Andy S. Jagoda
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Andy S. Jagoda, M.D., is an American
author
and Professor and Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Mount Sinai Medical Center
in New York City
. He has edited and authored 13 books, including The Good Housekeeping Family First Aid Book (ISBN 0688178944) and the textbook Neurologic Emergencies (ISBN 0071402926). He is an editor of the 8th edition of Rosen’s Emergency Medicine (ISBN 13978032305472-0).
Jagoda is recognized nationally for his involvement in medical education and his expertise in the area of neurologic emergencies, including traumatic brain injury
.
in 1982. He completed a residency in emergency medicine at the joint program of Georgetown/ George Washington
/Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services System in 1985.
As a doctor in the United States Navy
, Jagoda completed two tours in the Middle East
, first during the Iran-Iraq War
, and then again during Desert Storm/Desert Shield
. He earned a Navy Achievement Medal
for leading a resuscitation augmentation medical team in 1988 and in 1991 received the Navy Commendation Medal for meritorious service on the USNS Comfort
. In 1990, he earned the rank of Lieutenant Commander
. He was later made Assistant Professor at the Department of Military Medicine/Emergency Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
in Bethesda, Maryland
. He was honorably discharged from the Navy in 1991.
After his military service, Jagoda joined the faculty of George Washington University, then the University of Florida
. He joined the staff at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in 1995, earning the rank of Professor of Emergency Medicine with tenure in 2000. In 2009, he was named Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine.
Jagoda is Editor-in-chief of Emergency Medicine Practice and an editorial board member of the Annals of Emergency Medicine
. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Brain Attack Coalition at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
(part of the National Institutes of Health
) and of the Executive Board of the Foundation for Education and Research on Neurologic Emergencies (FERNE). He is also on the advisory board of the Indian Head Injury Foundation and of the Brain Trauma Foundation
where he also serves as the EMS Director. He is past chair of the Clinical Policies Committee of the American College of Emergency Physicians
(ACEP), where his work with the committee for 14 years facilitated the evolution from a consensus-based process to an evidence-based process and promoted ACEP’s practice guideline methodology both nationally and internationally. He has organized evidence-based symposiums in Italy
, Holland, and Chile
and co-organized the first Joint ACEP/Italian Congress on Emergency Medicine (in Torino
). He is currently the ACEP's ambassador to Italy.
Jagoda is an active member of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine and the New York Academy of Medicine
.
United States
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author
Author
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and Professor and Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Mount Sinai Medical Center
Mount Sinai Hospital, New York
Mount Sinai Hospital, founded in 1852, is one of the oldest and largest teaching hospitals in the United States. In 2011-2012, Mount Sinai Hospital was ranked as one of America's best hospitals by U.S...
in New York City
New York City
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. He has edited and authored 13 books, including The Good Housekeeping Family First Aid Book (ISBN 0688178944) and the textbook Neurologic Emergencies (ISBN 0071402926). He is an editor of the 8th edition of Rosen’s Emergency Medicine (ISBN 13978032305472-0).
Jagoda is recognized nationally for his involvement in medical education and his expertise in the area of neurologic emergencies, including traumatic brain injury
Traumatic brain injury
Traumatic brain injury , also known as intracranial injury, occurs when an external force traumatically injures the brain. TBI can be classified based on severity, mechanism , or other features...
.
Education, military and professional careers
Jagoda received his medical degree from Georgetown UniversityGeorgetown University Medical Center
Georgetown University Medical Center is the medical campus at Georgetown University. It is also a $225 million biomedical research and educational organization. The Medical Center contains over 80% of Georgetown University's sponsored research funding and is led by Howard J...
in 1982. He completed a residency in emergency medicine at the joint program of Georgetown/ George Washington
George Washington University Medical School
The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences was established in 1824 due to the need for doctors in the District of Columbia but formally opened its doors a year later in 1825. It is the eleventh oldest medical school in the country and the first medical school...
/Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services System in 1985.
As a doctor in the United States Navy
United States Navy
The United States Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The U.S. Navy is the largest in the world; its battle fleet tonnage is greater than that of the next 13 largest navies combined. The U.S...
