Specialties
- General Surgery
- Surgical Critical Care
- Trauma Surgery
- Burn and Wound Healing
Angela Gibson, MD, PhD, FACS
Associate Professor
- Medical Director, UW Health Wound Healing Services
- Vice Chair of Research
- Division of Acute Care and Regional General Surgery
gibson@surgery.wisc.edu
(608) 265-9574
600 Highland Ave.
MC 3236
Madison, WI 53792
Education
- MD, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
- PhD, Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Wisconsin
- General Surgery Residency, University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, Madison, WI
- Burn Surgery Fellowship, University of California-Davis, Sacramento, CA
- Surgical Critical Care Fellowship, University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, Madison, WI
Clinical Specialties
Dr. Gibson is certified by the American Board of Surgery in General Surgery and Surgical Critical Care. She specializes in the surgical treatment of trauma and burns and surgical critical care.
Dr. Gibson provides a wide range of services including Burn Surgery, Management of Complicated Wounds, and Trauma Surgery.
Research Interests
Dr. Gibson’s research interests focus on epithelial regeneration in burn injury, evaluation of skin substitutes, human skin model development for wound healing, and understanding the burn wound microenvironment.
Dr. Gibson was awarded a five-year, $1.375 million research grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences to focus on tissue necrosis, a form of cell death, when diagnosing and treating burn injuries. Read more here.
Dr. Gibson and her co-project leader, Dr. Brian Pogue in the UW Department of Medical Physics, were awarded a three-year, $600,000 Collaborative Health Sciences Program award from the Wisconsin Partnership Program. Read more here.
Recent Publications
Is It the Holy Grail or Snake Oil?
Gibson ALF, Faucher LD
Ann Surg 2024 Oct 03;
[PubMed ID: 39360408]Single-cell Transcriptional Landscape of Temporal Neutrophil Response to Burn Wound in Larval Zebrafish.
Hou Y, Khatri P, Rindy J, Schultz Z, Gao A, Chen Z, Gibson ALF, Huttenlocher A, Dinh HQ
J Immunol 2024 Aug 15; 213(4): 469-480
[PubMed ID: 38922186]A phase 3b, open-label, single-arm, multicenter, expanded-access study of the safety and clinical outcomes of StrataGraft® treatment in adults with deep partial-thickness thermal burns.
Holmes Iv JH, Gibson ALF, Short T, Joe VC, Litt J, Carson J, Carter JE, Wibbenmeyer L, Hahn H, Smiell JM, Rutan R, Wu R, Shupp JW
Burns 2024 Nov; 50(8): 2013-2022
[PubMed ID: 39043513]The porcine skin microbiome exhibits broad fungal antagonism.
De La Cruz KF, Townsend EC, Alex Cheong JZ, Salamzade R, Liu A, Sandstrom S, Davila E, Huang L, Xu KH, Wu SY, Meudt JJ, Shanmuganayagam D, Gibson ALF, Kalan LR
Fungal Genet Biol 2024 Aug; 173: 103898
[PubMed ID: 38815692]The effect of anatomic location on porcine models of burn injury and wound healing.
Liu A, Cheong JZA, Hassan S, Wielgat MB, Meudt JJ, Townsend EC, Shanmuganayagam D, Kalan LR, Gibson A
Wound Repair Regen 2024; 32(5): 675-685
[PubMed ID: 38775411]