Arthur Kellermann, M.D., M.P.H.

Arthur Kellermann, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.E.P., is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine in the Emory University School of Medicine. Until August 2006, he was also founding Director of the Emory Center for Injury Control, a World Health Organization collaborating center for injury and violence prevention. He practices and teaches in the Emergency Care Center of Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta’s only public hospital and Level I trauma center.

Dr. Kellermann’s research focuses on injury prevention, emergency cardiac care, and health services for the poor and the uninsured. He holds career achievement awards from two disciplines: the Hal Jayne Academic Excellence Award from the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine and the Excellence in Science Award from the Injury Control and Emergency Health Services Section of the American Public Health Association. In 2001, he received Emory University’s Scholar/Teacher Award, and in 2005, he received the university’s Charles Hatcher Award for Excellence in Public Health.

In October 2006, Dr. Kellermann will complete his second and final term as a member of the board of directors of the American College of Emergency Physicians, the leading organization for the specialty. In 1999, he was elected a member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academies. Between 2001 and January 2004, he served as Co-Chair of the IOM Committee on the Consequences of Uninsurance. From 2004 to 2006, he was a member of the IOM Board of Health Care Services and the IOM Committee on the Future of Emergency Care in the U.S. Health system.