
Jonathan Temte MD, PhD
Associate Dean for Public Health and Community Engagement; Professor, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WisconsinJonathan Temte, MD, PhD was born and raised in La Crosse, Wisconsin and received his BA in biology from Luther College, (Decorah, Iowa) in 1980. He received an MS in biological oceanography from Oregon State University in 1986 and a PhD in zoology (minor: epidemiology) from the University of Wisconsin in 1993. His MS and PhD work centered on photoperiodism and birth timing of seals and sea lions.
Dr. Temte pursued his medical training at the UW-Madison Medical School receiving his MD in 1987. He is a 1993 graduate of the University of Wisconsin - Madison Family Practice Residency where he stayed on as a faculty, achieving the rank of Professor. He teaches family practice residents and practices full-spectrum primary care medicine to an under-served and highly diverse community at Wingra Family Medical Center in Madison, Wisconsin. He became Associate Dean for Public Health and Community Engagement in 2019.
Dr. Temte completed his tenure as chair of the U.S. Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) in 2015. He represented the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) at the CDC Measles Elimination Meeting in 2000 and the Rubella Elimination Meeting in 2004. He currently chairs the Wisconsin Council on Immunization Practices. He served as AAFP liaison to the ACIP from 2004-2008 and then was appointed to two four-year terms as a voting member of ACIP (2008-2015). He is the first family physician to have served as chair. During his tenure at ACIP, Jon chaired Work Groups on MMRV Safety, Evidence-based Recommendations, and MMR Vaccine. He is the principal investigator of the Wisconsin Acute Respiratory Infection Epidemiology and Surveillance Program, the Oregon Child Absenteeism due to Respiratory Disease Study, and the University of Wisconsin Campus SARS-CoV-2 Incidence Surveillance Program. His current research interests include viral disease surveillance in primary care and communities, seasonality and epidemiology of influenza, and attitudes toward immunization.
Disclosures
Dr. Temte participates on the following Advisory Boards:
Elsevier Practice Update
SociabCare (home health agency)
Jonathan L. Temte, MD, PhD receives research/grant support from:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Quidel Corporation
Recent Contributions to PracticeUpdate:
- Britain to Try Mix-and-Match COVID-19 Vaccinations
- Maintaining Safety With SARS-CoV-2 Vaccines
- Goodbye 2020
- Baricitinib Plus Remdesivir for Hospitalized Adults With COVID-19
- Risk of Hospital Admission for COVID-19 in Healthcare Workers and Their Households
- Cloth Masks and Modified Procedure Masks as PPE for the Public During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Making America Not So Great
- FDA Takes Key Action in Fight Against COVID-19 By Issuing Emergency Use Authorization for First COVID-19 Vaccine
- COVID-19 and Excess All-Cause Mortality in the US and 18 Comparison Countries
- 2020 Top Stories in Primary Care: COVID-19—Fear, Misinformation, and the Unknown