 outreach program,
Physiology Understanding Week (PhUn Week). Phun Week has met with great
acclaim and has grown in just 3 years into a program that is held at
locations across the US and its territories and that involves undergraduate
and graduate students, as well as faculty.
Dr. Munzenmaier has taught courses in physiology for the general public, as
well as at the undergraduate, graduate and medical student levels. She has
been very involved in the Summer Program for Undergraduate Research at the
Medical College of Wisconsin. She has served as a judge for the APS David
Bruce Awards in Undergraduate Research and encouraged her department to be a
repeat sponsor of the special APS Undergraduate Poster Session.
Because of her concern with the declining use of animals in teaching medical
students, Dr. Munzenmaier helped organize and redesign a new whole animal
course for 1st-year medical students. Due to her efforts, she was named the
director of that course. She also recently volunteered to serve on the
Medical College of Wisconsin’s IACUC as part of her ongoing commitment to
the use of animals in research.
Nationally, as mentioned above, Dr. Munzenmaier is active in the APS, having
served on the APS Education Committee and participating in many of the
Committee’s service activities. She also has served as a reviewer on two NIH
Study Sections.
Internationally, Dr. Munzenmaier joined four other colleagues in organizing
the 8th World Congress of Microcirculation Meeting. This planning process
occurred over a 3-year period with the meeting involving over 600 scientists
from 30 countries.
APS congratulates Dr. Munzenmaier on this well-deserved
recognition.
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