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Professor of Emergency Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and one of the country's leading authorities on pain management, Dr. Knox Todd joins the show to discuss his recent editorial on how and if centralized prescription monitoring programs help ER doctors strike that delicate balance of adequately treating patients in pain while not over prescribing and increasing potential drug abuse behaviors.
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Knox H. Todd, MD, MPH is Professor of Emergency Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Director of the Pain and Emergency Medicine Institute at Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan. Dr. Todd received his MD from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, his MPH in Epidemiology from the UCLA School of Public Health, and is board certified in both Internal Medicine and Emergency Medicine. He was the founding Vice Chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta where served as Medical Director of the Grady Memorial Hospital Emergency Department. He serves as Associate Editor for the Annals of Emergency Medicine and on the Board of Directors of the American Pain Society and the American Chronic Pain Association. His research interests include emergency medicine pain management, palliative care, and health disparities.
Dr. Todd conducted seminal studies of ethnic disparities in analgesic use in the early 1990’s and his publications have appeared in a variety of scientific journals. His research is supported by grants and contracts from numerous public and private sources. In his current position as Director of the Pain and Emergency Medicine Institute, he works to foster improvements in emergency department pain management practices and to support the development of a new cadre of emergency nurses and physicians who will become advocates for excellence in this area.
