Dr. Michael C Wadman is an Emergency Physician with over 30 years of experience in an urban, academic medical center emergency department (ED) that serves as the regional tertiary referral center and ACS Level 1 Trauma Center. He is a Professor of Emergency Medicine (EM) with Tenure, Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC), and holds an endowed chair position, the Robert L. Muelleman, MD Distinguished Chair of Emergency Medicine. Dr. Wadman also serves as the Medical Director of the National Quarantine Unit (NQU) at UNMC, the only federally supported quarantine unit in the country.
Prof. Yu-Long Li, M.D. and Ph.D., is a professor of the Department of Emergency Medicine and a courtesy professor of the Department of Cellular & Integrative Physiology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC). He is also a director of Basic Science and Translational Research, UNMC Department of Emergency Medicine. His research, continually supported by NIH, DOD, and AHA grants, focuses on the regulatory role of the peripheral nervous system in peripheral tissues (such as myocardium and skeletal muscle) in pathophysiological conditions, including heart failure, diabetes, ischemia-reperfusion injury, and peripheral artery disease. In the past 35 years, he has obtained wide knowledge about neurophysiology, skeletal muscle and cardiovascular physiology, molecular biology, and inflammation, with broad expertise (such as microsurgeries, molecular techniques, in vivo and in vitro gene/shRNA transfection and drug/tracer deliveries, whole-cell and single-channel patch clamp recording, in vivo optogenetic stimulation, and recording/analysis of cardiac arrhythmias in conscious and anesthetized animals). He published over 120 research papers in the most highly regarded journals.
