Jessica Schmidt, MD, MPH

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LEADERSHIP POSITIONS

Director of Wellbeing
Division Chief, Global & Social Emergency Medicine
Fellowship Director, Global Health

EDUCATION

BA: Grinnell College, Biology
MPH: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Epidemiology and Biostatistical Methods
MD: Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Residency: Yale New Haven Hospital, Emergency Medicine
Fellowship: Denver Health Medical Center, Ultrasound

Dr. Jessica Schmidt is Division Chief of Global and Social Emergency Medicine and Director of the Global Health Fellowship at the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics. A two-time Fulbright U.S. Scholar, she trained at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and earned her Master of Public Health at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, with a focus in epidemiology and biostatistics. She completed her emergency medicine residency at Yale New Haven Hospital before pursuing an ultrasound fellowship at Denver Health Medical Center. Prior to medical school, she completed her first Fulbright award in Belgium at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, where she studied public health.

Her academic work centers on expanding point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) in resource limited settings. She has been invited to teach and lecture internationally, with long standing partnerships in Uganda and Rwanda. She received a Fulbright award in 2025 to support her work in Rwanda investigating the use of bedside ultrasound for pediatric pneumonia. In 2019, she was awarded a seed grant from the UW–Madison Global Health Institute to establish Ultrasound Uganda, a training and research initiative of the BerbeeWalsh Department of Emergency Medicine. She also co developed Global Point of Care Ultrasound: A Technical Guide, a web-based toolkit accessed by viewers in more than 50 countries.

Throughout her career, Dr. Schmidt has studied, taught, or worked across Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America, reflecting her deep commitment to ultrasound education and improving global health.

SELECT AWARDS & SERVICE

• Innovations and Impact Award (iAward), Society of Clinical Ultrasound Fellowships, 2025 — Read more
• Fulbright U.S. Scholar Africa Regional Research Program, Rwanda, 2024-25 — Read more
• Chair, American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM) Ultrasound in Global Health Community of Practice, 2024-2026
• Chair, American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) Section of Emergency Ultrasound Global Subcommittee, 2019-23
• Woman Leader in Global Health, conferred by the Women in Global Health Midwest Chapter, 2019