Danielle M. McCarthy, MD, MS

Danielle McCarthy is an Associate Professor and the Vice Chair of Research in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. She completed her undergraduate studies at Harvard University followed by medical school at Northwestern University. After finishing residency training at Northwestern in 2010, she completed a National Service Research Award T32 fellowship and earned a Masters degree in Health Services and Outcomes Research. Since completing her training in 2012, she has been funded continuously as PI, Site-PI or Co-I on multiple grants from a range of funding agencies, including the NIH, AHRQ, the FDA and the Emergency Medicine Foundation. She is the current PI of an AHRQ R01 as well as an AHRQ R18.

Dr. McCarthy has content area expertise is in doctor-patient communication in the emergency department, risk communication, and diagnostic uncertainty, as well as methodologic expertise in clinical trials design and qualitative methods.