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CURRICULUM VITAE

Elizabeth A. Bukowy DO
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine
Division of Geriatric and Palliative Medicine

OFFICE ADDRESS:
Hub for Collaborative Medicine
8701 Watertown Plank Road
Milwaukee, WI 53226

EDUCATION:
08/2005 - 05/2009 B.S., Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, WI
08/2010 - 05/2014 D.O, Midwestern University, Downers Grove, IL

POSTGRADUATE TRAINING AND FELLOWSHIP APPOINTMENTS:
07/2014 - 06/2015 Intern, Medicine, Medicine-Geriatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin Affiliated Hospitals, 8701 W Watertown Plank Rd, Wauwatosa, WI 53226
07/2015 - 06/2017 Resident, Medicine, Medicine-Geriatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin Affiliated Hospitals, 8701 W Watertown Plank Rd, Wauwatosa, WI 53226
07/2017 - 06/2018 Fellow, Medicine, Medicine-Geriatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin Affiliated Hospitals, 8701 W Watertown Plank Rd, Wauwatosa, WI 53226
07/2018 - 06/2019 Fellow, Medicine, Medicine-Geriatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin Affiliated Hospitals, 8701 W Watertown Plank Rd, Wauwatosa, WI 53226

FACULTY APPOINTMENTS:
07/2019 - Present Assistant Professor, Medicine, Geriatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 W Watertown Plank Rd, Wauwatosa, WI 53226
07/2019 - 06/2020 Assistant Professor, Medicine, Palliative Care, Hematology and Oncology, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Rd, Wauwatosa, WI 53226

HOSPITAL AND CLINICAL ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS:
07/2019 - Present Medical Director, Lutheran Home, Lutheran Home, 7500 W North Ave, Wauwatosa, WI 53226
07/2019 - 2021 Medical Director, Clement Manor, Clement Manor, 3939 S 92nd St, Greenfield, WI 53228
10/2020 - Present Medical Director Long Term Care, VA, 5000 W National Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53295
09/2021 - Present Medical Director, Congregational Home, 13900 W Burleigh Rd, Brookfield, WI 53005

HOSPITAL STAFF PRIVILEGES:
07/2014 - Present Froedtert Hospital, 9200 W. Wisconsin Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53226
10/2020 - Present VA, 5000 W National Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53295

SPECIALTY BOARDS AND CERTIFICATION:
Board Certified
Issue DateExpiration
American Board of Internal Medicine
08/2017
08/2027
Geriatric Medicine
11/2018
11/2028
Palliative Care and Hospice
10/2020
10/2030
Certified Medical Director
08/31/2021
06/30/2027
   
Certificates
Issued By Issue DateExpiration
ACLS
AHA
06/2016
None
BLS
AHA
12/31/2020
12/31/2024
    

Licensure
Number Issue DateExpiration
Wisconsin License
02/28/2018
10/31/2025
DEA
06/21/2019
07/31/2025
    

AWARDS AND HONORS:
05/2011 - 05/2014 Primary Care Loan
05/2012 - Present Fredrick E. Hecker Scholarship
06/2016 - Present Letter of Commendation, Clinical Competency Committee
10/2016 - Present Professionalism Week Resident Recognition, Peer Nominated
05/2017 - Present First Place Award Case Poster, American Geriatric Society
12/2019 - Present Faculty Development Award 2019-2020
2022 Featured physician, DOM Women in Medicine Month Social Media Campaign, Medical College of Wisconsin

MEMBERSHIPS IN HONORARY AND PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:
10/2011 - 05/2014 Sigma Sigma Phi
08/2019 - Present American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine
08/2019 - Present American Geriatric Society
08/2019 - Present American Medical Directors Association
08/2019 - Present Wisconsin Association of Medical Directors
11/2019 - Present Certified Medical Director
01/2020 - Present Peer Supporter MCW Geriatrics Division
2023 - Present Wisconsin Association of Medical Directors (Future President Elect)

LOCAL/REGIONAL APPOINTED LEADERSHIP AND COMMITTEE POSITIONS:
2021 - Present Board Member, Education Committee, Wisconsin Medical Director Association
2022 - Present Post Acute Long-Term Care Representative, Physician Orders for Scope of Treatment (POST)
2023 - Present President Elect, Wisconsin Medical Director Association

