Ross D. Zafonte

Dr. Richard Zane has extensive experience in designing and implementing systems of emergency care, access and clinical integration and has been acknowledged for his collaborative approach to medicine and leadership. An experienced researcher and tool developer for AHRQ, Dr. Zane is personally interested as a Department Chair, and as a leader in health care, to assuring appropriate use of ED resources and is dedicated to emergency department care redesign by deploying patient centric data driven processes that match the appropriate level of resources to individual patients ensuring that the right patients are cared for in the right environment and has designed collaborative systems of acute stroke and cardiac care for hospital systems.

He has been active nationally and internationally on issues related to emergency department process and design, emergency preparedness, surge and mass casualty care and recently authored the World Health Organization Hospital Emergency Response Checklist.