Robert E. O’Connor, MD, FACEP, Secretary-Treasurer

Current Professional Position:Professor, Chair, Physician-in-Chief, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Va.; Emergency Physician, Culpeper Regional Hospital, Culpeper, Va.

Residency: Emergency Medicine Residency, Medical Center of Delaware

Year elected to Board: 2010

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Bio: Dr. O’Connor is professor and chair, and physician-in-chief of the department of emergency medicine at the University of Virginia Health System in Charlottesville, Va. He is also an emergency physician at the Culpeper Regional Hospital in Culpeper, Va. He is formerly the department of emergency medicine research director at Christiana Care Health System where he established a research enterprise that conducted scores of clinical trials, which resulted in several hundred published abstracts and papers. He has held a variety of leadership positions within the American Heart Association since 2001.

Over the course of his 21-year ACEP membership, Dr. O’Connor has served as councilor or alternate for two state chapters and one section, and has served on the council steering committee, candidate forum subcommittee, several reference committees and the tellers, credentials and elections Committee. He is a reviewer for Annals of Emergency Medicine and has served as an editor for Foresight, Critical Decisions in Emergency Medicine and the ACEP/AHA textbook, Emergency Cardiovascular Care and CPR. Dr. O’Connor has also served on the scientific review committee as a reviewer for Emergency Medicine Foundation grant applications, the EMS committee and the injury and trauma committee.

Dr. O’Connor, a graduate of Haverford College, earned his medical degree from the Medical College of Pennsylvania. He completed his residency in emergency medicine at the Medical Center of Delaware. He received his master’s degree in public health at the Medical College of Wisconsin.