University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
Biography Kevin McDonald, MD grew up in Chicago, Illinois. After completing his undergraduate degree in food science and human nutrition, he founded a distillery in Chicago. Dr. McDonald attended medical school at the University of Cincinnati before completing his intern year, residency, and cardiothoracic imaging fellowship at the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics. During …
Education Level School Medical School Boston University School of Medicine – 2017 Internship University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics – 2018 Residency University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics – 2022 Fellowship Massachusetts General Hospital – 2023 In the News
Biography In 2024, Sarv Priya, MD, MBBS joined the department as a Clinical Assistant Professor, splitting his time between pediatric radiology and cardiovascular imaging. He completed his residency in India and received cardiac training at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. He pursued advanced cardiac MRI training at Boston Children’s Hospital, followed …
Biography Thekla H. Oechtering, MD, PD Dr med grew up in Leipzig, Germany. She obtained her medical degree from the University of Lübeck in Germany where she also completed her residency and worked as an attending at the University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein and led her cardiac MRI research lab. In 2024, she received her Habilitation, the …
Biography Prashant Nagpal, MD FSCCT is joining as an associate professor (CHS) of radiology and the section chief of Cardiovascular Imaging. Dr. Nagpal completed medical school and a radiology residency at the University of Delhi, India. Upon moving to the US, he completed a radiology residency at the University of Iowa, and Cardiovascular Imaging fellowship …
Biography Thomas M. Grist, MD, FACR, received his undergraduate degree in biomedical engineering from Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI, in 1981, and his doctor of medicine degree from the Medical College of Wisconsin in 1985. He completed his radiology residency at Duke University in Durham, NC. In 1991, he joined the faculty of the Department …
Biography Nicholas Burris, MD grew up in Baltimore and obtained his undergraduate and medical degrees from University of Maryland. He completed his diagnostic radiology residency, a T32 postdoctoral research fellowship and clinical fellowship in Cardiac & Pulmonary Imaging at University of California, San Francisco. Prior to joining the UW Department of Radiology in 2025, Dr. …
Biography David A. Bluemke, MD, MSB, PhD joined the department in July 2017 as a professor (CHS) in the Thoracic Imaging and Cardiovascular Imaging Sections. He comes to the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health from the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD, where he was radiologist-in-chief at the National Institutes …
Biography Scott Reeder, MD, PhD is the John H. Juhl Professor and Chair of the Department of Radiology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. He came to the UW in 2005 from Stanford University where he completed his radiology residency and a fellowship in abdominal and cardiovascular imaging. Previously, he …