CURRICULUM VITAE
Ronald K. Woods MD
Ronald K. Woods MD
Professor
Department of Surgery
Division of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery
Department of Surgery
Division of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery
OFFICE ADDRESS: |
Children’s Wisconsin - Milwaukee Hospital |
8915 W Connell Court |
Milwaukee, WI 53226 |
EDUCATION: |
1982 - 1986 BS, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL |
1986 - 1993 MD, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Urbana, IL |
1986 - 1993 PhD, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL |
POSTGRADUATE TRAINING AND FELLOWSHIP APPOINTMENTS: |
1991 - 1993 Medical Scholars Program Fellow, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Urbana, IL |
1993 - 1998 Surgical Resident, University of Washington Affiliated Hospitals, Seattle, WA |
1998 - 2000 Pediatric Surgery Fellowship, Children’s Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO |
2000 - 2002 Thoracic Surgery Fellowship, University of Washington, Seattle, WA |
2002 - 2003 Specialist Registrar, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, UK |
FACULTY APPOINTMENTS: |
02/2011 - Present Associate Professor of Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI |
HOSPITAL AND CLINICAL ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS: |
05/2003 - 01/2011 Cardiothoracic Surgery, Tacoma General Hospital, Tacoma, WA |
05/2003 - 01/2011 Division Chief, Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery Program, Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital / Swedish Medical Center, Tacoma, WA |
06/2006 - 10/2008 Cardiothoracic Surgery, Oregon Health & Science University Doernbecher Children’s Hospital, Portland, OR |
02/2011 - Present Cardiothoracic Surgery, Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI |
03/2011 - Present Courtesy Staff, Aurora Sinai Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI |
03/2011 - Present Provisional Staff, Waukesha Memorial Hospital, Waukesha, WI |
04/2011 - Present Courtesy Staff, Saint Joseph’s Hospital-Ministry Health Care, Marshfield, WI |
04/2011 - Present Courtesy Staff, Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin-Fox Valley, Neenah, WI |
Associate Attending Staff, Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital, Milwaukee, WI |
Courtesy Staff, St. Joseph's Hospital, Milwaukee, WI |
Associate Staff, Columbia-St Mary’s-Milwaukee Division, Milwaukee, WI |
SPECIALTY BOARDS AND CERTIFICATION: |
Board Certified | Issue Date | Expiration |
American Board of Surgery (General Surgery) | 05/1999 | 07/2019 |
American Board of Surgery (Pediatric Surgery) | 03/2002 | 07/2022 |
American Board of Thoracic Surgery | 06/2003 | 12/2013 |
American Board of Thoracic Surgery – subspecialty Congenital Heart Surgery | 02/2011 | 12/2020 |
Licensure | Number | Issue Date | Expiration |
Washington License | 05/1993 | 12/2013 | |
Missouri License | 06/1998 | 06/2000 | |
Oregon License | 06/2006 | 12/2011 | |
Wisconsin License | 01/2011 | None | |
AWARDS AND HONORS: |
1985 Frommel Memorial Award (Chemistry) |
1985 GB Dudley Award (Chemistry) |
1986 Hutton Memorial Award (Premedicine) |
1986 Merck Index Award (Chemistry) |
1986 General Assembly Scholarship |
1987 McGraw-Hill Award (Medicine) |
1988 Lange Outstanding Medical Student Award |
1988 Ciba-Geigy Award (Community Service) |
1988 Chancellor Student Service Award |
1993 Merck Manual Award (Outstanding Medical Senior) |
1993 Warren H. Cole Scholar (Surgery) |
1993 Upjohn Achievement Award |
1994 Henry N. Harkins Award (ACS Washington State Chapter) |
2007 Multicare Health System Quality Leadership Recognition Award |