, Jagoda completed two tours in the Middle East
Middle East
The Middle East is a region that encompasses Western Asia and Northern Africa. It is often used as a synonym for Near East, in opposition to Far East...
, first during the Iran-Iraq War
Iran-Iraq War
The Iran–Iraq War was an armed conflict between the armed forces of Iraq and Iran, lasting from September 1980 to August 1988, making it the longest conventional war of the twentieth century...
, and then again during Desert Storm/Desert Shield
Gulf War
The Persian Gulf War , commonly referred to as simply the Gulf War, was a war waged by a U.N.-authorized coalition force from 34 nations led by the United States, against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait.The war is also known under other names, such as the First Gulf...
. He earned a Navy Achievement Medal
Achievement Medal
The Achievement Medal is a military decoration of the United States military. The Achievement Medal was first proposed as a means to recognize the contributions of junior officers and enlisted personnel who were not eligible to receive the higher Commendation Medal or the Meritorious Service...
for leading a resuscitation augmentation medical team in 1988 and in 1991 received the Navy Commendation Medal for meritorious service on the USNS Comfort
USNS Comfort (T-AH-20)
USNS Comfort is the third United States Navy ship to bear the name Comfort, and the second to join the navy fleet. The USNS prefix identifies the Comfort as a non-commissioned ship owned by the U.S. Navy and crewed by civilians. In accordance with the Geneva Conventions, USNS Comfort and her...
. In 1990, he earned the rank of Lieutenant Commander
Lieutenant commander (United States)
Lieutenant commander is a mid-ranking officer rank in the United States Navy, the United States Coast Guard, the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Corps, with the pay grade of O-4 and NATO rank code OF-3...
. He was later made Assistant Professor at the Department of Military Medicine/Emergency Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
The Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences is a health science university run by the U.S. federal government. The primary mission of the school is to prepare graduates for service to the U.S. at home and abroad in the medical corps....
in Bethesda, Maryland
Bethesda, Maryland
Bethesda is a census designated place in southern Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, just northwest of Washington, D.C. It takes its name from a local church, the Bethesda Meeting House , which in turn took its name from Jerusalem's Pool of Bethesda...
. He was honorably discharged from the Navy in 1991.
After his military service, Jagoda joined the faculty of George Washington University, then the University of Florida
University of Florida
The University of Florida is an American public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university located on a campus in Gainesville, Florida. The university traces its historical origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its present Gainesville campus since September 1906...
. He joined the staff at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in 1995, earning the rank of Professor of Emergency Medicine with tenure in 2000. In 2009, he was named Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine.
Jagoda is Editor-in-chief of Emergency Medicine Practice and an editorial board member of the Annals of Emergency Medicine
Annals of Emergency Medicine
The Annals of Emergency Medicine is a peer-reviewed medical journal. It is the official journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians ....
. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Brain Attack Coalition at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke is a part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health . It conducts and funds research on brain and nervous system disorders and has a budget of just over US$1.5 billion...
(part of the National Institutes of Health
National Institutes of Health
The National Institutes of Health are an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services and are the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and health-related research. Its science and engineering counterpart is the National Science Foundation...
) and of the Executive Board of the Foundation for Education and Research on Neurologic Emergencies (FERNE). He is also on the advisory board of the Indian Head Injury Foundation and of the Brain Trauma Foundation
Brain Trauma Foundation
The Brain Trauma Foundation was founded in 1986 to develop research on traumatic brain injury . Since its formation the foundation's mission has expanded to improving the outcome of TBI patients nationwide through working to implement evidence-based guidelines for prehospital and in-hospital care,...
where he also serves as the EMS Director. He is past chair of the Clinical Policies Committee of the American College of Emergency Physicians
American College of Emergency Physicians
The American College of Emergency Physicians is the first and largest professional organization of emergency medicine physicians in the United States. It was founded in 1968 and is now headquartered in Irving, Texas. As of 2009 ACEP has over 28,000 physician members.The college exists to support...
(ACEP), where his work with the committee for 14 years facilitated the evolution from a consensus-based process to an evidence-based process and promoted ACEP’s practice guideline methodology both nationally and internationally. He has organized evidence-based symposiums in Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
, Holland, and Chile
Chile
Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...
and co-organized the first Joint ACEP/Italian Congress on Emergency Medicine (in Torino
Turín
Turín is a municipality in the Ahuachapán department of El Salvador....
