Carrie Thiessen

Education

• Fellowship, University of California San Francisco, Abdominal Transplant Surgery
• MD, Yale University
• PhD, Harvard University
• Resident, Yale University, General 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.