Girish Bobby Kapur, MD, MPH, CPE, FACEP

President, AHN Emergency Medicine Management

System Chair, AHN Emergency Medicine Institute

Professor of Emergency Medicine, Drexel University College of Medicine

 

Girish Bobby Kapur, MD, MPH is a Certified Physician Executive (CPE) with both U.S. and international achievements in establishing health systems, advancing public health platforms, and launching academic medical training programs.  Since January 1, 2020, he has been leading transformational change as President of the healthcare joint venture AHN Emergency Medicine Management between Allegheny Health Network (AHN) and US Acute Care Solutions (USACS). Dr. Kapur leads more than 250 emergency medicine, observation medicine, and hospital medicine clinicians who provide care to 600,000 patients at 19 hospitals. Dr. Kapur is System Chair of Emergency Medicine at AHN, Western Pennsylvania Regional Vice President for USACS, and Professor of Emergency Medicine at Drexel University College of Medicine.

 

Previously, Dr. Kapur was the Chief of Emergency Medicine at Jackson Health System in Miami, FL from 2015-2019. Dr. Kapur launched academic Emergency Medicine at Jackson Memorial Hospital and the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, and he started the 1st ACGME Emergency Medicine Residency program in South Florida. 

 

From 2009-2015, he served as the Vice Chair for Academic Affairs and the Founding Residency Program Director in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM). Based on his international accomplishments, Dr. Kapur was appointed the Founding Director of the Center for Globalization.  In September 2014, Dr. Kapur led a six-person team that trained nearly 1,500 people in Ebola preparedness and response in Nigeria during the middle of the epidemic in the country.  

 

Before his roles at BCM, Dr. Kapur directed global health training programs and international projects at the Ronald Reagan Institute for Emergency Medicine at George Washington University (GWU) from 2004-2009.  At GWU, Dr. Kapur established multiple academic training programs and acute healthcare systems with partners in India, China, Latin America and the Middle East.  In addition, Dr. Kapur implemented a countrywide project in Turkey that trained more than 2,000 physicians providing emergency care in Turkey’s national hospitals.

 

Dr. Kapur received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Rice University and his Medical Doctor degree from Baylor College of Medicine. He then completed his Emergency Medicine residency from Yale School of Medicine followed by a fellowship in international emergency medicine from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard School of Medicine. He completed his Master in Public Health (MPH) from the Harvard School of Public Health. 

 

Dr. Kapur serves on the Board of the National Association of Free & Charitable Clinics, the Editorial Board of the Physician Leadership Journal, and served four years on the Board of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine.

 

Dr. Kapur has published multiple peer-reviewed papers and is the senior editor for the first textbook in the field of Emergency Public Health titled Emergency Public Health: Preparedness and Response.