DR. RAGHU VENUGOPAL
EMERGENCY MEDICINE BIOGRAPHY
Raghu Venugopal (MD, MPH, FRCPC) is an attending emergency physician at the University Health Network and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto. He completed his residency training in emergency medicine at McGill University and an international emergency medicine fellowship at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Venugopal also earned a Masters of Public Health from Harvard University.
Dr. Venugopal has extensive experience practicing and lecturing about humanitarian medicine and relief. He has completed five missions with Médecins Sans Frontières in the Democratic Republic of Congo in North and South Kivu, Chad, Burundi and the Central African Republic and has served on the Board of Directors of MSF-Canada. He has also worked with governments in the Palestinian Territories, Ethiopia and Tanzania to improve emergency services and in the Balkans during refugee crises.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Global Health
Medical Education
Humanitarian Medicine
Disaster Relief
TOP CITATIONS
Wootton R, Liu J, Bonnardot L, Venugopal R, Oakley A. Experience with Quality Assurance in Two Store-and-Forward Telemedicine Networks. Front Public Health. 2015;3:261.
Wootton R, Liu J, Bonnardot L. Quality Assurance of Teleconsultations in a Store-and-Forward Telemedicine Network – Obtaining Patient Follow-up Data and User Feedback. Front Public Health. 2014;2:247.
Landes M, Venugopal R, Berman S, Azazh A. Epidemiology and outcomes of head injury patients in an urban Ethiopian emergency department. Can J Emerg Med May, 2014: 15 (Suppl 1) P S96.
Stachura MR, Landes M, Venugopal R, Aklilu F, Sarrazin J, Azazh A. Evaluation of a point-of-care ultrasound scan list in the emergency department at Black Lion Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Can J Emerg Med May, 2014: 15 (Suppl 1) P S109.
Media appearances
Video: Telemedicine: How MSF field doctors can access global expertise from wherever they work
Bringing telehealth to humanitarian settings CMAJ Feb 2 2015
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