At the BerbeeWalsh Department of Emergency Medicine, our focus is advancing the health and health equity of our community through unparalleled investments in exemplary education and training, rigorous discovery and collaboration, and compassionate patient care. Our commitment to remarkable health care drives us forward, always focused on turning adversity into opportunity and redefining the limits of our specialty.
Training Tomorrow's Leaders in Emergency Medicine
Medical Students
All medical students at the University of Wisconsin complete rotations in the emergency department. We offer additional courses, interest groups, and immersion experiences for students looking to spend more time exploring our specialty.
Residents
Our emergency medicine residency program prepares physicians for the future of health care within both academic and community settings, and offers an optional fourth year for residents seeking to undertake advanced training.
Fellows
Our department sponsors several emergency medicine fellowships and postgraduate training opportunities, designed to support junior physicians in launching their careers while learning from exceptional faculty mentors.
Advancing Emergency Care Research & Innovation
The Department of Emergency Medicine’s federally funded clinical and translational research enterprise focuses on health services and care transitions studies, with considerable attention to vulnerable populations.
Our faculty investigators are nationally recognized leaders in much of the research they conduct, yielding critical discoveries in areas such as aging and brain health, geriatric emergency care, infectious diseases, prehospital medicine, pediatrics, and systems engineering.
And our Emergency Department Research Coordinator Program provides cutting-edge clinical study management and enrollment services for UW campus researchers and industry sponsors, including device trials.
Providing Remarkable Patient Care
With four emergency departments, internationally renowned air and ground critical care transport capabilities, and expert medical direction and physician response services, we are equipped to provide patients and referring care teams with a complete range of primary and specialty emergency care services.
Department News & Events
Recent News & Announcements
Department of Emergency Medicine joins national Match Day celebration, welcomes Residency Class of 2028
The Department of Emergency Medicine welcomes 13 medical students into its residency program for the next academic year...
March 21, 2025
Emergency medicine chief residents announced for 2025-26 academic year
Congratulations to Megan Barthels, Mitchell Butterbaugh, and Gregory Raupp, current PGY-2 residents who were named as chief residents for their third year....
March 17, 2025
UW Goes Global: Resident Brandon Pagni reflects on elective experience with Navajo Area Indian Health Service
Third-year resident Dr. Brandon Pagni spent four weeks working at the emergency department at the Gallup Indian Medical Center...
February 24, 2025
Ten lifesaving years — BerbeeWalsh Department of Emergency Medicine celebrates a milestone
The department marks a decade of outstanding patient care, education, and research as an academic department at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health...
February 12, 2025
Azita Hamedani to depart UW–Madison after 18 years of transformative leadership
The tenured professor and founding chair of emergency medicine will assume a senior leadership role at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill...
January 16, 2025- More News
UW Health Emergency Education Nights Webinar
“Battling the Blaze: Advanced Techniques for Managing Burns and Thermal Injuries”
April 16, 2025, 6-7 p.m. CST
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Featured News
Med Flight adds whole blood on every transport
Trauma is a leading cause of death, largely due to severe blood loss. Med Flight's new whole blood program ensures trauma patients receive life-saving transfusions before they reach the hospital and puts Med Flight at the forefront in treating life-threatening bleeding. The program also underscores UW Health's commitment to innovation in life-saving medicine...
Dr. Josh Ross reflects on 15 years of impact at the University of Wisconsin
Dr. Joshua Ross is proud to be a UW Health pediatric emergency medicine physician and passionate about advancing remarkable care for kids...
October 10, 2024
UW Health names Brian Patterson to new clinical AI leadership role
Dr. Patterson will provide leadership and oversight for AI initiatives at UW Health, including generative AI and large language models...
September 21, 2024
Emergency departments seek to transform Alzheimer’s and dementia care through $55M national research grant
Dr. Manish Shah is co-leading a five-year, nationwide clinical trial funded by a cooperative grant from the National Institute on Aging...
November 14, 2023
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