Jonathan L. Temte

Credentials: MD, PhD

Position title: Professor (CHS), Associate Dean of Community Engagement

Email: jon.temte@fammed.wisc.edu

Website: Department of Family Medicine and Community Health

Phone: (608) 263-3111

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It is the humanities, that sense of individual, cultural, societal, and experiential, that bring us in and bring us together. I come from a blended background.  My father was a mathematician; his passion, however, was in music.  My mother was accepted into the University of Iowa’s Writer’s Workshop (but deferred to start a family).  She finished her master’s degree in literature (focused on T.S. Eliot) shortly before her death of ALS at age 52.  I am a family doc and a quantitative biologist… I work with numbers and analytics, odds ratios and p-values.  I have also dabbled in poetry and narrative writing, publishing a few things, and receiving eight John J Frey Writing Awards since 2010.