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Zachary Ginsberg

Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Emergency Medicine
DUMC 3096, Durham, NC 27710
2600 Duke Hospital North, Durham, NC 27710

Selected Presentations & Appearances


Ohio Under Covid - Ethics Center Quarterly Seminar · June 27, 2023 Invited Talk Cincinnati Children's Ethics Center
Moving from Informed to Insightful Consent & Decision-Making at the End of Life - Trauma & Critical Care Surgery Grand Rounds · October 2020 Lecture Duke University
Inter-facility transport of patients with time-sensitive critical illness: A geospatial analysis - 2017 Critical Care Congress · January 2017 National Scientific Meeting Society of Critical Care Medicine

Galvagno SM, Vasilyeva Y, Widener MJ, Tran Q, Rubinson L, Ginsberg Z, Scalea TM, O’Connor J.

Developing Comfort with the Uncomfortable: Status Update on Adrenal Insufficiency - R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Critical Care Lecture Series · February 2015 Lecture
Health and Geography: Adding Value by Accounting for Environment in Healthcare Delivery - Geography Colloquium Health and Medical Geography Speaker Series · November 2014 Invited Talk University of Cincinnati
Hieroglyphics of the Intensivist: Demystifying the Ventilator - R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Critical Care Lecture Series · October 2014 Lecture
Exploring the Role of Geographic Information Science in Aeromedical Emergency Medical Systems. - Surgical and Trauma Grand Rounds · June 12, 2014 Broadcast Appearance Shock Trauma Center and University of Maryland
Time Cost Tradeoffs between Ground and Helicopter Emergency Medical Services - AAG Annual Meeting · April 22, 2014 National Scientific Meeting American Association of Geographers
Massive Transfusion Protocols and Practices - ON POINT research initiative · September 2013 Invited Talk University of Maryland
A Case of Severe H1N1 in a Healthy Adult with Broad Implications for Public Health Planning - American Thoracic Society International Conference · May 19, 2010 International Meeting or Conference American Thoracic Society

Service to the Profession


Taskforce Member - Joint SCCM-ACEP taskforce on ICU boarding in the ED · 2017 - 2020 Committee Service ACEP-SCCM
Committee Member - Federal Government Affairs Committee · 2010 - 2013 Committee Service American College of Emergency Physicians
Committee Member - Government Affairs Committee · 2010 - 2012 Committee Service New York ACEP
Chair - Legislative Affairs Committee · 2008 - 2009 Committee Service Rhode Island American College of Emergency Physicians

Service to Duke


Ethics Committee (Other) · 2020 Committee Service Duke University

Academic & Administrative Activities


Medical Director of Trauma Operations in the Emergency Department