Zachary F. Meisel, MD, MPH, MSHP

Zachary F. Meisel, MD, MPH, MS, is the William G. Baxt Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, where he serves as vice chair of research and director of the Center for Emergency Care Policy and Research. He also co-directs the Penn Injury Science Center and is a senior fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics.

Dr. Meisel earned his undergraduate degree from Columbia University, his Master of Public Health and medical degree from Johns Hopkins University, and his Master of Science in health policy research from the University of Pennsylvania. He completed his emergency medicine residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar.

His work focuses on emergency care access, patient safety, health policy, and the use of narrative medicine to improve communication and evidence translation. He leads the Life STORRIED study, a multicenter clinical trial on risk communication for pain management and opioid use disorder, and has secured more than $11 million in federal research funding.

Dr. Meisel serves as senior associate editor for health communication for Academic Emergency Medicine and has published widely on communication and policy in emergency care.