Michael Mancera, MD

LEADERSHIP POSITIONS

Fellowship Director, Emergency Medical Services
Medical Director, Fitch-Rona & Middleton EMS
Medical Advisor, Dane County EMS

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EDUCATION

Undergraduate: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Medical School: University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago
Residency: Michigan State University
Fellowship: Indiana University – EMS

Dr. Michael Mancera is an associate professor in the Division of Prehospital Medicine. He specializes in EMS education and quality assurance, with particular interest in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and quality-driven improvements in prehospital training. He is board-certified in Emergency Medicine and Emergency Medical Services (EMS).

Dr. Mancera received his degree in medicine from the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago and completed his emergency medicine residency training in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He went on to complete fellowship training in EMS at the Indiana University Medical Center in Indianapolis. Dr. Mancera currently serves as the medical director for Fitch-Rona EMS and Middleton EMS, as well as Medical Advisor for Dane County EMS. He has helped to develop and teach high-performance CPR techniques for EMS providers and has delivered numerous EMS training sessions and lectures to local EMS partners. He is also passionate about training the next generation of EMS medical directors and serves as the inaugural director of the accredited EMS Fellowship at the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics. He has also served on the State of Wisconsin Physician Advisory Committee.

In 2021, Dr. Mancera was named to the Citizen CPR Foundation’s 40 Under 40 list, which aims to highlight individuals in the U.S. and internationally who have made significant contributions to measuring sudden cardiac arrest outcomes, improving care, and saving lives. Dr. Mancera became interested in sudden cardiac arrest preparedness and survival during his emergency medicine residency. While he was resuscitating a patient who had suffered a cardiac arrest, he came to a stark realization that changed the course of his career: that many of the critical events leading to the successful return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) in the patient had occurred before the patient ever arrived at the hospital.

Spurred on by his resolve to improve lifesaving outcomes, Dr. Mancera championed the implementation of the Cardiac Arrest Registry for Enhanced Survival (CARES) throughout the local and county EMS system. This national registry allows EMS systems to collect and analyze out-of-hospital cardiac arrest data and compare it to national benchmarks, allowing for local quality improvement efforts and benchmarking capability to improve care and increase survival. Following the implementation of CARES in Dane County, area out-of-hospital cardiac arrests have seen continuous improvement.