Chris Baugh

Chris Baugh, MD, MBA, FACEP

Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School

Prof Baugh is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School, USA, and recently completed a 5-year term as the Vice Chair of Clinical Affairs for the Department of Emergency Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He attended the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and obtained his MBA from the Wharton School. He trained in Emergency Medicine at Brigham and Women’s and Massachusetts General Hospitals. He previously served as the Medical Director of both the Brigham’s Urgent Care Center and Department of Emergency Medicine and as Chair of the Observation Medicine Section of the American College of Emergency Physicians. He recently joined the Board of Trustees of the Emergency Medicine Foundation.

His clinical interests are in emergency medicine, cardiology, oncology, healthcare finance, healthcare policy, observation medicine, clinical operations, and quality and safety. He has co-authored over 160 publications in his field and has published on the clinical and administrative aspects of observation care in the New England Journal of Medicine, Health Affairs, JAMA Open, Annals of Emergency Medicine, and Academic Emergency Medicine.