Tsuyoshi Mitarai, MD, FACEP, FAAEM

Dr. Tsuyoshi Mitarai was born and grew up in Japan until he was 17. He graduated from University of Rochester School of Medicine in 2002 and completed his combined internal medicine/emergency medicine residency at University of Maryland in 2007. He finished his critical care fellowship at Stanford University in 2009, and stayed on as a faculty to attend in emergency department as well as medical ICU. He created an Emergency Critical Care Program (ECCP) in 2017 to improve the quality of care for critically ill patients in emergency department (https://www.acep.org/how-we-serve/sections/critical-care-medicine/news/july-2018/stanford-emergency-critical-care-program-eccp/). He was the first author of the manuscript that demonstrated 6 % decrease in inhospital mortality associated with the ECCP (Crit Care Med. 2023 PMID: 37010317). He earned multiple teaching awards including Outstanding Educator Award (2019, Stanford University, CA), The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Award for Excellence in Clinical Teaching, (2015, 2019, Stanford University, CA), and National Emergency Medicine Excellence in Bedside Teaching Award (2024, ACEP). The ECCP received 2024 Society of Critical Care Medicine Patient Safety First! Award (2025, SCCM)