Dr. Ann Rosenthal, MD

Dr. Ann K. Rosenthal is a rheumatologist in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She is the Will and Cava Ross Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Division of Rheumatology at the Medical College of Wisconsin. She also serves as Medical Director of the Zablocki VA Translational Research Center and Associate Chief of Staff for Research at the Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center. She sees patients through Froedtert Hospital and the Zablocki VA.

She earned her MD at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1983, completed internal medicine training at Strong Memorial Hospital (University of Rochester), and finished a rheumatology fellowship at Medical College of Wisconsin Affiliated Hospitals in 1990. She is board certified in rheumatology by the American Board of Internal Medicine and is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians.

Much of her public record is research. She studies calcium pyrophosphate deposition (CPPD) disease, a type of crystal arthritis, with funding from the VA Research Service and the NIH since 1991. She co-wrote a 2016 New England Journal of Medicine review on CPPD and co-authored the 2023 ACR/EULAR classification criteria for the condition. ResearchGate lists 132 research works with about 5,757 citations. The American College of Rheumatology named her an ACR Master in its 2023 award class.

In the CMS Open Payments database for 2021 through 2025, she has $0 in reported payments from drug or device companies across 0 records. Industry payments are common and legal; her record shows none. No license discipline, malpractice suits, or criminal matters were found in the public sources reviewed.