Wisconsin Medicine Impact Stories
Life-changing stories have been coming out of UW Health and the UW School of Medicine and Public Health since the very beginning. Whether it’s providing a new lease on life to a patient, supporting a gifted medical student, or offering the hope of an innovative treatment to a family struggling with an illness, such stories impact us all. Here are just some of those inspiring stories.
Going the Extra Mile for Alzheimer’s Research
Fueled by a passion to help preserve memories, Wisconsinite David Adam is literally going the distance to help raise support and awareness for the UW Initiative to End Alzheimer’s. After losing his father and role model to vascular dementia in 2012, Adam took his love for cycling and rode across Canada to help gather funds for Alzheimer’s disease research and programs.