James R. Miner, MN FACEP

James Miner, MD, is the Chair of Emergency Medicine at Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC) and Professor and Department Head of EM at the University of Minnesota. He earned his medical degree in 1996 from Mayo Medical School in Rochester, MN and completed his residency in EM at HCMC in 1999, and then joined the HCMC Emergency Department faculty. He was the research director of the Department of Emergency Medicine from 2005-2013, the Associate Medical Director for Physician Development of HCMC from 2011-2013, and has been the Chair of Emergency Medicine there since 2014. He also became the Department Head of Emergency Medicine at the University of Minnesota in 2019. Dr. Miner is the Senior Associate Editor for Electronic Publications of Academic Emergency Medicine.

Dr. Miner conducts research in the areas of agitation management, airway management, pain management, and procedural sedation in the Emergency Department. He has edited a textbook on pain management and sedation (Emergency Pain and Sedation, Cambridge University Press, 2008) and has authored chapters about pain management and sedation in several other textbooks. He also conducts research in the effects of poverty on patients seen in the Emergency Department.