Donor spotlight: Dr. Philip F. Judy

In May, Dr. Philip F. Judy made a blended gift consisting of a cash gift combined with an estate gift to establish the Philip F. Judy Biomedical Engineering Fund to support biomedical engineering research and fellowships at the UWM College of Engineering & Applied Science.    

Dr. Judy earned his undergraduate degree in Applied Science from UWM in 1964 and his doctoral degree in Radiological Sciences (Physics) from UW-Madison in 1971.  

Now retired, Dr. Judy was the Director of the Physics and Engineering Division at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston and an Associate Professor of Radiology at Harvard University.  He has served on the boards of directors for the American Association of Physicists in Medicine and the Academy of Radiology Research. In 1986, he served as vice-president of the Radiological Society of North America. 

Dr. Judy lives in Massachusetts with his wife Karen Doppke, a senior medical physicist with the Department of Radiation Oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital and fellow of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine.   

When asked why he made this gift to UWM, Dr. Judy said, “I was fortunate to spend my career in research doing something I loved, and I want to give back to the next generation of engineers and researchers at the university that started my lifelong journey of discovery.”  

If you would like to learn about making a planned gift to the college, please contact Jean Opitz, development director for the College of Engineering & Applied Science, at opitz@uwm.edu, or click here.