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.
Dr. Gibson received a four-year, $1.89 million multi-PI R01 from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases. Read more here.
Recent Publications
A Randomized, Controlled Trial Comparing PermeaDerm to Mepilex Ag for the Treatment of Adult and Pediatric Partial-Thickness Burns.
Greenhalgh DG, Hill DM, Velamuri R, Driscoll I, Gibson A, Foster K, Smith D, Chamberlain A, Bush K, Yu M
J Burn Care Res 2025 May 08;
[PubMed ID: 40341353]Still not sterile: viability-based assessment of the skin microbiome following pre-surgical application of a broad-spectrum antiseptic reveals transient pathogen enrichment and long-term recovery.
Townsend EC, Xu K, De La Cruz K, Huang L, Sandstrom S, Arend D, Gromek O, Scarborough J, Huttenlocher A, Gibson ALF, Kalan LR
Microbiol Spectr 2025 Apr 10; 13(5): e0287324
[PubMed ID: 40207941]Burn Progression in Human Skin - A Review of Current Knowledge and Opportunities for Future Research.
Junak M, Gibson A
J Burn Care Res 2025 Feb 17;
[PubMed ID: 39957288]Isotonic medium treatment limits burn wound microbial colonisation and improves tissue repair.
Horn A, Wagner AS, Hou Y, Zajac JC, Fister AM, Chen Z, Pashaj J, Junak M, Mercado Soto NM, Gibson A, Huttenlocher A
Wound Repair Regen 2025; 33(1): e13242
[PubMed ID: 39654306]Is It the Holy Grail or Snake Oil?
Gibson ALF, Faucher LD
Ann Surg 2025 Apr 01; 281(4): 559-560
[PubMed ID: 39360408]