Forward has no finish line

Graduates & Alumni

Choosing the residency at UW means you will be well prepared to enter a variety of practice environments – from rural single coverage EDs to quaternary care academic referral centers and everything in between. Our graduates leave residency with skills and confidence to pursue their diverse passions and join a close-knit network of alumni spanning the globe.

From community medical directors to residency program leaders and professional sports team physicians, to institutional directors of disaster medicine, our graduates are advancing patient care, medical education, and healthcare policy across our field.

The impact that our graduates are making in our communities inspires us to move FORWARD, always FOCUSED on improving our specialty by developing game-changing leaders in emergency medicine who share our mission throughout Wisconsin and beyond.

Map of what U.S. states graduates in which graduates are currently practicing emergency medicine.
65% of graduates currently practice outside of Wisconsin.

Where our graduates practice

Since Dr. Azita Hamedani founded the emergency medicine residency program in 2007, we have graduated 135 resident physicians who currently practice in 37 U.S. states, as well as in Norway and Uganda.

Alumni hold leadership positions in major academic medical centers, including the UW Hospitals and Clinics, Cleveland Clinic, Duke, Mayo Clinic, Michigan Medicine, Harvard, Stanford, Yale, and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

And nearly 50 graduates of our program are currently practicing in Wisconsin to fulfill the critical need for a strong emergency care physician workforce in the state.

One of the best things about UW: graduating residents who are ready for anything.

"It's impossible to see and do it all in the short years of residency training, so what I love most is that UW gives all residents the tools to be a creative thinker, a hard worker, and a compassionate healer." – Meredith Masters, MD, '16

Job Placement for Recent Classes

Class of 2023

67% of residents went immediately into clinical practice roles while 33% pursued fellowships:

  • 3 matched fellowships at academic medical centers in Anesthesia Critical Care, Ultrasound, and Sports Medicine
  • 1 placement through our “3+1” program with a focus in Administration
  • 4 placements at regional medical centers in Idaho, Iowa, Oregon, and Wisconsin
  • 4 community ED placements in Idaho, Indiana, and Wisconsin

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Role, Employer, Location

  • Anthony Bai, MD: Vituity Hospitals, Merrillville, IN
  • Connor Brown, MD: Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center, Boise, ID
  • Johnny Duan, MD: Gundersen Health System, La Crosse, WI
  • Michael Fareri, MD: Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA
  • Amy Hummel, MD: Emergency Medicine Specialists, Milwaukee, WI
  • Dainon Miles, MD: Sports Medicine Fellowship, Baton Rouge General Medical Center, Baton Rouge, LA
  • Jennifer Mirrielees, MD, MS: Emergency Medicine Administration Fellowship, UW-Madison
  • Daniel Wei, MD, MS: UnityPoint Health – St. Luke’s Regional Medical Center, Sioux City, Iowa
  • Arika Weineke, MD: Emergency Medicine of Idaho, Boise, ID
  • Nick Wolfe, MD: Kaiser Permanente regional medical centers, Portland, OR
  • Rudi Zurbuchen, MD: Anesthesia Critical Care Fellowship, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR

Class of 2022

37% of residents went immediately into clinical practice roles while 64% pursued fellowships:

  • 3 matched fellowships at academic medical centers in Critical Care, EMS, and Toxicology
  • 4 placements through our “3+1” program in Administration, Education, Med Flight, and Ultrasound
  • 1 placement at a regional medical center in Minnesota (Mayo Clinic)
  • 3 community ED placements in California and Wisconsin

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Role, Employer, Location

  • Emily Duym, MD, MSc: 3+1 Administration Fellowship, UW-Madison
  • Megan Hannemann, MD: Beloit Memorial Hospital, Beloit, WI
  • Michael Kern, MD: Mayo Clinic Health System, Eau Claire, WI
  • Miranda Kohli, MD: Madison Emergency Physicians, Madison, WI
  • Kirk Meyers, MD: Critical Care Medicine Fellowship, Cleveland Clinic
  • Melissa Murray, MD: Adventist Health, Ukiah, CA
  • Eric Neasi, MD: 3+1 Ultrasound Fellowship, UW-Madison
  • Thaddeus Schmitt, MD: 3+1 Medical Education Fellowship, UW-Madison
  • Matthew Stampfl, MD: 3+1 Flight Medicine Fellowship, UW Health Med Flight
  • Haley Taormina, MD: EMS Fellowship, Regions Hospitals, St. Paul, MN
  • Andrew Troger, MD: Harvard Affiliated Toxicology Fellowship, Boston, MA