M Riccardo Colella, DO, MPH, FACEP

Dr. Colella is appointed by the State of Wisconsin’s Department of Health as the Statewide EMS Medical Director. He serves as Chief for the Division of EMS Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin and is the immediate-past medical director of the Milwaukee County Emergency Medical Services (EMS) System, a national leader in EMS serving a population of approximately one million citizens. For the past 15 years, Dr. Colella has been a continuously NIH-funded clinical trial investigator and is the founding program director for the ACGME-accredited EMS Fellowship Program.

He completed medical school at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, emergency medicine residency at the Medical College of Georgia, EMS Fellowship at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and his MPH: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.