Specialties
- Acute Care Surgery
- General Surgery
- Surgical Critical Care
- Trauma Surgery
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
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
A tale of two analyses: Administrative vs primary review of nutrition support team performance.
Busch RA, Stone S, Kudsk KA
Nutr Clin Pract 2022 May 02;
[PubMed ID: 35499296]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 02; 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]