Ross I. Donaldson, MD, MPH, CTropMed, FACEP
Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine - David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Adjunct Associate Professor of Epidemiology - UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Director of Global Health Program - Dept. of Emergency Medicine/Harbor-UCLA Medical
About
Featured on CNN, BBC, NPR, and other media outlets, Dr. Donaldson has worked around the globe, frequently in areas of conflict and recent disaster, and has been the lead architect of national emergency care plans in several countries. Board certified in both Emergency Medicine and Emergency Medical Services, he is the Director of the Emergency Medicine Global Health Program at the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center and Associate Professor of emergency medicine and epidemiology respectively in the UCLA Schools of Medicine and Public Health. Dr. Donaldson is also the critically acclaimed author of The Lassa Ward, a memoir about international humanitarian work, and Founder and Editor-in-Chief of WikEM, the world’s largest emergency medicine open-access reference resource. Dr. Donaldson has been the principal investigator on approximately $20 million dollars worth of grants and is a recipient of the Humanitarian Award from the California chapter of American College of Emergency Physicians.
Research Interests: Global health; emergency medicine; disaster care; technology development
Affiliations: www.wikem.org