Brendan Carr (physician) explained

Brendan G. Carr, MD
Nationality:United States
Workplaces:Thomas Jefferson University, The Perelman School of Medicine at University of Pennsylvania, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, Emergency Care Coordination Center
Alma Mater:Temple University The University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Known For:Emergency medicine
Website:Profile at Mount Sinai

Brendan G. Carr, MD, MA, MS is an American physician and educator. He is Chief Executive Officer of the Mount Sinai Health System as of 2024,[1] and Professor and Endowed System Chair of Emergency Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Mount Sinai Health System.[2]

Education

Carr holds a Bachelor of Science in psychology, a Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology from Loyola University Maryland, an MD from Temple University, and a Master of Science in Health Policy Research from The University of Pennsylvania. He completed residency in emergency medicine, a fellowship in Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Clinical Scholar Program at The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.[3] [4] [5] [6]

Career

Faculty

Carr was faculty in the Department of Emergency Medicine, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at The Perelman School of Medicine at University of Pennsylvania, and Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics.[7] [8]

At Thomas Jefferson University, Carr was Professor and Vice Chair of Health Policy in the Department of Emergency Medicine, ran a Population Science Research Group, and was the Associate Dean of Healthcare Delivery Innovation.[9] [10] He focused on using research methods to measure the impact of healthcare delivery system innovations, including telehealth and other patient-centered care delivery methods.[11] [12]

Federal appointments

Carr was appointed Director of the Emergency Care Coordination Center within the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) at the Department of Health and Human Services from 2012 to 2020,[13] focusing on integrating emergency care delivery systems into the broader healthcare infrastructure. Key efforts included coordination of the government-wide Council on Emergency Medical Care, partnerships with the National Quality Forum to improve the measurement of emergency care, developing an emergency care system inventory, examining access to trauma care, exploring the development of better incentives for the delivery of high-quality emergency care, and partnerships with the U.S. Indian Health Service to improve emergency care.[14] [15] [16]

He has also worked as an advisor for the World Health Organization.[17]

Research

Carr's work is focused on how emergency care system design impacts outcomes in unplanned critical illnesses such as trauma, stroke, sepsis, and cardiac arrest.[18] His research funding has focused on trauma system outcomes and planning for both adults and children,[19] [8] emergency systems of care,[20] telemedicine,[21] and the use of population-based outcomes measurements in order to improve outcomes for emergency conditions.[22] [23] He is considered a thought leader in emergency care policy.[24] [25] [26]

Carr helped to develop the system-wide response to the COVID-19 pandemic at Mount Sinai, [27] [28] and his current research efforts seek to examine health system readiness.[29] [30] [31] [32] [33]

Publications

Carr has written over 150 peer-reviewed manuscripts, served as a reviewer and holds editorial positions for over a dozen peer-reviewed journals. As of 2023, Google Scholar ranks his h-index at 54 and i10-index at 153, with cumulative citations of 15,032. His top five articles ranked by number of citations are:[34]

Grants and foundation support

Carr served as Principal Investigator for several R01 and R03 research awards from AHRQ, the CDC, and the National Institutes of Health, examining trauma systems, geography of acute care, and regional cardiac arrest outcomes and systems of care.[35] [36] He received a career development award (K08) from the AHRQ to study adult trauma systems of care.

As of 2023, Carr's active research include A Population Based Approach to Improve Outcomes After Out-of- Hospital Cardiac Arrest, National Heart, Lung, Blood Institute, Principal investigator, 7R01HL141841-03,[37] and Structural Racism and Discrimination in Emergency Department Transfers: Unintended Consequences of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, Co-investigator, 5R01MD017495-02.[38]

