Rep. Steve Kagen

Dr. Steve Kagen was elected in November 2006 to represent Wisconsin’s 8th District in the U.S. Congress and wasted no time in putting his record of successful problem-solving to use for the families and businesses of the region. He embodies the best of the past and the future of Northeastern Wisconsin, where faith in the future is rooted in traditional values.

A member of the Agriculture and Transportation Committees, Dr. Kagen is working to reauthorize the Farm Bill and help cut the costs of energy and health care for Wisconsin family farmers. He has sponsored legislation to defend Wisconsin's higher-wage jobs against China's unfair trade practices that are destroying American jobs, farms, and industries. He joined a bipartisan majority to approve the National Security FIRST Act to prevent foreign ownership of critical national infrastructure. And he has put his medical expertise to use fighting for Wisconsin’s SeniorCare program that provides seniors prescription drugs at affordable prices.

The grandson of immigrants, Dr. Kagen was born and raised in Appleton, where he and his wife Gayle raised four children. He is one of several generations in his family to serve the region as a physician and has devoted more than a quarter-century to helping care for the health of Wisconsin families.

Dr. Kagen began his working career bagging sugar and whey at Foremost Dairy and later earned an honors degree in Molecular Biology and a medical degree from the University of Wisconsin in Madison. He founded the Kagen Allergy Clinics in Appleton, Green Bay, Oshkosh, and Fond du Lac and has served as an assistant clinical professor of Allergy-Immunology at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Dr. Kagen is is triple board certified in Internal Medicine, Allergy-Immunology, and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology.

Wisconsin doctors voted Dr. Kagen one of the "Best Doctors in America," and CNN named him their Allergy Consultant. His groundbreaking work in identifying new causes of asthma earned him an international reputation in that field. He was honored in 2005 by the federal EPA with a 2005 Children’s Environmental Health Recognition Award for his creation of a school-based health education program that protects children from environmental risks.