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CURRICULUM VITAE

Will Lyon MD
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine
Division of Geriatric and Palliative Medicine

OFFICE ADDRESS:
Froedtert Hospital
9200 W Wisconsin Ave
Milwaukee, WI 53226

EDUCATION:
2012 - 2015 Philosophy, Biology, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI
2015 - 2019 Doctor of Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI
2023 - Present Master of Arts in Bioethics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI

POSTGRADUATE TRAINING AND FELLOWSHIP APPOINTMENTS:
2019 - 2022 Residency, Medicine, Internal Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin Affiliated Hospitals, Milwaukee, WI
2022 - 2023 Fellowship, Medicine, Geriatric Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin Affiliated Hospitals, Milwaukee, WI

FACULTY APPOINTMENTS:
07/03/2023 - Present Assistant Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Geriatric and Palliative Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI

HOSPITAL AND CLINICAL ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS:
12/01/2024 - Present Medical Director, Congregational Home, 13900 W Burleigh Rd, Brookfield, WI

SPECIALTY BOARDS AND CERTIFICATION:
Board Certified
Issue DateExpiration
Board Certified in Internal Medicine
10/2022
10/2032
Board Certified in Geriatric Medicine
12/2023
None
   
AWARDS AND HONORS:
05/2014 Hilldale Undergraduate Research Fellowship, University of Wisconsin - Madison
04/2015 Larry Temkin Prize for Essays in Value Theory, University of Wisconsin Department of Philosophy
04/2015 Member, Phi Beta Kappa
05/2016 - 08/2016 NIH T32 Research Fellowship, University of Wisconsin Department of Surgery and National Institutes of Health
07/2021 - 06/2022 Outstanding Medical Student Teacher Award, Medical College of Wisconsin
07/2022 - 06/2023 Outstanding Medical Student Teacher Award, Medical College of Wisconsin
07/2023 - 06/2024 Transformational Ideas Initiative, Award Recipient, Kern Institute

MEMBERSHIPS IN HONORARY AND PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:
2015 - Present Wisconsin Medical Society (Member)
2017 - Present American College of Physicians (Member)
2017 - Present American Geriatrics Society (Member)
2022 - Present Society for Bedside Medicine (Member)
01/01/2024 - Present Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine (Member)

EDITORSHIPS/EDITORIAL BOARDS/JOURNAL REVIEWS:
Journal Review
2021 Clinical Ethics
2022 Annals of Palliative Medicine

LOCAL/REGIONAL APPOINTED LEADERSHIP AND COMMITTEE POSITIONS:
2015 - 2019 Member, Student Section, UW SMPH chapter, Catholic Medical Association
03/2016 - 01/2017 Resolution Writer, University of Wisconsin Medical Student Ethics Committee, University of Wisconsin - Madison
05/2016 - 05/2017 Co-President, Student Section, UW SMPH chapter, Catholic Medical Association
08/2016 - 05/2017 Director, UW SMPH Bicycle Interest Group, University of Wisconsin - Madison
2016 - 2019 Member, University of Wisconsin Medical Student Ethics Committee, University of Wisconsin - Madison

NATIONAL ELECTED/APPOINTED LEADERSHIP AND COMMITTEE POSITIONS:
2019 - Present Member, Ethics Advisory Panel, American Medical Association
10/01/2024 - Present Committee Member, Education Committee, Society for Bedside Medicine

RESEARCH GRANTS/AWARDS/CONTRACTS/PROJECTS:
Prior
Non-Peer Review
Title:
UW Department of Neurosurgery
Source:
University of Wisconsin Madison
PI:
John Kuo, MD, PhD & Paul Clark, PhD
Dates:
04/2013 - 01/2015
  
Title:
UW Department of Surgery and Urology
Source:
University of Wisconsin Madison
PI:
Wade Bushman, MD, PhD
Dates:
05/2015 - 08/2015
  
Title:
Medical Ethics and Philosophy Research
Source:
Univerisity of Wisconsin Madison
PI:
Dan Hausman, PhD
Dates:
2018 - 2019
  

INVITED LECTURES/WORKSHOPS/PRESENTATIONS:
National
Lyon W, Geriatrics Fellows’ Most Difficult Case Conference, Milwaukee, WI, 11/2022
 