NATIONAL ELECTED/APPOINTED LEADERSHIP AND COMMITTEE POSITIONS:
10/2020 - Present Curriculum Planning Committee Member, Curriculum Planning Committee, Wisconsin Update in Geriatric Medicine and Board Review Course, Medical College of Wisconsin
12/2020 - Present Physician Representative, Milwaukee VA Falls Committee, Clement J Zablocki Veterans Affairs Medical Center

INVITED LECTURES/WORKSHOPS/PRESENTATIONS:
Local
Elizabeth Bukowy, DO, Geriatrics at a Glance, Advanced Practice Provider (APP) Grand Rounds, Medical College of Wisconsin, Wauwatosa, WI, 03/11/2020
Elizabeth Bukowy, DO, Post-Acute and Long-Term Care, COVID-19 Virtual Grand Rounds, Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Wauwatosa, WI 53226, 04/2020
Elizabeth Bukowy, DO, Deprescribing at End of Life, Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellow Lecture Series, Medical College of Wisconsin, 01/27/2021
Elizabeth Bukowy, DO, ED resident educational lecture. Older Adult Pearls for the ED., 06/10/2021
Elizabeth Bukowy, DO, Managed Care for Long-Stay Nursing Home Residents: An Evaluation of Institutional Special Needs Plans, Geriatric Journal Club, 10/29/2021
Elizabeth Bukowy, DO, Non-hospitalized COVID19 Update, Geriatric Conference Presentation, 01/14/2022
Elizabeth Bukowy, DO, Mortality, Health Care Use, and Costs of Clostridioides difficile Infections in Older Adults, Palliative Care Journal Club, Virtual, 03/24/2022
Elizabeth Bukowy, DO, Community Nursing Home educational lecture: Delirium vs Dementia, Congregational Home, 05/24/2023
Elizabeth Bukowy, DO, Geriatrics Pharmacology and payment Models: A Case Based Discussion, Medical College of Wisconsin Family Medicine Resident Didactics, CURE 2023, Milwaukee, WI, 10/2023
 
Regional
Elizabeth Bukowy, DO, Dr. Mary Cohan Geriatric Fellows Clinical Update: De-Prescribing, Wisconsin Association of Medical Directors, Ramada Inn Hotel, Madison, WI, 10/2017
Bukowy DO, E; Teso, K, Deprescribing at the End of Life, When Less is More, Great Lakes Palliative Care Conference, Grand Geneva Resort & Conference Center Lake Geneva, WI, 05/03/2019
Elizabeth Bukowy, DO, Palliative Care in the Long-Term Care Setting, Wisconsin Association of Medical Directors Annual Meeting, Virtual, 10/08/2020
Elizabeth Bukowy, DO, Difficult discussion in Palliative Care, Director of Nursing Symposium, Wisconsin Dells, WI, 02/21/2022
Bukowy, Elizabeth, DO, Resident Relationships, Advocate Aurora Most Difficult Case Conference Monthly series, virtual, 06/15/2022
Bukowy, Elizabeth, DO, Difficult Discussions in Palliative Care, Wisconsin Alzheimer's Institute (WAI) 20th Annual Update in Alzheimer’s and Related Dementias, Virtual, 11/10/2022
Elizabeth Bukowy, DO, Difficult Discussions, Froedtert and the Medical College of Wisconsin, Department of Neurology, Parkinson's Disease Symposium, Milwaukee, WI, 10/06/2023
 
National
Abahussain, M., Nambisan, P., Duthie, E., Galambos, C., Zhang, B., & Bukowy DO, E, Nursing Home Factors and Their Impact on COVID-19 Cases: A Study of Wisconsin State, The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) 2021 Annual Scientific Meeting, Phoenix Arizona, 11/2021
Elizabeth Bukowy DO, Ann Braus MD, Nursing Home Lessons Learned During COVID, Wisconsin Update in Geriatrics, Lake Geneva, WI, 09/27/2023
 

PEER REVIEWED WORKSHOPS/PRESENTATIONS:
Local
Gehring M, Burns E, Lerret S, Nelson D, Telford G, Whittle J, Bukowy E, O'Brien C, Rieder J, Graham L, Copeland L, Morris M, Hawn M., Risks and Impact of Surgical Readmissions: A Mixed Methods Approach, Medical Student Summer Research Program (MSSRP) Research Day, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, 10/2016 - Present
 
