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CURRICULUM VITAE

Todd W. Burner MD
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine
Division of Medicine General Internal

OFFICE ADDRESS:
5000 W National Avenue
Milwaukee, WI 53295

EDUCATION:
08/1990 - 05/1994 Ba, Miami University, Oxford, OH
08/1995 - 05/1996 University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
08/1997 - 06/2001 MD, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI

POSTGRADUATE TRAINING AND FELLOWSHIP APPOINTMENTS:
07/2001 - 06/2002 Transitional Year Resident, St. Joseph Regional Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI
07/2002 - 06/2004 Resident, Internal Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin Affiliated Hospitals, Milwaukee, WI
09/2006 - 08/2008 Fellowship Training, Rheumatology, Medical College of Wisconsin Affiliated Hospitals, Milwaukee, WI
02/2015 - 05/2016 Leadership Development Program, Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI 53226
10/2018 - 06/2019 MCW Scholars in Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Program, New Orleans Veterans Affairs Medical Center, New Orleans, LA

FACULTY APPOINTMENTS:
10/2004 - 09/2006 Hospitalist Physician, Medicine, Hospitalist, Legacy Meridian Park Hospital, Tualatin, OR
10/2004 - 09/2006 Hospitalist Physician,, Medicine, Hospitalist, Legacy Mount Hood Hospital, Gresham, OR
09/2006 - 08/2008 Physician-in-training, Medicine, Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital, Milwaukee, WI 53226
09/2008 - 10/2009 Rheumatology Consultant, Medicine, Rheumatology, Columbia St Mary’s Hospital,, Milwaukee, WI
09/2008 - 10/2009 Rheumatology Consultant, Medicine, Hospitalist/Rheumatology, Aurora Sinai Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI 53226
09/2008 - 10/2009 Rheumatology Consultant, Medicine, Rheumatology, Columbia St Mary’s Hospital Ozaukee, Mequon, WI
10/09/2009 - Present Assistant Professor, Medicine, Hospitalist/Rheumatology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53226
10/2009 - Present Rheumatology Consultant, Medicine, Rheumatology, Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital, Milwaukee, WI

HOSPITAL STAFF PRIVILEGES:
10/2004 - 09/2006 Legacy Meridian Park Hospital, 19300 SW 65th Ave., Tualatin, OR 97062
10/2004 - 09/2006 Legacy Mount Hood Hospital, 24800 SE Stark St, Gresham, OR 97030
09/2006 - 08/2008 Physician-in-training, Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital, Milwaukee, WI 53226
09/2008 - 10/2009 Columbia St Mary’s Hospital, Milwaukee, WI 53211
09/2008 - 10/2009 Columbia St Mary’s Hospital, Mequon, WI 53097
09/2008 - 10/2009 Aurora Sinai Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI 53233
10/2009 - Present Clement J Zablocki VAMC, Milwaukee, WI 53223
10/2009 - Present Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital, Milwaukee, WI 53226

SPECIALTY BOARDS AND CERTIFICATION:
Board Certified
Issue DateExpiration
Internal Medicine
08/2004
12/2024
Rheumatology
10/2008
12/2028
   
Certificates
Issued By Issue DateExpiration
DEA
10/2002
07/2014
BLS
12/2013
01/2022
ACLS
01/2014
01/2022
    

Licensure
Number Issue DateExpiration
Wisconsin License
45342-020
10/2002
10/2021
Oregon License
MD25509
01/2005
12/2011
    

AWARDS AND HONORS:
07/1998 Summer Clerkship in Radiation Oncology, American Cancer Society
09/2001 Representative Elect, Transitional Year Resident Class of 2001-2002
06/2002 Outstanding Transitional Year Resident Award, Robert T. Adlam, M.D
10/2012 Outstanding Medical Student Teacher Award , Medical College of Wisconsin
11/2014 ACP Fellowship, American College of Physicians
12/2014 Outstanding Medical Student Teacher Award, Medical College of Wisconsin
06/2015 Best Resident Teacher Award (nominee), Clement J Zablocki VA Medical Center
01/2018 Top Doctor in Wisconsin 2018 - Internist and Rheumatologist
06/2019 Outstanding Noon Report Attending, Clement J Zablocki VA Medical Center
10/2019 - Present Outstanding Medical Student Teacher Award, Medical College of Wisconsin

MEMBERSHIPS IN HONORARY AND PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:
08/2001 - 08/2008 State Medical Society of Wisconsin (Member)
01/2003 - Present American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine (ACP-ASIM) (Member)
10/2006 - Present American College of Rheumatology (ACR) (Member)
07/2008 - 07/2010 American Medical Association (Member)

