Tracy Madsen, MD, PhD, FAHA, FACEP
Brown University
Dr. 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, women's health, acute cerebrovascular disease, stroke epidemiology and prevention, and disparities in the healthcare system. Dr. Madsen’s research is funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, the American Heart Association, and the AHRQ. She has over 110 peer reviewed publications, speaks nationally and internationally on topics including stroke in women, health inequities in stroke, and disparities in the academic medicine workforce. She is regarded as an expert in the fields of cerebrovascular and cardiometabolic disease in women. Dr. Madsen is an active investigator in the Women's Health Initiative Study, where she leads the Stroke/ VTE working group and serves as a consultant for both the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center and the Western Regional Coordinating Center at Stanford University.TrainingDr. 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 then completed a master’s degree in Clinical and Translational Research and a PhD in Epidemiology, both at the Brown University School of Public Health. She is also a 2021 National Academy of Medicine Fellow in Emergency Medicine.