2008 Multicare Health System President’s Award (Execellence in Total Quality) |
2009 Business Examiner 2009 Pierce County Health Care Champions – Women’s Association's Community Health Care Outreach Program - Honorable Mention |
MEMBERSHIPS IN HONORARY AND PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES: |
1985 - Present Gamma Sigma Epsilon (Member) |
1994 - Present Alpha Omega Alpha (Member) |
1998 - 2005 American College of Surgeons (Member) |
1998 - Present Henry Harkins Surgical Society (Member) |
2003 - Present Western Society of Pediatric Cardiology (Member) |
2004 - Present American Heart Association Council on Cardiovascular Surgery and Anesthesia (Member) |
2004 - Present American Heart Association Council on Cardiovascular Diseases in the Young (Member) |
2004 - Present Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Heart Surgery Database (Member) |
2004 - Present Society of Thoracic Surgeons (Member) |
2005 - Present American Academy of Pediatrics; Fellow Section on Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery (Fellow) |
2005 - Present Western Thoracic Surgical Association (Member) |
2005 - Present American College of Surgeons (Fellow) |
2009 - Present Congenital Heart Surgeons Society (Member) |
EDITORSHIPS/EDITORIAL BOARDS/JOURNAL REVIEWS: |
Journal Review |
World Journal for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery |
LOCAL/REGIONAL APPOINTED LEADERSHIP AND COMMITTEE POSITIONS: |
2003 - 2009 CME Coordinator, Mary Bridge Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery Program |
2004 - 2007 Member, Multicare Surgery Committee |
05/2005 - 01/2011 Co-Director, Mary Bridge ECLS Program |
2005 - 2008 Member, Multicare Medical Executive Committee |
2005 Member, Task Force for Strategic Planning – 5- and 10-Year Plan |
2005 - 2011 Division Chief, Mary Bridge/Swedish Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery Program |
2006 President Elect, Multicare Medical Executive Committee |
2006 President Elect, Mary Bridge Medical Staff |
2007 President, Multicare Medical Executive Committee |
2007 President, Mary Bridge Medical Staff |
03/2011 - Present Member, Critical Care Committee, Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin |
03/2011 - Present Member, OR Steering Committee, Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin |
INVITED LECTURES/WORKSHOPS/PRESENTATIONS: |
International |
Mapping Oxygen Concentration with 4D Electron Spin Resonance Imaging, International Workshop of In Vivo ESR and ESR Imaging, L’Aquila, Italy, 09/1989 |
PEER REVIEWED WORKSHOPS/PRESENTATIONS: |
National |
Biologic Oximetry via Spectral-Spatial ESR Imaging, Seventh Annual Meeting of the Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, San Francisco, CA, 08/1988 |
Vertebral Osteomyelitis and Mycotic Aortic Aneurysm, Washington State Chapter of the American College of Surgeons, Stevenson, WA, 06/1994 |
Thoracic Duct Trauma, Seattle Surgical Society, Seattle, WA, 01/1995 |
The Open Pelvic Fracture and Fecal Diversion, Washington State Chapter of the American College of Surgeons, Coeur d’Alene, ID, 06/1995 |
Comparison of Extracardiac Fontan Techniques: Pedicled Pericardial Tunnel vs Conduit Reconstruction, Western Thoracic Surgical Association, Big Sky, MT, 06/2002 |
Reversal of Coagulopathy on Pump, Annual Meeting of the Congenital Heart Surgeons Society, Chicago, IL, 11/2009 |
COMMUNITY SERVICE ACTIVITIES: |
2004 Ingwavuma, South Africa, two months physician volunteer work at rural homeland hospital. |
11/2007 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, collaborative effort with “East Meets West” to bring on-line a new pediatric cardiac surgery service in a 1000-bed public children’s hospital.
