Our Team

Brian Patterson, MD, MPH

Division Chief

Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine; Senior Director of Health AI, UW Health; Director of Health AI, UW School of Medicine and Public Health; Director, Emergency Care Systems Lab

Research Interests: Designing AI-enabled care tools, measuring the impact of deployed AI interventions, improving ED care for older adults

Jillian Gorski, MD, MS

Medical Director for Emergency Medicine Informatics

Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Pediatrics, and Medicine

Research Interests: Developing and validating clinical decision-support and artificial intelligence tools to improve emergency care for children, especially those with medical complexity, across academic and general ED settings

Michael Spigner, MD, NRP

Director of Prehospital Medicine Informatics

Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine; Director, Prehospital Medicine Research; Chair, EMS Quality & Patient Safety Committee; Medical Director, Brooklyn Fire and EMS, New Glarus Fire Department, and Sugar River EMS; Associate Medical Director, Madison Fire Department

Research Interests: Prehospital systems of care, patient safety, and resuscitation

Daniel Buckland, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Mechanical Engineering

Research Interests: Predictive analytics, resource needs, risk analysis, remote and low resource care projection, automation, embodied AI for procedural assistance

Jesús Treviño, MD, MBA

Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine; Medical Director, Emergency Department Research Coordinator Program

Research Interests: Injury prevention and surveillance, infodemiology and social media-based population health epidemiology, acoustic gunshot detection, AI/FHIR clinical informatics, and coding/billing documentation

Hanna Barton, PhD

Human Factors Scientist; Research Director, Emergency Care Systems Lab

Research Interests: Clinical decision support and AI implementation, sociotechnical systems analysis, evaluation of health information technologies, human-centered design methods for informatics, and patient-centered care delivery

Megan Marcou, PA

Physician Assistant Informatics Lead

Dann Hekman, MS

Data Scientist, Epidemiologist

Adam Kelly, MS

Data Reporting & Analysis Specialist

Apoorva Maru

Research Program Coordinator; Program Manager, Emergency Care Systems Lab