). He is currently the ACEP's ambassador to Italy.
Jagoda is an active member of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine and the New York Academy of Medicine
New York Academy of Medicine
The New York Academy of Medicine was founded in 1847 by a group of leading New York City metropolitan area physicians as a voice for the medical profession in medical practice and public health reform...
.
Memberships and affilliations
- Executive Board Member, Foundation for Education and Research on Neurologic Emergencies
- Active Member, American College of Emergency Physicians
- Active Member, Society for Academy Emergency Medicine
- Advisory Board Member, Brain Trauma FoundationBrain Trauma FoundationThe Brain Trauma Foundation was founded in 1986 to develop research on traumatic brain injury . Since its formation the foundation's mission has expanded to improving the outcome of TBI patients nationwide through working to implement evidence-based guidelines for prehospital and in-hospital care,...
- Member of the Executive Committee, Brain Attack Coalition at the National Institute of Neurologic Disorders and Stroke
- Member, Editorial Board, Annals of Emergency Medicine
- Advisory Board, Traumatic Brain Injury Committee, Major League Baseball
Books
- The Good Housekeeping Family First Aid Book. Andy Jagoda, author. Hearst Publishers. 2000; 295 pages. ISBN 0688178944
- Jagoda A, Riggio S (guest editors): Seizures in the Emergency Department, Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America, W.B. Saunders, Philadelphia, November 1994. 220 pages.
- Howell J, Altieri M, Jagoda A, Prescott J, Scott J, Stair T (editors): Emergency Medicine, W.B. Saunders, Philadelphia, 1997; 1735 pages.
- Jagoda A, Richardson L (guest editors): Neurologic Emergencies, Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America, W. B. Saunders, Philadelphia, 1997; 230 pages.
- Jagoda A, Riggio S (guest editors): Psychiatric Emergencies, Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America, W.B. Saunders, Philadelphia, May 2000.
- Prehospital Brain Injury Task Force (Task force member), Guidelines for the prehospital management of traumatic brain injury. Brain Trauma Foundation Publication, New York 2000. 81 pages.
- Henry G, Jagoda A, Little N, Pelligrino T. Neurologic Emergencies. McGraw Hill, New York. 2003; 346 pages. ISBN 0071635211
- Jagoda A. Good Housekeeping Family First Aid Handbook, 2nd Edition. Hearst Publishers. 2004.
- Henry G, Jagoda A, Little N, Pelligrino T. Neurologic Emergencies, third edition. McGraw Hill, New York. April 2010; 389 pages.
- Riggio S, Jagoda A. Traumatic Brain Injury. Psychiatry Clinics of North America. Elsevier, Philadelphia. December 2010.
- Jagoda A, Sloan E. Seizures in the Emergency Department. Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America. Elsevier, Philadelphia. February 2011.
- Jagoda A, Riggio, S (editors). Traumatic Brain Injury: Improving the Continuum of Care. Indian Head Injury Foundation Publication. 183 pages.
- Marx J, Walls R, Hockberger R, Jagoda A, et al. Rosen's Emergency Medicine: Concepts and Clinical Practice, 8th edition. In progress for 2012.
Journal guest editor
- Jagoda A, Richardson L: Resuscitation: Issues and Future Directions. Mount Sinai Journal of MedicineMount Sinai Journal of MedicineThe Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine is a peer-reviewed medical journal that has been published continually since 1934 by the Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, later by the Mount Sinai School of Medicine....
1997;64:239-339. - Hermann L. Jagoda A.: Cardiac Emergencies Part I. Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine. Volume 73, Number 1, 2006.
- Hermann L. Jagoda A.: Cardiac Emergencies Part II. Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine. Volume 73, Number 2, 2006.
- Jagoda A: Transient Ischemic Attack Update. Ann Emerg Med 2008 (Suppl); 52: S1-S39.
