Michael C. Wadman, MD FACEP
Robert L. Muelleman, MD, Chair of Emergency Medicine
Professor, UNMC Department of Emergency Medicine
Michael C. Wadman, MD, FACEP, is a professor and an emergency physician with over 30 years of experience in an urban, academic medical center emergency department that serves as the regional tertiary referral center and ACS Level 1 trauma center. Dr. Wadman also serves as the medical director of the National Quarantine Unit at UNMC, the only federally supported quarantine unit in the country.
Dr. Wadman was the founding program director of UNMC’s emergency medicine residency program, the first in the state. The program was also the first in the nation to require rural emergency department clinical rotations. He co-authored the rural emergency medicine curriculum template for the American College of Emergency Medicine and continues to advocate for rural education issues.
As National Quarantine Unit medical director, he led the team that provided quarantine services for the repatriated Americans from Wuhan, China, and isolation of persons with COVID-19 infections returning from the Diamond Princess cruise ship at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and was among the first emergency physicians in the U.S. to provide emergency department care to COVID patients.
Dr. Wadman has published over 100 original manuscripts and abstracts and over 10 textbook chapters. His academic interests include emergency department operations, processes for patients with highly infectious disease, rural emergency medicine, airway management and procedural skills education, and academic entrepreneurship. His outreach activities have focused on procedural skills education for rural emergency medicine providers on both the local and international levels.
He enjoys hiking, skiing, history, nature study, travel, and spending time with his wife of 30 years, Josie, a retired family medicine physician and novice coconut farmer. They have three adult daughters working in medicine, law, journalism and fashion.
- BS: Biological Sciences, University of Chicago.
- MD: University of Nebraska Medical Center.
- Internship: Emergency Medicine, University of Cincinnati Medical Center.
- Residency: Emergency Medicine, Truman Medical Center/University of Missouri-Kansas City.
His national quarantine unit and biocontainment work resulted in the publication of several manuscripts and textbook chapters providing guidance for the evaluation of the person under investigation for highly infectious disease, effective decontamination and reuse of PPE, and ED processes for patients presenting with possible highly infectious diseases.
His involvement in pandemic response also led to innovation/entrepreneurial work in device and software development, resulting in three provisional patents, two licensing agreements, and two startup companies.
- Oral Board Examiner, American Board of Emergency Medicine.
- Society for Academic Emergency Medicine.
- American College of Emergency Physicians.
- American Academy of Emergency Medicine.