Emergency medicine faculty at UAMC picks up Bobrow
Dr. Bentley J. Bobrow joined the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Tucson as distinguished professor.
He also will join Dr. Daniel Spaite as co-director of EMS research and associate director of the Arizona Emergency Medicine Research Center.
Bobrow serves as medical director for the Arizona Department of Health Services’ Bureau of Emergency Medical Services and Trauma System. He will continue to serve in this role as he joins the UA faculty.
The UA said in a news release that he is renowned for his work on improving outcomes for time-sensitive emergency medical conditions. He developed a a statewide reporting and educational network for responding to out-of-hospital cardiac arrest that has “resulted in a doubling in the rate of bystanders performing CPR and a quadrupling of survival with good neurologic outcome from sudden cardiac arrest in Arizona since 2004.”
Bobrow is the principal investigator for the HeartRescue Program in Arizona and is medical director of a Clinton Global Health Initiative to implement and measure telecommunicator-CPR across the United States and Asia. His numerous awards include the American Heart Association’s Best Resuscitation Science Award.
Bobrow, a graduate of the UA, received his medical degree from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia and his emergency medicine residency training at Maricopa Medical Center in Phoenix.
