Joely Wilder Merriman, MD, MS

Joely Wilder Merriman, MD, MS, is an instructor in emergency medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center.

Dr. Merriman earned her medical degree from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry and completed her emergency medicine residency at the University of Rochester Medical Center. She is currently a Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) fellow.

Her academic interests include health services, environmental epidemiology, and health equity. She is actively involved in teaching, patient care, and research.

Her research examines emergency department use and disparate health outcomes through the application of geospatial methods in environmental epidemiology and health services. She serves on the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) Grants Committee, as a consultant to the Sickle Cell Hospital Care Quality Improvement Task Force at the University of Rochester Medical Center, and previously served as vice chair of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Task Force for the emergency medicine residency at the University of Rochester Medical Center. Also. she serves as a committee member for the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) Telehealth Section.