Theodore Corbin, MD

Dr. Corbin is Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Rush University Medical Center. His research has focused on the urgent issues and intersection of trauma and intentional injury that contribute to recurrent injury, mental illness, chronic disease, health disparities and ultimately death. He designed and implemented a trauma-informed intervention program called Healing Hurt People-Philadelphia that recognizes the disparities in health outcomes in the population that suffer the most from intentional injury, African American and Latino men between the ages of 8 and 30 years old. The intervention has been replicated in other cities across the country. The intervention provides a resource to patients in need of deeper understanding. He has worked in the field of emergency medicine and trauma-informed intervention with a focus on African American men for more than 15 years and he strives to build a foundation for young researchers interested in the field.