Save the Date: Celebration of Ben-Tzion Karsh’s Life and Work

Karsh Celebration Invitation

Please plan to join many friends and family for a celebration of the life and work of Ben-Tzion Karsh:

Date and Time: Sunday April 28 at 6pm
Location: UW Mechanical Engineering Building Atrium, 1513 University Avenue
Online registration: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1eluI5DZoXVBFhcSuBXqu5TKLw1epqDbDxyTjoAn...

There will be a very informal reception with hors d'oeuvres and a cash bar followed by a short formal recognition. Contributions to the Karsh Educational and Research Fund will be gratefully accepted.

Karsh Education and Research Fund

Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) Professor Ben-Tzion (Bentzi) Karsh, PhD, was passionate about how human interaction with technology can improve healthcare safety and quality. Academicians, clinicians, and patients consider his research to be among the best in the world, though tragically, his 2012 death cut his work short.

Dr. Karsh’s legacy lives on through I-PrACTISE, a collaboration of experts in ISyE, family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, and related disciplines. They are developing new collaborative research that will improve healthcare quality, efficiency, effectiveness, and safety.

Through the Ben-Tzion Karsh Education and Research Fund, we can continue this important work. But we need your support.

How You Can Help
Your donation to the Karsh fund will advance education and research to improve primary care by:

• Supporting collaborative scholarship;
• Sponsoring meetings, speakers and publications;
• Sponsoring undergraduate and graduate students; and
• Providing seed grant funding for research projects

Make a tax-deductible donation through the University of Wisconsin Foundation.

• Visit http://www.supportuw.org, click on "How to give," and "Give online."
• In the first line (“Designation”), select “College of Engineering”
• In the box, "Instructions for directing your gift," type "Ben-Tzion Karsh Education and Research Fund (#12497635)."

The Karsh fund is administered by the UW Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering and I-PrACTISE, The National Collaborative for Improving PrimAry Care through Industrial and Systems Engineering, a group established under the UW Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement (CQPI).

Questions? Visit http://cqpi.engr.wisc.edu/I-PrACTISE_Home, or contact John W. Beasley, MD (john.beasley@fammed.wisc.edu), Pascale Carayon, PhD (carayon@engr.wisc.edu), or Tosha Wetterneck, MD, MS (tbw@medicine.wisc.edu).