Michael J. Chusid, MD

Infectious Disease

Title(s): Medical director, Infection Control, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin; professor and vice chair, Medical College of Wisconsin.

Education: Mmedical degree, Yale University Medical School, New Haven, Conn., 1970; residency, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Conn., 1970-1972; fellowships, Laboratory of Clinical Investigation, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md., 1972-1975; Division of Infectious Diseases, Children's Hospital Medical Center/ Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, 1975-1976.

Certification(s): Pediatrics, 1976; Allergy & Immunology, 1977; Pediatric Infectious Diseases, 1994, 2001.

Honors: AOA (Yale, 1970), Best Doctors in America (2003).

Research interests: Infections in immunocompromised patients and CNS infections.

Representative publications:

• Ramirez S, Hild TG, Rudolph CN, Sty JR, Kehl SC, Havens PL, Henrickson KJ, Chusid MJ. Increased Diagnosis of Lemierre Syndrome and other Fusobacterium Necrophorum Infections at a Children's Hospital. Pediatrics 112:e380-5, 2003.
• Chusid MJ, Splaingard ML, Tweddell JS, Rice TR, Adams M, Havens PL, Kehl KS. Pulmonary Tuberculosis Following Lung-Liver Transplantation for Cystic Fibrosis. Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal 15:462-464, 1996.
• Dunne WM, Nelson DB, Chusid MJ. Epidemiological Markers of Pediatric Infections Caused by Coagulase-Negative Staphylococci. Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal 6:l03l-35, l987.
• Chusid MJ, Jacobs WM, Sty JR. Pseudomonas Arthritis Following Puncture Wounds of the Foot. Journal of Pediatrics 94:429-43l, l979.
• Chusid MJ, Heyrman KA. An Outbreak of Pneumocystis Carinii Pneumonia at a Pediatric Hospital. Pediatrics 62:1031-35, 1978.
• Chusid MJ, Dale DC, West BC, Wolff SM. The Hypereosinophilic Syndrome: Analysis of Fourteen Cases with Review of the Literature. Medicine (Baltimore), 54:l-27, l975.

Contact information: 8701 Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, WI 53226. Phone: (414) 456-4122. Fax: (414) 456-6539. E-mail: mchusid@mcw.edu