Regional
Bukowy, E., Kuester, J., O'Brien, C.,, Firearms, Driving and Medications...OH MY! Safety Threats and Difficult Conversations, Wisconsin Alzheimer's Association 32nd Annual Wisconsin State Conference, Kalahari Resort & Conference Center, Wisconsin Dells, WI, 05/2018 - Present
 
National
Bukowy, E., Kuester, J.,, Gun Safety and Dementia: An Often Missed Safety Issue, American Geriatrics Society Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX, 05/18/2017 - Present
Bukowy, E., Kuester, J.,, Consider the Pill Burden. Is There Room to De-Prescribe?, American Geriatrics Society Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, 05/03/2018 - Present
Nambisan, P., Abahussain, M., Duthie, E., Galambos, C., Zhang, B., & Bukowy, E., Factors Associated with Increase in COVID-19 Cases in Nursing Homes: A Study of Nursing Homes in Midwestern States, 2021 American Geriatric Society (AGS) Annual Meeting, virtual, 05/13/2021
Ganshert, C., Bukowy, E.,, Cancer and Abdominal Pain, Not the Perforated Way To Go., American Geriatric Society (AGS)/Annual Meeting, Virtual, 05/13/2021
Abahussain, M., Nambisan, P., Duthie, E., Galambos, C., Zhang, B., & Bukowy, E., Nursing Home Factors and Their Impact on COVID-19 Cases: A Study of Wisconsin State, The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) 2021 Annual Scientific Meeting, Phoenix Arizona, 11/2021
 

MEDICAL COLLEGE TEACHING ACTIVITIES:
Medical Student Education
04/2015 - Present Capstone Course, Medical Students
04/2019 - Present Panel Discussion, M1/M2, Advanced Directive Education and Completion Interdisciplinary Panel Discussion.
2021 - Present Medical Student Clinical Apprenticeship
 
Resident and Fellow Education
07/2017 - 06/2018 Monthly VA Lecture, Depression, Dementia and Delirium
08/2017 Interdisciplinary Report Moderator: Elder Abuse
10/2017 Fellow's Lecture: Paper Presentation, Artificial Hydration at End of Life
11/2017 Interdisciplinary Report Moderator: Depression in Elderly
12/2017 Fellow's Lecture: Recurrent Urinary Tract Infection Management
12/2017 Interdisciplinary Report Moderator: Falls
02/2018 Fellow's Lecture: Frontotemporal Dementia
02/2018 Breaking Bad News Case Moderation for MCW Emergency Residency Program.
03/2018 Fellow's Lecture: Hospice Eligibility
03/2018 Interdisciplinary Report Moderator: Traumatic Brain Injury
04/2018 Interdisciplinary Report Moderator: Hypertension Goals in Elderly
05/2018 Fellow's Lecture: DNR Tattoos and End of Life in ICU
07/2018 - 06/2019 Monthly Palliative Care Journal Club series
08/2018 Maintaining Boundaries, Medicine Geriatrics Internal Medicine Residency and Fellowship lecture series
08/2018 Introduction to Palliative Care/Hospice, Medicine Geriatrics Internal Medicine Residency and Fellowship lecture series
09/2018 Introduction to Palliative Care/Hospice, Internal Medicine Resident Academic Half Day
08/2019 Introduction to Palliative Care and Hospice, Monthly GEM lecture series
09/2019 Post-Acute Care, PMR geriatric lecture series
10/2019 Non-Pain Symptom Management, Internal Medicine Resident Academic Half Day
01/2020 Breaking Bad News, Case Moderation for Emergency Residency Program
02/2020 Safety in the Elderly, Internal Medicine Resident Academic Half Day
01/27/2021 - Present Deprescribing at End of Life, Palliative Care Fellow Lecture Series
05/05/2021 - Present Dyspnea at End of Life, Palliative Care Fellow Lecture Series
03/23/2022 Safety in Older Adults, Academic Half Day Lecture to Internal Medicine Residents
09/09/2022 Presented "101: PA-LTC" during Geriatrics Educational Conference weekly series
09/30/2022 Presented "Difficult Conversations around Palliative Care" during Geriatrics Educational Conference weekly series
06/23/2023 Reducing Delirium at End of Life, Palliative Care Fellows Weekly Conferences
09/06/2023 Safe-T in Elderly, Internal Medicine Academic Half-Day Education Lecture
11/10/2023 Reducing Delirium at End of Life, Palliative Care Fellows Education Lecture
 

