Dr. Larkin is the inaugural Professor and Lion Foundation
Chair of Emergency Medicine at the University of Auckland. Most recently he served
as the inaugural Professor and Vice Chair of Emergency Medicine at Yale University
School of Medicine. Professor Larkin is recognized
globally as a leader in the field of emergency medicine. He is an advisor to
academics, public health organizations and ministries of health around the
world. He served the Blair government as
an advisor while an Atlantic Fellow in Public Policy in Whitehall. A
Board-certified clinician with over 20 years of front line ED experience, he
has advanced training in biostatistics, bioethics, engineering, informatics, and
public health. Dr. Larkin has conducted
research internationally and is well published with over 200 scholarly papers,
appearing in such journals as Toxicology, American Journal of Public Health,
JAMA, NEJM1, Annals of Emergency Medicine, Consumer Policy Review,
and Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics.
Recent work includes studies on the mental health causes and
consequences of trauma, rapidly-acting antidepressants, bio-informatics/health
IT, bioethics and end-of-life care. Dr. Larkin is one of the first emergency
physicians to describe the link between frequent ED visits and inadequate pain
management and co-morbid mental health problems such as depression, anxiety,
and suicide ideation.
Dr. Larkin has practiced and trained emergency professionals
in over a dozen countries. Most
recently, he served as an advisor on the ground during disasters in Pakistan,
Rwanda, Iraq, and Haiti. He consults to
the CDC, NIH, SAMHSA2 and the World Health Organization (WHO) on trauma,
mental health, stroke, resuscitation, and clinical emergency medicine. Dr.
Larkin is a widely sought-after lecturer and has been Visiting Professor in 20+
countries. He also has patents pending in novel medical informatics decision
support software and m-health applications. He represents the discipline of
Emergency Medicine on matters of suicide, ethics, and end of life care in the
USA; he is an official spokesperson for the American College of Emergency
Physicians (ACEP) and the ACEP ambassador to the UK. Dr. Larkin has authored numerous
practice guidelines and policies on Ethics, including the first Code of Ethics
for Emergency Physicians, the Code of Conduct for Academic Emergency Medicine
and the Cardinal Virtues of Emergency Medicine, all global standards.
1 Journal of the American Medical Association, New
England Journal of Medicine
2 Center for Disease Control, National Institute of
Health/Mental Health, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
