Michael J. Chusid, MD

Titles
Medical director, Infection Control, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin; professor and vice chair, Infectious Disease, Medical College of Wisconsin.

Division
Infectious Diseases

Research interests
Infectious/immunological diseases

Study interests
Infections in immunocompromised patients, central nervous system infections.

Education
Medical degree, Yale University Medical School, New Haven, Conn., 1970; residency, Yale-New Haven Hospital, 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.

Certifications
Pediatrics, 1976; Allergy and Immunology, 1977; Pediatric Infectious Diseases, 1994, 2001.

Honors
Best Doctors in America (2003).

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. 2003; 112:e380-5.
• 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. 1996; 15:462-464.
• Dunne WM, Nelson DB, Chusid MJ. Epidemiological Markers of Pediatric Infections Caused by Coagulase-negative Staphylococci. Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal. 1987; 6:1031-35.
• Chusid MJ, Jacobs WM, Sty JR. Pseudomonas Arthritis Following Puncture Wounds of the Foot. Journal of Pediatrics. 1979; 94:429-431.
• Chusid MJ, Heyrman KA. An Outbreak of Pneumocystis Carinii Pneumonia at a Pediatric Hospital. Pediatrics. 1978; 62:1031-35.
• Chusid MJ, Dale DC, West BC, Wolff SM. The Hypereosinophilic Syndrome: Analysis of Fourteen Cases with Review of the Literature. Medicine. (Baltimore), 1974; 54:1-27.

Contact
Children's Research Institute
8701 Watertown Plank Road
Wauwatosa, WI 53226
Phone: (414) 337-7070
Fax: (414) 337-7093
E-mail: mchusid@mcw.edu