Life, Death and Medical Meaning: Ethics of organ donation and transplantation

Dr. Heidi Klessig attended medical school at UW-Madison, where she completed a residency program in anesthesiology. She received the American Board of Anesthesiology’s board certification in anesthesiology and the ABA’s certificate of added qualification in pain management. She was a founding partner of the Pain Clinic of Northwestern Wisconsin and an instructor for the International Spinal Injection Society.

After her husband was diagnosed with a brainstem tumor, she retired in 2007 to devote time to her family, homeschooling her two children through high school, and caring for her husband, Darrel. She now writes and speaks on the ethics of organ donation and transplantation.

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She enjoys the outdoors, the study of language, history and the Bible, and is an aspiring pianist.