Specialties & Experience of this Expert Witness

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I am a practicing infectious diseases physician in Wisconsin with nearly 25 years of clinical inpatient and outpatient experience in both academic and hospital-based private medical systems, and I have 10 years of experience as an expert witness in infectious disease-related medical-legal cases for both plaintiffs and defendants. During my medical career, I have diagnosed and treated thousands of patients with a wide array of infections, including bacteremia, endocarditis, meningitis and encephalitis, osteomyelitis and spinal infections, surgical site infections, pneumonia, tick-borne infections, HIV, transplant-related complications such as fungal infections, mycobacterial infections including tuberculosis, and infectious due to multi drug-resistant organisms such as methicillin-resistant S aureus (MRSA), carbapenem-resistant enterobacterales (CRE), and vancomycin-resistant enterococcus (VRE). I am currently licensed in both Wisconsin and Michigan and I am board certified in both Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases. I trained at some of the top medical institutions in the United States, which includes obtaining my doctoral degrees (MD and PhD) at the Mayo Clinic, completing my internal medicine residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital, and completing my infectious diseases fellowship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I spent 15 years in academic medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Michigan, with clinical, teaching, research, and administrative responsibilities, where I rose to the rank of full (tenured) professor of Medicine and Microbiology & Immunology. During my academic career, I was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Fellow, was awarded 7 National of Institutes (NIH)-funded research grants, published over 50 manuscripts, obtained several research-related patents, served as a reviewer for numerous journals and granting agencies, and mentored over 30 students, post-doctoral fellows, and junior faculty members. In 2015, I voluntarily left academic medicine and began practicing full-time clinical infectious diseases with a large private hospital system based in the upper midwest, where I maintain an active infectious diseases practice with inpatient, outpatient, and telemedicine responsibilities.