Justin K. Brooten, MD

Dr. Brooten currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, and the Associate Program director of the Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship at the Wake Forest School of Medicine. He is dual board certified in Emergency Medicine and Hospice and Palliative Care and has appointments in the Wake Forest School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine and the Department of Internal Medicine, Section on Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine. His research interests and educational endeavors focus on the emergency care of older adults and the early integration of palliative care in emergency medical care settings, including prehospital emergency care. In addition, he is interested in the use of clinical informatics methods and utilizing EMR systems to identify patients at high risk for in hospital mortality, and other patient populations who may benefit from early palliative care interventions. He is the co-founder and CEO of PalliEM.org, a website and podcast with the mission of providing free online medical education resources to clinicians interested in applying palliative care principles and skills in emergency medical settings. He completed his medical training at the Medical College of Georgia/UGA medical partnership, and his residency and fellowship training at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine, in Winston Salem North Carolina. He currently practices emergency medicine in community and academic settings, and is also an inpatient palliative care consultant at Atrium Health, Wake Forest Baptist. He is happy to call the beautiful piedmont region of North Carolina home, where he lives with his wife and two children.