Rahul Sharma

Professor and Chairman, Department of Emergency Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine | Emergency Physician-in-Chief, NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center | Chief and Medical Director, NYP EMS Dr. Rahul Sharma is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and Executive Director of the Weill Cornell Medicine Center for Virtual Care. He is also the Emergency Physician-in Chief at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center. In addition, he serves as the Chief and Medical Director for the NYP EMS Enterprise and in several other executive roles, including as a member of the New York State Board for Medicine and as President of the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Medical Board.

Dr. Sharma is a national leader in the fields of emergency medicine, healthcare operations, telemedicine/virtual healthcare, and innovation. Since 2016, he has founded and launched several telemedicine programs, including the award-winning Emergency Department Telehealth Express Care and the Weill Cornell Medicine Center for Virtual Care. Most recently, Dr. Sharma led efforts to transform emergency medicine healthcare delivery in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. He has been an invited guest speaker at several national and international programs, including the National Academy of Medicine. Dr. Sharma is the recipient of several awards, including Crain’s New York Business 2020 Notables in Health Care, the American College of Emergency Physicians National Faculty Teaching Award, and the 2017 Emergency Care Innovation of the Year Award. In 2019, Dr. Sharma was named a top 25 innovator in the healthcare industry by Modern Healthcare as well as one of EMRA’s 45 under 45 Influencers in Emergency Medicine.

Selected publications

• Differences in antibiotic prescriptions between direct-to-consumer telehealth and telehealth in the emergency department. Journal of telemedicine and telecare. 2021 Academic Article
• COVID-19 Pandemic Surge: After Action Report of a Coalition of Emergency Departments in New York City. Disaster medicine and public health preparedness. 2021 Academic Article
• MyEDCare: Evaluation of a Smartphone-Based Emergency Department Discharge Process. Applied clinical informatics. 2021 Academic Article
• Clinical informatics during the COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons learned and implications for emergency department and inpatient operations. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA. 2021 Academic Article
• Telehealth follow up in emergency department patients discharged with COVID-like illness and exertional hypoxia. The American journal of emergency medicine. 2021 Article
• Telemedicine Surge for Pediatric Patients in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic in New York City. Telemedicine journal and e-health : the official journal of the American Telemedicine Association. 2021 Academic Article
• Advanced Communication and Examination Skills in Telemedicine: A Structured Simulation-Based Course for Medical Students. MedEdPORTAL : the journal of teaching and learning resources. 2020 Academic Article
• Characteristics of Acute Kidney Injury in Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients in an Urban Academic Medical Center. Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN. 2020 Letter
• Utilizing Telemedicine in a Novel Approach to COVID-19 Management and Patient Experience in the Emergency Department. Telemedicine journal and e-health : the official journal of the American Telemedicine Association. 2020 Academic Article
• A telehealth program to perform medical screening examinations. JAAPA : official journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants. 2020 Academic Article
• An Evaluation of Kiosks for Direct-to-Consumer Telemedicine Using the National Quality Forum Assessment Framework. Telemedicine journal and e-health : the official journal of the American Telemedicine Association. 2020 Information Resource
• Identifying Injury Patterns Associated With Physical Elder Abuse: Analysis of Legally Adjudicated Cases. Annals of emergency medicine. 2020 Academic Article
• Use of Physician-Estimated and Patient Self-Reported Weights to Guide Initial Fluid Resuscitation in Emergency Department Patients With Suspected Sepsis. Journal of intensive care medicine. 2020 Academic Article
• Momentum-resolved superconducting energy gaps of Sr2RuO4 from quasiparticle interference imaging. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2020 Academic Article
• Implementation of a Pediatric Emergency Telemedicine Program. Pediatric emergency care. 2020 Academic Article
• Telemedicine Evaluations for Low-Acuity Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department: Implications for Safety and Patient Satisfaction. Telemedicine journal and e-health : the official journal of the American Telemedicine Association. 2020 Academic Article
• Heart rate variability measures for prediction of severity of illness and poor outcome in ED patients with sepsis. The American journal of emergency medicine. 2020 Academic Article
• A novel use of telemedicine during a hospital mass casualty drill. Journal of telemedicine and telecare. 2019 Academic Article
• An Updated Healthcare System-Wide Clinical Pathway for Managing Patients With Chest Pain and Acute Coronary Syndromes. Critical pathways in cardiology. 2019 Academic Article
• Measuring the effect of a competency-based education conference for PAs and NPs. JAAPA : official journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants. 2019 Academic Article
• Quality improvement initiative increases total paracentesis and early paracentesis rates in hospitalised cirrhotics with ascites. Frontline gastroenterology. 2019 Academic Article
• It's not just FaceTime: core competencies for the Medical Virtualist. International journal of emergency medicine. 2019 Academic Article
• A Novel Emergency Department-Based Telemedicine Program: How Do Older Patients Fare?. Telemedicine journal and e-health : the official journal of the American Telemedicine Association. 2018 Academic Article
• Use of Physician-Guided Patient Self-Examination to Diagnose Appendicitis: A Telemedicine Case Report. Telemedicine journal and e-health : the official journal of the American Telemedicine Association. 2018 Academic Article
• Emergency department provider perspectives on elder abuse and development of a novel ED-based multidisciplinary intervention team. Emergency medicine journal : EMJ. 2018 Academic Article
  
