Girish Bobby Kapur, MD

Faculty Appointments:

Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine
Director, International Emergency Medicine Fellowship
Assistant Professor, School of Public Health

Degrees:

MPH, Harvard University, 2004
MD,Baylor College of Medicine, 1998
BA, Rice University, 1993

Residency Training:

Fellowship in International Emergency Medicine at Harvard University
Residency in Emergency Medicine at Yale University

Special Interests:

Girish Bobby Kapur, M.D., M.P.H. serves as the Director of the International Emergency Medicine Fellowship Program at the Ronald Reagan Institute and is an assistant professor at the George Washington University at both the School of Medicine and the School of Public Health. Dr. Kapur has designed and taught emergency medicine training programs for international physicians, nurses and primary healthcare workers. In addition to emergency medicine education, Dr. Kapur has experience working on the development of emergency health care systems in low and middle-income countries with an emphasis upon low-cost, high-yield strategies for patients who present with acute medical conditions. He has collaborated with partners throughout the Middle East, South America, Africa, India, China, and Eastern Europe. Dr. Kapur is board certified in Emergency Medicine. In the specific areas of disaster medicine and complex humanitarian emergencies, Dr. Kapur trained at the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva, Switzerland in the Health Emergencies in Large Populations (H.E.L.P.) course.

Selected Publications:

*Alagappan K, Schafermeyer R, Holliman CJ, Iserson K, MD, Sheridan IA, Kapur
GB, Thomas T, Smith J, Bayram J. *"International Emergency Medicine and the
Role for Academic Emergency Medicine." *Academic Emergency Medicine*.
2007;14:451456.

*Kapur GB, Hutson HR, Davis MA, Rice PL*. "The United States Twenty-Year
Experience with Bombing Incidents: Implications for Terrorism Preparedness
and Medical Response." *Journal of Trauma*. 2005;59:1436-1444.

*Doney MK, Smith J, Kapur GB*. "Funding Emergency Medicine Development in
Low and Middle-Income Countries." *Emergency Medicine Clinics of North
America*. 2005;23:45-56.

*Kapur B*. "A Resident's Night in the ER." In Donaldson R, Lundgren K,
and Spiro H (eds.): *The Yale Guide to Careers in Medicine and the Health Professions*.
New Haven, Yale University Press, 2003, pp. 127-133.