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.
61% 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 148 resident physicians who currently practice in 28 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 60 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, Class of 2016

Job Placement for Recent Classes

Class of 2025

Sixty-nine percent of residents went immediately into clinical practice roles while 31% pursued fellowships:

  • Two matched fellowships at academic medical centers in Critical Care Medicine and Ultrasound
  • Two placements through our “3+1” program in Med Flight
  • Four placements in Wisconsin
  • Nine placements across Arizona, California, Georgia, Montana, North Carolina, and Ohio

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Role, Employer, Location

Residency Graduate Where They Are Heading Next
Grace Carey, MD
Chief Resident
Critical Care Medicine Fellowship
Stanford Medicine
ACGME-accredited program
Palo Alto, California
James Elliott, MD, MS, MEd Attending Physician
Kettering Health
Dayton, Ohio
Christian Hext, MD Retrieval & Critical Care Transport Fellowship
UW Health Med Flight
Madison, Wisconsin
Darian Hunter, MD Attending Physician
Benefis Hospital
Great Falls, Montana
Samuel Kefer, MD Attending Physician
Kaiser Permanente
East Bay Area, California
Austin Lucke, MD, MPH Attending Physician
Wake Emergency Physicians and PAs
Raleigh, North Carolina
Devin Miller, MD Attending Physician
Napa, California
Leah Morgan, MD
Chief Resident
Advanced Emergency Medicine Ultrasound Fellowship
UW Hospitals and Clinics
Madison, Wisconsin
Aaron Muesch, MD Attending Physician
Madison Emergency Physicians
South Central Wisconsin
Brandon Pagni, MD Attending Physician
Flagstaff Emergency Physicians
Flagstaff, Arizona
Alexander Schryver, MD Attending Physician
Flagstaff Emergency Physicians
Flagstaff, Arizona
Samuel Wing, MD, MS
Chief Resident
Attending Physician
Emory Healthcare
Atlanta, Georgia
Megan Yank, MD Retrieval & Critical Care Transport Fellowship
UW Health Med Flight
Madison, Wisconsin

Class of 2024

Thirty-eight percent of residents went immediately into clinical practice roles while 62% pursued fellowships:

  • Three matched fellowships at academic medical centers in Critical Care Anesthesia, EMS, and Pain Medicine
  • Four placements through our “3+1” program in Global Health, Med Flight, and Simulation
  • One placement at a regional medical center in Wisconsin
  • Three community ED placements in Wisconsin

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Role, Employer, Location

Residency Graduate Where They Are Heading Next
Husain Bawany, MD Pain Medicine Fellowship
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University
Irving Medical Center (NYPH/CUIMC)
ACGME-accredited program
New York City, New York
Michael Bezzerides, MD Emergency Medicine Attending Physician
Mayo Clinic Health System
Eau Claire, Wisconsin
Jesse Conterato, MD Retrieval & Critical Care Transport Fellowship
UW Health Med Flight
Madison, Wisconsin
Nicholas Genthe, MD
Chief Resident
EMS Fellowship
ACGME-accredited program
UW Hospitals and Clinics
Madison, Wisconsin
Bradley Glazier, MD Emergency Medicine Attending Physician
Madison Emergency Physicians
Dane County, Wisconsin
Cassandra Hardy, MD EMS Fellowship
ACGME-accredited program
Regions Hospital
Saint Paul, Minnesota
Matthew Heffernan, MD Retrieval & Critical Care Transport Fellowship
UW Health Med Flight
Madison, Wisconsin
Priscilla Kennedy, MD
Chief Resident
Clinical Instructor,
Focus in Simulation
UW Hospitals and Clinics
Madison, Wisconsin
Brittany Kotek, MD Global Health Fellowship
UW Hospitals and Clinics
Madison, Wisconsin
Skylar Larsen, MD Emergency Medicine Attending Physician
Southern Wisconsin Emergency Associates
South Central Wisconsin
Nicolas Rubel, MD Anesthesia Critical Care Fellowship
ACGME-accredited program
UW Hospitals and Clinics
Madison, Wisconsin
Mikko Sayre, MD Retrieval & Critical Care Transport Fellowship
UW Health Med Flight
Madison, Wisconsin
Sarah Soderberg, MD, MPH
Chief Resident
Emergency Medicine Attending Physician
Aspirus Divine Savior Hospital
Portage, Wisconsin