Craig Newgard, MD, MPH
Professor
Emergency Medicine
School of Medicine

Craig Newgard, MD, MPH is an emergency physician and scientist in the UCSF Department of Emergency Medicine, where he serves as Vice Chair of Clinical Research. He is an attending physician in the emergency department (ED) at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital & Trauma Center, the only county hospital and trauma center for San Francisco, California.

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Dr. Newgard grew up in the Bay Area, attended the University of California, Davis, for undergraduate studies, and worked as an EMT for an ambulance company in San Francisco while in college. He attended Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine in Chicago for medical school and did an emergency medicine residency at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, followed by a research fellowship and an MPH in Epidemiology at the UCLA School of Public Health.

Dr. Newgard was on faculty in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) from 2002-2025, including serving as Director of the OHSU Center for Policy and Research in Emergency Medicine from 2008 to 2025. He has extensive experience in studying, evaluating, and improving emergency care systems through data science, clinical research, and health policy, with a focus on emergency medical services, trauma care, systems engineering, and advanced statistical methods. Dr. Newgard has been continuously funded through federal research grants (NIH, AHRQ, CDC, HRSA, and NSF) since 2000 and has been involved in many large, collaborative, multi-site research efforts. He has held research leadership positions with the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma, the National Quality Forum, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Pediatric Readiness Program, the Coalition for National Trauma Research, the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, the American College of Emergency Physicians, and the Oregon Medical Association. Since 2018, his research focus has been on ED pediatric readiness and seeking to improve the emergency care of children across the U.S. Dr. Newgard has also been actively involved in training and mentoring the next generation of physician-scientists, serving as PI of two NIH-funded K12 research training programs in Emergency Care Research and mentoring over 60 research trainees. In 2019, he was elected to the National Academy of Medicine.

Awards

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  • Department of Emergency Medicine Clinician of the Year, Oregon Health & Science University, 2025
  • Department of Emergency Medicine Attending Most Likely to Make You A Better Physician, Oregon Health & Science University, 2024
  • National Academy of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, 2019
  • SAEM Excellence in Research, Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, 2017
  • Department of Emergency Medicine Academic Instructor of the Year, Oregon Health & Science University, 2009
  • Department of Emergency Medicine Academic Instructor of the Year, Oregon Health & Science University, 2006
  • SAEM Young Investigator of the Year, Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, 2005
  • Department of Emergency Medicine Academic Instructor of the Year, Oregon Health & Science University, 2004

Education & Training

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  • Research Fellowship in Emergency Medicine Harbor-UCLA Medical Center 2002
  • MPH Epidemiology University of California Los Angeles 2001
  • Emergency Medicine Harbor-UCLA Medical Center 2000
  • MD Medicine Loyola Stritch School of Medicine 1997
  • BS Nutrition Science University of California Davis 1992

Interests

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  • emergency medical services
  • pediatric emergency care
  • field triage
  • system engineering
  • emergency care
  • trauma

Publications (221)

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