In addition to driving nasal sampling innovation as Chief Medical Officer of MicroWash, Michael Wadman, MD, FACEP serves as Medical Director of the National Quarantine Unit (NQU) at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. With national coverage of hantavirus ramping up, CNN, Fox News, Today and The New York Times turned to Dr. Wadman for his on-the-ground outbreak response and infectious disease expertise.
Across the segments, Dr. Wadman highlighted the robust evaluation and monitoring protocols for the 16 American ship passengers exposed to hantavirus as they arrived at NQU, the country’s only federally supported quarantine unit.
As one of the nation’s leading experts in virus containment, Dr. Wadman continually carries his frontline perspective into MicroWash. His unique clinical insights were paramount in developing, designing and bringing MicroWash to market — and remains vital as more partners seek safer, higher-sensitivity sampling methods.
Along with his critical roles at MicroWash and the NQU, Dr. Wadman is a veteran emergency physician with 30+ years of clinical experience who holds tenured professor and endowed chair positions at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. He is also 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.
Learn more about Dr. Wadman and view his coverage on CNN, Fox News, The Today Show and The New York Times.
