Joshua Schiller, MD

Dr. Joshua Schiller is currently an Attending Physician, Director of International Programming, and Director of Social EM for the Department of Emergency Medicine at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY. He holds a Master of International Affairs with a Certificate of Expertise in Middle East studies from Columbia University and trained in Emergency Medicine at Stony Brook University Hospital. He also works in part with a charitable organization he helped found called International Medical Response, which sends teams of doctors to countries like Rwanda and Haiti. He is a big believer in the power of stories and encourages residents (as well as anyone else who listens) to read as many books as possible outside the profession to gain perspective and context to the work that we do.

Selected Scholarly Activity:

Singer, A. J., Shembekar, A., Visram, F., Schiller, J., Russo, V., Lawson, W., ... & Henry, M. C. (2007). Emergency department activation of an interventional cardiology team reduces door-to-balloon times in ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction. Annals of emergency medicine, 50(5), 538-544.

Schiller, J., McCormack, J. E., Tarsia, V., Shapiro, M. J., Singer, A. J., Thode Jr, H. C., & Henry, M. C. (2009). The effect of adding a second helicopter on trauma-related mortality in a county-based trauma system. Prehospital Emergency Care, 13(4), 437-443.

Smith, C., Likourezos, A., & Schiller, J. (2019). Focused teaching improves medical student professionalism and data gathering skills in the emergency department. Cureus, 11(9).

Schiller, J., & Brown, M. J. (2018). Bouncing Back: The Intensity of EM, the Healing Power of Art. Emergency Medicine News, 40(4), 30-32.

Lam, R., Schiller, J., & Zuckerman, M. (2018). Bouncing Back: Group Therapy on Tap. Emergency Medicine News, 40(10), 32.

Press Mention:

Brooklyn doctors head to train medical professionals in Ukraine