Specialty	Emergency Medicine
Gender	Female
E-mail	lynne.richardson@mssm.edu
Education and Training	MD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
	M.D., Albert Einstein College of Medicine
	Residency, Bronx Municipal Hospital Center, Einstein School of Medicine
	Residency, Emergency Medicine, Bronx Municipal Hospital Center
	Residency, Internal Medicine, Harlem Hospital Center

Dr. Lynne D. Richardson is Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Vice Chair for Academic, Research and Community Programs of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. A native New Yorker, she holds Bachelor's degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Life Sciences and Management; and the MD degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She completed her Emergency Medicine Residency at Jacobi Hospital/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and completed a research fellowship with the AAMC Health Services Research Institute.

Dr. Richardson is a nationally recognized Emergency Medicine health services researcher; her areas of interest are access and barriers to care, and improving effective utilization of health care resources. She was the Principle Investigator for the New York City Site of the PAD Trial, an international, randomized, controlled trial of public access defibrillation; and is currently the Principal Investigator for the "Community VOICES" Study, an NIH-funded study of "Community Views On Informed Consent in Emergency Situations". Dr. Richardson serves on the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Health Public 2010 Task Force and the American College of Emergency Physicians Public Health Committee. She is a member of the New York City Board of Health , the first emergency physician ever to serve in that Board's one hundred and thirty-nine year history, and was recently nominated to serve on the Institute of Medicine Committee to Review the NIH Strategic Plan to Reduce and Ultimately Eliminate Health Disparities.

Education and Training	MD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
	M.D., Albert Einstein College of Medicine
	Residency, Bronx Municipal Hospital Center, Einstein School of Medicine
	Residency, Emergency Medicine, Bronx Municipal Hospital Center
	Residency, Internal Medicine, Harlem Hospital Center
Board Certification	Emergency Medicine

Specialty	Emergency Medicine
Board Certification	Emergency Medicine

Research

Lynne D. Richardson is the Vice Chair for Academic, Research and Community Programs of the Department of Emergency Medicine.  She is a nationally recognized expert in health services research; her areas of interest are access to care and improving effective utilization of health care resources.  She was the Principal Investigator of the Emergency Medicine Patients' Access to Healthcare (EMPATH) Study and the New York City Site Principal Investigator for the PAD Trial, an NHLBI-funded, randomized trial of public access defibrillation.  She was the PI of '"Community VOICES" (Views On Informed Consent In Emergency Situations), an NHLBI-funded project to study community perspectives on the ethics of research without consent in emergency conditions; and is currently the PI on a continuing competition of this study - Community VOICES 2.  She has served on the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's Research Training study section, and review panels for the National Institute for Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and the National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute.  She was a member of the Institute of Medicine Committee to Review the National Institutes of Health Strategic Plan to Reduce and Ultimately Eliminate Health Disparities. Dr. Richardson chairs the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) Public Health Committee and serves on their Scientific Review Committee; she is also the national ACEP liaison to the Commission to End Healthcare Disparities.  Her other memberships include the joint Society for Academic Emergency Medicine / Council of Residency Directors Diversity Curriculum Task Force, the New York City Board of Health and the NYC Advisory Committee on Weapons of Mass Destruction.  She has presented at many scientific meetings, and has authored articles on asthma, bioethics, emergency department crowding, the healthcare safety net, public access defibrillation, and cultural competence.  She lectures frequently to both professional and lay audiences.

           

Dr. Richardson was recently honored by ACEP as a "Hero of Emergency Medicine" and received the 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Mount Sinai Institute of Medical Education.  She has been recognized for "teaching a generation of doctors that morality and medicine must go hand in hand" in New York Magazine's Hall of Fame in their "Best Doctors in New York" issue and was featured in Black Enterprise Magazine's "America's Top Black Physicians" as a "Major Contributor to the Medical Field".  She has received numerous awards for distinguished service, for leadership and for outstanding teaching from various academic institutions, professional organizations and community groups.  Throughout her career, Dr. Richardson has been a vocal advocate for improved health and healthcare for the underserved. 

T. Public Access Defibrillation and Survival from Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest. New England Journal of Medicine 2004; 351: 637-646.

Mosesso VN Jr, Brown LH, Greene HL, T. Conducting research using the emergency exception from informed consent: the Public Access Defibrillation (PAD) Trial experience. Resuscitation 2004; 61(1): 29-36.

Ragin DF, Holohan JA, Ricci EM, Grant C, Richardson LD. Shocking a community into action: a social marketing approach to cardiac arrests. Journal of Health and Social Policy 2005; 20(2): 49-70.

Richardson LD, Gunnels MD, Groh WJ, Peberdy MA, E. Community implementation of public access defibrillation: experience from the PAD Trial. Academic Emergency Medicine 2005; 12(8): 688-697.

Richardson LD, Wilets I, Ragin DF, Holohan J, Smirnoff M, Rhodes R, Winkel G, Rodriguez M, Ricci E. Research Without Consent: Community Perspectives from The Community VOICES Study Academic Emergency Medicine. Academic Emergency Medicine 2005; 12(11): 1082-1090.

Mann NC, Schmidt TA, Richardson LD. Confronting the Ethical Conduct of Resuscitation Research: A Consensus Opinion. Academic Emergency Medicine 2005; 12(11): 1078-1081.

Lewis RJ, Schmidt TA, Richardson LD. Current Status of Research on the Federal Guidelines for Performing Research Using an Exception form Informed Consent. Academic Emergency Medicine 2005; 12(11): 1022-1026.

Ragin DF, Hwang U, Cydulka RK, Holson D, Haley LL Jr, Richards CF, Becker BM, Richardson LD. The Emergency Medicine Patients' Access To Healthcare (EMPATH) Study Investigators. Reasons for Using the Emergency Department: Results of the EMPATH Study. Academic Emergency Medicine 2005; 12(12): 1158-1166.

Richardson LD, Ragin DR, Rhodes R, Wilets I. The Role of Community Consultation in the Ethical Conduct of Research Without Consent. AJOB 2006; 6(3): 33.

Ragin D, Ricci E, Rhodes R, Holohan J, Smirnoff M, Richardson LD. Defining the "Community" in Community Consultation for Emergency Research: Findings from the Community VOICES Study. Soc Sci Med 2008; 66(6): 1379-1392.