Ted Corbin, MD, MPP

Ted Corbin, MD, MPP, Professor and Chairperson, Department of Emergency Medicine, Rush University Medical Center. Prior to joining Rush, I was Professor of Emergency Medicine and Public Health, and Associate Dean of Community & External Affairs at Drexel University. I also served as Co-Director of the Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice at Drexel University School of Public Health where I was the Founder and Medical Director of Healing Hurt People, an emergency department-based, trauma-informed intervention strategy that works with victims of violence. My work has a special focus on the role of emergency departments in reducing trauma for victims of violence, which has been central to my research and to my success in growing a trauma-informed hospital-based violence intervention. I have worked with a number of organizations and foundations to advance this work including the City of Philadelphia Department of Behavioral Health and disAbility Service the Soros Foundation, the Annie E. Casey Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. I am a veteran the United States Army Reserve and I began my career as a biology teacher at a vocational high school in Bronx, New York.I earned my BS in biology from Lincoln University, my MD from Drexel University College of Medicine, and my Master of Public Policy (MPP) degree from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (formerly the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs).