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, community health and prevention, critical illnesses, genetic diseases/genomics, medications in children

Study interests
Neurologic infections, bone infections, congenital infections, infections in immune deficient children

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 (permanent), 1976; Allergy and Immunology, 1977; Pediatric Infectious Diseases (recertified), 2008.

Honors
Alpha Omega Alpha, Yale Medical School
Best Doctors in America (2003)-2011).

Representative publications

• Kumar S, Chusid MJ, Willoughby RE, Havens PL, Kehl SC, Ledeboer NA, Li, SH, Henrickson KJ. Introduction of a Novel Swine-origin Influenza A (H1N1) Virus into Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 2009. Viruses. 2009; 1:72-83.
• Willoughby RE, Tieves KS, Hoffman GM, Ghanayem NS, Amelie-Lefond CM, Schwabbe MJ, Chjusid MJ, Rupprecht CE. Survival after Treatment of Rabies with Induction of Coma. New England Journal of Medicine. 2005; 352:2508-14.
• 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, 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