Department of Medicine
University of Wisconsin
KAREN E HANSEN
Contact Information
600 HIGHLAND AVE
MADISON, WI 53792
Mail Code: 3244
Biography
Karen Hansen joined the University of Wisconsin faculty in 2001. She has joint appointments in the rheumatology and endocrine sections and is a faculty member of the UW Osteoporosis Clinical Center and Research Program. Dr. Hansen spends 75% of her professional time performing clinical research studies that focus primarily on osteoporosis and related diseases.Hansen graduated from Luther College with a bachelor of arts degree and then completed her medical degree at the University of Wisconsin. A residency in Internal Medicine was completed at the University of Wisconsin, followed by a year as Chief Resident for the department. Duke University Medical Center was the site of her fellowship in Rheumatology.
Awards and honors include teaching awards from residents and medical students, "Fellow of the Year" award as an outstanding Rheumatology Fellow, and membership in Alpha Omega Alpha and Phi Beta Kappa.
Hansen offers consultation in Osteoporosis and Metabolic Bone Disease through the Clinical Osteoporosis Center located at West Clinic. She sees patients with rheumatologic or autoimmune diseases in the West Side Rheumatology Clinic. She analyzes bone densitometry studies performed within the UW Radiology Center. She also performs tetracycline-labeled bone biopsies to evaluate conditions causing skeletal fragility.
Ongoing research projects include a randomized placebo-controlled clinical trial of vitamin D therapy for people with rheumatoid arthritis, use of calcium isotopes to determine alterations in calcium homeostasis among postmenopausal women with vitamin D insufficiency, and analysis of lumbar spine bone mass using three different methods as a means of predicting fragility fracture among men in the MrOS study.
Search for Karen Hansen's literature abstracts on PubMed
Hansen KE, Binkley N, Blank RD, Krueger DC, Christian RC, Malone DG, Baim S. An Atlas Improves Interobserver Agreement Regarding Application of the ISCD Vertebral Body Exclusion Criteria. J Clin Densitom. 2007 Oct-Dec;10(4):359-64.
Hansen KE, Swenson ED, Baltz B, Schuna AA, Jones AN, Elliott ME. Adherence to alendronate in male veterans. Osteoporos Int. 2007 Sep 26
Wolff AE, Hansen KE, Zakowski L. Acute Kawasaki disease: not just for kids. J Gen Intern Med. 2007 May;22(5):681-4. Review.
Hansen KE, Rosenblatt ER, Gjerde CL, Crowe MC. Can an online osteoporosis lecture increase physician knowledge and improve patient care? J Clin Densitom 2007;10(1):10-20.
Hansen KE, Hoffman RM, Drake RK, Argal TR, Bier HA, Grigg KT, Rouse ED, Elliot ME. An Exploratory Analysis of Alendronate in Older Men with Low Creatinine Clearance, Journal of Aging & Pharmacotherapy 2006;13(2)21-33.
Blank RD, Malone DG, Christian RC, Vallarta-Ast N, Krueger D, Drezner MK, Binkley N, Hansen KE. Patient Variables Impact Lumbar Spine Dual Energy X Ray Absorptiometry Precision, Osteoporosis Int 2006;17(5):768-774.
Hansen KE, Hildebrand JP, Ferguson EE, Stein JH. Outcomes in 45 Patients with Statin-Associated Myopathy. Arch Intern Med 2005;165:2671-2676.
Christian R, Hansen KE. Transplant Osteoporosis. Curr Opin Orthop 2005;16:382-386.
Khurma V, Appen R, Wolf MD, Hansen KE. Wegener Granulomatosis Presenting as Bilateral Loss of Vision. J Clin Rheumatol 2005;11:267-269.
Hansen KE, Binkley N, Christian R, Blank RB, Vallarta-Ast N, Krueger D, Drezner MK, Blank RB. Interobserver Reproducibility of Criteria for Vertebral Body Exclusion. J Bone Miner Res 2005;20:501-508.
Hansen KE, Vallarta-Ast N, Krueger D, Gangnon R, Drezner MK, Binkley N. Use of the lowest vertebral body to diagnose lumbar osteoporosis in men: Is "cherry picking" appropriate? J Clin Densitom 2004;7(4):376-381.
Binkley N, Krueger D, Cowgill CS, Plum L, Lake E, Hansen KE, DeLuca HF, Drezner MK. Assay variation confounds the diagnosis of hypovitaminosis D: a call for standardization. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2004;89:3152-57.
Hansen KE, Hildebrand J, Gangon R, Genovese M, Cohen S, Cush J, Cooley DA, Patel SR, Schiff M. The efficacy of switching from etanercept to infliximab in subjects with rheumatoid arthritis. J Rheumatol 2004;31(6):1098-1102.
Kramm H, Hansen KE, Gowing E, Bridges AJ. Series of rheumatoid arthritis patients treated with retuximab monotherapy. J Clin Rheumatol 2004;10:1-6.
Hansen KE, Cush J, Singhal A, Cooley DA, Cohen S, Patel SR, Genovese M, Sundaramurthy S, Schiff M. The safety and efficacy of leflunomide in combination with infliximab in rheumatoid arthritis. Arthritis Rheum 2004;51(2):228-232.
Hansen KE, Kong D, Moore KD, Ortel TL. Risk factors associated with thrombosis in patients with antiphospholipid antibodies. J Rheumatol 2001 Sept;28(9):2018-24.
Hansen KE, Moore KD, Ortel TL, Allen NB. Antiphospholipid antibodies in patients with polyarteritis nodosa and Wegener's Granulomatosis. Arthritis Rheum 1999;42:2250-2252.