Dr. Kari Wisinski, an associate professor of Medicine, joined the University of Wisconsin (UW) School of Medicine and Public Health and the UW Carbone Cancer Center in 2008. Her clinical practice centers on the treatment of patients with breast cancer or at high risk for developing breast cancer. She is the physician lead for the breast high-risk clinic and medical director for the inpatient medical oncology service.
Dr. Wisinski’s research focuses on early-phase clinical trials for new agents for breast cancer. She currently serves as the principal investigator (PI) or study chair on multiple clinical trials, including a CTEP-sponsored investigator-initiated phase I trial, two sub-protocols of the NCI MATCH study, and a R01 funded window-of-opportunity trial. Since 2012, she has been co-director of the Wisconsin Oncology Network. This is a research network of academic and private practice oncology groups throughout Wisconsin. In 2014, she became co-leader of the Big Ten Cancer Research Consortium Breast Cancer Working Group and helped steer this network’s first breast cancer trials to activation.
She earned her medical degree from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. She then completed her residency at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and a hematology and medical oncology fellowship at the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center at Northwestern University in Chicago.