• Virtual Care as a Specialty-Reply. JAMA. 2018 Letter
• Innovations in Emergency Nursing: Transforming Emergency Care Through a Novel Nurse-Driven ED Telehealth Express Care Service. Journal of emergency nursing. 2018 Academic Article
• Planning for Future Disasters: Telemedicine as a Resource. Annals of emergency medicine. 2018 Article
• Improving Quality of Care in Hospitals for Victims of Elder Mistreatment: Development of the Vulnerable Elder Protection Team. Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety. 2018 Academic Article
• Is It Time for a New Medical Specialty?: The Medical Virtualist. JAMA. 2018 Comment
• Older adults and technology: in telehealth, they may not be who you think they are. International journal of emergency medicine. 2018 Article
• Implementation of Scribes in an Academic Emergency Department: The Resident Perspective. Journal of graduate medical education. 2017 Academic Article
• Telemedicine and its transformation of emergency care: a case study of one of the largest US integrated healthcare delivery systems. International journal of emergency medicine. 2017 Academic Article
• What is causing this patient's periumbilical pain and erythema?. JAAPA : official journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants. 2017 Review
• Using Telemedicine to Address Crowding in the ED. ED management : the monthly update on emergency department management. 2016 Conference Paper
• EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT MEDICAL STAFF FACILITATORS PLAY KEY ROLES. Physician leadership journal. 2015 Academic Article
• Providing emergency care for patients with ventricular assist devices. JAAPA : official journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants. 2015 Academic Article
• LEADERSHIP TRAINING FOR RESIDENTS: A NOVEL APPROACH. Physician leadership journal. 2015 Academic Article
• MDCT diagnosis of acute pulmonary embolism in the emergent setting. Emergency radiology. 2015 Academic Article
• Improving front-end flow in an urban academic medical center emergency department: the emergency department discharge facilitator team. Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine. 2013 Academic Article
• Compartment syndrome of the hand from prolonged immobilization secondary to drug overdose. The Journal of emergency medicine. 2013 Academic Article
• A novel comprehensive in-training examination course can improve residency-wide scores. Journal of graduate medical education. 2012 Academic Article
• Chemical burn secondary to propofol extravasation. The western journal of emergency medicine. 2012 Comment
• A different kind of headache in a patient with migraines. JAAPA : official journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants. 2012 Academic Article
• Evaluation of acute cervical spine imaging based on ACR Appropriateness Criteria®. Emergency radiology. 2011 Academic Article
• Urinary bladder calculi. The Journal of emergency medicine. 2009 Academic Article
• Orbital emphysema after nose blowing. The Journal of emergency medicine. 2007 Academic Article
• Hemobilia in the emergency department. The Journal of emergency medicine. 2004 Academic Article