Awards, honors, and positions

Carr has received a number of awards, including the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Young Investigator Award,[39] the American College of Emergency Physicians Young Physician Leadership Fellowship,[40] the Golden Apple Teaching Award from the University of Pennsylvania, Best Manuscript from the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma,[41] and Top Docs of Philadelphia.[42] In 2022, he received the “Chair of the Year Award" from the Emergency Medicine Residents' Association (EMRA) of the American College of Emergency Physicians.[43] He was formerly on the board of directors for the Emergency Medicine Foundation, is an active member of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine,[44] the American College of Emergency Physicians, and is a widely sought after speaker on issues related to emergency care and health policy.[45] [46] He serves on the editorial board for Annals of Emergency Medicine.[47] In fall 2020, Carr was elected to the National Academy of Medicine.[14]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Neber . Jacqueline . Mount Sinai Health System names Dr. Brendan Carr as next CEO . November 21, 2023 . Crain's New York Business.
  2. Web site: Brendan Carr Mount Sinai - New York. 2021-02-22. Mount Sinai Health System. en-US.
  3. Web site: Penn Emergency Medicine Physician Named as Director of the Federal Emergency Care Coordination Center - Penn Medicine. 2021-02-25. www.pennmedicine.org. en-US.
  4. Web site: Penn Emergency Medicine Physician Named as Director of the Federal Emergency Care Coordination Center. 2021-02-25. Penn Today. en.
  5. Web site: National Quality Forum: Regionalized Emergency Medical Services - Brendan Carr.
  6. Web site: 2014-05-23. Emergency Care: A Story of Extraordinary Success and Lingering Challenge. 2021-02-25. RWJF. en.
  7. Web site: Brendan Carr, Philadelphia Inquirer, Safest Cities. 2021-02-25. LDI. en.
  8. Web site: Tracking the Golden Hour of Trauma Care. 2021-02-25. ldihealtheconomist.com.
  9. Web site: Brendan Carr, MD, MS - Thomas Jefferson University. 2021-02-25. www.jefferson.edu.
  10. Web site: Brendan Carr Computational Medicine Center at Thomas Jefferson University. 2021-02-25. Computational Medicine Center at Thomas Jefferson University. en-US.
  11. Web site: 4 Ways You Haven't Thought About Using Telehealth During the COVID-19 Pandemic. 2021-02-25. www.healthleadersmedia.com. en.
  12. Web site: Joy. Kevin. How 'Tele-Triage' Models Work to Keep Patients and Clinicians Safe. live. 2021-02-25. Technology Solutions That Drive Healthcare. en. https://web.archive.org/web/20200506141953/https://healthtechmagazine.net/article/2020/04/how-tele-triage-models-work-keep-patients-and-clinicians-safe-perfcon . 2020-05-06 .
  13. Web site: Regional COVID-19 Coordination Center Overview Technical Resources. 2021-02-25. ASPR TRACIE. en.
  14. Web site: Mount Sinai Doctors Elected to National Academy of Medicine for Contributions to Emergency Medicine and Translational Genetics. 2021-02-25. www.newswise.com. en.
  15. Web site: Carr. Brendan. Acute Medical Care: Navigating a Complex System. live. 2021-02-25. www.phe.gov. https://web.archive.org/web/20161031184453/http://www.phe.gov:80/ASPRBlog/pages/BlogArticlePage.aspx?PostID=209 . 2016-10-31 .
  16. Martinez. Ricardo. Carr. Brendan. 2013-12-01. Creating Integrated Networks Of Emergency Care: From Vision To Value. Health Affairs. 32. 12. 2082–2090. 10.1377/hlthaff.2013.0884. 24301390. 0278-2715. free.
  17. Web site: External Advisory Committee . 2023-11-28 . Columbia Center for Injury Science and Prevention (CCISP) . en-US.
