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Rogers Memorial Hospital Announces Addition of Medical College of Wisconsin Staff

Rogers Memorial Hospital (RMH) continues its mission in providing exemplary, individualized, behavioral health care services with expansion of services to include Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) psychiatric staff at Rogers Memorial's 11101 W. Lincoln Avenue location. "This is a remarkable opportunity for the Hospital to contract for and receive expert direction from this team of psychiatrists affiliated with the Medical College," said David L. Moulthroup, Ph.D., CEO and president of Rogers Memorial.

Rogers Memorial has named Harold Harsch, M.D. as Medical Director of the Medical College of Wisconsin's psychiatric services at RMH-Milwaukee. David Bresenhan, M.D. and Pamela Wolfe, M.D., assistant clinical professors of psychiatry and behavioral medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin, have also joined the medical staff at RMH'S Milwaukee campus.

With the additional Medical College staff, psychiatrists will coordinate Rogers Memorial's expanded services in medical/psychiatric care, clinical trials and psychiatric education.

Under the new agreement, an inpatient psychiatric teaching center will be developed at RMH-Milwaukee. Medical College psychiatrists will work with the Clinical Trials Program at Rogers Memorial to develop and implement inpatient and outpatient clinical trial programs.

As the hospital continues to expand and provide additional programs and treatment options, the Medical College team will further develop the range of medical and psychiatric services available on the adult and older adults units.

Moulthrop said, "It's very exciting to work jointly with the Medical College. We welcome the opportunity to explore this and other potential collaborative efforts that have been made available as a direct result of opening the Milwaukee facility. "With the addition of key physician leadership to our organization, we are pleased to further the behavioral health care resources available in Milwaukee."

All three doctors are on-site at Rogers Memorial Hospital's Milwaukee campus part-time, and are available to treat adult and older adult patients in the inpatient setting. Please call Rogers Memorial Hospital's admissions department at 1-800-767-4411 to make a referral or for more information.

Harold H. Harsch, M.D.
Dr. Harsch, a board-certified adult and geropsychiatrist, is the Medical Director of the Medical College Psychiatric Service at Rogers Memorial Hospital. At the Medical College, he holds appointments as associate professor in psychiatry, behavioral medicine, and medicine. Dr. Harsch's research has focused on the development of new antidepressant and antipsychotic agents, and on the use of brain imaging to study such disorders as panic, dementia and schizophrenia. Dr. Harsch received is B.S. degree from Marquette University, and his M.D. degree from the Medical College of Wisconsin. He completed his residency and fellowship in adult psychiatry and behavioral medicine from Stanford University. Among Dr. Harsch's honors are the Physician's Recognition Award by the American Medical Association, and the Excellence in Teaching Award from the Medical College.

David B. Bresnahan, M.D.
Dr. Bresnahan, an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry and behavioral medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin, has joined the medical staff of Rogers Memorial Hospital-Milwaukee. A board-certified adult psychiatrist, he has worked extensively with patients who have psychiatric disorders in addition to complicating medical conditions. Many of the patients Dr. Bresnahan has seen suffer from affective disorders, such as depression or mania, and organic disorders, such as senility, as well as patients experiencing schizophrenia. Dr. Bresnahan received his medical degree (MD) from St. Louis, and completed his psychiatric residency training from the Medical College of Wisconsin. He participated in a psychiatric research fellowship at the Illinois State Psychiatric Institute of Chicago.

Pamela Wolfe, M.D.
Dr. Wolfe, an assistant clinical professor in psychiatry at the Medical College of Wisconsin, recently joined the medical staff of Rogers Memorial Hospital-Milwaukee. She has worked extensively with geriatric patients and patients who have psychiatric disorders in addition to complicating medical conditions. Dr. Wolfe received her B.A. degree from Stanford University and her M.D. degree from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She completed her residency in internal medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center, and her residency and fellowship in psychiatry at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Dr. Wolfe has received the Golden Apple Teaching Award from the department of Psychiatry at the Medical College in 1997 and 1999.

For additional information about Rogers Memorial Hospital, its programs and services, or for a free and confidential assessment, please call 1-800-767-4411.

Rogers Memorial Hospital is a not-for-profit behavioral health care provider offering child, adolescent, adult and older adult inpatient, regional partial hospitalization and specialized residential care for addictions, eating disorders and obsessive-compulsive disorders.