Q&A with Jesús Treviño, MD, MBA (he/him), assistant professor of emergency medicine, who joined the department on July 1, 2024
Hometown: Edinburg, Texas
Educational background: I completed my undergraduate studies at Rice University and then obtained my MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management in 2014 while attending Harvard Medical School. Following my emergency medicine residency at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, I was an assistant professor of emergency medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Washington, DC. I also served as Director of the George Washington University Center for Injury Prevention & Control, where I implemented a health informatics approach to injury prevention research.
Prior to becoming a physician, my experiences included: translational research at the MD Anderson Cancer Center, water and energy infrastructure development with Engineers Without Borders USA, operations consulting within the Health Industries Advisory Practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers, and tinkering with healthcare startups.
Do you have an area of clinical interest, and how did you get into it? I am interested in firearm injury prevention research. Specifically, I study novel predictors of urban firearm injury to augment existing forecasting methods and the impact of acoustic gunshot detection systems on the incidence of firearm injury rates in large U.S. metropolitan cities. My work in the firearm injury world has been motivated by my clinical experiences managing wave after wave of senseless/tragic cases of gunshot wounds in Chicago and DC.
My research interests include the use of big/complex data sets external to the healthcare system to better understand the behavior and needs of patients and the development of predictive models to inform healthcare service operations for improved performance and patient experiences.
What attracted you to UW–Madison? The opportunity to work in a complex healthcare system with renowned physician leaders in emergency medicine, and Madison’s vibrant yet family-friendly atmosphere.
My first job: Teaching assistant for a children’s science camp
What are some things you are excited to do/visit/try, being a new resident of the Madison area? I’m excited to ride all of the awesome bicycle trails around town and try new winter activities, like ice fishing and snowmobiling across frozen lakes!
My hobbies and other interests outside of work: I enjoy gardening, tennis, disc golf, and spending time with my family.
If you could have dinner with one person (passed, alive or fictional), who and at where would you make reservations? Dinner and drinks with Ned Stark at the Lower Depths in Kenmore Square, Boston (this is 100% fantasy).