The Geriatric Emergency Medicine research program at UW aims to improve health care for older adults with acute illnesses. Many factors limit older adults’ access to safe, patient-centered, efficient, high-quality, acute illness care. These factors lead to poor outcomes, including morbidity, mortality, and unnecessary use of emergency and acute care facilities. Our research group is working to identify these factors by developing and testing novel programs to improve the care delivered to acutely ill older adults.
Dr. Manish Shah leads the aging research program and is considered a subject matter expert in geriatric emergency care and community paramedicine. Please contact Dr. Shah at mnshah@medicine.wisc.edu if you are interested in collaborating on research.
Awards & Honors Leadership Positions Media Mentions
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Awards & Honors
- Manish Shah honored with Pioneer Award from the Academy of Geriatric Emergency Medicine (AGEM-SAEM) for his significant contributions to the field of geriatric emergency medicine (2022).
- Manish Shah receives the Academic Career Achievement Award from the Academy of Geriatric Emergency Medicine, an academy of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM), for his significant contributions to improving geriatric emergency care through clinical and translational research (2021).
- Manish Shah ranked among the top emergency medicine researchers for National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding in 2020, according to the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research.
- Manish Shah received the prestigious Gerson-Sanders Award from the Academy of Geriatric Emergency Medicine (AGEM-SAEM) for his significant contributions to improving geriatric emergency care (2019).
- Brian Patterson receives Faculty Award for Excellence in Scholarship from the BerbeeWalsh Department of Emergency Medicine (2015 & 2019).
Leadership Positions
- Dr. Shah serves as Co-Lead of the Care Research Core at the University of Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center.
- Dr. Shah serves as Director of the KL2 Scholar Program at the UW Institute for Clinical and Translational Research.
- Dr. Shah serves as Chair of the Wisconsin Partnership Program’s Oversight and Advisory Committee (June 2022-October 2024).
- Dr. Shah elected and serves as President of the SAEM Foundation Board of Trustees (2023-2024).
- Dr. Patterson serves as Physician Informatics Director for Predictive Analytics for UW Health emergency departments.
- Dr. Patterson appointed affiliate faculty in the UW-Madison Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering.
- Dr. Patterson appointed affiliate faculty in the UW-Madison Department of Biostatistics & Medical Informatics.
- Dr. Patterson selected as Tideswell at UCSF, AGS and ADGAP Emerging Leaders in Aging Program scholar for the 2019-2020 term.
Media Mentions
- Manish Shah featured guest on SAEM Residents and Medical Students (RAMS) Ask A Chair podcast (August 2023). Listen here
- Brian Patterson interviewed by Healthcare Innovation: “At UW Health, Steady Progress in Advancing AI to Support Patient Care Delivery” (April 2022). Read the full article
- Brian Patterson’s expert panel appearance at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Global Health Conference was published by Healthcare Innovation: “At UW Health, Steady Progress in Advancing AI to Support Patient Care Delivery” (April 2022). Read the full article
- Manish Shah highlighted in Emergency Medicine News Special Report for his role in leading the Geriatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network 2.0-Advancing Dementia Care (GEAR 2.0). Read the full article (November 2021)
- UW awarded research funding to identify ways to improve emergency department visits for people with dementia. Major media appearances include a press release from UW School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH) and a spotlight feature in Quarterly Magazine, the official magazine for alumni, friends, faculty, and students of the UW SMPH with a readership of over 18,000 across the U.S. and abroad.
- Manish Shah interviewed by the Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center’s Dementia Matters Podcast: Emergency Care Tips for People with Dementia (2021).
- Manish Shah interviewed for Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center blog post: Six Tips for Emergency Department Visitors with Dementia and Their Caregivers (2021).