Professor of Emergency Medicine
Florida Atlantic Univerisity Schmidt College of Medicine
Boca Raton, Florida
Richard was born and raised in Wilmington, Delaware. He completed a 5-year accelerated medical-premedical program at Pennsylvania State University-Thomas Jefferson Medical School in 1988. He completed a surgical internship at the University of Maryland, an Emergency Medicine residency at the Medical Center of Delaware and a Medical Toxicology fellowship at the New York Poison Center, Bellevue-NYU Medical Center. He has over 140 peer-reviewed publications with a Google Scholar h-Index of 36 and an i10-index of 69. He also has authored over 40 textbook chapters and co-authored three textbooks. His current grant funding and area of research interest involves geriatric emergency department patients with head injury and fall prevention. He has received a number of teaching awards including the American College of Emergency Physicians National Faculty Teaching Award and the American Academy of Emergency Medicine Educator of The Year Award. He has served as an Emergency Medicine Program Director for 23 years (1996-2019). In 2015 he took over the leadership of the newly created Division of Emergency Medicine at the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine at Florida Atlantic University where he is a Professor of Emergency Medicine and served as the founding Residency Program Director.
Geriatric Head Trauma, CT Everyone? Introducing a New Clinical Decision Rule
Sunday, April 28, 2024
4:30pm – 4:50pm CT
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