Ali S. Raja, MD

Ali S. Raja, MD, is the Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Mass General Brigham and a Professor of Emergency Medicine and Radiology at Harvard Medical School. He is board-certified in Emergency Medicine, Clinical Informatics, and Health Care Administration, Leadership, and Management. Dr. Raja earned his MD and MBA from Duke University, an MPH from Harvard University, and a DBA from Case Western Reserve University. He completed his emergency medicine residency at the University of Cincinnati, followed by a fellowship in clinical informatics at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

A practicing emergency physician, Dr. Raja is the author and editor of more than 300 publications, including three textbooks and a children’s book series. His research focuses on improving the appropriateness of resource utilization in emergency medicine. He serves on the boards of Boston MedFlight and the Spaulding Rehabilitation Network and has held leadership roles as President of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine and the Massachusetts Chapter of the American College of Healthcare Executives. He was also the Editor-in-Chief of The New England Journal of Medicine’s Journal Watch Emergency Medicine.

An expert in the care of critically ill patients in both emergency department and prehospital settings, Dr. Raja has served as a critical care air transport team commander and flight surgeon for the U.S. Air Force, a civilian flight physician, and a tactical physician for the FBI, Massachusetts State Police, and Cincinnati Police Department. He has also deployed as a physician with MA-1 DMAT.