Emergency Medical Services

Emergency Medical Services (EMS) at the University of Wisconsin/UW Health consists of eight full-time faculty with prehospital expertise, as well as dedicated advanced practice providers and support staff. Many of our faculty have completed fellowship training in EMS and/or retrieval and critical care transport and are dual board-certified in emergency medicine and EMS.

Guided by the Wisconsin Idea, we strive to empower all out-of-hospital care providers in the state to provide the highest quality of patient-centered care possible. We work toward this through local, regional and national advocacy, leadership and innovative in research, and by bringing quality assurance and advanced education and training to all areas of the healthcare continuum.

We provide expertise and experience a range of areas:

• Medical direction and quality improvement
• Physician field response
• Disaster planning, preparedness and response
• Mass casualty incident preparedness
• Tactical and helicopter EMS
• Advanced physician education and training
• Advanced first responder education and training
• High-fidelity field simulations
• Provider and policy advocacy