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Brendan G. Carr, MD MA MS  is an American physician, researcher, and health policy expert.

He has an extensive background in health system design and is known for his expertise in regional systems of emergency and trauma care. He has received continuous research funding from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the National Institutes of Health , the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, and research foundations over the course of his career. He has authored more than 100 peer reviewed publications on various aspects of emergency and trauma care system design, access to care, and outcomes for unplanned critical illness including trauma, stroke, sepsis, and cardiac arrest.

Dr. Carr is Professor and an Associate Dean at the Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University. Since 2013, he has also served as a Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR), and Director of the Emergency Care Coordination Center in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He maintains a clinical practice in emergency medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia – a Level 1 trauma center and American Burn Association verified burn center.

Education
Carr holds a Bachelor of Science in Psychology, a Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology from Loyola University Maryland, a M.D. from Temple University, and a Master of Science in Health Policy Research from The University of Pennsylvania. Carr 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.

Career
Prior to his current roles, Dr. 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. He holds editorial positions for peer-reviewed journals, has organized scientific meetings on the emergency care delivery system, mentors junior researchers, and is a thought leader in emergency care policy.

At Thomas Jefferson University, he is Professor and Vice Chair of health policy in the Department of Emergency Medicine, runs a Population Science Research Group, and is the Associate Dean of Healthcare Delivery Innovation. In this capacity, he focuses on using research methods to measure the impact of healthcare delivery system innovations including the use of telehealth and other patient centered care delivery methods. In government, his work has focused on integrating the emergency care delivery system into the broader healthcare infrastructure. Key efforts have 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, exploring the development of better incentives for the delivery of high quality emergency care, and partnerships with the Indian Health Service to improve emergency care. He has worked on a number of Interagency Working groups including the development of the Federal Stop the Bleed Initiative, the creation of the Until Help Arrives Program, and efforts to strengthen the US trauma care system.

Research
Carr’s work has focused on how emergency care system design impacts outcomes in unplanned critical illness such as trauma, stroke, sepsis, and cardiac arrest. His research funding has focused on trauma system outcomes and planning for both adults and children, disparities in access and outcomes from stroke care, and the use of population based outcomes measurements in order to improve outcomes for emergency conditions. He is best known for advancing the concept that a geographic approach is required to benchmark and incentivize outcomes for conditions that require a regional system of care. His work has identified the association between where people live, which hospitals treat them for their emergent conditions, and how hospitals can be clustered and incentivized to share responsibility for the emergency care outcomes of the communities that depend up on them for care during their time of need.

Honors, awards and positions
Dr. 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. He recently left 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.