Education

• MD, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, 2002
• MPH, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, 2006
• Residency in Surgery, University of Wisconsin Department of Surgery, Division of General Surgery, Madison, WI, 2009
• Fellowship, Trauma Surgery and Surgical Critical Care, University of Tennessee-Memphis, Memphis, TN, 2010

Clinical Specialties

Dr. O’Rourke practices in the trauma and burn programs and in the acute care surgery program.

Dr. O'Rourke provides a wide range of services including Appendectomy, Burn Surgery, Cholecystectomy (Gallbladder Removal), Excision of Lipoma, Laparoscopic Groin Hernia Repair, Muscle Biopsy, Open Groin Hernia Repair, Sebaceous Cyst Removal, Subcutaneous Tumor Removal, Trauma Surgery, and Ventral / Abdominal Hernia Repair.

Research Interests

Recent Publications

• Taser blunt probe dart-to-heart distance causing ventricular fibrillation in pigs.
  Wu JY, Sun H, O'Rourke AP, Huebner SM, Rahko PS, Will JA, Webster JG
  IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 2008 Dec; 55(12):2768-71.
  [PubMed ID: 19126456]
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• Ventricular fibrillation time constant for swine.
  Wu JY, Nimunkar AJ, Sun H, O'Rourke A, Huebner S, Will JA, Webster JG
  Physiol Meas 2008 Oct; 29(10):1209-19.
  [PubMed ID: 18812645]
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• Finite-element analysis of hepatic cryoablation around a large blood vessel.
  Kim C, O'Rourke AP, Will JA, Mahvi DM, Webster JG
  IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 2008 Aug; 55(8):2087-93.
  [PubMed ID: 18632371]
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• Dielectric properties of human normal, malignant and cirrhotic liver tissue: in vivo and ex vivo measurements from 0.5 to 20 GHz using a precision open-ended coaxial probe.
  O'Rourke AP, Lazebnik M, Bertram JM, Converse MC, Hagness SC, Webster JG, Mahvi DM
  Phys Med Biol 2007 Aug 7; 52(15):4707-19.
  [PubMed ID: 17634659]
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• Current status of liver tumor ablation devices.
  O'Rourke AP, Haemmerich D, Prakash P, Converse MC, Mahvi DM, Webster JG
  Expert Rev Med Devices 2007 Jul; 4(4):523-37.
  [PubMed ID: 17605688]
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• Finite-element analysis of ex vivo and in vivo hepatic cryoablation.
  Kim C, O'Rourke AP, Mahvi DM, Webster JG
  IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 2007 Jul; 54(7):1177-85.
  [PubMed ID: 17605348]
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• An electrode array that minimizes blood loss for radiofrequency-assisted hepatic resection.
  Schutt DJ, O'Rourke AP, Will JA, Webster JG, Mahvi DM, Haemmerich D
  Med Eng Phys 2008 May; 30(4):454-9.
  [PubMed ID: 17588799, PMC ID: 2446607]
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• Taser dart-to-heart distance that causes ventricular fibrillation in pigs.
  Wu JY, Sun H, O'Rourke AP, Huebner S, Rahko PS, Will JA, Webster JG
  IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 2007 Mar; 54(3):503-8.
  [PubMed ID: 17355063]
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• A floating sleeve antenna yields localized hepatic microwave ablation.
  Yang D, Bertram JM, Converse MC, O'Rourke AP, Webster JG, Hagness SC, Will JA, Mahvi DM
  IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 2006 Mar; 53(3):533-7.
  [PubMed ID: 16532780]
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• The Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake and Tsunami of 2004: the hazards, events, and damage.
  Kohl PA, O'Rourke AP, Schmidman DL, Dopkin WA, Birnbaum ML
  Prehosp Disaster Med 2005 Nov-Dec; 20(6):355-63.
  [PubMed ID: 16496614]
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