PERSON: Donald Yealy

University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Professor (tenured) and Chair of Emergency Medicine

Dr. Yealy has been Chair since 2009, serving as Vice Chair from 1996 until assuming that position. He leads faculty delivering care to nearly 1 million UPMC emergency department and urgent care patient visits each year, and who also consistently rank in the top of academic emergency departments in scientific publications, impact and research funding. His personal goal is to surround those seeking emergency care, training or research opportunities with excellence, creating a cadre of people that improve the health of those with acute illness and injury collaboratively throughout Western PA and the world. He received the top research and top education awards from both ACEP and SAEM.

In addition to his emergency medicine roles, Dr. Yealy has system leadership responsibilities. He oversees health system safety efforts, the UPMC system-wide advance practice provider office, and the medical staff offices. Nationally, Dr. Yealy serves as an examiner and item writer for ABEM, an expert panelist for the National Quality Forum in Pulmonary/Critical Care, and Deputy Editor of the Annals of Emergency Medicine and a referee for 15 other journals. He is a Past President of SAEM.

Dr. Yealy has authored over 300 scientific publications (one cited>3700 times) and edited 6 textbooks, including Emergency Department Critical Care, The Trauma Manual and Acute Care Surgery, and Tintinalli’s Emergency Medicine: A Comprehensive Study Guide. His research interests include: prehospital airway management; acute care teamwork and fatigue; pneumonia; heart failure; pulmonary embolism; and sepsis. Keys to his work have been the following themes - How do we assess and treat acute illness? Can we do better? What factors impede care? His first-authored publication on early resuscitation approaches in those with septic shock - the ProCESS trial, NEJM 2014 - has changed the local, national and international approach to care and spawned new research opportunities. This work exemplifies the collaborative nature of work by Dr. Yealy and the Department.

He has participated as PI or investigator in over $25 million of federally funded research, and is PI of the Pitt Prevention and Early Treatment of Acute Lung Injury (PETAL) Network clinical center and PI with Dr. Callaway of the Pitt Emergency Care K12 Scholar program, both funded through NHLBI.

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