Cyril Michael Hetsko

Cyril "Kim'" M. Hetsko (May 25, 1942 - November 14, 2022) was an American doctor of internal medicine, with a subspecialty in infectious diseases and laboratory medicine. For two terms, Hetsko was a member of the AMA Board of Trustees (2003, 2007). Hetsko was a clinical professor of medicine at the University of Wisconsin and also the Chief Medical Officer for Commission on Office & Laboratory Accreditation (COLA), a clinical laboratory education, consultation, and accreditation organization in Columbia, Maryland. Hetsko did his medical internship and residency in internal medicine at the University Hospitals in Madison, Wisconsin where he became chief resident. He was the Chairperson of the Wisconsin Medical Society Task Force on AIDS in Wisconsin.
Personal life
Hetsko was born in Montclair, New Jersey on May 25, 1942 to Cyril Francis Hetsko, an attorney working in Manhattan, New York City, and Josephine Stein Hetsko, a homemaker and community volunteer. He had an older sibling, Jacqueline Hetsko Kaufer and two younger siblings, Cynthia (Cindy) Hetsko Rainey and Jeffrey Francis Hetsko. Hetsko's great-grandparents on his father’s side emigrated to the United States from Slovakia. Hetsko died in St. Mary's Hospital in Madison, WI on November 14, 2022.
Education
Hetsko graduated from Ridgewood High School in 1960 with high honors. and further graduated from Amherst College (1964, Bachelor of Arts), and the University of Rochester School of Medicine (1968, M.D.). Hetsko received a National Institute of Health fellowship for study at the Royal Marsden Cancer Hospital in London, UK.
Military service
Hetsko served as a Major in the United States Army at Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases and Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Fort Detrick, Maryland, and Washington, D.C., (1972-1975).
Career
Hetsko provided Internal Medicine and Infectious diseases medical care for for more than three decades at the Dean Medical Center, Madison, WI.
Hetsko was an elected member and then chair of the American Medical Association Council on Medical Service from 1995 to 2003. From 1982 to 2003, he was a member and then chair of the Wisconsin delegation to the AMA House of Delegates. Hetsko was a member of the Board of Trustees and liaison to the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Chicago, IL from 2003 until 2011.
From 1991 until 1998, Hetsko served as a trustee and the treasurer of the American Society of Internal Medicine. Hetsko played an active role in leading its merger with the American College of Physicians. After that, Hetsko served as regent and then the national treasurer of ACP from 2002 to 2004.
From 1991 to 1992, Hetsko was president of the Wisconsin Medical Society. Hetsko was the Chief Medical Officer of Commission on Laboratory Accreditation, a member of Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement Executive Committee.
From 1995 to 2017, Hetsko was a clinical professor of medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health Madison, WI.
Honors
The Wisconsin Chapter of the American College of Physicians awarded Hetsko in 1990 the Addis Costello Award for outstanding work in internal medicine.
In 2005, Hetsko received the Wisconsin ACP Laureate Award, and the Wisconsin Medical Charles Hoffman Memorial Lecture at the American Urological Association meeting. In 2007, he received the Society’s highest honor, the Directors Award.

In 2015, Hetsko was elected a Master of the American College of Physicians, which is the highest rank in the largest medical specialty organisation in the United States.
Wisconsin Medical Society awarded Hetsko in 2007 with society’s highest honor, the Director’s Award and in 2011 with Presidential Citation Award.
In 2022 a memorial fund, Cyril "Kim" Hetsko, MD Trainee Leadership Fund, was set up at the Wisconsin Medical Society Foundation.
Publications
* "AMA and Wisconsin Medical Society: together we are stronger", C.M. Hetsko, WMJ 2009 Sept, PMID 19813503
* "Health system reform needed", Rieselbach R.E., Remington P.L., C.M. Hetsko, WMJ 2009 Oct, PMID 19886589
* "AMA Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement committed to quality", C.M. Hetsko, WMJ 2006 Dec, PMID 17256701
* "Status of the health care financing crisis in Wisconsin ‘medicina nusquam non est’(medicine is universal)", C.M. Hetsko, Wis Med J. 1992 Mar, PMID 1615694
* "Health care reform’s future the road less traveled", C.M. Hetsko, Wis Med J. 1992, Jul PMID 1509776
* "Health care financing reform in Wisconsin: prescription for the future ‘medicina nusquam non est’(medicine is universal): XI.", C.M. Hetsko, Wis Med J. 1992 Apr, PMID 1574908
* "The challenge to health insurers. ‘medicina nusquam non est’(medicine is universal): VI.", C.M. Hetsko, Wis Med J. 1991 Nov, PMID 1759463
* "Competitive pricing: ASIM’s (American Society of Internal Medicine) alternative", C.M. Hetsko, Internist 1992 Sept, PMID 10121363
* "Hepatic and renal dysfunction following nafcillin administration", Lestico M.R., Vick K.E., Hetsko C.M., Ann Pharmacother 1992 Jul-Aug, PMID 1504413
* "Risk of nephrotoxicity with combination vancomycin-aminoglycoside antibiotic therapy" Pauly D.J., Musa D.M., Lestico M.R., Lindstrom M.J., Hetsko C.M., Phamarotherapy 1990, PMID 2287556
* "Immunoprophylaxis of experimental Mycoplasma pneumoniae disease: effect of aerosol particle size and site of deposition of M. pneumoniae on the pattern of respiratory infection, disease, and immunity in hamsters, Jemski J.V., Hetsko C.M., Helms C.M., Grizzard M.B., Walker J.S., Chanock R.M., Infect Immun. 1997 Apr, PMID 873619

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