Knox H. Todd

Dr. Todd received his medical training from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and the UCLA School of Public Health. He is residency-trained and board-certified in both internal medicine and emergency medicine. He began his academic career at Emory University in Atlanta, where he served as Medical Director of the Grady Memorial Hospital Emergency Department, received tenure, and became the founding Vice Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine. He subsequently moved to New York where he joined the faculty of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and established the Pain and Emergency Medicine Institute at Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan. In 2011, he became the founding Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. This is the first academic department of emergency medicine within a comprehensive cancer center.

Dr. Todd conducted the first studies of ethnic disparities in analgesic use and has developed a network of collaborators in emergency medicine, pain medicine and palliative care who work with him to advocate for excellence in emergency department practice in these areas.