Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Associate Professor of Epidemiology

Overview

Tracy Madsen, M.D., Ph.D., FAHA, FACEP is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Epidemiology at Brown University, the Vice-Chair of Research in the Department of Emergency Medicine, and serves as the Interim Director of the Division of Sex and Gender in Emergency Medicine. She has expertise in sex and gender-based medicine, acute cerebrovascular disease, stroke epidemiology and prevention, and disparities in the healthcare system and in the emergency medicine workforce. Dr. Madsen’s research is funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. She has over 100 peer reviewed publications, speaks nationally and internationally on topics including stroke in women, health inequities in stroke, and disparities in the academic emergency medicine workforce. She is regarded as an expert in the field of stroke in women. She completed a master’s degree in Clinical and Translational Research and a PhD in Epidemiology, both at the Brown University School of Public Health. Dr. Madsen received her MD from the Boston University School of Medicine and completed a residency (with last year as Chief Resident) at Brown University before completing a research fellowship in the Division of Sex and Gender Medicine at Brown University. She is also a 2021 National Academy of Medicine Fellow in Emergency Medicine.

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