Michael D. Caldwell, MD, PhD, FACS 
Director, Wound Healing Program,
Marshfield Clinic
Marshfield, Wisconsin

Presentation Title
Machine Learning: An Adjunct to Defining Phenotypes for Predictive Medicine

Dr Caldwell is currently Director of the Wound Healing Program at Marshfield Clinic in Marshfield, Wisconsin. 

Dr Caldwell received his BS in Chemistry from the University of South Carolina and his MD from the Medical University of South Carolina.  He then completed a one-year Surgical Internship, a two-year Surgical Residency, and a one-year Neonatal Fellowship at the Medical University of South Carolina.  From 1972-1976, Dr Caldwell had a Clinical Nutrition Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Vanderbilt University while he attended graduate school in Physiology.  From 1976-1980, he was a Lieutenant Colonel in the US Army Military Corps.  In 1980, he received his PhD in Physiology from Vanderbilt University, followed by a two-year Clinical Nutrition Fellowship at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania where he also completed a two-year Surgical Residency (Chief Resident, 1981-1982).

Dr Caldwell began his career as Chief, Division of Surgical Metabolism at the Letterman Army Institute of Research from 1976-1978; from 1977-1980, he w as also Chief of the Nutritional Support Service there.  Beginning as an Associate Professor from 1982-1990, he rose to Professor of Surgery at Brown University and was the Director of Nutritional Support Service and Director of the Surgical Metabolism Laboratory at Rhode Island Hospital.  From 1986-1990, he was Surgeon-in Chief of the Division of Surgical Research and from 1988-1990, he was Acting Surgeon-In-Chief at Rhode Island Hospital.  Dr Caldwell then spent ten years as Director of the Center for Wound Healing and Reparative Medicine, University of Minnesota and was a Professor of Surgery and Biochemistry at the University of Minnesota for those years.  From 2000-2004, he was Director of the Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation, a Division of the Marshfield Clinic.  He has also been Director of the Wound Healing Clinic at the Marshfield Clinic since 2000.
        
Recipient of numerous honors and awards and a member of many professional organizations, Dr Caldwell has been a frequent Invited Speaker at international and national conferences.  He has been involved in local and national administrative service, has sat on numerous committees and editorial boards, and is an active member in several societies.  A prolific writer, Dr Caldwell has published 94 articles, five books, 27 book chapters, and 83 abstracts.  He is presently working on one federally funded grant but has completed 19 other grants.  He has been involved in 13 clinical studies and has four patents issued.