Joshua Glazer, MD

LEADERSHIP POSITIONS

Division Chief, Emergency Critical Care
Medical Director, ECMO Program, UW Health
Chair, Critical Care Committee, UW Health
Chair, Organ & Tissue Donation Advisory Committee, UW Health

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EDUCATION

BS: University of Wisconsin-Madison, Neurobiology
MD: University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
Residency: University of Michigan – Chief Resident
Fellowship: University of Michigan – Critical Care, Health Care Administration

Joshua Glazer, MD, is an associate professor of emergency medicine, internal medicine, and anesthesiology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. An emergency physician and intensivist, he practices in the emergency department and multiple adult intensive care units. He serves as Division Chief of Emergency Critical Care and Medical Director of the UW Health ECMO Program, and chairs the UW Health Critical Care Committee and Organ and Tissue Donation Advisory Committee.

Dr. Glazer builds coordinated systems of care for patients with life-threatening critical illness. His multidisciplinary initiatives span cardiac arrest, shock states, respiratory failure, patient safety, and ICU quality and value, with an emphasis on early recognition, rapid access to advanced therapies, and reliable care across the emergency department, intensive care units, and broader health system. He founded UW Health’s extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR) program in 2019. As medical director of the ECMO Program, he leads quality, education, program development, and clinical innovation across the health system.

His academic interests include critical care systems design, resuscitation, extracorporeal life support, real-time risk stratification, and the implementation and evaluation of clinical pathways for critically ill patients.

Dr. Glazer earned his undergraduate and medical degrees at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He completed residency and chief residency in emergency medicine at the University of Michigan, as well as the Healthcare Administration Scholars Program and a two-year critical care fellowship.

SELECT AWARDS & HONORS

• BerbeeWalsh Department of Emergency Medicine Faculty Award for Excellence in Scholarship, 2022
• UW Health Rising Star Leadership Award, 2020
• BerbeeWalsh Department of Emergency Medicine Faculty Award for Excellence in Leadership & Service (Ripple Award), 2020
• BerbeeWalsh Department of Emergency Medicine Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2018
• Dr. Glazer was interviewed by WISC 3 Madison News about ECMO training: “EMS partners with UW to combat cardiac arrest“