Girish Kapur

Girish “Bobby” Kapur, MD, MPH, FAAEM, FIFEM is president of Allegheny Health Network Emergency Medicine Management, a partnership between AHN and USACS to provide emergency medicine services to the Pittsburgh-based health system and other regional hospitals.

Dr. Kapur was most recently the chief of Emergency Medicine for the Jackson Health System in Miami, where he implemented transformative changes in the delivery of high-quality, patient-centered emergency care and launched the first ACGME-accredited emergency medicine residency in South Florida at the system in 2016.

Previously, Dr. Kapur served as the founding Residency Program Director at Baylor College of Medicine from 2009-2015 and the International Emergency Medicine Fellowship Director at George Washington University from 2004-2009.

Dr. Kapur serves on the Board of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM) and the National Association of Free & Charitable Clinics (NAFC). He has published multiple peer-reviewed papers and is the senior editor for the first textbook in the field of Emergency Public Health titled “Emergency Public Health: Preparedness and Response.” In June 2012, Dr. Kapur was awarded Fellow of the International Federation of Emergency Medicine (FIFEM).

He earned his bachelor’s degree at Rice University, his medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine and completed his emergency medicine residency at Yale School of Medicine. Additionally, Dr. Kapur earned a master’s degree from the Harvard School of Public Health and also completed a fellowship in International Emergency Medicine and Global Health at Harvard.