Paul Hunter, MD

• University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health – MD
• University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire – Family Medicine Residency
• University of Wisconsin-Madison – BS

Bio

Paul Hunter, MD (he/him/his) is a DFMCH faculty member After more than three decades of clinical practice, medical consulting for public health agencies, and teaching medical students, he looks forward to supporting and mentoring students and clinicians earlier in their careers. Hunter seeks to inspire advocates for vaccination to persist through very challenging years ahead with the knowledge that our efforts will prevent unneeded suffering and premature death. He looks forward to mentoring the next course director of the Ambulatory Acting Internship as they take this required course for all medical students into the second century of the School of Medicine and Public Health.

Hunter will continue to share his passion for family medicine with medical students in case-based learning sessions in the Phase 2 Chronic and Preventive Care course. He will continue to use his clinical experience with implementing public health as a float physician at UW Health primary care clinics to inform his medical consultation with the Milwaukee Health Department.

Clinical Interests

Hunter enjoys working as a float physician at primary care clinics in the UW Health system across south central Wisconsin. He gets to know the communities through patients’ stories, the staff of many clinics who teach medical students, and the real-world, real-time pulse of the epidemiology of respiratory and other viral illnesses. As a medical consultant to the Milwaukee Health Department, I write the medical orders nurses use to vaccinate Milwaukee residents and provide medical advice on the public health responses to communicable disease.

Teaching Interests

Hunter’s passion is teaching medical and public health students and professionals how to implement public health recommendations in clinical practice. He strives to teach clinicians how to strongly recommend vaccinations and listen compassionately to patients’ concerns about vaccines. He enjoys the in-person small group teaching of case-based learning scenarios with medical students in chronic and preventive care. He is proud to direct a course since 2011 that all UW med students must take to graduate. Since 2017 the course has been the Ambulatory Acting Internship. He enjoys interacting with community physicians around the state who teach the students. Hunter looks forward to orienting a new course director for the Ambulatory Acting Internship in June 2026 when he will step down from that role.

Research Interests

Hunter has studied clinicians’ knowledge of vaccination recommendations and the effectiveness of training on clinicians’ confidence in making vaccination recommendations.

Publications and Presentations

• Henningfield MF, Yuroff A, Sampson L, Hunter PH. Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviors Regarding Pneumococcal Vaccines in Adults 65 Years and Older in Primary Care in Wisconsin. WMJ. 2024;123(3):204-209.
• Hunter P, Fryhofer SA, Szilagyi PG. Vaccination of Adults in General Medical Practice. Mayo Clinic Proceedings. 2020;95(1):169-183. PMID: 31902413.
• Yacoob Z, Cook C, Kotovicz F, Kram JJ, Klumph M, Stanley M, Hunter P, Baumgardner DJ. Enhancing immunization rates in two urban academic primary care clinics. J Patient Cent Res Rev. 2020;7:47-56.
• Kim DK, Riley LE, Hunter P; Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. Recommended Immunization Schedule or Adults – United States,2018. Ann Intern Med. 2018 Feb 6;168(3):210-220. doi: 10.7326/M17-3439. PMID: 29404596.

Honors and Awards

• 1998 Award for Community Involvement – Medical College of Wisconsin Department of Family and Community Medicine
• 2014 Marc Hansen, MD Lectureship – University of Wisconsin Department of Family Medicine and Community Health