Dr. Waldhorn is a Distinguished Scholar at the Center for Biosecurity of UPMC and a Clinical Professor of Medicine at Georgetown University School of Medicine. He is a physician trained in Internal Medicine and Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. Dr. Waldhorn’s research focuses on hospital emergency preparedness and response for mass casualty events including work on hospital and community preparedness for pandemic influenza and other public health emergencies. He has served on working groups of the Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research and the American College of Chest Physicians on mass casualty acute hospital and critical care. He has spoken at national conferences on hospital and intensive care unit preparedness for pandemic influenza. He is an Associate Editor of the Clinicians’ Biosecurity Network and of the peer-reviewed journal Biosecurity and Bioterrorism: Biodefense Strategy, Practice, and Science. Dr. Waldhorn came to the Center for Biosecurity in 2004 from Georgetown University Hospital, where from 2001 to 2004 he served as the Anton and Margaret Fuisz Professor of Medicine, Chairman of the Department of Medicine, and Physician in Chief. Prior to that, he directed Georgetown’s Medical Intensive Care Unit and the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. He joined the faculty of Georgetown University School of Medicine in 1981. Dr. Waldhorn received an undergraduate degree from Columbia University, and an MD from Boston University School of Medicine. He trained in Internal Medicine and Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Georgetown University Medical Center. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians, the American College of Chest Physicians, and the American Academy of Sleep Disorders Medicine. |
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