EMS Today 2019

Joseph Ornato
Professor & Chairman, Dept of Emergency Medicine
Virginia Commonwealth University


Dr. Joseph P. Ornato is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center/Medical College of Virginia in Richmond, Virginia. He is also Medical Director of the Richmond Ambulance Authority, Richmond Fire and EMS, and Henrico County Fire & EMS. Born in New Haven, Connecticut, he graduated from Boston University Medical School magna cum laude and completed his training in Internal Medicine at New York City's Mount Sinai Hospital and in Cardiology at New York Hospital-Cornell University Medical Center. He is triple board certified (Internal Medicine, Cardiology, Emergency Medicine).Dr. Ornato is an active researcher in the field of cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Dr. Ornato is an Editor of the journal Resuscitation and is on the editorial board of the American Journal of Emergency Medicine. He is past Chairman of the American Heart Association's (AHA) National Emergency Cardiovascular Care Committee and its Advanced Cardiac Life Support Subcommittee. He served as the AHA’s national representative to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's National Heart Attack Alert Program's Coordinating Committee and Chairman of its Science Base Subcommittee. Dr. Ornato has served as a Special Consultant to the Circulatory System Devices Panel of the Food and Drug Administration. He chaired the National Steering Committee on the joint-sponsored NIH/AHA/Industry Public Access Defibrillation Trial and as Principal Investigator on a Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Bioterrorism Training grant. He is currently Consultant and Vice-Chairman of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium (ROC) and serves as Principal Investigator for VCU on the NIH-sponsored Neurological Emergency Treatment Trials (NETT) Network. Dr. Ornato is a member of the prestigious Institute of Medicine.

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