Ali Raja
Executive Vice Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital; Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
Ali Raja is executive vice chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and an associate professor at Harvard Medical School, where he is appointed to the departments of Emergency Medicine and Radiology. Board certified in both emergency medicine and clinical informatics, Raja is a practicing emergency physician and author of over 200 publications. His federally funded research focuses on improving the appropriateness of resource utilization in emergency medicine. Raja has also served as a critical care air transport team commander for the US Air Force, a civilian flight physician, and a tactical physician for a number of local, state, and federal agencies.
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Almost 137 million Americans visit emergency departments every year, which is an extremely costly route to health care. Overcrowding is a widespread problem, yet a high percen...