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04/2008 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, collaborative effort with “East Meets West” and Children’s Heart Link International – continuing efforts to bring on-line a new pediatric cardiac surgery service in a 1000-bed public children’s hospital. |
04/2009 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, collaborative effort with “East Meets West” and Children’s Heart Link International – continuing efforts to develop pediatric cardiac surgery service in a 1000-bed public children’s hospital. |
02/2010 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, collaborative effort with “East Meets West” and Children’s Heart Link International – continuing efforts for growth and expansion of established pediatric cardiac surgery service in a 1000-bed public children’s hospital. |
BIBLIOGRAPHY |
Refereed Journal Publications/Original Papers |
1. Ronald K. Woods, G. Henderson. FTIR Rotational Spectroscopy. J Chem Ed, 64:921, 1987. |
2. Ronald K. Woods, Goran Bacic, Paul C. Lauterbur, Harold Swartz. Three Dimensional Electron Spin Resonance Imaging. J Magn Reson, 84:247, 1989. |
3. Ronald K. Woods, Jurek Dobrucki, James Glockner, Philip Morse II, Harold Swartz. Spectral-spatial Imaging as a Method of Noninvasive Biological Oximetry. J Magn Reson, 85:50, 1989. |
4. Ronald K. Woods, W. Brian Hyslop, Harold Swartz. Mapping Oxygen Concentration with 4D Electon Spin Resonance Spectral-spatial Imaging. Phys Med V, no.2-4, part I:121, 1989. |
5. Jurek Dobrucki, Franci Demsar, T. Walczak, Ronald K. Woods, Goran Bacic, Harold Swartz. Electron Spin resonance of Microscopy of an In Vitro Tumor Model. Brit J Cancer, 61:221, 1990. |
6. W. Brian Hyslop, Ronald K. Woods, Paul C. Lauterbur. Four Dimensional Spectral-spatial Imaging Using Projection Reconstruction. IEEE Trans Med Imag, 14(2):374, 1995. |
7. Ronald K. Woods, E. Patchen Dellinger. Current Guidelines for Antibiotic Prophylaxis of Surgical Wounds. Invited Paper, Am Fam Physician, 57(11): 2731, 1998. |
8. Ronald K. Woods, Grant O'Keefe, Peter Rhee, ML Chip Routt, Jr., Ronald Maier. The Open Pelvic Fracture and Fecal Diversion. Arch Surg, 133(3): 281, 1998. |
9. Ronald K. Woods, Loretto Glynn, Walter Andrews, Keith Ashcraft. Thoracotomy for Persistent Bronchopleural Fistula in the Very Low Birth Weight Infant. J Pediatr, 136(6): 832, 2000. |
10. Ronald K. Woods, Ronald Sharp, George Holcomb, Charles Snyder, Gary Lofland, Keith Ashcraft, Thomas Holder. Vascular Anomalies and Tracheoesophageal Compression - A Single Institution's 25-Year Experience. Ann Thorac Surg, 72: 434, 2001. |
11. KA Miller, RK Woods, RJ Sharp, GK Gittes, K Wade, KW Ashcraft, CL Snyder, WM Andrews, JP Murphy, GW Holcomb III. Minimally Invasive Repair of Pectus Excavatum: A Single Institution's Experience. Surgery, 130(4): 652, 2001. |
12. DJ Ostlie, KA Miller, RK Woods, GW Holcomb. Single Cannula Technique and Robotic Telescopic Assistance in Infants and Children Requiring Laparoscopic Nissen Fundoplication. J Pediatr Surg, 38: 111, 2003. |
13. Ronald K. Woods, Umesh Dyamenahalli, Brian Duncan, Geoffrey Rosenthal, Flavian Lupinetti. Comparison of Extracardiac Fontan Techniques: Pedicled Pericardial Tunnel vs Conduit Reconstruction, J Thoracic Cardiovasc Surg, 125(3): 465, 2003. |
14. Ronald K. Woods, Katherine Cleveland. Alternative Repair for Challenging Variants of Partial Anomalous Pulmonary Veins. Ann Thorac Surg, 85: 1823, 2008. |
15. Katherine Cleveland, Diane Zook, Kayla Harvey, Ronald K. Woods. Massive Chylothorax in Small Babies. J Pediatr Surg, 44(3): 546, 2009. |
