Meet Our Medical College of Wisconsin Emergency Medicine Faculty
Department Chair
Ian B. K. Martin, MD, MBA, FACEP, FAAEM
Eminent Scholar, Professor with Tenure and System Chair; Interim Senior Associate Dean & Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs
Vice-Chairs
Alisa Hayes, MD, MSAM
Associate Professor; Vice Chair for Education and Training; UME Director
Ronny Otero, MD, MHSA, FAAEM, FACEP
Professor; Vice-Chair Clinical Operations, Froedtert Hospital Emergency Department; Director, Health Executive Administrative Leadership (HEAL) Fellowship
Aasim I. Padela, MD, MSc, FACEP
Professor and Vice Chair for Research and Scholarship
Mary Beth Phelan, MD, MBA
Professor; Vice Chair for Faculty Development and Advancement; Division Chief, Ultrasound; Director, Emergency Ultrasonography Fellowship Program
Chiefs
M. Riccardo Colella, DO, MPH, FACEP
Professor; Division Chief, EMS Medicine; State of WI EMS Medical & Trauma Director
Mark Kostic, MD, FAACT, FACMT, FAAEM
Professor; Chief of Emergency Services, Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center
Daniel Mielnicki, MD
Assistant Professor; Division Chief, Community Hospital Division Emergency Departments
Mary Beth Phelan, MD, MBA
Professor; Vice Chair for Faculty Development and Advancement; Division Chief, Ultrasound; Director, Emergency Ultrasonography Fellowship Program
Jonathan Rubin, MD
Professor; Division Chief, System Informatics and Analytics
Taylor Sonnenberg, MD, MSGH
Assistant Professor; Chief, Division of Global and Population Health; Course Co-Director, Population Health in the ED, Fourth Year Medical Student Elective
Mike Uihlein, MD, CAQ Sports Medicine
Assistant Professor
Amy Zosel, MD, MSCS
Professor; Division Chief, Medical Toxicology; Director of Research Operations and Mentorship
Faculty
Jamie Aranda, MD
Assistant Professor; Medical Director, Froedtert Hospital Emergency Department; System Director, Advanced Practice Providers
Tom P. Aufderheide, MD, MS, FACEP, FACC, FAHA
Professor; Director, Resuscitation Research Center; PCIR Director, CTSI Southeast WI
Sarah M. Balgord, MD
Assistant Professor
Matt Chinn, MD
Associate Professor; Senior Medical Director, Froedtert Emergency Department; Medical Director, Froedtert Observation Unit
Grant Comstock, MD
Assistant Professor; Interim Associate Medical Director, Wisconsin Poison Center
Sam Corbo, MD
Assistant Professor; Co-Director, MS-4 Clerkship; Assistant Director, Residency Program
Justin N. Corcoran, MD
Assistant Professor; Director, Medical Toxicology Fellowship Program
Bradley J. Davis, DO
Assistant Professor
Thomas Engel, II, MD
Assistant Professor; Assistant Medical Director, Milwaukee County Office of Emergency Management
Andrew Farkas, MD
Associate Professor; Course Director, Toxicology Elective
Zeno Franco, PhD
Associate Professor; Director, Research Training and Education
Thomas Grawey, DO
Assistant Professor; EMS Medical Director, Gateway Technical College; Medical Director, City of Kenosha Fire Department; Assistant Medical Director, Milwaukee County Office of Emergency Management; Associate Program Director, EMS Medicine Fellowship
Stephen Hargarten, MD, MPH
Professor; Founding Director, Comprehensive Injury Center; Senior Science and Policy Advisor
Elyse Hartleben, MD
Assistant Professor; Emergency Medicine Physician Lead for Scheduling; Assistant Medical Director, West Bend Emergency Department
Nancy Jacobson, MD
Assistant Professor; System Director, Quality, Safety, and Experience ; Medical Director, Emergency Medicine; Patient Safety and Quality Officer, Emergency Medicine
Jamie Jasti, MD
Assistant Professor; Assistant Director, Resuscitation Research Center; Co-Director, Clinical and Translational Research Scholarly Pathway
Laura Johns, MD
Assistant Professor
Sehr Khan, MD
Assistant Professor
McKenna J. Knych, MD
Assistant Professor; Co-Clerkship Director, M4/Phase 3 Emergency Medicine Elective; Course Director, Community Emergency Medicine
Timothy Lenz, MD, MPH, EMT-P
Associate Professor; Director, EMS Medicine Fellowship Program; Director, Medical Services LifeNet McHenry
Jason Liu, MD, MPH, FAEMS
Professor; Medical Director, EMS Disaster/Emergency Preparedness
Sean Mackman, MD
Assistant Professor; Assistant Medical Director, Froedtert Community Hospitals
Kevin J. McGurk, MD, FAAEM
Assistant Professor; Emergency Medicine Clerkship Co-Director, Phase 2
Julie Owen, MD
Assistant Professor
Ashley Pavlic, MD, MA
Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine, Institute for Health & Humanity, Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities; Course Director, The Good Doctor, Character and Professional Development Thread; Co-Director, Bioethics and Medical Humanities Pathway; Education Lead, Division of Global and Population Health
Bill Scheels, MD
Assistant Professor; Course Director, Ultrasound Elective
Thaddeus (Tad) Schmitt, MD
Assistant Professor; Co-Clerkship Director, M4/Phase 3 Emergency Medicine Elective
Mark Semrad, DO
Assistant Professor; Medical Director, Froedtert West Bend Emergency Department
Dennis Shepherd, MD
Assistant Professor; Medical Director for Emergency Medicine and Critical Care Services at Froedtert Menomonee Falls Hospital
Igor Shusterman, MD
Assistant Professor; Assistant Medical Director, Menomonee Falls Emergency Department
Bridget R. Sullivan, MD
Assistant Professor
Jillian Theobald, MD, PhD
Associate Professor; Associate Medical Director, Wisconsin Poison Center
Joshua Timpe, MD
Assistant Professor; Director, Wilderness and Environmental Medicine; Assistant Director, Residency Program; Course Director, Wilderness Medicine Elective
Christopher G. Torkilsen, DO, FACEP, FAAEM
Assistant Professor; Emergency Medicine Clerkship Co-Director, Phase 2
Ben Weston, MD, MPH
Associate Professor, Division of EMS Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine; Chief Health Policy Advisor, Milwaukee County; Chief Medical Director, Milwaukee County Office of Emergency Management
Kathleen Williams, MD
Assistant Professor; Residency Program Director
Thomas Yang, MD, MEdHP, MS
Assistant Professor; Director, Simulation; Medical Director, Froedtert Hospital Simulation Center
Emeritus Faculty
Daniel J. Worman, MD
Professor Emeritus
Secondary Faculty
Lorin Robert Browne, DO
Professor
Arthur R. Derse, MD, JD, FACEP
Director, Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities; Julia and David Uihlein Chair in Medical Humanities, and Professor of Bioethics and Emergency Medicine
Renee Annette Foutz, MD
Assistant Professor
Marlene D. Melzer-Lange, MD
Adjunct Professor
Matt Stanton, PharmD, BCPS, DABAT, CSPI
Clinical Associate Professor
Robert Treat, PhD
Associate Professor; Director of Measurement and Evaluation in the Office of Academic Affairs
All of our Emergency Medicine clinical members are board-certified or board-eligible in Emergency Medicine.
Pediatric Emergency Medicine Faculty