Deputy Chair Emerg Med MGH Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital

Professor of Emergency Medicine Harvard Medical School

Professor of Radiology Harvard Medical School

Physician Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital

MD Duke University School of Medicine 2004

angiography; craniocerebral trauma; decision support systems, clinical; emergency service, hospital; headache; pulmonary embolism; tomography, x-ray computed Ali S. Raja, MD, MBA, MPH is Executive Vice Chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Raja received his MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health, holds MD and MBA degrees from Duke University and, after training in emergency medicine at the University of Cincinnati, completed a research fellowship at Brigham and Women's Hospital. He is board certified in both emergency medicine and clinical informatics, and is appointed to both the Departments of Emergency Medicine and Radiology at HMS.

A practicing emergency physician and author of over 100 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters, his federally-funded research focuses on improving the appropriateness of resource utilization in emergency medicine.  He currently serves as Chair of the American College of Emergency Physicians' Trauma and Injury Prevention Section and the Society for Emergency Medicine's Trauma Interest Group, and is on the Guidelines Committee of the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma.

Dr. Raja is also an expert on the management of critically ill patients in the emergency department and prehospital arenas. He has served as a civilian flight physician, a critical care air transport team commander for the US Air Force Reserve, a tactical physician for a number of local, state, and federal agencies, and a physician with MA-1 DMAT.