Walton O. Schalick, III, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Assistant Professor of Medical History & Bioethics
Assistant Professor of History of Science

Medical Sciences Center
1300 University Avenue, Room 1410

Office: (608) 262-6760

Fax (608) 263-0135

schalick@hosp.wisc.edu

Education

MD, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 1995
PhD, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 1997
Residency, Pediatrics, The Children’s Hospital, Boston/Harvard University, 2000
Residency, PM&R, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital/Harvard University, 2000
Chief Residency, PM&R, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital/Harvard University, 2000
BA, Physics/English Literature, Washington University in St. Louis, 1986

Clinical Specialties

Dr. Schalick joined the UW Rehabilitation Medicine faculty in 2007 after six years on the Washington University in St. Louis faculty of Pediatrics. His clinical work includes on children with disabilities and chronic conditions, with special attention to children with cerebral palsy and spina bifida.

Research Interests

As a research physician, Dr. Schalick’s clinical research interests are in pediatric rehabilitation and disability and the interface of policy and medical ethics with respect to children. He has worked extensively in the areas of cerebral palsy, neural tube defects, and pediatric physical disabilities as well as general pediatrics. Professor Schalick has been the principal investigator on many externally supported research studies, including the prestigious Robert Wood Johnson Generalist Faculty Award, and has consulted for the National Institutes of Health and the World Health Organization. He has served on the editorial board of several journals in clinical and research medicine and the history of medicine, has edited several book projects and has published widely in pediatrics, rehabilitation, disability, and history; he has delivered lectures on four continents and at numerous universities. Walt has also won multiple teaching and mentoring awards in pediatrics, medicine and history.

Dr. Schalick’s broader research embraces a triptych of: the history of medieval medicine and pharmacology, the history of children with physical disabilities in 19th- and 20th-century Europe and the US, and the practical ethics of pediatric emergency research, some of which has appeared in articles and chapters and the balance of which is pending in two monographs. He is Associate Editor for the five-volume, Encyclopedia of Disability (2005) which won Best Reference Award from the Library Journal and an Outstanding Award from the American Library Association's Booklist Journal. At the University of Wisconsin, he is part of the Disability Studies Cluster Hire designed to help create a Disability Studies program on campus.

Dr. Schalick’s Research Web Page

Recent Publications