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CURRICULUM VITAE

Janet Retseck MD
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine
Division of Hematology and Oncology - Medicine

OFFICE ADDRESS:
Froedtert Hospital
9200 W Wisconsin Ave
Milwaukee, WI 53226

EDUCATION:
1983 - 1987 B.A., English, cum laude, University of Dallas, Irving, TX
1987 - 1989 M.A., English, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
1990 - 2000 Ph.D., English, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA
2004 - 2006 Post-Baccalaureate Pre-Medical Program, Scripps College, Claremont, CA
2006 - 2010 MD, Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH

POSTGRADUATE TRAINING AND FELLOWSHIP APPOINTMENTS:
2010 - 2013 Residency, Internal Medicine, University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, Madison, WI
2014 - 2017 Fellowship, Hematology-Oncology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA

FACULTY APPOINTMENTS:
2017 - 2020 Physician, Porter Physician Group, Hematology and Oncology, Porter Regional Hospital, Community Health Systems, Valparaiso, IN
2020 - Present Assistant Professor, VA Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI
2020 - Present Assistant Professor, Medicine, Hematology and Oncology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI

EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS:
2013 - 2014 VA Primary Care Chief, William S. Middleton Veterans Hospital, Madison, WI
2013 - 2014 Medical Senior Officer of the Day (Fee Basis), William S. Middleton Veterans Hospital, Madison, WI

SPECIALTY BOARDS AND CERTIFICATION:
Certificates
Issued By Issue DateExpiration
Internal Medicine
ABIM
2013
2033
Hematology
ABIM
2017
2027
Oncology
ABIM
2017
2027
DEA
2026
    

Licensure
Number Issue DateExpiration
Wisconsin Medical License
2025
    

AWARDS AND HONORS:
2023 2023 Outstanding Faculty Service Award

LOCAL/REGIONAL APPOINTED LEADERSHIP AND COMMITTEE POSITIONS:
2022 - Present MCW Faculty Library Committee
2022 - Present Tasked with reviewing screening for Veterans with previous malignancies, Lung Cancer Screening Committee, Milwaukee VA

RESEARCH GRANTS/AWARDS/CONTRACTS/PROJECTS:
Prior
Peer Review
Title:
Transarterial chemoembolization of primary and metastatic liver tumors.
Source:
City of Hope National Medical Center Liver Tumor Program, Duarte, CA
PI:
Lawrence Wagman, MD
Dates:
2006
  
Title:
James Cancer Hospital performance on surgical care improvement project measures.
Source:
Ohio State University Medical Center Quality and Operations Improvement, Columbus, OH
PI:
Sam Penza, M.D.
Dates:
2007
  
Title:
Treatment of chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy with the MC-5A therapy medical device: a randomized, double-blind, sham-controlled clinical trial.
Source:
University of Wisconsin Paul P. Carbone Cancer Center, Madison, WI
PI:
Toby Campbell, MD
Dates:
2010 - 2013
  
Title:
Palliative care in advanced lung cancer.
Source:
University of Wisconsin Paul P. Carbone Cancer Center, Madison, WI
PI:
Toby Campbell, MD
Dates:
2011 - 2013
  
Title:
The role of circulating cellular effector and suppressive markers in relation to clinical benefit from immune checkpoint blockers
Source:
University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
PI:
Ahmad Tarhini, MD
Dates:
2014 - 2017
  

INVITED LECTURES/WORKSHOPS/PRESENTATIONS:
National
Retseck J., Sexing Miss Wade, Dickens Symposium, Louisville, KY, 09/1997
Retseck J., Reading Baseball/Consuming Baseball, Diamonds in the Desert International Baseball Conference, Tempe, AZ, 03/1998
Retseck J., Trollope's Barchester Towers and the Art of Sexuality, Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States Annual Conference, Vancouver, WA, 10/1998
Retseck J, Department of Medicine Research Day, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 05/05/2015
Challenges in Cancer Care for Sexual & Gender Minorities, 3rd Annual Cancer Disparities Virtual Symposium, 2021
 
Regional
Retseck J, Advances in early palliative care, University of Wisconsin Internal Medicine Residency Program, Madison, WI, 11/2011
Retseck J, Cook R, DRESS in a patient undergoing treatment for prostate cancer, ACP Wisconsin Chapter Meeting, Wisconsin Dells, WI, 09/2012
Retseck J., The Evidence and the Experience: BRCA 1/2 in the Family, University of Wisconsin Internal Medicine Residency Program, Madison, WI, 10/2012
 
