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Brookfield resident William J. Stekiel, Ph.D., professor of physiology at the Medical College of Wisconsin, was honored at the School’s 2007 convocation for 50 years of faculty service. Medical College Dean and Executive Vice President Michael J. Dunn, M.D., praised Dr. Stekiel as “an outstanding scientist and gifted teacher who has inspired generations of young medical and graduate students.”
On retirement from full time employment in July of 1993, Dr. Stekiel continued his academic activities on a part-time basis, with a faculty appointment in the department of physiology. His current teaching activities include lectures and lab instruction in the basic medical physiology course, lectures in the electrophysiology section of the basic integrated neuroscience course for medical and graduate students, and participation as one of the moderators in a physiology graduate course entitled Cell Tissue Transport Mechanisms.
He has also initiated a new research interest in collaboration with colleagues in the department of anesthesiology. Its overall goal is to improve our understanding of the mechanisms by which inhaled anesthetics play a cardioprotective role in preventing heart damage when blood flow is interrupted and restored during surgery.
Dr. Stekiel joined the Medical College in 1957 as a postdoctoral fellow in physiology, when it was the Marquette University School of Medicine. He received his Ph.D. in biophysics from Johns Hopkins University in 1957, and his B.S. from Marquette University in 1950.
