Cedric Dark

Dr. Dark is an Associate Professor in the Henry J. N. Taub Department of Emergency Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine. He currently is on the Board of Directors for Doctors for America, the Board of Trustees for Semester at Sea, and is the Medical Editor-in-Chief for the monthly publication ACEP Now.

One of emergency medicine’s Top 45 Under 45 and on Elemental’s List of 50 Experts to Trust in a Pandemic, Dark is a trusted voice on health care and health policy. He has written numerous OpEds (Baltimore Sun, The Guardian, MedPage Today) and has given media interview for print, radio, and television including NPR, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, and BBC World News.

When not saving lives at the bedside, Dr. Dark strives to save them through policy. His policy experience includes work for the United States House of Representatives, the Kaiser Family Foundation, and the Joe Biden Campaign.

Although he knows how to rescue a patient from the brink of death after suffering a gun shot wound, his first book Under The Gun: An ER Doctor’s Cure for America’s Gun Epidemic (Johns Hopkins University Press) explores how we can save more American’s lives before the bullet leaves the gun.

Twitter/IG: @realcedricdark

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