  18. Web site: National Academy of Medicine elects 100 new members. 2021-02-25. EurekAlert!. en.
  19. Web site: Brendan Carr, WBEZ Radio, Chicago Trauma Care. 2021-02-25. LDI. en.
  20. Health Affairs Briefing: Future Of Emergency Medicine: Challenges And Opportunities Health Affairs Blog. www.healthaffairs.org. 2013. en. 10.1377/forefront.20131122.035494.
  21. Hollander. Judd E.. Carr. Brendan G.. 2020-04-30. Virtually Perfect? Telemedicine for Covid-19. New England Journal of Medicine. 382. 18. 1679–1681. 10.1056/NEJMp2003539. 32160451. 212678493. 0028-4793. free.
  22. Web site: Sisak. Michael R.. Peltz. Jennifer. March 18, 2020. New York emergency rooms brace for surge of virus patients. 2021-02-25. BostonGlobe.com. en-US.
  23. Web site: May 25, 2017. "Strategies for improving injury outcomes for older adults: How novel Medicare payment structures can help".
  24. Web site: 2020-08-10 . Notable in Health Care 2020 . 2021-02-25 . Crain's New York Business . en.
  25. 2020 . The Families First Coronavirus Response Act Is Necessary But Not Sufficient – Here's What Congress Should Do Next Health Affairs Blog . en . 10.1377/forefront.20200318.858880 . www.healthaffairs.org.
  26. Web site: New study: nearly half of US medical care comes from emergency rooms . 2021-02-25 . EurekAlert! . en.
  27. Web site: 2020-03-18 . Coronavirus Updates: Hospital ship heads to New York as hospitals prepare for mass cases . 2021-02-25 . ABC7 New York . en.
  28. News: Sellers . Frances Stead . Hospitals prepare for 'nightmare' scenario of flu and coronavirus striking at same time . en-US . Washington Post . 2021-02-25 . 0190-8286.
  29. Web site: 2020-08-10 . Notable in Health Care 2020 . 2021-02-25 . Crain's New York Business . en.
  30. Web site: Study Projects Areas Most Vulnerable to COVID-19 Patient Surge Columbia Public Health . 2021-02-25 . www.publichealth.columbia.edu.
  31. Web site: Comparing Hospital COVID Waves Across the US . 2021-02-25 . Medscape.
  32. Web site: Health care experts say coronavirus exposes major flaws in medical system . 2021-02-25 . NBC News . en.
  33. News: Walker . Marcus . Maremont . Mark . 2020-03-17 . Lessons From Italy's Hospital Meltdown. 'Every Day You Lose, the Contagion Gets Worse.' . en-US . Wall Street Journal . 2021-02-25 . 0099-9660.
  34. Web site: Brendan G Carr . 2023-11-21 . scholar.google.com.
  35. News: Meisel . Zachary F. . 2011-07-19 . 10 Dangerous Places to Vacation: Why Where You Live, Work or Play Matters for Your Health . en-US . Time . 2021-02-25 . 0040-781X.
  36. Web site: Project Information - NIH RePORTER - NIH Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tools Expenditures and Results. 2021-02-25. projectreporter.nih.gov.
  37. Web site: RePORT ⟩ RePORTER . 2023-11-21 . reporter.nih.gov.
  38. Web site: RePORT ⟩ RePORTER . 2023-11-21 . reporter.nih.gov.
  39. Web site: Past Award Winners. 2021-02-25. www.saem.org.
  40. Web site: Fellow (FACEP) Status. 2021-02-25. www.acep.org. en.
  41. Web site: The Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma. Best Manuscript Award. 2021-02-25. www.east.org. en.
  42. Web site: The Next Generation of Great Philadelphia Doctors. Philly Magazine: City Life. 26 March 2009.
  43. Web site: Mount Sinai's Brendan Carr, MD, MS, Receives Prestigious "Chair of the Year Award" from Emergency Medicine Residents' Association . 2022-08-23 . www.newswise.com . en.
  44. Web site: SAEM Brendan Carr.
  45. Web site: United Services University for Health Services: Brendan Carr.
  46. Web site: Can't-Miss Lectures at ACEP19. 2021-02-25. ACEP Now. en-US.
  47. Web site: Annals of Emergency Medicine. 2021-02-22. www.annemergmed.com.

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