Carrie Thiessen
Credentials: MD, PhD
Position title: Assistant Professor
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Email: thiessen@surgery.wisc.edu
Phone: 608-263-9903
Address:
600 Highland Ave
Madison, WI 53792
Education
- MD, Yale University
- PhD, Harvard University
- Resident, Yale University, General Surgery
- Fellowship, University of California San Francisco, Abdominal Transplant Surgery
Clinical Specialties
Dr. Thiessen provides a wide range of services including Liver Transplant, Kidney Transplant, Pancreas Transplant.
Research Interests
Dr. Thiessen’s research goals include the development of an independently funded research program aimed at identifying strategies to increase living kidney donation and the examination of ethical issues surrounding organ transplantation.
Dr. Thiessen and Dr. Neidlinger received a grant award from Donate Life Wisconsin to support a project evaluating the University of Wisconsin Organ and Tissue Donation program’s practice of having pre-procurement conversations. Read more here.