Rich H. Sinert, DO

Dr. Richard SInert, DO, is the Vice-Chair In-Charge of Research and Full Professor of Emergency Medicine at Kings County Hospital NYC Health and Hospitals and State University of New York Downstate Health Sciences Univeristy. After completing Residency training in Internal Medicine at Kings County and a Nephrology Fellowship at Mt. Sinai Hospital, he returned to Kings County. Dr. Sinert helped develop an Emergency Medicine Residency training program at Kings County and University Hospital of Brooklyn. Recognizing Dr. Sinert’s contributions to the field of Emergency Medicine, The American Board of Emergency Medicine granted him board certification. As Research Director, Dr. Sinert has mentored many residents, fellows, and junior faculty into promising academic careers in education, NIH, and Pharmaceutical Industry-sponsored research. As an educator, Dr. Sinert developed and proctored a twelve-hour lecture course, Biostatics, at SUNY-Downstate. Dr. Sinert was an active Human Institutional Review Board member and Chaired the Animal Care and Use Committee for many years. In the last 15-20 years, Dr. Sinert has focused on evidence-based medicine and has written many systematic reviews and meta-analyses. Recently, Dr. Sinert was honored by the Society of Academic Emergency (SAEM) by being asked to co-head all the systematic reviews and meta-analyses for the GRACE (Guidelines for Reasonable and Appropriate Care in the Emergency Department )project on Syncope. Dr. Sinert is on the editorial board as Decision Editor for Academic Emergency Medicine Journal, the leading SAEM publication.