Assistant Professor
University of Florida, Florida, United States
Torben Becker graduated from the University of Heidelberg Medical School in Germany, followed by initial residency training in anesthesiology. After relocating to the United States, he trained in Emergency Medicine and Emergency Ultrasound at the University of Michigan. This was followed by fellowship training at the University of Pittsburgh in Multidisciplinary Critical Care Medicine, Clinical Research, Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO), as well as an EMS fellowship at the University of Florida. Dr. Becker has a particular interest in global medicine with a focus on improving prehospital care and developing critical care capacities. He has worked in Greece, Mexico, Haiti, Rwanda, and Ghana. He is the Program Director of the Global Emergency Medicine Fellowship at the University of Florida. He also serves as the UF Department of Emergency Medicine’s Director of Prehospital Research, and as faculty for the EMS, ultrasound and critical care medicine fellowship programs. He is the Associate Medical Director for Alachua County Fire Rescue and oversees its critical care division. He joined GEMLR in 2009 as a reviewer and served as GEMLR’s Managing Editor from 2013-2018. He is the current Editor-in-Chief of GEMLR.
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