Specialties
Carrie Thiessen, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
- Transplantation Surgery
thiessen@surgery.wisc.edu
(608) 263-9903
Education
- MD, Yale University
- PhD, Harvard University
- Resident, Yale University, General Surgery
- Fellowship, University of California San Francisco, Abdominal Transplant Surgery
Dr. Thiessen provides a wide range of services including Liver Transplant, Kidney Transplant, Pancreas Transplant.
Research Interests
Dr. Thiessen’s research goals include the development of an independently funded research program aimed at identifying strategies to increase living kidney donation and the examination of ethical issues surrounding organ transplantation.
Dr. Thiessen and Dr. Neidlinger received a grant award from Donate Life Wisconsin to support a project evaluating the University of Wisconsin Organ and Tissue Donation program’s practice of having pre-procurement conversations. Read more here.
Dr. Thiessen was awarded a 5-year, $956,000 career development award from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. Read more here.
Recent Publications
Exploring Non-Utilitarian Justifications of Allocation Out of Sequence.
Kelleher JP, Persad G, Thiessen C
Am J Bioeth 2026 Jan; 26(1): 90-92
[PubMed ID: 41533115]Health-Related Quality of Life After Living Kidney Donation: Insights From a Contemporary Meta-Analysis.
Garg N, Thiessen C, Mandelbrot DA
Am J Kidney Dis 2025 Dec 20;
[PubMed ID: 41420641]Importing pancreata for transplantation: a single-center experience across evolving allocation eras.
Tamburrini R, Hidalgo S, Leverson G, Kaufman DB, Neidlinger NA, Al-Adra DP, Aufhauser DD, Thiessen C, Mandelbrot D, Parajuli S, Odorico JS
Front Transplant 2025; 4: 1698617
[PubMed ID: 41488372]Hematuria and fever following kidney transplantation.
Kinard C, Zajac J, Zhong W, Thiessen C
Am J Transplant 2025 Dec; 25(12): 2658-2660
[PubMed ID: 41314770]Voucher Donation: Will the Promise be Realized?
Cohen DJ, Mandelbrot D, Thiessen C
Kidney Int Rep 2025 Nov; 10(11): 3724-3726
[PubMed ID: 41278341]