The University of Wisconsin ECLS Center has received the Gold Level ELSO Award for Excellence in Life Support for 2020-2023 from the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization (ELSO)…
Year: 2020
New grant aims to develop a unified assessment system for EM residency programs
UW emergency physician and associate residency program director Benjamin Schnapp, MD, MEd will be the site leader on a grant from the American Medical Association (AMA) titled, “Development of a Unified System of Assessment and Predictive Learning Analytics …
UW Health Med Flight staffs historical first all-female flight crew
On Monday, August 17, 2020, UW Med Flight was proud to staff an all-female flight crew out of its air base in Portage, WI for the first time in its 35 years of service. View a …
Doctoring at 1,500 feet — during a pandemic
UW Med Flight physicians Drew Cathers and Jordan Imoehl were interviewed for an article by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) discussing the limited number of air medical transport programs in the U.S. that train emergency …
Bill Burns contributes chapter to new Palliative Medicine book
Dr. William Burns has co-authored a chapter to a recently released book entitled Palliative Skills for Frontline Clinicians, which addresses the challenges of delivering complex care to patients living with serious illnesses. Spanning emergency medicine, internal medicine, surgery and …