Dr. Richard P. Cattey, MD

Expert Publications

• Nobel Prize winners in surgery: completing the list.
• Pediatric Trauma Score. Predictor of hospital resource use?
• Cholelithiasis follows total gastrectomy in Zollinger-Ellison syndrome.
• Rectal prolapse.
• Laparoscopically assisted colon resections compare favorably with open technique.
• Routine or selective intraoperative cholangiography in laparoscopic cholecystectomy.
• Initial experience with laparoscopic appendectomy.
• Laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication for gastroesophageal reflux disease: clinical experience and outcome in first 100 patients.

Media Releases

Get to know General Surgeon Dr. Richard P. Cattey, who serves patients in Wisconsin.

Dr. Cattey is a board-certified and fellowship-trained general surgeon whose practice includes general, laparoscopic, and vascular surgical services. At present, he is a part of the team of professionals at Madison Medical Affiliates, serving patients in Mequon and Milkwaukee, Wisconsin. 

Madison Medical is the premier independent medical practice in Southeastern Wisconsin. Serving 11 specialties and five convenient locations, 50+ physicians are routinely recognized by patients, peers, and the media as the finest physicians in the area.

A recognized expert in the diagnosis and treatment of sports hernias, Dr. Cattey is also in practice with Ascension Columbia St. Mary’s Hospital Ozaukee & Ascension Columbia St. Mary’s Hospital Milwaukee. Both hospitals offer a full spectrum of personalized, compassionate healthcare services.

Columbia St. Mary’s, a health care provider founded in response to identified community needs, is sponsored by Ascension Health, a Catholic national health system, and Columbia Health System, a nonsectarian community health system. Its mission is to provide high quality, accessible, value-driven programs and services with equal attention to the physical, spiritual, and emotional dimensions of health.

The doctor’s acclaimed career in medicine began after he earned his medical degree from the Medical College of Wisconsin in 1984. He then went on to complete his residency in general surgery and his fellowship in surgical endoscopy at the Medical College of Wisconsin Affiliated Hospitals. Thereafter, he served as a surgical registrar for six months in Warwick, England.

A Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a member of the Milwaukee Institute of Minimally Invasive Surgery, Dr. Cattey is board-certified in general surgery by the American Board of Surgery, which is an independent, non-profit organization located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, founded for the purpose of certifying surgeons who have met a defined standard of education, training, and knowledge. 

In addition, he is on the Clinical Faculty of the Department of Surgery at the Medical College of Wisconsin, as well as on the Clinical Faculty of the United States Surgical Corporation and Ethicon Endo-Surgery.

General surgery is a surgical specialty that focuses on abdominal contents including the esophagus, stomach, small bowel, colon, liver, pancreas, gallbladder, appendix and bile ducts, and often the thyroid gland. A general surgeon performs a wide range of abdominal surgeries for many forms of intestinal and abdominal wall neoplasms, gallbladder disease, gastric and pancreatic disease. They follow the patient through critical care and surgical recovery all the way to outpatient care. 

Among his numerous accolades, Dr. Cattey is the recipient of Compassionate Doctor Recognition (2010, 2015, 2016, 2018) and Patients’ Choice Award (2018).

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