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Ross I. Donaldson, MD, MPH, CTropMed, FACEP

Founder & Editor-in-Chief, WikEM

President & CEO, Critical Innovations LLC

Faculty, Department of Emergency Medicine, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center

Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

ross@wikem.org

About

Dr. Donaldson is Founder & Editor in Chief of WikEM, the world’s largest and most popular emergency medicine open-access reference resource. He is also President & CEO of Critical Innovations LLC, as well as a full Professor of Emergency Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Triple-boarded in emergency medicine, emergency medical services, and clinical informatics, Dr. Donaldson has been principal investigator on over $50 million dollars’ worth of funding, with a focus on research and development efforts bringing innovative emergency, critical, and trauma care technologies to market. He is the inventor of a host of patented medical technologies. Dr. Donaldson has been featured as an expert on CNN, BBC, NPR, and other media outlets, and an invited speaker at over a hundred national and international conferences, including at Medical Design & Manufacturing, Department of Defense, and various think tanks. He has worked around the globe, frequently in areas of conflict and recent disaster, and been the lead architect of national emergency care plans in several countries. For five years in Iraq alone, he led the instruction of over ten-thousand surgeons, physicians, EMTs, nurses, and community members, while spearheading the development of pre-hospital and hospital-based emergency and trauma systems for the country, for which he received the Humanitarian Award from the California chapter of American College of Emergency Physicians. Dr. Donaldson has worked for close to two decades at the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, one of Los Angeles’ main Level I trauma centers, serving previously as the Director of the Emergency Medicine Global Health Program and Global Health Fellowship. He is also the critically acclaimed author of The Lassa Ward, a memoir about international humanitarian work. Among other honors, he was inaugural recipient of the FOAMed Excellence in Education Award from the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine and has been identified as one of emergency medicine’s key opinion leaders by the Emergency Medicine Residents’ Association.

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 '''Ross I. Donaldson, MD, MPH, CTropMed, FACEP'''
-:Founder & Editor in Chief, [[WikEM:About|WikEM]]
+:Founder & Editor-in-Chief, [[WikEM:About|WikEM]]
 :President & CEO, [http://www.criticalinnovations.com Critical Innovations LLC]
-:Director, Global Health Program, [http://www.emedharbor.edu Department of Emergency Medicine] [[Works at::Harbor-UCLA Medical Center]]
+:Faculty, [http://www.emedharbor.edu Department of Emergency Medicine], [[Works at::Harbor-UCLA Medical Center]]
-:Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, [http://dgsom.ucla.edu/ David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA]
+:Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine, [http://dgsom.ucla.edu/ David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA]
-:Adjunct Associate Professor of Epidemiology, [http://ph.ucla.edu/ UCLA – Fielding School of Public Health]
 :[mailto:ross@wikem.org ross@wikem.org]
 ==About==
-[[File:Donaldson Headshot.jpg|thumb]]
+[[File:Main - Lower Resolution.jpeg|thumb]]
-Dr. Donaldson is Founder & Editor in Chief of [[WikEM:About|''WikEM'']], one of the world’s [[Press about WikEM|most popular emergency medicine resources]], and President & CEO of [http://www.criticalinnovations.com Critical Innovations LLC], a medical research and development company. Triple-boarded in emergency medicine, emergency medical services (EMS), and clinical informatics, Dr. Donaldson has been the principal investigator on $20 million dollars’ worth of funding, with research focusing on emergency, critical, and trauma care. An Associate Professor of emergency medicine and epidemiology respectively in the [http://dgsom.ucla.edu/ UCLA Schools of Medicine and Public Health], he is the inventor of several medical device technologies and a juror for the Medical Design Excellence Awards®. Dr. Donaldson has been featured as an expert on CNN, BBC, NPR, and other media outlets, and an invited speaker at over 100 national and international conferences, including Medical Design and Manufacturing, Department of Defense, and various think tanks. He has worked around the globe, frequently in areas of conflict and recent disaster, and been the lead architect of national emergency care plans in several countries. For five years in Iraq alone, he led the instruction of over ten thousand surgeons, physicians, EMTs, nurses, and community members, while spearheading the development of pre-hospital and hospital-based emergency and trauma systems for the country. Dr. Donaldson has worked for over a decade at the [http://www.emedharbor.edu Harbor-UCLA Medical Center], one of Los Angeles’ main Level I trauma centers, where he serves as the Director of the Emergency Medicine Global Health Program. He is also the critically acclaimed author of [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312377002?ie=UTF8&tag=rossdonacom-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0312377002 ''The Lassa Ward''], a memoir about international humanitarian work and, among other honors, been a recipient of  [http://californiaacep.org/ California chapter of American College of Emergency Physicians] and named Top Los Angeles Emergency and Trauma Doctor from the [http://labusinessjournal.com/ Los Angeles Business Journal].
+Dr. Donaldson is Founder & Editor in Chief of [[WikEM:About|''WikEM'']], the world’s [[Press about WikEM|largest and most popular emergency medicine open-access reference resource]]. He is also President & CEO of [http://www.criticalinnovations.com Critical Innovations LLC], as well as a full Professor of Emergency Medicine at the [https://medschool.ucla.edu/ David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA]. Triple-boarded in emergency medicine, emergency medical services, and clinical informatics, Dr. Donaldson has been principal investigator on over $50 million dollars’ worth of funding, with a focus on research and development efforts bringing innovative emergency, critical, and trauma care technologies to market. He is the inventor of a host of patented medical technologies. Dr. Donaldson has been featured as an expert on CNN, BBC, NPR, and other media outlets, and an invited speaker at over a hundred national and international conferences, including at Medical Design & Manufacturing, Department of Defense, and various think tanks. He has worked around the globe, frequently in areas of conflict and recent disaster, and been the lead architect of national emergency care plans in several countries. For five years in Iraq alone, he led the instruction of over ten-thousand surgeons, physicians, EMTs, nurses, and community members, while spearheading the development of pre-hospital and hospital-based emergency and trauma systems for the country, for which he received the Humanitarian Award from the California chapter of American College of Emergency Physicians. Dr. Donaldson has worked for close to two decades at the [http://www.emedharbor.edu Harbor-UCLA Medical Center], one of Los Angeles’ main Level I trauma centers, serving previously as the Director of the Emergency Medicine Global Health Program and Global Health Fellowship. He is also the critically acclaimed author of [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312377002?ie=UTF8&tag=rossdonacom-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0312377002 ''The Lassa Ward''], a memoir about international humanitarian work. Among other honors, he was inaugural recipient of the FOAMed Excellence in Education Award from the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine and has been identified as one of emergency medicine’s key opinion leaders by the Emergency Medicine Residents’ Association.