Dr. Gnatt graduated from the Technion American Medical School in Haifa, Israel, and completed his Family Medicine residency at Aurora Sinai Hospital and St. Luke’s Medical Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He also completed, concurrently, the University of Arizona’s Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine’s Integrative Medicine in Residency curriculum. Following residency, he furthered his training by completing Aurora Healthcare’s Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine fellowship at St. Luke’s Medical Center, a quaternary care hospital in Milwaukee whose history closely intertwines with the development of this field of medicine. This fellowship allowed him to specialize in comprehensive wound management while working within multi-specialty teams, including but not limited to: General and subspecialist surgeons, infectious disease, vascular medicine, endocrinology, nutritionists, rehabilitation, physical and occupational therapy- and their pediatric counterparts as applicable. During this time, he also instructed within the Hyperbaric Simulation Course and engaged in research aiming to increase primary care physicians’ understanding and clinical management of the diabetic foot.
After graduation, Dr. Gnatt worked within Aurora’s Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine department at the quaternary care center and a neighboring community hospital, utilizing both monoplace and multiplace hyperbaric chambers and part of the 24-hour emergent hyperbaric medicine physician group operating the only critical-care capable 24/7 hyperbaric chamber in the state of Wisconsin, treating straightforward to maximally medically complex patients for all UHMS-approved indications (and select off-label), and providing on-call guidance to patients beyond Wisconsin’s borders. Wound care was delivered within the outpatient and inpatient setting to all ages and acuities, including but not limited to: Neonatal intensive care unit, adult intensive care units, rehabilitation units, medical-surgical units. He served as faculty within the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine Fellowship and taught all formal wound care didactics, while additionally training onboarding non-fellowship trained physicians in wound care. In 2021 he was part of ACGME’s milestone work group, revising and setting the educational standards which all Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine fellows are held to nationwide. He is a regular speaker on wound care and hyperbaric medicine topics. Since then, Dr. Gnatt has transitioned to Wound Care Experts in Las Vegas.
The most important facet of the physician-patient relationship is bidirectional trust- the physician must trust the patient is making maximal effort to improving their life, and the patient must trust the physician is acting honestly and with their best interests at heart. Dr. Gnatt enjoys creating these trusting, transparent relationships with the focus on repairing a non-healing or slow-to-healing wound. Just as much as creating these relationships, Dr. Gnatt is passionate about watching patients return to activities that bring them joy after healing.
Furthermore, Dr. Gnatt enjoys seeing the benefit of treating select patients with hyperbaric medicine and has a strong history of treating patients, even select off-label uses with strong evidence, to create durable improvements in the patient’s life.
When not at work Dr. Gnatt enjoys spending time with his family and holds a license to harvest wild rice in the state of Wisconsin.
When not at work Dr. Gnatt enjoys spending time with his family and holds a license to harvest wild rice in the state of Wisconsin.
