Jonathan A. Edlow MD, FACEP

Dr. Edlow graduated from the University of Maryland School of Medicine in 1978 after which he completed a three-year internship and residency in Internal Medicine at the Boston City Hospital. Since 1981, he has practiced full-time emergency medicine. He is vice chairman of the department of emergency medicine at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and a Professor of Medicine and Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is the emergency department representative of the stroke team and works on the interdisciplinary stroke QA committee with the departments of hospital quality & safety and neurology.

His major academic area of expertise is the diagnosis and misdiagnosis of patients with neurological emergencies. His research in this area has the goal of improving correct diagnosis and patient outcomes in these patients. In addition to having his work appear in all of the major emergency medicine journals, the New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, JAMA, Stroke, and Lancet Neurology have all published his work. He has been invited to write editorials in Stroke, Neurology, the European Journal of Neurology, and others.

He is also a nationally recognized expert in Lyme and other tick-borne diseases. He has published nearly 200 articles, book chapters, and editorials. He has also written 3 books for the lay public. The first, Bull’s Eye, was an award-winning account of the history of Lyme disease. The second is a book about Stroke written for high school students and the third, The Deadly Dinner Party is a collection of true medical detective stories published in 2009 and favorably reviewed in the New York Review of Books.

Dr. Edlow lectures nationally and internationally on subjects relating to helping doctors avoid misdiagnosis of neurological emergencies. He is the course director of both an online and live CME course on neurological emergencies. He is a reviewer for numerous emergency and general medicine, as well as neurology journals. Finally, he is a recipient of an American College of Emergency Physicians national teaching award.