Andrew C. Meltzer, MD, MS

Andrew C. Meltzer, MD MS FACEP is a Professor of Emergency Medicine and the Chief of the Clinical Research Section at the George Washington University School of Medicine. Dr. Meltzer completed his MD at SUNY Downstate, residency in Emergency Medicine at the University of Maryland and R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, and his fellowship in Clinical Research at the University of Maryland. He is a Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) and member of the ACEP Clinical Policies Committee and the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) Research Committee. He was an author of the GRACE-2 Guidelines for Abdominal Pan and served as a member of the External Oversight Board for the SIREN research network. As part of an international team, he developed guidelines for the acute management of gastrointestinal bleeding. He was the principal investigator on the NIH-funded multi-center randomized control trial on medical expulsive therapy for renal colic. In addition, he was the PI on a multi-center trial examining novel way to diagnose gastrointestinal hemorrhage, the site PI on the CDC Recover grant, and the overall PI for the HYPERACT trial examining acute management of patients with respiratory distress. He has experience working with two successful technology companies as a chief medical officer. As of this writing, Dr. Meltzer had over 60 peer-reviewed authorships indexed in PubMed with over 1500 citations.