Associate Professor of Pediatrics
University of Wisconsin
Dr. Matthew Harer is an Associate Professor in the Division of Neonatology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison, Wisconsin. Dr. Harer completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his MD from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in 2010. He completed his Pediatric residency at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics and his Neonatology fellowship in 2016 at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville where he also earned a certificate of Public Health. Dr. Harer is the PI of the IKONIC Research Team (Investigating Kidney Outcomes in Neonates into Childhood) conducting translational research on neonatal kidney function. He currently has a KL2 career development scholar award through UW’s CTSA investigating renal tissue oxygenation monitoring in preterm neonates for the early detection of AKI. Dr. Harer has presented locally, nationally, and internationally on a variety of topics including neonatal kidney development and function, treatment of positive urine cultures in the NICU, and the effect of caffeine on preterm infant renal tissue oxygenation among others.