Dr. Wiese has received 21 awards for teaching over the last five years, including six from the University of California at San Francisco, where he started his career in 1998 as a clinical instructor. Since joining Tulane University in 2000, he has earned 16 teaching awards, including the prestigious all Tulane Faculty of the Year Award (twice) and the Virginia Furrow Award for Innovation in Medical Education. On the clinical wards, he has twice won Attending of the Year honors, and his Professor Rounds are routinely rated among the best.
Dr. Wiese designed numerous innovative curriculums. As a result of his clinical diagnosis innovations, the Clinical Diagnosis scores at Tulane increased from the 46th percentile to the 80th and 82nd percentile, with 10% of the 2004 class scoring in the top percentile in the nation. As a result of his restructuring of core curriculum to emphasize rational, evidenced based medical decision making, Tulane’s internal medicine program recently went the highest on its match list in the past 20 years. And through Dr. Wiese’s pyramid mentor system, Tulane Internal Medicine presented more regional and national presentations than any residency program in the country.
Dr. Wiese has written over 50 articles, books, or book chapters, is assistant editor for two educational textbooks and a reviewer for six national journals, has authored two textbooks, and is on the editorial board for a monthly publication. As an active SHM member, he has served on the Education Committee, Southern SHM Committee, and was program director for SHM’s Intensive Care Pre-course.
Dr. Wiese received his MD from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 1995. He completed his residency and chief residency training in Internal Medicine at the University of California at San Francisco, where he also completed a fellowship in General Internal Medicine with a focus on Hospitalist Medicine. He joined Tulane in 2000, after being recruited to start a hospitalist system at the Medical Center of Louisiana at New Orleans (Charity Hospital). His hospitalist proposal was accepted by the state and hospital administration, helping to provide funding to hospitalists at Charity.
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