Amy H. Kaji, MD, PhD is the Executive Vice Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center and a Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. After residency training at Harbor-UCLA, she completed a disaster medicine and research fellowship, during which time she earned her Masters’ and Doctorate in Epidemiology at the UCLA School of Public Health. She is currently the immediate past president of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM), an organization for which she has served on the Board of Directors for 10 years and SAEM committee and subcommittee chairs.
Amy is also an active member of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) Scientific Review Subcommittee of the Research Committee and serves as a research methodologist for the ACEP Clinical Policies Committee. She also serves as a methodology/statistics editor for Annals of Emergency Medicine and JAMA Surgery. Before assuming the role of Interim Chair from March of 2020 to September of 2022, her research emphasis has been on study design and research methodology. Amy served as the co-site PI for the Comparison of Drugs vs. Appendectomy PCORI funded study, the site PI for the National Emergency Airway Registry Study, and the PI for an NIH-funded study investigating the use of BlueBox, a device for assessing process measures during resuscitations of cardiac arrest. Amy is the author or co-author 185 peer-reviewed publications, the editor of a textbook, Emergency Medicine Reviews, the section editor for Rosen’s Emergency Medicine, 10th edition, the Kaji Review Book (2 editions), and an UptoDate author. She is the recipient of the ACEP National Faculty Teaching Award, as well as the University of California, Los Angeles Distinguished Lecturer Award.