Brendan Carr (physician)

Brendan G. Carr, MD, MA, MS is an American physician and educator. He is Chief Executive Officer of the Mount Sinai Health System as of 2024, and Professor and Endowed System Chair of Emergency Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Mount Sinai Health System.

Education
Carr holds a Bachelor of Science in psychology, a Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology from Loyola University Maryland, an MD from Temple University, and a Master of Science in Health Policy Research from The University of Pennsylvania. He completed residency in emergency medicine, a fellowship in Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Clinical Scholar Program at The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

Faculty
Carr was faculty in the Department of Emergency Medicine, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at The Perelman School of Medicine at University of Pennsylvania, and Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics.

At Thomas Jefferson University, Carr was Professor and Vice Chair of Health Policy in the Department of Emergency Medicine, ran a Population Science Research Group, and was the Associate Dean of Healthcare Delivery Innovation. He focused on using research methods to measure the impact of healthcare delivery system innovations, including telehealth and other patient-centered care delivery methods.

Federal appointments
Carr was appointed Director of the Emergency Care Coordination Center within the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) at the Department of Health and Human Services from 2012 to 2020, focusing on integrating emergency care delivery systems into the broader healthcare infrastructure. Key efforts included coordination of the government-wide Council on Emergency Medical Care, partnerships with the National Quality Forum to improve the measurement of emergency care, developing an emergency care system inventory, examining access to trauma care, exploring the development of better incentives for the delivery of high-quality emergency care, and partnerships with the U.S. Indian Health Service to improve emergency care.

He has also worked as an advisor for the World Health Organization.

Research
Carr's work is focused on how emergency care system design impacts outcomes in unplanned critical illnesses such as trauma, stroke, sepsis, and cardiac arrest. His research funding has focused on trauma system outcomes and planning for both adults and children, emergency systems of care, telemedicine, and the use of population-based outcomes measurements in order to improve outcomes for emergency conditions. He is considered a thought leader in emergency care policy.

Carr helped to develop the system-wide response to the COVID-19 pandemic at Mount Sinai, and his current research efforts seek to examine health system readiness.

Publications
Carr has written over 150 peer-reviewed manuscripts, served as a reviewer and holds editorial positions for over a dozen peer-reviewed journals. As of 2023, Google Scholar ranks his h-index at 54 and i10-index at 153, with cumulative citations of 15,032. His top five articles ranked by number of citations are:


 * Hollander JE, Carr BG. Virtually Perfect? Telemedicine for Covid-19. N Engl J Med. 2020 Apr 30;382(18):1679-1681. doi: 10.1056/NEJMp2003539. Epub 2020 Mar 11. Cited by 3114
 * Gaieski DF, Edwards JM, Kallan MJ, Carr BG. Benchmarking the incidence and mortality of severe sepsis in the United States. Crit Care Med. 2013 May;41(5):1167-74. doi: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e31827c09f8. Cited by 1572
 * Merchant RM, Yang L, Becker LB, Berg RA, Nadkarni V, Nichol G, Carr BG, Mitra N, Bradley SM, Abella BS, Groeneveld PW; American Heart Association Get With The Guidelines-Resuscitation Investigators. Incidence of treated cardiac arrest in hospitalized patients in the United States. Crit Care Med. 2011 Nov;39(11):2401-6. doi: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3182257459. ; PMCID: PMC3196742 Cited by 470
 * Lurie N, Carr BG. The Role of Telehealth in the Medical Response to Disasters. JAMA Intern Med. 2018 Jun 1;178(6):745-746. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2018.1314. Cited by 453
 * Gaieski DF, Band RA, Abella BS, Neumar RW, Fuchs BD, Kolansky DM, Merchant RM, Carr BG, Becker LB, Maguire C, Klair A, Hylton J, Goyal M. Early goal-directed hemodynamic optimization combined with therapeutic hypothermia in comatose survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Resuscitation. 2009 Apr;80(4):418-24. doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2008.12.015. Epub 2009 Feb 12. Cited by 366

Grants and foundation support
Carr served as Principal Investigator for several R01 and R03 research awards from AHRQ, the CDC, and the National Institutes of Health, examining trauma systems, geography of acute care, and regional cardiac arrest outcomes and systems of care. He received a career development award (K08) from the AHRQ to study adult trauma systems of care.

As of 2023, Carr's active research include A Population Based Approach to Improve Outcomes After Out-of- Hospital Cardiac Arrest, National Heart, Lung, Blood Institute, Principal investigator, 7R01HL141841-03, and Structural Racism and Discrimination in Emergency Department Transfers: Unintended Consequences of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, Co-investigator, 5R01MD017495-02.

Awards, honors, and positions
Carr has received a number of awards, including the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Young Investigator Award, the American College of Emergency Physicians Young Physician Leadership Fellowship, the Golden Apple Teaching Award from the University of Pennsylvania, Best Manuscript from the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma, and Top Docs of Philadelphia. In 2022, he received the “Chair of the Year Award" from the Emergency Medicine Residents' Association (EMRA) of the American College of Emergency Physicians. He was formerly on the board of directors for the Emergency Medicine Foundation, is an active member of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, the American College of Emergency Physicians, and is a widely sought after speaker on issues related to emergency care and health policy.  He serves on the editorial board for Annals of Emergency Medicine. In fall 2020, Carr was elected to the National Academy of Medicine.