Craig Newgard, MD, MPH

Craig Newgard, MD, MPH is an emergency physician and scientist in the UCSF Department of Emergency Medicine. He is an attending physician in the emergency department (ED) at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital & Trauma Center, the only county hospital and trauma center for San Francisco, California. Dr. Newgard grew up in the Bay Area, attended University of California at Davis for undergraduate studies and worked as an EMT for an ambulance company in San Francisco while in college. He attended Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine in Chicago for medical school and did emergency medicine residency at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, followed by a research fellowship and MPH in Epidemiology at the UCLA School of Public Health.

Dr. Newgard was on faculty in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) from 2002-2025, including serving as Director of the OHSU Center for Policy and Research in Emergency Medicine from 2008 to 2025. He has extensive experience studying, evaluating, and seeking to improve emergency care systems through data science, clinical research, and health policy, with a focus on emergency medical services, trauma care, systems engineering, and the use of advanced statistical methods. Dr. Newgard has been continuously funded through federal research grants (NIH, AHRQ, CDC, HRSA, and NSF) since 2000 and involved in many large, collaborative, multi-site research efforts. He has held research leadership positions with the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma, National Quality Forum, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Pediatric Readiness Program, Coalition for National Trauma Research, Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, American College of Emergency Physicians, and the Oregon Medical Association. Since 2018, his research focus has been on ED pediatric readiness and seeking to improve the emergency care of children across the U.S. Dr. Newgard has also been actively involved in training and mentoring the next generation of physician-scientists, serving as PI of two NIH-funded K12 research training programs in Emergency Care Research and mentoring over 60 research trainees. In 2019, he was elected to the National Academy of Medicine.