LOCAL/REGIONAL APPOINTED LEADERSHIP AND COMMITTEE POSITIONS:
08/2001 - 06/2002 Member, Graduate Medical Education Committee, St. Joseph Regional Medical Center
08/2001 - 06/2002 Member, Institutional Coordination Committee, St. Joseph Regional Medical Center
07/2010 - 06/2012 Program Director, Hospital Medicine Series, Medical College of Wisconsin Department of General Internal Medicine
12/2010 - 10/2017 Member, Intern Selection Committee, Medical College of Wisconsin Department of General Internal Medicine
05/2011 - 10/2011 Workgroup- Group Leader, Inpatient Medication Reconciliation, Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center
05/2011 - 10/2014 Lead Member, Patient Flow Collaborative Team / Safe Patient Flow Initiative Committee, Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center
07/2011 - Present Physician Utilization Management Advisor, Patient Flow Initiative Committee, Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center
10/2014 - 01/2018 Physician Liaison, Medication Reconciliation Committee., Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center
10/2014 - 01/2018 Deputy Medicine Division Manager, Medicine Division, Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center
10/2014 - 01/2018 Physician Liaison,, Medication Adverse Event Monitoring Committee, Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center
11/2014 - 01/2018 Division Representative (Medicine), Veteran Equitable Resource Allocation (VERA) Committee, Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center
04/2015 - 01/2018 Physician Liaison, VAMC Pressure Ulcer Prevention Protocol Initiative (PUPPI) Committee, Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center
07/2016 - 01/2018 Co-chair, VAMC Coordination of Care Council Committee, Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center
12/2016 Physician Lead,, VISN 12 UM Summit, Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center
12/2016 - 01/2018 Facility Point of Contact, A Complex Patient Program Needs Assessment, Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center
01/2017 - 01/2018 Implementation Coordinator, Life-Sustaining Treatment Decision Initiative (Milwaukee VA), Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center
08/2017 - 01/2018 Co-Chair, VAMC Facility Wide Flow Committee, Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center
09/2017 - 09/2018 Member, VAMC SAIL Review Committee, Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center
09/2018 - Present Member, Zablocki VAMC COS’s Quality Improvement (SAIL) Team, Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center
09/2018 - Present Physician Advisor, Clinical Documentation Improvement Committee, Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center
11/2018 - Present Facility Representative, ISN 12 Utilization Management workgroup, Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center
11/2019 - Present VA Representative, Medical College if Wisconsin - General Internal Medicine Faculty Awards Nomination Committee, Medical College of Wisconsin, Division of General Internal Medicine
01/2020 - Present Facility Representative, High Reliability Organization Transformation, Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center
07/2020 - Present Clinical Lead, VISN 12 Specialty Care Integrated Clinical Community (ICC), Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center

RESEARCH GRANTS/AWARDS/CONTRACTS/PROJECTS:
Active
Non-Peer Review
Title:
Lateral Epicondylitis in the VA Population
Source:
VINCI Database
Role & Effort:
Principal Investigator
PI:
Todd Burner
Dates:
06/2016 - Present
  
Prior
Peer Review
Title:
Gout and Uloric; Takeda
Source:
VA Project 7564-13
Role & Effort:
Sub-Investigator
Dates:
06/01/2012 - 12/01/2016
  
Non-Peer Review
Title:
Determining the Viability of Quantitative MRI to Assess Diabetic Tendinopathy in a Porcine Model of Diabetes
Source:
Center for Imaging Research (CIR) as part of the Daniel M. Soref Charitable Trust
Role & Effort:
Principal Investigator
PI:
Todd Burner
Dates:
10/01/2017 - 06/2019
Direct Funds:
$3,200 (Daniel M. Charitable Trust))
  

INVITED LECTURES/WORKSHOPS/PRESENTATIONS:
National
Burner T.W., AGE-modified collagens promote tendon calcification, American College of Rheumatology National Meetings, Boston, MA, 11/2007
 
Local
Burner T.W., Acute Pericarditis, Medical College of Wisconsin Grand Rounds and the Wisconsin Chapter ACP meeting, Milwaukee, WI, 07/2003
Burner T.W., Acute Pericarditis, Poster Presentation, Wisconsin Chapter ACP meeting, 09/2003
Burner T.W., Managing Arthritis, Presentation to the residents of the Milwaukee Catholic Home, Milwaukee, WI, 05/2008 - 2009
Burner T.W., Diabetic Tendinopathy., Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, 01/2012
Burner T.W., Diabetic Tendinopathy, Medical College of Wisconsin 25th Annual Update in Primary Care, Egg Harbor, WI, 10/2012
Burner T.W., How I Treat Pseudo Gout, College of Wisconsin 26th Annual Update in Primary Care, Egg Harbor, WI, 10/2013
Burner T.W.,, How I Treat Pseudo Gout, Medical College of Wisconsin, Division of General Internal Medicine (VA), Milwaukee, WI, 11/2013
Burner T.W., Polyarthritis, Medical College of Wisconsin, Internal Medicine Residents, Milwaukee, WI, 07/2014
Burner T.W, How I Approach Polymyalgia Rheumatica, Medical College of Wisconsin 29th Annual Update in Primary Care, Egg Harbor, WI, 10/2016
 

PEER REVIEWED WORKSHOPS/PRESENTATIONS:
Regional
Burner TW, Rosenthal AK, Diabetes and rheumatic diseases. Curr Opin Rheumatol. 2009 Jan;21(1):50-54. Invited Review, 01/2009
Burner, TW, J of Clinical Rheumatology. Manuscript - association between osteoarthritis and diabetes. Invited Review, 06/2012
PLOS ONE, Can patient-reported profiles avoid unnecessary referral to a spine surgeon? An observational study to further develop the Nijmegen Decision Tool for Chronic Low Back Pain. 01/2018. Invited Review, 01/2018
 