EXTRAMURAL TEACHING:
Community/Lay Public
08/2010 - 12/2011 Humanitarian Service Project
08/2010 - 12/2011 Humanitarian Service Project
08/2011 - 05/2014 Compassionate Care Network
05/2012 Aunt Martha’s Clinic
05/04/2021 Lutheran Home Milwaukee, WI, Code Status Education, Quarterly Educational Talks
04/07/2023 Congregational Home, Brookfield WI, Community Nursing Home Education, Delirium vs Dementia
06/13/2023 Lutheran Home, Milwaukee, WI, Community Nursing Home Education, Death and Dying Symptom Management
06/27/2023 Lutheran Home, Milwaukee, WI, Community Nursing Home Education, Death and Dying Symptom Management
 
Medical Student Education
08/2011 - 05/2014 Compassionate Care Network
10/2011 - 10/2013 Midwestern University Tour Guide
10/2011 - 10/2013 Midwestern University Tour Guide
08/2012 - 03/2013 Midwestern University, Mentoring MS1/MS2 Clinical Courses
 
Resident and Fellow Education
08/2012 - 03/2013 Mentoring MS1/MS2 Clinical Courses
04/2019 Interdisciplinary Panel Discussion, role of physician, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee nursing students
12/2019 Interdisciplinary Panel Discussion, role of physician, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee nursing students
06/30/2021 Reducing Delirium at End of Life, Palliative Care Lecture Series
07/12/2021 Psychiatry Fellow Lecture, Palliative Care and Hospice
02/18/2022 Educational talk to fellows and geriatric residents: Deprescribing at End of Life
05/25/2023 - Present Palliative Care and Hospice. Geriatric Psychiatry Fellow.
05/26/2023 - Present Deprescribing at End of Life: When Less is More. Geriatric and Palliative Care fellow lecture series.
 
Nursing Student Education
04/2019 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Interdisciplinary Panel Discussion, role of physician
12/2019 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Interdisciplinary Panel Discussion, role of physician
 

MCW STUDENTS, FACULTY, RESIDENTS AND CLINICAL/RESEARCH FELLOWS MENTORED:
Medical Students
Clara Martin, Medical College of Wisconsin, 2021 - 2022 Clinical Apprenticeship
Lauren Loftis, Medical College of Wisconsin, 2023 - Present Clinical Apprenticeship
 
Clinical/Research Fellows
Totini Chatterjee, MD and Paige Scholer, MD, Medical College of Wisconsin, 07/01/2021 - 06/30/2022 Quality Improvement Mentor, Recreation Therapy and activated POA involvement Quality Improvement Project
Kerian McAvoy, MD, Medical College of Wisconsin, 2022 - 2023 Certified Medical Director Mentor
Will Lyon, MD, Medical College of Wisconsin, 2022 - 2023 Quality Improvement Project Mentor, Trauma Informed Care in PA-LTC
Ellen Schmitt, MD, Medical College of Wisconsin, 2022 - 2023 Quality Improvement Project Mentor, Trauma Informed Care in PA-LTC
Kerian McAvoy MD, Medical College of Wisconsin, 2022 - 2023 Quality Improvement Project Mentor, Trauma Informed Care in PA-LTC
Will Lyon, MD, Medical College of Wisconsin, 2022 - 2023 Certified Medical Director Mentor
Rachel Saltness, MD, Medical College of Wisconsin, 2023 - Present Certified Medical Director Mentor
 

PROGRAMMATIC DEVELOPMENTS:
 
 
Clinical Programs
07/2018 - 06/2019 Internal Medicine Internship/Residency Quality Improvement Project for improving confidence levels with comfort care ordering
 
 

ROBERT D. AND PATRICIA E. KERN INSTITUTE FOR THE TRANSFORMATION OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND NATIONAL TRANSFORMATION NETWORK ACTIVITIES:
07/2021 - Present Creating educational content for internal medicine interns and residents on Post Acute-Long Term Care. Using information on implicit bias on aging will evaluate who benefited most from the lecture. Hypothesize those with less experience in this setting and potentially more implicit bias towards older adults will find the lecture more educational. Projected graduation 6/2023.
 