Local
Fellows Breast Conference: 1-2 one-hour lectures a year, 2020 - Present
Art of Medicine: The Untimely Death of Jane Austen, 2021
Retseck J, Puckett L, Lung Cancer Awareness, Tomah VA Grand Rounds, 11/28/2022
Art of Medicine: The Untimely Death of Jane Austen, 2022
 

EXTRAMURAL TEACHING:
Medical Student Education
2020 - Present Preceptor, M4 Ambulatory Internal Medicine, as needed
2020 - Present Fellow VA Continuity Clinic, Preceptor, Supervise Hematology-Oncology Fellows in weekly clinic
2020 - Present Attending, VA Hematology Wards, M3, two interns, resident, fellow
2021 - 2022 Preceptor, M2 Foundational Capstone
2021 - 2023 Preceptor, Bench-to-Bedside
2021 - Present Preceptor, M1-2 Clinical Apprenticeship
2021 Co-taught M4 Narrative Medicine elective with Bruce Campbell
2021 - Present Preceptor, PGY-1 Ambulatory Immersion, as needed
2022 Small Group Facilitator, Foundations of Clinical Medicine
2022 Facilitator, Patient-Based Discussion, M2 Atherosclerosis Hypercholesterolemia and Leukemia Pilots
2022 - Present Facilitator, Healer's Art
04/2024 Course Director, Reading, Writing, Practicing: An Introduction to Narrative Medicine
 


BIBLIOGRAPHY
Books, Chapters, and Reviews
1. Retseck J. Sexing Miss Wade. Dickens Quarterly. 1998: Dec; 15(4): 217-25.
 
Abstracts
1. Retseck J; A Gillespie-Twardy; A Nasr; HM Lin; Y Lin; J Kirkwood; L Butterfield; H Zahoor; C Sander; AA Tarhini. Long term monitoring of circulating regulatory T cells (Treg), myeloid derived suppressor cells (MDSC) and type I effector T cells in melanoma patients treated with neoadjuvant ipilimumab. In: Proceedings of the 106th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research; 2015 Apr 18-22; Philadelphia, PA. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; 2015. Abstract nr 4302.
2. Campbell TC; AJ Nimunkar; J Retseck; JC Eickhoff; M Backonja; JF Cleary; KL Kwekkeboom; TY Yen. A randomized, double-blind study of “Scrambler” therapy versus sham for painful chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN). ASCO, Chicago, IL. May-June 2013. Abstract #115259
3. King JD; J Retseck; JC Eickoff; T Hoang; AM Traynor; TC Campbell. Integrated oncopalliative care versus standard care for patients with metastatic lung cancer: A single institution retrospective review. ASCO, Chicago, IL. May-June 2013. Abstract # 116034
 
Peer Reviewed Educational Products
1. Retseck J. When the Future Is Not Now. J Clin Oncol. 2023 Oct 01;41(28):4592-4594.
2. Kamaraju T, Atkinson D, Wright T, Charlosn J, Wetzel T, Campbell G, Cadman J, Williams J, Egede L, Retseck J, Banerjee A, Ehrlich V, Stolley M, Power S. Leveraging Social Determinants of Health to Reduce Hospital Length of Stay: A Pilot QI Project for Solid Tumor Oncology Patients During the COVID-19 Pandemic. WMJ. 2022 Oct;121(3):205-211.
3. Retseck J, Nasr A, Lin Y, Lin H, Mendiratta P, Butterfield LH, Tarhini AA. Long term impact of CTLA4 blockade immunotherapy on regulatory and effector immune responses in patients with melanoma. J Transl Med. 2018 Jul 04;16(1):184. PMCID: PMC6033230
4. Retseck J, VanderWeele R, Lin HM, Lin Y, Butterfield LH, Tarhini AA. Phenotypic and functional testing of circulating regulatory T cells in advanced melanoma patients treated with neoadjuvant ipilimumab. J Immunother Cancer. 2016;4:38. PMCID: PMC4915044
5. Artinyan A, Nelson R, Soriano P, Chung V, Retseck J, Reynolds J, Marx H, Kim J, Wagman L. Treatment response to transcatheter arterial embolization and chemoembolization in primary and metastatic tumors of the liver. HPB (Oxford). 2008;10(6):396-404. PMCID: PMC2597318
6. Pierro M, Zurko J, Szabo A, Cheng YC, Kamaraju S, Burfeind J, Retseck J, Chitambar CR, Chaudhary LN. Matched Case Control Analysis of Breast Cancer- Specific Factors Affecting Risk of Developing SARS-CoV-2 Infection. WMJ. 2023 Dec;122(5):418-421.