Education

• MD, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN, 1980
• Internship and Residency, University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, Madison, WI, 1980-1983
• Research Fellow, University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, Madison, WI, 1984-1985

Professional Activities

Dr. Pirsch serves on the editorial board of several national academic journals, including Transplantation and Graft.

Clinical Specialties

Dr. Pirsch is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine. He is the director of the Medical Transplant Service and specializes in new immunosuppressive drugs, pancreas transplantation, and medical complications of transplant recipients.

Research Interests

Dr. Pirsch has research interests in immunosuppressive therapy and the medical complications of transplantation.

Recent Publications

• Alemtuzumab as compared to alternative contemporary induction regimens.
  LaMattina JC, Mezrich JD, Hofmann RM, Foley DP, D'Alessandro AM, Sollinger HW, Pirsch JD
  Transpl. Int. 2012 May; 25(5):518-26.
  [PubMed ID: 22394259]
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• Pretransplant immune regulation predicts allograft outcome: bidirectional regulation correlates with excellent renal transplant function in living-related donor-recipient pairs.
  Jankowska-Gan E, Sheka A, Sollinger HW, Pirsch JD, Hofmann RM, Haynes LD, Armbrust MJ, Mezrich JD, Burlingham WJ
  Transplantation 2012 Feb 15; 93(3):283-90.
  [PubMed ID: 22186938]
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• The impact of hepatitis C virus donor and recipient status on long-term kidney transplant outcomes: University of Wisconsin experience.
  Singh N, Neidlinger N, Djamali A, Leverson G, Voss B, Sollinger HW, Pirsch JD
  Clinical transplantation 2012 Jan 29.
  [PubMed ID: 22283142]
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• Simultaneous pancreas and kidney (SPK) retransplantation in prior SPK recipients.
  Lamattina JC, Sollinger HW, Becker YT, Mezrich JD, Pirsch JD, Odorico JS
  Clin Transplant 2011 Oct 28.
  [PubMed ID: 22032238]
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• Luminex-based desensitization protocols: the University of Wisconsin initial experience.
  Niederhaus SV, Muth B, Lorentzen DF, Wai P, Pirsch JD, Samaniego-Picota M, Leverson GE, D'alessandro AM, Sollinger HW, Djamali A
  Transplantation 2011 Jul 15; 92(1):12-7.
  [PubMed ID: 21512428]
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