BIBLIOGRAPHY
Refereed Journal Publications/Original Papers
1. Kim, S. J., Lee, J. H., Nakagawa, S., Bukowy, E., Biswas, A., Han, B., & Yoo, J. W. (2014). Predictors of Hospitalization Among Newly Admitted Skilled Nursing Facility Residents: Rethinking the Role of Functional Decline. Journal of Patient-Centered Research and Reviews.
2. Kim, S. J., Lee, J. H., Han, B., Lam, J., Bukowy, E., Rao, A., & Yoo, J. W. (2015). Effects of hospital-based physical therapy on hospital discharge outcomes among hospitalized older adults with community-acquired pneumonia and declining physical function. Aging and Disease.
3. Gehring M, Burns E, Lerret S, Nelson D, Telford G, Whittle J, Bukowy E, O'Brien C, Rieder J, Graham L, Copeland L, Morris M, Hawn M. Risks and Impact of Surgical Readmissions: A Mixed Methods Approach. Poster Presentation at the Medical College of Wisconsin, Medical Student Summer Research Program (MSSRP) Research Day, October 2016, Milwaukee, WI.
4. Bear, A. J., Bukowy, E. A., and Patel, J. J. (2017) Artificial Hydration at the End of Life. Nutrition in Clinical Practice 32, 628-632.
5. P. Nambisan, M. Abahussain, E. Duthie, C. Galambos, B. Zhang, E. Bukowy. Factors Associated with Increase in COVID-19 Cases in Nursing Homes: A Study of Nursing Homes in Midwestern States at the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI; University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI.
6. Nambisan, P., Abahussain, M., Duthie, E., Galambos, C., Zhang, B., & Bukowy, E. Nursing Home Vulnerabilities amid COVID-19 Pandemic: A Study of Midwestern States.
 
Editorials, Letters to Editor, Other
1. Bukowy, E, Transformational Times, From Broken to Hopeful: Reflections on Nursing Home Care During a Pandemic, 7/22/2022
 
Abstracts
1. Kieran McAvoy, MD, Elizabeth Bukowy, DO, Presidential Recognition Poster, Clozapine-Induced-Hypersalivation in a Schizophrenic Geriatric Patient, American Geriatric Society (AGS). May 4, 2023, Long Beach, CA
 
Database, Video, or Other Research/Clinical Contributions
1. Bukowy, E; Bear A (2018, May) Artificial Nutrition in Advanced Dementia Patients. In K Denson (Eds.), Geriatric Fast Facts (#76). Retrieved from: http://www.geriatricfastfacts.com/
2. Bukowy, E; Bear A (2018, June) Artificial Hydration at End of Life. In K Denson (Eds.), Geriatric Fast Facts (#77). Retrieved from: http://www.geriatricfastfacts.com/
3. Bukowy, E; Thiel, E. (2019) Decision Making for Patients with Advanced Dementia and a Hip Fracture. In S Marks (Eds.), Palliative Care Fast Facts and Concepts (#388). Retrieved from: https://www.mypcnow.org/fast-facts/
4. Quijada E, Bukowy EA, Billings JA. Pharmacologic Management of Delirium: Update on Newer Agents, 4th Edition. Fast Facts and Concepts March 2019 #60. Available at http://www.mypcnow.org/fast-facts. 03/2019.
5. Weissman DE, Bukowy EA, Rosielle DA. Diagnosis and Treatment of Terminal Delirium, 4th Edition. Fast Facts and Concepts March 2019 #1. Available at http://www.mypcnow.org/fast-facts. 03/2019.
6. Bukowy, E, Thiel E (2020, April) Hip Fracture Management in Advanced Dementia Patients. In K Denson (Eds.), Geriatric Fast Facts (#89). Retrieved from: http://www.geriatricfastfacts.com/
7. Stevens, J; Bukowy, E; Donegan, M; Marks, S; McGurty, E; Pearl, N; Rhoades, M; Teso, K. Pharmacist-Driven Patient-Centered Deprescribing in a Palliative Oncology Population, Submitted for approval, 2019-2020.
8. Bukowy, E. (2022, August) Telemedicine and Geriatric Care - In K Denson (Eds.), Geriatric Fast Facts (#99). Retrieved from: http://www.geriatricfastfacts.com/
9. Bukowy, Elizabeth. Dementia Matters Podcast: Difficult conversations in Palliative Care. March 21, 2023. https://dementiamatters.podbean.com. Accessed April 14, 2023.