Edward Krall, MD

Edward J. Krall, MD, MS, FAPA is the program director of the Medical College of Wisconsin Central Wisconsin Psychiatric Residency program. In addition to providing patient care as a Psychiatrist, Dr. Krall also has extensive leadership experience including:

Medical Director of Risk Management for a multidisciplinary group practice. In this role, he provided physician oversight for management of adverse outcomes, patient complaints and provider relations.

Assistant Medical Director for an HMO. Dr. Krall performed medical management, including direct quality and utilization activities for this health maintenance organization with commercial, Medicaid/Medicare and Medicare managed care enrollment (approximately 180,000 members). He was the first Medical Director for behavioral health, developing a utilization management team and establishing standard operating policies.

Chair of the Physician Health Committee. Dr. Krall’s experience in interventions with impaired professionals helped him develop programming for morale improvement and cultural change; and policies for drug monitoring and management of behavioral issues with health care professionals.

Dr. Krall is a member of the American Psychiatric Association, American Medical Association, Wisconsin State Medical Society, and Wisconsin Psychiatric Association, for which he served as President in 2005-07.

He earned a bachelor’s degree from Marquette University, Milwaukee; a medical degree from the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; and completed a residency in psychiatry at Yale University, Yale-New Haven Medical Center, New Haven, Connecticut. In 2002, he earned a master of science-administrative medicine degree from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, and American College of Physician Executives. He has published in the area of physician health and physician self-prescribing.