Department of Surgery
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

Clinical Information

Specialties

Kenneth Allan Kudsk, MD, FACS

Professor

  • Division of Acute Care and Regional General Surgery

kudsk@surgery.wisc.edu
(608) 262-6246

600 Highland Ave
MC 3236
Madison, WI 53792-7375

Education

  • MD, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, IL, 1975
  • Residency in Surgery, Ohio State University Hospitals, Columbus, OH, 1975-1976, 1977-1979, 1981-1983
  • Research Fellowship in Respiratory Distress, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 1976-1977
  • Clinical Fellowship, American Cancer Society, 1976-1977
  • Research Fellowship in Trauma and Burn, University of California, San Francisco, CA, 1979-1981

Honors

Madison Magazine Top Docs 2012 Award Trauma

Clinical Specialties

Dr. Kudsk specializes in trauma, surgical critical care, surgical nutrition and adult general surgery.

Dr. Kudsk provides a wide range of services including Appendectomy, Cholecystectomy (Gallbladder Removal), Excision of Lipoma, Groin Pain After Hernia, Open Groin Hernia Repair, Sebaceous Cyst Removal, Subcutaneous Tumor Removal, Trauma Surgery.

Research Interests

Dr. Kudsk conducts basic research studying the interactions between nutritional status and infectious risk in surgical and critically injured patients. His research program investigates the effect of route and type of nutrition on mucosal immunity in the intestinal and respiratory tracts.

Recent Publications

  • Role of heat shock protein and cytokine expression as markers of clinical outcomes with glutamine-supplemented parenteral nutrition in surgical ICU patients.
    Wischmeyer PE, Mintz-Cole RA, Baird CH, Easley KA, May AK, Sax HC, Kudsk KA, Hao L, Tran PH, Jones DP, Blumberg HM, Ziegler TR
    Clin Nutr 2020 Feb; 39(2): 563-573
    [PubMed ID: 30981628]

  • An Institutional Change in Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy: Nutrition Support Team Resolves Resultant Severe Hypophosphatemia.
    Busch RA, Curtis CS, Kight CE, Leverson GE, Ma Y, Maursetter L, Kudsk KA
    Nutr Clin Pract 2017 Apr; 32(2): 245-251
    [PubMed ID: 29927525]

  • An Institutional Change in Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy.
    Busch RA, Curtis CS, Kight CE, Leverson GE, Ma Y, Maursetter L, Kudsk KA
    Nutr Clin Pract 2017 Apr; 32(2): 245-251
    [PubMed ID: 27589256]

  • The gastrointestinal immune system: Implications for the surgical patient.
    Pierre JF, Busch RA, Kudsk KA
    Curr Probl Surg 2016 Jan; 53(1): 11-47
    [PubMed ID: 26699624]

  • In Brief.
    Pierre JF, Busch RA, Kudsk KA
    Curr Probl Surg 2016 Jan; 53(1): 6-9
    [PubMed ID: 26699623]

All Publications on PubMed