Brendan G. Carr

About Brendan G. Carr

Brendan Carr, MD, MA, MS, the Chief Executive Officer, and Professor and Kenneth L. Davis, MD, Distinguished Chair of the Mount Sinai Health System, is nationally recognized as a leader in academic medicine and health policy. Dr. Carr, who has practiced clinical emergency medicine for more than 20 years, is a renowned emergency physician and health policy researcher. He has focused on building regional systems of emergency care, especially for trauma, stroke, cardiac arrest, and sepsis, and developing innovative delivery system solutions to create a more distributed and accessible acute-care delivery system. He has served in an advisory role to domestic and international organizations and is a member of the National Academy of Medicine.Dr. Carr previously served on the faculty at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and as an Associate Dean of the Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. In addition to his academic accomplishments, Dr. Carr also served the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in a variety of roles focused on improving trauma and emergency care delivery for the nation. Most recently, he was a special adviser on preparedness and response. In that capacity, his principal focus was on understanding how the emergency care infrastructure of the nation’s health care system could be strengthened to ensure the ability to respond during large-scale threats to the public’s health.In his research, Dr. Carr initially focused on high-acuity care, but found that the full breadth of emergency care also includes lower-acuity care. As the health care delivery system has evolved, emergency medicine—including urgent care and telemedicine—has emerged as a key home for unscheduled acute care. Integrating emergency care into this broader health care delivery system has launched new research portfolios focused on understanding the association between unscheduled care and population health, how payment and regulatory functions influence care utilization and outcomes, and how delivery system innovations can make health care more timely, efficient, and patient-centered.An accomplished researcher, he has authored more than 175 manuscripts, and has received funding from the National Institutes of Health, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and multiple foundations.

Experience

1. Chief Executive Officer

   Mount Sinai Health System

   Jan 2024 — Present · New York, NY, US

Education

• Bryn Mawr College

  Post-Baccalaureate Pre-Medical Program

  1997

• Loyola University Maryland

  Master of Arts - MA, Clinical Psychology

  1996

• Temple University

  Doctor of Medicine - MD

  2001

• Loyola University Maryland

  Bachelor of Arts - BA, Psychology

  1994

• University of Pennsylvania

  Master of Science - MS, Health Policy Research

  2008