Retired professor of emergency medicine
Retired Professor of Emergency Medicine
Niskayuna, New York, United States
I am aRetired Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Albany Medical College. For the twenty-two years before my retirement I was the course director of a four-year longitudinal required course, Evidence Based Health Care. This course taught medical students how to critically appraise the medical literature, how to use probability in medical decision making and how the health care system worked. This course included introduction to clinical reasoning and exercises on reduction of diagnostic errors. I was an Attending in Emergency Medicine in the clinical faculty of the Emergency Department of the Albany Medical Center.
Since my retirement in 2014 I have continued to be a peer reviewer for several emergency medicine and medical education journals and have continued to teach Evidence Based medicine in the Albany medical and dental community. I have given workshops on the prevention of diagnostic error at the Annual Meetings of SAEM, AMEE and IAMSE. I am an associate editor for Emergency Medicine for the MedEdPORTAL and for the Western Journal of Emergency Medicine. I am the author of “Essential Evidence Based Medicine” (Cambridge University Press, 2010 and 2004), which is a basic textbook on the principles and practice of Evidence Based Medicine. I have also written two textbooks on Emergency Medicine, “Case Studies in Emergency Medicine” (Little Brown, 1991 and 1996) and “Case Studies in Emergency Medicine” (Cambridge University Press, 2010). I was a practicing clinician in Family Medicine and then Emergency Medicine for over forty years.
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.