Assistant Professor
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, Wisconsin
Dr. Michael Pulia is a tenure track, Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency at the University of Wisconsin (UW) Madison School of Medicine & Public Health. He earned his medical degree from Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine and completed his residency in Emergency Medicine at the University of Illinois-Chicago, serving as a Chief Resident. He completed his graduate work at UW-Madison, including a MS of Clinical Investigation in 2016 and a PhD anticipated in 2021. Dr. Pulia’s Emergency Care for Infectious Diseases (EC-ID) research program focuses on improving the management of infectious diseases in the emergency department, with an emphasis on systems engineering guided interventions. His work has been supported with funding from both intra and extramural sources, including the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the Wisconsin Partnership Program. Dr. Pulia has over 40 peer reviewed publications, including top tier medical journals such as Pediatrics, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, Annals of Emergency Medicine and the New England Journal of Medicine. As a nationally recognized expert in the management of resistant bacterial infections, sepsis, skin infections, pneumonia, urinary tract infections and COVID-19, he has been an invited speaker at numerous national and international conferences, including the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, ID-Week, and the International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine. From 2014-2019, Dr. Pulia chaired the American Academy of Emergency Medicine’s Antibiotic Stewardship Task Force, representing emergency medicine at the White House One Health Forum and the United Nations Global Antibiotic Resistance Challenge. Since the onset of the pandemic, Dr. Pulia has focused on COVID-19 with multiple publications and a $2.4 million award from AHRQ to examine the long term impacts on antibiotic prescribing and bacterial resistance in U.S. hospitals.
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Tuesday, April 26, 2022
5:10 PM – 5:30 PM EST