Jeffrey G. Wiese, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Director, Internal Medicine Residency Program
Chief of Medicine, The Medical Center of Louisiana at New Orleans

Contact Information
Tulane University Health Sciences Center
School of Medicine
Department of Internal Medicine, SL-50
1430 Tulane Avenue
New Orleans, LA 70112
E-mail: jwiese@tulane.edu
Phone: 504-988-7809
Fax: 504-988-3971

Education
MD, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland

Residency
Internal Medicine, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California

Biography
Jeffrey G. Wiese, MD, is an Associate Professor and the Vice-Chairman of Medicine at the Tulane University Health Sciences Center. He is also the Chief of Medicine and the President of the Medical Faculty at Charity Hospital. He is Director of the Tulane Internal Medicine Program and Course Director for the Clinical Diagnosis, Biostatistics, Advanced Internal Medicine, Medical Art, and Medical Education courses.

Dr. Wiese attended Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, where he received his medical degree in 1995. He completed his residency in internal medicine, chief residency and a medical education fellowship at the University of California at San Francisco. He has been on faculty at Tulane since 2000.

Dr. Wiese devotes his time to teaching and educational research, some of which incorporates evolving technologies in clinical reasoning and patient safety. Dr. Wiese has won 34 teaching awards in the first eight years of being on faculty. He was named the University of California San Francisco's Professor of the Year in 2000, and the Tulane Attending of the Year in 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2005. He was the recipient of The Society of Hospital Medicine' Education Award in 2005, the ACGME' Parker Palmer Courage to Teach Award in 2006, the AAMC's Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Award in 2006, and the ACP's Walter J. McDonald Award in 2007.

Dr. Wiese has written over 50 articles, books, or book chapters and has made numerous presentations to national and international audiences. He is a reviewer for six national journals, and serves on the Board of Directors for the Society of Hospital Medicine and the Council for the Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine.

As Chief of Medicine for Charity and University hospitals, he serves on over twenty different Tulane and MCLNO committees. Over the past two years he has spear-headed an effort to enact a recurrent $1.2 million dollar hospitalist proposal for Charity hospital.

Dr. Wiese is an authority on the physiology of the alcohol hangover. His research focuses on the inflammatory mechanisms that may induce the increased morbidity seen during the alcohol hangover; his research won him researcher of the year from the Southern Society of the American Federation of Medical Research and the Society of General Internal Medicine.

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Dr. Wiese's leadership was on display. He drove over 36,000 miles visiting his displaced residents and continuing to teach a curriculum that rotated weekly in the three cities in which they were placed. Under his leadership, Tulane's residency only lost 5 of 115 residents, and completely filled their intern complement within the match. Tulane lost only three weeks of curricular time, and all residents found a fellowship position at the end of their training.