Dr. Michael J. Malinowski is a vascular surgeon and surgical educator at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) with 12 years of academic surgical practice. He has completed a US Fulbright Grant Award which included travel to Uruguay in 2023 to assist with the national medical education curriculum across the Universidad de la República (UdelaR) University System. He has also performed multiple global health projects including South America, Dominican Republic and Asia for both international education projects and surgical global health missions for training local surgeons in lifesaving vascular surgical procedures. Much of this time includes years of exchange to Nepal’s Dhulikhel Hospital and Kathmandu University system to perform first in country surgical operations utilizing both industry and private sector philanthropic contributions to expand access to vascular surgery nationally and increase medical education throughout these regions. This has required extensive international organization building and relationships throughout the remainder of Asia and the globe.  

Outside of academic surgical practice, he teaches international fellows from around the world through the Johns Hopkins University School of Education as an adjunct faculty and principal investigator for educational research capstone projects for their Master of Education Program. He has been a leader for medical education involved in prominent levels of curriculum and evaluation creation within the MCW Medical School Curriculum and Evaluation Committee. This entailed involvement in creation of new 3 and 4-year curriculums for three statewide medical school campuses, LCME reaccreditation, approval/review of institutional learning resource grants and course creation.  

He is both a member and Director of the Society of Teaching Scholars to define excellence in educational scholarship in academic medicine, has membership in the Academy of Master Surgeon Educators within the education division of the American College of Surgeons. He is also a salaried co-PI on a health equity curriculum for core residency programs in Wisconsin as a part of a $200k AHW grant to assist in improving statewide public health access and patient advocacy to underserved populations. He also has served as an AHW grant reviewer for faculty grants to improve statewide workforce planning in healthcare disparities, medical education and public health projects. 

Away from surgical education, academic research and global health, Dr. Malinowski works as an academic surgeon finishing over a decade of practice in Milwaukee’s only Level I trauma center and only quaternary vascular referral center. He engages in surgical education within the Society of Vascular Surgeons in the US on the national education committee and appropriateness committee and is a member of the esteemed Society of University Surgeons.