Brian Arndt, MD

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Education

• University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health – MD
• University of Wisconsin Department of Family Medicine and Community Health – Family Medicine Residency
• University of Wisconsin – BS, Mechanical Engineering

Bio

Brian Arndt, MD (he/him/his) joined DFMCH faculty in 2008. He serves as site lead for the UW Health Verona Family Medicine Clinic, the UW family medicine program’s largest residency continuity practice where he oversees the care of over 13,000 patients. He also provides inpatient hospital care four to six weeks per year at University Hospital and SSM Health St. Mary’s Hospital.

Arndt earned his BS in mechanical engineering from the University of Wisconsin and worked for both Trane and Sub-Zero/Wolf/Cove prior to attending medical school at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. He completed his family medicine residency with the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.

He is a true Badger at heart and enjoys spending time with his wife and their three daughters. When not at home working outside or on a house project, he may be hunting, fishing, tending to gardens, or enjoying time on the tractor around his family’s 200-acre farm in the Driftless Area in Richland Center, Wisconsin.

Clinical Interests

His engineering background coupled with his interests in public health and engagement in local food systems has helped him develop new approaches to preventive health and health promotion along with managing patients with chronic disease and complex social issues.

Arndt is passionate about food as medicine. The clinic-based food pantry garden he co-founded is part of the Madison Area Food Pantry Gardens’ network that has provided nearly 2.5 million pounds of first choice, fresh, culturally appropriate produce to individuals in need since 2000.

He has been leading group visits since 2005 including the UW Health Verona Clinic’s annual Fitness and Lifestyle Challenge for patients with nutrition-sensitive chronic conditions. With each of these efforts, Arndt hopes to enhance how patients, the health system, and community-based organizations work together in harmony to create statewide nutrition security for all.

Research Interests

Arndt’s broad training in systems gives him the unique ability to help patients navigate the complex healthcare system and its relationship to the broader community. In addition to his implementation research in food as medicine initiatives, he has more than twenty-five publications with hundreds of citations to his research related to physician workload in the EHR.

Publications and Presentations

• Arndt BG, Micek MA, Rule A, Shafer CM, Baltus JJ, Sinsky CA. More Tethered to the EHR: EHR Workload Trends Among Academic Primary Care Physicians. Ann Fam Med. 2024 Jan-Feb;22(1):12-18.
• Micek MA, Rule A, Baltus JJ, Arndt B. Association of Primary Care Physicians’ Ambulatory Full-time Equivalencies With Time in the Electronic Health Record. JAMA Netw Open. 2023;6(6):e2320032. Published 2023 Jun 1.
• Arndt BG, Micek MA, Rule A, Baltus JJ, Sinsky CA. Refining Vendor-Defined Measures to Accurately Quantify EHR Workload Outside Time Scheduled With Patients. Ann Fam Med. 2023;21(3):264-268.
• Ramly E, Kamnetz SA, Perry CE, Micek M, Arndt BG, Lochner J, Davis S, Trowbridge E, Smith M. Primary Care Patients’ and Staff’s Perceptions of Self-Rooming as Alternative to Waiting Rooms. Ann Fam Med. 2023;21(1):46-53.
• Lochner J, Birstler J, Smith M, Rathouz P, Arndt B, Micek M, Trowbridge E, Perry E, Kamnetz S, Pandhi S. Does a Change in Physician Compensation Lead to Changes in Care Delivery in Family Medicine Clinics? WMJ. 2022;121(4):280-284.

Awards and Honors

• 2023 Physician Excellence Award for Clinical Leadership – UW Health
• 2022 Mike McKinney Community Volunteer Award – United Way of Dane County
• 2020 Aspirational Leader Award – Gold Humanism Honor Society, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health