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Donn D'Alessio is a Associate Professor of Population Health Sciences and Medicine. He received his M.D. from Cornell University. Dr. D'Alessio's research interest for the past fifteen years has been the role (if any) of Enterovirus infections, particularly the group B Cocksackie viruses in the etiology and pathogenesis of myopericarditis (and congestive cardiomyopathy) and insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (type 1). The work on type 1 diabetes has led to the establishment of the Wisconsin Type 1 Diabetes Registry to study the early natural history of this disease. His research is particularly concerned with the relationship of blood glucose control to microvascular complications.
Representative Publications
Dulli, D., D. J. D'Alessio, M. Palta, R. L. Levine and H. S. Schutta (1998).
"Differentiation of acute cortical and subcortical ischemic stroke by risk
factors and clinical examination findings." Neuroepidemiology 17(2): 80-9.
Palta, M., T. LeCaire, K. Daniels, G. Shen, C. Allen and D. D'Alessio (1997).
"Risk factors for hospitalization in a cohort with type 1 diabetes. Wisconsin
Diabetes Registry." American Journal of Epidemiology 146(8): 627-36.
Klein, R., M. Palta, C. Allen, G. Shen, D. P. Han and D. J. D'Alessio (1997).
"Incidence of retinopathy and associated risk factors from time of diagnosis of
insulin-dependent diabetes." Archives of Ophthalmology 115(3): 351-6.
Allen, C., G. Shen, M. Palta, B. Lotz, R. Jacobson and D. D'Alessio (1997).
"Long-term hyperglycemia is related to peripheral nerve changes at a diabetes
duration of 4 years. The Wisconsin Diabetes Registry." Diabetes Care 20(7):
1154-8.
Palta M, Shen G, Allen C, Klein R, D'Alessio D. Longitudinal patterns of glycemic control and diabetes care from diagnosis in a population-based cohort with type 1 diabetes. The Wisconsin Diabetes Registry. American Journal of Epidemiology 1996;144:954-961.
Dills DG, Allen C, Palta M, Zaccaro DJ, Klein R, D'Alessio D. Insulin-like growth factor-I is related to glycemic control in children and adolescents with newly diagnosed insulin-dependent diabetes. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism 1995;80:2139-2143.
Allen C, Zaccaro DJ, Palta M, Klein R, Duck SC, D'Alessio DJ. Glycemic control in early IDDM. The Wisconsin Diabetes Registry. Diabetes Care 1992;15:980-987.
D'Alessio DJ. A case-control study of group B Coxsackievirus immunoglobulin M antibody prevalence and HLA-DR antigens in newly diagnosed cases of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. American Journal of Epidemiology 1992;135:1331-1338.
Allen C, Duck SC, Sufit RL, Swick HM, D'Alessio DJ. Glycemic control and peripheral nerve conduction in children and young adults after 5-6 months of IDDM. Wisconsin Diabetes Registry. Diabetes Care 1992;15:502-507.
Allen C, Palta M, D'Alessio DJ. Risk of diabetes in siblings and other relatives of IDDM subjects. Diabetes 1991;40:831-836.
Duck SC, Lee M, D'Alessio D. 24-42 month stability of internal blood standards for glycated hemoglobin analysis. Diabetes Research & Clinical Practice 1990;9(2):195-199.
Hayward J, D'Alessio DJ. SIDS: Race as a factor. Wisconsin Medical Journal 1990;89(1):11-14.
Courses Taught
PHS 801: Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases
Contact Information
Donn J. D'Alessio, M.D.
Department of Population Health Sciences
University of Wisconsin Medical School
504 North Walnut Street
Madison, Wisconsin 53705-2368 USA
Phone: (608) 263-2881
Fax: (608) 263-2820
Email: dalessio@facstaff.wisc.edu
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