- Riggio S, Jagoda A.: Traumatic Brain Injury: From Bench to Bedside to Home. Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine 2009; 76: 95-193
Publications
Partial list:- Shah AM, Vashi A, Jagoda A. Convulsive and non-convulsive status epilepticus: an emergency medicine perspective. Emerg Med Australas. 2009 Oct;21(5):352-66. PMID 19840084
- Bruns JJ Jr, Jagoda AS. Mild traumatic brain injury. Mt Sinai J Med. 2009 Apr;76(2):129-37. Review. PMID 19306376
- Riggio S, Jagoda A. "Traumatic brain injury: from bench to bedside to home." Mt Sinai J Med. 2009 Apr;76(2):95-6. PMID 19306370
- Jagoda AS, Bazarian JJ, Bruns JJ Jr, Cantrill SV, Gean AD, Howard PK, Ghajar J, Riggio S, Wright DW, Wears RL, Bakshy A, Burgess P, Wald MM, Whitson RR. Clinical policy: neuroimaging and decisionmaking in adult mild traumatic brain injury in the acute setting. J Emerg Nurs. 2009 Apr;35(2):e5-40. Review. PMID 19285163
- Jagoda AS, Bazarian JJ, Bruns JJ Jr, Cantrill SV, Gean AD, Howard PK, Ghajar J, Riggio S, Wright DW, Wears RL, Bakshy A, Burgess P, Wald MM, Whitson RR; American College of Emergency Physicians; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Clinical policy: neuroimaging and decisionmaking in adult mild traumatic brain injury in the acute setting. Ann Emerg Med. 2008 Dec;52(6):714-48. PMID 19027497
- Hermann L, Jagoda A. Opiates and acute pulmonary oedema: addicted to the wrong therapy. Emerg Med Australas. 2008 Oct;20(5):379-81. PMID 18973633
- Edlow JA, Panagos PD, Godwin SA, Thomas TL, Decker WW; American College of Emergency Physicians. Clinical policy: critical issues in the evaluation and management of adult patients presenting to the emergency department with acute headache. Ann Emerg Med. 2008 Oct;52(4):407-36. PMID 18809105
- Jagoda A, Chan YF. Transient ischemic attack overview: defining the challenges for improving outcomes. Ann Emerg Med. 2008 Aug;52(2):S3-6. PMID 18655917
- Wolf SJ, Lavonas EJ, Sloan EP, Jagoda AS; American College of Emergency Physicians Clinical Policies Subcommittee (Writing Committee) on Critical Issues in the Management of Adult Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department with Carbon Monoxide Poisoning. Clinical policy: critical issues in the management of adult patients presenting to the emergency department with acute carbon monoxide poisoning. J Emerg Nurs. 2008 Apr;34(2):e19-32. PMID 18358340
- Wolf SJ, Heard K, Sloan EP, Jagoda AS; American College of Emergency Physicians Clinical Policies Subcommittee (Writing Committee) on Critical Issues in the Management of Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department with Acetaminophen Overdose. Clinical policy: critical issues in the management of patients presenting to the emergency department with acetaminophen overdose. J Emerg Nurs. 2008 Apr;34(2):e1-18. PMID 18358339
- Wolf SJ, Lavonas EJ, Sloan EP, Jagoda AS; American College of Emergency Physicians. Clinical policy: Critical issues in the management of adult patients presenting to the emergency department with acute carbon monoxide poisoning. Ann Emerg Med. 2008 Feb;51(2):138-52. PMID 18206551
- Huff JS, Decker WW, Quinn JV, Perron AD, Napoli AM, Peeters S, Jagoda AS; American College of Emergency Physicians Clinical Policies Subcommittee (Writing Committee) on Syncope. Clinical policy: critical issues in the evaluation and management of adult patients presenting to the emergency department with syncope. J Emerg Nurs. 2007 Dec;33(6):e1-e17. PMID 18035161
- Napoli AM, Jagoda A. Clinical policies: their history, future, medical legal implications, and growing importance to physicians. J Emerg Med. 2007 Nov;33(4):425-32. Epub 2007 Jul 5. Review. PMID 17976764
- Wolf SJ, Heard K, Sloan EP, Jagoda AS; American College of Emergency Physicians. Clinical policy: critical issues in the management of patients presenting to the emergency department with acetaminophen overdose. Ann Emerg Med. 2007 Sep;50(3):292-313. PMID 17709050