Stephen Hargarten, MD, MPH
Founding Associate Dean for Global Health
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Biography
In January 2010, the 91ɫƵ named Stephen Hargarten, MD, as associate dean of the Office of Global Health. Dr. Hargarten is also professor of Emergency Medicine.
Dr. Hargarten’s international experience began in medical school when he selected a two month elective clerkship in Nicaragua. In 1980, he volunteered at the Tom Dooley Heritage Hospital in Thailand, caring for refugees from Laos. He served on the Board of Directors of the Wisconsin Indochina Refugee Relief Fund and also on the Board of Tom Dooley Heritage. As an outcome of his MPH at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, Dr. Hargarten has extensively investigated US citizen deaths (initially Peace Corps Volunteers) that occur outside the United States and is a leading expert in this area of global health.
Along with colleagues in emergency medicine and in collaboration with the Center for International Health, a collaborative of several institutions, including the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Marquette University, Dr. Hargarten has served as co-principal investigator on large emergency medicine services (EMS) training projects in Poland, Croatia, Latvia, and China.
Currently, Dr. Hargarten serves on the Violence and Injury Prevention Mentoring Committee for the World Health Organization and serves on the board of directors of the Association for Safe International Road Travel (ASIRT). Dr. Hargarten has a long history of extramurally funded research in injury prevention, and has published over 100 research articles, editorials and chapters.
An alumnus of the Medical College, Dr. Hargarten joined the faculty in 1989. He completed an internship at the Gorgas Hospital in Panama, and previously served as a staff physician in the emergency departments at St. Joseph’s, St. Mary’s and St. Luke’s Hospitals before joining the College and the staff at the County Hospital and Froedtert Hospital. Dr. Hargarten completed his MPH at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and Hygiene in 1984 and is a member of the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars which is a honor for those who have shown distinction and excellence in their field of study.
He is an examiner for the American Board of Emergency Medicine and has received numerous awards in recognition for teaching excellence, research in injury prevention, and public service. He is the founding president of the Society for Advancement of Violence and Injury Research, and a past president of the Association of Academic Chairs of Emergency Medicine, as well as having served on many expert committees and advisory task forces. Most recently Dr. Hargarten was elected to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academy of Sciences. Election to the IOM is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine and recognizes individuals who have demonstrated outstanding professional achievement and commitment to service. In 2014, Dr. Hargarten became the Director of the Milwaukee Global Health Consortium (formerly Center for International Health) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
He currently serves as a senior advisor to the Office of Global Health through the development of its next strategic plan, mentorship of residents/fellows in the GME Global Health Scholars academic enrichment program, director of the Dr. Elaine Kohler Summer Academy of Global Health Research, Course Director for the Master of Science in Global Health Equity Thesis Preparation, faculty lead with partnerships in Belize and Poland and the Network for the Prevention of Gun Violence in the Americas.
Publications
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(Dunton ZR, Kohlbeck SA, Lasarev MR, Vear CR, Hargarten SW.) Archives of Suicide Research. 2022;26(3):1327-1335 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85101242427 01/01/2022
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(Barron A, Hargarten S, Webb T.) Teaching and Learning in Medicine. 2022;34(3):295-300 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85104939062 01/01/2022
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(Zosel A, Kohlbeck S, Davis CS, Meurer L, Hargarten S.) Inj Prev. 2021 Apr;27(2):201-205 PMID: 32769123 PMCID: PMC8483592 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85089525433 08/10/2020
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(Dunton Z, Hargarten S, Kohlbeck S, Osman F.) WMJ. 2021 Mar;120(S1):S6-S9 PMID: 33819395 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85103922027 04/06/2021
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(Kohlbeck S, Hargarten S, Cassidy LD.) WMJ. 2020 Sep;119(3):165-170 PMID: 33091283 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85094171345 10/23/2020
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(Martin IBK, Hargarten S.) Acad Emerg Med. 2020 Sep;27(9):932-933 PMID: 32652724 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85088535045 07/12/2020
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(Hargarten SW.) West J Emerg Med. 2020 Aug 07;21(5):1036 PMID: 32970549 PMCID: PMC7514405 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85091619237 09/25/2020
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(Hargarten S.) Acad Emerg Med. 2020 Jun;27(6):531 PMID: 32424898 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85086327595 05/20/2020
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(McDougall S, Annapureddy P, Madiraju P, Fumo N, Hargarten S.) Proceedings - 2020 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Big Data 2020. 10 December 2020:4892-4901 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85103859576 12/10/2020
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(Bonk C, Weston BW, Davis C, Barron A, McCarty O, Hargarten S.) Prehosp Emerg Care. 2020;24(4):494-499 PMID: 31580174 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85075948546 10/04/2019
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(Hargarten S.) Annals of Emergency Medicine. November 2019;74(5):S52-S54 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85073691318 11/01/2019
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(Oliphant SN, Mouch CA, Rowhani-Rahbar A, Hargarten S, Jay J, Hemenway D, Zimmerman M, Carter PM.) Journal of Behavioral Medicine. 15 August 2019;42(4):763-810 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85069995818 08/15/2019