Michael C (Mike) Wadman, MD, FACEP
Chief Medical Officer

With 30+ years of clinical and first-response experience, Mike Wadman, MD, FACEP, is a veteran emergency physician who also holds tenured professor and endowed chair positions at University of Nebraska Medical Center, among the nation’s leading healthcare institutions for the care of the highly consequential infectious disease patient and pandemic response. As Chief Medical Officer of University Medical Devices, Dr. Wadman’s emergency medicine and infectious disease experience drives medical excellence in device development.

Having led an academic medical center emergency department, regional tertiary referral center and ACS Level 1 Trauma Center, Dr. Wadman has personally impacted countless patients while benefiting the Nebraska medicine community as a whole.

He serves as a Professor of Emergency Medicine with Tenure, Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC), and Distinguished Chair of Emergency Medicine for Robert L. Muelleman, MD. Dr. Wadman is also the Medical Director of the National Quarantine Unit (NQU) at UNMC, the only federally supported quarantine unit in the country.

When COVID-19 hit, Dr. Wadman responded with unparalleled speed and strategy as one of the first emergency physicians in the U.S. to care for pandemic patients. As NQU Medical Director, he managed a team that delivered quarantine services to repatriated Americans from Wuhan, China, and the Diamond Princess cruise ship, in early 2020. Dr. Wadman’s NQU and biocontainment work resulted in myriad published manuscripts as well as three provisional patents and two licensing agreements for entrepreneurial device and software development.

While the bulk of his practice was spent in an urban emergency department, Dr. Wadman is also passionate about expanding rural healthcare access. He was the Founding Program Director of UNMC’s emergency medicine residency program, the first in the nation to require rural emergency department clinical rotations. Moreover, he co-authored the rural emergency medicine curriculum template for the American College of Emergency Medicine (ACEP) and ardently advocates for underserved patients in his work at University Medical Devices.

Equally passionate about educating the next generation of frontline workers, he served as Vice Chair of Education in the Department of Emergency Medicine and Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education (GME) and Designated Institutional Official for UNMC, with oversight responsibility for more than 50 GME programs educating 500-plus residents and fellows.

Active in several national emergency medicine organizations, Dr. Wadman is an American Board of Emergency Medicine Representative to the Model of Clinical Practice of Emergency Medicine task force, ABEM Oral Board Examiner, Chair of the ACEP Rural Task Force and member of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) Review Committee. Additionally, he is a past President of Nebraska ACEP.

Dr. Wadman has published 100-plus original manuscripts and abstracts and 10-plus textbook chapters with a special academic interest in emergency department operations, emergency department processes for patients with highly consequential infectious disease, rural emergency medicine, airway management and procedural skills education and academic entrepreneurship.

He earned his BS in biological sciences from the University of Chicago and his medical degree from the University of Nebraska College of Medicine. Dr. Wadman also completed an internship in emergency medicine at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center and his emergency medicine residency at Truman Medical Center/University of Missouri-Kansas City, where he served as Chief Resident.