Specialties
Carrie Thiessen, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
- Division of Transplantation
thiessen@surgery.wisc.edu
(608) 263-9903
Education
- MD, Yale University, New Haven, CT
- PhD, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
- Resident, Yale University, General Surgery, New Haven, CT
- Fellowship, University of California San Francisco, Abdominal Transplant Surgery, San Francisco, CA
Clinical Specialties
Dr. Thiessen is certified by the American Board of Surgery. Dr. Thiessen’s clinical focus is liver, kidney, and pancreas transplantation.
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.
Dr. Thiessen’s Lab >>
Recent Publications
Open letter to the FDA: From priority to dead-end: Why are living donor kidney recipients blocked from novel clinical trials?
Mannon RB, Thiessen C, Vincenti F
Am J Transplant 2026 Feb 04;
[PubMed ID: 41651074]Dual Kidney Transplantation Offers Prolonged Graft Survival.
Fedorova E, Firmino SN, Foley D, Garonzik-Wang J, Kaufman D, Odorico J, Aufhauser D, Neidlinger NA, Thiessen C, Philip J, Collins KM, Mezrich J, Al-Adra D, Mandelbrot D, Astor BC, Parajuli S
Clin Transplant 2026 Feb; 40(2): e70481
[PubMed ID: 41674145]Changes by Era in Risk Factors and Outcomes Among Deceased Donor Kidney Transplant Recipients With Delayed Graft Function.
Ylagan CC, Schindler PE, Patel DB, Thiessen C, Bregman AP, Mandelbrot D, Astor BC, Parajuli S
Clin Transplant 2026 Feb; 40(2): e70484
[PubMed ID: 41691637]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 2026 Feb; 87(2): 153-155
[PubMed ID: 41420641]