Ben Bobrow

Background

About Ben Bobrow

Bentley J. Bobrow, MD, FACEP, FAHA is Professor and Chair and the John P. and Kathrine G. McGovern Distinguished Chair of Emergency Medicine. He is the Executive Director of the Texas Emergency Medicine Research Center which focuses on real-world implementation science to improve outcomes for major public health problems including out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, traumatic brain injury, acute stroke, substance abuse, behavioral health emergencies, and COVID-19. He has partnered with 9-1-1 centers, EMS agencies, municipal fire departments, university researchers, NHTSA and the U.S. Army to implement and measure systems of care for effectively responding to these emergencies. Dr. Bobrow is a past Chair of the American Heart Association Basic Life Support Subcommittee, a co-author of the Institutes of Medicine Report on Cardiac Arrest, and has collaborated to launch the Texas-Cardiac Arrest Registry to Enhance Survival (CARES) Program.