Torben "Tom" Becker, MD, PhD

I am an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Critical Care Medicine, and Emergency Medical Services at the University of Florida (UF). I hold affiliate faculty appointments in the Department of Environmental & Global Health in the College of Public Health & Health Professions and in the Center for African Studies.

In the UF Department of Emergency Medicine, I serve as the Director of the Section of Global Health and the Chief of the Division of Critical Care Medicine. I am the Program Director of our Global Emergency Medicine Fellowship. As an EMS medical director, I regularly respond to emergency calls in the field, in addition to working clinically in the ED and in the cardiac surgery & liver transplant ICUs. 

I am the former Editor-in-Chief of the Global Emergency Medicine Literature Review (GEMLR) group and I am currently a federally- & GEMA-funded principal investigator doing research in Ghana. I serve as Treasurer on the Global EM Fellowship Council’s Executive Committee and I co-chair GEMA's EMS Committee.

I would be honored to serve GEMA due to its wide reach within the world of academic global health. I hope to contribute in a way that will allow GEMA to support researchers beyond the SAEM GEMA grant, with a focus on helping interested members in developing research skills in global health. Specifically, I would work towards expanding GEMA's reach in providing resources to young investigators who are looking for help in getting their research projects of the ground, but lack mentorship or institutional support.