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Know Your Madisonian: Karen Walsh

Noted: Karen Walsh and her husband, Dr. Jim Berbee, $10 million to the UW School of Medicine and Public Health to increase the size of the UW Hospital emergency facility from 34 treatment areas to 50. Dr. Berbee, a Madison native, founded Berbee Information Networks Corp., went on to medical school and now works in emergency medicine in Madison and rural Wisconsin. Walsh, a UW-Madison graduate, spent 23 years with the university.