Michael Chusid, MD

Medical director, Infectious Diseases, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin; professor and associate chair, Department of Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin.

Specialty:

• Infectious Disease.

Certifications:

• Pediatrics.
• Allergy/Immunology.
• Pediatric Infectious Disease.

Education/training:

• MD: Yale University (New Haven, Conn.)
• Internship: Yale University (New Haven, Conn.), Pediatrics
• Residency: Yale University (New Haven, Conn.), Pediatrics
• Fellowship: National Institute of Health (Bethesda, MD), Infectious Disease
• Fellowship: Yale University (New Haven, Conn.), Infectious Disease

Employment:

• 1976-present: Assistant (1976), associate (1978), professor (1984) of Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin.
• 1983-present: Hospital epidemiologist, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin.
• 1984-present: Vice chair/associate chair, Department of Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin.
• 1991-1995: Chief of Staff, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin.

Professional interests:

Infections in immunocompromised patients, central nervous system infections, disorders of granulocyte function, eosinophilic syndromes.

Professional memberships/societies/committees:

• American Pediatric Society, Society for Pediatric Research.
• Milwaukee Academy of Medicine.
• Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
• Fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
• Fellow of the Pediatric Infectious Disease Society of America.

Recent or important publications:

1. Chusid, M.J., Dale, D.C., West, B.C., and Wolff, S.M.: The hypereosinophilic syndrome: Analysis of fourteen cases with review of the literature. Medicine (Baltimore), 54:l-27, l975.

2. Chusid, M.J., Gelfand, M.A., Nutter, C., and Fauci, A.S.: Pulmonary aspergillosis, inhalation of contaminated marijuana smoke, chronic granulomatous disease. Ann Intern Med 82:682-683, l975.

3. Chusid, M.J. and Tomasulo, P.A.: Survival of transfused normal granulocytes in a patient with chronic granulomatous disease. Pediatrics 6l:556-559, l978.

4. Chusid, M.J. and Heyrman, K.A.: An outbreak of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia at a pediatric hospital. Pediatrics 62:429-43l, l979.

5. Dale, D.C., Guerry, D., Wewerka, J.R., Bull, J.M., and Chusid, M.J.: Chronic neutropenia. Medicine 58:l28-l44, l979.

6. Chusid, M.J., Shea, M.L., and Sarff, L.D.: Determination of post-transfusion granulocyte kinetics by chemiluminescence in chronic granulomatous disease. J Lab Clin Med 95:l68-l74, l980.

7. Rappeport, J.M., Parkman, R., Newburger, P., Camitta, B.M., and Chusid, M.J.: Correction of infantile agranulocytosis (Kostmann's syndrome) by allogeneic marrow transplantation. Am J Med 68:605-609, l980.

8. Chusid, M.J., Pisciotta, A.V., Duquesnoy, R.J., Camitta, B.M., and Tomasulo, P.A.: Congenital neutropenia: Studies of pathogenesis. Am J Hematol 8:3l5-324, l980.

9. Chusid, M.J., Sohnle, P.G., Fink, J.N., and Shea, M.L.: A genetic defect of granulocyte oxidative metabolism in a man with disseminated aspergillosis. J Lab Clin Med 97:730-738, l98l.

10. Werlin, S.L., Chusid, M.J., Caya, J., and Oechler, H.W.: Colitis in chronic granulomatous disease. Gastroenterology 82:328-33l, l982.

11. Bretza, J.A., Chusid, M.J., Tencati, J.R., and Novey, H.: Adult immunodeficiency disorders. Immunol Allergy Prac 4:2l0-230, l982.

12. Chusid, M.J., Casper, J.T., Camitta, B.M., and McCreadie, S.R.: Cyclic neutropenia in identical twins. Am J Med 80:994-996, l986.

13. Chusid, M.J., Coleman, C.M., and Dunne, W.M.: Chronic asymptomatic Campylobacter bacteremia in a boy with X-linked hypogammaglobulinemia. Ped Inf Dis J 6:943-4, l987.

14. Chusid, M.J., Sty, J.R., and Wells, R.G.: Pulmonary aspergillosis appearing as chronic nodular disease in chronic granulomatous disease. Pediatr Radiol. l8:232-234, l988.

15. Casale, A.J., Balcom, A.H., Wells, R.G. and Chusid, M.J.: Bilateral complete ureteral obstruction and renal insufficiency secondary to chronic granulomatous disease. J Urol 142:812-814, 1989.

16. Casper, J.T., Ash, R.A., Kirchner, P., Hunter, J.B., Havens, P.L., Chusid, M.J.: Successful treatment with an unrelated-donor bone marrow transplant in an HLA-deficient patient with severe combined immunodeficiency ("bare lymphocytic syndrome"). J Pediatr 116:262-265, 1990.

17. Chusid, M.J., Wortmann, D.W., and Dunne, W.M.: "Campylobacter upsaliensis" sepsis in a child with acquired hypogammaglobulinemia. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis 13:367-69, 1990.

18. Chusid, M.J., Splaingard, M.L., Tweddell, J.S., Rice, T.R., Adams, M., Havens, P.L., and Kehl, K.S.: Pulmonary tuberculosis following lung-liver transplantation for cystic fibrosis. Pediatr Infect Dis J 15:462-464, 1996.

19. Chusid, M.J.: Eosinophilia in Childhood in Immunology and Allergy Clinics of North America 19:327-46, 1999.