David Wahlberg has been the health reporter at the Wisconsin State Journal in Madison since 2005. He previously covered health and other topics at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Ann Arbor (Michigan) News, San Bernardino (California) Sun and Wausau (Wisconsin) Daily Herald. His projects on doctor discipline, rural health, and patient safety have won awards from the Association of Health Care Journalists and other national organizations.
Wahlberg's project focused on how well the organ transplant system is working in Wisconsin. His stories include:
- Geographic disparities divide organ transplant world
- Chicago needs kidneys but sends many to other states
- Access to liver transplants unequal in Wisconsin, nation
- New kidney transplant system helps some but doesn't address wait time gap
- UW Hospital a leader in alternative to brain death organ donation
- New organ preservation technique could replace UW Solution
- Imminent death organ donation could help others, stir distrust
- Consent for organ donation strengthened through registries
- Doctors seek organ donation from deaths outside of hospitals