16. Katherine Cleveland, Robert Keenan, Ronald K. Woods. Transition to Post-Bypass Pediatric Mechanical Support. Ann Thorac Surg, 89: e2-e3, 2010. |
Books, Chapters, and Reviews |
1. Ronald K. Woods, W. Brian Hyslop, Harold Swartz, Paul Lauterbur: Image Reconstruction. EPR Imaging and In Vivo EPR. GR Eaton, SS Eaton, K Ohno (Eds.), CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 1991. |
2. Ronald K. Woods, Keith Ashcraft: Diaphragmatic Hernias in Infants and Children. Nyhus and Condon: Hernia. RJ Fitzgibbons, AG Greenburg (Eds.), Lipponcott, Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, PA, 2002. |
3. Ronald K. Woods, Edward Verrier. Congenital Heart Disease. Current Surgical Diagnosis and Treatment (11th edition). Lawrence Way, Gerard Doherty (Eds.), Appleton and Lange, Norwalk, CT, 2002. |
4. Ronald K. Woods, Randall Otto, Dale Hall, Christohper Stefanelli. Vascular Rings and Pulmonary Artery Sling. The Johns Hopkins Manual of Cardiothoracic Surgery. D Yuh, L Vricella, W. Baumgartner (Eds.), McGraw-Hill, New York, NY, 2007. |
Editorials, Letters to Editor, Other |
1. Ronald K. Woods. Mapping Viability and Oxygen Concentration in Spheroids - A Noninvasive Approach with Electron Paramagentic Resonance Imaging. Thesis. University of Illinois. 1991. |
Abstracts |
1. Ronald K. Woods, Goran Bacic, Harold Swartz, Paul Lauterbur. Three Dimensional Electron Spin Resonance Imaging. Biophysical Society Abstracts, 53:202a, 1988. |
2. Goran Bacic, T Walczak, Philip Morse II, Franci Demsar, Ronald K. Woods, Mark Nilges, Jurek Dobrucki, Paul Lauterbur, Harold Swartz. Microscopy of Biological Samples at 9 GHz. Biophysical Society Abstracts, 53:626a, 1988. |
3. W. Brian Hyslop, Ronald K. Woods, Paul Lauterbur. EPR Imaging of Magnetic Field Inhomogeneities from High-Temperature Superconductors. Rocky Mountain Conference Abstracts, 1998. |
4. Harold Swartz, Goran Bacic, Jurek Dobrucki, James Glockner, Richard Magin, Philip Morse II, Mark Nilges, T Walczak, Ronald K. Woods. Measurements of Pertinent Oxygen Concentrations in Biological Samples Using ESR Techniques. Rocky Mountain Conference Abstracts, 1988. |
5. Harold Swartz, Goran Bacic, Jurek Dobrucki, Richard Magin, F Massimo, Philip Morse II, Mark Nilges, T Walczak, Ronald K. Woods. The Use of ESR Imaging and ESR In Vivo Spectroscopy to Measure Oxygen Concentration and Redox Metabolism. XIIth International Conference of Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems, Madison, WI, Abstracts, 1988. |
6. W. Brian Hyslop, Ronald K. Woods. Three-Stage Hybrid Filtered Backprojection Reconstruction Algorithm for Four Dimensional Projection Reconstruction Imaging. Eighth Annual Meeting of the Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Abstract Vol II, 922, 1989. |
7. W. Brian Hyslop, Ronald K. Woods, Paul Lauterbur. Four Dimensional Projection Reconstruction Imaging. SPIE Vol 1660, 44, 1992. |
8. H. Matsamura, Loren Engrav, Ronald K. Woods, B Costa, D Nakamura. Millar "Crane" Floap for Deep Hand Burns with Exposed Tendon and/or Joint. J Burn Care and Rehab, Vol 18, No 1, Part 3, S123, 1997. |
9. KA Miller, RK Woods, GW Holcomb III, RJ Sharp, GK Gittes, K Wade, KW Ashcraft, CL Snyder, WM Andrews, JP Murphy, TM Holder. Minimally Invasive Repair of Pectus Excavatum: A Single Institution's Experience. Central Surgical Association 58th Annual Meeting, Tucson, AZ, 2001. |
10. Ray Y Sato, Chris Beuning, Dale G Hall, Ronald K. Woods. Outcomes After Patent Ductus Arteriosus (PDA) Ligation With and Without Prior Indomethacin Exposure. Abstract 750263, 2008 Pediatric Academic Societies' Annual Meeting, Honolulu, HI, 2008. |