Personal Portraits

Mike Schellpfeffer, an OB-GYN physician from Kenosha, and member of the Wisconsin Stillbirth Service Program Advisory Committee, has early ties to Wisconsin. Although he was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, Dr. Schellpfeffer grew up in central Wisconsin, in the Mayville area. He received his undergraduate degree at Marquette University, and attended medical school at the Medical College of Wisconsin.

Dr. Schellpfeffer’s interest and concern with stillbirth date from the days of his residency at the University of Florida, where, in part through working with the Florida Perinatal Mortality Counseling Program (see WiSSPers Vol. 1 No. 4, ‘Guest Corner’), he developed an increased awareness of the impact of stillbirth on families, and of efforts to support and help these bereaved families.

Since completing his residency, Dr. Schellpfeffer has been in private practice in Kenosha, Wisconsin, where his professional activities also include serving as President of the Milwaukee Gynecological Society, Vice-Chair of the Wisconsin Section of A.C.O.G., and participating as a member of several committees of the American Institute of Ultrasonographic Medicine. In addition, pursuing his interest in the history of medicine, Dr. Schellpfeffer is currently preparing a monograph about Dr. N. Sproat Heaney (1880-1955), who pioneered surgical techniques for vaginal hysterectomy.

Dr. Schellpfeffer is married to Mary Capelli-Schellpfeffer, also a physician. They have four children, Sarah (age 15), Benjamin (12), Amelia (9) and Natalie (7). If (and it’s a BIG IF) he finds any spare time in his busy schedule, Dr. Schellpfeffer has been known to play a round of golf.