DPC 2024 “How DPC Addresses the Quintuple Aim of Medicine”
Session 02 Track 01 – Wendy Molaska MD FAAFP – Start Up Part 2 + Q&A (at 26:00 min)
Biography
Dr. Wendy Molaska is a graduate of the University of WI School of Medicine and Public Health and is a Board certified family physician and a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians. She has practiced full spectrum Family Medicine for over 20 years.
She started her career working for the National Health Services Corps in rural Colorado until 2008 when she moved to rural Wisconsin. She continued practicing rural full spectrum family medicine until she joined the University of WI School of Medicine and Public Health as an Assistant Professor and moved to the Madison area to continue her Family Medicine practice.
In 2019 she transitioned her medical focus to provide inpatient hospice care and in 2021 she left employed medicine to start her own direct primary care (DPC) clinic called Dedicated Family Care, where she continues providing full spectrum family medicine in the Madison, WI area.
In addition to her clinical practice, she has served on the Board of Directors for the WI Medical Society and was elected President in 2022.
She also serves on their Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Committee Nad reproductive Taskforce. She was recently named to Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers’ Taskforce on the Healthcare Workforce. Through the WI Department of Health Services she serves on the Advisory Council for the WI Council on Immunization Practices.
Given her love of reading, since residency, she has also been involved with Reach Out and Read, a nationwide early pediatric literacy program that is based in primary care clinics, and now serves as Co-Chair for the WI Reach Out and Read Advisory council. She enjoys travel and has also completed multiple medical missions around the world.