Regional
Lyon W, Chance and Purpose in Aristotle’s "Physics", Minnesota Philosophical Society Annual Meeting, St. Paul, MN, 04/05/2013
Drazewski R, Friedrich A, Gilbert W, Lyon W, Olex M, Restivo-Pritzl C, Complexities of Surrogate Decision Making, Great Lakes Palliative Care Conference, Lake Geneva, WI, 05/04/2023
 
Local
Will Lyon, Acute Care for Elders, Froedtert Rehabilitation Services Educational Fair, Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital, 04/2024 - Present
Will Lyon, "I Can Identify ICANS", Division of Geriatric and Palliative Medicine, Geriatrics Educational Seminar, Clement Zablocki VA Hospital, 07/2024 - Present
 

PEER REVIEWED WORKSHOPS/PRESENTATIONS:
National
Grimes M, Lyon W, Wang S, Gettle L, Bushman W, Contributions of prostate volume and fibrosis to bladder outlet obstruction, American Urological Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, 05/12/2017
 
Regional
Lyon W, Grimes M, Wang S, Bushman W, Contributions of prostate volume and fibrosis to bladder outlet obstruction, Wisconsin Surgical Society Annual Meeting, Kohler, WI, 11/04/2016
 
Local
Lyon W, Pointer K, Kuo J, The hERG1 potassium channel is expressed in glioblastoma, University of Wisconsin Undergraduate Research Symposium, Madison, WI, 11/10/2014
 

COMMITTEE SERVICE:
Hospital
09/01/2024 - Present Member, Ethics Committee, Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital
 

MCW TEACHING ACTIVITIES:
Medical Student Education
2019 - 2022 Mentored third- and fourth-year medical students on the internal medicine wards in a variety of areas including patient care, medical therapeutic and diagnostic knowledge, and interdisciplinary communication
08/2021 - 12/2021 Foundations of Clinical Medicine: Instructed first year medical students on history taking and physical examination skills
04/01/2023 - Present Bioethics and Medical Humanities Pathway Lecture on Ethics in Geriatrics
05/2023 M3 REACH Course Lecture "Seeing Wisely: Attention as a Clinical and Moral Priority"
2023 - Present Working with a group of students to implement optional “Advanced Physical Diagnosis” rounds as part of the third-year medicine clerkship
 

EXTRAMURAL TEACHING:
Continuing Medical Education
09/01/2023 - 11/30/2023 Kern National Network, "Mobilizing Character" Professional Development Curriculum. Co-facilitator for session on "The Language of Character"
 

MCW STUDENTS, FACULTY, RESIDENTS AND CLINICAL/RESEARCH FELLOWS MENTORED:
Medical Students
01/2022 - 12/2023 Leonard Brasuel, Clinical Apprenticeship, Medical College of Wisconsin
08/2023 - Present Gabriel King, Clinical Apprenticeship, Medical College of Wisconsin
 


BIBLIOGRAPHY
Refereed Journal Publications/Original Papers
1. Brower JV, Clark PA, Lyon W, Kuo JS. MicroRNAs in cancer: glioblastoma and glioblastoma cancer stem cells. Neurochem Int. 2014 Nov;77:68-77. PMCID: PMC4390175
2. Lyon W, Mehta TI, Pointer KB, Walden D, Elmayan A, Swanson KI, Kuo JS. Clinton Woolsey: functional brain mapping pioneer. J Neurosurg. 2014 Oct;121(4):983-8. PMCID: PMC4354805
3. Lyon W. Ambiguity, death determination, and the dead donor rule Clinical Ethics. 1 December 2018;13(4):165-171.
4. Schneider AJ, Grimes M, Lyon W, Kemper A, Wang S, Bushman W. Cluster analysis of men undergoing surgery for BPH/LUTS reveals prominent roles of both bladder outlet obstruction and diminished bladder contractility. PLoS One. 2021;16(5):e0251721. PMCID: PMC8143400
5. Lyon W. Virtue and medical ethics education. Philos Ethics Humanit Med. 2021 May 27;16(1):2. PMCID: PMC8157421
6. Lyon W. Bedside Rounds as Cultural Jig: Keeping Trainee Attention Directed. J Grad Med Educ. 2023 Apr;15(2):150-151. PMCID: PMC10150822
 
Database, Video, or Other Research/Clinical Contributions
1. Lyon, W, Denson S. Dementia Detection: Identifying Red flags of Cognitive Decline. In K Denson (Eds.), Geriatric Fast Facts (#95). 2022 Feb. Retrieved from: http://www.geriatricfastfacts.com/