Jon Temte joined the faculty of the DFM in September 1993. He received his BA 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 from the University of Wisconsin in 1993. Jon pursued his medical training at the UW-Madison Medical School receiving his MD in 1987. He is a 1993 graduate of the Madison Family Practice Residency. He has an extensive variety of research and teaching experience, and received the Resident Research Award in 1993 and the Baldwin Lloyd Clinical Teaching Award in 1996. He has published widely in the area of marine mammal reproductive biology and specializes in birth timing of seals and sea lions. He currently serves as the director of the Wisconsin Research and Education Network (WREN) and sits on pandemic influenza and bioterrorism working groups for the state of Wisconsin. He is also and AAFP liasion to the Advisory COmmittee on Immunization !
Practices. His current research interests include viral disease surveillance in primary care, timing and cost-effectiveness of influenza treatments, management of febrile illnesses in children, and infectious disease aboard commercial airliners. Jon is the medical director of the Wingra Family Medical Center.