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Jon Mark Hirshon, MD, MPH, PhD
Healthcare Provider Professor of Emergency Medicine
University of Maryland School of Medicine
655 W. Baltimore Street
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Jon Mark Hirshon, MD, PhD, MPH, FACEP, FAAEM, FACPM is dedicated to improving access to high quality acute care in the United States and in every country across the globe. He is a Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine and in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He is the former director of the Charles McC. Mathias, Jr. National Study Center for Trauma and EMS and is currently the Senior Vice-Chairman of the University of Maryland, Baltimore’s Institutional Review Board.
Dr. Hirshon is a federally funded researcher and teacher who has been the principal investigator on over $9 million in federal research and training grants and contracts and has been co-investigator on numerous other funded projects. As part of his international work through a National Institutes of Health Fogarty International Center grant, he and his dedicated teams have trained approximately 1000 physicians from Egypt and multiple other countries in the Middle East in acute care related topics including the clinical care of trauma patients, disaster preparedness and response, and injury research methods.
Special Interests:
Emergency Medicine
Infectious Disease Surveillance
International Medicine
Preventive Medicine
Research in Public Health Surveillance
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