MCW TEACHING ACTIVITIES:
Medical Student Education
01/2013 - Present Bench to Bedside
 
Resident and Fellow Education
12/2016 - Present Co-developed and currently teach an arthrocentesis workshop in the VA Simulation Lab
05/2018 - Present Mentoring resident Shoemaker via research collaboration (Lateral Epicondylitis in the VA Population)
 
Continuing Medical Education
05/2018 - Present Administering a facility wide training program on goals of care conversations
 

EXTRAMURAL TEACHING:
Medical Student Education
04/2012 - Present v, M2 Integrated Curriculum requested lecture on Lupus
 

COMMUNITY SERVICE ACTIVITIES:
10/1995 - 12/1996 Volunteer, “Challenge Tennis,” Clinics for the cognitively disabled, Madison, WI
08/1998 - 08/2000 Volunteer, Isaac Coggs Clinic for the Uninsured, Milwaukee, WI
01/2006 - 08/2006 Volunteer Naturalist, Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge, Tualatin, OR
 

PRIOR WORK EXPERIENCE:
08/1992 - 05/1994 Manager, Bagel and Deli Shop, Oxford, OH
06/1994 - 09/1994 Marketing Representative, Thompson’s Pet Pasta Products, Inc. Cincinnati, OH
10/1995 - 03/1996 Laboratory Assistant, US Dairy Forage Research Center, Madison, WI
05/1996 - 08/1996 Tennis Program Director, Shorewood, WI
10/2004 - 07/2006 Hospitalist, Legacy Inpatient Medicine Service (LIMS), Portland, OR
09/2008 - 09/2009 Rheumatologist, Rheumatic Disease Center, Glendale, WI
10/2009 - Present Hospitalist/Rheumatologist, MCW/VAMC, Milwaukee, WI


BIBLIOGRAPHY
Refereed Journal Publications/Original Papers
1. Rosenthal AK, Gohr CM, Mitton E, Monnier V, Burner T. Advanced glycation end products increase transglutaminase activity in primary porcine tenocytes. J Investig Med. 2009 Feb;57(2):460-6. PMCID: PMC6240446
2. Rosenthal AK, Fahey M, Gohr C, Burner T, Konon I, Daft L, Mattson E, Hirschmugl C, Ryan LM, Simkin P. Feasibility of a tetracycline-binding method for detecting synovial fluid basic calcium phosphate crystals. Arthritis Rheum. 2008 Oct;58(10):3270-4. PMCID: PMC2574625
3. Burner T, Gohr C, Mitton-Fitzgerald E, Rosenthal AK. Hyperglycemia reduces proteoglycan levels in tendons. Connect Tissue Res. 2012;53(6):535-41.
4. Burner T, Abbott D, Huber K, Stout M, Fleming R, Wessel B, Massey E, Rosenthal A, Burns E. Shoulder symptoms and function in geriatric patients. J Geriatr Phys Ther. 2014;37(4):154-8. PMCID: PMC4460823
5. Hunt M, Wang N, Pupinyo N, Curman P, Torres M, Jebril W, Chatzinikolaou M, Lorent J, Silberberg G, Bansal R, Burner T, Zhou J, Kimeswenger S, Hoetzenecker W, Choate K, Bachar-Wikstrom E, Wikstrom JD. Dantrolene corrects cellular disease features of Darier disease and may be a novel treatment. EMBO Mol Med. 2024 Sep;16(9):1986-2001. PMCID: PMC11392931
 
Books, Chapters, and Reviews
1. Burner TW, Rosenthal AK. Diabetes and rheumatic diseases. Curr Opin Rheumatol. 2009 Jan;21(1):50-54
 
Non-Refereed Journal Publications/Original Papers
1. Rosenthal AK, Gohr CM, Mitton E, Monnier V, Burner T. Advanced glycation end products increase transglutaminase activity in primary porcine tenocytes. J Investig Med. 2009 Feb;57(2):460-6.
2. Rosenthal AK, Fahey M, Gohr C, Burner T, Konon I, Daft L. Mattson E, Hirschmugl C, Ryan LM, Simkin, P. Feasibility of a tetracycline-binding method for detecting synovial fluid basic calcium phosphate crystals. Arthritis Rheum. 2008 Oct;58(10):3270-4.
 
Abstracts
1. Burner TW. Acute Pericarditis. Wisconsin Medical Journal, volume 103, Issue 4, page 39, 2004
2. Rosenthal AK, Burner TW, Gohr CM. AGEs stimulate transglutaminase activity in tenocytes. American Society for Matrix Biology, National Meeting, San Diego, CA, December, 2008
3. Burner TW, Gohr CM, Monnier V, Rosenthal AK. AGE-modified collagens promote tendon calcification. Presented at the American College of Rheumatology National Meetings, Boston, MA 2007.