Mike Pulia, MD, PhD
Michael Pulia, MD, PhD, is a tenured associate professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. He became an associate director of the UW Medical Scientist Training Program in 2026. He is also an affiliate faculty in the Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering and co-director of the KL2 Scholars Program at UW–Madison, which supports early-career investigators on their journey to becoming independent researchers, through dedicated mentorship and protected time.
Pulia leads the Emergency Care for Infectious Diseases (EC-ID) health services research program. His lab focuses on improving the diagnosis, management and prevention of infectious diseases in the emergency department and downstream care settings, with an emphasis on systems engineering guided interventions and learning health systems. Pulia’s work aims at reducing diagnostic error and improving antibiotic stewardship and has been supported with funding from both intra- and extramural sources, including the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Wisconsin Partnership Program. He is a Fellow of both the American College of Emergency Physicians and the Infectious Diseases Society of America.