Marika I. Wrzosek, MD

Assistant Professor

Locations

Medical College of Wisconsin
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine

Biography

Dr. Wrzosek grew up in the Chicagoland area after emigrating with her family from Poland. After completing her undergraduate studies, medical school, and general psychiatry residency training all at the University of Illinois at Chicago, she completed her child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School. She then took a faculty position at the University of IL College of Medicine in Peoria, where she was the Associate Program Director for the psychiatry residency and was actively involved in the education of medical students and residents.

Research Interests

She joined the Medical College of Wisconsin as the Director of Medical Student Education in the Department of Psychiatry. She maintains an active child psychiatry practice through Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, as well as a small adult practice at the Tosa Health Center. Her research interests include the impact of social media on education and professionalism, recruitment trends, wellness, and curriculum and educational design. She has presented extensively at local, regional, national and international meetings and is active in leadership of several national organizations, including the Association for Academic Psychiatry, as well as the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

An Ounce of Prevention: A Public Health Approach to Improving Physician Well-Being.

(Chaukos D, Vestal HS, Bernstein CA, Belitsky R, Cohen MJ, Hutner L, Penzner J, Scheiber S, Wrzosek MI, Silberman EK.) Acad Psychiatry. 2018 Feb;42(1):150-154.
The R-Rated Comedy Ted: A Teaching Tool for Psychiatric Education.

(Wrzosek MI.) Acad Psychiatry. 2017 08;41(4):526-530.
Required and Elective Experiences During the 4th Year: An Analysis of ACGME Accredited Psychiatry Residency Program Websites.

(Vestal HS, Belitsky R, Bernstein CA, Chaukos D, Cohen MB, Dickstein LJ, Hilty DM, Hutner L, Sakman F, Scheiber SC, Wrzosek MI, Silberman EK.) Acad Psychiatry. 2016 Oct;40(5):816-20.
A game of phones: learning to supervise from a distance.

(Wrzosek MI.) J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2014 Oct;53(10):1039-41.
Impact of the information age on residency training: communication, access to public information, and clinical care.

(Hilty DM, Belitsky R, Cohen MB, Cabaniss DL, Dickstein LJ, Bernstein CA, Kaplan AS, Scheiber SC, Crisp-Han HD, Wrzosek MI, Silberman EK.) Acad Psychiatry. 2015 Feb;39(1):104-7.
Sluggish vagal brake reactivity to physical exercise challenge in children with selective mutism.

(Heilman KJ, Connolly SD, Padilla WO, Wrzosek MI, Graczyk PA, Porges SW.) Dev Psychopathol. 2012 Feb;24(1):241-50.

Marika Wrzosek, MD