Gender	Female
E-mail	corita.grudzen@mountsinai.org
	corita.grudzen@mssm.edu
Awards	2005 - 2008 Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar University of Calfifornia, Los Angeles
	2004 - 2005 Chief Resident Emergency Medicine Bellevue Hospital Center/NYU
	2000 - 2001 Boren Fellow National Security Education Program United States Department of Defense

Corita Grudzen, M.D., M.S.H.S. is a clinician-investigator in the Department of Emergency Medicine.  She received a B.S. from Stanford University and her M.D. from the University of California, San Francisco.  She completed residency and was a chief resident in Emergency Medicine at Bellevue Hospital Center/NYU.  After residency, she spent three years at the University of California, Los Angeles as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar while working as an attending at Los Angeles County/USC and the Los Angeles City Jails.

Dr. Grudzen also has longstanding interests in improving health in developing countries and the use of video and other media to promote health.  She has worked to improve emergency care in developing countries and has served on the Board of Directors of two nonprofits.  She produced a documentary film in collaboration with her sister Simone which premiered at the United Nations Association Film Festival at Stanford University in 2008.

Her research interests include public health and policy issues in vulnerable populations and the delivery of palliative care and end of life care to emergency patients.

Research

Dr. Grudzen's research interests include public health and policy issues in vulnerable populations and the delivery of palliative and end of life care to emergency patients.  She has received funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the California Health Care Foundation, and the California HIV/AIDS Research Program to support her work.  She is also a qualitative consultant on a randomized controlled trial of palliative care in the ED funded by the Archstone Foundation and a RAND Corporation consultant on a project to improve the quality of care for California's prisoners.

Grudzen CR, Boscardin J, Koenig W, Hoffman JR, Asch SM. Potential Impact of a Verbal DNR Policy. Accepted to Prehospital Emergency Care 2008 July;.

Grudzen CR, Elliott MN, Kerndt PR, Gelberg L. Condom Use and High-Risk Sexual Acts in the Adult Film Industry: A Comparison of Heterosexual and Homosexual Films. Accepted to the American Journal of Public Health 2008 March;.

Grudzen CR, Ryan G, Margold W, Torres J, Gelberg L. Pathways to Health Risk Exposure in Adult Film Performers. J Urban Health 2008 Aug 16;.

Grudzen CR, Legome E. Loss of international medical experiences: knowledge, attitudes and skills at risk. BMC Med Educ 2007 Nov 28; 7: 47.

Grudzen CR, Liddicoat R, Hoffman JR, Koenig W, Lorenz KA, Asch SM. Developing quality indicators for the appropriateness of resuscitation in prehospital atraumatic cardiac arrest. Prehosp Emerg Care 2007 Oct-Dec; 11(4): 434-442.

Grudzen CR, Kerndt PR. The adult film industry: time to regulate? . PLoS Med 2007 Jun; 4(6): e126.

Grudzen CR, Brook RH. High-deductible health plans and emergency department use. JAMA 2007 Mar 14; 297(10): 1126-1127.

Grudzen C. Out-of-hospital resuscitation: have we gone too far?. Prehosp Disaster Med 2006 Nov-Dec; 21(6): 445-450.

Grudzen CR. One resident perspective: resident education and the pharmaceutical industry. Ann Emerg Med 2005 Jan; 45(1): 27-31.