Specialties & Experience of this Expert Witness

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Benjamin A. White, MD is a board-certified emergency physician at the Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Emergency Medicine, and an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He also currently serves as the Director of the Center for Emergency Medicine Innovation, and the Director of ED Observation. He also serves as the Director of Patient Experience for Mass General Brigham (MGB) Emergency Medicine. He previously served as Director of Clinical Operations at MGH, and chair of the ED Operations Committee, a group charged with overseeing the systems, processes and procedures that support optimal and efficient patient care in the MGH ED. He recently served as Co-Chair of the ED Operations Management Committee of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM) and as Co-Chair of the ED Operations Interest Group of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM). He serves on multiple committees charged with developing and vetting national guidelines and recommendations, including the Emergency Medicine Practice Committee of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), and the ED Administration and Clinical Operations Committee of SAEM. Dr. White received his undergraduate degree from Yale University, and his M.D. from Harvard Medical School. He then completed his residency in Emergency Medicine at the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency Program (HAEMR), where he served as chief resident in his final year. Ben’s academic work has focused on ED operations and systems improvement, with an emphasis on systems engineering, process flow, Lean methodologies, rapid cycle change, and improving patient experience. He has led multiple grant-funded projects in this capacity, with resultant peer-reviewed publications, and has lectured nationally on these topics at all three large emergency medicine societies, AAEM, SAEM, and ACEP, and through multiple other invited presentations. He is also a gifted teacher, and has educated hundreds of students, residents, APPs, and nurses throughout his career.