Dr. Tom Aufderheide, Milwaukee WI - MD (Doctor of Medicine)
Specialties:
Internal Medicine, Emergency Medicine
Address:
9200 W Wisconsin Ave, Milwaukee 53226 (414) 805-3666 (Phone)
Procedures:
Emergency Medicine
Conditions:
Emergency Medicine
Certifications:
Emergency Medicine, 1996, Internal Medicine, 1982
Awards:
Healthgrades Honor Roll
Languages:
English
Hospitals:
9200 W Wisconsin Ave, Milwaukee 53226 Froedtert Health - Froedtert Hospital 9200 West Wisconsin Ave, Milwaukee 53226
Philosophy:
Dr. Tom Aufderheide is a Professor of Emergency Medicine with Tenure and Associate Chair of Research Affairs and Director of the NIH-funded Resuscitation Research Center in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He is a nationally and internationally recognized researcher in the field of emergency cardiac care/ whose scholarly achievements include numerous state-of-the-art research studies and over 100 peer-reviewed publications/ including two papers in the New England Journal of Medicine/ that have had a significant effect on the practice of emergency medicine/ particularly prehospital identification and treatment of the ischemic patient with the use of prehospital 12-lead electrocardiography and predictive instruments. He has served as principal and co-principal investigator on many important national studies/ including the Public Access Defibrillation (PAD) Trial/ which doubled survival rates for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and will provide the objective data on which to base national healthcare policy for the next decade. Dr. Aufderheide is one of a handful of nationally recognized researchers actively engaged and NIH-supported in the complex area of out-of-hospital cardiac resuscitation research that is likely to significantly change national and international CPR education/ training/ and clinical practice/ including the multi-site Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium (ROC) that has both cardiac and trauma clinical trial arms. He also is funded by NIH-NINDS for the NETT Network (Neurological Emergencies Treatment Trials)/ which will promote and conduct clinical trials in neurologic emergencies.
Education:
Medical School University Of Minnesota Medical School Graduated: 1979 Fairview University Med Center Med College Wi Affil Hosps