Emergency Medicine Division Director
Florida Atlantic University Schmidt College of Medicine
Richard was born and raised in Wilmington, Delaware. He completed a 5-year accelerated medical-premedical program at Pennsylvania State University-Thomas Jefferson Medical School in 1988. He completed a surgical internship at the University of Maryland, an Emergency Medicine residency at the Medical Center of Delaware and a Medical Toxicology fellowship at the New York Poison Center, Bellevue-NYU Medical Center. He has over 100 peer-reviewed publications with a Google Scholar h-Index of 34 and an i10-index of 63, placing him within the Top 1% of EM clinical researchers in the United States. He also has authored over 20 textbook chapters and co-authored three textbooks. His current grant funding and area of research interest involves geriatric emergency department patients with head injury and fall related injury. He has received a number of teaching awards including the American College of Emergency Physicians National Faculty Teaching Award and the American Academy of Emergency Medicine Educator of The Year Award. He has served as an Emergency Medicine Program Director for 23 years (1996-2019). In 2015 he took over the leadership of the newly created Division of Emergency Medicine at the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine at Florida Atlantic University where he is a Professor of Emergency Medicine and served as the founding Residency Program Director.